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We had between eight and 10 teaching hours a week, which is quite a small amount, but there is a fair amount of independent study required too. You get out what you put in really. If you enjoy doing practical work, anything involving organising, strategising and writing, you will definitely enjoy this course. There are several essays to write as well, but the majority of assessment comes from practical work. The facilities are fantastic - computer labs, newsrooms, large lecture theatres etc. I absolutely loved my experience as a public relations student, and would recommend this course to anyone interested in the subject.1st year, University of Sunderland
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Ballantines, the Scotch whisky, is collaborating with social digital agency Work Club to run "Loud Blue", a project taking Instagram images and turning them into bespoke 20 second music tracks via Twitter. Brazilian DJ duo Felguk (Felipe Lozinsky and Gustavo Rozenthal) have developed a full length music track which mixes tracks created from 1024 Instagram images using Ballantine's Loud Blue algorithm.
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Ballantines is hosting a concert for 10,000 people in the Brazilian city of Recife, during which DJs Felguk took centre stage to entertain the crowds with the fruits of their combined creativity.
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The Loud Blue project was developed at Work Club by creative director Andy Sandoz, creatives Joe Corcoran and Lucy-Anne Ronayne, designer Dan Scott, strategist Niccolo Rigo, business director Al Amin, account director Alexis Clarfield-Henry, producers Hannah Shipman, Tom Gardner & Barry Cronin, working with music artist and DJ Felguk, web build production partner Media Monks, creative technology partner Reactify and music communications partner FRUKT Communications.
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If you have toddlers or preschoolers, you've probably heard that phrase more than once. And if you have a toddler and a preschooler, I'm betting that's an almost-constant saying in your home!
Young children have a strong sense of what's fair and what's not. They seem to know instinctively that it's unfair when their brother gets a bigger snack, or when their sister has a longer turn with a toy.
And so, as a parent, we do everything we can to keep things fair, don't we? We insist that our toddlers share their toys. We make sure food is doled out in equal portions.
Does the "Rule of Fairness" Apply to Sleep?
We may even try to apply the "rule of fairness" to sleep. After all, it's only fair that your older child gets to stay up later or your toddler and preschooler go to bed at the same time, right? And it's only fair that if one has to nap, the other should have to nap, too.
Those of you who have multiple children at home know that when it comes to sleep, "fairness" just doesn't work! If you have a newborn and a toddler at home, for example, you know that their sleep needs and schedules are way, way different. It'd be crazy to expect your toddler to nap as often as your 8 week old!
And at that age, it's not usually a problem. Your newborn's not aware of her own newborn sleep schedule, much less how her schedule compare's to your toddler's schedule.
But what about when your toddler and your preschooler have different nighttime and naptime schedules? That can be when the problems begin. For example, your toddler's perfectly aware that he has to take a nap, but that his older brother doesn't. Unfair!
Even worse: if your preschooler has just transitioned from one nap to no nap, you may find that she needs an earlier bedtime than her younger siblings. Imagine how that feels — she's the oldest, but she has to go to bed before her younger brother. Really unfair!
So what's a parent to do? When it comes to sleep, do we do what's "fair", or what's best?
I'll bet you know what our answer will be. 😉
With Sleep, Fairness is Not the Goal
With regards to your children's sleep schedules, sometimes, you have to just throw fairness right out the window. And while your toddlers and preschoolers might not understand this, that's okay. You do. And you know what's best.
Because after all, every single child is different, and that means your children are likely to have different sleep needs. Your preschooler might be extremely sensitive to overtiredeness (this has been the case for Nicole, with her older son). If that's true for you, is it really "fair" to put him to bed at the same (later) time as his younger brother, even if that means he's not going to get the sleep he needs? Not really.
And of course your toddler think's it's downright evil of you to force her to take a nap, while her older sister gets to keep playing.
The cruelty! The injustice!
But you know that your toddler needs sleep in the middle of the day in order to be healthy and feel good, so really, you are being fair. You're considering her needs and then making sure they're met. Very fair!
In part 2 of our Sibling Series, Nicole explains the idea of fairness and sleep this way:
"One important thing I have learned since I've had two sons is that everything can't be 100% 'fair' all of the time. They are different people with different needs. You must make decisions based on what's best for each of them. It will be impossible for everything to appear fair and, although I do try when it applies, I have stopped trying when it doesn't make sense."
In other words, be fair when it makes sense to be fair (like during snacktime or playtime), but forget about fairness when it doesn't (like during naptime and bedtime.)
Tips for Being "Unfair" As Nicely As Possible
It's easy for me to tell you to forget about fair, but how does one do that, exactly, without feeling like the meanest mommy or daddy on the block?
One of the best ways to handle this is to simply talk to your child about her feelings, and to let her know that you understand. In our Sibling Series, Nicole offers this advice:
"Adjusting expectations and explaining why something is a certain way often helps. Also, listening to their frustration and empathizing helps them feel heard, which is important. It may not change the outcome, but at least they can feel good that you understand how they feel."
It doesn't feel good to be "unfair", of course, but simply put unfairness about sleep in the "Things I Don't Like Doing But I Know Are For the Best" category (right along with things like discipline and potty training!)
Nicole's Note
"I hear from parents who feel guilty the baby can't be home all day for naps (it's hard to keep a toddler in the house all day!) or they feel guilty keeping the toddler home 'too much' for the baby to sleep. The best you can do is just try to balance it with everyone's needs in mind. I still rush through my older son's routine to make sure he's asleep earlier, even if his younger brother goes to sleep later than him. My younger one can simply handle it better and we are all happier. :)"
Are you fair or unfair when it comes to your children's sleep schedules? Any tips on being unfair in a gentle, loving way? Share them below!
Please be sure to pick up your FREE copy of Toddler Sleep Secrets, our e-Book offering tips to help your toddler sleep better. For those persistent nighttime struggles, check out The 3-Step System to Help Your Baby Sleep (babies) or The 5-Step System to Better Toddler Sleep (toddlers). Using a unique approach and practical tools for success, our e-books help you and your baby sleep through the night and nap better. For those looking for a more customized solution for your unique situation with support along the way, please consider one-on-one baby and toddler sleep consultations, where you will receive a Personalized Sleep Plan™ you can feel good about! Sometimes it's not that you can't make a plan. Sometimes you're just too tired to.


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Editor's note: This piece has been updated to include a universal CSA bill in Colorado.
As demonstrated in our annual report on the growth of the children's savings field, more than 457,000 children have a Children's Savings Account (CSA), up from 382,000 children last year. That momentum is also evident in state legislatures around the country. During the 2019 legislative session, CSA-related legislation has so far been introduced in 11 state legislatures—a much larger number than in past sessions. Highlights include:
- Illinois – The Illinois House passed a bill on April 2 by a vote of 66-42 that would create an automatic, at-birth CSA program with a $50 initial deposit for all children born or adopted in Illinois. The bill is now being considered in the Senate. The legislation is championed by the Illinois Asset Building Group, a Prosperity Now Community Champion.
- California – Assembly Member Adrin Nazarian introduced a bill to create a statewide CSA program serving the nearly 500,000 children born each year in California. The bill passed the Assembly's Education Committee, and is now with the Appropriations Committee. In a separate development, Governor Gavin Newsom requested $50 million in his budget proposal to support CSA pilots and partnerships with local governments and philanthropic organizations.
- Colorado – House Speaker K.C. Becker, Representative Leslie Herod and Senate Leader Stephen Fenberg co-sponsored a bill to create a statewide, universal CSA program. While children would be automatically signed up for the program at birth, parents would have to open a 529 account within five years to receive the $100 initial deposit—making it essentially an opt-in program. Automatic enrollment, which does not require any action by the parent or child to open or claim the account, is a best practice for CSA programs. The bill went up for vote in the House and was passed!
- Oregon – The proposed bill would create the Oregon Bright Futures Plan Task Force—a nine-member task force chaired by the state treasurer—to design a statewide CSA program. The bill passed the House Education Committee, and is now with the Ways and Means committee for consideration. Neighborhood Partnerships, a Prosperity Now Community Champion, is leading advocacy efforts.
- New Mexico – State Representative Andrés Romero introduced a bill that would create a CSA program with a $500 initial deposit for infants whose family income is at or below 200% of the federal poverty line. Although the House Education Committee recommended the bill move forward, it was not voted upon before the legislative session ended in March.
- Washington – State Rep. Christine Kilduff introduced a bill that would create a CSA program with a $100 initial deposit for low-income kindergarten students in the state's public schools. While the bill made it out of the House Committee on College & Workforce Development—and a companion bill made it out of the Senate Committee on Higher Education—it did not make it through the Appropriations Committee before the fiscal cutoff.
We will continue to monitor the progress of all pending CSA legislation. While we do not expect most of these bills to pass this session, they will serve as a foundation for future efforts in those states. The heightened interest state legislatures have taken in CSA policies this year bodes well for the future of the children's savings movement.
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The firm has released details of its Ultimate Aero EV which will reach an extraordinary 208mph.
The car, which is due to go on sale before the end of the year, will sprint to 60mph in just 2.5 seconds.
Shelby Supercars says the Ultimate Aero EV is powered by a 'revolutionary All-Electric Scalable Powertrain'.
This twin motor system produces 1000 horse power and 800lb-ft of torque.
In contrast the current electric sports car flagbearer, the Tesla Roadster which was recently tested by Jeremy Clarkson on Top Gear, produces 250 horse power.
Once the Ultimate Aero EV's batteries are charged it will have a range of between 150 and 200 miles.
According to Shelby, it will be possible to fully charge the batteries in just 10 minutes from the mains, thanks to an on-board system it is calling 'Charge on the Run'.
The manufacturer expects to roll out pre-production versions of the vehicle, which has a three-speed automatic gearbox, by June.
A Shelby Supercars spokesman said: "Being the world's fastest production car we decided the Ultimate Aero to be the perfect high visibility outlet to demonstrate our new green powertrain.
"The Ultimate Aero EV will prove that electric-powered vehicles will not only match but also provide more overall performance than internal combustion cars."
The company says it plans to use the electric motor technology in lower power, every day vehicles such as small and family cars, trucks and buses.
Although deliveries of the Ultimate Aero EV are expected by the end of the year, the company, based in West Richland, Washington, USA, has not yet announced a price.
The petrol-engine SSC Ultimate Aero TT is currently the fastest production car in the world, with a fastest recorded speed of 257 mph).
This speed was reportedly achieved during tests on September 13, 2007 in West Richland and verified by Guinness World Records on October 9, 2007.
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Foreward. Acknowledgements.
Part I: What Educators Ned to Know About the Brain. Introduction and Conceptual Foundation. General Principles of Microstructure and Microfunction. General Principles of Macrostructure and Macrofunction. General Principles of Brain Development.
Part II: Linking Brain Research to Literacy Research. Building a Reading Brain Neurologically. Building a Writing Brain Neurologically. Building a Computing Brain Neurologically.
Part III: Linking Literacy Research to Brain Research. Building a Reading Brain Pedagogically. Building a Writing Brain Pedagogically. Building a Computing Brain Pedagogically.
Part IV: Educational Applications of Brain-Literacy Links. Implications for Educational Policy. Implications for Classroom Practice. Glossary. References. Index.
Although educators are expected to bring about functional changes in the brain--the organ of human learning--they are given no formal training in the structure, function or development of the brain in formal or atypically developing children as part of their education. This book is organized around three conceptual themes: First, the interplay between nature (genetics) and nurture (experience and environment) is emphasized. Second, the functional systems of the brain are explained in terms of how they lead to reading, writing and mathematics and the design of instruction. Thirdly, research is presented, not as a finished product, but as a step forward within the field of educational neuropsychology. The book differs from neuropsychology and neuroscience books in that it is aimed at practitioners, focuses on high incidence neuropsychological conditions seen in the classroom, and is the only book that integrates both brain research with the practice of effective literacy, and mathematics instruction of the general and special education school-aged populations.
Educators, educational psychologists, and learning disabilities specialists.
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"The authors, respected researchers and educators in this field, have developed an excellent resource for psychologists, educators, and graduate students... Brain Literacy for Educators and Psychologists is an excellent book... The book's content and explicit and implicit messages need to be widely disseminated to 21st-century educators." -CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGY
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Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Washington; Director of the NICHD funded Multidisciplinary Learning Disabilities Center
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University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A.
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Professor of Radiology at the University of Washington; Principle Investigator for the Brain Imaging Project at the Multidisciplinary Learning Disabilities Center
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Bruno Hellendorff
Bruno Hellendorff is Joint Research Fellow at the Egmont Institute and European Policy Centre (EPC) since 2018. His research focuses on the geo-economics and security dimensions of China's Belt and Road initiative, as well as on defence and security issues in Europe-Asia relations (non-proliferation, maritime security).
He is associate researcher at the IR center of the Université Catholique de Louvain (CECRI) and at the East Asian Studies center (EASt) of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Prior to joining the Egmont Institute and EPC, he set up and coordinated a research programme dedicated to issues of "Peace and Security in Asia-Pacific" at the Group for Research and Information on Peace and Security (GRIP), a Brussels-based independent research centre.
He has worked and published on many Asia-related academic, research and policy projects for various institutional partners, including international academic consortiums (EU COST program…), international organisations (including EU institutions) and various national ministries (defense, foreign affairs, etc.). He contributed to various international forums such as the EU-ASEAN High Level Dialogue (HLD) on Maritime Security Cooperation (2013, 2015) and EU CSCAP meetings. He was member of the Korea-Europe Next Generation Policy Expert Forum (2016). In 2017-2018, he contributed to the scientific preparation of the exhibition "Archipel: Les Royaumes de la Mer", in the framework of the Europalia festival.
He regularly comments Asian defense affairs in Belgian media, and teaches as guest lecturer or Professor in several higher education institutions.
The list of his publications prior to joining Egmont is available here.
- Europe in a multipolar missile world – Why the EU and NATO should not try to salvage the INF Treaty Egmont papers
- Belgium's multilayered China policy: A case of principled pragmatism? Other publications
- The complex drivers of military modernisation in Asia: the case of Indonesia Other publications
- When the US shoots itself in the foot Other publications
- Waiting for new deliverables: Can the EU-Japan strategic partnership measure up to global and regional challenges? Other publications


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Sundevalls Writhing Skink
Vital Statistics
- Name
- Sundevalls Writhing Skink [Lygosoma sundevalli]
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Scincidae
- Subspecies
- 2 races
- Length_F
- 60 - 80 mm
- Length_M
- 60 - 80 mm
Sundevalls Writhing Skink
Vital Statistics
DescriptionThe body of this small burrowing skink is light brown to grey, usually with a dark spot at the base of each scale, that gives a finely speckled appearance. The belly is uniform creamy white, although it may be speckled beneath the tail.
DistributionNorthern part of the subcontinent, reaching southern limit in Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, north to Southern Angola and Somalia.
BreedingIn summer they lay 2 - 6 white, oval, soft-shelled eggs underground, particularly in old termitaria.
DietSmall invertebrates.


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Meet Vale And His 5* Hippie Cave
(Imagine drinking coffee and having a delicious breakfast on this music in THAT magical place over the ocean, somewhere in the yellow rocks 🙂 )
This young man from Russia decided after a life changing event to start an adventure. He has been to Tenerife two years ago and he loved the different landscapes on this island, so he decided to come back here.
Valentin is a entertaining, definitely crazy guy with funny Russian accent and bad english. But he is working on the part with the english, haha. Valentin is a travel junkie. He is now since two months on the island and at the end of this month he'll go back to Russia. There he is planning to do a trip with some friends with a boat on a lake between Finland and St. Petersburg for a while. In October he want's to come back to Tenerife to start his project.
At the moment Vale needs 100€ per month to live here. The food he gets from dumpster diving at nearby Supermarkets, where he goes 1-2 a week. And a lot of other stuff he finds and collects from the streets.
He found a cozy place to stay here and built himself a nice home. Not bad … not bad at all!!
… One day while hiking he discovered something! A fancy, empty cave hidden behind some material which had the same color as the rocks … very well hidden. After asking people around about who lived there before, he got some information that the cave was inhabited and built in the 70's and that it is empty for longer time now. So he moved in there and started building a lot of things to make his new home more comfortable and welcoming.
This beautiful cave he wants to leave to some friends which should find somebody else when their time to leave will come, because he doesn't want it to become squatted and destroyed by longterm occupants.
His plan is to make a educational camp in Tenerife to bring people from St. Petersburg to offer them some yoga lessons, voice training courses and many different courses to expand their creativity.
After this project will be finished he wants to go further to Chile, Bolivia, Machu Picchu etc. There he wants to travel like he does now as well – with less and almost by feet.
He says that he prefers walking to everywhere because thats how he gets to see the beauty around him and a lot of things you miss when traveling by car or another transport.
The craziest adventures he had so far was traveling on a small boat on a big river for 27 days and camping around Russia at the age of 13 when he started traveling, he says. So you can imagine how many crazy adventures he experienced in more than 10 years of traveling now. And for the next 3 – 4 years he'll be still traveling for sure, he said.
His answer if he is happy here was: "Wiz legs and hands I'm happy everywhere!"
"What are you afraid of Vale?" … "I no afraid in zis life!"
The white hair he has, are from the hardcore adventures he had on his travels so far … he says :)))
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Your Kyriad Auxerre Appoigny hotel is transformed into the Kyriad & Kyriad Direct Auxerre Appoigny complex.
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The Kyriad Auxerre Appoigny hotel is situated 10km from the centre of Auxerre, so is convenient for accessing all the facilities and activities available in the surrounding area. The Gare of Auxerre-Saint-Gervais sits 9km to the south of the hotel, and runs local and regional services to Dijon and other towns in the region and national services to Paris. The exit for the A6 highway is 300m to the east of the hotel, and links the town to Dijon (156km) in the south-east and Paris (164km) in the north-west. The closest airport is Auxerre-Branches Airport which is 8km west of the hotel. Your Kyriad Auxerre Appoigny is within 8km of a cinema and theatre, and a nightclub can be found 15km away. There is also a swimming pool within 10km, and a skating rink and shopping centre are located 2km away from the hotel. A golf course is within 25km, and the local stadium is 12km away. With 110 rooms available, including 82 double rooms, 18 twin rooms and 10 triple rooms, your Kyriad Auxerre Appoigny is able to welcome parties of all sizes. Guests arriving by car have access to free parking, and 24-hour reception service is available. For guests with reduced mobility, the hotel has 3 specially-adapted rooms. For those travelling with our youngest guests, there are 3 cribs available to use. Pets are welcome to stay at the hotel with their owners free of charge, and the hotel staff includes members who speak English, German and Spanish. Other amenities include a safe at the front desk, a terrace and tennis courts. Guest rooms are equipped with air conditioning, Canal Plus satellite television channels, alarms and trouser presses. Certain rooms have access to a hairdryer. The hotel restaurant provides a convenient and delicious option for all of your meals. A buffet-style breakfast is served between 6.30am and 9.30am, lunch is available from 12pm to 1.45pm, and the restaurant is open for dinner between 7pm and 9.30pm. For guests staying on business, the hotel has a seminar room which can be used for business meetings and training sessions.
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If you followed sci-fi movies, then you would know that machines were eventually going to take over the world but Facebook actually was making that true and it reached to such an extent that Facebook had to pull the plug on it.
It all started with Facebook developing its AI (artificial intelligence) for better self-sustaining machines. It all backfired when the machines started communicating in their own made language. Machines created a new language to talk to each other which was not at all comprehendible by humans. After knowing what repercussions it would have (or watching too many movies), the engineers at Facebook shut it down.
Facebook wanted to create a bot that could learn from humans and how they interacted so that when a user would be talking to a bot he would not have known that he was not talking to a real human. After the implementation was being tested with humans, one scientist actually made the bots to talk to each other which is where things got creepy. The bots started communicating and the after a while they made up their own language in which they started talking. This was the big mistake with the execution of the program. The bots needed to be specified to talk to each other in English only which would be human comprehensible.
This is a major breakthrough in technology and the bots can be used to execute our daily tasks all while we send those commands from our cell phones. The bots will be able to communicate to us if there are problems and might be able to execute solutions on their own, depending upon the users consent and preference. There are a lot of possibilities unless the bots conspire and take on humans or maybe we are too scared by the dawn of Skynet. It is just a matter of time when our lives will be made easier thanks to major recent breakthroughs in AI.
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Photography on the long finger, this trip was about the surf! Here are a few
Clear skys, cold air, listening to rollers……perfect
Red sky in the morning….. means nothing, forget it it pumping
Well I decided to put my big boy pants on recently and go out to the cliffs for a 'look' . What i got was a bit more than I wished for! Paddling out the boys were getting some BEASTS of waves. Top to bottom barrels, heavy barrels….
I know a lot of people say they are 'humbled' by big waves. Well to be honest, they scared the shit out of me! I hung about the shoulder watching the boys sus out the take of spots, trying to learn the ins and outs, do's and donts. I was just growing a few balls, thinking that, 'yea i can go for one, its not too bad' until suddenly I found myself paddling for the horizon…
A set was on the way, and with all my faffing about I was not in a great spot… the wave just started to break as I dove through it, but it was too late. I got dragged back over the falls and given a nice spanking. So with a nice blooded face I thought it would be best I get the feck out of there.
So yes lesson learned, the cliffs is a Heavy mother fucker on low tide
Worst beating of the day about to happen….. 2 wave hold down, not for the faint-hearted out there!
German birthday boy gets his pressie
I know terrible play on words…………
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Ferg dropping into one at Rileys with one foot on the board! Amazing late drop, cant belive he even made it?!!!
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The IT Superheroes
Sure, Captain America and Ironman might be getting a lot of attention right now, but let's face it, the real heroes work in offices making computers work! This is an action-packed comic-book-inspired ad for my old pals at SnoopWall. Check it out!
Written & Directed by Alex Salsberg
Narrator - Dean Wendt
Additional Voices: Amber May, Ben Sloane, Ellen Bauer & Adam Salsberg
Design, Animation & Color by Alex Salsberg
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Original Soundtrack by Adam Salsberg
The SnoopWall General in...Putin on a Disguise
Who's Spying on the General This Time?
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Pliers is a tool,which is used in a variety of woodwork and carpentry, plumbing and electrical work. Each artist in his drawer tool has a high quality and reliable pliers, with which you can grab different items and perform bending of wires and cables. A isolated pen tool allows you to use it even in working with high-voltage wires. Let's look at the main features a selection of pliers.
To date, identify different types ofpliers. They allow you to begin to live parts with a diameter up to a centimeter. Some tools will improve, honing his arm under the form of a screwdriver that allows you to get pliers. Some types of pliers have special slots that are used for cutting the wire. An important feature of each instrument is a limited amount of the throat. It may slightly increase, erode at the handle rotation limiter. In some cases, to do the work necessary to drill axis, disassemble the tool, and then make a new shaft and assemble it.
With intensive use of pliersHandle start a little loose. If axle riveted ends, this defect can be eliminated. If you want a quality repair tool axis and then drill to carve a new one. If you use the pliers to nibble from the plastic wire and mild steel, you can permanently preserve their cutting edges. If you use them to bite their nails or pull out, the tool is subject to rapid wear. Notches and slots can be restored if you do the propyl hacksaw.
Choose a high-quality pliers
Features choice of high-quality pliersIt lies in the fact that it is necessary to pay attention to certain parameters. First of all, note that between the sponges must be a gap of more than one millimeter, and the handle must be connected tightly. Besides their movement should be smooth and free. The cutting edges of pliers must have clearance not exceeding 0.1 millimeter.
There are various models of pliers. Thus 1RK-24 on the working surface have teeth made of hardened steel of high quality and have a length of 12.5 centimeters. To produce 1RK-036S model uses carbon stainless steel length of 13 centimeters. The peculiarity of the pliers 1RK-052AS is the presence of the insulation up to 1000 V and hardened edge, while the length of steel 16.5 centimeters. Model 1RK-27 is made of hardened steel of high quality, having a double leaf spring.
Features combined pliers
Combined pliers used to cutwire and fixing various objects. These tools have different grip, long cutting edges that allow you to cut for wires and cables made of various steel. For the production of such pliers used hardened tool steel which is heat treated. It allows you to create the tools required different hardness and high wear resistance. Pliers are corrosion-resistant coating, as they undergo oxidation, which significantly slows down the oxidation process. In some cases it performed chrome surface.
Pliers may have different lengths,polished handle, nickel-plated base and double linkages. Choosing a tool important to consider the coverage of the handle, as work would be extremely inconvenient to them when slipping out of the hands of pliers. Service life is so long that they lose more often than they are deteriorating.
Having considered features a selection of pliersYou can safely go to the hardware store or market and choosing the right tool. By the way, the cost of it is low, and the use is undeniable!


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Leaving a will behind when you die is the responsible thing to do. But leaving a will, doesn't always mean that there's no need for probate. An estate may undergo formal probate for many reasons including when a will is contested, unclear, or invalid, or when the assets are held only in the deceased's name. And when there's no will, probate is often required to oversee the distribution of the deceased's property.
As a general rule, you'll want to avoid probate if possible. Unfortunately, there are situations where you don't have a choice. Let's explore those situations that determine when you have to go through probate.
When There's A Will
Determining if a will needs to go through probate depends on the laws of your state and the property you hold at death. Some states, such as Washington, do not require probate to be filed. Other states base the need for probate on the value of the estate. Common situation when you have to go through probate with a will include:
When There's No Will
When a person dies without a will, they are said to have died "intestate". The laws of the state where you reside will determine how your property is distributed upon your death. However, probate administration when there's no will is similar to when there is one. When you die, your property is classified as either probate property or non-probate property.
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Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone had remained tight-lipped regarding her Hollywood debut in "XXX: The Return of Xander Cage" opposite Vin Diesel. But now, the actress has opened up about her Hollywood debut and said that she is excited and nervous about the film.
The diva signed the flick last month and will start shooting for it in February. "I am very excited. But I want to confess that I am very nervous. Most importantly I feel proud to be a part of a film where I get to show my ethnicity," Deepika told the Press Trust of India.
"The reason they are roping me is because of my background. I really hope that I do well in the movie and people go and watch it," she added.
Talking about her big Hollywood project further, Deepika told NDTV that she is stepping out of her comfort zone for this flick and working with a new set of people internationally which is making her nervous.
Apart from Diesel, Deepika will reportedly share screen space with international stars like Jet Li, Tony Jaa, Nina Dobrev and Ruby Rose. Deepika will be seen in a sexy glamorous avatar in the film. It is reported that the Bollywood beauty will play a huntress' character who happens to be Cage's (played by Diesel) ex-love interest.
Meanwhile, "XXX: The Return of Xander Cage" is not the first Hollywood project that has been offered to Deepika. She had earlier turned down Diesel's offer to work in "Fast and Furious 7" due to alleged date issues.
In other news, Deepika ruled the Hindi film industry in 2015 with three back-to-back movies – "Piku", "Tamasha" and "Bajirao Mastani" – and captured hearts with her phenomenal performances. She won the Filmfare Best Actress award for her performance in Amitabh Bachchan starrer "Piku".
This year audience might miss her on the silver screen, as she has not signed any Bollywood film yet.


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Celebrate the joy of reading! Hear children's stories read aloud on selected Mondays at 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. and be whisked away on literary adventures as part of the Carol D. Simmons Storytime Club at The Strong museum. The first Monday of every month, enjoy special activities to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Sesame Street television series. Storytime Club Passports are punched once during each visit. Collect five punches and receive a free children's book.
Storytime Club is named in honor of Carol D. Simmons, a former children's librarian in the Pittsford Central School District. The gift is made possible through the generous support of Harvey D. Simmons in loving memory of his wife.
Carol D. Simmons Storytime Club readings are included with general museum admission fees.
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Barack Obama's BBQ parody includes a full plate of political allegory, or is it metaphor?
How was your Fourth of July weekend? Did you enjoy it? Did you have an outdoor BBQ? Of course you did. Probably. Regardless, the CollegeHumor players (is that the name of their comedy troupe?) have constructed a heaping plate of allegory, or is it metaphors, showing how everything at President Barack Obama's make-believe BBQ has another political meaning. Starring comedian Jordan Carlos (last seen, albeit briefly, on Last Comic Standing) as Obama. Roll...Read More


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The lucky winner (plus 3 friends) will get to travel around in a limosuine, enjoy dinner at Momofuku Daisho, and have four reserved seats to the Closing Night screening of "Linsanity".
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I am not a superstitious person by nature, however if I see a ladder I will walk around it just to be safe. I steer clear of black cats because I am deathly allergic, and I don't open umbrellas inside my apartment because I prefer to let them dry outside my door. During my time in China, I am quickly learning how superstitious many folks can be.
Last Wednesday, I modeled how to complete a writing assignment to my fifth graders with the help of a document camera. My script was not projecting well, so I grabbed a red pen and started to write my name at the top of the paper. About 10 of my students screamed,
"AAAAAUUUUUUGGGHHHH!!! MS. ANNE!!! STOP!!!!!" Completely startled, I sputtered,
"What? What's wrong?"
"MS. ANNE YOU ARE GOING TO DIE!!!!" they screamed.
"How in the world am I going to die?" I asked.
After 3 seconds of insanity, my students calmed down, handed me a black pen, and explained this superstition to me. If someone writes their name in red in China, they will soon die. Even more, if you write someone else's name in red, you want them dead. We then continued the lesson as usual.
On my cab ride home, I wondered how many times I had either unintentionally offended or hexed others or myself by breaking Chinese superstitions. When I got home, I opened my laptop, researched superstitions, and verified these tales with my local people. According to many Chinese old wives tales, I am looking for a death wish. Here are some of the superstitions that say why:
1) Don't sign your name or write any name in red ink. If you do, the person whose name you write will die.
This may be because prisoners had to sign their names in red before they were executed. It may also be because people wrote the names of the deceased on plaques or stones in red in the middle of towns. I can't count the number of times I have done this. Oh, and don't put a square around your name either. That means you are dead.
|I never knew such a simple act would make so many people scream.
2) Don't clip your finger or toenails at night.
Ghosts will visit you. That would explain the long pinkie nails on many a cab driver.
3) Beating someone with a broom will bring bad luck for years.
I wonder if this bad luck will stem from retaliation or prison.
4) Four is an extremely unlucky number.
If mispronounced it sounds like death.
|Like many others like it, my apartment building doesn't have a 4th, 14th or 24th floor. It was constructed for Western tenants so there is no 13th floor too!
5) Never put chopsticks vertically in your rice bowl.
Apparently vertical chopsticks in rice look like incense and disrespect the Chinese departed.
|I can't tell you the number of times I have done this…especially in the States. I really am not trying to disrespect the dead. I just need a place to rest my chopsticks.
6) Don't whistle at night.
Apparently They Might Be Giants had it wrong. Evil spirits will find you and follow you into your home.
7) Don't have any mirrors facing your bed.
Apparently the mirrors can steal your soul when you are sleeping. Maybe our landlords have it out for us.
|After showing this picture to my Chinese teacher, she said the mirror would not capture my soul because it isn't at the foot of our bed. That's a relief!
8) Don't ever give someone a clock as a gift.
The words for clock and funeral sound alike. Watches are okay, but clocks mean you want to off someone.
|I would love this clock, however my Chinese friends would think I was trying to kill them if I gave this as a gift.
9) When visiting someone in the hospital, don't bring any red roses or red apples.
Some folks believe there is enough red with all the blood in the hospital. If you bring someone red roses or apples, you are wishing them death.
|While many Bachelors/ Bachelorettes want these roses, Chinese patients do not!
10) If a dog howls at night it means death is on the way.
I really hope this little girl isn't trying to kill me.
|I'm not trying to kill you. I just want a treat.
The good news is one CAN undo this bad luck. All you have to do is step in dog poop.
I think I will take my chances and avoid piles.
Good luck, dear readers!


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Team Value1 $927 mil
Player-costs-to-win ratio8 95
2006 Coach Mike McCarthy
Sport: Portion of franchise's value attributable to revenue shared among all teams. Market: Portion of franchise's value attributable to its city and market size. Stadium: Portion of franchise's value attributable to its stadium. Brand Management: Portion of franchise's value attributable to the management of its brand.
The skinny
The small market Packers continue to be an elite franchise thanks to a rabid fan base and future Hall of Famer Brett Favre. The Packers have had only one losing season since Favre arrived in 1992. The gunslinging QB delivered two Super Bowl appearances, one title, and ranks in the top two all-time in terms of career TDs, completions and passing yards.
Major corporate sponsors are Miller Brewing, Verizon Wireless, Oneida Nation, Associated Banc (nasdaq: ASBC), Shopko Stores, Coca-Cola (nyse: KO), General Motors (nyse: GM).
Historical Snapshot
Facility InformationLambeau Field
Owner: City of Green Bay
Year Opened: 2003
Capacity: 72,928
Cost To Build: $295 mil
Concessionaire: Levy Restaurants
Average Ticket Price: $58
Revenue and operating income are for 2006 season and net of revenue and stadium debt service.
1Value of team based on current stadium deal (unless new stadium is pending) without deduction for debt (other than stadium debt).
2Current team value compared with latest transaction price.
3Includes stadium debt.
4Net of stadium revenues used for debt payments.
5Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.
6Includes benefits and bonuses.
7Includes club seats.
8Compares the number of wins per player payroll relative to the rest of the NFL. Postseason wins count twice as much as regular season wins. A score of 120 means that the team achieved 20% more victories per dollar of payroll compared with the league average.
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Rodania watch brand was founded in 1930 in Switzerland, in the city of Grenchen. In 17 years distribution centers in New York, Brussels, Caracas, London, Montreal were opened.
Manfred Aebi, who started to organize the Belgian office, soon turned it into a major center for sales. But in the 80's Japanese quartz movement at the reasonable price appeared on the market and they excluded Swiss watches, among them were also the watches of the Rodania brand. Aebi bought all the rights and had the opportunity to manage the business not only of Belgian branch of the company, but also the whole company. Rodania got new customers and quickly opened offices in Europe.
Today the company is managed by the children of Manfred Aebi. The company's motto is "the reasonable price for the high quality" and the company follows this motto from the day of its foundation.
All watches are manufactured on modern equipment using hand that allows to control the quality and level of assembly at any stage of production. The watches Rodania is water-resistant and shock-resistant. The watches shows the exact time in any weather conditions and even in the extreme situations because of unique technologies.
The brand produces both mechanical and quartz, men's and women's watches. All collections "Cazius", "Mothus", "Themis", "Altro", "Celso", "Jadis", "Nelson", "Evolution", "Maura", "Adelis", "Salina", produced by the brand Rodania, have a great success among the fans of Swiss watches. They confirm the good taste of the owner.
The Rodania watches are equipped with the best Swiss movements: Ronda, ETA, Valjoux. For the manufacture of the materials the company uses stainless steel with black-coated, high-tech ceramics, sapphire crystal The straps are made of leather, ceramic, or metal. Rodania is very exacting in the materials but the company is very creative in the designs of the models. The main marketing concept of the brand is the laconic elegance which does not prevent to change the form and be very brave in the creation of classical watches.
The brand range consists of 26 collections, three collections of which are automatic chronographs. There are models, in which ceramic elements are used. The brand's collections are separated into two broad groups:
"Swiss chic".
"Mystery" is a stylish ceramic watch. Ceramics became a special material in the brand's lines. This material is used for the producing of men and women watches. The group of "Mystery" includes the "Deauville" watch with the case from stainless steel and ceramic, the thin and elegant watches "Nice", "Monako" with a rectangular c38x48 mm case.
"Swiss chic" is a group which includes the watches, which are made from traditional materials: from black-coated steel and with leather straps. For example, the watches "Nelson" are with the round steel case and the leather strap, "Vance" is a chronograph with the rotating bezel, "Altro" is the watch with the rectangular body made of steel.
In 2010 the company Rodania celebrated its 80th anniversary. Were released collection of "Themis", "Mothus" and "Cazius", which are equipped with the movements ETA 2824 and Valjoux 7750. The models are decorated with the bright hands of red and blue colors.
Almost all the women models are decorated with diamonds or Swarovski crystals.
Nowadays Rodania is one of the most famous watch companies. In recent years the brand presents its masterpieces at the Basel exhibition. In addition, during these years the company opened its stores in 30 countries in the world where you can buy the Rodania watches.
The Rodania company is a standard Swiss quality, precision and reliability.


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Billy Pierce didn't play organized baseball until he was 15. Born in Detroit on April 2, 1927, Pierce played first base at Highland Park (Michigan) High School, but, as he recalled in 2008, "We lost our starting pitcher when he went to play for a team that had better uniforms. They needed a pitcher and I said I would try. Everybody knew I had a good arm."
In 1944, still only 17, Pierce (whose full name is Walter William Pierce) was chosen as Detroit's representative in the inaugural All American Boys Game, sponsored by Esquire magazine and played at the Polo Grounds in New York. The two teams were managed by Connie Mack and Carl Hubbell. Also among the nearly 18,000 in attendance were Babe Ruth, Joe McCarthy, and former New York Mayor Jimmy Walker.
And the star of the game? Billy Pierce, a/k/a "Mr. Zero." From the account in the next day's New York Times:
In 17-year-old Bill Pierce, a southpaw from Detroit, who, because of the many shut-outs credited to him, is called "Mr. Zero," Mack was favored with a young hurler with unlimited potentialities.
Pierce, endowed with respect-demanding speed and a sharp-breaking curve, twirled the first six innings for the winning combination, yielded three hits and fanned six. George Worgul of Richmond Hill High School and Mason Leeper of Dallas, N.C., who finished, also were impressive, but neither won the fancy of the crowd as much as Pierce did.
Pierce picked up the win in the East's 8-0 victory, along with most-valuable-player honors.
Pierce had already signed with his hometown Tigers, and in 1945 he went to spring training and started the season on the major-league roster (in 1945, there were a great number of very young and very old players on major-league rosters). Pierce later recalled, "For the first six weeks of the season I sat on the Tigers' bench and didn't pitch. Then I was sent to Buffalo. I returned to the Tigers before September 1, so I was on Detroit for three-fifths of the year and we won the world championship. I pitched only 10 innings all year and didn't pitch in the World Series – but I was eligible to pitch and received a ring at the age of 18!"
In 1946, with the veterans back from the war, Pierce went back to the minors, but pitched only 10 games for Buffalo before hurting his back in June. "I was in the Ford Hospital for a while," he remembered. "During the winter they would bake me in an oven three days a week. They decided the pain came from my being a boy doing a man's work. So I rested."
In 1947 Pierce returned to Buffalo, where Paul Richards had taken over as catcher-manager. It wasn't the first time they'd met. Richards later told Donald Honig:
Billy Pierce is quite a pitcher. You know, I first ran into him when I was playing with Detroit in 1945 and he was working out with them. In fact, he got into a few games that year. He was just a kid. His father owned a drugstore about a block from where I was living. I'd go in now and then to buy something, and there was this kid clerking behind the counter. I never paid any attention to him. Then out at the ball park we had this little left-hander who I'd warm up occasionally. One day he walked up to me on the field and said, "You know, you won't even speak to me when you come into our drugstore."
"What are you talking about?" I asked.
"That's my father's drugstore," he said. "You were in there last night."
I took a good hard look at him and, sure enough, he was the clerk.
Pierce pitched well at Buffalo in '47 and later said of Richards, "He said Detroit wanted me to pitch only on occasion because of my back. He'd catch when I pitched and tried to slow me down by holding on to the ball." Pierce started only 23 games (and relieved in five more), but his 14-8 record and 3.87 ERA were enough to get him back to the majors in 1948, all of which he spent with the big club. But he rarely pitched, just 55 innings in 22 games. And after the season, the shocking news …
In November, I went over to my fiancée's house. We turned on the radio and I learned from a disk jockey that I had been traded to the White Sox. I was traded for Aaron Robinson and 10 grand because the Tigers wanted a left-handed-hitting catcher who could take advantage of the short porch in right field. The Tigers wanted to give the Sox Ted Gray instead of me, but Chicago wouldn't go for it. . . . It was a bad shock to be traded from Detroit.
For the first few years he was in the majors, Pierce – all 5 feet 10 inches and 160 pounds of him – just reared back and threw. And he certainly could throw hard. As Joe DiMaggio supposedly said after batting against Pierce, "That little so-and-so is a marvel. So little, and all that speed. And I mean speed! He got me out of there on a fastball in the ninth that I'd have needed a telescope to see."
But early on, the speed was enough only to make Pierce a good pitcher. In 1949 and '50 with Chicago, he posted better-than-average ERAs (3.88 and 3.98) and won 19 games for a lousy team. But he also walked more batters than he struck out (granted, in that era such a feat was not particularly uncommon). He wasn't yet a great pitcher.
In 1951, Paul Richards entered Billy Pierce's life again, this time as the White Sox' new manager.
Richards got a lot of credit in the 1940s when Hal Newhouser became one of the American League's best pitchers, and likewise he would get a lot of credit for Billy Pierce's becoming one of the league's best pitchers in the 1950s. According to Richards, "I worked a little with him on his windup to help his delivery and convinced him that he had to throw a slider and an occasional change of pace, and that was all he needed."
In Richards' first season in Chicago, Pierce went 15-14 with a 3.03 ERA. The most striking improvement was in his control of the strike zone. In 391 innings over the previous two seasons, Pierce had walked 249 hitters while striking out 213. Under Richards, Pierce's strikeout rate fell slightly (and temporarily, as it turned out), but his walk rate fell significantly, from one walk every two innings to one walk every three.
Forty years later, Pierce said of his transformation, "I learned to control my fastball better and, at Richards' request, learned a third pitch to go with my fastball and curve – a slider. Developing the slider helped me tremendously because it gave me a third out pitch. I threw it almost as hard as my fastball, but I could throw it for strikes better than the fastball or good curve. . . . Richards made me work on it, and it took me about two years before it was consistent."
Pierce didn't really begin to refine his slider until near the end of the 1951 season, and the change really showed up in 1952, when he went 15-12 with a 2.57 ERA. Then he got off to a fast start in 1953. "Pierce is primarily a fastball pitcher," Richards said that spring. "He can blast the ball past anybody pretty regularly. But he has improved the past two seasons because he has learned to mix speed with curves and an occasional slider."
Pierce started the 1953 All-Star Game (and would start in 1955 and '56, too), and in three innings the only blemish was Stan Musial's single to center field. He finished that season with 18 wins, and for the first time he led the American League in something (strikeouts, with 186). It wouldn't be the only time, though. In 1955, he led the league with a 1.97 ERA; he was the only ERA title qualifier from 1947 to 1962 to post an ERA lower than 2.00. In 1957, he led the league with 20 wins. And beginning in 1956, he led the American League in complete games in three straight seasons.
He did all this while pitching for the White Sox. He also threw four one-hitters, and on June 27, 1958, he just missed becoming the first left-handed pitcher in major-league history to twirl a perfect game. Facing the Washington Senators before 11,300 fans at Comiskey Park, Pierce retired the first 26 batters he faced and owned a 3-0 lead with two outs in the top of the ninth inning. But Washington manager Cookie Lavagetto – who, as a pinch-hitter, famously broke up a World Series no-hitter in 1947 – sent up a pinch-hitter, Ed Fitz Gerald, and Fitz Gerald doubled. Afterward Pierce said, "The pitch . . . was a good one that had a sharp break but he was still able to get around on it."
In 1982 Pierce told sportswriter Bill Madden, "The book on Fitz Gerald was that he was a fastball hitter on the first ball and liked it inside where he could pull it. So we threw him a curve away and he hit it into right field for a solid hit. . . . I didn't feel that badly about it, really. It didn't mean much at the moment. But now . . . well, now I wish I had got it. It would have been nice."
The 1958 season (17-11, 2.68 ERA) would be Pierce's last great one. In '59 his ERA jumped nearly a full run, to 3.62, and he went 14-15. Most disappointingly for Pierce, after starting 33 games during the regular season, he wasn't given a single starting assignment in the World Series, instead pitching four (scoreless) relief innings.
Why didn't Pierce start in the Series? Early Wynn started three games, which made sense because Wynn had won 22 games during the season. Bob Shaw started twice, which made sense because he'd gone 18-6 with a 2.69 ERA during the season. The other start went to Dick Donovan, who'd gone 9-10 with a 3.66 ERA.
There are two obvious questions: 1) Why did Donovan start instead of Pierce; and 2) While starting Wynn three times wasn't odd in those days, why did he make his third start on just two days' rest? Wynn's second start, in Game Four, ended abruptly in the third inning, undone by five consecutive miscues and three errors. When he was yanked by manager Al Lopez, he'd probably thrown between 50 and 60 pitches. Today, you wouldn't see a pitcher come back and start three days later. But things were different 50 years ago, and Wynn was one of the toughest customers around.
As for why Pierce didn't start Game Three in Los Angeles, David Gough and Jim Bard quoted White Sox vice president Chuck Comiskey in their book Little Nel: The Nellie Fox Story:
Charles Comiskey had hoped, and even appealed to Lopez, to give Billy Pierce a start in the Series. "Lopez wanted to pitch righthanders against the Dodgers in the Coliseum because of their strength from the right side of the plate. I can't deny that, but Pierce had been such a great pitcher for the White Sox for so many years that I felt he deserved a shot. I said, 'Al, please pitch Billy.' He said, 'I can't.' I was disappointed, but I didn't interfere with the field manager."
So Dick Donovan – rather than Pierce – had started Game Three. And he pitched well; when he left with two outs in the seventh, the score was still 0-0. Donovan did get the loss after his relief gave up a two-run single. But considering that the White Sox scored only one run in the game – the final score was 3-1 – it's hard to blame the loss on Donovan.
Many years later, White Sox outfielder Al Smith told interviewer Danny Peary, "I was surprised that Al Lopez didn't start Billy Pierce. We all knew why Lopez didn't pitch him, but we never told anyone and I won't say now."
Maybe it's not really so complicated. For his part, Pierce blamed a hip injury that cost him three weeks late in the season. "And then, when the World Series came about," Pierce told interviewer Mike Mandel, "Lopez didn't figure that I'd recovered well enough to start, so I just relieved. . . . [H]e didn't figure that the hip would hold up."
(Coincidentally or not, shortly before going on the disabled list with the hip injury, Pierce had pitched 16 innings in a 1-1 tie against the Orioles. He didn't last more than four innings in either of his next two starts, then was out of action for three weeks.)
Al Smith's support isn't surprising, because Pierce was as well-liked as anyone on the team. He didn't drink but once said, "If another player wanted to drink, fine. I could go along and have a Coke. I never had problems with other ballplayers, where if I didn't drink I wasn't part of the group. They understood that I'd rather be at the movies."
Pierce and Nellie Fox, his longtime roommate, were considered the leaders on the club, and Pierce was for years the White Sox' union player representative. Later Pierce pitched for San Francisco, and Giants pitching coach Larry Jansen said about him, "Never had a bad word about anybody – the nicest man you'd ever want to meet."
Oddly, after winning 14 games with a 3.62 ERA in 1959, Pierce won 14 games with a 3.62 ERA in 1960. And a worrying trend continued. After leading the American League in complete games in 1956, '57, and '58, Pierce had completed only a dozen of his starts in 1959 (still eighth most in the league), and in '60 he completed only eight starts and his innings fell below 200 for only the second time since 1949. In 1961, he started only 23 games, his fewest since joining the White Sox.
The word around the American League was that Pierce was damaged goods, that his hip injury was chronic and that his sore shoulder wasn't going to get better. On November 30, 1961, the White Sox traded Pierce and Don Larsen to the Giants for pitchers Eddie Fisher and Dom Zanni and outfielder Bob Farley. Pierce, perhaps still hurting from the 1959 Series, said, "I am not surprised. But it's a rotten trick and I will make Al Lopez sorry he did it."
In the spring of 1962, Pierce pitched like a man with a hip injury and a sore shoulder. Nevertheless, he broke camp with a slot in the rotation, and in his first start he beat the Cincinnati Reds, 7-2. Pierce also won his second decision, and his third, and he just kept on winning, running his record to 8-0 in his eighth start, on June 1, before finally losing a close one (4-3) to the Chicago Cubs on June 7. Pierce's luck was even worse in his next start. Pitching against the Reds in Cincinnati, he was spiked in the first inning and wound up taking a dozen (or more) stitches. He next pitched on July 15, got hammered in three-plus innings, and didn't start again until August 2, when he re-assumed his spot in the Giants' rotation.
Maybe all that rest helped him. On September 26, the last scheduled Wednesday of the regular season, Pierce beat the St. Louis Cardinals to keep the Giants two games behind the first-place Los Angeles Dodgers. On Thursday, both contenders lost. On Friday, the Dodgers lost to the Cardinals and the Giants were rained out. On Saturday, the Dodgers lost again and the Giants split a doubleheader with Houston. And finally, on Sunday the Dodgers lost, 1-0, and the Giants won, 2-1, leaving the contenders tied at the conclusion of the schedule. Just as in 1951, the clubs would play a best-of-three playoff series to decide the National League pennant.
The Giants that season had an odd pitching staff. Among the four pitchers who started more than 15 games, nobody had an ERA higher than 3.53 (Billy O'Dell) or lower than 3.36 (future Hall of Famer Juan Marichal). In the middle were Pierce (3.49) and Jack Sanford (3.43). The playoff series would begin on Monday, October 1, the day after the season ended. Sanford and Marichal had started in the Saturday doubleheader, O'Dell on Sunday.
That left Billy Pierce to face Sandy Koufax, who'd missed most of the last two months of the season with a gruesome hand injury but finished with the lowest ERA (2.54) in the National League. Koufax still wasn't really healthy enough to pitch but it probably wouldn't have mattered, as Pierce pitched a three-hitter to shut out the Dodgers, 8-0 (and run his Candlestick Park record to 12-0). By most accounts, Pierce was relying on slow stuff by the time he joined the Giants, but he could still throw hard when he wanted to. Watching that first playoff game from the press box, longtime National League umpire Babe Pinelli exclaimed, "Look at him fire that fast one! He's been in so many clutch games that they're nothing to him!" (According to Pierce, his fastball was still his best pitch.)
The playoff series moved south to Dodger Stadium for the second game. The Giants were ahead 5-0 in the sixth inning, but the Dodgers exploded for seven runs to take the lead, then scored once in the bottom of the ninth to break a 7-7 tie and force a third game.
What followed was a near-replay of what had happened 11 years earlier between the same two teams (but on the other side of the continent). Just as they had in the third playoff game in 1951, the Dodgers led after eight innings. And just as they had in 1951, the Giants jumped ahead in the ninth. But this time the Giants were the road team, so the Dodgers would have one last chance. Juan Marichal had pitched the first seven innings for the Giants, and was replaced by Don Larsen in the eighth. Larsen was bumped in the top of the ninth for a pinch-hitter.
Pierce had pitched a complete game just two days earlier, but now Giants manager Alvin Dark called on his 35-year-old lefty once more. He retired the Dodgers in order, "throwing fastballs and sliders almost all the time," and the Giants, 6-4 victors, were the National League champions. Lee Walls made the final out, lifting an easy fly ball to center field. Just before making the catch, Willie Mays reminded himself to save the ball for Pierce. But the moment got the better of him and he "changed his mind and heaved it into the center-field bleachers in a cathartic act of pure, unadulterated ecstasy."
Pierce pitched well against the Yankees in the ensuing World Series. He tossed six shutout innings in Game Three before faltering in the seventh, then beat the Yankees 5-2 with a three-hitter in Game Six. The Giants lost Game Seven, of course, but Pierce was one of the big stories that fall. Including the playoff series against the Dodgers, Pierce pitched in four postseason games, won two of them and saved another, posted a 1.44 ERA, and allowed only 11 hits and three walks in 25 innings.
In the Giants' 1963 home opener, Pierce ran his Candlestick Park winning streak to 14 straight (including the World Series), tossing a shutout against Houston. (According to Charles Einstein, Pierce got some help in his home games. In Willie's Time, Einstein wrote that Giants groundskeeper Matty Schwab had a habit of "wetting down the grass on the left side of the infield hours before game time on days when Pierce was scheduled to pitch. This had the effect of slowing down ground balls that righthanded batsmen would get off lefthanded pitching, reducing the number of hits that would go through to the outfield.")
The streak finally ended four days later with a 4-0 loss to the Cubs. And it was all downhill from there. Pierce finished 1963 with 3 wins, 11 losses, and a 4.27 ERA, his highest since he was a rookie in 1948.
In December the Giants waived Pierce, soon to be 37 years old. He wanted to keep pitching and thought he would, saying, "I'm sure there is at least one big-league team that wants me." There was; Pierce again went to camp with the Giants, earned a roster spot and signed a new contract on Opening Day. But Bobby Bolin was ready for a spot in the rotation and the Giants had traded for Bob Hendley, who had good stuff and was a dozen years younger than Pierce. So the veteran lefty coming off a lousy season went to the bullpen and pitched effectively (2.20 ERA), though rarely in key situations (four saves, two wins, zero losses in relief).
On September 10, he started for the first time in more than a year, and beat the Dodgers with 7 2/3 strong innings. Afterward, somebody asked him if he knew how many strikeouts he had. "Right to the dot," he replied. "I had 1,994 going into the game. I added three more and that leaves me three short of the 2,000 mark." But Pierce wouldn't get another start, and in fact would pitch just once more. On October 3, the next-to-last day of the season, he picked up two K's in three innings of relief, which left him just one short of 2,000 career strikeouts (and in 15th place on the all-time list at the time, between Hall of Famers Dazzy Vance and Red Ruffing).
And that's where Pierce's quest ended. Though he'd gone 3-0 with a 2.20 ERA in '64, he announced his retirement on the season's final day. "My children were growing up and I wanted to be with them," Pierce told Mike Mandel. "I didn't want to be traveling all over the country all the time." He finished his 18-year major league career with 211 victories, 169 losses, and an ERA of 3.27.
Billy and his wife, Gloria (known as Goldie), were married in 1949 and had three children, sons William and Robert and daughter Patti. Before his last year with the Giants, Pierce had moved his family back to the Chicago area. He co-owned an Oldsmobile and Cadillac dealership there for two years, worked briefly as a stockbroker, and occasionally served as an unofficial scout for the White Sox (he's been credited with discovering Ron Kittle). In the early 1970s, Pierce caught on with the Continental Envelope Company, and worked for the company in sales and public relations for 23 years before retiring in 1997.
Also in 1997, the Nellie Fox Society – of which Pierce was a member in good standing – saw its namesake inducted into the Hall of Fame. The organization was promptly renamed the Billy Pierce Society. Ten years later, Pierce was at U.S. Cellular Field for the unveiling of a bronze sculpture in his likeness on the center-field concourse, joining Carlton Fisk, Minnie Minoso, and his 1959 teammates Fox and Luis Aparicio. Pierce, who had recently turned 80, said, "This statue, and the number retired, couldn't be replaced in any way at my age. . . . Here, I spent 13 years with these fellows, and family was very close. Chicago is my home."
Pierce died at the age of 88 on July 31, 2015.
A version of this article originally appeared in the book "Go-Go To Glory: The 1959 Chicago White Sox" (ACTA, 2009), edited by Don Zminda.
In writing this biography, the author relied on Pierce's file at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library, and many contemporary sources. Many of the sources are cited within the text.