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No one was watching when a bus-load of striking factory workers pulled up early on a Sunday morning in July outside the vast Costco store on the far reaches of Middleton. A couple of dozen workers from Palermo's Pizza in Milwaukee, joined by local union members and activist students from a national group meeting in Madison, hoisted protest signs and began to march.
"No Justice, No Pizza" read one sign calling for a boycott of Palermo's products, of which Costco is a major retailer. "No Justice, No Piece" punned another.
The protesters marched in a loop on the sidewalk and called out chants familiar to the labor movement: "The people, united, will never be defeated." And words closely linked to the immigrant rights movement: "Si, se puede!" (roughly, "Yes, we can" — originally the rallying cry of the United Farm Workers in the 1970s).
Most of the pizza factory workers are Spanish-speaking immigrants. They say that Palermo's called in immigration authorities to scare them off when they petitioned the company to organize after years of failed efforts to improve working conditions, then replaced striking workers.
Union members from the Madison-based South Central Federation of Labor marched with the pizza factory workers outside the Middleton Costco. But when it was time for the rallying cries, it was a Milwaukee public school teacher who took the microphone to talk about how important the cause of these low-wage immigrant workers is to organized labor.
"Some people are saying the labor movement is dead — with this, it is being reborn," said Kim Schroeder, vice president of the Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association, whose members had been joining some striking workers outside the pizza factory on picket lines on that city's south side. Schroeder pledged the buying power of his 7,000-member union to the national boycott sought by the striking Palermo's workers.
"In the past year, I've been labeled a 'union thug,'" Schroeder said, invoking a conservative slur from the long, bitter battle over collective bargaining rights for Wisconsin public employees that Gov. Scott Walker launched in 2011.
Walker's recall election in June was viewed nationally as a bellwether of overall union clout as its collective membership declines. In the wake of Walker's victory — which one exit poll said was supported by 38 percent of union households — organized labor is redoubling its efforts to support workers "past the walls of our union halls," as AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka put it in a recent speech.
Unions are scrambling, too, to recapture the kind of thrilling call to action exemplified in the 1979 movie "Norma Rae," a fictionalized telling of the real life story of organizing cotton mill workers in South Carolina. When the title character jumps up on her work table to silently display a scrawled cardboard "UNION" sign, and her co-workers turn off their machines one by one until the din of the factory is silenced — well, Sally Field won an Oscar for her portrayal of Norma Rae.
* * * *
Could the uprising of the feisty pizza workers from Milwaukee hold the same power to arouse workers — and sway a watchful public — as that star turn from the 1970s?
Despite the relatively small size of the company, the strike that began on June 1 has attracted nationwide attention. Within two weeks of the picketing in Middleton, actions were staged in 11 cities outside Costco stores, asking the company not to stock Palermo's products.
Then Trumka endorsed a national boycott on Palermo's products. Last week, informational picketing outside Costco stores was temporarily suspended after company executives reportedly approached Trumka about finding a way for the company to make a positive contribution to the Palermo's situation.
Such a grass-roots effort to exercise the right under law to organize — without assistance from an existing labor union — is the kind of thing you don't see much anymore, said Armando Ibarra, an assistant professor at the School for Workers at the University of Wisconsin-Extension. "It's inspiring," he told me.
Union leaders are quick to say that the conditions that galvanized the immigrant workers at Palermo's Pizza are the same as those that confront many low-wage workers. "A lot of workers now are being treated poorly, paid very little and have absolutely no voice in the workplace," local labor federation President Kevin Gundlach told me.
But in other ways, the story of the Palermo's workers is a uniquely immigrant story, and it lends credence to what a number of labor scholars are saying — that efforts to organize by immigrant workers are on the "leading edge" of the labor movement.
To begin with, it was a demand by Palermo's management that some 75 workers provide proof of their Social Security numbers — in response to an audit of work documents by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — and the subsequent firing of those workers that touched off the strike. After Palermo's workers filed an unfair labor practices charge with the National Labor Relations Board, ICE suspended its audit at the plant, a move labor leaders and scholars say is virtually unheard of.
Any vote on a union has been delayed while the labor relations board investigates the workers' charge.
Palermo's officials deny that there is any connection between the audit and the union drive, and the government won't even confirm that there was an audit.
In a statement, an ICE spokesperson last week said the agency doesn't confirm workplace audits unless its investigations result in penalties to businesses for law violations, but stressed that "ICE plays no role in any ongoing labor disputes when conducting investigations involving an employee's eligibility to work lawfully in the United States."
In order not to conflict with investigations of labor disputes, "in rare cases, ICE may temporarily suspend an ongoing audit," the statement says.
But labor activists say that threats of an ICE audit — and the accompanying specter of deportation for workers who can't prove they are authorized to work in the United States — is a tactic commonly used by employers to thwart union drives.
The threat of immigration audits came up during organizing drives of janitorial and laundry workers in Madison in the mid-2000s, said Patrick Hickey, director of the Workers' Rights Center in Madison. Threats regarding workers' authorization status also crop up when workers who are not unionized file complaints for unpaid wages, discrimination or unsafe conditions with labor law regulatory agencies, Hickey says, despite the fact that state and federal labor laws protect workers regardless of their immigration status.
"ICED OUT," a 2009 report by the AFL-CIO, declared that a "single-minded focus on immigration enforcement without regard to violations of workplace laws has enabled employers with rampant labor and employment violations to profit by employing workers who are terrified to complain … or demand the right to bargain collectively."
This is true, the report says, despite a series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions stretching back to 1984 that establish that the use of worker immigration status to retaliate for organizing activity violates the National Labor Relations Act.
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Perhaps in part because of their unique vulnerability to retaliation for organizing activities, immigrant workers often are clustered in low-paying jobs that in turn carry plenty of incentive to try to organize.
Labor scholars like Frank Emspak, an emeritus professor at the School for Workers, say the story of organized labor has traditionally been the story of immigrants.
"In the last century, who was organizing? It was immigrant steel workers, immigrant coal miners, getting together when there was no labor law," he said.
Beyond that, the nature of the immigrant experience itself has resulted in a disproportionate amount of recent organizing activity taking place in workplaces where immigrants dominate, says labor scholar Ruth Milkman, a professor of sociology at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
Immigrant workers are people who have taken the ambitious step of pulling up roots to move to another country to advance themselves economically, Milkman pointed out, making them more motivated than other workers to organize to protect the prospect of a better life.
In addition, new arrivals typically depend on others from their home country for assistance to help them survive, which often creates the tight social networks that facilitate workplace organizing, Milkman said.
Although in the last half of the 20th century an anti-immigrant sentiment developed in organized labor — which included Cesar Chavez, the famous organizer who led historic lettuce and grape boycotts in support of U.S.-born farm workers — by the turn of the 21st century, unions were embracing immigrant workers as key players in what had become an embattled future.
Then began another wave of anti-immigrant sentiment that gave rise to state laws in Arizona and elsewhere that critics say jeopardize basic civil rights.
Despite that sentiment, the American public supports the rights of immigrant workers, Christian Sweeney, deputy organizing director for the AFL-CIO, told me.
"People know that immigrants are vulnerable and struggle, and that regardless of their status, workers are workers," Sweeney said. "Lots of immigrant workers are documented to work, and it's important for the general public to realize that when any worker — regardless of status — gets bullied, it affects all of us. If the person working alongside you doesn't get to exercise his rights, you don't get to exercise your rights."
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It was an immigrant rights group — Voces de la Frontera, headquartered in Milwaukee — that the Palermo's workers turned to several years ago for help with their labor troubles. The nonprofit agency helped workers file a charge with the National Labor Relations Board alleging that Palermo's management interfered with, discriminated against, retaliated against and refused to bargain with workers who were organizing as the independent Palermo Workers Union.
Voces also has spread the word about the workers' campaign, notifying media outlets of planned actions and coordinating efforts with non-union groups to build support for their efforts.
A campaign asking Costco to drop Palermo's products delivered a reported 4,000 emails to executives there. Costco Wholesale Corp. executives have not responded to phone calls seeking comment on the workers' plea to stop carrying frozen pizza marketed under the Palermo's and "Kirkland" labels.
The protest at Costco in Middleton last month was timed to coordinate with a national conference in Madison of the activist United States Student Association. Members of that group pledged to bring news and support for the emerging boycott back to their hometowns. Many members of the student organization are first-generation Americans, outgoing President Victor Sanchez told the protesters. "We understand the struggles of our parents."
Cesar Hernandez, a six-year Palermo's employee, told me through an interpreter about the workers' action. "We're asking people to stop supporting this company that is treating us poorly."
He told me that part of his right index finger was nearly severed in 2007 when it was caught in a packaging machine that the company failed to fix despite complaints.
"My hand was caught and the machine came down and cut off about one-third of my finger," Hernandez said. The finger was reattached at a hospital, but Hernandez said he was back on the production line after two days. "They said I had to go back to work."
Palermo's officials declined to respond to Hernandez's claim of injury, but records from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration include two recent violations by Palermo's in similar incidents. A 2010 citation for machinery that failed to protect against amputation carried the maximum fine of $7,000; a 2008 citation for a similar violation resulted in a $4,500 fine.
Palermo's officials declined to be interviewed for this story in general, but a statement emailed to me in response to a request for an interview on the company's labor issues quotes director of marketing Chris Dreselhuys as saying that the company merely "cooperated with ICE and obeyed the law" after ICE found some workers ineligible to work. Dreselhuys denied that there is any labor dispute and said the company welcomes a vote on unionization as soon as possible.
"Although recent efforts by Voces de la Frontera will delay the union vote and undermine our employees' desire to be heard, we will continue to cooperate with the investigation and the National Labor Relations Board to help ensure that a resolution is reached that reflects the will of our employees."
Dreselhuys called the boycott attempt "the latest tactic designed to harm a company that for nearly a half-century has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to its multi-cultural workforce, its customers, and the community."
The decision to strike was solely that of the workers, Voces executive director Christine Neumann-Ortiz told me. "Anyone with a lick of sense would know that workers and their families would not make that decision lightly," she said.
As many as 150 workers went out on strike in June, she says, and about 90 continue to strike against the company.
Neumann-Ortiz said workers took action after years of failed efforts to improve wages and working conditions, including a discriminatory lack of respect for Latino workers and a sick day policy that forced ailing workers to stay on the job, jeopardizing not only the health of workers, but also the health of those who consume Palermo's products.
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In Wisconsin, labor leaders came away from the exhilarating, but ultimately sobering, experience of the "Wisconsin uprising" against Walker with the lesson that "everyone has to have everybody's back when it comes to solidarity," David Poklinkoski, president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 2304 and head of outreach for the South Central Federation of Labor, told me.
The emerging Wisconsin Solidarity and Support Network could prove to be a national model, he said. The effort already is lending support to Palermo's workers, raising about $2,000 for their strike fund. The local labor federation, the AFL-CIO, and other labor groups are planning for a national day of action in support of Palermo's workers on Saturday, Aug. 25.
The labor federation also is working to develop a coalition with local community organizations to work on issues that affect everybody, organized labor or not, Poklinkoski said, explaining that the perception of organized labor as an integral part of the community has eroded in recent decades as union membership has dropped.
Union membership nationwide has fallen from a high of 25.5 percent of all workers in 1953, to 18.7 percent in 1979 when "Norma Rae" hit movie theater screens, to a seven-decade low of 11.8 percent in 2011, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
"The labor movement laid the foundation for the wages, benefits and standard of living everyone enjoys. But now we've got people trying to jackhammer that foundation out of existence," Poklinkoski said.
The labor federation's Gundlach said unions need to operate now in a way that recognizes how civil rights, human rights and labor rights are interconnected. "These are all real issues for workers, not just catchphrases," he said.
The labor agenda has always been a broad one, says the AFL-CIO's Sweeney, pointing to connections between labor and the civil rights and consumer protection movements. "It's always been about more than an extra nickel in the paycheck."
Voces' Neumann-Ortiz sees potential for a convergence of labor interests in the fact that 30 percent of the jobs created in the United States in the past 30 years are low-wage, providing great potential for solidarity between immigrants and other low-wage workers. In the past several years, organized workers once considered "professionals" also are under attack, so "there is greater opportunity for solidarity between them and immigrant workers," she says.
Hickey of the Workers' Rights Center, a former labor organizer, believes that immigrant workers — who often have the hardest and most dangerous occupations — will continue to play an important role in labor issues, inside and outside of unions. "But if the labor movement expects to return to significance, it needs to find a way to become relevant to the broader workforce — white-collar workers, high-tech workers, retail workers," he says.
Despite antipathy toward immigrants in some quarters, immigrant workers can help labor regain lost ground, said the City University of New York's Milkman, especially with the assistance of rights organizations that are deft in influencing media coverage. By working to remove the lack of legal status — the primary barrier to economic advancement for immigrant workers — these organizations touch on fundamental issues that resonate with the general public.
"If you win the hearts and minds of the public, it can make a difference," Milkman said.
And low-wage immigrant workers, unlike the Wisconsin public workers who grabbed national headlines for the past year-and-a-half, are unlikely — however wrongly — to be dismissed as whiners who have it better than a lot of other workers, she said. "There may be more public sympathy for these workers — there's no envy factor."
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Outside the Middleton Costco late last month, passersby began honking support for the picketers as traffic picked up and shoppers pulled into the store's huge parking lot.
"Unions are out of vogue," Wisconsin state worker Carmen Clark of Madison told me when I asked her to leave the picket line for a minute to talk. "Their needs are our needs," Clark said of immigrant workers, pointing to the vast inequities in wealth between the "1 percent" and everyone else as the source of economic problems today. The solution, she said, is bringing all workers up to the standard that long-organized workers enjoy.
Ibarra of the School for Workers told me that one reason that the public may have soured on unions is that people forget that whatever benefits organized workers have, they worked to get them. "If you have a pension or decent health care, it's because you are part of a collective that sat down with employers and negotiated them."
That's why the story of the gutsy Palermo's workers holds so much potential, Ibarra said. "Even if they are not victorious, they can inspire people in other workplaces."


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San Dañel is a major city in the state of San Andreas located approximately one hundred and twenty five miles south of Los Santos. It is known for a pleasant year-round climate, white sand beaches, a natural deep-water port and a long historical affiliation with the US Navy. With direct access to the Pacific Ocean the city's port district, Port Lincoln, serves as a major domestic and international shipping hub. Port Lincoln is one of the busiest and largest commercial ports in the country with shipping and recreational boating being central aspects of life in the city.
Due to its very close proximity to the US - Mexican Border the city has a thriving Mexican community with a large number of Hispanic individuals living in the city's southern neighbourhoods. The city is the seat of San Dañel County and serves as the economic centre for most of southern San Andreas. It is also the second largest city in the state with a commercial and political influence to rival Los Santos.
San Dañel has a thriving and highly active criminal underworld heavily influenced by the drug cartels of neighbouring Mexico. The Madrazo Cartel is a dominant player in the local underworld with established ties to local sets of the Marabunta Grande and Varrios Los Aztecas street gangs. The Angels of Death MC is also highly active in the city with a local chapter believed to be involved in drug trafficking across the border. The Spanish Lords, Ballas, Families , Armenian Mafia and Khangpae are also known to be active in the city.
With some of the worst gang crime in the country San Dañel is also home to a large number of smaller gangs including the Fallen Saints MC, Grinning Reapers MC, Greene Street Killaz (African-American), Black Dragons (Chinese), East Avenue Rollerz (African-American), San Dañel Rifa (HIspanic) and the Aryan Soldiers (white supremacist). Dumong Pinoy Samhang Dumong Pinoy
- This is a user created city set to appear in the original piece of fan-fiction "Episodes From San Andreas: Brotherhood Reborn" by Enigma24. It is entirely fictional and non-canon, it in no way constitutes in-game content and exists solely for the purpose of the fan-fiction.
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E85 fuel has finally reached western Canada. Arcade Station, located at 4370 Marine Drive in West Vancouver, British Columbia, offers Regular and Diesel fuel in addition to E85, which is a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent petroleum fuel. Western Canada's only gas station selling E85 Ethanol fuel, on its opening in Vancouver. […]+ Read More
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Those pics are of a mk2 and a mk4 I believe. Really, it can't be done?
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Those pics are of a mk2 and a mk4 I believe. Really, it can't be done?
There is a guy parting a porcelain jetta in the classifieds that had a set of these last week for $100. It may even have its own post, I can't remember:beer:
^^^^^^ WOW, just wow! I want a mk3 now that looks THAT good:thumbup:
There is one for sale on Vermont craigslist right now that looks like it could be yours. It's in Stowe, and the wheels have been painted white and the grille is black for some reason. You can buy it...
I wish my b3 was a syncro, or ran :D Watching this thread for sure as I've never seen a b4 syncro! What are you doing with the smoked turns from the b3, Any chance of selling them?
I saw you on 91 two weeks ago-- Such a sweet mk3! Did you have it for sale on craigslist a little while back? Love the second pic, my new wallpaper:thumbup:
Adaptec's "double up" setup! Check it out, or just have your front hubs drilled out to 5x100 as well :thumbup:
^^^^ non-roof racks!!!!! I want some of those channel pieces. Can you source some for me from your neck of the woods?:D
Not all of us are quick to knock you down :D
I pulled up the pics from the text he sent me, and it looks like a Rieger one. The car had a whole kit on it, but no markings on the side skirts that I bought so it may be a remake.
It was basically what you had on your old passat Izzo. I have pics of it, but this guy took me and a bunch of people for parts so I wouldn't even bother.
Please,please, please say you are somewhere in Massachusetts!!!
my scirocco did this years ago, (or was very similar). It bucked like mad and accelerated all weird. I found that I had a tear in the underside of the intake boot and it must have been sucking in too...
I'm sent for stuff!
I've got a whole calypso wagon here that I'd trade you for euro parts that you bring back:D
i have that husco armrest! pulled mine from a mk3 in a junkyard. i never installed it though, it just sits in my parts collection:) nice choice on the tails, those are always a win. and yes, 16's are...
I got some crappy ones too. I asked if the side skirts were m3 style from his passat as I couldn't tell from the pics. I was told no, so I paid. Got them, and they are m3 style, broken and cracked...
Nice wagon:thumbup: they look so good in black and for some reason I hardly ever see them in that color!
Where are you located? How is the underside as far as rust goes? I am looking for the plate that holds all the gas tank straps together ( with 1 bolt). I can send you a pic if needed. I know, kinda...


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I did this when I was having trouble with my ATT Uverse and cell phone service about 2 months ago, I called recently to make sure the credit's were noted. One lady on there told me they don't offer that for any type of cancellations she's never heard of it before and I told her to read the notes there should be notes on my account for that 6mths no texting fee's. Turns out there were no notes on the account the original guy was just B.S.ing me and I'm still stuck with a horrible horrible phone w/ no service at my home or work because they are trying out the 4G network in my area... !! If I were you guys I would call back and verify the notes on the account w/ another rep. MAKE SURE YOU GET THOSE CREDITS!!! LOL
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In the options press 4 for Account Info or Rate Changes
Press 5 to cancel your service.
Then just tell them you've been shopping around and you want to see how you can reduce your bill. Be patient and let them analyze your bill. At the right moment, ask them if there are any promotions that could help you out in these tough times. They offered it to me then. I didn't get an option but I took the $30 off for 6 months. Money now is better then the $20 lifetime IMO. When they come out with new plans that will probably not even apply.
She also mentioned that "since I had been with AT&T since 2001, she would be more than happy to help out a long time customer".
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First rep shot me down. Second rep offered a one time bill credit of $90. I took it and it reduced my bill by $90 instantly. I wonder if I can call back in the near future to ask for the $20/month text plan? Btw this was a normal rep and not through retentions.
Why is everyone picking the free 6 months? I was offered it but asked for $10 reduction for the unlimited messaging and calling. In the long run of a basic 2 year contract it saves you more. Adding the duration most of us would stay with AT&T the saving just gets bigger.
I didn't think about that, because data isn't even a real option for me, I have no use for it that justifies the current prices with any carrier.
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Don't count on the NLCS winner being gassed for the World Series
Oct 22, 2012, 11:00 AM EDT
The Cards and Giants are beating each others' brains out up until less than 48 hours before the World Series starts. Heck, if it rains tonight, maybe to within 24 hours. As Buster Olney says, this has to be good for the Tigers, right?
For the Detroit Tigers, the drawn-out series between the Cards and Giants is all good, because the rotations of the NL teams will be left in a jumble, the bullpens taxed. The Tigers are lined up and all ready to go with Justin Verlander, et al.
Except the last time they were in the World Series it was set up very much like this. Detroit dispatched the Athletics in the 2006 ALCS in four games, with the last one being on October 14. The Mets and Cardinals, in contrast, played a seven game series that ended on October 19. The World Series began two days later, with the Tigers having had a full week to rest bodies and set up the rotation, with the Cardinals in a putative "jumble." And the Cardinals ended up winning that series in five games.
It's quite possible that, yes, whoever comes out of the NLCS will be jumbled. And I imagine that after 2006 the Tigers learned some lessons about how to spend a long layoff (thus the scrimmages they've been playing against minor leaguers and such). But if history shows us anything it's that we can't really predict how layoffs and frantic run-ups to a series will play out.
- historiophiliac - Oct 22, 2012 at 11:18 AM
What? No recap of the scrimmage games this weekend? I got pics of Verlander taking BP this weekend in my Twitter feed.
- historiophiliac - Oct 22, 2012 at 11:52 AM
You know we want to know if the minor league players lit up Valverde for multiple hits.
- darthicarus - Oct 22, 2012 at 11:48 AM
There is of course only 2 remaining Tigers from that 2006 team, Verlander (who was a rookie) & Ramon Santiago. So it's not exactly the same crew sitting around playing Jenga & watching Phil Donahue.
- historiophiliac - Oct 22, 2012 at 11:50 AM
I thought Infante was with us then too.
- darthicarus - Oct 22, 2012 at 12:15 PM
Indeed you are correct, Infante was also on the team. I forgot about him as he only got in 3 ABs for the whole postseason that year.
- Francisco (FC) - Oct 22, 2012 at 12:43 PM
Another example are the Rockies, they sat for like… 10 days, then got promptly swept by Boston.
- weaselpuppy - Oct 22, 2012 at 1:20 PM
Papa Grande gave a up a run on 3 baserunners…..Brennan Boesch was struck out twice by minor leaguers….
- libertynchurch - Oct 22, 2012 at 2:05 PM
Everybody loves an underdog, until you put your money on the table. Tigers doin it this year!
BTW, I am an old Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford Yankee fan. Gotta give much respect to anybody who beat our
arses that bad!
- passerby23 - Oct 23, 2012 at 1:11 AM
Rest or no rest, the Tigers starting pitching has been dominant and the edge has to be given to them. The Giants have swung the bats a bit better, so it will be interesting to see how it plays out. For my money, I'll take the Tigers in 6 games.
- critter69 - Oct 23, 2012 at 2:12 AM
When I was in college (early 70s), there was a board game (yes, pre-video) for playing MLB games. Since I was a Giants fan, I ALWAYS played the Giants. When I was playing a late 60s version of the game, I put McCovey and Mays in 6th and 7th in the batting order (where they were usually in the top half of the batting order) – it was the ONLY way I could win any games, especially against the trolley dodgers and Yankees (yes, interleague play was being played before interleague play), or even such a lowly team as the Astros (and they WERE very lowly back then).
Sometimes it takes an unorthodox manner of playing the game to win.
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The doctors at Nashville Periodontal Group have joined efforts to treat the millions of American adults who require gum disease treatment, a disease that can lead to other serious illnesses or conditions. Drs. Akin and Dr. West want Tennesseans who suffer from this disease to seek the treatment that they need before further complications arise, and the Laser Assisted New Attachment Procedure is now available at Nashville Periodontal Group.
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The Nashville Periodontal Group now offers a less invasive option for gum treatment than traditional gum surgery with the Laser Assisted New Attachment Procedure. With the advent of LANAP for gum disease treatment, Nashville Periodontal Group is hoping to see the trend reverse itself.
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Josh Childress: Just so people understand.... My experience in Europe was GREAT! I just want players to be informed and prepared for their time there. Twitter
Greece? You'll find legitimate NBA players considering Somalia before they entertain offers from the only two teams in Greece that can be players in the game: Olympiakos and Panathinaikos. Those two teams were a combined 57-5 in league play last season. The third place team was 16-10. "It's ironic,'' says agent Marc Cornstein of Pinnacle Hoops, who has extensive experience placing players in Europe. "(Olympiakos and Panathinaikos) were in the forefront with Childress and Kleiza. They were very aggressive in the past. But they are lagging because of the economic climate over there. It's very quiet." HoopsHype
Has Cornstein heard anything about either Greek team making approaches to NBA players? "In a word – no,'' he said. "It's a shame, really. They were two of the biggest teams in Europe." HoopsHype
It's also not as financially advantageous. The pro basketball players in Greece used to be taxed at a flat, 20 percent. Now, they are taxed the same as all Greek citizens and, for any highly-paid player, that means the tax would likely be 45 percent. HoopsHype
Josh Childress on why he'd not advise players to play in Europe: "Well when I say I would not advise it, it's under the premise that guys are not fully informed. I'm not saying it's a bad idea. I did it for two years, it was a great situation for me, it was a great learning experience, but I think that for a bulk of the guys, you need to be informed. You need to make sure you have insurance, you need to just make sure you're covered on all bases." Sports Radio Interviews
Has anyone contacted him from the players union about his comments since he first said them: "No, no, no. They understand where I'm coming from, and quite frankly I was just being honest. Like I said, the biggest thing is just making sure guys are informed. I would hate for a guy to not know what he's getting in to, and I truly hope that everyone that goes has a great experience like I did." What exactly are they 'getting into' as he's alluded to: "Well it's just a different style. It's a different style of play, mentality, overall just a completely animal. And I think you get some situations where some coaches you're going to get two-a-days every day, and you're going to be playing one game a week, one to two games a week. It's just different. There's not a ton of things I can say about it other than it's just different and that you're aware of that. I wouldn't want guys going over there thinking it's like the NBA, because it's not." Sports Radio Interviews
But don't take my word for it. Phoenix Suns swingman Josh Childress returned to the NBA this season after spending the previous two playing for the Grecian version of the Boston Celtics, Olympiacos. Now that he's back in the NBA, I asked if he'd consider returning to Europe to play during the lockout and jeopardize the last four years of his five-year, $33 million deal. "No, I wouldn't," he says. "And I don't know why guys would. I understand that guys really want to play. But you sometimes have to look at what you have and treat this as a business. The only way I could see it making sense is if you're a player from a particular country going back. But for an American player with a good-sized guaranteed deal here, I can't see why you'd do it." ESPN.com
One great misnomer is that a player is just as at risk of a contract-voiding injury playing at Pauley Pavilion or in some other offseason pick-up game as playing overseas. "Couldn't be further from the truth," says agent Mark Bartlestein, whose agency, Priority Sports & Entertainment, has nearly 40 NBA clients and two dozen players overseas, including Songaila. "Every NBA player contract that I'm aware of has language in it that allows them to play pick-up basketball. But you're not protected if you're playing in a summer league, charity game or for a team in Europe. For a player who is in a big-time lucrative contract, there's tremendous risk." ESPN.com
Childress, comparatively, signed a three-year, $20 million deal with Olympiacos, but that's when its owners were trying to make a splash and Childress had to agree to stay at least one full season. With Greece's economy in ruins, both Olympiacos and Panathanaikos are now up for sale, leaving the number of teams able and willing to offer a deal comparable to Williams' at "less than 10," according to multiple sources. Several teams from the Turkish League are spending lavishly because the country's economy is booming, but it is the exception thanks to, in part, not being a full member of the European Union. Not only are the days of the Greek government arranging tax-free concessions for its sports franchises over, but the cost of bailing out Greece has prompted other governments in the European Union to close tax loopholes for their country's teams as well. ESPN.com
"One of the biggest things guys will have to realize is that whatever offer you get, there's no guarantee you'll actually get all that money," Childress says. "If a guy isn't playing well or a team is out of the playoffs, they'll just stop paying you. I know tons and tons of players who just walked away because they didn't want to go through the hassle of going to court to get their money." And while Besiktas gave Williams an option to leave whenever the NBA lockout ends, the best teams in Europe are not inclined to do that. "They want to build a team, not just get guys for a few months of entertainment," Childress says. "Those teams don't look at themselves as a younger brother to the NBA or a feeder system or inferior level of competition," says one agent, who requested anonymity. "Their perception and pride is not what it was 10 years ago." ESPN.com
The chance of injury, or falling out of favor, is heightened by travel and training that is considerably more spartan as well. "I played for one of the biggest clubs in Europe," Childress says. "But there were still six- and seven-hour bus rides, we didn't stay at the best hotels and we flew commercial nine out of 10 times. And not all coaches care about your body. It's more military style. There's no getting tired. I'll be interested to see how guys' bodies respond." ESPN.com
Former Celtic Nenad Krstic recently signed a two-year deal to play in Europe for CSKA Moscow. Wojnarowski expects others to follow. "I think you're going to see that," he said. "The problem right now is that a few years ago overseas was a big threat and then the euro crashed. There aren't as many teams in Europe as there were a few years ago. There was a couple years there where, you know, Josh Childress had a $6 million a year deal in Europe. Those deals aren't there anymore for those kind of guys. If a front line NBA guy wants to go over there, he can get a good contract. The middle-of-the-road, the middle-class guys who were going over there and really getting paid well, getting paid more than they could get with say the veterans minimum here or even like a $1.8, $2.2 million deal, they could get a little better over there. That money isn't really there anymore. So you will see more guys go over there. Now for Krstic it was easy because he's from Europe and he has a comfort level there. But I think you'll see a few more guys sign up like that, fringe guys, but the guys who are under contract and aren't free agents right now, they're going to have to ride it out." WEEI.com
After signing Josh Childress to a five-year, $33.5 million contract over the summer, the Phoenix Suns are unsuccessfully trying to push him on the trade markets, league executives said. Childress has averaged 5.2 points in 17 minutes per game. Yahoo! Sports
The union, I'm told, is also realistic about the overseas market and knows that only a limited numbers of players can reasonably expect decent offers. There are likewise very few teams, even in Europe's biggest leagues, with the budget to come anywhere close to NBA money, which is why we never saw the once-feared exodus of NBA players after Josh Childress left for Greece in the summer of 2008 for two seasons with Olympiacos. So no one in the Players Association is prepared to suggest that Europe, even if its legal read proves correct, will be a legitimate option for more than a handful of locked-out NBAers. ESPN.com
Two-plus weeks until the trade deadline, and the Carmelo Circus aside, along with those guys who everyone knows are on the block -- like the Nets' Troy Murphy and the Knicks' Anthony Randolph and Eddy Curry -- here are the guys that, according to front office sources around the league, are eminently gettable before Feb. 24: Golden State center Andris Biedrins, Memphis guard O.J. Mayo, Lakers forward Ron Artest, Portland centers Marcus Camby and Joel Przybilla, Philadelphia forward Andre Iguodala, Phoenix forward Josh Childress, Washington forward Rashard Lewis, Detroit guard Rip Hamilton, Cleveland forward Antawn Jamison, Minnesota guard Jonny Flynn, Charlotte forwards Stephen Jackson and Boris Diaw and Houston forward Jared Jeffries. NBA.com
And it's doubly clear given what we're seeing with (and hearing about) Childress, who can't get off Alvin Gentry's bench and, according to NBA front-office sources, is already being shopped by the Suns. Shopped without success. ESPN.com
Josh Childress does not regret one bit signing this summer with the Suns, who are overloaded with wing players, even though he has been removed from the rotation. As for his decision to play through a right index finger fracture with a splint, that is different. Childress, a training-camp-scrimmage star before the injury, slipped from the Suns rotation this week after playing in the first 23 games with averages of 17.0 minutes, 5.3 points and 3.0 rebounds - all are career lows. Arizona Republic
Forward Josh Childress is facing another week to two weeks with a splint on his right-index finger. The finger has been X-rayed regularly, but the bone's healing has been slower than expected since he fractured it Oct. 19, when Golden State's Jeff Adrien fouled him on a dunk attempt. Arizona Republic
Childress remained a restricted free agent when he sought to return last summer to the NBA. But after signing Joe Johnson to a maximum contract, the Hawks were cash- strapped and didn't want to pay Childress. So they worked out a deal with Phoenix to at least get a second-round pick and a $3.63 million trade exception for him. "Yeah, I was willing,'' Childress said about returning to the Hawks in the summer of 2008 rather than head to Greece. "Atlanta, honestly, they never offered me a contract. I took a lot of heat (for leaving), but they never offered a contract. When I went back to the game, when we played there (Nov. 7), I got booed up and down. People called me a 'traitor,' but I never got offered of a contract. Traitor or not, if I don't have a deal on the table, how is that a traitor?'' FanHouse.com
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Request change to 'Provide sanctuary'
In one of the chains (i believe the Gul Tain) there is a subsequent mission after its completely chained for the first time.
This second mission is called 'Provide Sanctuary to Anti-Dominion Cardassian Agent.'
For a critical success you are rewarded with a cardassian Doff, but more often than not, its a white rank doff. Pretty much a useless doff short of execution on kdf side, or transfering if they happen to not be a civilian doff.
My little request, is change this doff, to be a guarenteed refugee doff. At least that way it has SOME use, as cardassian refugees can be exchanged for actually good doffs :D
(and afterall if you provide sanctuary, the person is seeking "refuge" :D)
You know it makes sense! implement it!! ^^
AGreed. Or at least add to the possible qualities of the doff.
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