Free Digital Comics from Marvel - Every #1 Issue Ever Now!
Try to think of something more exciting than 700 free digital comics. If you were able to think of anything aside from meeting Stan Lee, smooching Katy Perry, or receiving 700 free paper comics, there's a chance this story isn't for you. For everyone else: Free Comics!
Update 4-11-13 – The Marvel #1 Promo officially went live today and I was able to download every Marvel Now! #1 issue with no problem at all. Props to Comixology for getting it right, privatizing the download link, and making sure everyone was able to – eventually – take advantage of the sweet deal. I'll have some more thoughts on all the Marvel Now #1's in the future, but for now pretty happy with Comixology's handling of what could have been a disaster for them. – Update Over!
Major Update 4-7-13 – Comixology announced in an e-mail update today that the Marvel #1 promotion would be back online starting Thursday, April 11. If you previously provided your e-mail expressing your interest in the promotion, Comixology will send you a personalized code that grants access to every Marvel #1 Issue ever. If you MISSED that opportunity the first go round, you can still take advantage of it here: https://promo.comixology.com/ – Update Over!
Fresh off their announcement that Marvel Unlimited is available via iPad and iPhone, Marvel announced yesterday that they're giving away hundreds of #1 digital issues via Comixology.
Naturally, the stampede of Marvel fanatics crashed the Comixology servers, and somewhere in the melee I'm pretty sure Brick killed a guy.
I'll get to this technical crash in a minute, but first it's worth pointing out the positive here. Marvel is having a HUGE SXSW, first generating press for the Netflix of Comics (We all know Marvel Unlimited is hardly new, but nice to see some increased exposure and mobile focus – Side note 2: I'm cool with calling MU the Netflix of Comics. Spotify of Comics is just all kinds of misleading as to the freshness level of the service).
To then turn around and announce free digital #1 issues of ALL of their comics – from the glory days of Stan & Jack on through the current likes of Rick Remender – is FANTASTIC marketing.
The opportunity to test the worth of Marvel Unlimited. Like reading these first issues on your iPhone? Well how about the whole series?
It's great promotion of digital comics and a clear effort to hook more subscribers up with Marvel Unlimited, meaning Marvel may be taking the digital subscription seriously as a long-term strategy.
OK, OK. So it doesn't work. Comixology crashed, and although I checked the Marvel app (you can still buy new issues through the standard – not Unlimited – app), the freebies don't appear to be available there either.
This is, of course, disappointing. Marvel will bring it back (link below for more on that), but how many readers might they lose from that initial rush of eager comic collectors?
Their reliance on third-party digital comic providers for new sales. I mentioned during the release of the Marvel Unlimited app that the ability to purchase directly from Marvel puts all the power in their hands.
A consistent digitial failure to look before they leap! This has happened with both the release of the Marvel Unlimited app (the website mysteriousy displacing long-time subscribers information with no warning or update) and now this promotion. To some degree you have to just get things out in the world, but the quality assurance could be stronger.
Despite all that, I would rather enjoy what Marvel got right here: this is a great promotion and a huge step for digital comics. Assuming Comixology gets their servers straightened out, this will end up as a big win for Marvel Comics.
Thanks to TechHive for the original story.
has anyone got their free comics ?
Still no word from either Comixology or Marvel.
This is the latest from Comixology, basically a promise to let everyone know when they're ready to offer the free comics again. Marvel's characteristically less informative, although same idea.
I was able to sign up for e-mail update from Comixology back when that was still an option (really not sure why they took it down), so I'll be posting here first thing I hear.
But anyway, point is you're not alone in not hearing anything. Kind of a strange two weeks of TOTAL silence given the press around this.


The Upside is a 2017 American comedy-drama film directed by Neil Burger and written by Jon Hartmere. It is a remake of the French 2011 film The Intouchables, which was itself inspired by the life of Philippe Pozzo di Borgo. The film follows a paralyzed billionaire (Bryan Cranston) who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a recently paroled convict (Kevin Hart) whom he hires to take care of him. Nicole Kidman, Golshifteh Farahani, and Julianna Margulies also star. It is the third remake of The Intouchables after the Indian film Oopiri and the Argentinian film Inseparables (both 2016).
An English-language remake was first announced in July 2011. Numerous actors were rumored to star, including Chris Rock, Idris Elba, Colin Firth and Jessica Chastain, and different directors, including Paul Feig and Simon Curtis, were attached to direct. Hart officially signed on in October 2014, Cranston in March 2016, and Burger to direct that August. Filming began in Philadelphia in January 2017.


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Q: scope.watch sets watched model to "undefined" in Angular I have a directive with the following code:
(function(window, angular, undefined) {'use strict';

angular.module('widgets.avatarEditor', [])

.controller('AvatarEditorController', [
  '$scope',
  '$attrs',
  '$timeout',
  function($scope, $attrs, $timeout) {

  }
])

.directive('avatarEditor', function() {
  return {
    restrict: 'E',
    scope: {
      originalImage: '=originalImage'
    },
    controller: 'AvatarEditorController',
    templateUrl: '/config/static/partials/widgets/avatareditor.html',
    link: function (scope, elm, attr) {
      scope.watch('originalImage',function (newValue, oldValue, scope) {
        console.log(newValue);
        console.log(oldValue);
        console.log(scope);
      });
    }
  };
});

})(window, window.angular);

The directive is used in an application:
Partial:
<avatar-editor original-image="currentPicture"></avatar-editor>

Controller:
$scope.currentPicture = 'b';

$scope.avatars = AvatarsResource.get({}, function() {
  $scope.currentPicture = 'bar';
});

Without the scope.watch('originalImage',function (newValue, oldValue, scope)... code all works fine, but when I add the watch code, suddenly the "originalImage" model is undefined.
The strage thing is, that the watch event is correctly triggered.
Has anybody any idea, what could cause this bahavior?
Edit:
I found something strange with the parameters of the listener function of watch:
newValue contains "originalImage"
oldValue contains "b" (the real old value)
context contains "bar" (the real new value)

A: Ok, I feel stupid, now...
scope.watch(' != scope.$watch('

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Князь Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Исканде́р (, Ташкент — 26 января 1957, Грас, Франция) — младший сын от морганатического брака великого князя Николая Константиновича и Надежды Александровны Дрейер (1861—1929; дочери оренбургского полицмейстера Александра Густавовича Дрейера и Софьи Ивановны Опановской).

Биография
Александр Николаевич родился в Ташкенте . Окончил Императорский Александровский лицей (1911).

Произведён в офицеры из вольноопределяющихся в 1915 году. Служил в чине поручика, затем ротмистра Лейб-гвардии Кирасирского Её Величества полка. Участник Первой мировой войны.

В апреле 1918 года вернулся в Ташкент, пробравшись из Крыма (где в городе Евпатория, в госпитале Красного Креста, долечивался после тяжелой контузии с переломом обеих костей на правой ноге и где был застигнут большевиками). Незадолго до его возвращения  года скончался его отец великий князь Николай Константинович Романов.

По возвращении он поселился в доме покойного отца. Мать помогла ему устроиться на службу в суд, он был прикомандирован помощником к судье четырнадцатого участка И. Н. Яскловскому, где проработал до января 1919 года.

19 января 1919 года вспыхнуло восстание в Ташкенте. Князь Александр Искандер в январе 1919 года участвовал в вооруженном восстании против большевиков в качестве командира роты. После провала Ташкентского восстания был организатором формирования Ташкентского офицерского партизанского отряда численностью 101 человек.

Отряд, в котором находился А. Н. Искандер, совершил в январе 1919 года тяжёлый переход из Ташкента через горы в Ферганскую долину. С марта 1919 года отряд сражался вместе с местными антибольшевистскими формированиями против красных частей, а затем с остатками отряда ушёл в Бухарский эмират в Бухару. Осенью 1919 года с группой офицеров своего отряда совершил конный переход из Бухары в Иран через пустыню Каракумы для соединения с частями Туркестанской армии. После поражения частей Туркестанской армии от большевиков вместе с остатками Туркестанской армии ушёл через Красноводск на кораблях Каспийской флотилии Вооружённых сил Юга России в Дагестан.

С марта 1920 года — в Крыму, был командиром взвода в эскадроне своего полка, был удостоен награды за отвагу.

После эвакуации Русской Армии генерала барона П. Н. Врангеля из Крыма уплыл с остатками армии в Галлиполи.

В эмиграции сначала находился в Греции по приглашению своей тёти и крёстной матери — вдовствующей королевы Греции Ольги Константиновны. Отказавшись от её помощи, работал в Афинах таксистом. Позже переехал во Францию, где также был таксистом, а также поваром, ночным сторожем, рассыльным.

Провозгласивший себя императором Кирилл Владимирович пожаловал Александру Николаевичу и его потомкам титул светлейших князей Романовских-Искандер.

Умер Александр Николаевич Искандер 26 января 1957 года в городе Грас (департамент Приморские Альпы).

Семья
Первый брак: в 1912 году с Ольгой Иосифовной Роговской (1893—1962). Осталась в России, затем СССР. Дети носили фамилию и отчество её второго мужа Н. Н. Андросова:
 сын — Кирилл Николаевич Андросов (князь К. А. Искандер, en) (5.12.1915 — 7.2.1992);
 дочь — Наталья Николаевна Андросова (княжна Н. А. Искандер) (10.2.1917 — 25.07.1999) — последняя представительница Романовых по женской линии, жившая в СССР, затем в РФ.

В 1930 году в Париже Александр Николаевич женился вторично — на Наталье Константиновне Ханыковой (30.12.1893 — 20.4.1982).

Сочинения
Александром Николаевичем было написано ряд произведений мемуарного характера, опубликованных в периодической печати:

 «Землетрясение: из Туркестанских былей»/ «Русская мысль». 1951. № 409;
 «Из прошлого: В.В. Перовский и наши охоты»/ «Русская мысль». 1962. № 1882, 1883);
 «Небесный поход» / «Военно-Исторический вестник» , № 9, 1957 г.

Примечания

Ссылки
 Сайт #1868 «Добровольческий корпус». Князь А. Искандер «Небесный поход».
 Сайт историка Сергея Владимировича Волкова. Белое Движение в России. Организационная структура. Ташкентский офицерский партизанский отряд.
 Официальный сайт Российского Императорского Дома. Морганатическое потомство Великого Князя Николая Константиновича (князья Искандер)

Выпускники Александровского лицея
Морганатическое потомство Романовых
Участники Первой мировой войны (Россия)
Персоналии:Вооружённые силы Юга России
Галлиполийцы
Русские эмигранты первой волны в Греции
Русские эмигранты первой волны во Франции
Мемуаристы русского зарубежья
Участники Крымской эвакуации

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Duncan Aviation is pleased to announce a free connectivity webinar that will take place July 9 at 1 p.m. Eastern Time.
Duncan Aviation is pleased to announce that its full-service facility in Battle Creek, Michigan, has installed an ALTO Cadence Cabin Management System (CMS) and speaker system in a Challenger 604. The ALTO system was a perfect fit for this customer, who did not want to replace the existing switches with touchscreen cabin controls.
Duncan Aviation is pleased to announce that two of its Satellite Avionics Shops—one on the East coast and one on the West--have moved into new hangars.
Duncan Aviation Reminds European Operators About Upcoming ADS-B Mandates
As the European Aviation Safety Agency's (EASA's) deadline for upgrading to Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) is approaching quickly, Duncan Aviation reminds European operators to plan for these upgrades as soon as possible.
Duncan Aviation Welcomes Michael Kussatz As East Coast Regional Avionics Sales Manager
Duncan Aviation is pleased to announce that Michael Kussatz has accepted the position as Duncan Aviation's new Regional Avionics Sales Manager, and he'll be supporting avionics install sales for our East Coast Satellite Avionics Shop network.
Duncan Aviation Receives Top Dealer Award At AEA
During an in-booth reception at the 62st Annual Aircraft Electronics Association (AEA) International Convention & Trade Show in Palm Springs, California, Duncan Aviation was named a Gogo Business Aviation Top Dealer for 2018 for the 4th consecutive year and the 7th time since 2011.
Duncan Aviation's Scottsdale Satellite Shop Welcomes New Manager
Duncan Aviation is pleased to announce that an 18-year-veteran of the company, Joshua H. Chischilly-Keyonnie, has accepted the position as Manager of its Scottsdale Satellite Avionics Shop in Arizona. Chischilly-Keyonnie is stepping in following long-time Manager Jim Davis' retirement.
Duncan Aviation Creates Live STC Database
Duncan Aviation's Engineering & Certification Services department is pleased to announce that the company has created a searchable database of the Supplemental Type Certificates (STCs) that Duncan Aviation has developed and has available for sale. This database can be accessed at www.DuncanAviation.aero/services/engineering.
Duncan Aviation's Marika Brack Joins Avionics Installations Sales Team
Duncan Aviation is pleased to announce that Marika Brack has joined the Avionics Installations Sales Team at its full-service facility in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Duncan Aviation's Battle Creek Facility Welcomes New Avionics Install/Line Department Manager
Duncan Aviation is pleased to announce that the company recently welcomed new Manager of Avionics Install/Line Services Department Mark Kahle to its full-service facility in Battle Creek, Michigan.

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John Mattos has firmly cemented himself as the go-to illustrator for mystery novels. First, he did many of the covers in Rhys Bowen's Royal Spyness series and now here is a new cover for Rules of Murder in Julianna Deering's new series Drew Farthering's Mysteries.
Edward Kinsella III - Lincoln Must Die!


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Hermann Heller (* 4. Juni 1871 in Kunreuth im Landkreis Forchheim; † 6. Juni 1950 in Laufen) war ein deutscher Verwaltungsjurist und Bezirksoberamtmann.

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Nach dem Abitur am Melanchthon-Gymnasium Nürnberg studierte Hermann Heller in den Jahren von 1890 bis 1894 Rechtswissenschaften an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Mitglied der katholischen Studentenverbindung CStV Uttenruthia Erlangen) und der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Im direkten Anschluss leistete er seinen Militärdienst als Einjährig-Freiwilliger und den dreijährigen Vorbereitungsdienst (Referendariat), der ihn zum Amts- und Landgericht Nürnberg und zu den Bezirksämtern Nördlingen und Nürnberg führte. 1898 legte er das Große juristische Staatsexamen mit der Note II 11/20 ab und kam 1901 als Assessor zum Bezirksamt Dinkelsbühl. Zum 1. Juli 1914 wurde er als Bezirksamtmann mit der Leitung des Bezirksamtes Tirschenreuth betraut. Dieses Amt hatte er – unterbrochen durch den Kriegsdienst vom 17. November 1914 bis zum 30. April 1917 – bis zum Jahresende 1919 inne. In Neuburg an der Donau leitete er als Bezirksamtsvorstand die Verwaltung vom 1. Januar 1920 bis zum 30. November 1931, als er zum Bezirksamt Weißenburg wechselte. In Neuburg wurde er zum 1. April 1920 als Bezirksoberamtmann übergeleitet und am 1. April 1923 zum Oberregierungsrat befördert. Zum 16. Mai 1933 verließ er Weißenburg und ging zum Bezirksamt Lichtenfels. Bis zu seinem Eintritt in den Ruhestand zum 1. August 1936 war er Leiter der Verwaltung. Während des Zweiten Weltkrieges wurde er "reaktiviert" und als Leiter des Ernährungs- und Wirtschaftsamtes Laufen eingesetzt.

Heller hatte am 7. Oktober 1902 in Dinkelsbühl mit Elise Sophie Rabus (1879–1949) die Ehe geschlossen, aus der fünf Söhne und eine Tochter hervorgegangen sind.

Zum 1. Mai 1935 war er in die NSDAP eingetreten.

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Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Absolvent der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Verwaltungsjurist
Regierungsrat (Deutschland)
Oberregierungsrat
Behördenleiter
Deutscher
Geboren 1871
Gestorben 1950
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Bloomington attorney Phillip Chamberlain was arrested last night and charged with five felony counts for allegedly stealing money from a client instead of investing the money in a golf course project and building a house in Lawrence County.
Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita said today Chamberlain offered to invest the money as an alternative to a plan by the client to invest in rental properties.
The client, he said, loaned the money to Chamberlain, but Chamberlain stole a "large portion."
Rokita didn't identify the client.


Due to local storms, a new roof was needed at this home in Gardner, KS. Owens Corning Oakridge Shingles was suggested and it seems to match the house colors perfectly.
My wife and I need to have our Master Bath Shower completed (Onyx shower). We had hired another contractor to remodel it due to a leak, but he only partially completed the job--with issues--before filing for bankruptcy.
"They did a great job painting my house! I would recommend Arrow to my family and friends!"
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This new roof had the Oakridge Series by Owens Corning.
This photo shows a close-up of the home with the SandCastle color shingles.
The homeowner suffered wind damage to their roof after a recent storm. The roof needed matching shingles to replace the ones that had been damaged. The homeowner contacted Arrow Renovation to assist with the insurance claim and to repair the roof. Our contractors worked diligently to determine insurance coverage and get the roof repaired. Our roofers found exact match shingles, and the home looked better than ever!


The idea is to spread the word, understand the market needs, identify the decision makers involved, get to know the competition, their pitch, what works for the competition and what doesn't etc. Idea is definitely not to sell anything.
So, here are the steps to get you to make those first 100 sales calls without any plan whatsoever. Do not wait until you have perfected your sales strategy or understood your target segment completely. There is no time for all that. You can learn all those on the job. Hit the road and start meeting clients. Here you go.
Get into an Action mode. Hit the gym if you want some energy or keep two dumbbells handy at your work place and play rock on your headphone and see the magic unfold.
Keep the script ready – at a bare minimum it should have the details on – who you are, where you are from, what is it that you want to do for them [target segment] and why – let this not be a pitch but a generalized statement. For ex, say, "we are passionate about offering solutions to the travel industry segment and we understand the issues that the travel industry faces". If the customer asks, then and only then explain the issues and your solutions.
Identify the target customer segment that you want to focus.
Login to your CRM and quickly search for the target segment – from your Leads, Accounts and Contacts.
Check if there is a Trade Association for that target segment. If yes, is there a members database available for free or for a fee. Get that list.
Use LinkedIn, start searching for the target segment from your first level contacts, to start with.
Identify the people you want to meet – from Finance function or Marketing function and VP level or above or below.
Export that list from LinkedIn and merge it with the list from the Trade Association list. Keep the source of leads column and import it into your CRM.
Query your CRM on the Target Segment and create a filtered list [with Title/Designation, City etc].
Create a Task "Call" or "Meet" with a short description and add the Script and do a mass update to this selected list.
Hit the Visual Task Board and you will see all these items lined up in Stage 1.
That's it. You are off to a great start. Best Wishes !!


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While this tweet is probably meaningless to most people, it struck me as very funny. Over the last five years, I have wandered into a Starbucks somewhere every week and looked for the Starbucks iTunes Pick of the Week cards. I would usually grab a few of them at a time. The result has been a playlist list of 266 songs on my phone as well as a couple of dozen apps, books and videos. It has also resulted in large piles of the cards on the mess that is my desk. Looking at the mound of Starbucks iTunes Pick of the Week cards on my desk and thinking that they would be the currency of the dystopian future made me smile.
In at least one of these apocalyptic movies, the currency of the dystopian future has to be Starbucks | iTunes Pick of the Week cards.


Don't forget to register your child for upcoming cardiovascular testing!
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Wimbledon Athletics has tested thousands of students across the country for vascular conditions and for heart conditions that cause sudden cardiac arrest, and they have helped save many lives. At 3 out of 4 schools where they test, dangerous abnormalities are identified in students!
I strongly encourage you to be proactive about your child's health. So many of the conditions that cause sudden cardiac arrest are genetic and do not present any warning signs or symptoms. We want to make sure our students stay safe and, to do that, we need to have them evaluated.
Visit www.WimbledonHealthPartners.com/register to view the FAQs and access the "How to Prep for Testing" flyer.
If you have any questions, please contact Wimbledon Health Partners directly at (855) 200-8262. I look forward to protecting your child's health and safety!


Click this link for larger view of the Greywater System. Click this link to view building your Barrel Garden.
Purchase 4 or more barrels for free delivery within the Morongo Basin, otherwise pickup is available at 62323 Belmont Street, Joshua Tree, CA, 92252.
These barrels come in blue and green for 55 and 38 gallon drums. 55 gallon comes in plugtop (55 feed grade-$25) or screwtop ($40).
These totes are 135 gallon (275 gallon are $140).
Unveiling the gutter maker for rainwater harvesting.
The state allows a single stand-alone greywater branch termination system.
in place, (like 2000 gallons) it will be fillled in a month with rainfall. Instead of drinking water for toilets and watering, use free water off your roof!
Instead of using drinking water to flush toilets and water landscape, you can use your harvested water.
Click this link for more information and installation instructions.


Acer manufacturer recently introduced its newest laptop model, known as the Aspire 7552G which is also designed with the VISION Technology features, similar to the one used in the Aspire M5400 desktop version. Along with this technology, it comes with mobile processor in the likes of the AMD Phenom II Quad-Core Mobile processor and also an ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD graphic card for enabling HD gaming capability.
Acer also provides its customers with a variety choice of screen sizes to choose ranging from 14.1-inch, 15.6-inch or even a 17.3-inch wide display for users to enjoy the HD quality images. All of the display screens are also designed with an aspect ratio of 16:9, with LED-backlit for reducing its energy usage so that its battery life would be able to last much longer and also a more balanced brightness level.
Other features of the Acer Aspire 7552G laptop also include a Blu-ray player, plus an HDMI port for enabling easy connectivity of the device to the latest HD displays, television as well as projectors for viewing any of your favorites movies in full HD.
For now, we know that this Toshiba laptop is available in different configurations with a choice of either a Core i5 520M or a Core i3 350M processor with your budget in mind. The most expensive one comes with a 128GB SSD whereas there are the ones affordably priced which comes with 320GB HDD.
Also on these laptops are a 4 or 8GB of DDR3 memory and not forgetting the internal Intel WiMAX card. Also featured are Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI and three USB 2.0 ports including an eSATA combo port. Onboard the laptop is a D-sub connector, a pair of audio jacks, an SD card reader and a Type II PC Card slot. It comes with a standard DVD combo drive.
The laptop comes with a finger print scanner that can be found between the track pad keys. This Toshiba laptop is priced at a whopping $2846 in Japan.
Very exciting news today specially for Toshiba fans. This news excited us as well only to the point where we realized that if we were in Japan, being excited would have made sense. See, Toshiba has launched their new Core i laptop that is set to work for 16 hours thanks to its long lasting battery life.
Purchasing a laptop, many consumers pay more attention to the price, features and the battery life as why would anyone buy a laptop without checking how long the battery will last? How would it serve as a portable device then?
Let's get back to Toshiba in Japan. The new Toshiba model named the dynabook RX3W comes with a 13.3-inch display screen with a resolution of with 1366 x 768 pixels and works on a standard 35W Core i processor. It is powered by Intel's HD graphics which makes it alright nothing much to boasts about. It is not that heavy, thanks to its light chassis.
Toshiba recently launched a new laptop from their Portege R700 line called the R705. The Portege R705 might look like Apple's MacBook Air if not for the colorful designs that this laptop comes in. It is a little thicker than Apple's laptop weighting in at three pounds. Though if compared to Apple's MacBook Air, there are pros and cons but we won't get into that. This laptop comes with three USB ports a built-in Ethernet port; an HDMI port; and a memory-card reader. The HDMI port can be used for direct, high-definition connection to your TV. Almost all laptops now come with an HDMI port.
There's enough memory capacity to keep everyone happy; 500GB HDD & 4GB Memory. The device runs on the 64-bit version of Windows 7 Home Premium. The R705 comes with more than four hours of battery life which is good when it comes to its type of battery and specially this is when it is used heavily.
During normal circumstances, the battery is expected to last more than five hours. At the moment, on Toshiba's own site, the Portege R705 is being offered for $890 but for those who want it at a cheaper price, Best Buy is currently offering it for $800.


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in washington, d.c., a panel of scholars talks about the role the catholic church played in educating, organizing, and advocating for immigrant laborers from the mid-1800s to the 1940's. according to the census bureau, between 1850 in 1930, before an born population in the united states rose from 2.2 million to 14.2 million, and many of these immigrants were catholics from europe. the 90 minute program is part of a conference. >> welcome to our final session. just tutors myself, my name is maria zynga i am in archivist at the met -- american cap history museum and a historian. i and elated to be here with you on this particular panel. this panel is concerned with
immigration and labor specifically. this is a next really important topic, as most people who migrate to the united states come here to work. that causes all sorts of thorny issues as we are going to see. just a couple of announcements before i introduce our speakers. we have a couple of books i want to point out. go to the worker, it is on american labor priests. there is an order form on your table in case you want to order a copy. second you can have a free copy of this on your way out. i would just note that i left a copy of a set of panels five publication called the treasure chest of fun and facts.
the church just of fun and facts. was a comic book publication intended to counter what was seen as a negative comic book culture in the 1940's. it was published -- it was intended to -- you another schools all caps the country, published in 1946 and 1972. i gave you just set of panels because it concerns someone new is a labor acted it -- activists -- activist. she was really in a short very woman. this is a comic book version of her, but she did some great work at the conference. she did very detailed server and -- surveys of mexican migrants. she worked for minimum wage for women and children. at what it might be interesting to see this.
in thousands of high school lacrosse tenet, catholic children or reading about her in their popular culture. a little addendum for you. i would like to introduce our three speakers that we have here. right next to me is dr. joseph a. mccartin. his research focuses on the intersection of labor policy, and religion, so he is really perfect for this. his first book is "labor's great war: the struggle for industrialized democracy." this one the 1999 philip taft book award. his most recent book is
"collision course: ronald reagan and the air traffic controllers in the strike that changed america." this covers the 1981 patco strike of air traffic controllers in 1981. he also won the richard a lester award -- a. lester award. his current grease or to impact of the public sector -- research focuses on the impact of the public sector and labor and he is on the editorial committee of labor, and he serves on the board of interfaith worker justice. i would add that one of his great roles is at georgetown university at the kalam --
kalmanovitz initiative for labor and the working poor. my next guest is kimball baker. he wrote documentaries and features for "voice of america." kim received a masters degree for international studies and also did additional work here at catholic university. he did work for smithsonian magazine -- "smithsonian
magazine close quote and a variety of other obligations -- publications. he has an appointment to a national advisory council of catholic immigrant immigration for the center of migration studies of 2013. to route our panel out, we have father evelio menjivar-ayala. father evelio menjivar-ayala is a native of south america. he emigrated to the united states in the late 1980's to flee civil war in his native land. after spending a few years in los angeles, he moved to maryland for better employment opportunities, which i am sure he will tell us about.
before he served in the seminary, he worked as a janitor while taking ged classes in the evening. as a priest, he has held different assignments in the archdiocese throughout washington he was a parochial vicar in washington dc -- wash the comedy see -- washington d.c. he possesses a bachelors in a liberal arts and a masters in divinity from the pontifical university of st. thomas aquinas in rome. now he is very involved in the washington community, especially advocating for immigrants, the homeless, and workers. he is a member of the priest labor social project initiative
in chicago that focuses on continuing formation on priest and worker issues. the way we will proceed here is, professor mccartin will look at the technical aspects of labor, and we can mix it up and take your questions. mr. mccartin: thank you, thank you very much, maria, i am honored to share this panel with kim and evlio. -- evelio. it is difficult to understand anyone of the phenomenon, the
history of the u.s. church, the history of the american ms -- american immigration experience, or the history of u.s. labor without understanding its interaction with the other two. organized labor, and the history of labor relation in the united states, everything relates to what we might call the labor question. it has been deeply influenced by both immigration and catholicism. a of the catholic church in the united states has been deeply shaped by successive waves of immigration and by the fact that for most of its history this was a church whose pews were overwhelmingly filled by wage earning families, by workers. and the history of immigrants in the united states, even, i would argue, many who are not themselves catholic, has been
deeply influenced by the interaction of catholicism and the labor question. not a good mic. sorry. alright. so the trinity of catholicism, immigration, and labor i would say is a rich, complex, and multilayered inter-relayered relationship. here i would like to first focus on and briefly sketch out some of the ways that we can think about the long-term impacts of the immigrant catholic experience on the history of labor and second, to suggest some ways in which the experience of immigrant labor affected american catholicism and finally, just offer some observations about the present
moment and the ways we might see the new ways of the interrelationship between church and labor playing out right now and maybe in the coming years. first, in regarding immigrant catholicism and its effect on labor in america i would argue that the catholic immigrant experience had a huge impact on american labor in terms of its leadership its vision, it's politics, it's relation to government, it's very organizational structure, and more. the impact on catholicism i would say is indisputable. catholics, and especially catholic immigrants, played a disproportionate role in shaping the labor movement and its history in the u.s.. catholics provided the leadership of many of the most significant efforts of american workers to organize. the leader of the largest labor organization in the 19th
century was terrence powderly and the knights of labor. the most prominent woman activist of the era in industrialization was mary harris jones, mother jones, of an irish immigrant background. the founding province and -- president of the afl-cio was george meaney, of catholic immigrant stock. three of these people were also raised in the catholic church, while the only one who wasn't raised catholic, named kirkland, took his advanced degree from ages what university georgetown. born and bred catholics played a huge role in the history of american the labor and its leadership, and they continue to play an important role, i would say, even today, both in and outside the afl-cio. the leader of the nation's
largest general union the service employees international union, argues that the values instilled in her catholic upbringing led her to her position as a leader. this helped shape the outlook of labor's leadership over generations. the impact of catholicism on labor's vision in the u.s. is also, i think, also evident. the concept of the living wage which has been revived over the last couple of decades, as some of the people in this room well know, has been theorized and popularized more than a century ago by catholic theologians, john a. ryan. the pastoral letter written by american bishops after world war i on what they called reconstruction helped legitimize and popularize the idea and vision for labor in the years
leading towards and culminating in the new deal, it was a vision called industrial democracy. the bishops endorsed this vision, which became sort of central to the labor movement and articulating of its goals in the mid-20th century. clearly, catholic influence also helped minimize the impact of socialism and communism within the u.s. labor movement. many scholars have written about that. it is the thing that most folks i think are familiar with. but we shouldn't look at catholicism influenced primarily for its negative impact, i think we really need to recognize its long-term vision is a positive force for defining a certain approach to government, and especially the uses to which government should be put and regulating workplace relationd. -- relations.
government also helped form the organizational structure of american labor, i would say. american catholics did not form separate unions or catholic-themed unions and related parties. catholicism helped provide a unifying tie in the u.s. that mitigated, it didn't dissolve by any means, but it mitigated, to some extent, the rivalries that otherwise pitted rival groups against each other. in made it somewhat easier to draw irish, french canadian, italian, and latino into the same organizations. it is difficult to imagine the cio of the 1930's without the influence that catholicism had in providing a common ground for workers who joined industrial unions. but it wasn't only that immigrant catholics that helped
shape the labor movement in the u.s., immigrant movements helped shape the church. it pushed the church to articulate it social vision on labor, it opened up the church to eight deeper engagement with the religious, and periodically, it called upon the church to take a prophetic stance. the immigrant labor experience in the u.s. had a profound effect on the articulation on catholic social teaching. the controversy that swirled around the knights of labor, the labor of former henry george, or the activism of perhaps america's first labor priest, edward mcglynn back in the 1880's, the controversy surrounding those things helped to bring to the surface the labor question in the u.s., at the same time it was emerging in europe, and it helped set the context for the issuing of the first great labor there -- pry
ayer which had deep indications in the u.s. setting. monsignor john a ryan -- a. ryan began articulating an american reading of the catholic church, especially on that labor question and the early 20th century. by no means a church historian -- and we heard from folks who are here earlier today like tilting guests -- like bill dingues --but it seems to me that this had an impact on the church's relations with other religions in the united states. labor issues pulled the american faithful into working with non-catholics, and it pulled their clergy into efforts to
work with others as well, efforts that, you know, could be seen as early expressions of accu medical ism -- ecumenicalism. this is periodically pushed the church to take on a more prophetic role. i think that was true in the 19th century when the church felt compelled to speak up for exploited workers, as someone like edward mcglynn did in 1880's in new york city. he was so prophetic that for a time he was excommunicated for taking such a militant stance on some of these issues. it was true in the 1930's, when dorothy day race of the issues of workers in the 1930's, many of whom were immigrants in a very prophetic way, it was true in 1960's when cesar chavez did the same for for workers and other exploited workers, and latino workers at that time --
same for workers and other exploited workers, and latino workers at that time. and also it includes speaking up for the rights of the undocumented workers. so the church is periodically called to a prophetic stance by labor questions. over more than a half-century than, immigrant workers have help shape the church and are approached to labor questions. not only is there good question to think that these patterns have held for more than a century and that they may continue to hold, as we go forward, i think there are indications that we may be entering a new and in tents phase of this interrelationship -- and intense phase of this interrelationship. i think of the day laborers that
congregate on corners and every large city of america, i think of the janitors like our co-panelist, father evelio, at a time when he was studying for the priesthood. janitors working in hotels or office buildings. i think of the food service and construction sites and the immigrant workers who are struggling today in the united states. it seems to me that the church is poised to bring to bear on the experience of these workers and to draw upon their experience and to turn come in powerful ways, but i think can open up a new chapter in this long interrelationship. i think the church today is poised to do three things. first, the church can bring to our consideration of labor questions now a global vision. as the most expansive unitarian
institution today, a universal institution -- the catholic church is better prepared than the labor movement and i would argue more so than any other institution to understand the global nature of today's labor problems. what is happening in jobs and the economy now is deeply intertwined with what is happening around the world to workers in other economies. to deal with the problems that immigrant workers face now requires that we also grapple with the problems that their colleagues are facing in the countries of their origins. so a global vision. second, a church can bring global clarity to economic questions that are becoming more and more complicated. the current head of the department of labor's division of wage, and hour
enforcement has just published a book that i would encourage everyone to read, because more importantly than anything i have read recently, it tells the story of why we are experiencing an explosion of inequality, it is called "the fish erred -- f issured workplace." he explains that our economy has gone over a massive change in the past generation it includes franchising and lengthened global supply chains, and that has destabilized what were along stable relationships between workers and their employers. it has blurred what an employee is legally. is a person a worker or an independent contractor? it has blurred who is their boss. who ultimately are they working for?
if you go into a hotel in the city today and you check in at the front desk, the person who is checking you in, they might be working for a contract that specializes in hiring out such specialized workers for those hotels. who are the employees? it is not clear. the jobs that are being fractured and fissured in this way, what we need is a moral vision the holds people accountable for labor conditions and standards. in such a world i think the moral clarity that the church can provide is a necessary precondition for developing organizational and legal responses to the breakdown of labor standards that has led to the skyrocketing of inequality that we are seeing right now. it is first a moral issue and the church can help people
articulate who is responsible. finally, i think the church can bring to bear a powerful language of solidarity that helps clear away the thicket of opposition to developing effective government action in dealing with the problems that immigrant workers today face. we heard earlier today some reference to pope francis's exhortation of the gospel of inclusion, and placing the poor at the center of the gospel message, and that statement is one of the most important things -- he reminded us that catholic social teaching is based on the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity. what he also did and i don't think is emphasized enough about that statement is that he brought up the right relationship between subsidiarity and solidarity.
in recent years, some market worshiping catholics, who oppose labor regulation, have tried to make the printable of subsidiarity into an all-purpose critique against government itself. but francis reminds us that subsidiarity is not a concept that is sort of equal in weight to solidarity. in his statement, he mentions solidarity 17 times subsidiarity once. subsidiarity, for him, is a doctrine to exist in helping to achieve solidarity, and only when it does, is it of equal weight. what we need is a vision of solidarity, and francis has helped us articulate. that this is a vision we need now, i think, more than ever because our economy is fractured in the way that it now is, because of the separation that
has occurred from those at the bottom, often of whom speak a different language from those at the top. we need to be able to articulate our oneness. the church can help. the church, then, is poised to bring the power of its moral vision it's language of solidarity, and do so in powerful ways that can help us confront the powerful issues that confront workers today. as in the past, engaging with the problems of labor will not be a one-way engagement. if the church takes up this challenge, it will as it has been in the past, be changed by the encounter. it will, as it has been in the past, i think as well, be renewed by that engagement. so, thank you very much. [applause]
mr. baker: my thanks to dr. maz zenga and all of the others who have done such a great job today. this was quite a homecoming for me since i did all of this research, so maria and tim and others here are very friendly faces. a special shout goes to john shepherd, i don't know if he is here, but he guided me through two great collections. play experience was that if john couldn't find something, it didn't exist. interviewing higgins, i had to tell you, was the highlight of my research. i well remember visiting his apartment not far from here and sitting in a circle of stacks of his books and papers as he shared memories of the catholic
social action movement. in his reminiscing and this is true for all of the movement members i spoke with, there was a strong sense of having been part of something very well-defined and tremendously significant and of that something have a great potential for good in both past and present. i offer my remarks in that spirit. the catholic social action movement was instrumental, in my view, with providing social and spiritual justice to workers catholic and non-catholic, in the united states in the new deal era and for several decades by on -- beyond. many were immigrants or children of immigrants. many were lay activists, and i ever says the word lay because that is a very important part of distinction.
the activism was a true pathway into american life, and they saw it in that light. the chicago lay activists who was a son of polish immigrant said that it had opened a whole new world to him. in the movement, he thought they could help right the wrongs of injustice. not long after publication of my book i decided to help immigrant workers. while visiting one such effort a new jersey project called new labor, i heard participants express the same sort of excitement, and i heard the workers and justice was being fought by these immigrants around the city of new brunswick
about an organize workplaces substandard wages and benefits and unsafe workspaces. what is often different now is that government workers must also contend with the injustices stemming from a broken u.s. justice immigration system, which is overly restricted, delay-ridden, and results in too many deportations that results in divided families. these workers are undocumented meaning that they still live in the shadows and our fear -- are in fear of being deported. a situation in which many employers take advantage of. changes are now underway, we know to alleviate some of the system's brokenness, but until this state deals forthrightly with this, it will continue to fester and impede national progress. you know this better than those in projects like new labor, yet
i was impressed to find that it's participants will are -- its participants were full of optimism. i was also impressed by new labour's sharp focus on -- new labor's sharp focus on the ecumenical approach. local churches representing several movements have opened up organizations, and one church took place in the catholic social action movement 70 years ago. there are 75 affiliates around the country, and it is one of several social justice efforts that have received assistance from the catholic campaign for
human development. in addition, it could -- cooperates with local unions, rutgers university, and other advocates in the new brunswick area. across this nation, there are many centers of labor and many justice-seeking parishes like sacred heart, as we have been hearing today. they have many partners, often it unions active in the industries in which both immigrants and lower income job workers dominate, home health care, janitorial and construction, etc. the project parishes and partners is an important part of a growing movement. it is a rather it loose movement at this point, but it is a movement, and it bears many resemblances to its predecessors. it indicates to us a number of possible dimensions and directions for the road ahead
and i think i can best help this afternoon by highlighting a couple of common threads connecting the past, present and future of our cause. it is the foundation of the bedrock of human values of dignity, the dignity of work and workers and the fairness of a society's welcoming of the strength and vitality of its immigrants. these values underlie on senior john ryan's 1936 assertion that no economic practice can claim immunity from the moral law. they underlie dorothy day's observation in a 1936 issue of her catholic worker -- "catholic worker" newspaper. she said that workers want to be treated as not slaves but as human beings and be partners in the enterprises in which they are engaged. pius the 11th called out that
employers and workers should that encyclical translates into the 40th year. the first encyclical challen-- to challenge. we can well understand what a read of it was for workers everywhere. by the mid-1930's, activists from the catholic movement were spreading the encyclical's message throughout the united states, especially among of the immigrant masses of industrial workers in the big cities. chicago, new york, detroit innsbruck, boston, toledo, and
all over. catholics teachings were an essential underpinning of reform . activists explored and applied to the teachings in a national network of labor schools and give expression through organizing drives and by heavily influencing and advocating for many pieces of new deal justice worker legislation. including the justice relations act of 1935. it was based on the union shop method of organizing whereby unions chosen by the majority of workers represented and advocated for all of the workers in that unit. organizing under about provision increase the proportion of u.s. workers unionized from a 7% at the beginning of the 1930's to one third at the end of the
decade and for several decades thereafter. i will return to this point in just a few moments. the other common thread i would like to highlight is the inclusivity of catholic social teachings. this is based on the concept of the mystical body of crisis which asserts that we are all god's children and are therefore sisters and brothers of one another. members of the church treat each other as central members. according to potential members.--potential members. according to this, when you minister, you minister to the christ in that person. this is ministry that faces inward and outward at the same time. i urge you read to read the recent book "the shared parish,"
as well as the new report entitled "u.s. catholic institutions." hand in hand with this inclusivity, goes, or should go, a total commitment to diversity of religion, race, immigrant status, whatever. unfortunately, the commitment of even the social justice activists is often hampered by the biases of their era. otherwise i would have several women as subjects. what i have done is highlighted the achievements of the many women activists in the catholic social action movement. including union organizers and officers and labor schoolteachers and students. i also make it clear that dorothy day was a major influence in the lives and ministries of more than half of the chapter subjects. now i want to return to my point
about unionization of u.s. workers going from 7% at the beginning of the authorities to one third at the end of the decade and for several decades thereafter. at this instant you are probably thinking about 7% figure is being the same percentage of u.s. workers unionized today which is. you might even be thinking that this is a case of history repeating itself and so did i until i was recently reminded of mark twain's dictum that history does not repeat itself but it often rhymes. i think my fellow panelists for that reminder. the key here is context. the united states finds itself at a crucial historical crossroads.
the economics that led to the great depression made a long-term comeback after world war ii. the labor shop division was completed by the taft-hartley provision, allowing right to work states. when that act passed, social statesman immediately turned to the central provision as unfair and unworkable. since under it millions of workers become basically unrepresented and lack adequate worker protections. the percentage of u.s. workers unionized covered close to a third for several decades after the act but spiraled sharply downwards after reagan broke the air traffic controller strike. that strike is well described by professor mccartin in his book.
this brings us to the present when we are back to the 7% figure. and when unrestrained capitalism recently contracted related -- contributed substantially to another great recession. the seeming repetition however in the context of the time, when a compelling case is being made about what the united states needs more than anything else right now is an economic system that fairly distributes the nation's resources and gives all of the nation's workers a greater voice in the workplace and a share of the management and profits. and by workers i mean the great majority of the people in this country. as we have seen, this case is at the heart of industrial democracy and conforms closely to catholic justice worker teachings. these have been buttressed since the heyday are the documents of
vatican ii, by the encyclical on human work, by the american bishop's pastoral letter, and just years ago by pope francis' "joy of the gossip" in which he exhorts us to return economics and finance to an economic approach that favors human beings. tactical applications of these teachings are -- practical applications of these teachings are all around us. there are a new generation of labor priests and laity's. one group sees it as a legacy of the catholic social action movement and we will here in a minute from one of the members of such a group today. obviously history is doing a lot of rhyming these days.
the outcomes for immigration reform and integration will be profound. in the labor turmoil of the 1930's, it was the strength and vitality of immigrant workers which often made the difference in justice advances. today's immigrant workers, i believe, using both old and new forms of organizing, and with help from us and social justice advocates everywhere, will again make a huge difference for good as the nation and its workers try to determine their destiny. thank you. [applause] evelio menjivar-ayala: thank you for inviting me to be a part of this conversation. as a pastor, i do not have much time to prepare. we prepare sermons the night
before. so last night i was debating. should i rate a sermon00 write-- write a sermon or have a conversation with those attending the conference? knowing that i was going to be the last one to speak and also knowing that it was after lunch and all of that, i decided to have a conversation with them. so please feel free to talk. as i go along with my presentation. first of all, i encounter the church of the united states even before i entered the united states. i was trying to cross the border, the southern border, in late 1980's.
i was 18 years old. and i made it to tijuana, mexico. there i was caught by the mexican police and we were put in a prison. a municipal prison, one of the worst prisons. there we were, for three days, waiting to be deported back to the mexican and guatemalan border. the only food that we were getting was from missionaries. people from the united states that would cross the border with food and would bring food to
prisoners. and, when i left el salvador, i did not like onions. when i went back to el salvador, of course, i loved onions because the huevos tacos, the egg and a sausage tacos had a lot of onions and i was so hungry that that was a feast for me. i ended up going back to el salvador liking onions and were three or four rosaries. -- with three or four rosaries. in the bag, they would put a taco, a drink, and a rosary. i ended up returning with rosaries and i would pick up rosaries that others would not take and just put them in the bag. that was the gift that i brought
to my mom and to others. so i came= across a great quote from pope francis in his message. it says "the church without frontiers, mother to all spreads throughout the world a culture of acceptance, solidarity, in which no one is seen as useless, out of place." this is for me, could be a great mission statement for the church. but we all can believe -- that
we all can believe in and feel very proud to be a part of. a church that will put into practice this great mission to embrace, to accept everyone. and it is a church for all. a church without frontiers. a church without borders, of course. so then we know that we have a responsibility to take care of all people regardless of where they are coming from or their background. talking about work, of course we know that immigrants come here for a better life. or a safer life. and work means dignity.
dignity. people do not come here to live out of a welfare system or just to bag. -- beg. people come here hoping to get a better life through hard work. work means dignity. dignity. people do not come here to liveand think that work will bring dignity to people. but at the same time i would say that that is nothing without solidarity and that is what we are talking about here, solidarity. coming together to build up a better communities where there is support. support in time of need and then support for those people who are just arriving. i am very lucky to be a pastor of our lady's parish in washington bestie -- washington d.c.
it is claimed to be the first hispanic community in the area. we will be celebrating 50 years of hispanic presence in that beautiful building. one of the great leaders of that community was jean o'malley. in his time or before his time there were great efforts to reach out to people. there was even a domestic worker's union or a domestic worker's association that would help the community with the help of the sisters, were able to rescue so many women that were treated as slaves or that were facing difficulties in work. and in a way that is how between
it he began helping those ladies -- how the community began helping those ladies. that is why the church is in the middle of embassy road in the embassy district. there are so many ambassadors ambassador residencies and beautiful apartments. that is why that community was started right there because people will have a support system right there in the heart where they were working. and of course now, the area has got so expensive that most of the people have to move to virginia or two maryland or two other places -- to maryland or to other places but they come
there because they have great support and some people spend the whole day in the church because there is food, programs for the kids. all of that. it is a great community. it is very important, that kind of solidarity with one another. and we know that we all need that. i became involved with the worker's priests movement. i went to chicago and i went through great training, meeting older priests that are walking side-by-side with workers. >> one of the priests over there
. from reno, nevada. and this priest told us that he had a great experience wants. -- once. there was a group of migrants who were working in the fields over there and they were brought by somebody but they were kept like slaves. and there was a time when they said, let us walk out from this situation and they all marched out of the farm and they went to be sure. they did not know where else to go. this priest told us that he called he was not the pastor so he called the pastor and then the bishop and said, what should i do?
what should i do with these people that are coming to the church because they cannot stand their situation at the farm any longer? and the bishop said, over the church. open the church. and that is how he came in contact with the labor movement and helped them to get organized and to fight for their rights. so these workers, found themselves being supported and encouraged by the church kind of try to find and do justice. they won the case. a great success for these workers. i have been involved, i have been involved after i went to chicago for training and to begin this support group, i have been going to rallies with
sheraton hotel workers. legally i just went -- lately i just want to support the cafeteria kitchen workers for airlines. they came from all over the united states and fighting for better treatment and for more, better compensation. what people want from priests is not big faith, it is just our presence. it is amazing how encouraged they feel when they see a priest with them. a priest supporting them. and it was funny that for this rally at liberty plaza in washington two weeks ago it was so cold and this guy, very young guy, he said, you know, i spend
10 hours a day in the freezer, very cold. so for me this is like summer. it was so cold. i was, again, the last one to speak. i said, stay with me, eric. he took off his jacket to show that he was used to the gold. i said, stay with me. and i wanted to show support to eric and say i have a heart. our job here. i took off my jacket and item chilly and i have two sweaters and i was there freezing during the prayer. i almost get pneumonia off of that. [laughter] evelio menjivar-ayala: it was good, i got a card from the organizers saying, thanks for
providing a bit of entertainment for the ladies. [laughter] evelio menjivar-ayala: it is a matter of having fun, i would say. because there are some difficult situations but what is important is presence and that is what they want to have. support and prisons, knowing that the church -- presence, knowing that the church is right there with them and what they are doing is good. because sometimes when they are organizing they get mixed messages and they may even think that it is not right. that it is an immoral thing that they are doing. when they see the priest, they love it. so i am blessed and humbled to be a part of these great movements of priests that walk
side-by-side with workers. from father edward, who was a knocker, he went to the north american college in rome. father title who just-- father kyle who just left us back to chicago. the experts were saying that the history of the church in the united states has been immigration, labor, and capitalism. it is this trinity that in a way continues to be part of we are we are called to be. i have been involved in small things. sometimes people get laid off and they do not have anywhere
else to go and they come to church. and if i have the resources i help them. i was contacted by the national education, something like that. because some workers had been laid off. it was during christmas. they channeled some help to these workers through the parish. there are so many things that a priest can do. so that it would be wonderful if we precisely put into practice the kind of church that francis is trying to, you know build. and for all of us to have. just to finish, this is
something that i have been preaching, i guess the pope has been listening to my sermons. [laughter] evelio menjivar-ayala: because it is right what i have been saying immigrants that calm, in his message-- come, in his message, immigrants come with a suitcase full of tears and desires. -- fears and desires and dreams. they undertake a hopeful and dangerous trip in the search for more human living conditions. when you come to face reality here, sometimes those dreams become a nightmare and all of that. but hopefully by keeping this safe once you take from your backpack everything and hopefully they keep the faith
and hopefully they joined a church, a community. and hopefully they find the support of priests and a community. and they are able to build up precisely that solidarity and through that solidarity, you know, they find also dignity work, and a family. and a family. and just to end up, people the cardinals -- the pope told the cardinals not long ago, the gospel of the marginalized, the excluded, the poor, this is where our credibility is at stake. so if we continue being there accompanying, being present in
times of need for immigrants workers, i think that the church in the united states is going to continue thriving. questions? [applause] maria mazzenga: just a couple of observations from what our speakers of pointed out and i am noticing first of all the differences between how the catholic church addressed industrial society versus postindustrial society. and i could not help but think that, for example professor mccartin mentioned the knights of labor, one of the triggers that helped pope leo the 13th. it was an interesting movement from the bottom up. the workers kind of generated the encyclical itself and the
encyclical been generated activity all across the 20th century including labor priests, labor schools, all types of activities. we had a rattling back and forth from workers to priests to bishops and a fluid chain of activity that was very beneficial to the worker. of course, after 1950 or so we have a shift in the economy. as i think professor mccartin is recommending for a postindustrial society that a church wouldn't recommend, he has three recommendations. -- church would address, he has three recommendations. in moral clarity and solidarity -- a moral clarity and solidarity. i would get to the point where i would ask could we put a finer
note on, address more clearly how the church could address a postindustrial economy with respect for workers. there is a globalization element to it. how do we do that? i see elements in what father evelio started talking about with churches and servicing parishioner needs how do we do that? we are talking about a postindustrial economy, old methods will not work. but each of you perhaps talk more about how that might look? joseph mccartin: that is an important question and a challenging question to answer because i think we are trying to figure that out. what i am excited by today is sort of, maria, i would go back to what you just said about the knights of labor and the extent
to which from the bottom up something was generated in the late 19th century. and i would say there are a lot of similarities between what we are going to today and what people went through a hundred years ago. the reorganization of our economy. that is exactly a different kind of reorganization, but because -- between 1870 and 1920 that is what was happening, the economy is being reorganized. the emergence of the large-scale corporation of mass production marks that period. immigration and global migrations marked those years as well. as did economic instability between 1873, 1893 1907, their economic panics in the u.s. similar in some ways to the
great recession we've lived through that there was also in those years conflict over the role of government and -- in american life. and there was also great division among those who wanted to organize workers, about what is the proper model to do that. the afl emerged as the model that survived while the knights of labor declined in those years. from the beginning the afl was shadowed by the critique of craft unionism represented by something like the industrial workers of the world, because they showed from the beginning the afl does not aspire to organize all workers. so those years were years marked by dynamics that were similar to the ones we are going to today. now, to the question of where does change come from? i think really change begins
mostly from the bottom. and you know, while pope francis is finally important right now even before pope francis was named father evelio was beginning to engage in his work. without the other people who try to revive this labor mission among workers, there isn't much for francis's message to resonate off of, but there is, because of all this work, and because of the other models that have been created today around things like worker centers as alternative ways of organizing workers that have especially appealed to the immigrant. so what does it look like for the church to bring about a new period of solidarity? i don't think we can actually
really answer the question, but i think we are living the question right now. and we're living it in ways that rhyme with the pass. they cannot repeat what happened before. but the thing i'm most encouraged by is what father evelio has just outlined what he is doing, and he is not alone. i think there is the hope and the future of the american church because it is embracing through work like that the problems of the immigrant worker. guest: i would just add one thing, some of you have probably seen the video the center for migration studies put out based on the recent book. about the shared parish. a lot of parishes change where
there may be ethnicities represented among the congregation and different ways of dealing with that. one thing that occurred to me was that if going out from parishes into the community, again, where the action really is has a way of uniting the differences that exist within those parishes because if you are together working on some worthwhile activity like helping workers organize, then somehow the differences between you become less significant and also you feel part of something you are doing together. so and just when i visited new labor, they go out -- the undocumented workers go out into the community. their cages of -- cases os wage theft. they have rallies to go to the deportation centers where
families are divided and they need to take action. one thing that all of us can do is think of ways to take part in going into the community and standing by the side of these people. as the father mentioned. so that was the secret of the priests and lay people of the catholic social action legs, that they were able to work with other people based on a reform clause. so they could work with people from other faith traditions. and that was the united thing that united them. and let them do further togetherness. i mean, that is one thing somebody mentioned about mobilizing. how can we mobilize his? well there are lots of chances to have events or do something throughout the community that will involve people who are
actually going to the stuff they can tell their life stories just like you told your story, that made it much more effective. you can mobilize opinion and other people to get active and help these causes. father menjivar: i guess human beings are we are a migrant species. from time of the early history of human beings we are hunters. so, people have been moving around just -- anthropology, whatever -- have been moving around they find food. they find opportunities. there are factors and conflicts. people move around. that has been the history of humanity. and certainly, you know, that
continues to be. so, it is, um, it is a global problem. it is not a problem of the united states. immigration is not a problem of the united states. it is certainly very present in africa, and asia, in europe, latin america. most of the people in argentina, they even pope francis, he is an italian descended. so this is the history of humanity. not only of the church in the united states. this is humanity just moving around. so for a global problem, we need a global solution. and the pope pope francis says the solution is to create a culture of encounter. he says that this is the only
culture capable of building a better, more just and fraternal world. of course the problem is how can we build a culture of encounter? and we havre e to begin at home. at our parishes, our unities in our neighborhoods, in our cities, and then we can spread that culture. -- in our communities. that is what people, people don't want to be just, you know, receive something without offering anything. what we need is to kind of a change. there was a theory at st. matthew's cathedral in the homeless program that we should be charging 25 cents per meal to the homeless because then that
is offering them dignity because of they just come and they feel like they are being fed just for free, then you take away the dignity from them. but then if they come and they pay 25 cents, they will feel like they are considering. but what i have -- they will feel like they are contributive. but what i'm trying to say is that we have to build up that culture of encounter. not to see each other as threats, but as part of the solution of this global problem. obviously, you know, we see that kind of, a counterculture of encounter. even in parishes and all that where people do not feel welcome. don't, where we try to ignore
maybe just the problem of immigrants and all that because we know there are people that will oppose us. so that is something that we have to -- there is a feel for eventual -- a field for evangelization. even when the churches packed we have to continue evangelizing people knowing that this is what jesus said. he identified himself with the stranger. as the poope pe says, there is where our credibility is at stake. if we see the face of jesus in the strangers, in those people in in need. maria: a counterculture of encounter? that's good. so, now at this point, let's open it up -- if the panel is ok. you have questions from the audience?
bill you are first. wait. i need to walk. >> there seems to be more of this market worshiping, trickle-down, catholic libertarianism of float be faced. i recognize there is not a single social causality operative. but would you say something about your own sense of whence cometh this? an expression of what todd mentioned this morning that creeds denominational affiliation does not count near as much as where one finds oneself on this left-right ideological spectrum. something else is driving this. father menjivar: i think that is a great --
professor mccartin: i teach young people. i am finding more attraction that young people feel towards the libertarian idea, toward the idea of just complete freedom. freedom is a value that is valued but i think they misunderstand freedom in some ways and don't think about it and the ways that catholic teaching has taught about it, at least. why is this libertarian ideal gripping us today? i think it is for a number of reasons. we can't let liberals off the hook. on this, because in part i think what at its edges it started to be corrupted into a kind of libertarianism itself. and the liberalism that emerged over the course of the early 20th century, you know, gary --
used to teach here and was maria's mentors and gary wrote one of the great articles that summarize this point about what he called the protean character of american liberalism, that liberalism changed over time. in the 19th century it meant a sickly libertarianism. -- basically libertarianism. free markets. than the encounter with industrial society and that transportation between 1870 and 1920 that change liberals. people that wanted to hang on to liberalism, the free market liberalism did not achieve the good society. they first called themselves progressives. then tehey came in time to call themselves new dealers. for them the labor question was central, right?
i think what happened over the course of time since the 1930's in american liberalism is that the labor question started to drop out. in part for some good and important reasons. the issue of racial equality came to the fore. the issue of the need to bring gender equality came to the fore. and the rights revolution occurred. and those were necessary and good things, but i think in some ways what happened after that is that liberalism sort of lost the core idea of what it means to act collectively to bring about a good society. and that was at the heart of what liberals were trying to construct in the 1930's and 1940's, but by the end of the 19th century, liberals themselves became too shy about trying to talk about what a good society was. in some ways as that happened,
they left the stage open to a way of talking about rights that you know, has been called rights talk. that i think it has impoverished our ability to express the need for solidarity. as that happened, i think, that was one of the things that opened the door toward this recent sort of interest in libertarianism. i think the internet and other things have played a role in that, too. it is a complicated question but i think it is important. mr. baker: to me, so much of it seems to be about values. that is something we are going to have to -- we are increasingly facing in this country but i think we will have to face even more. in a society where your primary value is money and has been for some time, and the values we talk about or the pope talks
about consistently, that we are going to have to look at our values and not just worship money, but look at our other values. the values -- sometimes we talk about it as if the economy is the whole thing. it is also the political democracy that is supposed to be existing side-by-side with it. actually supposed to be at the top of it, not the economic part. so i think we, unfortunately we know have an international problem -- talk about it being a global problem. [coughs] a french economist has written a book in which deals with the fact of inequality and that it can harm a society. it is no accident that we just recently saw the koch brother's about they have raised enough money and made enough political contributions to dwarf, that
they contributed as much as either political party. now, if that is not a problem with our values that triples down into all the other aspects of her life, then i do not know what is. so, i mean, i jsutust think the they'll use is at the crocks of the whole situation you raised. -- the crux of the whole situation you raised. >> first of all, splendid panel. thanks to you and to the organizers. a very encouraging reminder of where we come from and where we should be going or just to build on jo'ee's point contrast the energy in the democratic party and the progressive movement around reproductive rights and gay rights versus worker rights and poverty. the democrats in the senate are holding up a human trafficking bill at this point because it
won't break the president and pay for aobort on thei right theyon are for mediating institutions but never for unions. . their culture war tendencies give way to protecting the market at every stage. one of the things that struck me is how inspiring this panel is but how untypical you are. i'm at georgetown. joe is not the typical georgetown professor. i cannot speak to you kim but you are not the typical historian. george higgins was here. i admire the work of the institute, but is that voice here in the same way? and you are not the typical pastor. at one time, all our parishes looks like queen of the americas. we had all come from someplace else. we were all struggling.
so before we knew -- we had in our hearts that we had to stand with workers. that is not true today. in that lots of priests, lots of catholics are middle-class or upper class. chevy chase blesses sacramento does not look like queen of americas. so we have to find a different way to share this tradition in a way that invites people in.and it seems to me that requires academic institutions, parishes, the church, and frankly, the labor movement to change. a labor movement that when it organizes low income workers when it organizes hotel workers janitors inspires at least me. too often the way the movement
is seen as protecting others that are already inside the movement. the church seems preoccupied by other things. so i think pope francis gives us a moment, but i think we have to acknowledge pope francis does not talk a lot about unions. he talks a lot about solidarity. and it is up to the labor movement to persuade us that unions are, in fact, an exercise in solidarity. it is up to our pastures and people to persuade us that parishes can be an exercise in solidarity. and our cap again diversit-- our catholic universities ought to be an exercise in solidarity. i would be very discouraged except that you reminded us that in the 1920's and 1930's they were even in worse trouble and found a way to build this wonderful tradition. my question is, how do we renew parish life? how do we renew the labor movement?
how do we renew catholic education so this tradition comes alive again? father menjivar: i believe most of those well-off catholics and chevy chase, in kensington, and all the places benefited fomr o ur-- from our collective power and solidarity we call unions. jim -- some of you may know him is a hard-core irish. so, he used to tell me that before if you wanted to work in the elevators, industry, you must be irish. if you knew, if you were irish you could almost guarantee that your sons will end up working
there because that was solidarity. the whole industry was taken by the irish. but that meant, you know facilitating other irish -- and their children to work. as we know, because the unions, you know the -- were better. now it is precisely the opposite. you have to fight in order to survive. and you have to fight with your own brothers and sisters for work and all that. so, i think, as we said, you know, not only the united states was saved from you know, all these communist-socialism ideas to infiltrate in society because the labor movements they kind
of -- catholic, but also many people get education and all that because of their parents where -- were workers that were benefiting from a collective power and solidarity through the unions. mr. baker: workers have become marginalized to since world war ii, and this was a conscious effort on the part of the powers that be, the employer organized employers. workers marginalized in the sense that workers were made to sound like they only were talking about menial labor or marginal labor or production line labor.
the whole idea of workers basically being most of the country and needing representation of one sort of another has kind of gone by the boards because we have been made to think of workers as just this lower income group at the bottom. like i said, my research did uncover that this was a conscious effort, a concerted effort to do this, to portray laborin in that context. so i think one thing we can do is realize when we talk about workers we are really talking about most people in this country. and they need to start thinking about what they have to do to protect themselves. to make their voices known. professor mccartin: well, i would just add to what's been said when john you asked, how do we renew labor, how do we renew the church? i think francis has emphasized
making the poor central. and i think is very important for labor and the church. what the labor movement needs to do more of is to expand its energies on behalf of those workers who are suffering the most. and i am really encouraged in that respect by what we have seen over the past couple years, especially in what unions have done in really making major commitments like lciu has done in the fight for 15, for trying to raise the wages of fast food workers. i think that is up our full -- and even a kind of prophetic statement. this is an institution that has to worry about survival and its budget and things like that, and there is no immediate prospect that they are going to organize fast food workers into dues payeers, and yet it seemed
that taking that stand is crucial to do now. i think putting the poor front and center is crucial. i think the other thing that i would say is really important right now is provoke -- for both the church and labor is young people. john we are lucky that we get to work in a place where young people are there. and i think that places like this and here at catholic university wherever young people are we have to figure out ways to put them in touch with these questions. and what they bring with them i think is a sense of hope that we really need. like you john, it is easy to look around and get discouraged right now but when you see young people getting engaged in these issues that has a powerful effect. and that makes you feel hopeful. and i think that word hope is
like very important. it is not the same as being optimistic or just being blind to the realities we are confronted with, but feeling that through let's call it the work of the holy spirit over time through people that change will happen. and when you see young people get engaged in these kind of issues, i think, that puts you in touch with that feeling. father menjivar: one more thing. i guess education is essential both on the part of the church parishes but also education coming from the labor the unions. i think some unions have, or have been very comfortable in just, you know, if some members somebody is higher, for example
in an industry where they are unionized already, they do not bother to educate those new employees. i have an example. you know, people, my sister. my sister works in a cafeteria for p.g. county board of education, for the school system. and she was never educated as a union worker. so they are having problems in the kitchen, you kn and they are not exercisingo their power and the right. why? because they never have been educated. you get a job there, you become part of the union, but they are not educated. so you have to also kind of educated people, evangelize them, make them believers of what unions do and can do. so i would say it is both.
the church has to educate in the sense that just educate people in the value , in the necessity of collective power, but at the same time, unions have to educate their members and have to make an effort to go out and educate not only to get members you know, for membership but to spread the good news of collective power. maria: it is 4:00. let's thank our panels. thank you for coming. great job, you guys. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> you are watching american history tv, 40 hours -- 48 hours
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Catholics and Immigrant Labor
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LEADING IN: Since 1967, the year Coconino opened and split Flagstaff's citywide high school population and football talent pool, Flag High had been struggling in Class AAA. This year, the Eagles joined the Panthers in AA, and the results were positive and immediate. Instead of struggling against Phoenix teams like Brophy and Marcos de Niza, they played a largely Northern Arizona schedule, against schools their own size.
While Flag High was the new kid on the block, Coconino was the top of the class as defending state champions. The '73 champs won on the talents of many juniors, including Mark Lescoe, Rick DeCosmo, and their All-Everything quarterback, Ray Smith. Unlike last year, the '74 Panthers were experienced and expected to win and stay at the top of the polls.
That is what they did. They dominated their schedule, and by the time they got to the City Championship Game (for the first time played at the end of the season instead of the start), they were sitting at 8-1, a stunning 7-6 loss to Winslow being their only blemish. Even in losing, Ray Smith stole the show, walking into the Bulldogs' locker room after the game to congratulate them.
At midseason, Coach Bill Epperson shook up the offense by calling up sophomore quarterback Marty McKee from JV, moving Smith to runningback. The move took the Panther offense to a higher level. Without having to call signals, Smith was liberated, breaking school records every game. Against Holbrook he ran 28 times for 187 yards. Versus Tuba City, he only carried the ball six times, but he amassed 152 yards. By the time the Rivalry Game came around, he had 158 rushes for 1,150 yards, breaking his own school record with at least one more game to go.
Flag High didn't get their legs under them until the third game of the season. After losses to Page and Salpointe, they manhandled Bourgade, 24-0, and they took off from there, winning six of seven, going into the finale with a 6-3 record and assured of their first winning season since 1965. Their loss to Snowflake, 25-14 in Week Five, would come back to haunt them by the end of the season. They finished strong, however, beating Winslow (something the top-ranked Panthers couldn't do) and shutting out Kingman.
The Eagles' offense was led by David Diaz, younger brother of Carlos Diaz (See 1970 Game). Under his talents, the Eagles had their most prolific scoring output in years, scoring 150 points through nine games, their best since their 187 points in 1966. While Smith was a one-man-show running the ball for the Panthers, the Eagles were efficient by committee, as Jeff Crawley, David Anderson, and Kenny Gill combined for over a thousand yards rushing. Their defense, however, won them games; in their six wins, they shut out three opponents and held the other three to under ten points each.
After nine weeks, the Coconino Panthers, Flagstaff Eagles, and Snowflake Lobos were all sitting atop the AA North standings with 4-1 division marks. Coconino beat Snowflake, and Snowflake beat Flag High, which meant the Panthers controlled their own destiny; a win over the Eagles would clinch the division and send them to Tempe to play in the state championship game against the South champion. Snowflake needed to beat Holbrook and hope Flag High beat Coconino, while the Eagles were rooting for Holbrook to win to make the City Championship Game a winner-take-all affair.
The Lobos beat the Roadrunners Friday night, which meant, by the time the Eagles took the field at Lumberjack Stadium Saturday afternoon, they were eliminated from playoff contention and could only look forward to playing spoiler.
THE GAME: Flag High knew they were out of the playoff picture, but they didn't let down in the first half, playing the Panthers tough. The first quarter was marred by mistakes and missed opportunities. Coconino ran the ball well on the opening series, but the Eagles' D stiffened and forced a punt. The Eagles were unable to do anything with their first possession and punted it back, first with Smith muffing it and the Eagles recovering (wiped out by penalty), then with Mark Lescoe taking the punt and he and Smith getting their signals crossed, running into each other for no return with no Eagle within ten yards. Another punt, then the Eagles got their offense on track, driving from their 4 to the Panther 30, where Bardo Anaya fumbled and Smith recovered. From there, the Panthers got themselves going, ending the quarter and starting the second with an efficient six-play, 70-yard drive that was capped with Smith going off-tackle for seven yards. With Scott Ross's extra point, Coconino was up, 7-0.
The teams next exchanged turnovers; Lescoe intercepted a Diaz pass and returned it to the Flag High 45, and six plays later, Jeff Crawley intercepted McKee. The Eagles drove to the Coconino 43 and had to punt, which Smith fumbled again, this time with the Eagles recovering and keeping the ball at the Panther 17. Two plays later, Diaz threw a 15-yard strike to David Anderson to put them on the board; Diaz kicked the conversion, and with 3:34 left in the second, the Eagles and Panthers were tied, 7-7. Though the scoreboard showed an even game, the Panthers were racking up the yardage, leading the Eagles 122-55 in rushing offense in the first half. Coconino's mistakes were keeping the Eagles in the game.
After halftime, the Panthers tightened the screws on both offense and defense. The Eagles went nowhere with their first possession. Anaya boomed a 52-yard punt, and Coconino has the ball at their 44. Ray Smith started taking over the game, running the ball six of Coconino's eight plays, scoring from eleven yards out. After the conversion, the Panthers were up 14-7 midway through the third; though the score was still close, there was a definite sense that the Panthers had come out of the half meaning business. They had momentum, and the Eagles were flustered.
The next series went the same way, with Flag High unable to do anything on offense, Anaya launching another long punt, and the Panthers driving. This time it was a 70-yard drive that ate up the remainder of the quarter, ending with another Smith run, this time from three yards out. The key play of the drive, however, was a third-and-ten from the Flag High 43; McKee completed a pass to Rick Shipley to keep the drive, and the Panther momentum, going. Ross's third successful PAT put Coconino up 21-7 with just over ten minutes left in the game.
Flag High was out of gas at that point. Their best drive the rest of the game took them to the Coconino 49. The Panthers kept the ball nearly the entire second half, running the ball, gobbling up yardage and time. Randy Watkins dove in from three yards out as time expired; the lone bright spot of the half for the Eagles was blocking Ross's fourth extra point attempt, making the final score 27-7.
Smith, to no one's surprise, won the Coconino half of the Cromer Awards. Though not playing a perfect game, he did run the ball 32 times for 205 yards, and on defense he recovered a fumble that launched the Panthers' first scoring drive. For the Eagles, Diaz won the Cromer.
Kenny Gill finished with 33 yards rushing, 599 for the season. For most of the next decade-plus there would be at least one of the Gill brothers playing runningback for the Eagles.
AT THE END OF THE DAY: Smith and the Panthers won the AA North and the right to defend their state title, this time against the Douglas Bulldogs. The Coconino faithful made the trip to McClintock High in Tempe, an estimated 4,500 strong packing the western bleachers.
Ray Smith established himself as the man to beat right off the bat. On the second play from scrimmage, he broke into the clear for a 59-yard touchdown. He finished the day with 247 yards on 29 carries and two touchdowns; he also scored in the third quarter on a two-yard run. Between those scores and Dale McPhetridge picking up a fumble and racing 88 yards for a TD, the Panthers built a 21-0 lead that held into the fourth quarter. Douglas QB Tony Cortez Rose mustered two late scoring drives in the final minutes, pulling the Bulldogs to within a touchdown with 1:40 left in the game. Attempting an onside kick, the ball was nearly recovered by Douglas's Paul Ochoa, but Coconino's Richard Lucero jumped on it, sealing a 21-14 win and the Panthers' third championship in seven years.
Smith won most of Arizona's awards for player of the year, finishing with 1,605 yards rushing. After graduation he stayed in Flagstaff and played for Northern Arizona. He was a vital member of the 1978 Lumberjacks, making key plays in preserving NAU's first—and as of this writing, only—Big Sky Conference championship. He spent most of his adult life in Kingman, coaching the Bulldogs.