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Top 5 Tools to Hack an iPhone 2020

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Do you want to track the activities of your children or employees? You will need reliable spy apps like Cocospy to monitor the activities of your children or employees without letting them know. With these apps, you can read their messages, monitor different social media platforms, track their real-time location and record their calls. These apps can store recorded data online to make it accessible for you. Here are the five best apps that are available for iOS and Android.

1. Cocospy

Cocospy is one of the best monitoring apps with millions of satisfied users. Digital Trends, PCMag, Forbes and Top 10 Reviews acknowledge the app for its user-friendly interface and innovative features. It is easy to hack iPhone with Cocospy by installing it on the target iPhone. Sign up to get a download link and remove this link after downloading and installing this app.

Once the app is activated, you will get access to information of a target iPhone through an online portal. Cocospy allows you to see text messages, social media platforms, and access browsing history, GPS location and phone calls. This monitoring program will enable you to get the advantage of keylogger, social media monitoring and parental control without jailbreaking an iPhone.

  • Social Media Monitoring: Cocospy tracks the activities of your employee or child on WhatsApp, Skype, Snapchat, Facebook, etc.
  • Keylogger: It records each keystroke of the user. If your employee or child uses instant messaging apps, you can see every stroke typed on his/her iPhone.
  • Parental Controls: For parental control, Cocospy is one of the best apps. It permits parents to block incoming calls and inappropriate websites. You may control the use of apps for your child.
  • No Jailbreak Solution: The iPhone software permits you to spy on the iPhone of your child without jailbreaking it. With this app, you can pull data from backups of iCloud.

2. Spyzie

If you need an advanced and multilingual surveillance app, you can go with Spyzie. It may help you to monitor the iPhone of your child without installing extra apps. To access online data, you will need an iCloud ID. Spyzie helps you to track the real-time location and browsing data of your child. From monitoring social media to tracking messages and calls, you can track everything.

A user-friendly control panel of this app allows you to monitor data. Spyzie is compatible with several versions of iOS. You can access its dashboard from every browser. To buy a premium plan, you have to spend $9.9 per month.

Check Call History: With this app, you can instantly get call history of a target iPhone. You can see calls logs in chronological order, such as call duration, contact numbers, created time and phone numbers.

Evaluate Call Logs: Spyzie allows you to have a glance at the top five frequent calls and details of call dates and durations.

3. FlexiSPY

FlexiSPY is powerful and feature-rich spy software. With this app, you can get call interception and recorded calls. There is one catch that you have to jailbreak or root the target iPhone. You will need a jailbroken iPhone to gain the advantage of this spy app. Some advanced features of this app are as under:

Record Calls: With this feature, you remotely record phone calls your target make or receive on his/her phone.

Call Intercept: You can intercept an iPhone and listen in on the conversation.

Record Surroundings: With remotely activate microphone, you can hear voices coming from the surroundings. The recordings will be updated to FlexiSPY account.

4. TrackMyFone

With this app, you can monitor phonebook, emails, calls, SMS, GPS location, web browsing history, and IMs in an iPhone. It can be a cheap solution for employees and children. The app features a user-friendly control panel. You can use this app without jailbreaking your iPhone. The premium version starts from $6.25/month.

  • Call Logs and Phonebook: Monitor outgoing, incoming and missed calls. You can see contacts stored on a target iPhone.
  • Location Tracking: Monitor location of a phone with GPS tracking.
  • App Blocker: Enables you to block inappropriate and unwanted apps on an iPhone.

5. MobiStealth

MobiStealth comes with several spying features. You can get the advantage of different packages from basic – advanced features. It allows you to evaluate text messages, monitor chat messengers, track locations, application list, pictures, emails, keylogging, etc.

  • Comprehensive Solution: With intuitive surveillance, you can monitor snap chat, Facebook, Viber, Whatsapp, emails, calls and text messages.
  • Total Vigilance: This tamper-proof app is suitable for 24/7 surveillance. Feel free to get the advantage of remote data access
  • Easy Setup: With its simple setup, you can install it within a few minutes. It allows you to monitor multiple channels.

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STAUNTON - Three years at a minimum, he said.

As Jake Phillips stood on the Staunton High School practice field Friday afternoon, wearing a wide-brimmed blue Storm hat, the new football coach explained that it takes at least three years to see the results of a change.

He was about to enter his fifth year at James River and had started seeing those changes. The last group of seniors he had there had come in as freshmen in Phillips first year. They knew their coach and he knew them. It's never easy, but that made it easier. He didn't have to teach them any longer. They knew what was expected.

"And now we're starting all over," Phillips said. "That's the adjustment."

Phillips takes over for Scott Girolmo, who is now coaching at Battlefield High School in Northern Virginia. And while he's been with the players throughout the spring and summer, working in the weight room and playing 7-on-7 games, Friday afternoon marked only the second day of official practice for the 2019 season.

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Staunton opens its season Sept. 6 at Covington, a week later than most area teams.

Phillips wasn't the only head coach making a debut at practice this week. About 20 minutes away, Brad Wygant was working with the Buffalo Gap Bison. Wygant was an assistant at Wilson Memorial, but got the job at Gap after Andy Cline stepped down.

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"It's more in my wheelhouse now that I have to be the one that makes sure everyone is on the same page," Wygant said during a break Friday afternoon. "Whereas before, I would lean on the head man. That's the adjustment, and [Wilson] Coach [Jeremiah] Major definitely prepared me for that."

While Phillips was a head football coach before, this is Wygant's first time in that specific job. It's not, however, his first head coaching job. While at Wilson he led the boys soccer team.

"You learn what to do, what not to do, what works, what doesn't work in regards to practice, to time management, to how much to push each athlete," Wygant said about his experience in soccer.

The big difference is that he has a lot more players in football than he did in soccer. And he has to worry about different techniques for different positions. Those are changes to which he's adjusting.

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Like Staunton, Buffalo Gap opens on the road. The Bison travel to Clarke County on Aug. 30 for Wygant's debut on the sidelines.

Both coaches have been getting to know their players and assistant coaches this summer. Phillips was able to start the process a little sooner than Wygant, who had to finish the soccer season before completely jumping into coaching at Gap, but now they both are enjoying this learning curve.

"I enjoy all that Six Sigma processing stuff," Phillips said. "I enjoy that part of it, like trying to get it all logistically correct. But there's still some trial and error in there. You've still got to figure things out."

One noticeable change on the field at Buffalo Gap is that, while there is still plenty of talent that will be playing, all the attention won't be on one player like it has been the past few years. Last year's main attraction at Gap, Carter Rivenburg, who ran for 2,990 yards and 41 touchdowns as a senior, is now playing at Virginia Tech.

"If we do have that one player I don't know who he is yet," Wygant said. "Our senior and junior leadership show an immense amount of humility and just a team-first attitude."

Wygant saw that attitude the first time he met his players in the spring. It's been there through the summer work in the weight room and it's there now that practice has started.

"They have the right attitude," he said. "It's not about individual accomplishment. It's not about statistics. It's about team, it's about family, and it's about winning together."

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Shadow Child Feat. Takura

UK producer and DJ Shadow Child has had a momentous 18 months, from releasing his 23 EP on own nascent Food Music imprint, the mighty So High via Moda Black to the landmark String Thing via Dirtybird.

Singer / songwriter Takura is no stranger to UK ears having collaborated with massive names such as Chase & Status, Rhianna, Plan B, Sub Focus, Example, Jack Beats and Kano. On Friday Takura delivers a huge feel-good, crossover chorus hook that complements Shadow Child’s on point, driving, deep house beats perfectly.


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Akshaya Patra Foundation's Kitchen in Varanasi Sponsored by WestBridge Capital

Kitchen Will Provide Midday Meals to 100,000 Students Every Day

WestBridge Capital (“WestBridge”), an investment firm focused on India, has become the Sole Corporate Sponsor of the Akshaya Patra Foundation kitchen in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. The Uttar Pradesh Government is also a major partner in the building of the kitchen. Once fully commissioned in early 2019, this kitchen will provide midday meals to 100,000 students serving designated schools within a radius of 40kms.

WestBridge manages $2.8 billion of capital and focuses on making long-term investments in high-quality businesses in India. WestBridge’s investors consist predominantly of top university endowments and foundations.

WestBridge’s Managing Director Sumir Chadha could not be more satisfied with the partnership stating, “Akshaya Patra is the type of organization that corporations want to partner with. With a mission to solve some of our time’s greatest challenges – nutritious food and access to education in India – they have a proven track record of meeting goals through efficient and best-practice operations, quality assurance and innovative partnerships. We are proud to give back to the community through our partnership with Akshaya Patra.”

Narayan Murthy, co-founder of Infosys and an advisory board member of the Akshaya Patra Foundation USA, said, “It is notable that companies like WestBridge are vastly invested in not just giving back, but also are mindful that their CSR funds go towards bringing about exponential and lasting change by building kitchens that serve millions of meals to school children every year.”

The organization began feeding 1,500 children every day in 2000 and currently feeds over 1.7 million children in 14,125 government schools daily through a network of 37 ISO standard centralized kitchens in 12 states. Its mission is to reach five million children every day by 2020. With a history of frugal innovation, the capacity to scale, and maximize the value of partnerships, it is poised to succeed. Vandana Tilak, CEO of the Akshaya Patra Foundation, expressing her gratitude for WestBridge’s vision said, “We take our work very seriously. This is not charity - it is a child’s right to have access to good nutrition. We thank the Uttar Pradesh Government and WestBridge for taking action towards bringing nutritious food to the classrooms.”

To learn more about The Akshaya Patra Foundation and WestBridge Capital, please visit their websites:

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The largest NGO run mid-day meal program in the world, as declared by Time. Akshaya Patra has scaled to currently serving 1.7 million meals in 14,250 government schools in 12 States in India daily.

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Workplace Health Expert Dr. Tyler Amell Joins CoreHealth Technologies as Chief Relationship Officer

Dr. Tyler Amell, a workplace health and productivity thought leader, joins corporate wellness technology company CoreHealth Technologies

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CoreHealth Technologies is pleased to announce that Dr. Tyler Amell, a widely known and recognized thought leader on workplace health and productivity, has joined as chief relationship officer.

“We at CoreHealth are extremely pleased to announce that Dr. Amell has joined our growing organization. Workplace health and wellbeing have become ever more important to organizations looking to improve the engagement and productivity of their workforce, in addition to controlling various costs. This is generating a high demand for solutions and platforms that support evidence-informed strategies,” says Anne Marie Kirby, founder and CEO of CoreHealth Technologies. “Dr. Amell brings extensive knowledge and thought leadership along with relationship development and management expertise. His evidence-informed strategies and health data analytics skills will help further develop our products and ensure a fit with current and future customers and partners. He has a great ability to evaluate health solutions and see how seemingly different solutions can fit together and connect the dots in the broadest sense of workplace health.”

Dr. Amell takes a global, de-siloed approach to workplace health and advises organizations on strategies related to:

·         integrated workplace health and productivity,

·         wellness and well-being programs,

·         absence and leave management,

·         medical assessment,

·         occupational rehabilitation,

·         disability management and prevention,

·         workers' compensation,

·         mental health,

·         musculoskeletal health,

·         chronic disease,

·         and workplace health and safety.

He uses data analytics, among other evidence-informed tactics, to improve and evaluate programming. Dr. Amell has given seminars and presentations at approximately 150 national and international events to date and has authored over 35 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Amell is also an adjunct faculty at the Pacific Coast University for Workplace Health Sciences.

Dr. Amell is a past partner at a global human resources consulting, technology and services firm, the past chief executive officer of a human resources technology company and a former vice president of Canada's largest independent health care and rehabilitation company. He currently serves on the executive board of directors of the Canadian Association for Research on Work and Health as well as the College of Pedorthics of Canada and is a past board member of the San Francisco-based Integrated Benefits Institute (IBI). In addition, he has advised numerous health and technology companies, analytics companies, workplace health service providers, insurance carriers, third-party administrators, employers and other vendors on their strategies and will be looking to share this knowledge and use his full skill set at CoreHealth and with affiliated customers and partners.

“I am extremely pleased to have joined CoreHealth at such a pivotal time in the organization's evolution and look forward to helping to grow relationships with both existing and new partners. The dynamic world of workplace health has never been more important of an investment to organizations as the very nature of work continues to evolve and provide new challenges. The culture at CoreHealth, along with the best technology platform available, combine to form an award-winning solution that I am proud to be a part of,” says Dr. Amell.

About CoreHealth Technologies:

CoreHealth Technologies Inc. is the leading corporate wellness platform trusted by more than 1,000 organizations, ranging from medium-sized businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises. Over 2.5 million lives are covered globally on the platform. At CoreHealth, we believe that developing the best employee wellness programs is all about giving wellness companies the right code, design and access to the latest innovations. With the most customization, integrations and reliability of any software in its class, CoreHealth’s powerful platform lets users focus on growing great companies. For more information, visit the CoreHealth website.

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Fashion show to help promote disability awareness this weekend

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A different kind of fashion show featuring adaptive clothing and models with varying abilities designed to raise awareness of disability is set for this weekend.

The event, running under the theme: “Scars to beauty marks and perception to perfection”, will be held on Sunday, December 15, at Kigali Serena Hotel.

The evening show, which will mainly showcase children’s latest collection, is the second of its kind that advocates for the inclusion of people with disabilities in the creative industry, especially fashion— following another one that was held at Kigali Conference and Exhibition Village early this month, and attracted fashion designers from the region and beyond.

It also seeks to instill appreciation and to prove that disability is not inability. The evening will bring together different local fashion houses and trained young models, who will showcase the latest trendies for children for the festive season.

Speaking about the event, Fernando Kamugisha, the brains behind the fashion event, told The New Times: “We organised a pure children’s fashion runway because we believe children can play a major impact and their voice is strong enough to bring the change through raising awareness to the public to fight stigma against people with disabilities and instead welcome them to be part of this world of creative industry.”

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“We want to prove to the world that if children can show love to persons with disabilities, how about adults? We want to prove to the children that it’s not just standing there to look beautiful or handsome but it is beyond people celebrating your excellent catwalks,” he explained.

“We’re living in the world of inclusion and equality and we wanted to promote children with disabilities to prove that they can as well be the best in what they do. We want to promote talent and confidence of our children, and more so celebrate children with disabilities,” he added.

 As part of the show, models will be showcasing an array of fashions from local businesses.

The hope is for attendees “to be inspired and have fun, while supporting people with physical disabilities, skin disabilities such as albinos, mute, deaf and blind,” Kamugisha said.

“This is an important event because it showcases individuality, awareness, acceptance and seeing the beauty in everyone,” he added.

Children aged between 6-15 ages were selected to lead the runway at the event. They will be showcasing the best collections by aspiring and established local fashion designers including. Kipepeo fashion design and Rwanda Clothing.

“It’s also important because all of our models will be empowered and feel confident while strutting their stuff down the runway amongst a cheering audience,” Kamugisha explained.

Tickets will go for Rwf10, 000 (regular), Rwf20,000 (VIP), while children will be paying half of the prices for either ticket.

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Are U.S. Youth’s LGBT-Positive Views Being Represented at Pre-Synod Meeting This Week?

This week in Rome, some 300 youth and young adults are meeting from around the world in advance of October’s Synod on “Young People, the Faith, and Vocational Discernment.”

The three U.S. delegates to the meeting this week are Katie Prejean-McGrady, Br. Javier Hansen, FSC, and Nick López. Each delegate’s background has been made public and it looks like they may not represent the overwhelmingly LGBT-positive views of U.S. Catholic young people fairly. Prejean-McGrady is a speaker and author with ties to conservative groups, and a graduate of the highly-conservative University of Dallas. Hansen is a De La Salle brother who teaches high school religion. López is campus minister at the University of Dallas.

It is perhaps unrealistic to expect U.S. church leaders to have chosen young adult representatives who publicly reject certain church teachings or expressed discomfort with the Church. But dissenting voices would more honestly and realistically represent the droves of Catholic youth and young adults in the U.S. who have either left the Church entirely or openly reject teachings on sexuality and gender. If, as organizer Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri said, the Church seeks to speak with and not just about young people, then church officials must be willing to widen their listening beyond conservative perspectives.

Furthermore, LGBT youth and young adults deserve to have their voices included in the Vatican’s quest for a diversity of voices reflecting the global Church. The Synod on the Family only got as far as hosting the Australian parents of a gay child. On sexual orientation at least, that Synod was largely a feedback loop. The result was that LGBT issues were barely included and handled in a mixed way when Pope Francis finally published his post-synodal apostolic exhortation. Amoris Laetitia.

If the Synod on Youth hopes to grapple truly with issues affecting youth, young adults, their faith, and vocational discernment, then it has to  honestly address situations like the firing of a young lesbian teacher, the ban on young gay men entering the priesthood (not to mention women’s ordination), and the beauty and truth in same-gender relationships that are affirmed by most U.S. Catholic youth.

In his opening address to this week’s meeting, Pope Francis encouraged attendees to “be brave” and “say what you have to say.” He added, “We need to dare to have new sentiments, even if it means taking risks. . .Everyone has the right to be listened to, just like everyone has the right to speak.” It is time for the Synod’s organizers and church leaders to start taking these words seriously.

A closed Facebook group was established for English-speaking Catholic youth and young adults to submit written or video answers to a series of questions. Below, I share some of the more LGBT-related answers I submitted to hopefully highlight gender and sexuality issues that need to be addressed.  I surveyed my social media friends to develop these answers. Whether you are age 16-29 or not, what else would you add? Leave your thoughts in the “Comments” section below.

In these times, what relationships, emotional experiences, specific events and places primarily determine the identity of younger generations?

Stories are incredibly powerful. When it comes to lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, transgender, and intersex (LGBTQI) inclusion, youth and young adults in the U.S. are widely affirming of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities/expressions in large part because they have come to know intimately the stories of LGBTQI people. Their family members and friends, along with public figures, are coming out in greater numbers. Social, cultural, and legal milestones on LGBTQI equality are being reached with increasing frequency.

These stories and experiences are therefore quite determinative of how today’s U.S. youth and young adults approach issues of gender and sexuality. We affirm the need for each person to live openly and authentically as God created them. We know the goodness of same-gender relationships. We seek a world and a Church where everyone is welcomed without qualification.

Thankfully, widening acceptance is allowing more LGBTQI youth and young adults to embrace their identities, to come out, and to lead flourishing lives as God intended. For most youth and young adults, be they LGBTQI or not, the question of equality has become a litmus test for institutions. The institutional Church can continue to ignore this truth, but to its own detriment.

What challenges and opportunities come to light in our increasingly interconnected, multicultural and interreligious world, where, unfortunately, differences and divisions are intensifying?

From the perspective of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI) inclusion, U.S. youth and young adults, including Catholics, have become increasingly accepting of people with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities. For LGBTQI-affirming Catholics, this acceptance has been because of their faith and not in spite of it. Church teachings on human dignity, non-discrimination, and respect for difference are central to Catholic youth and young adult’s support for equality.

One key challenge that arises is the growing dissonance between where most youth and young adults, including Catholics, are in affirming LGBTQI people’s human rights and where the institutional Church remains. Equality for all people is, according to one theologian, a litmus test for youth and young adults. Is every person who shows up at a Catholic church shown an unconditional welcome? That is the expectation and, if it is not met, the exodus of young people from the Church will only continue, and likely even expand.

What dreams do young people have for themselves and for the society in which they live? How are they striving to realize these aspirations?

One dream of U.S. youth and young adults is full equality—legal, social, cultural, religious—for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI) people. For the majority of Catholic youth and young adults in the U.S., this dream of full equality includes full acceptance in the Catholic Church. This aspiration is already being realized in many U.S. contexts, and will only continue to grow with successive generations. Many youth and young adult Catholics who choose to remain (and it is helpful to remember that the vast majority leave before age 20 often because of the institutional Church’s exclusion of LGBTQI people) specifically seek out LGBTQI-welcoming, social justice-oriented parishes and faith communities. Furthermore, these Catholic youth and young adults  advocate in other contexts for LGBTQI equality, acting because of their faith and not in spite of it.

Robert Shine, New Ways Ministry, March 21, 2018

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It was Pauli Murray’s fate to be both ahead of her time and behind the scenes.Courtesy Schlesinger Library / Radcliffe Institute / Harvard University

The wager was ten dollars. It was 1944, and the law students of Howard University were discussing how best to bring an end to Jim Crow. In the half century since Plessy v. Ferguson, lawyers had been chipping away at segregation by questioning the “equal” part of the “separate but equal” doctrine—arguing that, say, a specific black school was not truly equivalent to its white counterpart. Fed up with the limited and incremental results, one student in the class proposed a radical alternative: why not challenge the “separate” part instead?

That student’s name was Pauli Murray. Her law-school peers were accustomed to being startled by her—she was the only woman among them and first in the class—but that day they laughed out loud. Her idea was both impractical and reckless, they told her; any challenge to Plessy would result in the Supreme Court affirming it instead. Undeterred, Murray told them they were wrong. Then, with the whole class as her witness, she made a bet with her professor, a man named Spottswood Robinson: ten bucks said Plessy would be overturned within twenty-five years.

Murray was right. Plessy was overturned in a decade—and, when it was, Robinson owed her a lot more than ten dollars. In her final law-school paper, Murray had formalized the idea she’d hatched in class that day, arguing that segregation violated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution. Some years later, when Robinson joined with Thurgood Marshall and others to try to end Jim Crow, he remembered Murray’s paper, fished it out of his files, and presented it to his colleagues—the team that, in 1954, successfully argued Brown v. Board of Education.

By the time Murray learned of her contribution, she was nearing fifty, two-thirds of the way through a life as remarkable for its range as for its influence. A poet, writer, activist, labor organizer, legal theorist, and Episcopal priest, Murray palled around in her youth with Langston Hughes, joined James Baldwin at the MacDowell Colony the first year it admitted African-Americans, maintained a twenty-three-year friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt, and helped Betty Friedan found the National Organization for Women. Along the way, she articulated the intellectual foundations of two of the most important social-justice movements of the twentieth century: first, when she made her argument for overturning Plessy, and, later, when she co-wrote a law-review article subsequently used by a rising star at the A.C.L.U.—one Ruth Bader Ginsburg—to convince the Supreme Court that the Equal Protection Clause applies to women.

This was Murray’s lifelong fate: to be both ahead of her time and behind the scenes. Two decades before the civil-rights movement of the nineteen-sixties, Murray was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus in Richmond, Virginia; organized sit-ins that successfully desegregated restaurants in Washington, D.C.; and, anticipating the Freedom Summer, urged her Howard classmates to head south to fight for civil rights and wondered how to “attract young white graduates of the great universities to come down and join with us.” And, four decades before another legal scholar, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, coined the term “intersectionality,” Murray insisted on the indivisibility of her identity and experience as an African-American, a worker, and a woman.

Despite all this, Murray’s name is not well known today, especially among white Americans. The past few years, however, have seen a burst of interest in her life and work. She’s been sainted by the Episcopal Church, had a residential college named after her at Yale, where she was the first African-American to earn a doctorate of jurisprudence, and had her childhood home designated a National Historic Landmark by the Department of the Interior. Last year, Patricia Bell-Scott published “The Firebrand and the First Lady” (Knopf), an account of Murray’s relationship with Eleanor Roosevelt, and next month sees the publication of “Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray” (Oxford), by the Barnard historian Rosalind Rosenberg.

All this attention has not come about by chance. Historical figures aren’t human flotsam, swirling into public awareness at random intervals. Instead, they are almost always borne back to us on the current of our own times. In Murray’s case, it’s not simply that her public struggles on behalf of women, minorities, and the working class suddenly seem more relevant than ever. It’s that her private struggles—documented for the first time in all their fullness by Rosenberg—have recently become our public ones.

Pauli Murray was born Anna Pauline Murray, on November 20, 1910. It was the year that the National Urban League was founded, and the year after the creation of the N.A.A.C.P.; “my life and development paralleled the existence of the two major continuous civil rights organizations in the United States,” she observed in a posthumously published memoir, “Song in a Weary Throat.” Given Murray’s later achievements, that way of placing herself in context makes sense. But it also reflects the gap in her life where autobiography would normally begin. “The most significant fact of my childhood,” Murray once said, “was that I was an orphan.”

When Murray was three years old, her mother suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage on the family staircase and died on the spot. Pauli’s father, left alone with his grief and six children under the age of ten, sent her to live with a maternal aunt, Pauline Fitzgerald, after whom she was named. Three years later, ravaged by anxiety, poverty, and illness, Pauli’s father was committed to the Crownsville State Hospital for the Negro Insane—where, in 1922, a white guard taunted him with racist epithets, dragged him to the basement, and beat him to death with a baseball bat. Pauli, then twelve years old, travelled alone to Baltimore for the funeral, where she acquired her second and final memory of her father: laid out in an open casket, his skull “split open like a melon and sewed together loosely with jagged stitches.”

Fortunately for Murray, she had, by then, a strong, if complicated, sense of family elsewhere. She lived with her Aunt Pauline in Durham, North Carolina, at the home of her maternal grandparents, Cornelia and Robert Fitzgerald. Cornelia was born in bondage; her mother was a part-Cherokee slave named Harriet, her father the owner’s son and Harriet’s frequent rapist. Robert, by contrast, was raised in Pennsylvania, attended anti-slavery meetings with Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, and fought for the Union in the Civil War. Together, they formed part of a large and close-knit family whose members ranged from Episcopalians to Quakers, impoverished to wealthy, fair-skinned and blue-eyed to dark-skinned and curly-haired. When they all got together, Murray wrote, it looked “like a United Nations in miniature.”

Amid all this, Murray grew up, in her own words, “a thin, wiry, ravenous child,” exceedingly willful yet eager to please. She taught herself to read by the age of five, and, from then on, devoured both books and food indiscriminately: biscuits, molasses, macaroni and cheese, pancakes, beefsteaks, “The Bobbsey Twins,” Zane Grey, “Dying Testimonies of the Saved and Unsaved,” Chambers’s Encyclopedia, the collected works of Paul Laurence Dunbar, “Up from Slavery.” In school, she vexed her teachers with her pinball energy, but impressed them with her aptitude and ambition. By the time she graduated, at fifteen, she was the editor-in-chief of the school newspaper, the president of the literary society, class secretary, a member of the debate club, the top student, and a forward on the basketball team.

With that résumé, Murray could have easily earned a spot at the North Carolina College for Negroes, but she declined to go, because, to date, her whole life had been constrained by segregation. Around the time of her birth, North Carolina had begun rolling back the gains of Reconstruction and using Jim Crow laws to viciously restrict the lives of African-Americans. From the moment Murray understood the system, she actively resisted it. Even as a child, she walked everywhere rather than ride in segregated streetcars, and boycotted movie theatres rather than sit in the balconies reserved for African-Americans. Since the age of ten, she had been looking north. When the time came to pick a college, she set her sights on Columbia, and insisted that Pauline take her up to visit.

It was in New York that Murray realized her life was constrained by more factors than race. Columbia, she learned, did not accept women; Barnard did, but she couldn’t afford the tuition. She could attend Hunter College for free if she became a New York City resident—but not with her current transcript, because black high schools in North Carolina ended at eleventh grade and didn’t offer all the classes she needed to matriculate. Dismayed but determined, Murray petitioned her family to let her live with a cousin in Queens, then enrolled in Richmond Hill High School, the only African-American among four thousand students.

Two years later, Murray entered Hunter—which, at the time, was a women’s college, a fact that Murray initially resented as another form of segregation but soon came to appreciate. Not long afterward, she swapped her cousin’s place in Queens for a room at the Harlem Y.W.C.A. In Harlem, Murray befriended Langston Hughes, met W. E. B. Du Bois, attended lectures by the civil-rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune, and paid twenty-five cents at the Apollo Theatre to hear the likes of Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway. Eighteen, enrolled in college, living in New York, planning to become a writer—she was, it seemed, living the life she’d always dreamed of.

Then came October 29, 1929. Murray, who was supporting herself by waitressing, lost, in quick succession, most of her customers, most of her tips, and her job. She looked for work, but everyone was looking for work. By the end of her sophomore year, in the reverse of today’s joke about college, she had lost fifteen pounds and was suffering from malnutrition. She took time off from school, took odd jobs, took shared rooms in tenement buildings. She graduated in 1933—possibly the worst year in U.S. history to enter the job market. Nationwide, the unemployment rate was twenty-five per cent. In Harlem, it was greater than fifty.

For the next five years, Murray drifted in and out of jobs—among them, a stint at the W.P.A.’s Workers Education Project and the National Urban League—and in and out of poverty. She learned about the labor movement, stood in her first picket line, joined a faction of the Communist Party U.S.A., then resigned a year later because “she found party discipline irksome.” Meanwhile, her relatives in North Carolina were pressuring her to return home. In 1938, worried about their health and lacking any job prospects, she decided to apply to the graduate program in sociology at the University of North Carolina—which, like the rest of the university, did not accept African-Americans.

Murray knew that, but she also knew her own history. Two of her slave-owning relatives had attended the school, another had served on its board of trustees, and yet another had created a permanent scholarship for its students. Surely, Murray reasoned, she had a right to be among them. On December 8, 1938, she mailed off her application. Six days later, she got a reply. “Dear Miss Murray,” it read, “I write to state that . . . members of your race are not admitted to the University.”

Thanks to an accident of timing, that letter made Murray briefly famous. Two days earlier, in the first serious blow to segregation, the Supreme Court had ruled that graduate programs at public universities had to admit qualified African-Americans if the state had no equivalent black institution. Determined not to integrate, yet bound by that decision and facing intense public scrutiny after news broke of Murray’s application, the North Carolina legislature promised to set up a graduate school at the North Carolina College for Negroes. Instead, it slashed that college’s budget by a third, then adjourned for two years.

Murray hoped to sue, and asked the N.A.A.C.P. to represent her, but lawyers there felt her status as a New York resident would imperil the case. Murray countered that any university that accepted out-of-state white students should have to accept out-of-state black ones, too, but she couldn’t persuade them. Nor was she ever admitted to U.N.C. Soon enough, though, she did get into two other notable American institutions: jail and law school.

In March of 1940, Murray boarded a southbound bus in New York, reluctantly. She had brought along a good friend and was looking forward to spending Easter with her family in Durham, but, of all the segregated institutions in the South, she hated the bus the most. The intimacy of the space, she wrote, “permitted the public humiliation of black people to be carried out in the presence of privileged white spectators, who witnessed our shame in silence or indifference.”

Murray and her friend changed buses in Richmond, Virginia. Since the available seats in the back were broken, they sat down closer toward the front. Some time earlier, they had discussed Gandhi and nonviolent resistance, and so, without premeditation, when the bus driver asked them to move they politely refused. The driver called the cops, a confrontation ensued, and they were thrown in jail.

This time, the N.A.A.C.P. was interested; lawyers there hoped to use the arrest to challenge the constitutionality of segregated interstate travel. But the state of Virginia, steering clear of that powder keg, charged Murray and her friend only with disorderly conduct. They were found guilty, fined forty-three dollars they didn’t have, and sent back to jail. When Murray was released some days later, she swore she’d never set foot in Virginia again.

That vow did not last six months. Back in New York, the Workers Defense League asked Murray to help raise money on behalf of an imprisoned Virginia sharecropper named Odell Waller. Waller had been sentenced to death for shooting the white man whose land he farmed: in self-defense, he claimed; in cold blood, according to the all-white jury that convicted him. His case, which became something of a cause célèbre, helped cement the friendship between Murray and Eleanor Roosevelt, who had grown interested in Waller’s plight. (As Bell-Scott documents, that friendship had begun two years earlier, after Murray wrote an angry letter to F.D.R., accusing him of caring more about Fascism abroad than white supremacy at home. Eleanor responded, unperturbed, and later invited her to tea—the first of countless such visits, and the beginning of a productively contentious, mutually joyful decades-long relationship.)

To Murray’s dismay, the Workers Defense League asked her to begin her fund-raising efforts in Richmond. While there, she gave a speech that reduced the audience to tears—an audience that, by chance, included Thurgood Marshall and the Howard law professor Leon Ransom. Later that day, Murray ran into the two men in town; Ransom, who had admired her speech, suggested that she apply to Howard. Murray replied that she would if she could afford it. Ransom told her that if she got in he’d see to it that she got a scholarship.

Murray applied. Marshall wrote her a recommendation. Ransom kept his word. By the time Odell Waller’s final appeal was denied and he died in the electric chair, she had enrolled at Howard, with “the single-minded intention of destroying Jim Crow.”

At Howard, Murray’s race ceased to be an issue, but her gender abruptly became one. Everyone else was male—all the faculty, all her classmates. On the first day, one of her professors announced to his class that he didn’t know why a woman would want to go to law school, a comment that both humiliated Murray and guaranteed, as she recalled, “that I would become the top student.” She termed this form of degradation “Jane Crow,” and spent much of the rest of her life working to end it.

Murray’s final triumph was to become the first African-American woman vested as an Episcopal priest. Photograph from AP

Photograph from AP

Her initial efforts were dispiriting. Upon earning her J.D. from Howard, Murray applied to Harvard for graduate work—only to get the Jane Crow version of the letter she’d once received from U.N.C.: “You are not of the sex entitled to be admitted to Harvard Law School.” Murray, outraged, wrote a memorable rejoinder:

Gentlemen, I would gladly change my sex to meet your requirements, but since the way to such change has not been revealed to me, I have no recourse but to appeal to you to change your minds on this subject. Are you to tell me that one is as difficult as the other?

Apparently so. Neither Murray’s own efforts nor F.D.R.’s intercession persuaded Harvard. She went to Berkeley instead, then returned to New York to find work.

This proved challenging. At the time, only around a hundred African-American women practiced law in the entire United States, and very few firms were inclined to hire them. For several years, Murray scraped by on low-paying jobs; then, in 1948, the women’s division of the Methodist Church approached her with a problem. They opposed segregation and wanted to know, for all thirty-one states where the Church had parishes, when they were legally obliged to adhere to it and when it was merely custom. If they paid her for her time, they wondered, would she write up an explanation of segregation laws in America?

What the Methodist Church had in mind was basically a pamphlet. What Murray produced was a seven-hundred-and-forty-six-page book, “States’ Laws on Race and Color,” that exposed both the extent and the insanity of American segregation. The A.C.L.U. distributed copies to law libraries, black colleges, and human-rights organizations. Thurgood Marshall, who kept stacks of it around the N.A.A.C.P. offices, called it “the bible” of Brown v. Board of Education. In this way, to Murray’s immense gratification, the book ultimately helped render itself obsolete.

Completing this project left Murray low on work again, until, in 1956, she was hired by the New York law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. It was a storied place, lucrative and relatively progressive, but Murray never felt entirely at home there, partly because, of its sixty-some attorneys, she was the only African-American and one of just three women. (Two soon left, although a fourth briefly appeared: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a summer associate with whom Murray crossed paths.) In 1960, frustrated both by her isolation and by corporate litigation, she took an overseas job at the recently opened Ghana School of Law. When she arrived, she learned that, back home, a group of students had staged a sit-in at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in North Carolina. It was the first time Murray had ever left her country. Now, five thousand miles away, the modern civil-rights movement was beginning.

When Murray returned (sooner than expected, since Ghana’s nascent democracy soon slid toward dictatorship), the civil-rights movement was in full swing. The women’s movement, however, was just beginning. For the next ten years, Murray spent much of her time trying to advance it in every way she could, from arguing sex-discrimination cases to serving on President Kennedy’s newly created Presidential Commission on the Status of Women.

In 1965, frustrated with how little progress she and others were making, she proposed, during a speech in New York, that women organize a march on Washington. That suggestion was covered with raised eyebrows in the press and earned Murray a phone call from Betty Friedan, by then the most famous feminist in the country. Murray told Friedan that she believed the time had come to organize an N.A.A.C.P. for women. In June of 1966, during a conference on women’s rights in Washington, D.C., Murray and a dozen or so others convened in Friedan’s hotel room and launched the National Organization for Women.

In retrospect, Murray was a curious figure to help found such an organization. All her life, she had encountered and combatted sex discrimination; all her life, she had been hailed as the first woman to integrate such-and-such a venue, hold such-and-such a role, achieve such-and-such a distinction. Yet, when she told the Harvard Law School faculty that she would gladly change her sex if someone would show her how, she wasn’t just making a point. She was telling the truth. Although few people knew it during her lifetime, Murray, the passionate advocate for women’s rights, identified as a man.

In 1930, when Murray was twenty years old and living in Harlem, she met a young man named William Wynn. Billy, as he was known, was also twenty, and also impoverished, uprooted, and lonely. After a brief courtship, the two married in secret, then spent an awkward two-day honeymoon at a cheap hotel. Almost immediately, Murray realized she had made “a dreadful mistake.” Emotionally, the marriage didn’t outlast the weekend; some years later, they had it annulled.

This entire adventure occupies two paragraphs in Murray’s autobiography—the only paragraphs, in four hundred and thirty-five pages, in which she addresses her love life at all. That elision, which proves to be enormous, is obligingly corrected by Rosenberg, who documents Murray’s lifelong struggle with gender identity and her sexual attraction to women. (Following Murray’s own cue, Rosenberg uses female pronouns to refer to her subject, as have I.) The result is two strikingly different takes on one life: a scholarly and methodical biography that is built, occasionally too obviously, from one hundred and thirty-five boxes of archival material; and a swift and gripping memoir that is inspiring to read and selectively but staggeringly insincere.

“Why is it when men try to make love to me, something in me fights?” Murray wrote in her diary after ending her marriage. In pursuit of an answer, she went to the New York Public Library and read her way through its holdings on so-called sexual deviance. She identified most with Havelock Ellis’s work on “pseudo-hermaphrodites,” his term for people who saw themselves as members of the opposite gender from the one assigned to them at birth. Through Ellis, Murray became convinced that she had either “secreted male genitals” or an excess of testosterone. She wondered, as Rosenberg put it, “why someone who believed she was internally male could not become more so by taking male hormones” and, for two decades, tried to find a way to do so.

Although this biological framework was new to Murray, the awareness of being different was not. From early childhood, she had seemed like, in the words of her wonderfully unfazed Aunt Pauline, a “little boy-girl.” She favored boy’s clothes and boy’s chores, evinced no attraction to her male peers, and, at fifteen, adopted the nickname Paul. She later auditioned others, including Pete and Dude, then began using Pauli while at Hunter and never referred to herself as Anna again.

Sometimes, Murray seemed to regard herself as a mixture of genders. “Maybe two got fused into one with parts of each sex,” she mused at one point, “male head and brain (?), female-ish body, mixed emotional characteristics.” More often, though, she identified as fundamentally male: “one of nature’s experiments; a girl who should have been a boy.” That description also helped her make sense of her desires, which she didn’t like to characterize as lesbian. Instead, she regarded her “very natural falling in love with the female sex” as a manifestation of her inner maleness.

Rosenberg mostly takes Murray at her word, though she also adds a new one: transgender. Such retroactive labelling can be troubling, but the choice seems appropriate here, given how explicitly Murray identified as male, and how much her quest for medical intervention mirrors one variety of trans experience today. Still, Murray’s disinclination to identify as a lesbian rested partly on a misprision of what lesbianism means. By way of explaining why she believed she was a heterosexual man, Murray noted that she didn’t like to go to bars, wanted a monogamous relationship, and was attracted exclusively to “extremely feminine” women. All of that is less a convincing case for her convoluted heterosexuality than for her culture’s harsh assessment of the possibilities of lesbianism.

“As you can see, the hardwood floor is beautifully aged, and there’s standing water under the kitchen sink.”

According to Rosenberg, Murray had just two significant romantic relationships in her life, both with white women. The first, a brief one, was with a counsellor at a W.P.A. camp that Murray attended in 1934. The second, with a woman named Irene Barlow, whom she met at Paul, Weiss, lasted nearly a quarter of a century. Rosenberg describes Barlow as Murray’s “life partner,” although the pair never lived in the same house, only occasionally lived in the same city, and left behind no correspondence, since Murray, otherwise a pack rat, destroyed Barlow’s letters. She says little about the relationship in her memoir, and only when Barlow is dying, of a brain tumor in 1973, does she even describe her as “my closest friend.”

By leaving her gender identity and romantic history out of her autobiography, Murray necessarily leaves out something else as well: the lifetime of emotional distress they caused. From the time she was nineteen, Murray suffered breakdowns almost annually, some of them culminating in hospitalizations, all of them triggered either by feeling as if she were a man or by having feelings for a woman. Aside from making her miserable, those breakdowns, like her race and her perceived gender, hindered her professional life. “This conflict rises up to knock me down at every apex I reach in my career,” she confessed to her diary. To a doctor, she wrote, “Anything you can do to help me will be gratefully appreciated, because my life is somewhat unbearable in its present phase.”

Such help was not forthcoming. Well into middle age, Murray tried without success to obtain hormone therapy—a treatment that scarcely existed before the mid-nineteen-sixties, and even then was seldom made available to women who identified as men. When she did manage to persuade medical professionals to take her seriously, the results were disappointing. In 1938, she prevailed on a doctor to test her endocrine levels, only to learn that her female-hormone results were regular, while her male ones were low, even for a woman. Later, while undergoing an appendectomy, she asked the surgeon to check her abdominal cavity and reproductive system for evidence of male genitalia. He did so and, to her dismay, reported afterward that she was “normal.”

When Murray died, in 1985, she had nearly completed the autobiography that omits this entire history. That omission is not, of course, entirely surprising. Murray had lived long enough to know about the Stonewall riots and the election and assassination of Harvey Milk, but not long enough to see a black President embrace gay rights, the Supreme Court invoke the precedent of Loving v. Virginia to rule that lesbian and gay couples can marry, or her home state of North Carolina play a starring role in the turbulent rise of the transgender movement. Still, Murray’s silence about her gender and sexuality is striking, because she otherwise spent a lifetime insisting that her identity, like her nation, must be fully integrated. She hated, she wrote, “to be fragmented into Negro at one time, woman at another, or worker at another.”

Yet every movement to which Murray ever belonged vivisected her in exactly those ways. On the weekend of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom—often regarded as the high-water mark of the civil-rights movement—the labor activist A. Philip Randolph gave a speech at the National Press Club, an all-male organization that, during events, confined women in attendance to the balcony. (Murray, who had never forgotten the segregated movie theatres of her childhood, was outraged.) Worse, no women were included in that weekend’s meeting between movement leaders and President Kennedy, and none were in the major speaking lineup for the march—not Fannie Lou Hamer, not Diane Nash, not Rosa Parks, not Ella Baker.

As the civil-rights movement was sidelining women, the women’s movement was sidelining minorities and poor people. After stepping away from NOW to serve on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Murray returned and discovered that, in Rosenberg’s words, her “NAACP for women had become an NAACP for professional, white women.” As a black activist who increasingly believed true equality was contingent on economic justice, Murray was left both angry and saddened. She was also left—together with millions of people like her—without an obvious home in the social-justice movement.

It might have been this frustration that prompted Murray’s next move. Then, too, it might have been Irene Barlow’s death, her own advancing age, or the same restlessness that she had displayed since childhood. Or it might have been, as she later came to believe, something that had simmered in her for a lifetime. Whatever it was, it came as a shock to everyone when, having achieved the most stable and lucrative job of her life—a tenured professorship at Brandeis, in the American Studies department she herself helped pioneer—Murray resigned her post and entered New York’s General Theological Seminary to become an Episcopal priest.

In classic Murray fashion, the position she sought was officially unavailable to her: the Episcopal Church did not ordain women. For once, though, Murray’s timing was perfect. While she was in divinity school, the Church’s General Convention voted to change that policy, effective January 1, 1977—three weeks after she would complete her course work. On January 8th, in a ceremony in the National Cathedral, Murray became the first African-American woman to be vested as an Episcopal priest. A month later, she administered her first Eucharist at the Chapel of the Cross—the little church in North Carolina where, more than a century earlier, a priest had baptized her grandmother Cornelia, then still a baby, and still a slave.

It was the last of Murray’s many firsts. She was by then nearing seventy, just a few years from the mandatory retirement age for Episcopal priests. Never having received a permanent call, she took a few part-time positions and did a smattering of supply preaching, for twenty-five dollars a sermon. She held four advanced degrees, had friends on the Supreme Court and in the White House, had spent six decades sharing her life and mind with some of the nation’s most powerful individuals and institutions. Yet she died as she lived, a stone’s throw from penury.

It is easy to wonder, in the context of the rest of Murray’s life, if she joined the priesthood chiefly because she was told she couldn’t. There was a very fine line in her between ambition and self-sabotage; highly motivated by barriers, she often struggled most after toppling them. It’s impossible to know what goals she might have formed for herself in the absence of so many impediments, or what else she might have achieved.

Murray herself felt she didn’t accomplish all that she might have in a more egalitarian society. “If anyone should ask a Negro woman in America what has been her greatest achievement,” she wrote in 1970, “her honest answer would be, ‘I survived!’ ” But, characteristically, she broke that low and tragic barrier, too, making her own life harder so that, eventually, other people’s lives would be easier. Perhaps, in the end, she was drawn to the Church simply because of the claim made in Galatians, the one denied by it and by every other community she ever found, the one she spent her whole life trying to affirm: that, for purposes of human worth, “there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female.” ♦


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Funny, insightful, and often quite charming, Andrea Lawlor’s PAUL TAKES THE FORM OF A MORTAL GIRL comes as a pleasant surprise. The novel follows the life of twenty-two year old queer shapeshifter Paul, who can change his shape from male to female and back again at will. It’s a clever and effective allegory for trans and non-binary experiences, but it also works very well as a character trait. Paul, like many twenty-somethings, is full of outward confidence but lacks true self-esteem; he is constantly looking for outside validation through being an object of attraction and uses his shapeshifting abilities to get it. He wonders if there are others like him out there or if he is unique in the world, and what it would mean if either of those are true.

There isn’t much in the way of plot per se as we read about Paul’s relationships and his travels to different parts of the country, but I found the characters always interesting and there was a lot of sex to keep my attention. I don’t mean that reductively or as an exaggeration. There is A LOT of sex in this book — straight sex, gay sex, lesbian sex — and to Lawlor’s credit it’s a very sex-positive novel. (Although not all the sex is presented as sexy; a hurried blowjob in a dirty alley is presented just as unenticingly as you think it would be.) The author evokes the world of 1993 perfectly, and at times takes a fanciful approach to their subject, intoning certain mythically evocative names, interspersing versions of Paul’s backstory in the form of folklore and legend, all to great and sometimes even profound effect.

Although I found myself wishing for a slightly stronger ending, the ending Lawlor gives us is certainly the right one. I can’t recommend this novel highly enough to anyone interested in queer fiction, or literary fiction that’s laced with and informed by the fantastic. Lawlor studied under Samuel R. Delany, and it shows in both their talent and imagination. (And their graphic depictions of sex! Seriously, if you don’t like reading about sex, this is not the book for you!) I look forward to seeing what else Lawlor writes in the future.

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Chasing the Dragon by Nick Kaufmann

On this St. George’s Day, I would like to remind you that I wrote a book about St. George’s last living descendant, her heroin habit, and the Dragon. And as luck would have it, the paperback is currently on sale at Amazon for cheaper than the e-book!

Two More Blurbs for 100 FATHOMS BELOW!

Hot on the heels of Jonathan Maberry’s blurb, which I revealed last week, two more exciting blurbs have come in for 100 Fathoms Below!

“Claustrophobic Cold War combat with plenty of vampires, 100 Fathoms Below is what would happen if The Hunt for Red October had a baby with ‘Salem’s Lot and it joined the Navy.” — Grady Hendrix, author of Paperbacks from Hell

“The tension never lets up in this white-knuckle thrill ride. You can feel the pressure of the freezing cold ocean bearing down on you, feel the terror as the bodies pile up. I couldn’t stop reading — I had to know what horrific thing waited around the next corner, behind the next hatch of the USS Roanoke. This book will make you gasp — and scream.” — David Wellington, author of 13 Bullets

100 Fathoms Below is scheduled to be published October 9th, but you can pre-order the novel right now from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or your favorite bookseller!

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Pope Francis and Nagasaki: Fresh Encouragement for the Nuclear Disarmament Movement

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A Dream of Visiting Japan

Pope Francis will visit Japan from November 23 to 26, traveling from Tokyo to Nagasaki and Hiroshima before returning to the capital. As the Vatican City head of state, he will make official visits to Emperor Naruhito and Prime Minister Abe Shinzō, while also taking the opportunity to meet as many citizens as possible, including the country’s Catholics, hibakusha in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and school and university students. Born in 1936, he is already in his eighties, but he has prepared an energetic schedule for his few days in Japan.

As a Jesuit priest in his native Argentina, he dreamed of going to Japan—where the Spanish missionary and cofounder of the Jesuits Francis Xavier made many converts in the sixteenth century—and is said to have wished to perform missionary work there himself. Early health problems quashed this ambition. Now, though, as the first pope from South America, he can finally make his Japanese trip.

Conversion and Oppression

The Society of Jesus was founded in Paris in 1540. With papal approval, Xavier—one of the society’s creators—went to Japan in 1549 to win converts to Catholicism. Some 150 years after the start of the Age of Discovery at the turn of the fifteenth century, Europeans were landing in Japan for the first time. The spread of Christianity, the beginning of trade between the two sides, and the introduction of modern muskets made it a major turning point for both Japanese and world history.

As Japan was mired in the Warring States period (1467–1568), the harsh existence of the masses meant that they were drawn to the promise of salvation offered by Christianity, and the number of converts soon soared. Propagation also reached the daimyō level; the first leader to convert was Ōmura Sumitada of Ōmura in Hizen Province (now Nagasaki Prefecture). Catholicism spread rapidly through his territory, such that by the start of the Edo period (1603–1868) almost all of the 60,000 Ōmura residents were believers.

In 1582, the daimyō of Ōmura, Arima, and Ōtomo sponsored a mission of four young boys to Europe, which left from Nagasaki. Pope Gregory XIII (1502–85) received the boys in Rome in 1585. This is the first recorded visit to Europe by Japanese.

Yet dark times followed for the Catholics in Japan. Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537–98) issued an edict forbidding Christianity in 1587 and crucified 26 Catholics—both Japanese and foreign— in 1597. In the Edo period, Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543–1616) issued a new edict in 1613 banning activities by priests, increasing oppression of Catholics, and forcing them to abandon their faith. From the mid-seventeenth to the eighteenth century, Christianity seemed to vanish from the country.

Despite the ban throughout the Edo period, in various locations across Japan believers kept the faith, while pretending to be Buddhists, until the fall of the shogunate. Shortly before the Meiji Restoration in 1868, when Japan had reopened its ports to foreign ships, many “hidden Christians” were discovered in Urakami, Nagasaki, and sent into scattered exile around the west of Japan, where hundreds of them died. Strong condemnation from the Western powers led to the abolition of the anti-Christian edict, allowing freedom of religion once more.

In his visit to Nagasaki, Pope Francis is particularly keen to go to the Hypocenter Park—built where the atomic bomb landed—and the Twenty-Six Martyrs Monument.

The First Papal Visit

In 1868, a little later than its Western peers, Japan began on a path to imperialism. Victories in wars against China in 1894–95 and Russia in 1905 confirmed its place as one of the world powers. The Manchurian Incident of 1931 was the first stage in a new conflict against China, and Japan expanded the war further by starting hostilities with Britain, the United States, and the Netherlands in 1941. Four years later, Japan was on the brink of total defeat.

The United States had succeeded in building atomic weapons, and President Harold S. Truman ordered two of them to be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to bring the war to an early close. The bombings killed a total of 210,000 people. In Nagasaki, the bomb landed in the Urakami area, where most of the descendants of the hidden Christians lived. Of the 73,000 victims, more than 8,000 were Catholics.

Pope John Paul II also went to Hiroshima and Nagasaki when he made the first papal visit to Japan in 1981. “War is the work of man. War is destruction of human life. War is death,” he said in a speech addressing the world. This was a highly influential boost for movements advocating peace and the abolition of nuclear weapons.

At a point when the local Catholic population in Nagasaki had made considerable progress toward recovery from the devastating wartime blow, many were not actively involved with these issues. The pope’s words galvanized them to become part of the two movements.

Pope John Paul II is greeted by crowds in Nagasaki on February 26, 1981. (© Jiji)
Pope John Paul II is greeted by crowds in Nagasaki on February 26, 1981. (© Jiji)

A Step Back for Disarmament

Pope Francis will come to Japan with his early enthusiasm for the country and his respect for the history of its martyrs. He feels particular grief for the children exposed to radiation in the Nagasaki bombing.

There is a photogragh taken by US military photographer Joe O’Donnell shortly after the atomic bombing at Nagasaki that shows a boy standing upright at a cremation site, carrying his dead younger brother on his back. He bites his lip in anguish before the burning of his brother’s body. Pope Francis was deeply moved by the picture, widely distributing a card with a reprint, and he has also spoken out repeatedly about the need to eradicate nuclear weapons.

Now the world awaits the pope’s message in Nagasaki on November 24. He will speak at the Hypocenter Park to 1,000 people, including Catholics, hibakusha, school students, and other members of the public.

While nuclear disarmament had made some headway, escalating tensions between the United States and Russia and the termination of their bilateral Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in August have begun to reverse this progress. Both countries have announced that the nuclear situation has changed, and will increase production of smaller weapons.

In 2016, Barack Obama became the first sitting US President to visit Hiroshima. In his speech in front of the Cenotaph at the Peace Memorial Park, he talked about the US development of nuclear weapons and their use at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and lamented the continued existence of stockpiles. While humanity had the knowledge to create nuclear weapons, it still lacks the ethical wisdom to renounce them.

Pope Francis must surely have heard or read Obama’s speech. As one of the world’s most important spiritual leaders, he will undoubtedly talk about the present lamentable nuclear situation. There will be much interest in what words he directs at the nine nations that currently possess nuclear weapons.

At our Nagasaki peace group, we see the people around the world as global citizens who all live equally under the threat of these weapons. A large-scale nuclear war would destroy the environment, devastate agriculture, and bring about famine and possible human extinction. We need to understand that everyone faces this crisis, whether they come from a country with nuclear capabilities or not.

Now, in the twenty-first century, the pope’s message should persuade those in places where conflict continues and those who continue to support the possession of nuclear weapons as a way of preserving peace through power that they bear a heavy responsibility for ensuring the safety of all the world’s citizens.

(Originally published in Japanese. Banner photo: People pray for the victims of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki at a mass held at Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki on August 9, 2019, the seventy-fourth anniversary of the event. © Jiji.)

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“As the NCAA tournament (March Madness) began last year, I thought to myself, how can I tie this awesome event into our PE/Health curriculum in 2017?”

That was the question educator Steven Louka wanted to answer to help his students find a creative way to eat healthy foods and exercise. As the supervisor of the physical education, health, and wellness department for New Brunswick schools, Louka began to share his tournament-style competition with others and received positive feedback and encouragement to move forward with the program.

“The premise of this competition is to get our students to realize how easy and fun eating healthy can be. There’s a wide variety of healthy and affordable snack options,” Louka said.

Louka worked with FoodCorps service member Hayley Klein to develop rules and regulations for the competition. In true tournament fashion, classes from grades 3 to 7 competed against each other by creating unique and aesthetically pleasing healthy snacks. Two classes were initially selected as winners from every grade level. Those two classes then competed against one another, narrowing it down to one class winner per grade.

In the end, the fifth graders in Mrs. DeMato’s class at McKinley Community Elementary School created the winning snack, “Yummy Avocado Toast with Salsa Fresca.” Check out photos of some of the creative entries above.

Louka hopes the winning snack finds a way onto the school lunch menu. He also anticipates next year’s competition will grow larger among the student body and he isn’t alone. “It’s incredible to see the impact that Steven has created with the March Snackness program,” said Meredith Masin-Blount, senior director of youth services for New Brunswick Tomorrow and project director for New Jersey Partnership for Healthy Kids-New Brunswick. “It just proves that educating students about healthy snacks and physical activity can be fun.”

“I learned that students from all grade levels wanted to be the 2017 March Snackness champion,” said Louka, who was incredibly pleased with the buzz the March Snackness event created among students. “Ultimately, I hope that students have gained an excitement over healthy eating that will carry over into their homes.”

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NEWTON — The Sussex County Board of Chosen Freeholders held its last meeting of the year by approving end-of-year transfers and approving contracts for issues such as senior lunches and supplemental attorneys for the coming year.

The board also put off hiring of three legal firms until the board’s January meeting to allow the incoming board the option of retaining those lawyers.

The new board will include four of the current five members plus newcomer Anthony Fasano. He ran in November with current freeholder Sylvia Petillo and both will be sworn in during a reorganization meeting at 6 p.m. on Jan. 2 at the Historic Courthouse in Newton.

The three contract resolutions being held are for the law firm of Trimboli & Prusinowski, who serve as the county’s attorneys for labor and employment matters; Archer & Greiner who handle bond, notes and related financial issues; and a blanket resolution for “legal services for special counsel” which would include one-time lawsuits, such as the county’s pending opioid lawsuit.

Among the legal agreements approved were contracts for the ongoing bankruptcy proceedings for Mountain Creek Resort, retaining Sills Cummis & Gross as legal counsel with the Sussex County Municipal Utilities Authority on solid waste issues and retaining Kraemer and Corazza as counsel for the County Clerk’s Office.

The board also approved extension of the legal contract with attorney Megan Ward who represents the county in agreements with Thorlabs for its construction projects in Newton, which involve county roads and traffic control signals.

The board also approved shared service agreements for 2020 for the senior citizen lunch programs in Vernon, Franklin and Hopatcong.

Also approved were a two-year agreement with Delta Dental Plan of New Jersey Inc., a one-year agreement on health insurance with Horizon Healthcare Services, Inc., for both active and retired county employees.

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The board also authorized Freeholder Director Herb Yardley to name a two-member committee to work with County Counsel Kevin Kelly on what executive session minutes can be released to the public.

Although the board has approved the minutes, there are some issues, such as ongoing labor negotiations or legal issues, which can remain private until those issues are completed. The committee will work with Kelly on withholding some issues or redacting parts of other discussions to protect privacy.

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August 15, 2019

NEWARK NJ – NJ TRANSIT has renewed its focus on Transit Oriented Developments(TOD), and is encouraging its local community partners interested in new development to learn more about opportunities with the agency.

“NJ TRANSIT is committed to Transit Oriented Development, which combines quality housing and robust shopping and dining with the advantage of easy access to rail and bus service to other communities,” said NJ TRANSIT President & CEO Kevin Corbett.  “We encourage any local government interested in sustainable and environmentally sensitive growth to reach out to NJ TRANSIT about opportunities to work together in a mutually beneficial partnership.’’

Under Corbett and with the support of NJ Department of Transportation Commissioner and Board Chair Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti, NJ TRANSIT is working to ensure the communities it serves get the most out of mass transit. By tyideveng mixed use developments to the organization’s rail stations and bus lines via transit oriented development, municipalities can enhance their residents’ quality of life by providing not just local neighborhood amenities but easy access via NJ TRANSIT to the incredible resources available in the Garden State.

In October 2018, The Link at Aberdeen Station was officially opened to the public, with a combination of apartments, stores, restaurants and walkable access to the Aberdeen-Matawan Station. The project was a partnership between NJ TRANSIT, Aberdeen Township and the developer BNE. The result has been widely hailed as an excellent example of a modern community that provides a high quality of life at home with access to amenities throughout the state via mass transit.

In April 2019, the Borough of Matawan announced an exciting new mixed-use development adjacent to the Aberdeen-Matawan Rail Station. The development, which will be on seven acres of NJ TRANSIT-owned land along the New Jersey Coast Line, is part of an extensive transit-oriented development project spearheaded by Matawan since 2001. A call for developers to express their interest went out in May.

Soon after, the City of Bayonne and NJ TRANSIT announced on June 25th a collaboration to create an innovative new mixed-use development along the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail (HBLR). The development is slated to be built on four and a half acres of NJ TRANSIT owned land adjacent to the Bayonne 34th Street Station.

Last month, NJ TRANSIT introduced a partnership with Somerset Development LLC to create a vibrant, new mixed-use Transit Oriented Development (TOD) project through a sale and lease agreement with the developer for land adjacent to the Somerville Train Station with access to the borough’s revitalized and bustling downtown.  In addition to the new neighborhood, the developers will construct a new road that will connect State Route 206 with the rail station to provide easier access to mass transit for the a significant portion of western Somerset County.

NJ TRANSIT has identified additional opportunities for similar projects in Bordentown, Bound Brook, Camden, Hoboken, Trenton, and other communities throughout the Garden State. Municipal leaders interested in learning more about how NJ TRANSIT can support their community with Transit Oriented Development should contact Sean Massey, Director of Transit Oriented Development, at

To promote transit oriented development opportunities on and near NJ TRANSIT properties, NJ TRANSIT has developed a website to host project documents for interested bidders and members of the community to access.  The website, at, launched in May with the Matawan project’s Request for Qualifications. Interested developers and builders should visit the site regularly as it will be the prime location for posting of upcoming opportunities to bid on NJ TRANSIT-related development projects.

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World-renowned sculptor Johanna Schwaiger joins New Masters Academy, bringing with her over 20 years experience of teaching and producing figurative and portrait sculpture. In her first series, she demonstrates her method of sculpting a female portrait from a live model. You’ll learn important methods and procedures using various sculpting materials and tools, key landmarks of the skull, and basic clay application. Having placed the facial features in the previous lesson, in this lesson Johanna pays special attention to the intricacies of the nose, eyes, and mouth. You’ll learn about the various fat pads and boney structures that contribute to the plane changes of these features. Additionally, now that she’s found the “border” of the volumes and structures, Johanna begins to treat the surface of the sculpture more deliberately.

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Families of Manchester terror attack victims to receive £250k from One Love concert

The concert was held on June 4 this year

The amount of money raised from the One Love Manchester concert for the families of the victims has been revealed.

Orgnaised by Ariana Grande, the One Love Manchester concert took place on June 4 and featured performances from Grande herself as well as Miley Cyrus, Liam Gallagher, Coldplay, Justin Bieber and Katy Perry.

It aimed to raise funds for the families of the victims of the Manchester terror attack. 22 people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up as they left an Ariana Grande concert – with the explosion taking place in the foyer of the arena while fans were buying merchandise and heading home.

Approximately $24.5 million (just over £18million) was raised and the families will receive £250,000 each.

In a statement, We Love Manchester’s Councillor Sue Murphy said: ” Thanks to this we have raised more than £18m and we were conscious that we had to get some of swiftly this to those with immediate needs.

“We have therefore given a around third of the total to the bereaved families and £3.5m to those who were hospitalised after the attack. In total this means we have allocated over half of the existing money already.

“We will now spend some time looking at how we will distribute the rest of the funds. This will be a complex and sensitive process as we will need to assess the long-term impacts of the attack. We will issue an update as soon as we know more.”

Part of the funds also went to those who were hospitalized as a result of the attack.

Meanwhile, a new charitable fund to pay for a permanent memorial to the victims of the Manchester Arena attack has been announced by Manchester City Council.

The memorial will be led by an advisory group of business and civic leaders. The group will also consult with the family of the victims in order to determine “the form and location of any permanent commemorations”.

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