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It's late December, and a group of anxious young parents are touring a sought-after pre-school in Manhattan's Tribeca neighborhood, hoping against hope that all those damn siblings of the already enrolled don't fill up every new spot. They watch the three-year-olds at work on fine-motor-skill activities and want it for their own children so much they get choked up: those tiny hands pouring water just for the fun of it, the focused tweezing of corn kernels, the careful washing of hands.
After observation, the tour guide lets them know that "Jim," a parent at the school, will spend the next few minutes answering questions up in the music loft. Jim is introduced. He's tall, bearded, with a head of small, brown curlicues. His long face wears a guarded expression.
Wait, he looks familiar … Isn't that … No, it couldn't be … Damn! It is! It's James Frey, the guy Oprah shredded for faking his memoir.
The parents power through the shock—they are cool, downtown New Yorkers, after all—and they dutifully, nonchalantly ask questions.
Jim tries to ignore the looks, and answers the same questions he has been asked dozens of times this fall. His voice is a laid-back, dude voice. No, none of the children are expected to be potty-trained. There are changing tables in all the classrooms, and spare diapers are kept in each child's cubby. Yeah, he understands the concern of those who get the afternoon spot instead of morning, but don't worry—usually the children manage to adjust their nap schedules pretty quickly.
They half listen while they think about Jim: I wonder if he went back to being a drunk. I wonder if anything he's saying today is true. I wonder what he's doing here. Junkie, liar … P.T.A. dad?
He's certainly a far cry from the badass image he once concocted for himself in his best-selling 2003 book, A Million Little Pieces—the guy who had a chick snort lines off his penis, who had amassed 14 arrests, who was wanted in three states, who'd assaulted a cop, who'd served real jail time, and who had likely beat a priest to death—all of which, we now assume, was highly embellished or false.
This isn't to say that Frey isn't tough. He was tough enough to kick a five-year drug-and-alcohol addiction. He proved his resilience again by surviving the past two years, after his bad-boy aspirations became too real and bit him on the ass. Oprah, the very arbiter of correct human behavior, destroyed him in public, and the walls came crumbling down around him.
The book world dumped him. Friends deserted him. He was stalked by the tabloids as if he were a Britney Spears–size train wreck. Readers told him they hoped he'd burn in hell, get hit by a bus, get "ass cancer."
"I was a pariah," he says today. "I was under no illusion that I was anything but that." Each morning brought a crash of emotions—rage, bewilderment, panic, and shame—and Frey came close to drinking again. Instead, he did something shocking. He wrote another book—and not a lame apologia/self-justification such as The Fabulist, by Stephen Glass, or Burning Down My Masters' House, by Jayson Blair.
Bright Shiny Morningis a sprawling, ambitious novel about Los Angeles, written with all the broad-stroke energy that was so irresistible to readers in A Million Little Pieces. By turns satirical, tense, and surprisingly touching, it is a portrait of a city onto which so many millions have projected so many dreams. Frey tells his story using four main narratives: a young, midwestern couple who have come to escape the cruelty and small-mindedness of their families; a Mexican-American housekeeper struggling to find self-worth; a Venice boardwalk drunk attempting to do something heroic; a vain, closeted movie star willing to do anything to get the man he loves. Interwoven with these compelling, cinematic tales is the story of just about everyone else. Compulsively, obsessively, Frey churns out sketch after sketch of L.A.'s every historical moment, every demographic, every institution, every neighborhood, from Skid Row to the Fashion District. He gives us gang members, porn-industry types, Asian sex slaves, artists, art collectors, gossip bloggers. He gives us lists of real L.A. facts and "facts" that are just made-up nonsense. At times, the randomness feels distracting—you wish Frey could rein himself in and return to the central narratives. But when the book works, it achieves the very essence of Los Angeles's fractured, unpredictable, loopy nature. The stakes couldn't be higher for him. It will test to what extent the public is willing to read James Frey the writer, and not, as he puts it, "James Frey the asshole."
The story of what really happened with A Million Little Pieces has not been told in its full complexity. Owing to a non-disclosure agreement between Frey and Random House (which owns Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, the imprint that published it), neither he nor the publishing house can speak about what happened. But an investigation by Vanity Fair suggests that the story is significantly more complicated than Man Cons World. There were no fake Web sites, no wigs worn, no relatives pretending to be spokesmen for nonexistent corporations. It is the story, first, of a literary genre in which publishers thought they had found the surefire recipe for success, but one with such dangerously combustible ingredients that it could explode at any moment. On the one hand, memoirs have often been afforded a certain poetic license to stray from absolute truth in the interest of storytelling. On the other, they have the appeal of the real. Over the years, the marketplace hungered for more of both. Give us more drama! And tell us it's all true! The publishing world responded, pumping up both. It was inevitable that one day the mixture would blow up in someone's face. Frey had the right story to tell, the talent to get heard, the soaring ambition, and the right professional champions hungry for a hit.
Now he would just as soon forget the whole mess. He fears and loathes the media. He has been press shy since his January 2006 appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show, and doesn't plan to speak to the press again after this interview.
"Frankly, I don't even care," he says, exasperated, after I pushed him on the subject of the scandal for the 16th time. "I don't care, if somebody calls [A Million Little Pieces] a memoir, or a novel, or a fictionalized memoir, or what. I could care less what they call it. The thing on the side of the book means nothing. Who knows what it is. It's just a book. It's just a story. It's just a book that was written with the intention to break a lot of rules in writing. I've broken a lot of rules in a lot of ways. So be it."
Frey has fetishized breaking rules for as long as he's been alive. On a casual level this makes him endearing. He routinely addresses women, even ones he barely knows, as "dude," and he might break the ice with a stranger with "Yo, what the fuck's up?" At the age of 38, he still makes crank calls. Sometimes he'll call from the street corner and put on a high-pitched, crazy-old-person voice, drawing out every syllable of your name. Sometimes he pretends to be in an emergency, as he did the other day when he phoned his editor's assistant:
"Allison, fuck, Allison, I need your help now! I'm on the corner of 56th and Fifth Avenue and a fucking bus just drove by and drenched me! I have two more meetings and I need you to go buy me some underwear and buy me some pants."
He's been known to show up at a Halloween party wearing nothing but a Speedo, and he's not the sort who works out.
On a deeper level, breaking the rules has been part of a rich fantasy life for Frey. Since as early as he can remember, his heroes—whether literary, artistic, or fictional—were rebels. As a teenager growing up in Cleveland and suburban Michigan, the child of wealthy parents (his father was a business executive at Whirlpool), he became enamored of the works of Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, and Charles Bukowski, three icons of male debauchery and bohemianism. Frey romanticized their hard living and by about the age of 14 was drinking and smoking pot regularly. Eventually he was also doing crack, meth, and acid. It was not just the behavior described in those books that struck a chord with Frey; it was also their literary significance. (Rare editions by and memorabilia about his heroes are stacked exquisitely on the bookshelf at Frey's sleek Tribeca apartment.) All three authors mingled fact and fiction, sometimes writing about themselves and their experiences, sometimes writing fantastic versions of themselves and their experiences.
"That's what I always thought I would do," says Frey, swiveling several feet away in his Aeron chair, sounding a bit defensive, "write about my own life in some way that, in the best-case scenario, would constitute art or literature. I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography."
Frey produced his first piece of real writing in 1994, after graduating from Denison College and post-rehab, when he was living in Chicago. It was the first small chunk of a novel, and preceding it was a send-up of an author's note of the kind that had preceded many 19th-century and early-20th-century classic novels. Though overwrought, the note reveals Frey's interests as a writer: "To play with genres," he explains today, "to play with truth and reality, play with the rules people place on writing and art, which I wholly reject." Claiming that all writing is, in fact, a form of autobiography, he ended the note with "and the events described did occur in some way or form, either during or before the composition of this work, and I have made no attempt to portray them as anything more than what they were, to me." Prophetically, he noted that his literary interests might well end in "an expensive and terrifying web of litigation."
Down and Out in Hollywood
Ultimately, Frey dismisses that first piece of writing as "a lot of nonsense," and It went nowhere. Like many frustrated novelists, he decided to try screenwriting, and he moved to Los Angeles. He initially tried to write smart screenplays. When those didn't pan out, he decided to write something salable. The result was the 1998 romantic comedy Kissing a Fool, starring David Schwimmer, which was called "pea-brained" and "moronic" by Roger Ebert. Frey tried his hand at directing—a small-budget film called Sugar: The Fall of the West, about a sex addict; it, too, was disappointing. Even though he was just starting out, it was hard for him to take the setbacks in stride. His newfound sobriety was fragile, and he was determined to make something of his life. "It was crushing," he says of those failures. When not sweating it out in front of the computer, Frey lived up the rebel side, inviting both friends and homeless people to come over and watch boxing matches on TV and get wasted (he stayed sober). In his spare time, he volunteered as a mentor. "While we were all living in L.A., surfing and playing tennis," recalls his friend Michael Craven, "he was hanging out with a kid who didn't have a family."
As is often the case with writers of best-forgotten movies, the assignments continued to come in. By 2000, Frey had decided he didn't want to be just another hack screenwriter. It was time to return to his serious literary ambitions. He put the screenwriting aside, took out a second mortgage on his house, and threw himself into A Million Little Pieces, a book he had started a couple of years earlier, based on his addiction and recovery. Friends and his girlfriend next door, Maya (who would soon become his wife), thought he was nuts for blowing a perfectly fine career on something so indulgent. It came pouring out, and Frey easily found the rapid-paced, freewheeling style that would become his trademark—no quotation marks, no paragraph indentations, few commas, sentences that run on and on and go into the next. He took pride in its stylistic unorthodoxy. Early on, he showed it to someone who had an M.F.A. in writing. The reaction was the same one Kerouac got after he gave his editor On the Road, one crazy-long paragraph written on a paper-towel-size scroll. Frey recalls, "They sent back a note that said, 'This is unpublishable. This would get destroyed in my workshop.' And I was like, 'Cool,' you know? 'Cool.' " (Even in his speech, Frey has little love of grammar. He often begins sentences with the word "me"—e.g., "Me and my buddy watched the Giants game.") After just about a year, Frey had 525 pages and felt he was ready to shop it around to literary agents.
He landed a hot one, Kassie Evashevski, then at Brillstein-Grey, who worked with both books and films. As he tells it today, Frey, continuing to follow in the footsteps of his literary heroes, sought to publish it as fiction. "I sent the book to Kassie as a novel," says Frey. "I was pretty clear. It's a novel. I didn't tell her it was a memoir. I told her it was a novel. I'm not sure what else I needed to say." Evashevski would not comment for this article, except to say that all of her views had been expressed in a 2006 Publishers Weekly interview, in which she said Frey had told her it was the true story of his addiction and recovery. She recalled, "James raised the issue of whether he could publish it as an autobiographical novel—only, he said, to spare his family undue embarrassment, not because it wasn't true."
According to Frey, Evashevski sent the book out to 18 publishers, and no one wanted it. But when told it was a true story, the industry said, Well, let's talk. From Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes to Mary Karr's The Liars' Club, to Augusten Burroughs's Running with Scissors, memoirs had become cash cows for publishing houses, while the sales of novels, especially first novels, had been languishing. According to Evashevski, in discussions with these interested parties, she told them that the book, as she understood it, was actually true. "The response was unanimous," she recalled. "If the book is true, it should be published as a memoir." One such interested party was Sean McDonald, a young editor at Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. He showed it to his boss, the highly respected and upright Nan Talese (wife of legendary journalist Gay), who, surprisingly, was deeply impressed by the immediacy of the book and thought it would be invaluable to anyone with an intimate connection to addiction. She was ready to offer this first-time writer $50,000 for the memoir.
Evashevski came back to Frey with the news. Frey recalls the conversation he had with her. "We talked about what the rules of memoir were or were not." He says he came away from that conversation believing that his book was staying within the bounds of what the publishing world called "memoir," that if there were some factual discrepancies it was fine. He also believes that by having initially submitted the manuscript as a novel it was clear that he had changed more than minor details—he changed "a bunch of stuff." This was not what he had meant by "playing with genres," but at least he was getting his book published.
A Best-Seller Is Born
Frey began working with McDonald, known for his highbrow taste and intense, hands-on approach, in which he'd provide long, detailed memos of how he thought scenes should be shaped. They got to be close friends, talking on the phone daily, visiting each other on vacations, and going to boxing matches. Contrary to McDonald's later claim that he had been deceived by Frey, it's possible the editor enabled him. Two publishing sources say McDonald's editing was aimed at heightening the drama, without questioning the veracity of the text. During the publishing process, Frey, it seems, still had some misgivings about putting the book out there as a memoir. On an "author's questionnaire," a memo used for marketing and publicity that authors fill out a few months prior to publication, he wrote, "I think of this book more a work of art or literature than I do a work of memoir or autobiography."
It made little difference. In April 2003, A Million Little Pieces came out as a memoir, and the praise was almost unanimous: "electrifying," "incredible," "mesmerizing," "turbo-charged," "unflinchingly honest." He didn't get the sort of serious literary reverence that Dave Eggers received, but he was hailed as a new, unique voice on the scene, one with a radical, screw-the-rules take on language and storytelling. Ten thousand copies sold, 25,000 copies sold, 50,000 copies sold, 70,000 copies sold. Frey, given his first taste of fame, played up his rebel soul for the media. He brandished his many tattoos for reporters: the ftbsitttd on his wrist meant "Fuck the Bullshit, It's Time to Throw Down." He said about Eggers, one of the most celebrated literary figures of his generation, "Fuck that, and fuck him."
Unnoticed under the din of all the turbo-charged, unflinching, badass excitement was an article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, in which the reporter, Deborah Caulfield Rybak, raised questions about the plausibility of the book. She asked Talese about possible factual discrepancies, and why there wasn't an author's note if, as Frey had told reporters, names and identifying characteristics had been changed. Talese said, "It's a total slipup that we didn't have a disclaimer page. I'm embarrassed." Two years later the disclaimer still hadn't made it into the book. Such a disclaimer might have provided for a certain amount of wiggle room, and might well have prevented Frey from getting into so much trouble. But in this midwestern newspaper Talese's comment went under the radar. Frey's memoir was in its seventh printing, and it was about to be catapulted to the level writers and booksellers dream of.
Frey's wife was at their beach house, in Amagansett, having lunch with a friend, Susan Kirshenbaum, when the call came. Oprah had just selected A Million Little Pieces for her book club. Maya called Frey immediately. He was ecstatic. Kirshenbaum said to him, "Write this day down because your life is never going to be the same after this."
Bookstores couldn't re-stock A Million Little Pieces fast enough. It seemed like anyone who'd ever been an addict, anyone who'd ever known an addict, anyone who'd seen one on television, had to read the book. All over the world people wanted it. It would be published in 28 languages by 30 different publishers. Hundreds of e-mails came pouring into Frey's in-box each day, thanking him for helping them kick their alcoholism, thanking him for helping them understand their child's drug habit, asking him for words of strength as they fought to stay sober every day. Suddenly, Frey was less Jack Kerouac and more Dr. Phil. The Doubleday publicity-department phones were ringing off the hook with requests for interview upon interview upon interview. Frey and Doubleday had succeeded in giving the world an incredible literary experience. Now they had to succeed in marketing it as Frey's life story.
McDonald, by this point at Riverhead Books, which had just published Frey's My Friend Leonard (a sequel of sorts to A Million Little Pieces), did his part. In an interview with The New York Times the day Oprah made her announcement, he said that during the book's editing "I made sure that everything actually happened" and that when questions arose at the publishing house about the book's veracity "James had to provide them with all kinds of verification." (According to a source in the publishing industry, Frey did have many pages of documentation, but they didn't really address the veracity of his book.)
Now it was Frey's turn. Under the klieg lights of celebrity, he embraced the badass role he had written for himself. He now began standing by his book as straight nonfiction. He emphasized his honesty, saying on Oprah in October 2005, "If I was going to write a book that was true, and I was going to write a book that was honest, then I was going to have to write about myself in very negative ways." And he elaborated on the fabrications, describing in an interview on the Barnes & Noble Web site his three months in jail that never happened: "There's nothing to do there. You can go out to the yard and walk around or shoot hoops or lift weights. I didn't really want to do anything, so I spent most of my time reading books." He added that his reading list inside the slammer included Don Quixote, War and Peace, and The Brothers Karamazov.
The Truth Hurts
Frey, at last, was the rule breaker he had always dreamed of being. There was only one problem: playing along didn't feel good. At this point, Frey sought psychiatric help. "I didn't enjoy the pedestal that I was put on," he says. "I felt like this book that's intentions were artistic had become something else." There was every reason to feel uneasy. By December, just two months after his book was featured on Oprah, he had already started getting calls from the Smoking Gun, an investigative Web site that was looking for his mug shots. When those proved elusive, the site started probing further into his life. Panicked by their calls, he hired Martin Singer, an A-list Los Angeles attorney, whose clients have included Jennifer Aniston and Britney Spears. By early January 2006, the nightmare was growing. The Smoking Gun was set to publish a 13,000-word litany of Frey's fabrications. Shortly before, they sent Frey their findings. Over dinner, he showed the report to his friend the writer Josh Kilmer-Purcell and asked what he should do. Kilmer-Purcell tried to calm him down: "I was like, 'I don't see this going anywhere. It's eight pages of little facts, you know, little things, and I don't see it going anywhere.' "
Well, some were little—he never set a county record for blood-alcohol level, for instance. But some were not so little. Not only had the three months of jail time never happened, neither had the crime that led to it: a brutal confrontation with Ohio cops that ended with Frey getting beaten with billy clubs. In addition, he had invented a role for himself in an actual train accident that led to the deaths of two high-school girls.
The Smoking Gun story was beamed around the Internet and hit the mainstream. Frey dug in, writing on his Web site, "So let the haters hate, let the doubters doubt. I stand by my book and my life, and I won't dignify this bullshit with any sort of further response." Three nights later, Larry King invited him on the show to defend himself. At least he still had Oprah on his side. She called in to the show, coming to his defense: "The underlying message of redemption in James Frey's memoir still resonates with me, and I know it resonates with millions of people who have read this book.… To me, it seems to be much ado about nothing."
But two weeks later, it seemed the only thing resonating with Winfrey was the message she was getting from her fans: How can you stand by this liar? She needed to put together a program where she could reassure them that, as she put it, "the truth matters." But according to Talese, there was nothing truthful about the way the show was presented to its prospective guests.
As Talese recounted at a televised publishing conference last July, the show invited her and Frey together. Talese initially resisted. Then they were approached with a new pitch. The topic was going to be "Truth in America," and they wanted Talese on a panel with columnists Frank Rich, of The New York Times, and Richard Cohen, from The Washington Post. Given this scenario, Talese agreed. But when she and Frey arrived at Harpo Studios, in Chicago, they were told that the program was not, in fact, about Truth in America; it was about the James Frey controversy. Winfrey told Frey it would be rough, but said there would be redemption in the end. There was no redemption. From beginning to end, it was, according to Talese, "a public scourge."
Oprah, who just two weeks before had stood by the "essential truth" of Frey's story, now pounced on his every other word, while the audience booed him.
"I've struggled with the idea of it and … " began Frey, in a typical exchange.
"No, the lie of it," snapped Oprah. "That's a lie. It's not an idea, James. That's a lie."
"I feel like I came here, and I have been honest with you," he said at the end of the hour. "I have, you know, essentially admitted to … " "Lying," Oprah broke in.
A montage of columnists—*The New York Times'*s Maureen Dowd, the *Los Angeles Times'*s Joel Stein, and cultural critic Stanley Crouch—chimed in via pre-recorded spots: "I would say that Oprah should kick James Frey's bony, lying, nonfiction butt out of the kingdom of Oprah," offered Dowd in a typically incisive analysis.
"He felt trapped and cornered," recalls Talese today. A spokesperson for Oprah claims that "Truth in America" was always the topic for the show and that Talese had been informed of the full range of questions in the pre-interview. Talese maintained (as she still does) that memoirs have always been personal impressions, and didn't seem to realize that, for better or for worse, the game was now up. She was disgusted at the spectacle Oprah was making, appalled at her manners and at what she allegedly told Frey after the show was over: "I know it was rough, but it's just business." Winfrey denies ever making such a comment. "Once again, the truth is not being served here," she says in a statement to Vanity Fair. "In 22 years of doing this show, I have never said to anyone, 'I know it was rough, but it's just business.' This was beyond business. This was about the trust I share with the audience who faithfully supports the Book Club and buys the books I recommend; and based on that trust, I thought we were owed an explanation about the truth of this memoir."
By the time Frey got to O'Hare Airport, it seemed that everyone knew who he was and what he'd done. He collected countless stares on his journey back to New York and was finally able to breathe only when he got into the taxi to go home. "I have this vivid memory of coming across the Williamsburg Bridge, and the sun was going down and New York looked gorgeous. I was just happy to be home. I came home, and my wife gave me a hug. My kid was asleep, and I snuck in and kissed her."
High and Dry
When Frey left the apartment the next day for coffee, reporters were staked out at the front entrance of his building, so he slipped out the back. Soon, the reporters caught on and waited at the back too. There were no colleagues to call for support.
"Literally, pretty much everybody I knew in publishing, with the exception of, I think, two people, cut contact off." As Frey tells it, the first deserter was Evashevski, his literary agent, who told Publishers Weekly, "It became impossible for me to maintain a relationship once the trust had been broken." Frey scoffs at the excuse. "Kassie Evashevski says that she could no longer represent me because doing so would somehow affect her integrity. It did not ever affect her integrity to the point where she stopped taking money from me." (According to a colleague of Evashevski's, she no longer receives any commission.)
Next to go was McDonald, whose publishing house dropped Frey's two-book contract, which included a new novel, Bright Shiny Morning. Contradicting his previous claim that he had personally "made sure everything actually happened," McDonald now said in a written statement that he had just been relying on Frey's word, and that he'd found out about Frey's deceptions "the same way and at the same time as everybody else." Frey took McDonald's abandonment particularly hard. "When you need somebody most, they're gone. And that hurt a ton. It hurt a lot. That was one of the hardest things—people you trust and you feel like you can rely on, and you really can't." (McDonald did not respond to repeated requests for comment.)
Frey was hit with a slew of lawsuits from unhappy readers, including a social worker who allegedly recommended his book to those with substance-abuse problems and was seeking $10 million on behalf of consumers. According to a source with knowledge of the litigation, Random House stopped paying him, citing breach of contract, at which point Frey's lawyers threatened to sue the publishing house, pointing out that Frey was contractually obligated only to write a book that was completely original and his own (i.e., not plagiarized), not one that was true. They also threatened to go to the media with the material they now had, including Frey's author questionnaire, stating that he considered the book literature, not memoir, and McDonald's editorial memos. The complaint alleged that the memos demonstrated that McDonald had directed significant embellishment. According to the source Random House quickly resumed paying him. (When asked for a response, a Random House spokesman says, "We have no comment on the particulars of their editorial relationship. However, for works of non-fiction, Random House editors are vigorously instructed to seek verification from authors of all statements asserted as facts, based on author's careful research and investigation for accuracy.")
A day didn't go by when Frey wasn't ridiculed by the press. Excrement metaphors proved especially popular. Frey's book was a "pile of bullshit" (Gawker) or "horse dookie" (Liars' Club author Mary Karr told Time), and Frey was "a lying sack of dung" (New York Daily News). Frey riding his bicycle was enough to make the kids at Gawker double over at the sheer hilarity. The New York Times covered or mentioned the scandal on a daily basis. Book editor Judith Regan wasted no time in cashing in on Frey's embarrassment, slapping together a send-up called A Million Little Lies, by James Pinocchio. "I was a bad joke," says Frey. Two other literary scandals were playing out around the same time. Augusten Burroughs was being sued for defamation by the family depicted in Running with Scissors as revolting and bizarre (the suit was subsequently settled), and cult favorite J. T. LeRoy, author of the autobiographical novel Sarah, about "his" time as a child prostitute and vagrant, had just been outed as a troubled woman in disguise. Neither got the attention Frey did. When Frey learned that Dick Cheney had shot his hunting buddy in the face, he thought the torture might be over. "I remember thinking … At least something in the news that's going to take it away. It didn't." He routinely came home to reporters in his lobby wanting to talk to him, at least one pretending to be a friend of one of Frey's closest friends. Opening up his e-mail was a stomach-churning experience. Many ex-fans told him they hoped he would die or become an addict again. "See ya on Skid Row, fuck face," went a typical sign-off.
It was enough to make him feel like a leper, a man who would stigmatize anyone who had the bad luck to be connected with him. "I would worry that having me for a father would profoundly affect our daughter's life in a very negative way," says Frey. "It's not a great feeling. I was worried she wouldn't get into pre-school anywhere because of me." Going back to drugs or drinking was a constant temptation. Every day he would think, "It would be great to just get bombed. It would be great to go to sleep for a week. It would be great to just not feel anything," recalls Frey. When the urge got especially acute, he reached out to friends. His old friend Billy Hult recalls one such day. "He said to me, Wow, I really feel like taking a drink today, and I said to him, Well, you don't—and I said it kind of firmly, and then he just kind of paused, and I said to him, you know, Is Maya there? Do you want me to come by?" Frey didn't give in to temptation. "A lot of people would have been happy if I had gone back, if I had started drinking or using drugs. I wasn't going to give anybody the pleasure of that."
To his relief, many readers offered their support by e-mail or when they bumped into him on the street, and he still had a handful of close friends who stood by him. "You offer someone distractions and try to get them out of the hell [they're in] for a little bit," says Josh Kilmer-Purcell. But the collective Schadenfreude of the New York media and publishing worlds proved too cruel to tolerate. Frey found solace in opposite directions—Hollywood and Europe. Though the movie plans for A Million Little Pieces had been dropped in the wake of the scandal, Tony Scott, who'd hired him to write a screenplay about Hells Angels, had no intention of backing out of that deal. Frey had an assignment. Now all he needed was somewhere to be productive, a place where he wouldn't be reminded of his loathsomeness. In March 2006, he took some friends up on an offer to come to the South of France and use their house. His stay there with his family provided him with temporary calm. He says, "It was nice to be James Frey, husband, father, guy writing a movie, instead of James Frey, notorious author."
When Frey returned to New York two months later, however, nothing there had changed. Numerous lawsuits were still hanging over his head (most eventually would be folded into a class-action suit that was settled by Frey and Random House in May 2007 for $2.35 million), and his world was still out of control. He soon learned that there was one world he could control—the one he could make up at his computer. "When my world was collapsing around me in so many ways, the machine was a great comfort." Frey zeroed in on the Los Angeles novel that had been brewing in his head for a year. Like an addict getting through recovery moment to moment, he started to write "one word at a time, one sentence at a time, one paragraph at a time."
Tough Guys Don't Dance
By the summer of 2006, Frey fell in with Glenn Horowitz, a 52-year-old rare-book dealer, who represented a sliver of the literary world that viewed him with special interest and sympathy. Social and well connected, Horowitz, with his business partner, John McWhinnie, has been the archivist and seller of some of the papers of Norman Mailer, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, Cormac McCarthy, and Don DeLillo, among others. "You could just see this was someone who could use a new friend," recalls Horowitz. "And I was very admiring of the fact that, despite this not inconsiderable trauma that he was experiencing and would experience and at considerable financial expense, he was still at work writing a novel." One day in Frey's den in Amagansett, after looking through boxes of Frey's papers, Horowitz offered to archive them. The moist environment was unsound, Horowitz explained. More important, Frey had a story that Horowitz wanted to save—a remarkable rise and fall in the age of celebrity and reality TV. He also saw that there was more to Frey's story than what met the eye.
Through Horowitz and McWhinnie, Frey met two other artists of the rebel vein who not only accepted Frey for what he had done, but gave him their stamp of approval. The first was Richard Prince, whose "re-photographs" of advertisements have prompted much debate about what constitutes art, and who has played with changing personas, even faking an interview with British writer J. G. Ballard about his life. In January 2007, Frey was with Prince at his house in upstate New York when Prince began flipping through a recent issue of New York magazine. "I had been named the most highbrow despicable person of 2006 on the Approval Matrix," Frey recalls. "And Richard looked, and he was like, 'Dude! Check this out!' And I sort of went, 'Oh, dude.' He was like, 'What do you mean? That's great! I wish they would call me that.' " Redemption was possible—at least for the sort of person who'd dreamed of being the next Henry Miller.
And then there was Norman Mailer—to Frey, the torchbearer of the rebel-genius tradition. A year before Mailer died, Horowitz took Frey to lunch at the writer's Brooklyn Heights town house. Frey's hands were shaking as he entered the house, famous for its endless view of the East River and Manhattan skyline. As the two of them recount, Mailer stood and introduced himself: "So, you're the guy that caused all these problems. I wish I'd known you at the time that the problems began. If you would have called me, I would have explained to you how to get through all this mess!"
They sat down on the couch and talked about memoirs, a genre, Mailer said, that was by definition corrupt: "That's why a writer writes his memoir, to tell a lie and create an ideal self. Everything I've ever written is memoir, you know, is an inflated vision of the ideal Platonic self."
Mailer welcomed Frey into the elite circle of bad boys. "For 40 years they stomped on me. Now you have the privilege of being stomped on for the next 40 years." And he compared them both to boxers. "Every fight, boxers prepare to take their opponent's best shot. You should prepare to take huge shots every time out because they'll never stop The work has been controversial enough that you're never going to be like one of the guys. You're never going to be one of the ones that the newspapers love or that wins awards. [You're] always going to take a beating publicly. And that's endurable if you just focus on what matters, which is the work."
The afternoon was unforgettable for Frey. "It made me feel like, Yeah, I'm going to be fine. I can deal with this." Indeed, nine months later, he finished Bright Shiny Morning. For Frey, the manuscript was proof of his ability, once again, to triumph over adversity, however self-inflicted it may be. "The situation I went through was as difficult as any situation I've ever gone through in my life," he says. "I was able to endure it. And deal with it. The same way I've endured and dealt with other situations."
Horowitz, turning out to be something of a fairy godfather, introduced Frey to an agent, a top agent, actually, Eric Simonoff, of Janklow & Nesbit, who was compelled by Frey's mix of machismo and bigheartedness—both in person and on the page—and wanted to take him on as a writer. Frey warned Simonoff that he was "a fucking pariah"—was he sure he wanted to represent him? But Simonoff didn't see why Frey shouldn't be given another chance.
After all, what Frey had done wasn't so unprecedented. Lillian Hellman's 1973 Pentimento included an account of a lifelong friendship with someone who later came forward to say they never met. Dave Pelzer's 1993 best-selling memoir, A Child Called It, about the abuse he suffered as a boy, was disputed by family members. According to an upcoming biography, Bennett Cerf's best-selling memoir about founding Random House, At Random, is filled with fabrications. Since the Frey scandal, David Sedaris has been accused of, and admitted to, making up some of his work for humorous effect. These were big books or big authors. Who knows how many other, smaller memoirs have had similar fabrications?
It now turns out that it was something of an open secret in the publishing world that the industry had been complicit in the scandal, and that Frey, though he was not an innocent, had become a whipping boy. HarperCollins publisher Jonathan Burnham, who ultimately bought Bright Shiny Morning, for an estimated $1.5 million, says today, "There was a gap between what people were saying in public and in print, and what they were saying to each other privately. Whatever the complicated issues were in the case of A Million Little Pieces, there were feelings of concern and surprise that such fury was being visited on this one particular case, where we all know that the genre of memoir is a uniquely strange one, where many writers have played with the truth or reshaped the truth or have their own vision of the truth which can never be judged in any final court. We, as a community, were a little perplexed by it." Even book editors with no personal stake in Frey feel it was overblown. Judith Clain, who has edited numerous memoirs at Little, Brown, says, "I could see how he got swept away. I also thought that he had a big ego and he did get swept up in himself. But on every level I thought that it got distorted." Where were such voices at the time, when so many articles were being written about Frey? Editors, as a general rule, keep their heads down, Clain says. She concedes, however, that "it's probably true that no one wants to alienate Oprah."
Though the publishing world may be softening toward Frey, the media have not lost their taste for hating him. He continues to be everyone's favorite punch line—however outlandish the comparison may be. When it was revealed in February that the author of a Holocaust-survival memoir was a Gentile and spent the war safely in Brussels, she was called the new Frey. When the author of a memoir about L.A. gang life turned out to be a nice middle-class suburban white girl, she was the new new Frey.
At this point, Frey has built up his armor against the media. He says the last two years have put his life into perspective: "The entire experience was profoundly humbling. I realized how lucky I am to have a wife that stayed with me through that. It was awesome. To have this beautiful little girl who whenever things got really bad and I saw her smile or laugh or do something she hadn't done the day before, it made everything else irrelevant. To have friends that were totally there, to have a family that was totally there I'll never take any of those things for granted ever again."
Would he do anything differently? Frey doesn't apologize for his literary interest in screwing with the rules, and screwing with truth and reality, but he says, "My mistake [with A Million Little Pieces]—and it was a huge mistake—was not to be explicit about what I did and how and why." Then again, he now has a legacy. "The enduring myth of the American memoir as a precise form is bullshit and needed to go away," he says. "Although the experience was a nightmare, if I started the process of ending that myth, I'm perfectly fine with it. I've said all along that I never wanted my books published as memoirs." It's nice to be the dad who lends a helping hand at the pre-school, but it's hard to let go of the boy who breaks the rules.
Evgenia Peretz is a Vanity Fair contributing editor.


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Important note: following the below steps at your own risk only. This setup was just a test to play around with the functionality and can cause serious consequences because it exposes your system to potential intruders and other undesired situations. Please consult additional resources to find out about the associated risks and how to mitigate them correctly.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) have found a lot of followers in the Hyperion space. A few of the many benefits are flexibility to start up multiple instances within mere seconds, usage as a service reduces costs, hardware maintenance through Amazon, save snapshots of images to test changes and revert back if needed, and many more.
Development of Hyperion applications on the cloud has gained a lot of trust, especially as it makes it possible to jump start an implementation while the IT department might still be in the purchasing and setup cycle. We've been using this in various situations at MindStream Analytics. A common approach to access servers on the cloud is via Remote Desktop connection, however, by default there is a limitation to only 2 connections at a time. With more than 2 developers or testers, this will obviously cause difficulties. A great way to get around this is to open up the ports for the web components of Hyperion to access applications via the Internet browser on the local computer and thus no need to use a Remote Desktop Connection.
Four configuration steps are required:
1) Create Security Group
2) Open ports for applications to be published
3) Launch instance and assign security group
4) Configure Windows Firewall to open ports
Create Security Group
Security Groups can be maintained on the EC2 tab. They appear underneath the Network & Security section.
Create a Security Group which you will be using for the Hyperion Server.
Open ports for applications to be published
In order to access applications on the Amazon Cloud from a local web browser or other client tool, the relevant ports need to be opened. This can be done as part of a Security Group. Switch to the Inbound tab where you will see the following screen.
As a first step we will grant access to the server for a Remote Desktop connection (RDP). Select "RDP" from the drop-down list, then click on "Add Rule" and "Apply Rule Changes". This will assign the rule to the Security Group and thus opens the RDP port for access from the outside world.
Now add two more rules: HTTP (port 80) and a Custom TCP rule for port 19000 (which is commonly used for Workspace). Our Security Group now looks like this:
Launch instance and assign security group
Now launch your Hyperion image on a new instance and assign the created Security Group during the configuration process of the Request Instance Wizard.
Configure Windows Firewall to open ports
Log on to the server and configure the Windows Firewall to accept connections at the required ports. This can be done via Control Panel > Windows Firewall. Click on Change Settings.
The Windows Firewall Settings window comes up. Switch to the Exceptions tab and click on "Add Port…"
Type in a meaningful name and the port number (protocol is usually TCP):
Verify that the Exception has been added.
This is all that needs to be done from a setup perspective. Go to the Instances screen and click on your running instance. The lower section of your screen lists information to determine the IP address through which the server is available.
In the example you can see above, the server can be reached via IP address 126.96.36.199. If Hyperion Workspace is listening at port 19000, you can access it from any browser at http://18.104.22.168:19000/workspace/index.jsp .
Note: the instance I started up for this blog post has been shutdown again. Therefore, the above URL will not work (unless someone else is using the exact same server instance with the same address, has Hyperion running and opened the ports). Be aware that a setup like this has advantages and disadvantages. Especially if you are dealing with sensitive information on the cloud server, you should find out about the risks of using publicly available servers.
Feel free to contact us at MindStream Analytics to help you answer specific questions about your needs around Hyperion on the Cloud


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Ryan Bonser is a member of the Minnesota Section of the Professional Golf Association of America. Ryan Bonser has taught golf sence 2000 in Rochester, MN. He has completed both Phase 1 and 2 of The First Tee Coach Training program. Ryan has improved the golf games of players ranging in age from 5 to 91.
Welcome to the 2017 golf season.
My 2011 season high lights the first I need to add is Larry B getting a Hole in one out at Dodge Center Golf Club!!!
As a former Special Olympics Coach, Ryan helped his players take first and second place at the regional tournament. Ryan was also an instructor at the week long Nike Sports Camp for six years. He also taught high school-aged kids on a local golf team. In the 2006 season, one of his students placed fourth in the Minnesota State High School Tournament.
Ryan truly loves all aspects of golf, but he takes the most pleasure in teaching and helping students master their swings. He enjoys breaking down a difficult sport to facilitate students in developing their game. His patience and teaching ability has helped several students overcome their frustrations to enjoy the game with friends and family.
I would like to tell you a little about my 2009 season. I had a very exciting year! With the birth of my first child, the excitement never stops. I also joined the Get Golf Ready Program based out of the World Golf Village. Only eight golf courses or learning centers in Minnesota take part in this program. Because I am involved in this program, I was contacted by the PGA and they wanted to do a story on it. This was my first professional magazine publication in PGA Magazine; it was in October of 2009. It's not every day I get a call asking to do an interview about my teaching programs. I was very excited! I was also invited to go up to the PGA Championship to talk about what I do but due to my work at Di
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Jan Walen, an Anabaptist martyr, who (as can be stated on the basis of official records) was burned at the stake on 15 April 1534 at The Hague in the Netherlands, with Cornelis Luytgensz and Dirk Gerritz, all three from Krommeniedijk, Dutch province of North Holland. They had been among the Anabaptists who sailed from Amsterdam en route to Münster, but were arrested at Bergklooster. Van Braght (Mart. Mir. D 13, E 424) erroneously states that this execution took place in 1527, and in another place (Mart. Mir. D 62, E 464) an account is found of the martyrdom in 1542 of a number of Anabaptists from Krommenierdijk. Obviously, as K. Vos has shown (DB 1917, 168-70), all these accounts belong together, Jan Echtwerken, Jan Dirksz, and Jan Walen being one and the same person.
Braght, Thieleman J. van. Het Bloedigh Tooneel of Martelaers Spiegel der Doops-gesinde of Weereloose Christenen, Die om 't getuygenis van Jesus haren Salighmaker geleden hebben ende gedood zijn van Christi tijd of tot desen tijd toe. Den Tweeden Druk. Amsterdam: Hieronymus Sweerts, …, 1685. Part II: 13, 62.
Braght, Thieleman J. van. The Bloody Theatre or Martyrs' Mirror of the Defenseless Christians Who Baptized Only upon Confession of Faith and Who Suffered and Died for the Testimony of Jesus Their Saviour . . . to the Year A.D. 1660. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1951: 424, 464. Available online at: http://www.homecomers.org/mirror/index.htm.
Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1917): 168-170.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. "Jan Walen (d. 1534)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1957. Web. 24 May 2019. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Jan_Walen_(d._1534)&oldid=108316.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. (1957). Jan Walen (d. 1534). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 24 May 2019, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Jan_Walen_(d._1534)&oldid=108316.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, p. 85. All rights reserved.
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Like I said last time, this update adds a new class!
As far as the next update, I'm thinking about a few things and have some on my list that I could get to. I may just go through suggestions and submissions and do an update with those. I am also looking into ways to fix the flash step issue, which may involve programming a 'central' control server to send reboots/etc and launch new dreamdaemons as necessary.
New Class - Boxer, a new promoted class for Martial Artist, has been added.
- Adjusted Moonlight Mercy's bullet animation and added a new instant kill animation, courtesy of Snake.
- Magic Gunner's Magnet Shell's Overcharge effect LV is now equal to High Charge Power * 1 (instead of *2).
- Priest's Malmelo now has a 3 round cooldown.
- Lantern Bearer's Phoenix now has a 3 round cooldown.
- Bonder's Healing Discharge now has a 2 round cooldown.
- Engineer's Deploy Medibot now has a 3 round cooldown.
- Chun's Fire Jet's cinder tiles now have a LV equal to 50% of the user's Fire ATK.
- Darkwood monsters now spawn in Castle themed dungeons.
- WIL granted by Sanguine Crest is now reflected in your maximum FP total both in and out of battle (so your maximum FP doesn't change between the two.)
- Extend stat checks are now cached (doesn't affect players but if you notice inconsistencies let me know).
- The diminishing stat cap is now equal to 40+user's racial base+(1 per every level beyond 60)+(Legend Extension effects that boost the stat).
* Bug Reports
- Superiority was applying to allies.
- Ritual scrolls were worthless, Murai wise.
- Headless Knights had the head monster tag.
- Fire Jet and Acid Jet had an incorrect line length.
- The Darkwood map would let you walk off into the darkness.
- Pumpkins couldn't be gathered from.
- Animated Swords created by players were fighting with their fists.
- Miracle Fertilizer was causing plants to disappear on hour change.
- Inate skills for NPCs were not working properly in some cases.
- Asha's respec conversation topic wasn't being displayed.
- War Cry was not working properly with the War Paint religion status.
- Status effect immunity was not protecting against subtypes of that status (for example, Silence Immunity wasn't protecting from Strangle Silence).
- The crate for the Lost Heritage quest wasn't spawning.
- Dagger Dance wasn't working properly with Crash Potions.
- The letter on the ground in the old iron mine wasn't readable if you double clicked on it.
- Hellspike wasn't doing any damage when used by player characters.
- Toggling your alias was not changing your name for things like mouse-overs or right-click menus.
- An issue where anim datums were being stored indefinitely in certain cases has been corrected. (This necessitated a change to Focus, the monster skill, and the Redtail's Fortune Level mechanic. If an issue arises with those, please let me know.)
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In fall, the early settlers of the real Plimouth settlement would have been busy preparing for winter, digging root vegetables into cellars, salting fish caught in the remaining long days and checking the seams on their thatched roofs before the winter storms. Today, a visit to the Plimouth Plantation (a recreated village replete with role playing settlers and native guides) is like a jaunt into another time, when a handful of brave souls clung to a stern version of Protestantism on the edge of a clear blue bay.
Wandering the paths of the faux settlement, you meet men and women who "live" there and who talk directly to you, answering questions simple and complex about their journey to the new world, their motivations and daily life. The pastor told us all about the hardships, 12 years spent in Holland gathering funds followed by an epic sail across the Atlantic where nearly half the pilgrims died. He told us how they grew corn to trade with "Indians" who came from a northern place called "Maine." These native people, he explained, lived in a place with a short growing season and counted on trade of furs for corn to make it through the winter. The furs were valuable back in England, so the Pilgrims traded them for olive oil, salt, gunpowder and many other staples that they did not have in the new world.
We explored the little clapboard houses inside and out. I was especially taken with a lovely garden, filled with rhubarb and chard and the old fashioned split rail fencing that kept a big black cow grazing in a meadow nearby. It is hard to imagine the isolation of this little community perched on the edge of such a vast wilderness, so separate from their own culture. Many could not handle it and returned to England, we were told. Others were seditious and banished from the community. With so few people, it is no wonder petty issues had the possibility to become major problems.
The occupant of this little house was a feisty lass who told us about pub life in England and all the sacrifice she had made to come to the new world. Her authentic dirt floor, open hearth and simple wooden furniture made for a setting that Vermeer would have painted, and I was pleased how the iPhone captured the limited light from a small window:
Up at the top of the hill is a meeting hall, a church I guess, with a gorgeous view out over Plymouth Bay and the lighthouse in the distance. Built with cannon on the top, it is a fitting metaphor for the fire and brimstone church style of the rigid Pilgrims. This young woman told us she had just been married and was hoping to have children soon, if the Lord saw fit:
Around the bend, Native Peoples dressed in period garb work and play in a series of tents. The "winter house" of the Wampanoag looks like this:
Inside, a Wampanoag descendant sat on furs, weaving a colorful ribbon. The Native Peoples do not role play; rather they describe native lifestyles and culture when asked. There is a sign on the way in reminding visitors to be respectful. Some of the suggestions were so obvious as to be insulting (don't "war whoop" or call someone "chief" or "squaw" — I mean please, who would do that?) But others are more subtle, for example, don't ask what percentage native the people you see here are. OK, that's fair.
We learned that Wampanoags spoke an Algonquin language that had common roots for all Native Peoples on the eastern seaboard. That they had a varied diet of meat in winter, fish in summer plus corn and many other vegetables both cultivated and gathered. That they made canoes from hollowed out tree trunks and larger vessels with pontoons that they used to catch whales off the tip of Cape Cod. Once captured, they would plug the blowhole of the whale and the whale would swell with air so they could drag it inland.
We learned that they lived in a simpler structure in summer, usually close to water they could fish but come winter they moved inland 10 miles or so to larger structures covered with bark. Around the outside of the tent were beds made of saplings lashed together and covered with many layers of fur. Whole families lived together this way, with a cook fire in the middle and a hole in the roof to let the smoke out.
Fall is the perfect time to step back in time and spend a few hours in the 17th century. Plimouth Plantation is about a forty minute drive from Woods Hole, and offers fun for the whole family.


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We have yet another story of a killer whale that died while serving time at Sea World.
I called it serving time because the small enclosure tanks would be like a prison cell. The whales have no freedom. Their tanks do not let them have the movement like they would in the wild.
Sea World is loosing whales as fast as ever here lately. Makes me wonder what has changed. Maybe the news of these deaths are just hitting main stream media much more because so many people are tired of seeing the animals kept in captivity? To make it worse, the animal trade industry is getting so much attention from all animal advocates that any death is being made into a huge public out cry?
You can see the story about Kalina the Killer Whale that died Monday at Another Killer Whale Dies at Sea World. It is a shame to be loosing these animals and not knowing why.


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Asian TPP nations pledge to save trade deal
Asian Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal nations pledge to salvage the 12-nation agreement after a U.S. exit. Samantha Vadas reports.
With the Trans-Pacific Partnership in disarray after the U.S.'s exit it's now up to the 11 remaining members to try and salvage a deal. The door is open for other Asia-Pacific countries to fill the void and Australia is looking to the one superpower that was specifically excluded from the original plan. "We already have a China-Australia Free Trade Agreement. Certainly there is the potential for China to join the TPP," Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Tuesday (January 24). Whether Beijing wants to oblige is a different question. It's already got its own vision for different trade pacts with China at the heart. And complicating things even more, vital TPP member Japan is determined that any major regional trade deal must be set up as a counter-balance to China's rise. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday saying he's determined to stress the importance of sticking to the original plan. "We believe that President Trump is aware of the importance of free and fair trade. We will continue to calmly seek his understanding for TPP's strategic significance," he said. For it's part, Australia isn't giving up on a U.S.-backed TPP just yet - saying there's a chance that America could change its position over time. One thing's clear right now though, it looks like China holds practically all the cards for free trade in Asia-Pacific.


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Gun Barrel City, Texas, Encourages Residents to … Own a Gun
Gun Barrel City located in Henderson County is living up to its name by passing a resolution encouraging homeowners to own a firearm.
The city council recently approved the measure that urges residents to have a weapon in their home, "together with ammunition."
There are exemptions included in the resolution, such as for those with a mental disability or who "conscientiously oppose" having a weapon.
The city's logo (shown at left) features two revolvers and the motto is, "We'll shoot straight with you."
Mayor Paul Eaton said Wednesday the vote was meant to support the constitutional right to own a firearm. He says dozens of responses to the vote have been overwhelmingly positive.
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OpenTracker+ (OT+ or OT1+) - APRS Tracker from Argent Data Systems.
The OpenTracker+ is an APRS tracker that can also receive data from other stations and has waypoint output capability. Use the OT1+ to report position, course and speed, time, and altitude when connected to a GPS -- not just from a vehicle, but anything, including a bicycle, weather balloon, or backpack. Or, use the OT1+ to encode and transmit data from a supported weather station. The tracker will also report telemetry from its onboard temperature and voltage sensors, and an external counter input can report a cumulative total of counter events or the number of events since last transmission. The OpenTracker+ replaces the OT1x and OT1m series. The OT1+ added waypoint output capability, increased program space and RAM, and a simplified hardware design. Available as a kit or fully assembled.
- APRS telemetry output
- Fixed location operation for telemetry with no GPS
- NMEA waypoint output
- Dual configuration profiles with flexible selection
- On-board temperature and voltage sensors
- Supports 1-wire and Peet Bros WX stations
- Drive an external relay for radio power control
- Supports 1200 and 300 baud AFSK operation
- PSK31 support for PropNet^31 Operation
- Base91 compressed positions with 1-foot resolution
- SmartBeaconing™ for adaptive beacon rates
- Digital event counter, cumulative or since last transmission
- Free firmware upgrades directly from the website, no special hardware needed
- Source code released under Modified BSD license
- Voltage: DC 6.5 to 28V
- Current: 8 mA idle, 20 mA transmitting. Max 200 mA @ 5 V available for GP
- Modes: 1200 bps AFSK (send and receive). 300 bps AFSK, PSK31 (send only)
- Radio Connector: DB9 female (Kantronics pinout)
- Serial Connector: DB9 male (RS-232 DTE configuration)
- Dimensions: 2.5" x 1.6" x 0.75"
- GPS Interface: NMEA in/out
- Kit - 30$
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The Master of Mystical Song
The way in which Sheikh Hamza Shakkur could lull his listeners into a trance-like state by grace of his singing alone had to be seen to be believed. He possessed not only vocal talent, but also a powerful, sonorous, and all-embracing voice capable of playing counterpart to an orchestra and filling an entire room.
His musical intuition was borne of a spiritual power that drew listeners into the mystical tradition of Sufism. His bass voice with its richly rounded timbre made him one of the most famous singers in the Arab world.
The basics of spiritual singing
Hamza Shakkur was born in Damascus in 1944. At an early age he received a thorough training in song and Koran recitation according to the Syrian tradition. His father was muezzin at the local mosque. He himself taught little Shakkur the basics of spiritual song. At the age of ten, Hamza Shakkur assumed this task, thereby becoming his father's successor.
Although he never learned to read music, he built up a repertoire comprising thousands of songs by learning lyrics and melodies by heart.
Among the mystics of the Sufi community he began studying the hymns of mystical love, a form of expression that is still highly respected in Arab society. Having studied the entire spiritual repertoire of Islam he was in much demand as a singer. He also made numerous recordings for the radio.
Later he became choirmaster of the Munshiddin (reciters) at the Great Mosque of Damascus and performed at official religious ceremonies there, which made him immensely popular in Syria. The Great Mosque in Damascus is one of the most sacred sites in Islam.
The community of "whirling dervishes"
Shakkur belonged to the traditional Damascus school of song. He felt a close bond with the Mevlevi Order, the community of "whirling dervishes", and strove to preserve the continuity of their repertoire. This community is known for its whirling dance ritual, the epitome of Eastern mysticism. Dressed in wide-swinging, bell-shaped white skirts and camel-coloured felt hats, they whirl to classical music and song.
Sufis believe that life is eternal circular motion out of which everything arises and in which everything exists and passes. Their ritual dance symbolises the spiritual source of Sufi mysticism. If the dancer goes into a trance, he experiences himself as suspended in God's love, as part of this eternal divine movement.
"When the heart jumps for joy and pure delight, and excitement culminates, usual forms disappear and the dancer finds himself in a state that is neither dance nor physical pleasure, but one where the soul is elevated," wrote the great Sufi Master Ibn Taymiya in the thirteenth century.
Trance and meditation through song
This mystical brotherhood met in lodges known as zawiya, and preserved the original songs, which were divided into suites (waslats), modes (maqamat) and rhythms.
The Great Umayyad Mosque in Damascus has its own specific vocal repertoire in which sacred suites are known as nawbat, a term originally used for secular songs that were written in Arab Andalusia and became known there as muwashahat.
A singer such as Sheikh Hamza Shakkur, typically accompanied by a choir, took from the repertoire of the mosque the mention of the divine names (dhikr) and the birth of the prophet (mawlid) and chanted them in a powerfully expressive manner, rigorously mobilising rhythm to support his song. In this way, he succeeded in gradually putting the gathered listeners into a trance or a state of meditation.
Bridge to the West
In 1983 Hamza Shakkur and Frenchman Julien Weiss founded the Al Kindi ensemble, with which he succeeded in introducing this music to Europe and America.
The ensemble specialised in music from Arab-Andalusia and its repertoire covered both religious and secular themes. Its interpretations were heavily steeped in tradition. Weiss created an Arab takht ensemble with the Arab lute, oud, the ney, the kanun, and a variety of rhythm instruments.
He selected songs with very diverse rhythms and melodies that impressively demonstrated Hamza Shakkur's musical phrasing and improvisational talent. Particular emphasis was placed on preserving the unity of the sequence of songs and their musical mode as well as on playing songs in the traditional manner.
Bringing the human soul closer to God
Sheikh Hamza Shakkur was a religious man and had a religious title. Nevertheless he sang not only religious but also secular songs. He followed the tradition of the Sufi community for whom music is an integral part of religious ceremonies and the medium through which the human soul can come closer to the divine.
Shakkur preferred the vocal improvisation of the layali, mouwashahat, and mawal. He mastered the art of Arab emotional singing, tarab, like few others and understood how to adjust intuitively to the emotions of each audience in order to captivate and enthral it.
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Discography (Selection)
- Sufi Songs of Damascus (Audio CD Long Distance - 2000)
- Takasim & Sufi Chants From Damascus (World Network 27) (Audio CD - 2006)
- Le Chant de Les Derviches Tourneurs de Damas Le Chant du Monde/ Harmonia Mundi (CMT 574112324)
Ensemble Al Kindi
Back to the Roots of Classical Arabic Music
Founded by French musician Julien Weiss, the Ensemble Al Kindi has devoted itself to classical Arabic chamber music, fusing Arabic-Andalusian, Turkish, and Iranian influences. By Suleman Taufiq
The Palestinian Oud Virtuoso Adel Salameh
"Arabic Music Can Be Universal"
The Palestinian oud player and composer Adel Salmeh has performed for the first time in Germany. He spoke with Saleh Diab on the unique nature of the Arabic lute and on the opportunities for musical dialogue
A Soft Form of Islam?
Sufism, Islamic mysticism, enjoys great popularity in the West, including in Germany. One of the reasons for this is that Sufism seems far removed from orthodox Islam. This is only half right, as Inga Gebauer discovers


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Oil and gas executives are bracing for a fight this year against an unlikely foe — a pro-business Republican governor.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich wants to raise taxes on the oil and gas industry so he can lower the income taxes Ohioans pay.
Kasich's plan, which he says will benefit small businesses and individuals, would hit high-producing "fracked" wells hardest. But Ohio oil and gas producers say it could sink smaller companies before they have a chance to tap the technology, and stifle production in an industry that has potential to produce explosive job growth.
A recent industry- supported study estimated unconventional drilling supports 38,000 jobs including 4,210 direct jobs in Ohio. That number is expected to balloon to 143,000 by 2020 and to 266,000 by 2035, according to research by Information Handling Services, Inc., a Colorado-based company that analyzes data for energy, security and environmental industries.
Kasich introduced the tax increases in February 2012 along with a dozen other priorities for state lawmakers to consider. Republicans in the Ohio House of Representatives axed the plan, saying it needed a thorough vetting.
Industry leaders and analysts criticized Kasich's revenue estimates and what they called minimal savings to most Ohio taxpayers.
Kasich told reporters last month the tax plan will be back this year, although details won't be known until he unveils the plan and his two-year budget in early February.
The goal of the severance-tax plan is to lower income-tax rates and encourage business growth, especially among small business owners who file company taxes as individuals.
Ohio oil and gas producers say the plan flies in the face of what Kasich is trying to accomplish, and it's too early to tax a budding industry that has no guarantee it will be profitable enough to generate the revenue estimated by Kasich officials.
The Ohio Oil and Gas Association represents more than 3,000 people and companies exploring, producing and developing oil and natural gas. President Tom Stewart said most members are Ohio small businesses.
Stewart said increased activity in eastern Ohio has been good for counties hit hard by the recession, and Kasich won't get much support from farm bureaus, chambers of commerce and other businesses in the region.
"Here you have a part of Ohio that's been an economic desert in decades and now they've finally gotten their opportunity, and the first thing that comes out of a Republican governor's mouth is let's tax it and redistribute?" Stewart said.
The association has lobbied hard against the tax plan saying it will drive the oil and gas industry away.
Kasich doesn't buy it, however.
"Every single time I meet with the industry privately, you know what they say? They say we should take this [tax plan] and run. But then they get their lobbyists and all these other people and they obscure the issue," the governor said.
Ohio last revised its oil and gas tax policy in 2010 under Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland. Oil is taxed at 20 cents per barrel and natural gas is taxed at 3 cents per 1,000 cubic feet, equivalent to 1 percent at today's price.
The revenue pays for regulation of all oil and gas wells in the state and geographical surveys used by private companies and the government.
Kasich's plan from last year levies a smaller rate (1.5 percent instead of 4 percent) on wells during the first year of their production, while they recover initial drilling costs. After that, wells drilled horizontally would pay 4 percent on oil and natural-gas liquids.
Horizontal wells use a procedure called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to extract oil and gas. Fracking involves injecting sand, water and chemicals underground to fracture the earth, allowing oil and gas to escape through the fractures.
The proposed increase is lower than taxes in neighboring Kentucky, West Virginia and Michigan. Pennsylvania, which shares the Utica and Marcellus shales with Ohio, does not levy a severance tax but drillers pay an impact fee per well, changing with inflation.
In 2012, Pennsylvania drillers paid a $50,000 fee per horizontal well and $10,000 for shallow wells, generating more than $200 million for local governments across the state.
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Forty years after the Stonewall riots sparked the gay rights movement, President Barack Obama hosts an historic reception for LGBT activists and their families to honor LGBT Pride and the 40th Stonewall anniversary. The speech, carried live on CNN and other networks, marks the first time a sitting president has given a live televised speech on LGBT issues.
The President, who has been criticized by many LGBT rights advocates for inaction on his many campaign promises, says his Administration has made some progress on behalf of gay Americans and will do more. Full remarks AFTER THE JUMP:
"I know that many in this room don't believe that progress has come fast enough, and I understand that," Mr. Obama said at a reception for LGBT Pride Month at the White House. "It's not for me to tell you to be patient anymore than it was for others to counsel patience to African-Americans who were petitioning for equal rights a half-century ago."
"But I say this: We have made progress," the president continued. "And we will make more. And I want you to know that I expect and hope to be judged not by words, not by promises I've made, but by the promises that my administration keeps."
Obama spoke about the "movement" created some 40 years ago: "The riots at Stonewall gave way to protests, and protests gave way to a movement, and the movement gave way to a transformation that continues to this day. It continues when a partner fights for her right to sit at the hospital bedside of a woman she loves; it continues when a teenager is called a name for being different and says, 'So what if I am?'; it continues in your work and in your activism, in your fight to freely live your lives to the fullest."
The list of attendees was forwarded by the White House Press Office to Rod 2.0. (Full list AFTER THE JUMP.) Invited guests included openly gay Administration officials such as Export-Import Bank Chairman Fred Hochberg, Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry and Asst. Labor Secretary Mary Beth Maxwell. Leading LGBT advocates such as Human Rights Campaign's Joe Solmonese, and Jarrett Barrios, the new president of Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD).
There were a number of prominent black and Latino LGBTs that should be familiar to Rod 2.0 readers: Phil Wilson, Black AIDS Institute; HRC's Donna Payne; Andre Leon Talley; Connecticut State Rep. Jason Bartlett; Denise Simmons, Mayor of Cambridge, MA; Cornelius Baker, National Black Gay Men's Advocacy Coalition; San Diego City Commissioner Stampp Corbin; actor Wilson Cruz; Bishop Yvette Flunder, City of Refuge United Church of Christ; Earl Fowlkes, International Federation of Black Prides; Lupe Valdez, Dallas County Sheriff; and black Chicago lesbian leaders Mary Morten and Vernita Gray, interviewed in my Advocate cover story on Obama and Hillary Clinton.
An historic occasion and we should be mindful of the progress being made and how much further we have to go. It was also a pleasure to hear Obama allude to the black Civil Rights Movement. The occasion would have been more meaningful if there were more substantive policy initiatives to announce. The guest list was pleasantly diverse ... but very Stonewall 1.5. Online LGBT activists are leading the fight for equality and none were represented. Very out of character with the Facebook, YouTube and BlackBerry-driven White House.
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