text: Faculty of Technology http://dyuthi.cusat.ac.in:80/xmlui/handle/purl/1613 2014-09-01T18:36:53Z Development and microwave characterization of selected biocompatible materials and conducting polymers http://dyuthi.cusat.ac.in:80/xmlui/handle/purl/4695 Development and microwave characterization of selected biocompatible materials and conducting polymers Ullas, Kalappura G; Dr.Mathew, K T The 20th century witnessed the extensive use of microwaves in industrial, scientific and medical fields. The major hindrance to many developments in the ISM field is the lack of knowledge about the effect of microwaves on materials used in various applications. The study of the interaction of microwaves with materials demanded the knowledge of the dielectric properties of these materials. However, the dielectric properties of many of these materials are still unknown or less studied. This thesis is an effort to shed light into the dielectric properties of some materials which are used in medical, scientific and industrial fields. Microwave phantoms are those materials used in microwave simulation applications. Effort has been taken to develop and characterize low cost, eco-friendly phantoms from Biomaterials and Bioceramics. The interaction of microwaves with living tissues paved way to the development of materials for electromagnetic shielding. Materials with good conductivity/absorption properties could be used for EMI shielding applications. Conducting polymer materials are developed and characterized in this context. The materials which are developed and analyzed in this thesis are Biomaterials, Bioceramics and Conducting polymers. The use of materials of biological origin in scientific and medical applications provides an eco-friendly pathway. The microwave characterization of the materials were done using cavity material perturbation method. Low cost and ecofriendly biomaterial films were developed from Arrowroot and Chitosan. The developed films could be used in applications such as microwave phantom material, capsule material in pharmaceutical applications, trans-dermal patch material and eco-friendly Band-Aids. Bioceramics with better bioresorption and biocompatibility were synthesized. Bioceramics such as Hydroxyapatite, Beta tricalcium phosphate and Biphasic Calcium Phosphate were studied. The prepared bioceramics could be used as phantom material representing Collagen, Bone marrow, Human abdominal wall fat and Human chest fat. Conducting polymers- based on Polyaniline, are developed and characterized. The developed materials can be used in electromagnetic shielding applications such as in anechoic chambers, transmission cables etc Department of Electronics, Cochin University of Science and Technology 2013-06-14T00:00:00Z Development of Directionally Adaptive Techniques for Single Image Super-Resolution http://dyuthi.cusat.ac.in:80/xmlui/handle/purl/4684 Development of Directionally Adaptive Techniques for Single Image Super-Resolution Reji, A P; Dr. Tessamma, Thomas Super Resolution problem is an inverse problem and refers to the process of producing a High resolution (HR) image, making use of one or more Low Resolution (LR) observations. It includes up sampling the image, thereby, increasing the maximum spatial frequency and removing degradations that arise during the image capture namely aliasing and blurring. The work presented in this thesis is based on learning based single image super-resolution. In learning based super-resolution algorithms, a training set or database of available HR images are used to construct the HR image of an image captured using a LR camera. In the training set, images are stored as patches or coefficients of feature representations like wavelet transform, DCT, etc. Single frame image super-resolution can be used in applications where database of HR images are available. The advantage of this method is that by skilfully creating a database of suitable training images, one can improve the quality of the super-resolved image. A new super resolution method based on wavelet transform is developed and it is better than conventional wavelet transform based methods and standard interpolation methods. Super-resolution techniques based on skewed anisotropic transform called directionlet transform are developed to convert a low resolution image which is of small size into a high resolution image of large size. Super-resolution algorithm not only increases the size, but also reduces the degradations occurred during the process of capturing image. This method outperforms the standard interpolation methods and the wavelet methods, both visually and in terms of SNR values. Artifacts like aliasing and ringing effects are also eliminated in this method. The super-resolution methods are implemented using, both critically sampled and over sampled directionlets. The conventional directionlet transform is computationally complex. Hence lifting scheme is used for implementation of directionlets. The new single image super-resolution method based on lifting scheme reduces computational complexity and thereby reduces computation time. The quality of the super resolved image depends on the type of wavelet basis used. A study is conducted to find the effect of different wavelets on the single image super-resolution method. Finally this new method implemented on grey images is extended to colour images and noisy images Department of Electronics Cochin University of Science and Technology 2014-04-23T00:00:00Z Radiopacity and Chemical resistance of Elastomer-Barium sulphate nanocomposites with special reference to Natural Rubber, Ethylene Propylene Rubber and Isobutylene Isoprene Rubber http://dyuthi.cusat.ac.in:80/xmlui/handle/purl/4683 Radiopacity and Chemical resistance of Elastomer-Barium sulphate nanocomposites with special reference to Natural Rubber, Ethylene Propylene Rubber and Isobutylene Isoprene Rubber Nisha, Nandakumar; Dr. Philip, Kurian The Human race of our century is in gluttonous search for novel engineering products which led to a skyrocketed progress in research and fabrication of filled polymers. Recently, a big window has been opened up for speciality polymers especially elastomers with promising properties. Among the many reasons why rubbers are widely used in the process industries, three are considered as important. Firstly, rubbers operate in a variety of environments and possess usable ranges of deformity and durability and can be exploited through suitable and more or less conventional equipment design principles. Secondly, rubber is an eminently suitable construction material for protection against corrosion in the chemical plant and equipment against various corrosive chemicals as, acids and alkalies and if property tailored, can shield ionising radiations as X-rays and gamma rays in medical industry, with minimum maintenance lower down time, negligible corrosion and a preferred choice for aggressive corroding and ionising environment. Thirdly, rubber can readily and hastily, and at a relatively lower cost, be converted into serviceable products, having intricate shapes and dimensions. In a century's gap, large employment of flexible polymer materials in the different segments of industry has stimulated the development of new materials with special properties, which paved its way to the synthesis of various nanoscale materials. At nano scale, one makes an entry into a world where multidisciplinary sciences meet and utilises the previously unapproached infinitesimal length scale, having dimension which measure upto one billionth of a meter, to create novel properties. The nano fillers augment the elastomers properties in an astonishing fashion due to their multifunctional nature and unprecedented properties have been exhibited by these polymer-nanocomposites just to beat the shortcomings of traditional micro composites. The current research aims to investigate the possibility of using synthesised nano barium sulphate for fabricating elastomer-based nanocomposites and thereby imparting several properties to the rubber. In this thesis, nano materials, their synthesis, structure, properties and applications are studied. The properties of barium sulphate like chemical resistance and radiopacity have been utilized in the present study and is imparted to the elastomers by preparing composites Department of Polymer Science and Rubber Technology Cochin University of Science and Technology 2013-12-11T00:00:00Z Classification of Mammograms and DW T based Detection of Microcalcification http://dyuthi.cusat.ac.in:80/xmlui/handle/purl/4543 Classification of Mammograms and DW T based Detection of Microcalcification Mini, M G; Dr. Tessamma, Thomas Cancer treatment is most effective when it is detected early and the progress in treatment will be closely related to the ability to reduce the proportion of misses in the cancer detection task. The effectiveness of algorithms for detecting cancers can be greatly increased if these algorithms work synergistically with those for characterizing normal mammograms. This research work combines computerized image analysis techniques and neural networks to separate out some fraction of the normal mammograms with extremely high reliability, based on normal tissue identification and removal. The presence of clustered microcalcifications is one of the most important and sometimes the only sign of cancer on a mammogram. 60% to 70% of non-palpable breast carcinoma demonstrates microcalcifications on mammograms [44], [45], [46].WT based techniques are applied on the remaining mammograms, those are obviously abnormal, to detect possible microcalcifications. The goal of this work is to improve the detection performance and throughput of screening-mammography, thus providing a 'second opinion ' to the radiologists. The state-of- the- art DWT computation algorithms are not suitable for practical applications with memory and delay constraints, as it is not a block transfonn. Hence in this work, the development of a Block DWT (BDWT) computational structure having low processing memory requirement has also been taken up. Department of Electronics, Cochin University of Science And Technology 2004-07-14T00:00:00Z


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6th Arrondissement St Germain des Pres Apartment Rental Photos and Description
2 Bedrooms, 1 Bath, (Sleeps 5)
An apartment with a view on the bridge PONT NEUF, River Seine and Louvre museum
St. Germain des près – Paris 6 – LATIN QUARTER
Once a favorite spot of Ernest Hemingway, this is a very colorful part of the Left Bank. It used to be the hangout for intellectuals and artists, nowadays this Parisian neighborhood has become newly chic. Upscale small stores, international restaurants and art galleries can be found almost everywhere in Paris. For a quieter atmosphere in Paris, wander through the Luxembourg Gardens, or for more shopping, check out Rue de Rennes, where there is much to see. The Rues de Buci, de Seine, Dauphine and Mazarine, and the area between Boulevard St-Germain and the Seine provide perfect examples of Parisian charm: you can find shops and cafes, and busy pubs at night.
Address : 55 quai des Grands Augustins (view on 09 rue Dauphine) Paris 6 - Métro ODEON
2 ROOMS perfect for 2/5people (5 REAL single beds). The apartment airy and light is centrally located very close to Metro station ODEON or PONT-NEUF and a few steps away from Cathedral NOTRE DAME and the river Seine and the youthful area of QUARTER LATIN.
Apart with view of museum LOUVRE and bridge PONT-NEUF, quite charming and cute 60 m² is located on the 1th floor of a building (with elevator + 2 security system).
1 room with 2 single bed (90 cm wide) + large wardrobe + window on a sweet courtyard very quiet +1 little room with 2 single bed (90 cm wide) + 1 window. It has wood floor and 2 windows in the living room + white Sofa (no bed) + white LCD TV + Dvd player + computer PC + Net access + Table and 5 chairs. The US Kitchen is fully equipped with 4 vitro ceramic burners, microwave, a fridge and a coffee machine, washing machine (no dryer) + dining table with 5 chairs. The bathroom has a shower, a sink and mirror, a toilet
5 people (maximum) : Price all in
+ 80 Euros for the cleaning lady the departure day
Linens, taxes, electricity, water and net access is included in the rent.
Deposit security : 500 Euros with your credit card number but no debit if no damages
Keywords: standing Flat Apartment with elevator
- Suitability:
- children welcome
- pets not allowed
I'm a painter and I love my appart
The area is fantastic and I leave at 200 m to welcome you.

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SJ30-2 finally earns FAA type certification
Following a nearly 20-year development program marked by financial and management challenges, technical issues and a fatal crash in 2003, San Antonio-based Sino Swearingen on October 27 received FAR Part 23 type certification for the SJ30-2. Receiving production certification will be the next milestone for the company.
The initial type certification approves the new twin-engine light business jet for day, night, VFR, IFR, single-pilot and "full performance envelope" operations. Remaining approvals, such as certification for flight into known icing and operation of cabin interior systems, will be completed before deliveries, scheduled to start in the first quarter of next year, according to the company.
Sino Swearingen senior manager of flight test Bob Kromer told AIN that by the end of last month, the company would fly an additional 75 hours to complete function and reliability requirements. FAA production certification is also pending.
Wings and fuselages for the SJ30-2 are being built in Martinsburg, W.Va., and will be shipped to San Antonio or final assembly and installation of he Williams International engines, avionics, cabin interior and other systems and components.
At the NBAA Convention last month, the company claimed orders for 295 aircraft (of which about 150 are from distributors) and said all orders are backed by nonrefundable cash deposits
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What's the difference between this product...
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What's the difference between this product and the "waterproofing wax for leather" http://www.backcountry.com/nikwax-creme-waterproofing-wax-for-leather.
Which would be better for a pair of leather gloves?
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Aqueos wax is strictly for smooth, full grain leather footwear. The Waterproofing wax for leather has a few differences. It can be used on wet or dry leather and it comes in a tube so that you can work it into gloves instead of the shoe-applicator in the Aqueous wax. The truth is you can probably use either for your gloves - dependent on whether you prefer a thicker wax creme (waterproofing wax) or a thinner sponge-on treatment (Aqueous wax).
If you're wondering about what you should use on those frilly gloves that you sometimes have sitting on your desk, the answer is fire - you should light them on fire because they are heinous.
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Thanks Mark. Makes sense. I was asking actually asking for the Kinko gloves I've been using for touring. I think they live up to your standards.
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Rokit Brick Lane
Rokit sell a wide range of clothes for both men and women, including a range of knitwear, vintage and second-hand clothing including party-wear, ski jackets, sheepskin jackets and accessories.
A goldmine of vintage treasures, Rokit began in London in 1986, with a market stall in Camden. With the rise of mass-produced, throw-away high street fashion there has been a growing interest and passion for vintage clothing. Rokit accommodates this interest with an authentic and eclectic range of classic but quirky and unique attire.
Rokit offers the individual the opportunity to adopt and indulge in something new and different; you will always find something distinctive and a little bit unusual.
Rokit's vintage clothing is regularly featured in various forms of media, which illustrates the myriad of clothing on offer. Many stylists frequently use Rokit garments and accessories for fashion features in magazines from Vogue to Dazed and Confused to i-D magazine.
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A friend of mine wanted to stop by this vintage shop, so i tagged along and checked it out.
This store is a treasure mine. It was really cool to see all the old vintage clothing, and I could see how these styles are bound to come into style in the States (where I am from). I found a lot of great things for reasonable prices, and the selection here is grand! All the clothing looked...more
Non sono mai stata una grande fan del Vintage ma questo posto mi ha affascinato ed è qui che ho cambiato idea.
All'inizio gli abiti mi sono parsi vecchi straccetti, poi hanno cominciato a brillare ed io ho cominciato a ricordare la musica, il modo di vestire, quello che avevo buttato dall'armadio, i modi di fare e di dire, le abitudini...gli eighties soprattutto.
Qui ho comprato un gilet e per...more
With two shops near each other on Brick Lane, there's certainly something to be found for every knid of vintage lover in Rokit. They offer a wide range of clothing and accessories, from denim jackets to maxi-length prom dresses to what appears to be an extensive men's range to lots of shoes... pretty much everything! They even have reconstructed leather bags on sale, some of which I really...more
Echte Vintage Kleidung!
Die Rokit Shops bieten echte Vintage Kleidung (Second Hande Mode) zu sehr guten und günstigen Preisen an - alles in top Zustand und frisch gereinigt (z.B. Mäntel bereits ab 10 Pfund!).
Das ist die ideale Quelle für ausgefallene Mode oder Restro-Styles, auch eine Menge Pettycoats in allen Größen und Farben gibt es hier zu kaufen. Die Auswahl an verschiedenen Lederjacken...more
Rokit Ltd. is just around the corner from Rough Trade, nestled among a handful of vintage clothing shops. This is the most reasonably priced and casual of the shops.
Inside, the store is crammed full of older style hoodies, t shirts, dresses and accessories. Stuff for geezers and birds.
I found an awesome woolly scarf here which I purchased as a souvenir for a friend. Don't tell my buddy,...more


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San Francisco Bay Area Friday Midday News Roundup
SF: City Leaders Trek Alongside Residents At Walk To Work Day
Many steps were taken during the morning commute today for San Francisco's first Walk to Work Day.
City leaders, including police Chief Greg Suhr, Mayor Ed Lee, many supervisors and the director of the city's Municipal Transportation Agency, joined participants in walking to workplaces throughout the city as part of the event organized by the nonprofit Walk SF.
This morning, Supervisors Katy Tang and London Breed dropped by a hub at Octavia and Hayes streets, where residents stopped on their walks to pick up complimentary coffee, stickers, $2 Clipper cards, and other freebies.
Breed shared her excitement to make Walk to Work Day an annual event similar to the well-known Bike to Work Day, while Tang highlighted walking for health.
"It's easy to forget to walk," Tang said. "We have to make a conscious reminder to ourselves."
Buena Vista Heights resident Mike Baehr was walking this morning from his home to Levi's Plaza where he works on Battery Street. He stopped at the Walk to Work Day booth in Hayes Valley.
"I love walking in San Francisco," he said. "There's always something new to check out."
Former city supervisor Sophie Maxwell, who volunteers with Walk SF, was at Octavia and Hayes streets before heading over to City Hall where a news conference was held this morning.
She touted the health benefits of walking and emphasized that pedestrians are able to take in more of the city, noticing local shops and sights.
Mayor Lee walked along Market Street starting from the Powell BART station before arriving at City Hall.
Lee said using his feet to get around made him feel more connected to the city.
"Walking can be glorious, fun and you learn a lot," he said.
He noted his walk gave him an opportunity to observe revitalization efforts along Market Street and see local businesses serving the community.
"You don't get to see that unless you are walking our streets," he said.
The mayor also announced steps to reduce pedestrian injuries and fatalities as part of the city's pedestrian strategy.
There have been seven pedestrian fatalities in San Francisco so far this year; last year there were 20 pedestrian deaths in the city.
The citywide strategy aims to reduce serious or fatal pedestrian injury incidents by 25 percent by 2016 and by 50 percent by 2021.
Lee laid out plans that include fixing 44 miles of streets, extending crosswalk times for pedestrians, upgrading 13,000 curb ramps in the next 10 years and working with police to enforce laws, such as slower speed limits and not driving under the influence.
"Behaviors won't change unless we enforce laws," Lee said. "We can do things to prevent accidents."
Chief Suhr said pedestrians should feel safe walking through the city, and that motorists need to contribute to safety efforts.
He advised walkers to pay attention and put down cellphones while on the move and reminded motorists to stay focused on the road and be mindful of pedestrians.
"Get out and enjoy (today) on your ones and twos," he said.
SFMTA director of transportation Ed Reiskin noted that walking is a free method to get around and is a zero-emission activity.
Plus, "you don't have to look for parking," Reiskin said.
"Walking is an extremely important part of making San Francisco the great city it is," he said.
Walk to Work Day participants have opportunities throughout the day to win prizes by posting about their walking experience online.
The day will end with a happy hour celebration for walkers at Show Dogs restaurant at 1020 Market St. starting at 5:30 p.m.
At the restaurant, prize winners will be announced, including the title of "Longest Walking Commute," with the office of Supervisor John Avalos up for contention with their 5-mile trek from Mama Art Cafe in the Excelsior District to City Hall this morning.
Alameda Co.: Boy Killed On Train Tracks Identified As Hayward Resident
A boy who was fatally struck by an Amtrak train in San Lorenzo on Thursday evening has been identified as 15-year-old Austin Price of Hayward, according to the Alameda County coroner's bureau.
Price was struck on the tracks north of the Hayward Amtrak station at about 6:40 p.m., Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari said.
The victim was hit by Train 544 traveling from San Jose to Sacramento, Magliari said.
The 133 passengers and five crewmembers aboard the train were not injured. The collision caused delays of about two hours for Capitol Corridor Amtrak trains.
The tracks in the area are owned by Union Pacific Railroad.
Newark: Lumber Company Employee Taken To Hospital After Chemical Spill
An employee at a lumber company in Newark was taken to the hospital this morning after a drum of an unknown chemical was punctured by a forklift, an Alameda County fire spokeswoman said today.
The fire department was called to Hulbert Lumber Co. at 37500 Cedar Blvd. shortly after 9 a.m. on a report of an employee feeling unwell, department spokeswoman Aisha Knowles said.
The hazardous materials team was called in around 9:25 a.m. after firefighters learned the employee, a 27-year-old man, might have been exposed to a chemical on the site.
The chemical was spilled after a forklift driver accidentally punctured a drum, Knowles said.
The employee was taken to a hospital, but his injuries are not considered life-threatening, Knowles said.
About a dozen employees at the business were evacuated from the site while the hazardous materials team responded.
Late this morning, the team was conducting tests to determine what the chemical is, Knowles said.
No other businesses or homes in the area were evacuated or affected by the incident.
Newark police are also on the scene providing traffic control and backup.
Scotts Valley: School Closed Today After Message Posted On Facebook
Scotts Valley police are investigating an online threat from someone who wrote that they would be "shooting up" Scotts Valley High School, prompting the school to cancel classes today.
A student called police at 10 p.m. Thursday to report reading a post on a Facebook page titled "Scotts Valley High School" that mentioned "shooting up the school," police Lt. John Wilson said.
"If you go to school tomorrow, you will die," the post read, according to police.
Officers contacted school officials, who canceled today's classes at the high school located at 555 Glenwood Drive, Wilson said.
The Facebook page in the school's name is not an official school website and was created by a student who is not considered responsible for the threatening post, Wilson said.
The person who wrote the post used an alias on Facebook and police are tying to trace the location of the message, he said.
Scotts Valley police stationed an officer at the closed high school and also sent officers to an elementary school and a middle school in Scotts Valley that remain open, Wilson said.
Another elementary school in the Scotts Valley area is under the jurisdiction of the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Department, which was made aware of the threat, Wilson said.
This is the first time in memory that Scotts Valley High has been closed because of a threat, Wilson said.
"We've dealt with cyber bullies before," he said. "It's getting to be more common that we'd like it to be."
A message posted on the school's website by Scotts Valley Unified School District Superintendent Penny Weaver said police are working with school officials in investigating the threat.
Weaver said updates will be sent via email to all parents and staff in the district's database and will be posted on its website at www.scottsvalleyusd.org.
Scotts Valley police have asked those with any information about the threat to call the department at (831) 440-5670.
Fremont: Two-Alarm Fire Destroys House; Dog Unaccounted For
A two-alarm fire destroyed a home in Fremont this morning, a fire captain said.
The blaze was reported at 7:04 a.m. at a single-family home at 43106 Continental Drive.
Firefighters arrived to find the house in flames that were also spreading to adjacent residences, fire Capt. Don Linneman said.
The two adults and five children living at the home made it out safe, as did three of the family's dogs.
However, a fourth dog is unaccounted for, Linneman said.
The fire has since been extinguished but "the home is pretty much a total loss," Linneman said.
He said the homes on the left and right of 43106 Continental Drive were also damaged, as was a fence and shed to the rear of the home.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation, Linneman said.
SF: One Injured In Multi-Vehicle Accident Involving F-Line Streetcar
A San Francisco Municipal Railway streetcar rear-ended a car that was involved in a multi-vehicle accident on Market Street this morning, according to an agency spokesman.
The collision, which involved four cars and the Muni F-Market & Wharves streetcar, occurred around 10:20 a.m. on Market Street near Sanchez Street, Muni spokesman Paul Rose said.
The lead vehicle in a line of cars stopped quickly, forcing the three cars behind it to also brake abruptly, Rose said.
The streetcar was unable to stop in time and struck the rear car from behind, he said.
Rose had initially said it was the streetcar that had been rear-ended by another vehicle.
One driver was taken to the hospital, but Rose did not know his condition, nor which car he was in.
No one on the streetcar was injured.
Inbound streetcars and buses on Market Street were being blocked by the incident and streetcar passengers were being rerouted by bus as of late this morning, Rose said.
Affected bus lines are also detouring. Outbound routes are not affected. F-Market passengers are asked to board at Church and Market streets or 17th and Noe streets.
Cloverdale: Ukiah Man Identified As Sawmill Worker Who Died Wednesday
The Sonoma County coroner's office has identified the Cloverdale sawmill worker who died Wednesday when he became entangled in machinery as 43-year-old Raul Samano Lule of Ukiah.
The Cloverdale Fire Protection District responded to the fatal incident at the Redwood Empire Sawmill on McCray Road around 1 p.m. Wednesday, Battalion Chief Rick Blackmon said.
Lule was pronounced dead at the scene.
He was found near a conveyor belt in the main sawmill of the facility, Blackmon said.
The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating the workplace death.
Lule's autopsy was scheduled for this morning.
Martinez: Man To Spend Life In Prison For Kidnapping, Raping Neighbor Boy
A Richmond man who kidnapped and raped a 13-year-old neighbor boy in 2011 will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole, a Contra Costa County Superior Court judge said today.
Jeremiah Jones, 26, received the tentative sentence in a Martinez courtroom this morning and is set to be formally sentenced next month on nine felony counts including kidnapping, sodomy and forced oral copulation.
Prosecutors said that on Feb. 4, 2011, Jones saw the victim skateboarding outside of his father's Richmond home, then grabbed and dragged him to a nearby alleyway where he sexually assaulted him.
Realizing his son was missing, the boy's father went looking for him and found the victim in the middle of the sexual assault, according to Deputy District Attorney Mary Blumberg.
The father brought Jones to the ground and held him there while his son called 911.
A jury convicted Jones in February on all nine counts against him.
Today, he apologized to the victim's family members and to his wife, who were sitting in court.
"There's not much I can say to repair the damage I've done, but I do want to say sorry for my actions," Jones said.
The court also heard from the victim's parents and grandmother, who described the heavy toll the attack has taken on the boy.
"On February 4, 2011, Jeremiah Jones viciously took away my grandson's safe and secure childhood," the victim's grandmother said through a court victim's advocate today.
Since that time, the victim, then an eighth grader, had to move away from his father's home, near where the attack occurred.
He has had trouble sleeping, keeping up his grades and even leaving the house, relatives said.
"As a mother, in my worst nightmares I would've never believed something like this would have happened to my son," the victim's mother told the court.
Judge Charles Burch noted that the nature of the crime, as well as Jones's prior criminal history, which includes a felony conviction, determined the sentence.
The judge is set to formally sentence Jones on May 3.
Santa Rosa: 15-Year Prison Term For Hate Crime Gang Assault
A white supremacist gang member charged with a hate crime in Santa Rosa last August was sentenced to 15 years in prison Thursday in Sonoma County Superior Court.
Aaron Joseph Welch, 26, of Clearlake, pleaded guilty in January to two assault charges and admitted causing great bodily injury to one of the two victims, Sonoma County District Attorney Jill Ravitch said.
Welch also admitted hate crime and gang allegations, Ravitch said.
His 15-year sentence was part of a plea agreement.
Welch and co-defendant Salvatore Bordessa, 32, of Windsor, were charged with assaulting two black men on Aug. 26 near the McDonald's restaurant on Santa Rosa Avenue in south Santa Rosa.
Welch stabbed one of the two victims, who are brothers, in the arm and leg with a knife while yelling racial slurs and "BBH", the initials of the "Barbarian Brotherhood," a white supremacist group, Ravitch said.
Bordessa, 33, of Windsor, also an alleged Barbarian Brotherhood gang member, and Vanessa Michaels, 25, of Novato, were held to answer on assault and gang membership charges after a preliminary hearing this month.
A witness tried to call 911 but Michaels allegedly took away her phone, Ravitch said.
During the preliminary hearing, Welch's attorney Rebecca Linkous said her client is not a member of the white supremacist group and did not make any threats to the girlfriend of one of the victims when she tried to call police.
Michaels dated Welch but broke up with him before the assault, Linkous said.
Bordessa faces 16 years to life in prison if he is convicted of the nine felony counts and hate crime and gang allegations against him.
Bordessa's attorney Joseph Passalacqua told preliminary hearing judge Gary Medvigy the confrontation began because one of the victims challenged Bordessa and Welch about statements they made to a pregnant woman.
San Mateo Co.: Congresswomen Hosts Gun Buyback Event This Saturday
After U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, D-San Francisco/San Mateo, held a successful gun buyback program in San Mateo County earlier this year, another is planned for this weekend.
San Mateo County residents can drop off weapons between 9 a.m. and noon Saturday at the buyback event in South San Francisco at the San Mateo County Superior Court's Northern Branch courthouse, located at 1050 Mission Road.
Participants will receive $100 cash for handguns, shotguns or rifles and up to $200 for assault weapons.
Guns will be accepted with no questions asked, but the weapons must be unloaded, organizers said.
In January, a buyback event at the San Mateo County Event Center in San Mateo netted more than 680 firearms, including 24 assault weapons, 338 handguns and 371 rifles.
About $63,500 was paid out to participants.
Speier will stop by Saturday's event as part of her political efforts to curb gun violence in Bay Area communities.
Following the deadly massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., last December, Speier joined the congressional Gun Violence Prevention Task Force.
The Democratic group put together policy recommendations for comprehensive gun control in February, including stricter background checks, limits to ammunition and magazine purchases, and bans on assault weapons.
A modified package of gun reform laws is making its way through Congress this week.
The congresswoman will be accompanied on Saturday by police chiefs from several San Mateo County cities.
Those seeking more information about the buyback program are asked to call (650) 829-3700.
Watsonville: Three Teen Boys Arrested During In Progress Burglary
Three teen boys were arrested in connection with a residential burglary in Watsonville on Wednesday, police said.
Shortly after 1 p.m. Watsonville police received a report of an in progress residential burglary in the 200 block of Brennan Street, near Callaghan Park.
One male suspect was reportedly acting as a lookout, while two other male suspects entered the backyard of the residence, police said.
Watsonville police officers arrived at the residence and promptly set up a perimeter around the residence.
The officers made contact with the lookout and detained him.
The other two suspects fled out the back window of the residence, but were quickly captured and detained by officers.
During the investigation into the burglary, police discovered that the suspects entered the residence through an unlocked kitchen window and were in the process of ransacking the residence when police arrived.
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Whistler New Years Eve Celebrations
Accommodation is booked, but have you planned the rest of your Whistler New Years eve celebration? There is lots of things to do in Whistler at New Years, however booking in advance is recommended especially if you are after a dinner reservation. Here is a sample of some of he many events and restaurant specials happening this New Years in Whistler.
Whistler Presents: New Year's Eve Celebrations
Say goodbye to the old and welcome the new at this alcohol-free evening of family entertainment and celebration in Whistler Village. Tickets give access to a range of venues with entertainment for all ages including music, arts, crafts, food, dancing and ice skating at Whistler Olympic Plaza. Tickets are $10 for children under 12 and $20 for over 12 and include:
- Skating at Whistler Olympic Plaza: 6 pm - 12 am
- Millennium Place: 6 pm - 11 pm. NYE crafts, games, music and a kids countdown at 9pm
- Youth Dance at the Whistler Conference Center: 8 pm - 12 am. Much Music Dance party for youths aged 13 to 18 years.
- "A White Night" in Village Square: 10:30 pm - 12 am. Come join in this DJ fun at this non-alcoholic, all ages Village square Dance Celebration.
New years Eve Fireworks Display
Witness a dazzling display of lights and sounds to ring in 2013. The fireworks will be visible from Whistler Olympic Plaza, Village Square and Skiers Plaza - note that some areas require tickets to access.
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Perfect for those wanting to bring in the New Year with a little more style. Three course menu early evening from $98 per person. New Year's Eve Extravaganza from 8pm to late includes an exceptional five-course menu. Champagne sabering, DJ's and live music from $298 per person.
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Woodbine: Paso Doble rallies to win Shepperton Stakes
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ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Paso Doble ($4.90) danced his way into the winner's circle as the 124-pound highweight in the $125,400 Shepperton Stakes on holiday Monday at Woodbine.
The pace was slow in the 6 1/2-furlong sprint, and second choice Phil's Dream assumed command into the stretch after tracking the early leader, Executive Five. Paso Doble rallied wide from midpack to hit the front at the sixteenth pole en route to a 1 1/2-length score in 1:16.39.
Spirit Warnings held off another longshot, Seeley's Bay, to finish third, and Phil's Dream weakened to fourth in the nine-horse field of Ontario-sired runners.
Eurico Rosa da Silva rode Paso Doble for Centennial Farm (Niagara) Inc. and trainer Mark Casse.
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Did a Late Release Cost 'True Grit' a DGA -- and a Directing Oscar Nom?
"True Grit's momentum is hitting right now. If the DGA were voting now the Coens would be in," says pundit Sasha Stone. But the Directors Guild Awards snubbed them, and Lisa Cholodenko is in even bigger Oscar trouble.
The Coens' No Country for Old Men, released in late November 2007, had already racked up 13 big critics' group wins by the time of year, compared to True Grit's measly Critics Choice nom. It was released Dec. 22. DGA members got their ballots in November. Did Paramount blow it by waiting so long?
"They didn't have a choice," says Joel Coen. "We barely made it as it is." "We were skeptical we could get it filmed on time," says Ethan Coen. "We said, 'Maybe on Christmas Day.'" "They'd originally wanted it around Thanksgiving," says Joel, "or at least having the option to do so."
"True Grit definitely came late to the gate in a crowded field," says Us Weekly critic Thelma Adams. "It may be that directors had settled on their favorites by the time Grit starting wowing at the box office." Talk about wow: it's made $110 million domestically in 19 days, more than No Country for Old Men, The Big Lebowski, Barton Fink, Miller's Crossing, Raising Arizona, Blood Simple, and The Hudsucker Proxy put together.
The DGA noms have about an 80 percent chance of predicting Oscar directing noms, and you can bet the films of DGA noms David Fincher, Christopher Nolan, Darren Aronofky, Tom Hooper and David O. Russell (who evidently isn't as disliked in Hollywood as his alleged difficult reputation suggests) will be among the 10 best picture noms.
"It's more common that the DGA and Oscar don't match than do match," says Stone. "The more likely scenario is that they won't match 5 for 5. Since 1990, they've only matched three times."
Perversely, the DGA snub controversy could actually help the Coens by upping their buzz. "It is advantageous," said Samuel Johnson, "[to] be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at only one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends." That's doubly true now that we've all got the attention span of houseflies.
"A snub is also great publicity," says Stone. "The idea of a snub could lead to a wise correction by the time the Oscar nominations arrive," says Adams. "When a film is doing as well at the box office as True Grit, and when the directors are as well known, respected and beloved as the Coens, it seems likely that they will also be nominated for Best Director and Best Writer." says Stone.
"Who will be pushed aside?" asks Adams. "Chris Nolan? Tom Hooper? David O. Russell? It's musical chairs."
One likely left standing will be the Coens' fellow DGA snubee Cholodenko, despite the prizes The Kids Are All Right is apt to win at the Globes this weekend. Anne Thompson notes that the 300 or so Academy directors -- about 300 mostly male "Steak Eaters" -- like women directors less than the DGA does. She predicts that, like nom'd writer/directors Jane Campion and Sofia Coppola in the past, Cholodenko and fellow DGA snubee Debra Granik may get Oscar noms for writing, not directing.
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On a clear winter morning the Brentwood headquarters of Truthdig.com is a refuge of serene natural beauty. Floor-to-ceiling glass affords panoramic views of the oaks and sycamores of Mandeville Canyon, with the occasional hawk circling high above the treetops. As seven staffers take their seats around an oblong table laden with wide-screen iMacs, the only visual reminder of the political and environmental turmoil so relentlessly covered on the prizewinning, left-leaning news site is a signed, limited-edition print by Robert Rauschenberg hanging on a far wall—with its images of raw sewage, attack helicopters, and bludgeoned Filipino protesters.
Perched against a contemporary desk, Truthdig cofounder and publisher Zuade Kaufman calls the meeting to order. Since launching the Web site eight years ago with her friend and mentor, the journalist Robert Scheer, she has turned over the lower level of her midcentury-modern home (not to mention a chunk of her family's real estate fortune) to the venture. "So," she says, her long, carelessly parted brown hair framing her alert face. "Can we start with the agenda?"
Apparently not. "There are certain perks when you're over 75," says Scheer in his singsong Bronx rasp. Lean and wiry at 77, Truthdig's editor-in-chief sports a white beard and mustache and a full head of shaggy silver hair. "One is that you don't have to take off your shoes at the airport anymore. And another is that you get to forget to bring the agenda."
Then he's off, decrying other Web sites' plundering of Truthdig stories, warning about the encroachment of advertiser-sponsored content into Web news, and venting his frustration with the Truthdig app on his iPad Mini. He even offers a critique of the branded items being sold on Truthdig Bazaar, the site's online store. "The messenger bag sucks," Scheer says. "The cups are very good. The hats are terrific. But the T-shirts suck—the logos are in the wrong place."
"Maybe you should do a video review of them," jokes Truthdig's 32-year-old managing editor, Peter Scheer, who's spent a lifetime listening to his father's rants.
The elder Scheer shows a more tender side as he turns his attention to Truthdig's young writers and assistant editors, delighting in their work as if they too were his children. He welcomes back Natasha Hakimi, a 25-year-old poet, who since completing her 2011 Truthdig internship has spent two years of fellowship study abroad, all the while filing hundreds of posts on topics ranging from forced child marriage in Yemen to a recent Berkeley research paper exploring the nexus between wealth and narcissism. "A real star—an international star!" Scheer says as Hakimi grins.
As for editorial priorities, Scheer tells his staff that Truthdig must keep up its coverage of the surveillance state and if possible expand its reporting. "Not just the National Security Agency but what the private companies do—the pushback from Google and Yahoo and what happens to their information. It's an issue we should be front and center on."
Don't get him started about Obamacare, which Scheer considers a victory for the insurance industry. He's also concerned by how ceaseless Republican attacks and the administration's incompetent rollout have made such a morass of the health care debate. "I think anything we could do to help clarify what's really at stake here would be great," Scheer says. He pauses for a moment as he selects the ideal lens to bring the matter into focus. "We need to show," he says, "who's getting screwed—and who's doing the screwing."
The tag line "drilling beneath the headlines" has appeared on Truthdig's home page since the site's debut in November 2005. But "who's getting screwed—and who's doing the screwing" would be just as apt a slogan.
To visit the site is to read about a planet betrayed. The columnists and bloggers chart an ecosystem in irreversible decline, follow human rights crises and repression overseas, and probe the erosion of American democracy by perpetual war, the disappearance of privacy rights, the abandonment of the poor, and a political system in thrall to corporate titans, gross polluters, and Wall Street crooks. By pursuing these subjects with an intellectual rigor and relentlessness seldom found on the Web, Truthdig has become one of the most critically acclaimed Internet-based news sites in the world.
Scheer and Kaufman's enterprise has also distinguished itself by what it doesn't do. Most news Web sites, even those aiming to play a major civic role, serve up generous helpings of fluff. Scheer, by contrast, has placed Truthdig readers on a starvation diet of celebrity schadenfreude. Visitors can expect to be updated every time former NSA contractor and fugitive whistle-blower Edward Snowden sneezes, but Lindsay Lohan could steal Rupert Murdoch's yacht and crash it into the Queen Mary and readers would be none the wiser. "Tits and ass, poisoned food," Scheer says, ticking off the kinds of guilty pleasures he tends to shun. "Put them on a site and you can drive traffic to it. But that doesn't translate to credibility."
Neither, it seems, does slick presentation. First-time readers are often struck by Truthdig's dearth of visual enticement. The color scheme ranges from rust to tan to taupe, the possibilities for user customization are minimal, and the navigation capabilities are about as agile as a rowboat's.
What Truthdig does offer is something in sadly short supply online: long-form analysis. No concessions have been made to accommodate the supposed shrinkage of attention spans. More than 400,000 visitors a month follow Truthdig, proving that there is a digital appetite, after all, for strong medicine in large doses.
Among the site's most influential stories was an atheist manifesto by neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris. At more than 4,500 words, the post worked in references to Rwandan genocide, the early-20th-century smallpox epidemic, and such religio-philosophical principles as Blaise Pascal's "Wager" and Søren Kierkegaard's "Leap of Faith." The most popular columnist, meanwhile, is best-selling author and former New York Times foreign correspondent Chris Hedges. His weekly columns typically require three screen jumps and on occasion have run long enough to fill the Times's entire op-ed page.
Scheer often continues Truthdig's coverage of stories long after other media outlets have moved on. Though Truthdig's initial story or even its updates may be relatively brief, their accretion over months or years has a cumulative impact. In 2006, the site ran a searing birthday tribute to slain U.S. Army Ranger and former NFL star Pat Tillman, written by his brother, Kevin. The Pentagon had concealed the cause of Tillman's death—friendly fire—putting out a false report that he had died at the hands of the enemy in Afghanistan. Kevin's Truthdig essay garnered so much traffic, it crashed the site. In a Truthdig post five years later, Narda Zacchino, a former Los Angeles Times associate editor and Scheer's wife, criticized President Barack Obama's decision to put former General Stanley McChrystal in charge of a federal outreach initiative for military families in light of the central role he had played in the Tillman cover-up while he headed U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
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"Truthdig shows that people are interested in following critical thinking wherever it takes you," says Amy Goodman, whose syndicated column appears on the site. As host of the popular public radio news show Democracy Now!, Goodman has built her following on a similar foundation of long-form analysis. "In order to understand how someone like a Robert Scheer or a Chris Hedges arrives at a very different point of view—not the establishment consensus," Goodman says, "you have to go on a journey to see the various arguments and historical references that have led them in that different direction. And that journey takes time."
Traffic is heaviest when Scheer and Hedges post their once-a-week columns. Nonetheless what draws readers to Truthdig on a daily basis are blog entries and curated links usually posted by the assistant editors. Which brings us to another practice that sets Truthdig apart: All contributors are paid. Even The Huffington Post, which lures 7 million people on average per day (and which was purchased by AOL for $315 million a few years back), doesn't pay its bloggers. Truthdig, though constantly short of revenue, has always compensated its columnists, bloggers, and interns. Regular bloggers, called "core Truthdiggers," work on salary or on an hourly basis. "Ear to the Ground" posts, which are brief and usually link to stories elsewhere on the Web, command $25 to $75.
While no Truthdig writer is getting rich, the costs of paying them all in a medium so voracious for content quickly add up. Throughout its existence Truthdig has hemorrhaged money, and it would have expired long ago if not for major cash infusions from its publisher. Those won't last forever. "I can't support the site indefinitely," says Kaufman, who is 53. "I'm already two or three years beyond what I should have been doing."
It might help if the site pursued potential revenue streams with a fraction of the urgency it brings to rooting out corporate malfeasance and political corruption. So far, that hasn't happened. Truthdig lacks a full-time marketing manager. Sponsored events are sporadic. The majority of the site's revenues come from ads courtesy of Advertising.com, which takes a cut.
"The Internet is the last great chance for having some kind of democracy in the world," Scheer likes to say. But until Truthdig starts approaching its readers as sources of income as well as engaged citizens, the question looms: How can this digital bulwark of a free and open society hope to survive?
Truthdig traces its beginnings to a New Year's Eve dinner in 2004 at Chez Panisse in Berkeley. The choice of venue wasn't a matter of happenstance. Chef-owner Alice Waters's friendship with Scheer started way before she began transforming California cuisine along organic and locally grown lines. In the spring of 1966, Scheer was the 29-year-old foreign editor of Ramparts—one of the few magazines of the era to carry its message of political dissent beyond a tight circle of lifelong leftists and student radicals. When he decided to run for Congress in the Democratic primary in the Bay Area, Waters, though still an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, signed on to manage his insurgent campaign.
Now, nearly 40 years later, Scheer was presiding over a table with his wife, China expert Orville Schell, then-Ohio congressman and two-time progressive presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, and Scheer's friend and soon-to-be business partner, Zuade Kaufman.
The guests lamented the degraded state of print media. Not only mainstream newspapers but also progressive magazines and weeklies had been financially weakened and editorially defanged by corporate consolidation and Internet competition. Yet few Web-only news outlets seemed to have taken advantage of the medium's lack of space constraints and its relatively low start-up costs to foster the kind of hard-hitting journalism the traditional press was abandoning. That night Scheer and Kaufman resolved to seize the opportunity.
Truthdig went online the same month Scheer was fired by the Los Angeles Times, where he'd worked for nearly 30 years. Although he was dismissed without explanation, he believes the newspaper's upper management had become squeamish about his op-ed pieces excoriating George W. Bush's conduct of the Iraq War. Hundreds of Scheer's fans picketed outside the Times building. Barbra Streisand canceled her subscription in protest.
Truthdig's cofounders began with a clear idea of where they wanted to go editorially. "So much stuff on the Internet you can't trust," Scheer says. "There's a limit to Yelping. So what—20 schmucks didn't like the restaurant? It still might be a great restaurant. Zuade said at the very beginning—and I supported her—that we wanted to have the same standards the L.A. Times has, period." Less certain was how they could actually make a profit or break even. "The idea," Kaufman says, "was, Let's throw it against the wall and see what sticks." Although they've never ruled out turning Truthdig into a nonprofit, Kaufman initially balked at the idea of begging people for money. At least temporarily, she said, she'd foot the bill.
She certainly had the means. In 1957, her father, Donald Kaufman, already a successful contractor, had founded a home-building company with the husband of his wife's cousin, an ambitious 23-year-old accountant named Eli Broad. Kaufman & Broad, which is now called KB Home, became one of the biggest tract home development corporations in the world.
You might think the Brentwood-raised heiress and the leftist lion from the Bronx an unlikely pairing, but in fact Scheer had been an influential presence in Kaufman's childhood. Her father read Ramparts during Scheer's tenure there as editor and as a correspondent reporting from Cambodia and Vietnam. What's more, Donald "read Playboy for the articles," his daughter recalls, which means he couldn't have missed Scheer's interview with Jimmy Carter on the eve of the 1976 presidential election. In it the devout Baptist candidate confessed that he had "looked on a lot of women with lust" and had committed adultery many times in his heart. That same year Scheer began writing for the L.A. Times, the Kaufmans' hometown paper.
Despite her father's business success, Kaufman says, "he understood poverty" and instilled in her a concern for the plight of poor people. The son of Russian immigrants who settled in Detroit, he was sent to live with relatives after his mother contracted tuberculosis. "My dad was a bit of a street urchin," Kaufman says. "At age ten he sold newspapers on the streets, giving his earnings over to his struggling family."
From her father Kaufman seems to have inherited a rebellious streak and a love of risk. "As kids," Kaufman says, "we never felt we had to abide by authority." Donald Kaufman took his children skydiving and hang gliding. They went rafting down the Amazon. Through the years Kaufman has remained something of a daredevil. She has kept riding even after being thrown from a horse and breaking her back, and on another occasion suffered a concussion that gave her a headache for eight months straight. She stopped skydiving only after injuring her knee in a dirt bike race.
Kaufman speaks of her father as "a huge inspiration for me and a magnificent force in this world." Bereft after he died in 1983 in an experimental-biplane crash, she was still years away from receiving her inheritance. She also lacked a clear career path at that point, though she'd studied film at UC Santa Cruz and worked at nonprofit organizations in L.A. So Kaufman moved to France, where her son, Donald, was born in 1990 (she and Donald's father are divorced).
That same year she returned to L.A. and soon met Scheer at a dinner party. "Right away we connected," she says. He eventually hired her as his research assistant at the L.A. Times. He encouraged her to earn her master's degree in journalism at USC, where he's still a professor. Later Kaufman became a writer and contributed to the Westside Weekly section of the Times, remaining there until it was shuttered in 2001.
For Kaufman's son, Scheer filled the void of father and grandfather. His mother abhorred soft drinks, so when young Donald would visit Scheer's downtown apartment, the journalist would make sure to give him a soda. Donald won acceptance to Crossroads School after Scheer arranged an interview with the headmaster of the exclusive Santa Monica academy. "Bob," Donald says, "has been my biggest idol since I was a kid."
While Donald always remembers his mother having an unwavering sense of right and wrong, he says, Truthdig "has made her grow in terms of her politics. I think that's why it's working so well. She's the hardest worker I know, and she's trying to prove something."
The 2013 awards season brought yet another year of critical validation for Truthdig. At the Los Angeles Press Club Awards, Scheer and Kaufman took home the trophy for best Internet-only news site for the third time in four years. And at the 17th annual Webby Awards—the online equivalent of the Oscars—Truthdig won for the fifth time, for best political site. It prevailed over Politico and FactCheck.org, though it surely lagged behind the competition in every area but substance. "With Truthdig," says Webby Awards executive director David-Michel Davies, "structure, navigation, personalization, and all the other usual factors get out of the way in favor of the main thing it offers, which is very compelling content."
Truthdig's five Webby wins in the political category put it well ahead of The Huffington Post, which has three. Recognizing that the Internet is above all a popularity contest, the Webby organizers also distribute People's Voice trophies during the yearly gala to the sites that have won the most online votes. Here The Huffington Post has trounced Truthdig. HuffPost is the 20th-most-popular site in America, according to the Web analysis company Alexa, and second in the news field only to Yahoo. Truthdig's Alexa rating stands at 10,315.
None of this will come as a surprise to devoted fans of Left, Right & Center, the political talk show launched by KCRW (89.9-FM) in 1996 with Scheer as its most vehement voice. He represented the left, of course. Arianna Huffington, chosen as the standard-bearer for the Republican revolution, would soon shed her conservative orthodoxy and fall into such harmony with Scheer that the producers hired a more partisan commentator to occupy the seat on the right.
Huffington launched her eponymous Web site in May 2005, six months before Truthdig—conceived, she claimed, as a progressive counterweight to the conservative Drudge Report. At a day old The Huffington Post was dominated by news of plummeting real wages, Congress's ethics problems, and a $300 million bank fraud by Iraq's deputy minister. Iran's nuclear revival was also a concern.
Over the years, though, HuffPost has proved itself every bit as adept at shape-shifting as its creator. It has expanded beyond tasteful political outrage to become the Web's most successful consumer marketplace of news, ideas, tips for healthful living, and celebrity scandal. Its home page is now an uneven playing field where environmental catastrophe, Third World poverty, Miley Cyrus's twerking, and Khloe Kardashian's divorce vie for attention.
According to Huffington, who considers Scheer a friend, Truthdig succeeds not just because of its content, but also its constancy. "Truthdig has thrived—and scooped up awards along the way—because it has stayed true to its DNA," Huffington wrote in an e-mail. "Its core values of challenging conventional wisdom and drilling beneath the headlines are present in every story." Huffington exited Left, Right & Center in 2011, the year AOL purchased HuffPost, but Scheer has remained. His political stance has hardly budged since the first day he went on air.
"Look, in my life I don't have the capacity to accommodate," Scheer says. "It might have not been the wiser course, and maybe I could have accomplished a lot more, but I think I'm driven by experiences and feelings that trump those other things."
Scheer is fond of pointing out that he has never experienced politics as an abstraction. "For me," he says, "the issue always was, Shouldn't the ordinary person get some kind of a break?" He comes by his working-class sympathies honestly. In Lithuania his mother, Ida Kuran, was part of the Jewish Socialist Bund movement, and as a New York City garment worker she threw herself into so many labor disputes that it prevented her from obtaining citizenship. Frederick Scheer, his father, was a knitter mechanic and a shop steward who led many bloody workplace battles. He ran afoul of his Communist-led union for denouncing a workforce agreement they had just negotiated as a cave-in to management. Frederick and Ida never married, and once while riffling through the mail to intercept a report card, Scheer discovered his father had another family.
Scheer attended City College in New York. Through his study of engineering, economics, and New Left social critics like C. Wright Mills and Bertrand Russell, he found a theoretical base to match the experiential politics of his youth. Scheer may be the only far-left journalist of the '60s who broadened his audience in subsequent decades without moderating his views—maybe because he was always less committed to the utopian visions of the counterculture than to the majoritarian ideals of the Depression. After leaving Ramparts and Berkeley for L.A., Scheer interviewed every president from Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton. He lasted almost as long at the Los Angeles Times as conservative mainstay William Safire did at The New York Times.
In the summer of 2010, during a visit to New York for the 14th Annual Webby Awards, Scheer and Kaufman attended a cocktail reception for winners and nominees at the Standard hotel's rooftop bar on the edge of Greenwich Village. Visiting the rest room, Scheer found himself "looking out the window at this beautiful view," he remembers. "I saw my father's factory—one of those buildings that have been turned into fancy restaurants. It was where he had worked for 25 years and where he had had a stroke at his machine, dragged himself home on the subway, and then died a few days later."
The very next evening Scheer had an irresistible opportunity to strike a blow for his parents' politics. The 2010 Webby Awards ceremonies were being held at the onetime world headquarters of Citibank, just around the corner from the New York Stock Exchange. When Scheer strode up to receive Truthdig's prize for best political blog, he seemed to welcome the Webby tradition that limits all acceptance speeches to five words. "Wall Street," he said, grinning up at the gilded rotunda. "What fucking thieves."
Chris Hedges didn't know it then, but he took his first step on the road to Truthdig on a sun-drenched May afternoon in northernmost Illinois. Dressed in a black academic robe and white sash, a gentle breeze ruffling his thin golden hair, Hedges, then the Middle East bureau chief for The New York Times, offered the Rockford University class of 2003 not one word of praise or encouragement in his commencement address. "I want to speak to you today," he told the graduates, "about war and empire." Hedges's microphone was cut off twice, and students did their best to drown out his indictment of a corrupt body politic with chants of "USA! USA!" and a chorus of "God Bless America." "Fear engenders cruelty," he pressed on. "Cruelty, fear, insanity, and then paralysis."
The speech didn't go over well with his employer, either. "The Times gave me a written reprimand," says Hedges, who is 57. "The choice was, I muzzle myself or be fired. And I wasn't gonna stop speaking out." He quit and turned to book writing, detailing the nation's decline in such counterintuitive best-sellers as American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America and War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning.
When Kaufman approached Hedges in 2006, she promised him the equivalent of a literary penthouse on Truthdig's site that he'd be free to decorate as he saw fit. He's made the most of that freedom. In columns like "Shooting the Messenger" (about attempts by some on the left to elevate Edward Snowden at the expense of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning) and "Outsourcing Torture" (about CIA and U.S. military prisoners' rendition to interrogators in Hosni Mubarak's Egypt), Hedges at his best has tempered his righteous indignation with nuanced argument and a wealth of supporting facts. His Truthdig leitmotif—how perpetual war always degrades democracy—stretches back to Pericles' Athens and draws on his own decades of reporting from many of the world's worst war zones.
Four years ago Hedges wrote a book called The Death of the Liberal Class, chronicling the traditional left's degradation into "courtiers or mandarins, who have nothing to offer but empty rhetoric." In some Truthdig columns he devotes himself to speeding these courtiers' ideological execution. After the 2012 presidential election, Hedges excoriated liberal voters for clinging to isolated issues like abortion rights and gender equality while "ignoring the vast corporate assault on the nation and the ecosystem along with the pre-emptive violence of the imperial state." Last November he singled out those "liberal Jewish critics inside and outside Israel" who—when confronted by the brutal facts of Palestinian oppression—"unleash a savage vitriol, which in its fury exposes the self-adulation and latent racism at the core of modern Zionism."
Truthdig's Israel coverage has caused friction between Kaufman and her sister, who is raising her family within shelling distance of Palestinian positions. Kaufman admits that Truthdig content has at times caused her internal friction as well. "Some of what we put out on the site is harsh for me," she says. "I feel it's too extreme. But that doesn't mean it's not going to go on the site."
Hedges doesn't concern himself with sparing readers' feelings. "It's very hard to know on the Internet who your audience is," he says. "And I don't really care about the audience. I think of producing the best work that I can and being as honest as I can." The site has struggled to monetize his popularity. In eight years he's made three appearances on Truthdig's behalf—at a salon at Kaufman's house, at a New Mexico retreat, and at a paid event at the Santa Monica Bay Woman's Club.
In 2010, borrowing a fund-raising idea from The Nation, which charges its readers to bond with their favorite writers on the high seas over plates of unlimited shrimp, Kaufman and Scheer asked Hedges to participate in an annual ocean cruise for Truthdig's fans. Asked why he declined, Hedges doesn't lack for reasons. "Let's start with the fact that cruise ships are major polluters," he says. "Then there's the whole notion of sitting around the buffet table, which is a little nauseating. I like my privacy and my space, and I don't think I'd get either on a cruise ship."
Instead Kaufman and Scheer agreed to Hedges's counterproposal: a five-day trek he agreed to lead through the White Mountains of New Hampshire. "It's pretty rigorous, actually," Hedges says. "You have 45 pounds on your back and hike eight to ten miles a day. You go up 5,000 to 6,000 feet." The physical requirements alone may have discouraged the majority of Truthdig's audience, which skews age 40 and older. Thirteen Truthdig fans signed up, at $2,100 apiece.
Truthdig's editorial future and its financial viability may depend less on its mid- to late-career stars from old media and more on its young reporters—who have been immersed in the Internet since childhood but are being steeped in Scheer and Hedges's journalistic ideals. Truthdig is fundamentally a family enterprise, though a far less conventional one than, say, The New York Times. Beyond Scheer, his sons Peter and Joshua (the latter, 34, is a Truthdig podcast interviewer), and Kaufman, who has become a sort of adopted daughter, there are a half dozen bloggers in their twenties and early thirties who are being nurtured as if the future of journalism depends on them. Most started as interns, but long after they complete the program, few leave the nest entirely.
Upon his graduation from the Berklee College of Music in December, Donald Kaufman began an internship at Truthdig. His band, Visceral Design, has relocated to L.A., and although he plans to continue composing and recording "psychological electronic pop" with his bandmates, he also has definite ideas about the Web site's direction—some of which he discussed with his mother over the holidays.
Donald, 23, says he has no tolerance for what he calls "the emotional porn" of the mainstream media and the Internet. "There's so much anger and fear and insecurity," he says, "but it's been put in the wrong frame of reference so many times that we don't know what we're upset about. So people will turn their anger and frustration on Alec Baldwin sooner than they will on Obama or John Boehner." Still, he finds nothing wrong with highlighting celebrities when they put their fame to work promoting issues essential to the site.
Donald was encouraged by a Truthdig video post last October that featured Russell Brand on British television. The clip—in which the actor-comedian spoke about economic disparity, environmental degradation, and a corporate takeover of government to an increasingly hostile interviewer—got "huge traffic," Donald says. "Brand was really falling along the same political lines as Chris Hedges but in a way that might be more entertaining to certain people."
Sounding like an Internet mogul in the making, he suggests Truthdig might have something to learn from the Web site of London's liberal Guardian newspaper, which has posted exclusives of Snowden's leaks on state surveillance at the same time it has planted browser cookies on visitors' computers to get a better idea of their search interests and how to market to them. As for building revenue, Donald says, "if Truthdig is just looking at advertising, that's never going to work because the market is so saturated."
Donald has told Scheer and his mom that they must take Truthdig seriously as a brand. "They need to have public talks every three or four months," he says. "There are much better ways of mobilizing the readers they have. They also need to focus on younger people, too—although I do tend to meet a lot of college kids who know about Truthdig."
In leveraging live appearances for all they're worth, the site would be following the lead of recording artists who might once have made the bulk of their living through album sales but now rely on ticket sales and merchandising to make up for what iTunes and audio streaming have forever taken away.
"If the music industry has been able to solve its predicament," Donald Kaufman says, "so can Truthdig."
Ed Leibowitz is a writer-at-large for Los Angeles. His last piece, about the 1994 Northridge earthquake, appeared in the January issue.


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However the Shamrock Hotel was bursting at the seams with locals and visitors coming together for the first Greenethorpe Master Cake competition and to celebrate the end of a busy term at the school.ORANGE: Kinross Wolaroi School student Sophie Aylward was showing the dress that won her the 2013 Wool4Skool competition at the Sydney Royal Easter Show when she got to shake hands with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.PARKES: The life of Len Unger has been very long and full of interest. Len celebrated his 97th birthday on February 27, 2014, and only recently moved into his own unit at Rosedurnate after living in his own premises for many years.CANOWINDRA: In what has been described by organisers as "perfect conditions" the National Balloon Championships fired up for the first day of competition in Canowindra. With ideal weather forecast for the remainder of the week, spectators are encouraged to follow the balloons as they make their journey to various targets around the region. 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