text: If you want a variable lens in the future, you may have to get wet. That is the hope of several researchers and companies that are working on liquid lenses, devices that use water or another liquid as an optical element. These systems employ a variety of means to shape the liquid to adjust focal length, making it possible to tune a system's optical performance very rapidly without mechanical movement. This image was acquired using a liquid lens that changes focal length with applied voltage. Courtesy of Varioptic SA. Liquid lenses are being put to use in cell phone and other small-form cameras as well as elsewhere. Herein is a review of how the technology works, its possible applications, and its benefits and drawbacks. Not just in the eye of the beholder Traditionally, varying focal length has been accomplished through the mechanical movement of static lenses. This approach, however, constrains the size, cost, reliability and speed of the system. In contrast, liquid lenses vary their focal length by borrowing techniques from a familiar imaging system. "Fluidic lenses really are inspired by the human eye. They generally all go back to the same principle, and the idea has been around for a very long time," said Robert Batchko, president and CEO of Holochip Corp. in Albuquerque, N.M. The basic idea of his company's liquid lenses, he explained, is that of a fluid confined by an elastic membrane. The application of hydrostatic pressure causes the membrane to bulge, changing from a flat surface to a curved one, for example. That transformation brings about an alteration in optical properties — including a shift in focal length — as the membrane transforms, for instance, from a flat to a concave surface. Varying the pressure adjusts the focal length, enabling the tuning of optical parameters. The resulting lenses are lighter, smaller, faster and more robust than those that use mechanical methods. Turning the dial on the liquid lens system shown here changes the focal length of the lens. Courtesy of Holochip Corp. Holochip develops and manufactures adaptive lenses based on its proprietary adaptive polymer lens technology, which has been in development for several years. The company now offers an adaptive singlet lens for optical research and engineering. The product can be mounted in standard optics hardware, such as posts and lens holders. The minimum focal length is 20 mm and the maximum is more than 1 m, giving a range of focal power greater than 50 diopters. Static lenses can be stacked in the housing to bias the focal length. According to Batchko, the company's adaptive lenses can be optimized for speed, diopter range, shock resistance or other parameters. The lenses use a proprietary fluid with what he characterized as excellent physical and optical qualities and are part of a blend of components, packaging and designs that are key to the devices' success. One problem that such lenses faced in the past was gravity, which could induce a position-dependent deviation from the ideal in the membrane shape. However, Batchko said that such effects had been addressed. Various groups have investigated membrane-based liquid lenses. One such, at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, placed a transparent flexible polymer, PDMS, atop a reservoir of the same material. Varying the pressure changed the shape of the membrane and, therefore, altered its optics. A similar approach was investigated by a team from the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering in Singapore. Building many or just one Holochip has licensed technology related to adaptive lenses from Louisiana Tech University and from the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Senior research scientist Hongwen Ren and optics professor Shin-Tson Wu, both of the latter institution have reported a demonstration, of a novel liquid lens technique that extends the idea into a microlens array. As described in the Feb. 18, 2008, issue of Optics Express, the investigators' method requires two nonconductive and immiscible liquids — one with a higher dielectric constant but a lower refractive index than the other. Both are colorless, nonpoisonous and of about equal density. The liquids are confined in a glass-walled chamber, which has an electrode with an array of holes patterned onto a substrate. When a voltage is applied, the two liquids migrate in response to the different dielectric force each experiences. The liquid with the low dielectric constant moves to the weak electric field region, while the other congregates in the strong electric field region. After the liquids separate, they remain in place, with the shape of the liquid drops controlled by the applied voltage. This schematic shows how some researchers form an array of microlenses with liquids. Nonmixing liquids L-1 and L-2 sit atop an electrode with holes in it (A). A droplet forms atop the holes (B) and, when a voltage is applied, the droplets change shape (C), remaining in a relaxed state without voltage (D). Reprinted with permission from Optics Express. "Using this approach, the liquid-droplet array can be formed electrically. Once the formed droplet array is stabilized, each droplet functions as a microlens," Wu said. In a demonstration, Ren and Wu used an opaque aluminum electrode with 140-μm-diameter holes spaced 100 μm apart in a cell with a gap of about 120 μm. They filled the cell with deionized water and the diacrylate monomer AE-93. The density of the two fluids did not match well. However, Ren explained that the adhesive force of the droplet on the substrate surface was far greater than the force of gravity. Therefore, the influence of gravity on the monomer droplet shape was negligible, and the technique worked. Tests performed with an Olympus microscope showed that the response time of the liquid lens microarray was 30 ms for the rise and about 250 ms for the fall. Other tests showed that the focal length varied from 2.1 to 1.4 mm as the voltage varied from 0 to 88 V. Changing the cell gap and other parameters would increase that dynamic range. Besides building a microliquid lens array, the technique also could be used to build a single lens suitable for a cell phone camera or for other uses. Although it worked, the prototype demanded too high a voltage for practical applications. The voltage required was an inverse function of the difference in the dielectric constant of the two liquids. A larger difference would mean that a lower voltage would be needed to shape the droplets. Likewise, an electrode layout that increased the voltage gradient would decrease the required voltage. Therefore, the next step in the research, Wu said, would be to choose suitable liquids so that the operating voltage and the lens aberrations would be decreased at the same time. Charged up Another electrically driven adaptive liquid lens comes from Varioptic SA of Lyon, France. Developed by Bruno Berge, who founded the company in 2002, the liquid lens technology is based on electrowetting. The device consists of a water drop deposited onto a metal substrate covered by a thin insulating layer of another liquid that also sits atop a transparent window. The two liquids do not mix and are of the same density. One is a conductor and the other, an insulator. Applying a voltage across the cell gap changes the contact angle of the conducting drop, altering the curvature of the liquid-liquid interface. The result is a change in the focal length of the lens, which can vary from infinity to as little as a few centimeters. Unlike some other approaches, these liquid lenses are largely immune to gravity. Shown are imaging properties of the University of Central Florida's microlens array at 0 V (top), 60 V (center) and at a refocused state (bottom). Reprinted with permission from Optics Express. The company's autofocus liquid lenses are gaining commercial acceptance and are being produced in large quantities by Varioptic and its production partners, Creative Sensor of Taiwan and Seiko Instruments of Japan. Production capacity is forecast to grow from half a million units this year to 72 million by 2010. According to Varioptic's vice president of marketing, John Barber, the lenses are suitable for cameras in mobile phones. As with their stand-alone consumer counterparts, such cameras are climbing in the number of megapixels offered, with ≥5-megapixel camera phones now rolling out. Besides autofocus in cell phones, other uses for Varioptic's products involve industrial cameras and even 2-D barcode readers, Barber said. The latter image the small block of marks increasingly used to identify machine parts and other components. With a static lens, various designs are needed for long- and short-range systems. With a liquid lens, a single design can meet both needs. Lenses that use electrowetting processes require high voltage, at least in terms of what usually is found in the semiconductor world. To help address this, Varioptic has teamed up with Supertex Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., which will provide the integrated circuits needed to drive the lenses, with chips capable of producing up to 60 V rms. No moving parts One issue with an electrowetting-based liquid lens is the nature of the liquids involved. One must be a conductor, and the difference in the index of refraction between the two liquids must be high. These attributes make the scheme work and improve the range over which the focus can be adjusted. However, they also can have implications for the optical performance of the lens because such a pair of liquids can be highly dispersive, making the lens itself highly dispersive and leading to greater chromatic aberration. This effect is not a problem for autofocus systems built using Varioptic's current liquid lens technology because the required change in optical power is much less than what is needed for a zoom system. Thus, liquids with a lower refractive index and lower resulting chromatic aberration can be used. Frank C. Wippermann, a scientist at Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering in Jena, Germany, was part of a group that looked at how to use electrowetting technology in a miniaturized zoom lens. The goal of the research, which was done in collaboration with Varioptic, was to create a system with a 3× zoom in a form factor suitable for a cell phone camera. In an electrowetting lens, the interface between two liquids is the variable optical element. When the voltage is off, the lens has one focal length (A); when a voltage is applied, the focal length changes (B). These lenses are used in autofocus systems for some small-form cameras. Courtesy of Varioptic. To contend with chromatic aberration, the group devised a couple of solutions but did not build a prototype before the project ended. One involved two liquid lenses, with a mechanical actuator moving one lens relative to another. The second also involved two liquid lenses, with a sequential acquisition of red, green and blue images. Wippermann said that the institute's researchers now are using adaptive lenses for ultraflat imaging. They take advantage of the fact that a liquid lens has no moving parts, combining it with an imager modeled after the monochrome compound eye of an insect. "We took one liquid lens and put it in front of the compound eye. Then you have a very nice zoom lens with only one adaptive liquid lens," Wippermann said. As for other applications for liquid lenses, Benno H.W. Hendriks — a researcher involved with the FluidFocus electrowetting technology developed by Philips Research in Eindhoven, the Netherlands — offered some thoughts on what they might be. Philips has yet to produce any products with the technology and will not discuss any specific future product plans, but Hendriks said that any parts that incorporate a liquid lens would have some characteristics in common, a prescription for the areas where this new technology might be expected to make a splash. "Typical products could be products which have optical modules that need no moving parts, a small form factor, low power consumption, fast focus speed and robustness," he said.


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New Rochelle, NY, July 12, 2012 -Although acetazolamide is widely prescribed to prevent and treat acute mountain sickness (AMS), the appropriate dose at which it is effective and safe has not been clearly defined. A comprehensive review and meta-analysis of 24 studies comparing the efficacy and risks associated with increasing doses of acetazolamide is published in High Altitude Medicine & Biology, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers (http://www.
Bengt Kayser and colleagues, University of Geneva, Switzerland, reviewed the data compiled on more than 1,000 subjects and describe the relationship between efficacy in preventing and treating AMS, risk of side effects, and increasing drug dosages. They discuss their findings in the article "Reappraisal of Acetazolamide for the Prevention of Acute Mountain Sickness: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (http://online.
Unless the baseline risk of AMS is high, as with rapid transport to high altitude (as opposed to a slow ascent), acetazolamide has limited effectiveness. Some side effects occur with even the lowest doses of the drug, whereas others appear to be dose-dependent. The authors suggest that treatment be tailored for the individual depending on AMS risk and acceptability of the most common side effects such as increased urination, numbness and tingling, and taste disturbance.
"This is a valuable contribution on the pros and cons of using the most important medication for preventing and treating acute mountain sickness," says John B. West, MD, PhD, Editor-in-Chief of High Altitude Medicine & Biology and Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.
About the Journal
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About the Publisher
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Documentary film about Orange Revolution.
Ukraine 2006
16 mm
45 minutes
Written and directed by
Dmitriy Nepochatov
How many more revolutions are there to happen?
And how many of them will be peaceful?
The most actual documentary film of contemporaneity.
Why itТs actual:
Today we live in the period of revolutions in the whole world. Just remember situations in France, Czech Republic, Poland, Georgia, Ukraine. Now it is a time when the theme of power, control and intercommunication of people in many countries becomes more actually.
The film, which exposed this theme on background the real events, was made in Ukraine. It was made during the well-known events of Fall 2004 in Ukraine. During this time, the most beautiful revolution ever was happening. Its beauty was in its peacefulness.
It is a mixture of documentary and feature genres. The film is a story of a 19- year-old girl, who came to Ukraine from abroad with a father, who got a job here. It is in Ukraine that she sees her first revolution ever. During this time, she communicates to ordinary people, who went out on СMaydanТ, and learns their stories.
The film consists of several novels, linked with a single idea: how those people changed and how this girl changed during that period. The main story is told in English (the main heroineТs mother tongue), peopleТs life stories are presented in Ukrainian with English subtitles.
This film also features original music, written especially for it.
It is a film neither about politics nor about elections; it is about spirit and freedom in our life these days.
This film is also a unique documentary material, which is becoming more and more valuable and interesting with time, owing its popularity to the event it is based on Ц the peaceful Revolution.
If you are interested in this film, please contact with producer.


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Designed by Vienna based artist Ana Popescu in collaboration with Wrap Magazine.
This notebook has 56 blank pages inside and measures 5.8 in x 8.2 in (14.8cm x 21cm). It is made in the UK using responsibly sourced and sustainable smooth tactile paper. These notebooks have been produced to a high standard and are finished with gold coloured staples, and gold foil 'NOTES' detail.
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You would be working closely with the customer on multiple projects as a Technical Architect and working with the Scrum team helping them to design/plan Sprints and own the projects from the technical front.
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Thousands of cyclists, professional and amateur, will take over the capital's streets this weekend for the second Prudential RideLondon.
After a successful inaugural edition 12 months ago, the capital's Olympic legacy cycling event looks set to be even bigger for his year.
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The headline feature will be Sunday's Classic, a 200-kilometre professional men's race that starts at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, and finishes on The Mall after largely retracting the route for the London 2012 road races.
It will be run under the hors catégorie ranking, the second most prestigious for any event in the UCI's calendar. The field will include Bradley Wiggins, who was added to Sky's six-man team on Thursday morning.
Immediately preceding the Classic is the 100 mass participation event, which this year will see nearly 25,000 riders tackle the majority of the course that the professionals will through London and Surrey. It is Britain's biggest, fully-closed road sportive, and organisers hope those competing in the 100-mile (160km) event will raise £12m for charity.
Saturday will see 50,000 people converge on the capital for the event's FreeCycle, during which they can cycle on a 10-mile, traffic-free route that takes in a number of London's most iconic sights.
The Women's Grand Prix, centered around The Mall, follows that evening. Defending champion Laura Trott (Wiggle-Honda) will be in action, but much attention will be paid to Marianne Vos (Rabo-Liv) and Lizzie Armitstead (Boels-Dolmans). Two years on from their memorable duel in the Olympic Games, the pair are likely to contest for victory here.
Timetable of events
Saturday August 9
9am-4pm: FreeCycle – a family orientated ride around a 10-mile, closed road circuit in the capital.
5-6pm: Women's Grand Prix – the leading lights of the female peloton battle it out for victory on the St James's Park criterium course. Laura Trott (Wiggle-Honda) won last year.
Sunday August 10
6-8.30am: Riders begin the RideLondon 100 from the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, a fully-closed road sportive through London and Surrey, which largely retraces the route of the London 2012 road races.
10.15am: First riders in the 100 expected to reach the finish on The Mall.
1pm: Start of the elite men's race, the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey Classic, which also begins at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
5:47pm: Scheduled finish time for the Classic. Frenchman Arnaud Démare (FDJ.fr) took the glory 12 months ago.
Prudential RideLondon Women's Grand Prix: click here
Prudential RideLondon-Surrey Classic: click here (provisional startlist as of August 5 – not up-to-date).
Riders to Watch
Ben Swift (Sky)
Now 26, the young British sprinter is enjoying his best season to date, with a surprise third place finish at Milan San-Remo and an impressive stage win at the Tour of the Basque Country. As a sprinter who can climb, Swift looks ideally suited to this year's updated route.
Philippe Gilbert (BMC)
Gilbert is the race's blockbuster name, and will feel at home in the steep hills of Surrey. Having skipped the Tour his form is a bit of a mystery, but if his legs are good he'll put the other riders under pressure when the road goes uphill.
Elia Viviani (Cannondale)
The Italian is perhaps the quickest sprinter on the startlist, but faces a challenge to make it over the hills.
Sam Bennett (NetApp-Endura)
The 23-year old Irishman is enjoying a breakthrough season, and is an outside bet for the win should the race finish in a bunch sprint.
Marianne Vos (Rabo-Liv)
Last month, the Dutch world champion won the inaugural edition of La Course on the Champs-Élysées. What price she adds another victory on one of London's most iconic streets – The Mall – to her palmarès in the Women's Grand Prix?
Laura Trott (Wiggle-Honda)
The double Olympic champion was the fastest finishers on the two-kilometre course during last year's GP, and her form in the Commonwealth Games points race suggests she will likely be in contention for the victory again.
RideLondon 100 and Classic: the key sections
Staple Lane:
As the first climb of the day in the Classic (the 100 skips this), the second-category Staple Lane won't play a decisive role in the race, but offers spectators great views from the top, and riders a sight of the Surrey countryside.
Leith Hill
For the second year in succession, this climb features in both the 100 and the Classic. The amateurs approach it as part of an anti-clockwise loop through Holmbury St Mary, which is arguably harder than the clockwise circuit the professionals will embark upon from Dorking. This was climbed thrice in the race last year – it appears only once in 2014.
Ranmore Common
Two proposed ascents of a steep, narrow hill through the Denbies Wine Estate that were included in an attempt to make the pro race harder were recently removed from the Classic course. Instead riders will climb up the North Downs to the summit of Ranmore Common twice. While only a couple of kilometres long, it ramps up to 15 per cent in places.
Wimbledon Hill Road
The hardest part of the run in in both the 100 and the Classic is the energy-sapping rise to Wimbledon Village. Handily for those amateurs needing a boost, there is an feed station shortly after.
What better way to start the final three kilometres of any cycling event than by passing parallel with the River Thames and heading towards the iconic sights of Wesminster? If a sprint finish in the Classic looks on the cards, this will be a great viewing spot to catch teams jostling for position in the peloton.
RideLondon 100: Essential information for participants
All participants will start the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100 between 6 and 8.30am, and are advised to arrive at their designated start area in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park at least one hour before their start time. Directions to the various start areas will be signposted at each official car park and drop-off locations. Travelling by car to the start is not advised.
There will be three Hubs along the route for those requiring basic mechanical assistance (Hampton Court Green, Newlands Corner, Leaterhead). These sites will also offer food, drink and toilet facilities, services which can be found at seven other sites along the route.
Riders must finish the course within eight and a half hours in order to finish safely in advance of the RideLondon-Surrey Classic.
Bicycles will be limited on trains out of London on the day. For those wishing to make their way back to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park via public transport, a bicycle transport system will run from 11am to 7pm. A river boat service will run from Blackfriars Pier to Canary Wharf, North Greenwich and Trinity Buoy Wharf Pier, all of which are a short ride away from official participants' car parks.
Television Coverage
RideLondon Women's Grand Prix, Saturday August 9
BBC Two, 5-6pm LIVE
Eurosport, 5-6pm LIVE
Eurosport, 1-1.45pm (August 10) Highlights
RideLondon 100 and Classic, Sunday August 10
BBC One, 2-6.35pm LIVE
Eurosport, 1.45-6.30pm LIVE
Eurosport, 10-11.30pm Highlights
Route maps
Prudential RideLondon Women's Grand Prix course (click to enlarge)
Prudential RideLondon 100 (click to enlarge)
Prudential RideLondon Classic (click to enlarge – for a provisional time schedule for the Classic elite race, click here.)
Bradley Wiggins to ride Sunday's Prudential RideLondon-Surrey Classic
The 34-year-old becomes the first Tour de France champion to race in Britain's Olympic cycling legacy event.
Renshaw, Petacchi and Yates brothers confirmed for RideLondon
Strong 2014 startlist comes as a result of event's increased UCI ranking.
Surrey County Council welcomes Prudential RideLondon improvements
Surrey Council and local residents help Prudential RideLondon improve road re-opening times
2014 Prudential RideLondon-Surrey Classic awarded hors catégorie status
Inagurual Women's Tour receives highest UCI status, while the Beaumont Trophy becomes a UCI-ranked race


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Sara Mestas is a mom and political activist, but she can't walk on water. Her hip-hop persona Mo Wiley can, though. In a recent video for her single, "You Can't Touch It," her alter ego sashays across San Francisco Bay in high heels, blue jeans, and a tight-fitting top with a large crucifix dangling from her neck, rapping about typical hip-hop tropes of money, sex, and power. "You can't touch it unless I says so," she sings, pointing to herself. "Now where's my dough?" Mestas, who has proposed programs to mentor troubled youth in San Leandro, says the song is about female empowerment, but the negative reaction it's gotten from city officials helped convince her to run for mayor.
When San Leandro City Manager Stephen Hollister and Police Chief Ian Willis saw Mestas' video on the Internet, they concluded that the image of scantily-clad women singing racy lyrics was unsuitable for the city's youth. Soon after, they told Mestas, a newcomer to local politics, that the city would not co-sponsor her plan to help mentor troubled kids through a program with the Police Activities League and a free baseball recreation league sponsored by the San Francisco Giants.
Hollister went further, saying her music was not just inappropriate for youth. "The music conveys multiple messages that are not suitable for children or anyone, for that matter," he said. Mestas took the denial as a personal affront, and just like that, San Leandro had a new candidate hoping to unseat the incumbent this November — Mayor Tony Santos. Mestas announced her bid for mayor on May 25 in an audacious press conference in front of City Hall, within shouting distance of the current mayor's second-story office.
If it were not for this slight from the city manager and police chief, Mestas said she might have stayed in the background. But in addition to her video, Mestas said city officials also are holding her own troubled past against her. She said Hollister implied one evening at the city's Marina Community Center that she still ran with the wrong crowd. "He assumed I had this group of shady friends," Mestas said. "I started hearing rumors from people about my background and community members were asking me questions."
Mestas said she was upset about the constant innuendo surrounding her past and began realizing the same people questioning her were not representing the city's changing demographics. "Why don't these elected officials get out there and see where people really live, what kind of cars they drive, so they can understand their constituents better?" she asked.
Before last year, Mestas had steered clear of local politics. But then last fall, as she walked her kids to school on their first day, she noticed that the orange-jacketed crossing guards were absent from street corners across the city. Earlier in the year, the city council had cut funding for the program without much notice.
Mestas, whose daughter attends a San Leandro elementary school, joined a chorus of angry parents who complained to their principals, wrote e-mails to the school board, and packed city council meetings. Eventually, it took the council and school board more than two months to reach an agreement on splitting the cost of reinstating the program for the school year, but someone had to fill in the gap in between.
So she volunteered to help. She worked the morning and after-school shift, donning a reflective orange vest, waving an aluminum stop sign, and blowing a mean whistle. When the city signed a deal with an outside contractor, she stayed on and was hired. And her numerous public comments before city leaders started to attract attention around town. She met with some of them, talked about the school crossings fiasco, and recalled her own troubled childhood and the various city services in San Leandro she credits with helping her get on the right track. "It gave me a great sense of empowerment," she said. "It was the moment I realized that my voice mattered."
Within months, Mestas she had landed a seat on the city's rent review board, and was proposing a few mentoring projects ready for implementation. That was until city officials saw her rap video on the Internet and heard rumors about her criminal past.
For his part, Hollister said Mestas' background did not give him pause. "What somebody did in the past is not as important as what she is doing now and the things Sara is doing now is great," he said. Still, he found fault with her video. "In my interpretation, it glorifies prostitution," he said, "which is not only a crime, but also the objectification of women in general."
The video also didn't go over well at the San Leandro Police Department. Aligning the department with an artist whose music video featured attractive and fleshy women dancing to the groove proved too much for an agency in the middle of sexual harassment suits brought by seven female officers against the former police chief and one of his sergeants. "I already have sexual harassment cases going on in the department," Willis said. "I really don't think I can justify working with [that] type of subject matter." Willis also said he asked several law enforcement peers about the video and encountered the consensus that the video "promoted prostitution and other criminal activities."
But Hollister says the main reason the city declined to work with Mestas on the Police Activities League project was economics. Because of budget cuts, the department could lose up to ten employees, including five officers this June. And Santos said Willis has been consistent on the subject, saying others have approached the chief with Police Activities League programs, only to receive the same answer Mestas got — a lack of available resources.
Mestas said some officials and staff may believe she is intruding on protected turf with her proposals. She pointed to the grant she received from the San Francisco Giants for a month-long summer youth league entirely paid by the club and offered at no cost to residents. Mestas says some city staffers were stand-offish and she believes the Junior Giants program was not received well because it might take away from existing recreational activities in the city.
The Police Activities League program, though, is more in tune with Mestas' belief in giving back to the community. The program would mentor teenagers, helping them learn how to present themselves better to employers when they enter the business world. She plans to teach kids how to dress for interviews, write résumés, and have a more forward-thinking approach to their lives — something she didn't learn until it was almost too late.
She also said her wild teenage years were no secret to local law enforcement. She does not shy away from the fact that she was arrested numerous times as a youth and convicted of a felony grand theft at the age of eighteen. She said it's the reason troubled youth are attracted to her and why she feels she needs to help them.
Before she figured out a better way to live her life, she had three young children and a very limited support system. She was nearly homeless, but credits San Leandro institutions such as Girls Inc. and the Davis Street Family Resource Center for helping her through those dark times. Dawn Valadez, the development director at the Davis Street Family Resource Center, has known Mestas since the future mayoral candidate first went to Girls Inc. for help years ago. "She is doing amazing things," Valadez said. "I've seen her come a long way to change her life. She's been there, done that, and she knows that path leads to death. Her music is totally separate from who she really is, but it gives her street cred with these kids. Kids are smart and they can see through some of the stuff told to them."
Nevertheless, the presence of a stern-talking female rattling off dark, grimy staccato rhymes is troublesome for some who come from another generation. From the moment she reached out to the city, officials began "dissecting her music," she said. Hollister and Willis wrongly concluded that one track, for example, "Major League Ballin'" was just about sex, she said. "A lot of the slang they were interpreting was from their era of Woodstock, which I am not part of that era," she said. "I had no idea they used the word "'ballin'' to mean sex." She said she told Hollister the definition of the word was generally accepted in pop culture as someone attaining "affluent wealth."
Hollister, whose background was in law enforcement, replaced San Leandro City Manager John Jermanis last year. "As a middle-aged man, I don't understand the music," he said. "But everything is up for interpretation."
After City Hall officials objected to her racy rap video, Sara Mestas decided to run for mayor.


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The Redskins gave LB Brian Orakpo, the 13th overall pick from April, a five year deal worth $20 million total if all goes well and with $12.1 million in guaranteed money.
Orakpo missed one day of practices.
That contract represents a little more than a 12% increase in guaranteed money. That's on the high end of reasonable for a year-over-year increase from one draft pick's contract to the next at the same position.
That jump in contract value is far less drastic than the deal that Oakland gave to WR Derrius Heyward-Bey, which was roughly a 20% jump from Sedrick Ellis' 2008 contract.
The 13th overall pick in 2008, Oregon RB Jonathan Stewart, signed a contract with $10.8 million in guaranteed money that had a maximum potential value of $20 million.
Saints GM Mickey Loomis expressed pessimism and frustration with the "magnitude of increase" seen in the first few first round contracts signed around the league, not mentioning Heyward-Bey's specifically.
Saints first round pick Malcolm Jenkins remains unsigned and out of camp on the first day of live practices.


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Reuben Sandwich Sliders make the perfect party food or easy weeknight dinner!
Dinner rolls are loaded up with all of your favorite Reuben sandwich fillings, topped with a seasoned buttery topping and baked until warm and melted. This is going to be your go-to party dish!
I love a good Reuben sandwich. Rye bread loaded with dressing, swiss cheese, and sauerkraut and cooked in a pan until perfectly grilled. Those flavors together just blend so well and make the perfect sandwich or even pasta salad.
While I love a good grilled Reuben, they're not exactly the easiest meal to make for a big crowd or party…. until now that is! I was going to make our usual Ham & Cheese sliders, or BBQ Chicken Sliders for a party when I thought, why not switch it up a bit. I'm so glad I did, these will definitely be a regular item on my party menus!
This recipe takes the amazing Reuben flavors you love, layers them in slider rolls (or dinner rolls) and bakes them until they're warm and the cheese is melty.
The tops of these rolls are brushed with a deliciously seasoned butter taking these sliders from great to absolutely amazing! The best part is that while these are easy to prepare, they can be made hours in advance (even before any guests arrive) and just popped into the oven before eating.
While these make a great party dish, they also make a quick and easy weeknight meal. We serve them with either a side salad or veggies and dip for the perfect dinner between homework and practice! My kids love them and they reheat perfectly should you be lucky enough to have any leftovers!
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- 12 dinner rolls
- 8 oz corned beef thinly sliced
- 8 oz swiss cheese
- 1/3 cup thousand island or Russian dressing
- 1 cup sauerkraut squeezed dry
- 1/4 cup butter melted
- 1 tablespoon dijon mustard
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon dried minced onion
- 1/2 teaspoon caraway seeds optional
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Whisk together topping ingredients in a small bowl.
- Cut the rolls in half separating the top and bottom.
- Place the bottoms of the rolls in a 9×13 pan (I line with parchment paper for easy removal).
- Spread dressing on rolls. Top with a layer of cheese, sauerkraut, corned beef and another layer of cheese.
- Top with the other half of the rolls and gently spoon or brush the butter mixture overtop.
- Bake about 20-25 minutes or until the cheese has melted and the tops are lightly browned. Serve warm.


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- Ultra-thin bezel.
- Dual video inputs.
- Excellent text output.
- Lacks height adjustment.
- Does not support pivot rotation.
Sony's SDM-S95D is a simple, yet elegant 19-inch LCD monitor with a native resolution of 1280 x 1024 and a 16-ms pixel response rating. The panel is housed in a black casing with an ultra-thin black bezel and is mounted on a round black base with tilt and swivel capabilities. Unfortunately, the stand does not support height or portrait-mode pivot adjustments, and the swivel mechanism is stiff, causing the entire base to move when positioning the screen. On the plus side, there's a cable management slot to keep the desktop free of cable clutter.
Five tiny function buttons and the power switch adorn the right front bezel, but they are poorly marked and are prone to accidental activation when swiveling the display from the right side. Four of the buttons are used to access and select on-screen display (OSD) menu items to make adjustments to color temperature, contrast, brightness, and timing (phase/clock) settings. The ECO button lets you choose between three pre-determined power saving modes that reduce the display's brightness settings automatically, or you can create your own setting to match your specific lighting environment.
Analog and digital inputs are tucked away behind a recessed panel on the rear of the display along with the power connector and an audio pass-through jack, which brings audio from the PC to the headphone jack located on the lower left side of the display. Analog, DVI, and audio cables are included in the box.
On our DisplayMate (www.displaymate.com) tests, the SDM-S95D performed admirably, particularly on the scaled fonts portion of the tests. Text was readable at 5.3 points (7 pixels), a rarity amongst LCD monitors. Color purity was good, and there was no evidence of hot or cold spots on the screen uniformity tests. Colors scales were clearly defined across each level. Grayscale reproduction was good overall, although the panel had trouble rendering grays at the most extreme ends of the scale in analog mode. Light gray performance improved slightly using a digital signal, but dark gray results remained the same. Viewing angle performance was also good. The screen faded slightly at around 165-degrees, but there were no noticeable color shifts.
With the panel's 16-ms pixel response rating, we expected a certain amount of image smearing on our motion tests, and that's what we got. DVD movie play was generally good, but not ideal, and we experienced some jitter while playing Doom 3.
Included with the SDM-S95D is a printed Quick Setup Guide and a CD-ROM containing a user manual, a screen optimization utility, and links to Sony's registration and support sites. The monitor is covered by a three-year parts, labor, and backlight warranty and will be replaced if there are three or more defective pixels.
Despite its lack of height and pivot adjustments, Sony's SDM-S95D is a good choice for users who work with compressed text documents and are ready to move up to a 19-inch LCD monitor.


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I was pretty surprised at how impressed Mark Suster was with SXSW-interactive.? I mean, I understand why it was such a great experience for me and many others in my shoes, but I admit to feeling that, surely for VCs and folks like Mark, SXSW is a little annoyingly out of the way or annoying in that it is such a throng of people.? Or something like that.? But no:
SXSW was magic. I can?t imagine having been at a better event. I was listening to NPR on my drive in yesterday morning. They were talking about the music portion of the show. A band was saying, ?I can?t believe that at one event you could get access to the band managers of Lady Gaga, FooFighters, etc. Every night you are just hanging out with big name bands and the teams around them that brought them to their peak.?
I couldn?t have said it any better replacing music with tech.
His post has a lot of name-dropping - but you know, some of those names are friends of mine and local Austinites (more prominent in startup circles, for sure, than I am).? So there's a certain "reality" to what he's saying that I can relate to.? It was nice to see some Austinites make his list of people he enjoyed meeting with.? Of course, who wouldn't enjoy the conversations he had?? Steve Blank? Dave McClure? Gary V? I was just happy to get to see some of these folks present and hold court at SXSW.


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Interview With Donald Trump; Interview With Tavis Smiley, Cornel West
Aired July 20, 2011 - 21:00 ET
PIERS MORGAN, CNN HOST: Tonight Donald Trump. DONALD TRUMP, ENTREPRENEUR: America is doing so poorly. And it soon will not be a great country the way it's going. The leadership is very poor. We're doing very poorly. MORGAN: Donald Trump, how he would solve the country's debt crisis and what he would do to keep America great. And remember that uproar over President Obama's birth certificate? TRUMP: Honestly I'm very proud that I was able to bring this to a point. Nobody else was. MORGAN: Tavis Smiley says that was race baiting. I'll ask him why he said the 2012 race for the White House will be nastiest in history. And why he says the White House itself pays too much attention to Wall Street. Tonight race in the age of Obama. BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama. (LAUGHTER) OBAMA: To be the next leader of the free world. MORGAN: Candid conversation with Tavis Smiley. This is PIERS MORGAN TONIGHT. Donald Trump says that America's economy could be going from bad to worse. And he joins me now on the phone with his prescription for recovery. Donald, how are you? TRUMP (via phone): Hello, Piers. MORGAN: First of all, congratulations on becoming a grandfather again. Your lovely daughter Ivanka had a beautiful baby girl Arabella Rose, I understand. TRUMP: That is true. And I'm very happy about that. We all are. MORGAN: Now tell me, if we were trying to prescribe an economic future for young Arabella that you would feel comfortable about, what would you do right now? TRUMP: Well, first you have to get the debt down. The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. We have to create jobs and we have to create them rapidly because if we don't things are just going to head in a direction that's going to be almost impossible to recover from. So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making -- let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year. And they just revised that recently, I don't know if you saw. But they just said those numbers are going to be low. So we have to take our country back. MORGAN: And what do you think of this Gang of Six plan? Do you think it's workable from what you've seen? TRUMP: Well, from what I've seen, nobody really knows exactly what it represents and what it is yet. But at least they're in there pitching and at least they're trying to make the big deal. The big deal is really the deal they should make. I don't like the punt. I don't like the deal where we kick it down the road for six months. This is the time to make the deal. And I have to tell you, the Republicans have the cards. People might not think that, but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal. MORGAN: I've been following you on Twitter and you've been pretty aggressive about Obama on the economy. You believe that he can't stop spending and that America has to stop spending. One of his beliefs, of course, is that he's got to get rid of these tax incentives for the rich. And look after the guys with no money. Why would you oppose that as an ideology? TRUMP: Well, you know, it's a different world today, Piers, where people in this world can form companies in foreign countries where they pay very little tax, much less tax. And once you start taxing -- and I'm not talking about me. But once you start taxing people that do create jobs and do create businesses, you take the incentive away and then you're really going to have an unemployment problem. So he's treading on very dangerous waters. MORGAN: Tell me this, Donald. I had Grover Norquist on here the other day, and I've put to him a question which he found quite hard to answer. And in the end gave me what I thought was a ridiculous response. I said to him, given where we are right now in America economically, how much of the blame should be attached to Barack Obama and how much should be attached to the previous eight years of Republican administration? If you were choosing a percentage, apportioning blame to each party there, what would you say? TRUMP: Well, look. You know as well as anybody and you know me probably better than most because of our wonderful relationship with "Celebrity Apprentice" where you won and did great. And I'm proud of you and I'm proud of how well you're doing. MORGAN: Thank you. TRUMP: But you understand I was never a big fan of George Bush, OK? So it wasn't like, oh gee, I'm a rah-rah guy for Bush. But Obama took over a situation and has made it not better but probably worse. I think the economy is getting worse. I see things getting worse. Employment has gone up, not down. So Bush certainly wasn't the greatest, and Obama has not done the job. And he's created a lot of disincentive. He's created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It's almost impossible to get anything done in the country. Environmentally speaking, I want to tell you, I see jobs that are stopped all the time because of absolutely insane and ridiculous environmental rules. And these are jobs that could be employing a lot of people. So nothing's been made better, it's only been made worse. So in terms of percentages, you know, I would just -- not really like to say that. I would say I wasn't a fan of the first and I'm certainly not a fan of the second. Because the second has made things worse, not better. MORGAN: And in terms of America PLC, that the business model, if you like, America Incorporated, as it is here, if you were analyzing the old model and the way it ought to go, what are the fundamental changes? Because it seems to me -- you're right about bureaucracy. China doesn't bog itself down with bureaucracy. It just gets stuff done and that is why they're roaring ahead. That's one of the things. Secondly, America doesn't really build anything anymore. It doesn't make anything. It doesn't export enough stuff abroad to these countries. TRUMP: Right. MORGAN: Which have now all this money. TRUMP: Right. MORGAN: But what other things have you identified? I mean what should America be doing to revise this business plan? To get itself going again? TRUMP: Well, you're really right about that. The system and the model is broken. It didn't used to be broken years ago. Everybody went out and they worked. And they -- you look at 50 percent of the people aren't paying taxes. And it's an amazing statistics. But tremendous number of people aren't paying any taxes. And we have a lot of people that just don't want to work. They don't have the incentive to work, or they haven't been brought up to work. And it's a big problem for this country. In China, everybody is running around working like mad. And I give them great credit for that. But I also give them credit for being much smarter than our leaders. And they've taken our jobs away. They manufacture our products. As do other countries. And the first thing that has to be done is we have to get back on track with respect to OPEC which is a tremendous abuser of this country. And we don't even talk about it. And with respect to China and others who abuse our country because their leaders have made much better deals than our leaders. Because our leaders are either not as smart or there's some other reason. But it's conceivable some of the deals they make. You look at Columbia, a country not that large, they had a $4 billion surplus on us this year. They made $4 billion. We never make a deal. We never make a deal where we come out on top. So we've lost our jobs, we've lost our incentive. And I will tell you that -- and Piers, I've discussed this with you before. Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals. MORGAN: Do you think -- do you think -- TRUMP: It's horrible. MORGAN: Yes, I do think America is just so wrapped down in red tape. I mean getting all the basic things done involves sheets of paperwork. I mean I'm quite surprised having come here to live now just how the most basic stuff you want done in your life requires 100 pages of documents. This is one of the reasons why countries like China are storming ahead because they simply don't have that kind of bureaucracy. TRUMP: Well, you know, it's interesting in China, because I've been to China and I've been all over the world, and they want to build a city and they fill in a piece of the ocean. And in this -- and you know how long it takes them? Like how about two days? They say let's fill this in, we're going to build a city and create thousands of jobs. If you ever even suggested it in this country, they'd say you're certifiably insane because you can't do it. I've seen recently where a certain type of grass -- grass, I won't go into the level of detail that I should, but a certain type, a little piece of grass has held up a major job from being built. Major. Supplying jobs to everybody and everybody wants it to happen. But because it's got a little piece of grass, a certain type of rather rare grass, the environmentalists hold up the job. And now this job will never -- MORGAN: It is ridiculous. TRUMP: No, no -- (CROSSTALK) TRUMP: And yet China will fill up the ocean. And I say to a friend of mine -- MORGAN: Yes. I've seen that. TRUMP: -- in China how long did it take you to get your permits? He doesn't even know what I'm talking about, it went so fast. So this country is in serious trouble. And we have to get back on track. MORGAN: It is in serious -- yes, it is in serious trouble. And what I want to talk to you about now is who you would trust. Given you're no longer in the presidential race. Which of the Republican candidates so far and, you know, Michele Bachmann, I guess, is emerging as one of the favorites from the Tea Party side of things. Mitt Romney appears to be the best at fund raising at the moment and so on. Which one have you identified as potentially the one that could beat Barack Obama? TRUMP: Well, it's too early for me to say. I -- everybody is asking me for support and all of that. It's just too early for me to say. But I will say this, that I think the Republicans are so misplaying their hand. They have the cards. And it started back in December when you had the lame-duck session. And Obama rose like a phoenix. He was gone. It was over for Obama. And they brought him back with the deal they made which was a horrible deal. Paul Ryan's plan where he attacks Medicare is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen especially if you happen to be running for reelection because you're going to see the only one happy is Nancy Pelosi and her group because you're going to see some tremendous reversals. I've seen it already with Congressman West where he's being beaten up now by -- you know by the Democrats over Medicare. MORGAN: And what do you -- what do you think of Michele Bachmann? TRUMP: Well, I think she's a very underrated person. She actually came to see me in New York a few weeks ago, and I was very impressed with her. And I think she's highly underrated. I think she's very good. MORGAN: And Sarah Palin obviously has not committed yet. She's another good friend of yours. TRUMP: No, and I think she's terrific. I think she's a terrific person. She came to see me a little while before. You know we have the famous -- MORGAN: They're all coming to see you, Donald. TRUMP: Yes. They're all coming to see me but Sarah Palin has also been -- you know, they're highly underrated people. They're smart. They know what they're doing. They know every move. And they don't get proper credit. So I don't know that Sarah is going to run. I don't think she's going to run. I'm not sure she knows whether or not she's going to run, but I think she's a terrific person. I think Michele is a terrific person. MORGAN: And talking of people who are coming to see me, in this case me, I've got an old friend of yours, Tavis Smiley, coming in in a moment for an interview, who said during the birther controversy that your involvement in any election would make it the ugliest, nastiest, most divisive and most racist in the history of this republic. TRUMP: Well, that's just -- (CROSSTALK) MORGAN: Anything you'd like to say to Tavis? TRUMP: The word racist has not been applied to me, I will tell you that. But I was very proud of the job I did with respect to the birther issue, because I got Obama to do something which nobody else was able to get him to do. And there's a real question as to why he took so long to do it. Maybe one of these days you'll have to ask him why. And you have to check out that document very carefully. But I got him to do something that nobody else was able to do. And I'm very proud of it. But I have to tell you, the Republicans have a chance, but the way they're going about it, they are not going to get him out of office. They are making mistake after mistake. And I can see them already making another mistake when it comes to what they're discussing right now in terms of debt limits. MORGAN: Donald Trump, a provocative and entertaining as ever. Thank you very much for joining me. TRUMP: Thank you very much, Piers. MORGAN: Coming up, Tavis Smiley's response, his take on Donald Trump, politics and President Obama. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) MORGAN: Tavis Smiley is the host of his own PBS talk show and the author of "Fail Up." And he joins me now. Welcome, Tavis. TAVIS SMILEY, HOST, PBS'S "TAVIS SMILEY": Piers, good to see. And congratulations on your show. MORGAN: Thank you very much. And indeed on yours. So you heard Donald Trump there. What was your reaction to what he said? SMILEY: Just want to clarify one thing. I did not call Donald Trump racist. What I suggested was that the way he was handling this birther issue was indicative of how ugly, how nasty, how divisive, how racist perhaps this campaign for the White House was going to be. I still stand by that. There are all kinds of signs that suggest to me this is going to be an ugly, nasty, racist, divisive campaign for the White House. MORGAN: I know Donald Trump well. Obviously I did "Celebrity Apprentice" with him. SMILEY: Sure. MORGAN: I don't think he's got a racist bone in his body. I know that for a fact. I think he felt that with Obama and the birther thing, however ludicrous it seemed to other people, he couldn't understand why the president didn't just release his birth certificate straight away. It was a bit odd that it took him so long. Why do you think it took him so long? SMILEY: I can't speak for the Obama White House. God knows given the critique I've leveled against this White House, I'm the last person they would ask to speak for them on PIERS MORGAN or anywhere else. What I do know is that Barack Obama has been maltreated, has been treated in such a way that there is no comparison historically to any other president being asked to render that kind of document. That issue had been settled long ago. And for whatever reason, call it racist, call it hate, call it whatever you want -- call it. Whatever reason there are many in this country, in the Tea Party and beyond, who will not let this issue go. And I thought then and think now that with all respect to Donald Trump that it was beneath him to try to build his campaign on that issue. Beyond that, I thought Donald Trump, quite frankly, was pimping the media. And I thought many in the media went for that. He was laughing all the way to the bank. I said from day one Donald Trump is not going to run for president. He's making too much money. (CROSSTALK) MORGAN: I would take issue with that because I spoke to him privately through that period. There was a moment when he went about 10 points clear in the polls for Republican potential nominees. And he was deadly serious. He was looking at this and he was getting an amazing reaction from the public. And then he had the triple whammy really. He had the White House Correspondents Dinner where he went to, Osama bin Laden got killed, the birther issue resolved. And suddenly the oxygen went out of his tent a bit. But I think he was genuinely thinking about it. I don't think it was a feeble thought to some game. SMILEY: You have insights I don't have, obviously. What I do know is that he has done this before. This is not the first time he's flirted with running for the White House. And again, if you're going to run, run. But run on some legitimate and some serious issues. And this notion of this birther attack on the president, I just thought that was beyond the pail. My friend (INAUDIBLE) who you will talk to later -- MORGAN: Yes. SMILEY: Put it very simply this way. When it comes to the president, we have to respect him, we have to protect him, and we have to correct him. And in my career, since he'd been on the national stage at least, I've had -- I've always respected the president. There have been times I've had to protect him against birther attacks. But just as often I will correct him when I think he's wrong. So this was one of those incidents where I thought the president need to be protected against from pretty vicious and quite frankly vulgar attacks. MORGAN: Tell me this. I mean after our last guest is, it's an interesting question, I think. Is America more or less racist since Barack Obama became the first African-American president? SMILEY: More or less. That's a good question. I'm not sure that it is more or less. I think that what see are (INAUDIBLE) that have always been there but they've been exploited as a result of his ascendancy to the White House. This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised. I think what his election signifies, Piers, is that America may be less racist. Less racist. But in no way are we post racial. MORGAN: You know I mean -- you know in a funny way, it was a fantastic day for African-Americans when he got into the White House. But at the same time it raised the whole issue, put it out there, exposed people. And I share your concern that the next election campaign, there will be subtle racism. A play here, I'm sure. SMILEY: Why just subtle? Why not outright and overt? MORGAN: Did you see that, though, in one of the -- SMILEY: Well, I think that -- (CROSSTALK) SMILEY: That's my point. I think that birther attack was indicative -- MORGAN: But we're moving on from that which has now been resolved. SMILEY: Yes. MORGAN: Do you still see residual issues there where you'll see what you perceived to racist views? SMILEY: I think the deck is stacked against this president in ways that it hasn't been stacked against other presidents. I'm not going to suggest that that's racist through and through. I've made the point many times to African-Americans for all the black folk -- for all the love and adoration there is for Barack Obama in the black community. Obviously he could not have been elected president without a whole bunch of white folk. So black folk could not have done it by ourselves. So I don't want to cast dispersion and have a blanket approach to calling all Americans racist who disagree with Barack Obama. And I hated that kind of critique against me when I made the comments about Donald Trump and others. My point was not to try to stack the deck in such a way that any critique of the president would be considered racist. That didn't make any sense because I critique the president sometimes -- (CROSSTALK) MORGAN: What is your main critique of President Obama right now? SMILEY: It's really a question of whether you're going to side with the weak or are you going to side with the strong? And the evidence suggest to date respectfully that this president too often has sided with the strong over the weak. MORGAN: In what way? SMILEY: In many ways. Wall Street. When Wall Street came a calling, he responded. In ways that Larry Summers and Geithner and others in the administration wanted him to respond. I think Wall Street is exhibit A. But in so many instances, we see this president either siding with the strong over the weak, or too often compromising and quite frankly capitulating on issues that do not serve the best interest of the base that got him elected. MORGAN: I mean part of his charm of why he got elected is he's not reactionary. He's calm. He's no drama Obama. What is actually wrong with a president taking his time listening to the arguments making decisions? Are we in too much of a rapid fire society these days where everything has to be boom, boom, boom. You know I quite like his more measure style. I'm not saying he's perfect. But I quite like that style of presidency. SMILEY: Two responses to that. Number one, I laugh at my friends in the media particularly those who are progressives or liberals who celebrated the fact that he was calm and deliberate and methodical, and he listened well when he was running. Those same progressives are now giving the president hell for taking too long, for being too cautious, but not moving swiftly enough, et cetera, et cetera. It's been amazing to me to watch that 180 shift in the progressive critique, critique that is against this president. Number one. Number two, there is nothing wrong to your questioning especially, Piers. There's nothing with the president taking his time to consider all sides. But at some point, at some point people want to see the president fighting for them. That's what there the proof is now suggesting that their polling suggested to them, that people want to know whether or not the president is fighting for them. My grand dad put it this way all the way. Tavis, there's some fights that ain't worth fighting even if you win. There are other fights you have to fight even if you lose. I think Americans want to see the president fight for them. MORGAN: Hold that thought. We'll come back and find out what you think he should be fighting on and why. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) OBAMA: The day I'm inaugurated, this country looks at itself differently and the world looks at America differently. And if you believe that we've got to heal America and we've got to repair our standing in the world, then I think my supporters believe that I am a messenger who can deliver that message around the world in a way that no other candidate can do. (END OF VIDEO CLIP) MORGAN: That was then candidate Barack Obama with Tavis Smiley in 2007. I mean he promised a lot. It was the audacity of hope, and perhaps hope was a bit outrageous in the case of Barack Obama. Nobody could live up to the kind of expectation we had. We were talking before the break about where he's got things wrong the way you'd like him to be more forceful. America is in a massive financial meltdown at the moment. A real crisis. What's the way out? How do we revive America Incorporated? How do we get it back on its feet? SMILEY: I recognize that campaigning and governing as you well recognize, Piers, campaign and governing are two different things. And so often presidencies are judged by not what they promised by, but rather by how they handle the crises that came up on their watch. Here's the bottom line. When Obama was running for president during that interview, he and John McCain go on to have three presidential debates. The word poverty does not come up one time in three presidential debates. Obama doesn't raise it. McCain doesn't raise it. The moderators in those debates respectfully don't raise it. No conversation about the poor, about poverty during that campaign. Who are the new poor these days? The new poor are the former middle class. So what's my answer to your question? It's simple. Three things, jobs, jobs, jobs. That's the message they've been missing. And it troubles me that a campaign that was so good at staying on message, that was so good at delivering the right message that resonate with the voters somehow got off track and they've not focused on jobs. I've been for peace that we both right, I'm sure, about Frank Rich, in the "New Yorker" recently. Lays out the case brilliantly. Now my friend Professor West and I have made the same critique for three years now. And this is something that I want to say that's fascinating for me. If Piers Morgan says the same thing I say, it's OK. If Frank Rich says the same thing I say, it's OK. If Paul Krugman or Maureen Dowd makes the same arguments that I make or Dr. West makes, it's OK. But somehow if we make those same arguments in love and out of respect, somehow we're haters. Somehow we're being too hard on the president. Somehow inside of our own community you end up being a sort of pariah. But all you're trying to do is to speak truth to power, to be consistent to the truth. And why is what I say, versus what my white progressive friends say, any different? MORGAN: You say in your book your favorite quote is Samuel Beckett. Ever tried, ever failed, no matter, try again, fail again, fail better. Is part of your problem with President Obama that he doesn't take enough dramatic action to risk potential failure? He's not doing the things fast enough. I mean, interestingly, just when everyone was saying this, he went and killed bin Laden. Boom, bang. Took him out. Incredibly audacious raid. So he has it in him to do that kind of thing. And yet on the debt crisis, on the economy, he seems to have been quite diffident. SMILEY: I'm not so sure that the debate or that the question is whether it's a question of pace. Whether or not he's fast or slow. I think it's about principles and priorities. MORGAN: How do we get people back to work? If you were in charge now, what do we do? SMILEY: First of all there's got to be a laser focus on jobs, number one. Number two, the president can no longer be afraid to say the word poverty. He won't even say the word poverty. He won't say the word poor. You can't be afraid to address it, number one. There's got to be a laser focus on jobs. Number two. Number three, let's talk about deficit reduction. That's the quickest way we're going to increase unemployment. History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to advance on it around the world, that is, where it leads to job losses, not job creation. So this deficit reduction -- MORGAN: You'd be spending more now to get out of this? SMILEY: This deficit reduction conversation right now is ill timed. This is not the -- back to my point about too much compromise, too much capitulation. This is not the point to be talking about deficit reduction. Again, I'm not the only person to say that. But show me examples in history -- a litany of examples, if you can find them, where deficit reduction leads to more job. Nobody is leveling with the American people about that. MORGAN: Would you raise taxes right now to increase revenue? SMILEY: I think raising taxes is an option, number one. MORGAN: Would you cut spending at the same time? SMILEY: I think there are places to cut spending, but we're not cutting it in the right places, number one. I think, number two, you can raise taxes on the right group of Americans. And number three, I think you can close a whole lot of corporate loopholes on the right Americans. It's tragic for me, respectfully, again, that Mr. Immelt is the head of the president's economic commission and he heads a company that paid not a cent -- I paid more taxes than GE paid. (CROSS TALK) MORGAN: What you're really saying is that President Obama has not looked after the poor in the way that perhaps he promised to. And he has kind of back scratched the rich and hasn't done nearly enough perhaps to be more punitive with them, ironically, given so many of these people, the bankers and so on, were the ones who got us in the mess. Would you like him now to revise that, to go after the richer Americans? SMILEY: Yes. But I -- with one exception. I respect your word choice. I don't call it punitive or pejorative. I call it fairness. What you call punitive, I call fair. I think the president -- MORGAN: They would say it's punitive. Donald Trump said earlier to me, you start taxing the rich, what you're taxes is success and achievement and hard work. It's the American dream in many ways. Why should they be punished, the ones who weren't in the banking community? SMILEY: The rich always say that. The rich have never seen a tax that they like. I've been rich and I've been poor in my own life. Obviously rich is better. But I also believe that I am not unlike many other Americans who have been blessed with means, that we're not unwilling to pay our fair share. Back to your question you raised a moment ago and I can tie this in. I have said consistently, Piers, that great presidents aren't born. They're made. There is no Abraham Lincoln with Frederick Douglass pushing him into his greatness. There is no FDR without A. Phillip Randolph pushing him. There is no LBJ without MLK pushing him. So you got to push these guys. MORGAN: They had big plans, these guys. SMILEY: And they took risk. MORGAN: When you say laser focus on jobs, what's the big plan? What's the big idea he's not doing to get Americans back to work? SMILEY: First of all, again, this conversation about deficit reduction is ill timed, number one. Number two, those same guys on Wall Street who we took care of, we've got to find a way to have them get off that trillion dollar plus money that they're sitting on and not reinvesting it in the community. We could do this all night in terms of what ought to be done about jobs. But there just hasn't been the kind of focus. See, I'm not an elected official. And I respect the question. And we've answered it and could continue to answer it. The problem is that the folk who we elect to deal with these issues know exactly what to do. When they bailed Wall Street out, they did it with no strings attached. But nobody's talking about jobs in Washington. MORGAN: Hold that thought, because when I come back, I want to talk to you about which of the Republican candidates, if you were President Obama, you would now be fearing most as an opponent. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) MORGAN: Back with my guest Tavis Smiley. Tavis, when you see the Republican potential nominee lineup, if you're Barack Obama, right now, given it's bound to be about the economy, this election, which one do you fear the most? SMILEY: At this point, I'm not sure I'm scared. And I don't mean that to sound arrogant, in the Obama voice. MORGAN: Let me rephrase, who would you least like to be facing, of all the names you see? SMILEY: To answer your question, I'm really not sure. And here's why: I've said consistently, Piers, I don't think you can beat somebody with nobody. And I don't see that somebody yet, at the moment, that can take the president out. I still believe, my critique notwithstanding, which is why I'm pushing the president to be more aggressive about the poor, to be more aggressive about jobs. But I don't see anybody at the moment that I'm looking at who I think can beat the president head up, number one. I could be wrong about that. We'll see. Secondly though, it is interesting to me, though, that all this talk now about Rick Perry, which has everybody excited on the right, is fascinating. Here's a guy who just a few years ago as governor was talking about seceding from the union. He's talking about seceding a few years ago and now he's considering the idea of running for president, and that excites the Republican party, this party that is always rah-rah, yay-yay, America, red, white and blue? MORGAN: Does the GOP really know what it is at the moment. This is the thing that fascinates me with the Tea Party, with the moderates, with Rick Perry and so on. Given all their backgrounds, there's no consistency here. There's a really disparate, wide gulf between a number of these people. They've got to work out as a party which way they go, haven't they? SMILEY: So they're acting like Democrats, in other words. For many years, Democrats haven't been able to figure that out either. I think they do have to have a way to figure out what they want to be when they grow up, what kind of party they really want to be. But, again, it's fascinating to me that the talk that seems to excite the base of the party most is not talk about the folk who are already in the race, but by any other name, Rick Perry, Haley Barbour, et cetera. MORGAN: What do you think of Herman Cain? SMILEY: I've never met him before. He certainly is the kind of persuasion that can deliver a good speech. Of course, we have a president already who can deliver a good a speech. Beyond delivering a good speech, I don't know much about him. I'm sure in the coming days and months, we'll learn more about Mr. Cain. MORGAN: Your story is fascinating. You came from a very humble beginning, ten kids living in a three bedroom trailer. I read a quote here on the back of your book from Charlie Rose, "Tavis needs to go no further than his life to find a good story. It's a story of rising out of poverty with a purpose, of hearing the music of a dream. His hopes not to be just a broadcaster or a businessman, but also a leader and a builder." Pretty high praise there from a guy who's interviewed most of the top people in business and politics and so on. SMILEY: Those were kind words from Charlie, yes. MORGAN: When you hear that about yourself -- I mean, you have come from a poor background. You have driven yourself to where you got to. You're clearly very passionate about poverty now and people who have nothing. Is there more of them and us now in America, do you think? Is the gap getting bigger? SMILEY: Yes. To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me. My read of history, Piers, suggests to me that there is no empire in the history of the world -- in the world, that has not at some point failed or faltered or just flattened. I don't know if it's our arrogance, our hubris, our patriotism now morphing into nationalism. I don't know what it is that makes us not even want to consider the fact that one day this experiment in democracy, that this country could one day fail as well. And I suggest to you that if it is going to fail one day -- and I pray not -- it will fail under the weight of poverty. This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population. Those numbers just don't add up in the long run. MORGAN: What is the trick to recovering from failure? SMILEY: I think acknowledging, as Beckett said -- or suggested, that failure is as much a part of life as success is. Anyone who I know -- I suspect if I were to ask you this question, including Piers Morgan -- anyone I know who is successful in any field of human endeavor, if they're being honest, they will admit to you they've learned much more from their failure than they ever learned from their success. MORGAN: What was s your biggest failure, do you think? SMILEY: This book lays out 20 of them. I went to jail early for writing bad checks when I was a college student. Speaking of college, my parents thought I'd graduated after four years. It took me 16 years of hiding the fact that I really hadn't graduated to get my degree. In my career on television and radio, I've made major mistakes. I've been caught on tape saying things I wish I hadn't been caught saying, and had to ask for forgiveness from other people. MORGAN: Of all these things, what have you learned about yourself? SMILEY: That I'm human, that I'm not human and divine, that I'm just human, that failure, again, is as much a part of life as success is, and that Beckett is right. If you've ever tried, you're going to fail. The message is -- MORGAN: Should politicians be more open about failure, about making mistakes? SMILEY: Not just politicians, all of us. The game in this town, especially in L.A., for that matter, at any level of elite activity -- the game is to act like once you arrived at the level elitism, that you've always been fabulous, that you've never made mistakes, that you've never screwed up. I want to push back on that with this book. MORGAN: I'm going to bring in a friend of yours now , a very outspoken critic of President, a man who has called you, in fact, a puppet. It's your co-host, Cornel West. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) MORGAN: Back now is Tavis Smiley. And Joining us, his co-host on the radio show "Smiley and West," Cornel West. Cornell, welcome. CORNEL WEST, HARVARD UNIVERSITY: Blessed to be here. Always a blessing to be on with brother Tavis. MORGAN: You were a big supporter of President Obama. But you also said this recently -- you described him as the black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs, and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats. And now he has become head of the American killing machine and he's proud of it. Pretty strong words. You stand by those words? WEST: Oh, I believe it. I believe it. I supported my dear brother Barack Obama because I wanted to bring an end to the age of Reagan, greed running amuck at the top, indifference to poor people, and highly polarized body politic. When he moves into office, who do we get? We get his economic team coming around out of Wall Street, in the shadow of Wall Street. America had a nervous background in 2008 only to what? Wall Street greed. All of us agree. Tavis and I are Christian. We know we all have gangster proclivities. But gangster actions, fraudulent behavior, insider trading, all the various criminal activities, none of it investigated or prosecuted as of now, that's what led to our breakdown. Now we're having convulsions, a debate over cutting? Cutting when it comes to poor people? There is a state of emergency in America. It is a matter of national security, the condition of poor and working people, as much as Iraq and as much as Afghanistan. Barack Obama does not make that a priority. MORGAN: Why is he not prioritizing this? WEST: He's got the wrong team. He's got the wrong people around him. It's very clear. You say -- for example, I heard you say he's very calm and serene. I love calmness and serenity. But, you know what, when people I'm concerned about are catching hail, which is working people of all colors, poor people of all colors, then you ought to have a state of emergency. FDR had a state of emergency. Abraham Lincoln, state of emergency. LBJ, our white brother from Jim Crow Texas, has a state of emergency in regard to black America. He had conscience. MORGAN: Let me ask you a difficult question. Does the African- American community in American, generally, do you think -- does it feel particularly let down because he's African-American, that you feel he's not doing enough for other African-Americans, many of whom are poor? WEST: I think brother Tavis said it well. I think there's an ambivalence I think in America. Black people, for the most part, have a deep sense of protection of Barack Obama. Right? He's visually attacked by right wing and Fox News and others all the time. He lives under the threat of death. We all pray for him daily. MORGAN: I haven't heard Fox News quite say what you said about him. WEST: You know what the reason is? I tell the truth. Fox News doesn't. MORGAN: So when you abuse him, it's the truth. When they abuse him -- WEST: I love mascots. I love puppets. People choose to be mascots and puppets. They're still human beings. But when Fox News accused him of being a socialist -- socialist -- and he's very much an extension of the very corporate state that has been squeezing out the juices of our democracy, making it difficult for poor children, precious children of all colors, to live lives of decency? MORGAN: Tavis says the main focus now must be jobs, jobs, jobs. Most people are now in a consensus about this. WEST: Absolutely, by focusing on poverty. MORGAN: How do you get people who are out of work back to work quickly? How do we fix this crisis? WEST: One thing is that America has tremendous creativity when America has a priority. When you make jobs, jobs, jobs the priority, the kind of thing Tavis talks about, Paul Krugman talks about, Frank Rich talked about, Bob Herbert talked about -- we can go on and on and on. Robert Cutner talks about. We come up with ways in which job programs -- MORGAN: I totally agree with that. I think that is the American -- the American philosophy is choose a problem and then attack it with everything you've got. . If you're sick with cancer, you want to be in somewhere like Los Angeles, because the doctors will go baboom. And I feel that until America collectively with this job situation does this and comes together and says, we are going to fix this, until that happens -- and it's not being driven yet by the top. SMILEY: Some of this has to do, to your question , Piers, with retraining those persons. As industries change, as we see where the future is headed, retraining those persons who are out of work now. Dr. West and I are honored to be on this program in large measure to announce this poverty tour. Starting August the 6th, we are getting on a bus. It's called The Poverty Tour, A Call to Conscience. MORGAN: And what's the idea? SMILEY: The idea to get on this bus and to go to big cities and small towns, starting with Native Americans and African-Americans and Hispanics and white males and white women, children and seniors and homeless veterans, all across this country, in 15 different cities. We're going to raise the issue of poverty. We're going to talk to those persons who are battling it, who are struggling, those who have lost their homes, those who don't have jobs, those who are struggling to get an education. We want to use this week of August 6th through the 12th to put as much attention, as much focus, as much spotlight as we can on raising the issue of poverty in America higher on the agenda. In this presidential race that we're about to embark upon, somebody has to stand up and defend and fight for and not be afraid to talk about the plight of the poor in this country. This issue is starting to get a lot more traction in this country. We're delighted that this tour is bringing in other persons who believe as we believe that this issue has to be higher on the agenda. The NEA is supporting us on this, the AARP Foundation is supporting us on this. And every day, more and more institutions are deciding to support this. MORGAN: You're both very passionate about it. I think what you're doing is great with this bus. Great. Why is there not more anger amongst the average American at the moment? It seems to me there is a kind of tacit acceptance of their loss. In other words, we know there are big problems. These people are going to have to suck it up. WEST: People are feeling helpless. MORGAN: Why don't they get out and show a bit of passion and anger? WEST: We have seen it in Madison, Wisconsin. We've seen it in Indiana. It's beginning to surface, but not much. But not much. Part of it is because we've been dealing with a culture of greed is good. We've been dealing with a culture of don't tax -- what Donald Trump said, don't tax our success, when we've got the lowest tax rates in the last 30 years, when you've got trillions of dollars in tax havens offshore, offshore subsidiaries, corporations. One out of four corporations didn't pay a penny of taxes whatsoever. MORGAN: Let me be the Devil's Advocate here. WEST: Sure. MORGAN: Is it really the big problem that rich aren't paying enough tax, or is the real problem that the poor are not being looked after properly? WEST: It goes hand in hand. It goes hand in hand. MORGAN: Donald Trump has a point, in that there are people self- made in this country, who have worked incredibly hard to get where they are. Why should they have to pay exorbitant taxation? WEST: It's not exorbitant taxes to a brother, Piers, at all. The level of taxes now compared to where they were in the 1960s and 70s? It's very, very low. But the issue is this, when you give a priority to the interest of corporate plutocrats and Wall Street oligarchs, then you don't give a priority to jobs. Nor do you give a priority to the kind of issues of poverty that we're talking about. SMILEY: And it doesn't have -- to agree with your question, Piers, it doesn't have to be either/or. It can be and should be both/and. We have to look -- the rich have to pay their fair share. I know a lot of rich people who are willing to pay fair share. WEST: Absolutely. SMILEY: The poor have to be looked after. One is happening. The other is not. That's what we're saying. This gap between the have gots and the have-nots cannot continue to grow without us seeing some signs of that anger in the streets. MORGAN: We'll take a final break. When we come back, I want to hold a gun to both your heads metaphorically, and say which of the Republican candidates, if you had to, would you vote for at the next election, as we stand. WEST: Ouch. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) MORGAN: Guys, the metaphorical gun is at your head. You've got to vote for one Republican nominee as things stand. SMILEY: Sings I don't see anybody yet on the Republican side who cares enough about poor and working people, I literally would just put the names on the wall and throw a dart. And whoever it hit, I don't see a difference honestly. MORGAN: Cornel, be more specific. There must be one who is less threatening. WEST: There's not one. Use the legacy of Martin King. He said "we need a qualitative shift in our souls and a quantitative shift in our circumstance," put the stress on poor and working people. I don't see one Republican anywhere near that. The problem is the Democrats hardly have anybody either. I'm critical of both parties. That's why we're talking seriously -- MORGAN: Does the Tea Party care more, do you think, about the rights of ordinary people than the more moderate part of the GOP? WEST: I think there's elements in their message that do. The problem is they misconstrue it and end up in the pockets of the oligarchs and against the government, per se, rather than government being a force for good. MORGAN: Final question, will you both be voting for Obama this time? WEST: Pray for me. SMILEY: I'm a talk show host. I don't have to answer that question. MORGAN: Can't believe you both choked on that. That's unbelievable. Tavis Smiley, Cornel West, thank you both very much. Been a real pleasure. That's it for tonight. Tomorrow, an exclusive interview with the single largest foreign investor in some of this country's biggest corporations. Some say he's the man who really owns America. Saudi billionaire Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal. Now here's "AC 360."


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