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You are in the same boat as me.. Having bought my 5D mkIII last December, there was no accessible 4K option until the Panasonic GH4 made its appearance in the Spring. I was devastated. Having invested heavily in Canon gear, any future move I make will need to fit with my current EF mount lenses, not to mention everything else such as batteries, memory cards and my overall production workflow.
(EOS HD comparison between the cameras).
At the moment, there are two options on the table. Said to be like comparing apples and oranges, the Sony A7s and GH4 are the current competing professional cameras that offer 4K functionality, however for people that own the cameras and have been comparing the two have found it difficult. This is for a few reasons:
Sensor size: The A7s is full frame, the GH4 is MFT.
4K in camera: The GH4 can record 4K internally, the A7s requires an external recorder such as an Odyssey or Shogun.
Jeromy, CEO of Atomos talking to me and Sam from The IABM about new products and the IBC Show.
Now, many people will be arguing that what does the increased resolution allow you to do, that HD doesn't? The image produced from the 5D is great; good in low light, versatile, fits my style of filming... But it also has big downfalls for being a DSLR, and not a video camera.
Something that is unique about these two cameras is that their 'out of the box' functionality has been fine tuned for video applications, as well as high end photography. This is what Canon has left behind in their non Cinema line cameras, and Magic Lantern has struck gold on with their firmware hack enabling awesome video functions.
I have only recently installed ML on my 5D mkIII due to the current firmware on the camera. It was shipped with version 1.2.3, I was hesitant to downgrade the firmware and was patient in waiting for ML to develop a tested and working version for 1.2.3. Now having access to on screen aid such as waveform monitors and audio levels make such a difference, and restart movie for the longer filming durations is great. It turns your 'photography' camera into basically a video camera.
From: About DSLR (Youtube).
For my type of videography, the benefits of having not only 4K, but a wider range of options for recording will allow me to crop and downscale any 4K acquisition to HD and hold incredible picture detail, dynamic range and depth of field.
The recording bit rates are higher, meaning more data is stored for post production editing, compositing or grading.
Lastly, it should increase the production value of what I produce. Now, I am not stating that better equipment makes better videos. It does give you the opportunity to step up with what you can do in your work, and especially as it keeps you up to date in a world of ever changing and improving technology.
So, what is my investment cost?
This is dependent on your current shooting kit, and whether you can merge your current system with a new one. Perhaps you already shoot Sony or Panny, so you're in luck.
For me, all my lenses are Canon EF mount, some are electronic, others are manual, so an adapter would be needed in my case. The price of this is dependent on the glass you use, or are going to use.
Let's look at the Panasonic GH4 to start with.
Panasonic GH4 (body only) - £1296.00
Metabones Speedbooster EF to MFT (smart with electronics) - £468.00
GH4 batteries x 2 -£130
Transcend 600x ultimate SD card x 2 (Amazon price) - £36
Now, as the GH4 is MFT, I might purchase a wide angle lens because my current ultra wide angle 14mm T/3.1 would be almost 28mm T/6 due to the sensor equivalence. So, my options would be either:
Panasonic 12 - 35mm F/2.8 - £829.00
I did have the Samyang 12mm T/2, realizing it does not come in MFT mount.. So the above would be my option. I have used it before, it has great OIS and has a decent depth of field for an F/5.6 equivalent lens.
Total GH4 investment inc extra lens - £2759.00 (excluding extra lens - £1930.00)
That £1930 was pretty much the same price I paid for the 5D mkIII body only.
Now the Sony A7s.
Sony A7s (body and battery/PWR kit) - £2034.00
Metabones Speedbooster EF to E (smart with electronics) - £316.46
Transcend 600x ultimate SD card x 2 (Amazon price) - £36
The A7s does not record 4K internally, so I would need to purchase the Atomos Shogun recorder at - £1464.00
Also, as the A7s is compact in size, a cage is required to make it more accessible with the recorder and mics etc.
Movcam A7s cage - £148.02
Total A7s investment - £3998.48
(All prices are including VAT from CVP).
Now.. I've shot on the Panasonic GH4 and I like it. When I've talked to Panasonic reps about the product they all had the same comment that Panasonic listened to videographers, and you can tell. The available recording formats and codecs allow a range of uses for the camera, and the features it packs into its tiny form are perfect for those that already utilize DSLR for video.
(Look back to earlier this year to the Park Camera's Panasonic open day - https://ajp1991.wordpress.com/2014/03/16/meet-the-panasonic-gh4/)
Personally, and this is very subjective to the way I was filming when using the camera, the captured video looked like video. Some will understand what I mean, others won't, but for those that have been shooting on a full frame camera, the 'look' is there. Obviously the sensor plays a large part in that, but if I purchased a GH4 kit outright (disregarding my current EF mount lenses).. I would purchase the Voightlander 25mm and the trusted Samyang cine lenses which might just combat the 'look' issue I feel like I have. As well as high quality ND filters so my shutter can remain at 1/50th.
Really quick GH4 test:
Trying out the 4K, and again a basic test:
(Please if you have experience, tips, footage or photos that you would like to share, please do!)
What am I going to do then?
My dad taught me something really great; good things come to those who wait. In other words, have patience.
As others test out, review and produce videos using the GH4 and A7s (and other cameras that pop up here and there), I will be closer to making my decision. For now, I know to hold off. A good thing for me to do would be to road test both cameras, work it with all of it's video functions and produce a couple of vids that I can look back on. The folks at Park Camera's are great at in store demos, but I can also wait for BVE in Feb 2015.
So, I can frustratingly wait a little longer for my jump to the next innovation of video production and delivery.
In the mean time I can always look at Blackmagic Design's options that shoot 4K, as well as the Apertus AXIOM modular camera, and keep the new Arri Alexa 65 and RED Dragon for my dreams.
From - https://www.apertus.org/


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Tomorrow's the big day, people, so before you hit the streets to go trick-or-treating, here are some useful "guidelines" for having a safe and scream-worthy night:
Wear reflective clothing:
Or just something so unbelievably hideous that people won't be able to NOT notice you. You know, like Crocs and a Speedo. (As a bonus: EVERYONE will want your picture!)
If you're trying to scare someone, don't yell "Boo!" It's not scary enough.
Never assume you know what someone's costume is.
One person's Elvis is another's Dracula, and you really don't need that kind of awkwardness.
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Even if they give you crap candy like generic lollipops and little bags of candy corn*:
*Actual candy we will be giving out on Halloween. Plus little boxes of Milk Duds. Y'all come by, y'hear?
And try to look grateful when you're saying "thank you," too - not like this:
"This is my happy face."
Lastly, and mostly importantly...
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Living Wage: A UK perspective
The living wage is gaining momentum in the UK. We look at its costs and benefits, which sectors have the most exposure to the issue and the impact of its implementation on corporate margins.
In summary, we find that the costs and benefits of introducing the living wage include:
- Higher costs per employee
- A negative impact on corporate earnings (particularly in the retail sector, where there is a larger number of sub-living wage earners)
- Additional costs if a company wishes to maintain wage differentials across its workforce
- Lower employee turnover (studies have shown that paying a living wage has increased employee motivation and loyalty)
- Lower absenteeism
- Increased productivity (especially where the living wage has been introduced alongside an up-skilling programme)
- Improved customer satisfaction and lower complaints
- A greater ability to attract and retain talent
- Living wage earners see an increase in disposable income, which is then spent elsewhere in the economy (retailers, restaurants and bars are likely to benefit from this)
Retail sector most exposed in the UK
Research suggests that the hotels, restaurants and leisure sub-sector employs the largest proportion of sub-living wage workers.
For example, the graph below highlights that 90% of bar staff earn less than the living wage, but the retail sector employs the largest absolute number of sub-living wage workers with 760,000 UK-based workers.
So for investors, this may mean a higher level of employee turnover and lower productivity per employee than other sectors.
Figure 1: Occupations with greatest number of people below living wage: all UK
Source: Living wage research for KPMG, Markit, 2014.
Savings partially offset the costs in UK retail sector
Our proprietary research highlights a material cost in reaching living wage, ranging between 1 – 2% of UK revenues. However, the potential savings achieved through lower absenteeism and lower turnover offsets between 16% to 36% of these additional costs.
While the range of potential benefits is broad, we note that speciality retailers are best placed to benefit from introducing the living wage.
With higher margins, it is more feasible to invest in staff, and the resulting improvement in customer service is likely to have a greater impact on sales, as demonstrated by two case studies which are presented in the full article at the link below.
An important part of Schroders' engagement strategy
As part of Schroders' engagement strategy, we have spoken to a number of different companies across the consumer sector on the topic of living wage.
While very few consumer companies have become accredited living wage employers, there is some evidence of pay increases and up-skilling programmes. Schroders will continue to engage with companies to better understand the costs and potential benefits that can be gained from introducing a living wage on a case by case basis.
Investment conclusions
There is increasing pressure from a broad range of stakeholders on companies to pay a living wage. While there are clear direct costs, especially on corporate earnings, the benefits appear significant (although these may be difficult to directly quantify).
We find that the cost and benefits differ not only between sectors, but also within sectors. Indeed, the costs and benefits are greater for the retail and leisure sector, and within this sector, it may be more feasible to pay a higher wage amongst speciality retailers.
In our view, the issues of the living wage should therefore be considered on an individual basis.
Please find the full article at the link below


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[1] A lawyer ordinarily is not obliged to accept a client whose character or cause the lawyer regards as repugnant. The lawyer's freedom to select clients is, however, qualified. All lawyers have a responsibility to assist in providing pro bono publico service. See Rule 6.1. An individual lawyer fulfills this responsibility by accepting a fair share of unpopular matters or indigent or unpopular clients. A lawyer may also be subject to appointment by a court to serve unpopular clients or persons unable to afford legal services.
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On August 6th 1970 the war began when the radical Youth International Party, aka Yippies, invaded Disneyland as a way to rebel and protest against the establishment. They were successful in taking over Tom Sawyer's island for a "smoke in" , taunted guests with their chants of anarchy, and attempted to raise their flag at city hall. Mickey Mouse and friends were under attack. But from this event arose the Mousketeer Army. They battled back to defeat the oppressive ideologies of the Yippies who's only objective is for Disneyland to cease to exist. The Mouseketeer Army is the last hope to preserve the Magic Kingdom.


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Gillam wrapped up her dominance of the amateur, mid-amateur, senior and super senior divisions of the women's bracket on Wednesday, winning all four with a score of 87, giving her a three-day total of 254.
Bally Haly's Janet Mills was the runner-up in every division but the super senior, firing a 257, including an 88 in round three. In the super senior division, Gillam was 33 strokes up on second-place finisher Linda Webber of Bally Haly.
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The EFIM-case: no dominant position of printer manufacturers on ink cartridge aftermarket
Ink in cartridges for printers is often called 'black gold', or qualified as the 'most expensive liquid in the world'. Manufacturers of printers sell their ink cartridges at (relatively) high prices, whereas they offer their printers for (relatively) low prices. The 'cheap-appliance-expensive-consumable'-business model is used widely: coffee machines and pods, consoles and games, cars and spare-parts, etc. As a consequence of the relatively high prices on the aftermarket, independent suppliers try to enter such a lucrative aftermarket by offering generic products which are compatible with the machinery offered on the up-stream market. Not surprisingly, this leads to conflicts between those independents and manufacturers of appliances, because of the intellectual property rights over the machinery and consumables (e.g. generic producers offering coffee pads compatible with Nespresso[1]– and Senseo[2]-coffee machines and contesting the IP-rights in question, or – in the alternative – claiming that the refusal to license the IP-right is an abuse of a dominant position[3]) and associated litigation (e.g. the Toshiba/Katun-case over advertisement of generic consumables which referred to the brand of the machinery).
In the EFIM-case, producers of generic ink cartridges (independent suppliers) – associated in the European Federation of Ink and Ink Cartridge Manufacturers (EFIM) – complained to the Commission, mainly because they were denied access to the intellectual property rights by the four, so-called 'original equipment manufacturers' (OEMs) of printers: Hewlett‑Packard, Lexmark, Canon and Epson. Without access to those intellectual property rights, producers of generic ink cartridges argued that they could not effectively compete with the OEMs on the (after)market for ink cartridges. EFIM considered that behaviour to foreclose the market for ink cartridges and therefore an abuse of a dominant position, which is prohibited under Art. 102 TFEU.


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Last Week's ChessVideos Show: Boruchovsky-Savchenko from the 2012 European Championship
Monday, April 16, 2012 at 11:53PM
(Sorry this posting is late, but I was gone over the weekend.)
There were many exciting games at the 2012 European Chess Championship, and the victory by young Avital Boruchovsky over his higher-rated, grandmaster opponent Boris Savchenko must rank high among them. Savchenko played the provocative Larsen Variation of the Alekhine Defense, and Boruchovsky took up the challenge with a vengeance. His won in spectacular fashion, and with this last round win clinched a GM norm (I think) and strongly suggested that he is a player to keep an eye on.
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Cooking dinner can be a dangerous business (in my household, more so for the diners than for the cook). But for poor people around the world, flavor is the least of their concerns.
The World Health Organization (WHO) lists indoor air pollution from household cooking as the leading environmental cause of death in the world. It contributes to over 2 million deaths annually -- more than are caused by malaria. And poor households that burn biomass (wood, charcoal, dung or crop residues) as fuel for heating and cooking are impacted the most.
The smoke that fills homes is thick with carcinogens equivalent to smoking 400 cigarettes. Women and children living in poverty are at the highest risk for illness because they are constantly exposed to fumes. The burden of gathering fuel also falls to women and girls, squandering daylight hours that could be used for studying or earning income.
Cooking fires also emit short-lived greenhouse gases and aerosols such as methane, carbon monoxide and black carbon. Unregulated harvesting of biomass contributes to deforestation and increased carbon dioxide emissions. All lead to climate change.
This cycle accelerates as population growth demands more from strained resources, and unaccountable supply chains spring into action to fill the market. The situation is urgent indeed.
Madam Secretary, please stand up…
In 2010, this issue reached the desk of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. By September, her office had created the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, a public-private partnership led by the United Nations Foundation. They even convinced actress Julia Roberts to be the global ambassador.
The ambitious campaign "100 by 20" aims to get 100 million homes to adopt clean cookstoves by 2020. The alliance seeks to mobilize high-level donors and national governments to make a financial commitment to reaching large-scale adoption of clean cooking technologies. This requires sustained intervention to address market failures in fuel cost and distribution, and to raise awareness at the household and international levels to support innovation.
This is all well and good. But what technology are they promoting and does it work?
Up in smoke
Clean cookstoves, like the one above, are affordable and easy to use. Numerous models exist with varying degrees of potential for health and environmental impact. Technologies range from rocket and plancha cookstoves -- which enclose biomass flames to reduce smoke -- to solar stoves with free "fuel" and zero emissions. Clean cookstoves use fuels, equipment and practices that mitigate the health and environmental impacts of traditional cooking methods. At least that's what we've been led to believe...
In April of this year, Washington Post and New York Times articles confronted the evidence head on. Citing a randomized impact study on clean cookstove use in India, the articles claimed that politics were effectively taking precedence over science -- insert your own sarcastic moan here. A deluge of blog posts followed the article, experts were stratified and opposition against the Alliance was firmly assembled.
The study was undertaken by three professors from MIT and Harvard and followed 2,651 households in 44 villages in Orissa, India. By the end of the four-year study, families that had paid $0.75 for their stoves were rarely using them. Without continued support, households had let their stoves fall into disrepair, ignoring cracks that were allowing fumes to escape from the chimney. When they did use the stove, many used them improperly, often leaving one of the two burner plates open while cooking, allowing smoke to fill their home. Air quality barely improved. Changes in health were imperceptible.
And the debate simmers
Suffice it to say, the press reaction to the study staggered clean energy advocates. Yet, over the last few months, impassioned arguments have ebbed, and nuanced discussions have emerged about the future of clean cookstoves. And still the urgency of the threat has not abated. So it is up to the Alliance, national governments and nonprofits to understand the effects of these findings and adjust their policies accordingly.
In my blog last week on sanitation finance, I discussed the challenges governments have faced trying to improve sanitation in areas where open defecation is prevalent. I looked at why people regularly chose to act in ways that directly threatened the health of their families. In this field, years of behavioral research and experimentation have culminated in community-led total sanitation initiatives. By combining hardware (latrine construction and maintenance) with software (hygiene education and community support infrastructure) a number of villages have experienced transformative changes in health and wellbeing. It's a compelling model for the clean cookstove camp to consider.
At Kiva, we are looking for partners that offer innovative solutions to the complex environmental and public health challenges posed by traditional cooking methods. Recently, we have partnered with an organization in Burkina Faso to help deliver clean cooking products to women in rural areas.
The project links women who want to improve their stoves to community-based programs that are looking to help. This includes microfinance institutions that have developed and marketed specific cookstove savings and loan products as well as nonprofits eager to provide technical training for operation and maintenance. We view these types of comprehensive, sustainable projects as the clearest way forward.
A fire has been lit
The clean cookstove controversy is positive because it has forced decision makers out of their labs to consider the importance of real world solutions. Demand must be created for products or they simply will not be purchased. If they are subsidized, they go unused. Still, the risks of inaction are too great. The fire has been lit. It is up to all of us to help guide the flame toward a positive end.
Ian Matthews is an intern on Kiva's Strategic Initiatives team, looking for new partners and loan products to extend opportunities and access to even more people around the world. Ian has an MSc in Global Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science and has previously done field work in Honduras. Send him your feedback on this blog series at email@example.com.
This is part of a larger series on Kiva's strategic initiatives and innovative loan products, which are designed to expand opportunities for more borrowers. Kiva is excited to partner with companies and organizations innovating to support communities cook and heat their homes safely.
Photos courtesy of U.S. Consulate Chennai, Living in Kuito's, Xavi Talleda's.


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onePK – Building Applications and Agents on API's Across Cisco's Network OS's
Cisco's OnePK (one Platform Kit) – APIs and the accompanying SDK is finally launching this week at Cisco Live! For myself and a few friends in Cisco, it has been a long journey to this point! Our passion is opening the network operating systems in such a way that customers can collaborate directly in code with the developers of the OSes and the platforms. The greatest challenge was, and still is, crafting a set of consistent and functional APIs covering the breadth of features in our network OSes.
Anyone who knows Cisco networking knows that feature consistency and breadth are all too often not found together. The unique challenge we have had is to achieve consistency without settling for a lowest common denominator approach. Letting platforms show their strengths while still offering a consistent programming model is a great challenge, and one I hope we will live up to.
Software Defined Networking, public networking APIs and abstractions are still in their infancy. Compare where we are today to the rich history of GUI APIs that we can read about here:
Networking APIs today are at a stage analogous to where applications under MS-DOS with proprietary GUIs were in the late 80s, coming up to the 1990s, when mainstream use of the desktop API's propelled us into a decade of innovation in GUI elements and abstractions. Are we here with Network OSs?
While I do not believe networking will ever have as large a developer community as desktops or smart phones, I am a certain that the next ten years is going to one of exciting growth and innovation for the interface between networks and applications, both in and on the network.
I am very proud of what we are launching this week. We are offering a rich and deep set of APIs with hooks into some of the most important areas of networking, spanning such diverse areas as data path access, control plane control and extension and management functions. At the same time it is humbling to know that this is just the start of the evolution of network APIs, and that in a few years we will all probably look back at these early days and our naive assumptions with a sense of humor and some disbelief.
We have built a system that, while in this release focuses on the core fundamentals of networking and devices, is carefully designed for the extension and evolution we envisage as we move forward. Especially considering the breadth of Cisco's platforms and features we are allowing a system of extensions and service sets at many layers of abstraction. At the same time there is a consistent basic abstractions of the fundamentals.
An awesome thing about this initial phase is that we have a broad enough set of APIs that can allow customers, partners and Cisco itself to build applications that extend the functionality or modify the behavior of the network dynamically – without having to upgrade the device OS images! This will be a relief to the operations community who often need to recertify full behavior of systems elements for small feature changes.
The days of the monolithic device operating system are coming to an end for Cisco, which should add some much-needed and very welcome agility to our industry. I am eagerly anticipating the day a customer tells me they wrote a feature we should consider adding to the base OS! That is how a community grows.
This week at Cisco live we are showing four great demonstration applications, built on the network API's.
- "Routing for Dollars" overrides the routing table with separate routes based on dollar cost weighing. This demonstration is a great example of control plane collaboration. It shows how the API's can read the current control plane, and then override it selectively for business logic reasons.
- "MTU monitor" is a demonstration of the eventing system. It detects MTU mismatches on a network and then optionally dynamically fixes the MTU. It is registered for event changes to the MTU and if any changes happen in the network. The application reruns. This demonstration is running prototype images of the API system on all network OS's with the platforms covering the CRS, ASR9k, ASR1K and ISR.
- "Custom Crypto" this application show how an application can tap into the data path. Here we dynamically add a program that intercepts all telnet traffic between two devices and does some trivial encryption on it.
- "RESTfull" this demonstration shows how applications can built their own abstractions and add value in layers above the onePK API's. The demonstration shows some of our more complicated API's like the Policy API building and manipulating QoS over HTTP.
We are currently engaged in limited Alpha tests with a number of customers. If you want to hear more or chat directly with us about the system, please contact us at http://developer.cisco.com/web/getyourbuildon
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Matt Bolick
Great post Ric and congratulations on finally getting the baby out of the house. I can't wait to see the uses that people dream up for onePK. This is a remarkable step forward for network and application integration and a huge accomplishment for everyone that worked so hard on it.


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So - does anyone else write stories in the Marathon universe? I know of the official fic archive, as well as a writer on FF.net and my own efforts, but I was wondering if there might be other writers lurking around.


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The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (still known as ATF) is facing growing pressure after whistleblowers exposed "Project Gunrunner" and "Operation Fast and Furious" to public and congressional scrutiny. It turns out many of the guns shipped to Mexican crime syndicates with ATF permission have ended up at crime scenes on both sides of the border. And at least three of the weapons were involved in the slaying of U.S. federal agents.
But despite the Obama administration's frantic efforts to cover up and minimize the fiasco while demonizing guns, the furor continues to grow. And more federal agencies are now coming under scrutiny for their roles in the plot.
Acting ATF boss Kenneth Melson (standing right in picture above), recently threatened with contempt of Congress charges for obstructing the investigation, revealed a startling new twist to investigators late last week. At least some of the criminals supposedly being armed with ATF permission for "investigations" were actually working for the FBI and the DEA — unbeknownst to the ATF. Or so the story goes.
Melson may have been pressured by the Department of Justice not to disclose details of the operation, and some members of Congress believe he was being set up as a fall guy to avoid investigations of higher-ups. But in testimony last week, the embattled ATF boss claimed his agency was not aware of the other agencies' involvement because information was not properly shared.
His recent statement sparked a widening of the congressional investigation, according to a source close to the probe cited in the San Francisco Gate. "We know now it was not something limited to just a small group of ATF agents in Arizona," the congressional source explained.
Members of Congress leading the inquiry into the scandal are getting very suspicious. "The evidence we have gathered raises the disturbing possibility that the Justice Department not only allowed criminals to smuggle weapons but that taxpayer dollars from other agencies may have financed those engaging in such activities," wrote Rep. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) in a letter to Attorney General Holder.
"It is one thing to argue that the ends justify the means in an attempt to defend a policy that puts building a big case ahead of stopping known criminals from getting guns," they added. "Yet it is a much more serious matter to conceal from Congress the possible involvement of other agencies in identifying and maybe even working with the same criminals that Operation Fast and Furious was trying to identify."
Even more explosive was a recent statement by one of the founders of a top Mexican drug cartel, Los Zetas. In a taped interrogation released to the public, Jesús "El Mamito" Aguilar told Mexican police earlier in July that his crime syndicate was getting weapons directly from the U.S. government. Similarly, a top operative in the Sinaloa drug cartel explained to a federal court earlier this year that he was trafficking drugs with permission from the U.S government.
Beyond the question of whether or not the U.S government has been deliberately aiding gun and drug trafficking, however, there's still more. Top administration officials — and even Obama himself — have made headlines in recent days after reportedly getting caught in blatant lies.
Attorney General Holder, for example, is under intense fire. He told Congress in May of this year that he had "probably" learned about the government's involvement in gun running only in "the last few weeks."
But a couple of years ago, he was bragging about the scandalous program by name during a speech in Mexico. "My department is committing 100 new ATF personnel to the Southwest border in the next 100 days to supplement our ongoing Project Gunrunner," he boasted to an anti-gun crowd outside of Mexico City in 2009.
Similarly, Obama said he neither approved nor had knowledge of the program to arm the cartels. But the so-called "stimulus" bill, which the President signed, contained an explicit appropriation of tens of millions of dollars in funding for the scheme.
"The evidence suggests that [Border Patrol] Agent [Brian] Terry's death was financed by the president's stimulus package with the full knowledge and support of Attorney General Holder," charged the Investor's Business Daily in a scathing editorial entitled "The Stimulation of Murder" about the ATF program. "President Obama needs to man up about Gunrunner and either take responsibility for this tragedy or admit, under oath if need be, that even he didn't know what was in the stimulus bill."
Critics of the administration have for weeks been raising the possibility that federal officials may have been deliberately arming the cartels for ulterior motives. But even as the gun trafficking scandal explodes, the Obama administration is making good on threats to impose more unconstitutional restrictions on Americans' Second Amendment rights by executive decree.
As the public outcry over the federal gun smuggling operations intensifies, blame will eventually be pinned on someone. The media frenzy has been steadily growing for months as new revelations continue to shock observers. Where it will all end, however, remains to be seen.
Photo: Acting Drug Enforcement Administrator (DEA) Michele Leonhart and Acting Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) Director Kenneth Melson listen as Attorney General Eric Holder (out of picture) speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department on Oct. 22, 2009, to announce the largest single strike at a Mexican drug cartel operating in the U.S.: AP Images
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We registered Owen for Kindergarten today! WHOOHOO! He's a big guy now. He got to go down and meet his teachers and answer some questions on shapes, colors, writing his name, etc. It didn't take them too long but he was so shy when he went. I was actually surprised he was shy. He enjoyed it and got a little coloring book to take home. Hal was a little teary eyed. I was almost there when we walked in but I think I'm a little more excited for him than teary so far. I will be on his first day though. So big day for Mr. Owen today! He's sooo ready for Kindergarten!!
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4 ounces of Neufachtel cheese, at room temperature
4 ounces of Mascarpone cheese, at room temperature
1.5 tbsp butter (room temperature)
1/3 cup sugar cookies, broken into small pieces
1 tsp cocoa powder
1 large egg
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp lemon zest
1 tsp lemon juice
1. Preheat oven to 375 F.
2. In a food processor, pulse the cookies, cocoa powder and butter to form a coarse powder (like grated Parmesan Cheese).
3. In a 4"X1 2/3 " deep circular ramekin, apply cooking spray generously. Don't worry, none of this will go inside you ;) This is to line the ramekin with a piece of parchment paper, cut just enough to cover the bottom and rise a little above all around to form a little 'cup'.
4. Press the coarse powder to cover the parchment paper. Pack thoroughly to form a nice, thick crust.
5. Bake for 12-15 mins. until nice and brown. Remove and let the crust cool to room temperature.
6. Reduce the oven temperature to 350F. Get an oven safe saucepan slightly larger than the ramekin and fill it 1/2 way with water. Place it in the oven 5 mins prior to placing the batter filled ramekin.
7. In a medium bowl, beat the cream cheese, lemon juice, lemon zest and the sugar at medium speed, for about 2 minutes.
8. Add the egg and beat at high speed for a minute.
9. Pour this on top of the cooled crust.
10. Place the ramekin inside the saucepan in the oven. The water should rise to cover about 1/3-1/2 the level of the ramekin. If not, adjust the amount of water accordingly.
11. Bake until the center is slightly jiggly, about 1 hour. Make sure that the top doesnt have cracks. If so, that means the cheesecake has overcooked. Use a thin knife and run around the edges, taking care not to break the cheesecake.
12. Take it out of the oven and let it cool down to room temperature, about 1 hour. Then refrigerate it overnight or 4-5 hours. Use the same knife to pry the cheesecake apart at several places. Then gently invert it on a plate and invert again to get the sunny side up :)
Trust me, its worth the wait and the effort :) The lemony flavor went very well with the chocolatey crust. The consistency was perfect and as usual, it was gobbled up in no time ;) As evident from the pics, we had ours with some blackberry Coulis(a fancy word for blackberry preserve thinned out with water and warmed a little bit ;) ).