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A note on comparisons: Unless otherwise noted, funding levels for fiscal 2014 are compared to the amount that Congress appropriated in 2013 before sequestration took effect, also known as “enacted levels.”
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2014 funding
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$20.9 billion

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$350 million above FY 2013 enacted levels

The Food Safety and Inspection Service will get more than $1 billion, a slight boost from sequestration levels, but less than what was allotted for the agency last year before the cuts took effect. The Farm Service Agency is slated to receive $1.5 billion, which equates to what the agency was appropriated last year before sequestration.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

2014 funding

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$3.7 billion
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$195 million below FY 2013 enacted level

CMS’ budget is set to remain about where it is now, post-sequestration. The bill provides $305 million to process and pay out benefits but prohibits additional funding from being used on Affordable Care Act spending.
Commerce Department

2014 funding

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$8.2 billion
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$113 million above FY 2013 enacted level

The bill includes $3 billion for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, a $91 million increase. The National Institute of Standards and Technology is funded at $850 million, which is an increase of $41 million above last year’s pre-sequestration levels. The bill provides about $5.3 billion for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — $310 million above last year’s base levels.
Defense Department

2014 funding

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$572 billion
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$32.7 billion below FY 2013 enacted level

The bill provides $486.9 billion in base funding and an additional $85.2 billion for overseas war spending. The base budget level is virtually identical to the department’s current operating level and aligns with spending caps put in place by the 2011 Budget Control Act and supported by the Ryan-Murray budget agreement. The bill provides $160 billion for operations and maintenance, about $13.6 billion below fiscal 2013 levels and $92.9 billion for equipment procurement and upgrades.
Education Department

2014 funding

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$70.6 billion
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$739 million below FY 2013 enacted level

Despite a year-to-year cut, the bill provides an increase over last year’s post-sequestration levels. The bill provides a funding boost for federal education grant spending.
Energy Department

2014 funding

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$25.6 billion
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$1.1 billion above FY 2013 enacted level

The bill provides $11.2 billion for the National Nuclear Security Administration, an increase of $268 million above last year’s enacted level and a hefty $874 million above the sequestration level. Science research is funded at $5.1 billion, a slight increase above last year’s enacted level and $1.9 billion for energy efficiency and renewable energy programs.
Environmental Protection Agency

2014 funding

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$8.2 billion
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$143 million below FY 2013 enacted level

While EPA’s budget clocks in below 2013 enacted levels, the bill provides an $86 million boost above last year’s post-sequestration level, which the Senate summary of the bill said will be used to stave off furloughs in 2014.
General Services Administration

2014 funding

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$9.4 billion
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$1.3 billion above FY 2013 enacted level

The bill authorizes GSA to spend $9.4 billion from the Federal Buildings Fund, which is made up of rent payments other agencies pay to GSA for the use of federal facilities. Of that, about $1.65 is slated for the construction and repair of federal buildings and courthouses.
Homeland Security Department

2014 funding

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$39.3 billion
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$336 million below FY 2013 enacted level

The bill provides $10.6 billion for the Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a modest increase from last year’s pre-sequestration level and allowing for an increase of 2,000 additional CBP officers. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is slated for $5.3 billion, a slight decrease from last year’s enacted levels. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is will see a decline of $225 million below last year’s pre-sequestration levels. The bill caps TSA’s federal screener workforce at 46,000.
Housing and Urban Development

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$32.8 billion
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$687 million below FY 2013 enacted level

The bill specifically blocks funding for for new “sustainable” or “green” community development programs.
Internal Revenue Service

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$11.3 billion
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$526 million below FY 2013 enacted level

Funding for the IRS remains at about where it was after sequestration cuts went into effect, which is about on par with fiscal 2009 appropriation levels. The bill slates $92 million to help address identity theft, refund fraud and improving taxpayer services. The bill also provides the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, which oversees the IRS, with $156.4 million.
Justice Department

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$27.4 billion
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$338 million above FY 2013 enacted level

The bill provides the FBI with $8.3 billion in funding, the Drug Enforcement Agency with $2.4 billion, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) at $1.18 billion and the Federal Prison System at $2.7 billion. All of those are increase over last year’s pre-sequestration levels. The U.S. Marshals Service received $2.7 billion in the bill, a $72 million reduction.
Labor Department

2014 funding

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$12 billion
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$449 million below FY 2013 enacted level

The bill decreases funding for both the Employment Training Administration and the Office of Job Corps but boost funding for the Veterans Employment and Training Services.
NASA

2014 funding

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$17.6 billion
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$120 million above FY 2013 enacted level

The bill provides a $781 million boost from last year’s sequestration levels and provides $4.1 billion for the Exploration mission.
National Institutes of Health

2014 funding

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$29.9 billion
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$714 million below FY 2013 enacted level

Funding for the NIH will fall below last year’s enacted level of about $30.6 billion, according to House Democrats. However, the funding level is about $1 billion above the agency’s post-sequestration budget top-line.
National Science Foundation

2014 funding

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$7.2 billion
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$82 million below FY 2013 enacted level

While the NSF’s funding is a decrease from last year’s enacted levels, the bill restores $288 million in funding that sequestration had lopped off. The increase provides for more grant funding for teachers and scientists.
Social Security Administration

2014 funding

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$11.7 billion
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$265 million above FY 2013 enacted level

About $1.2 billion of the SSA’s budget is devoted to stopping improper payments. The increase will also allow the agency to restore staffing lost to budget cuts.
State Department

2014 funding

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$49 billion
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$4.3 billion below FY 2013 enacted level

The bill provides a total of $15.7 billion in base and contingency funding for operational State Department costs. That’s a total decrease of $2.4 million below fiscal 2013 pre-sequestration levels. Embassy security is funded at $5.4 billion, $25 million more than requested by the Obama administration. The bill provides the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) with $1.3 billion in funding, a $215 million cut from fiscal 2013 enacted levels.
Transportation Department

2014 funding

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$17.8 billion
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$164 million below FY 2013 enacted level

In addition to the discretionary appropriations, the bill also provides about $53.5 billion in nondiscretionary “obligation limitation” funding for the department.
Veterans Affairs Department

2014 funding

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$63.2 billion
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$2.3 billion above the FY 2013 enacted level

The bill includes a total of $147.9 billion in total funding, including both discretionary and mandatory spending. The bill includes $323 million to bolster VA’s joint project with DoD on electronic health records. The bill also includes $318 million to help the agency reduce a longstanding backlog of disability claims. The extra funding includes $140 million in technology upgrades and $90 million to pay for claims processors’ overtime.
(Source: House Appropriations Committee, Senate Appropriations Committee)

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Cat litter causes nuclear waste explosion

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The fateful explosion that shut down America’s only permanent nuclear-waste storage site happened on Valentine’s Day 2014. The facility, called the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant or WIPP, is a series of salt caverns 2,000 feet below the New Mexican desert. Radioactive waste from U.S.’s nuclear weapons comes to WIPP, drum by drum, to be entombed underground.

One such drum ruptured on that February evening. Radioactive material spewed through the caverns, some of it leaking aboveground as well. The original cause turned out to be downright comical: Contractors packing the drum at Los Alamos National Laboratory used the wrong type of cat litter—wheat-based rather than clay—to soak up the liquid radioactive waste, which then reacted with other chemicals inside the drum to explode. Yes, cat litter.

WIPP has been closed for cleanup since the accident, and it’s since blown past one deadline to reopen. The Department of Energy, which operates the plant, is now working to ready WIPP by December 2016.

Escape from North Korea

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Lee:My escape from North Korea
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0:11
When I was little, I thought my country was the best on the planet. And I grew up singing a song called "Nothing To Envy." And I was very proud. In school, we spent a lot of time studying the history of Kim Il-Sung, but we never learned much about the outside world, except that America, South Korea, Japan are the enemies. Although I often wondered about the outside world, I thought I would spend my entire life in North Korea, until everything suddenly changed.

0:45
When I was seven years old, I saw my first public execution. But I thought my life in North Korea was normal. My family was not poor, and myself, I had never experienced hunger.

0:59
But one day, in 1995, my mom brought home a letter from a coworker’s sister. It read, "When you read this, our five family members will not exist in this world, because we haven’t eaten for the past three weeks. We are lying on the floor together, and our bodies are so weak, we are waiting to die."

1:29
I was so shocked. This was the first time I heard that people in my country were suffering. Soon after, when I was walking past a train station, I saw something terrible that to this day I can’t erase from my memory. A lifeless woman was lying on the ground, while an emaciated child in her arms just stared helplessly at his mother’s face. But nobody helped them, because they were so focused on taking care of themselves and their families.

2:07
A huge famine hit North Korea in the mid-1990s. Ultimately, more than a million North Koreans died during the famine, and many only survived by eating grass, bugs and tree bark. Power outages also became more and more frequent, so everything around me was completely dark at night, except for the sea of lights in China, just across the river from my home. I always wondered why they had lights, but we didn’t. This is a satellite picture showing North Korea at night, compared to neighbors.

2:48
This is the Amnok River, which serves as a part of the border between North Korea and China. As you can see, the river can be very narrow at certain points, allowing North Koreans to secretly cross. But many die. Sometimes, I saw dead bodies floating down the river. I can’t reveal many details about how I left North Korea, but I only can say that during the ugly years of the famine, I was sent to China to live with distant relatives. But I only thought that I would be separated from my family for a short time. I could have never imagined that it would take 14 years to live together.

3:40
In China, it was hard living as a young girl without my family. I had no idea what life was going to be like as a North Korean refugee. But I soon learned it’s not only extremely difficult, it’s also very dangerous, since North Korean refugees are considered in China as illegal migrants. So I was living in constant fear that my identity could be revealed, and I would be repatriated to a horrible fate, back in North Korea.

4:13
One day, my worst nightmare came true, when I was caught by the Chinese police, and brought to the police station for interrogation. Someone had accused me of being North Korean, so they tested my Chinese language abilities, and asked me tons of questions. I was so scared. I thought my heart was going to explode. If anything seemed unnatural, I could be imprisoned and repatriated. I thought my life was over. But I managed to control all the emotions inside me, and answer the questions. After they finished questioning me, one official said to another, "This was a false report. She’s not North Korean." And they let me go. It was a miracle.

5:05
Some North Koreans in China seek asylum in foreign embassies. But many can be caught by the Chinese police, and repatriated. These girls were so lucky. Even though they were caught, they were eventually released, after heavy international pressure. These North Koreans were not so lucky. Every year, countless North Koreans are caught in China and repatriated to North Korea, where they can be tortured, imprisoned, or publicly executed.

5:39
Even though I was really fortunate to get out, many other North Koreans have not been so lucky. It’s tragic that North Koreans have to hide their identities and struggle so hard just to survive. Even after learning a new language and getting a job, their whole world can be turned upside down in an instant. That’s why, after 10 years of hiding my identity, I decided to risk going to South Korea. And I started a new life yet again.

6:11
Settling down in South Korea was a lot more challenging than I had expected. English was so important in South Korea, so I had to start learning my third language. Also, I realized there was a wide gap between North and South. We are all Korean, but inside, we have become very different, due to 67 years of division. I even went through an identity crisis. Am I South Korean or North Korean? Where am I from? Who am I? Suddenly, there was no country I could proudly call my own.

6:54
Even though adjusting to life in South Korea was not easy, I made a plan — I started studying for the university entrance exam.

7:03
Just as I was starting to get used to my new life, I received a shocking phone call. The North Korean authorities intercepted some money that I sent to my family, and, as a punishment, my family was going to be forcibly removed to a desolate location in the countryside. They had to get out quickly. So I started planning how to help them escape.

7:28
North Koreans have to travel incredible distances on the path to freedom. It’s almost impossible to cross the border between North Korea and South Korea. So, ironically, I took a flight back to China and headed toward the North Korean border. Since my family couldn’t speak Chinese, I had to guide them somehow through more than 2,000 miles in China, and then into Southeast Asia. The journey by bus took one week, and we were almost caught several times. One time, our bus was stopped and boarded by a Chinese police officer. He took everyone’s I.D. cards, and he started asking them questions. Since my family couldn’t understand Chinese, I thought my family was going to be arrested. As the Chinese officer approached my family, I impulsively stood up, and I told him that these are deaf and dumb people that I was chaperoning. He looked at me suspiciously, but luckily, he believed me.

8:41
We made it all the way to the border of Laos. But I had to spend almost all my money to bribe the border guards in Laos. But even after we got past the border, my family was arrested and jailed for illegal border crossing. After I paid the fine and bribe, my family was released in one month. But soon after, my family was arrested and jailed again, in the capital of Laos.

9:12
This was one of the lowest points in my life. I did everything to get my family to freedom, and we came so close, but my family was thrown in jail, just a short distance from the South Korean embassy. I went back and forth between the immigration office and the police station, desperately trying to get my family out. but I didn’t have enough money to pay a bribe or fine anymore. I lost all hope.

9:43
At that moment, I heard one man’s voice ask me, "What’s wrong?" I was so surprised that a total stranger cared enough to ask. In my broken English, and with a dictionary, I explained the situation, and without hesitating, the man went to the ATM, and he paid the rest of the money for my family, and two other North Koreans to get out of jail.

10:10
I thanked him with all my heart, and I asked him, "Why are you helping me?"

10:16
"I’m not helping you," he said. "I’m helping the North Korean people."

10:21
I realized that this was a symbolic moment in my life. The kind stranger symbolized new hope for me and the North Korean people, when we needed it most. And he showed me that the kindness of strangers and the support of the international community are truly the rays of hope we North Korean people need.

10:44
Eventually, after our long journey, my family and I were reunited in South Korea. But getting to freedom is only half the battle. Many North Koreans are separated from their families, and when they arrive in a new country, they start with little or no money. So we can benefit from the international community for education, English language training, job training, and more. We can also act as a bridge between the people inside North Korea and the outside world. Because many of us stay in contact with family members still inside, and we send information and money that is helping to change North Korea from inside.

11:30
I’ve been so lucky, received so much help and inspiration in my life, so I want to help give aspiring North Koreans a chance to prosper with international support. I’m confident that you will see more and more North Koreans succeeding all over the world, including the TED stage.

11:52
Thank you.

11:53
(Applause)

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Japanese sex words

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LOOKING FOR LOVE: TALKING DIRTY IN JAPANESE
By Sara Who


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New relationships always come with their share of surprises — some a lot more exciting than others. Yes, you are not imagining things; I am talking about doing the deed, the horizontal tango, hanky panky or whatever you like to call it.

First times are usually exciting, but often nerve-racking. You might be wondering if your experience will differ from the usual, and if language barriers will put a damper on the mood. What can you expect when you want to get frisky with your new Japanese honey?

Thankfully, the bedroom is often an area where the language of love is mostly spoken through gestures rather than words. Even if your Japanese skills are elementary at best, you should be able to navigate your way without the help of a phrasebook.

Unless, that is, you happen to have a particularly vocal partner.

There is no bigger mood killer than a sudden grammar lesson in the throes of passion.
Trust me. I learned it the hard way. Nearing the end of a particularly steamy afternoon, my boyfriend said to me in Japanese: “Tell me to come!”

I was completely stumped. I racked my brains for a minute, but could only come up with a very hesitant and completely un-sexy: “Itte hoshii?” When my boyfriend started giggling instead of well, you know, I knew I’d obviously said the wrong thing. Sometimes, it does pay off to come prepared.

If you want to impress your partner, try some of these expressions next time you get down to business. A word of advice: to attain the desired effect, talking dirty in bed should always be done with confidence. If you can’t pull off these expressions while sounding natural, better stick to your mother tongue for now. I’m sure your partner loves it anyway!

The ABCs of sex in Japanese
ちんちん (Chinchin) : penis, dick
Some shyer girls might refer to it as “おちんちん” (ochinchin) or “honorable penis” in English, to the delight of males all over Japan.
まんこ (Manko): vagina, pussy
おっぱい (Oppai): breasts, boobs
おおきい (Ookii!): It’s so big! / They’re so big!
Can be used to talk about the male anatomy or breasts.
すごいきれい! (Sugoi kirei.): You look gorgeous. / They’re gorgeous.
Often used to talk about breasts.
なめてほしい！ (Namete hoshii!): Lick (or suck) it!
くすぐったい (Kusuguttai!): It tickles!
だめ! (Dame!): You can’t! / Don’t do that!
Tread carefully with this one. Depending on the situation, it could actually mean “keep doing that” or “don’t do that.” If you’re not sure, ask. In Japanese porn, girls often try to appear “demure” by saying no at first, even though they really “want it” but are too embarrassed to say. There’s nothing wrong with a bit of role play in the bedroom, as long as both parties are ok with it.
やめて! (Yamete!): Stop!
See above.
いれてほしい (Irete hoshii!): Put it in! / I want it now!
なまがいい (Nama ga ii!): Let’s do it bareback!
なまはだめ (Nama wa dame!): No, let’s use a condom!
きもちいい (Kimochi ii… ): It feels good….
ぬれてる (Nureteru!): You’re so wet!
あったかい (Attakai!): You’re so warm!
やばい! (Yabai!): It feels amazing!
がまんして (Gaman shite!): Don’t come yet!
がまんできない (Gaman dekinai… ): I can’t wait any longer…
だして! (Dashite!): Come!
いきそう (Ikisou!): I’m gonna come!
いく (Iku!): I’m coming!
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Sara Who
Intercultural explorer, matchmaking choreographer, dating in Tokyo since 2011.

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