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Posted on 28th Jan 2011 at 15:55 by Podcast with 12 comments
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In an Op-Ed article in The New York Times on Sunday, the director, Jacob J. Lew, gives three examples of those calls: proposed cuts for programs that support community organizers, a job the president once held; that clean the Great Lakes; and that finance community development. Together, they would save $775 million.
That sum would not be a major reduction in an annual deficit that is projected to exceed $1 trillion in the fiscal year 2012, which starts on Oct. 1. Mr. Lew did not disclose the total savings for the cuts Mr. Obama intended to propose in the budget, which he is scheduled to send to Congress on Feb. 14.
Mr. Obama?s opening bid will not satisfy Congressional Republicans, who are having trouble fulfilling their own campaign promise to slash spending. Yet even the reductions that Mr. Lew revealed are likely to provoke opposition from heavily Democratic constituencies like antipoverty groups and environmentalists, which underscores the difficulty that both parties face as they seek to balance the public?s desire for both smaller deficits and a continued range of government services.
Mr. Obama is under pressure to shrink programs not only to reduce the deficit but also to offset the still-unspecified increases in government spending that he has proposed as investments in innovation, education, infrastructure, technology and research, and which are intended to foster long-term economic growth.
?Make no mistake: this will not be easy,? Mr. Lew said of Mr. Obama?s proposed five-year freeze, which he said would save an estimated $400 billion over a decade. ?It will require tough choices since every decision to invest in one program will necessitate a cut somewhere else.?
?We have had to look beyond the obvious,? Mr. Lew added, ?and cut spending for purposes we support. We had to choose programs that, absent the fiscal situation, we would not cut.?
He said Mr. Obama would offer a 50 percent cut in community service block grants that go to grassroots groups in poor areas, a savings of $350 million, and to require those groups to compete for the remaining money.
?These are the kinds of programs that President Obama worked with when he was a community organizer, so this cut is not easy for him,? Mr. Lew wrote.
Mr. Obama?s budget would save $300 million by cutting 7.5 percent from the Community Development Block Grant program, which helps local governments pay for housing and sewer and road systems. The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, an environmental protection program, would lose about a quarter of its funding, a savings of $125 million.
Both Mr. Obama?s proposed freeze and the effort by House Republicans to reduce spending would cut from domestic discretionary spending, which is roughly one-tenth of the budget and which covers most federal agencies and programs like air-traffic control, education, law enforcement and transportation. It is separate from the much bigger and faster-growing share of the budget for entitlement programs, the largest of which are Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
In his State of the Union address, Mr. Obama, acknowledged the limits of using domestic discretionary spending to reduce the deficit. ?We have to stop pretending,? he said, ?that cutting this kind of spending alone will be enough.?
?That is why,? Mr. Lew wrote, that Mr. Obama also said in that speech that he wants to work with Congress to simplify the tax code and ?to strengthen and protect Social Security.?
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Ever had trouble dealing with stubborn kids who pout and throw tantrums when in public? It?s something most parents have to deal with, and it could prove to be both humiliating and tiresome. There might be a solution for that. Kinda. This half-ingenious, half-crazy gadget invented by a Japanese scientist will make sure your kids smile when you want them to.
It?s called the Electro Smile and it works by putting on the contraption shown in the image above, which constantly sends electric shocks to a child?s cheeks, triggering the muscles in their face to force an insincere smile?complete with a jolt that excites the entire body. The shocks are actually strong enough to keep the smiles on their faces even without the device, with a minor side-effect of twitching from time to time. Moreover, the settings are adjustable to give a more powerful shock that is sure to make even the most stubborn of kids to put on a smile.
The description sounds more like a torture and it?s creepy to say the least. The things Japanese think about are simply out of this world, I tell you. Now that I think about it, maybe it?s more like 5-percent ingenious, 95-percent crazy.
Source: http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2011/02/06/japanese-invention-that-forces-children-to-smile/
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Posted on 28th Jan 2011 at 15:55 by Podcast with 12 comments
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There is no shortage of social TV viewing apps out there. Between check-in programs like Glue or Miso, to the more technically savvy ones like IntoNow, they run the gamut. Each of these has its place, for certain, but there?s still a part of the social viewing experience that?s missing.
Vualla appears to fill that gap. It?s an application for your iPad that you can use as a TV listings guide, a social chat platform and even a discovery point. Firing up the app, you?re taken to the main screen which will show you what shows are trending, which ones are most viewed and then it will take you into your personalized section.
In ?My Stuff?, you can select channels (by cable, satellite or OTA HD based on your location), the categories that you want to see and then you?re given a large, TV Guide-esque listing of the shows based on time.
So that?s the overview. Now, let?s go deeper. In honor of Sunday?s Super Bowl, Vualla has created an entire section of its app that really allows you to engage with your friends for the game.
But it doesn?t stop with the Super Bowl. In order to keep you engaged Vualla is going to have to continue this level of integration. The team knows that and promises that we?ll see the same content for TV shows like Glee, CSI and more.
Now, here?s the part that we have to tell you: Vualla was a bit sketchy in its operation over the past couple of days. It doesn?t seem to want to let us connect to the Super Bowl content, but that might change once we get closer to the game. TV show listings are sometimes slow to load, too, at least in our experience.
The up shot is that the app is completely free. You can download it from the App Store and make your own decision about it, but we think that the potential is great.
Source: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/02/06/vualla-social-tv-app-for-your-ipad-plus-a-super-bowl-special/
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There is no shortage of social TV viewing apps out there. Between check-in programs like Glue or Miso, to the more technically savvy ones like IntoNow, they run the gamut. Each of these has its place, for certain, but there?s still a part of the social viewing experience that?s missing.
Vualla appears to fill that gap. It?s an application for your iPad that you can use as a TV listings guide, a social chat platform and even a discovery point. Firing up the app, you?re taken to the main screen which will show you what shows are trending, which ones are most viewed and then it will take you into your personalized section.
In ?My Stuff?, you can select channels (by cable, satellite or OTA HD based on your location), the categories that you want to see and then you?re given a large, TV Guide-esque listing of the shows based on time.
So that?s the overview. Now, let?s go deeper. In honor of Sunday?s Super Bowl, Vualla has created an entire section of its app that really allows you to engage with your friends for the game.
But it doesn?t stop with the Super Bowl. In order to keep you engaged Vualla is going to have to continue this level of integration. The team knows that and promises that we?ll see the same content for TV shows like Glee, CSI and more.
Now, here?s the part that we have to tell you: Vualla was a bit sketchy in its operation over the past couple of days. It doesn?t seem to want to let us connect to the Super Bowl content, but that might change once we get closer to the game. TV show listings are sometimes slow to load, too, at least in our experience.
The up shot is that the app is completely free. You can download it from the App Store and make your own decision about it, but we think that the potential is great.
Source: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/02/06/vualla-social-tv-app-for-your-ipad-plus-a-super-bowl-special/
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There is no shortage of social TV viewing apps out there. Between check-in programs like Glue or Miso, to the more technically savvy ones like IntoNow, they run the gamut. Each of these has its place, for certain, but there?s still a part of the social viewing experience that?s missing.
Vualla appears to fill that gap. It?s an application for your iPad that you can use as a TV listings guide, a social chat platform and even a discovery point. Firing up the app, you?re taken to the main screen which will show you what shows are trending, which ones are most viewed and then it will take you into your personalized section.
In ?My Stuff?, you can select channels (by cable, satellite or OTA HD based on your location), the categories that you want to see and then you?re given a large, TV Guide-esque listing of the shows based on time.
So that?s the overview. Now, let?s go deeper. In honor of Sunday?s Super Bowl, Vualla has created an entire section of its app that really allows you to engage with your friends for the game.
But it doesn?t stop with the Super Bowl. In order to keep you engaged Vualla is going to have to continue this level of integration. The team knows that and promises that we?ll see the same content for TV shows like Glee, CSI and more.
Now, here?s the part that we have to tell you: Vualla was a bit sketchy in its operation over the past couple of days. It doesn?t seem to want to let us connect to the Super Bowl content, but that might change once we get closer to the game. TV show listings are sometimes slow to load, too, at least in our experience.
The up shot is that the app is completely free. You can download it from the App Store and make your own decision about it, but we think that the potential is great.
Source: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/02/06/vualla-social-tv-app-for-your-ipad-plus-a-super-bowl-special/
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Posted on 28th Jan 2011 at 11:38 by Joe Martin with 3 comments
Before we announce the winners of the last competition though, it's time to lay the rules for the new competition.
We've got two sets of prizes on offer this week, one for those who want to enter via Twitter and one for those who enter via Facebook. What we want you to do is tell us what you think of Sony's new NGP handheld, which was announced yesterday.
You can enter the competition via Twitter by sending a tweet to @bit_gamer or through Facebook by writing a message on the wall of Bit-Gamer's fan page. You can, of course, enter both.
We'll choose one winner for each next Friday, February 4th. If you enter through Twitter then we have a trio of PC strategy games on offer - Lionheart: The Kings Crusade, Commander: Conquest of the Americas and Great Battle Medieval. If you enter through Facebook then you can win Majesty 2, King Arthur: The Roleplaying Wargame and Mount and Blade: Warband.
Now, as for the winners of the previous competition...Earlier this January we asked you to use the Videogame Name Generator to come up with random video game names and send them to us. We selected three different winners, one from the forums, Facebook and Twitter respectively. The winning entries are below!
Forum Winner: Bloody Manlove Crisis - Fu Manchu
Facebook Winner: Tactical Nudist Vengence - Colin Tye
Twitter Winner: Flamboyant Bible III - @jushodge
We'll be in touch with all the winners shortly!
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The projects have drawn strong support from community activists, business leaders and local politicians of both major parties. But the stream of federal money that has long financed such projects, in this Hudson Valley district and elsewhere in the nation, is about to dry up.
And some residents of the district may be surprised to learn who one of the main instigators is: Nan Hayworth, the district?s new representative, who was swept into office last fall along with other Tea Party-backed candidates bent on changing Washington?s ways.
Congress, prodded by outspoken newcomers like Ms. Hayworth, this week essentially imposed a temporary ban on earmarks, money for projects that individual lawmakers slip into major Congressional budget bills to cater to local demands. The criticism that she and her colleagues level at earmarking is not new: that some of the projects are silly and the process is rife with waste and abuse, partly because lawmakers do not typically have to justify their requests in grant proposals, hearings and the like.
But the moratorium about to take effect has transformed a largely abstract policy debate in Washington into something very tangible for people in Ms. Hayworth?s district.
Now, civic activists, local officials and residents are scratching their heads, unpersuaded about the soundness of scrapping a system that has provided the district with money for libraries, parks, roads, bridges and the like.
Ken Schmitt, the Republican supervisor of Carmel, supported Ms. Hayworth in her campaign. But he is among many in the district who can point to benefits that earmarks provided his town: nearly $150,000 to buy high-technology cameras for police cruisers in 2009.
?Do I support banning them completely? No, I don?t,? Mr. Schmitt said, adding that each project should be considered on its own merits.
Steve Axinn, the president of Lake Oscawana Civic Association, agreed. ?Not all earmarks are the same,? he said. ?There are some that are good and some that are clearly abusive. It is the responsibility of our elected representatives to know the difference.?
Mr. Axinn, a lawyer who is registered as a Democrat, knows a good bit about the subject. He was instrumental in persuading Ms. Hayworth?s predecessor, John Hall, a Democrat, to deliver $400,000 in earmark financing to reduce the high levels of phosphorous in Lake Oscawana in Putnam Valley.
?This was a good thing that could not have been done without that grant,? he said.
Ms. Hayworth is unconvinced. ?I am not questioning the worthiness of filtering Lake Oscawana,? she said in a recent interview. But, she asked, ?Is this a project to which federal tax dollars should be directed, or is this a project another authority should be responsible for??
While earmarks have aroused controversy in the past, the drive to eliminate them gathered momentum in Congress this year with the arrival of newly elected Republicans like Ms. Hayworth, who campaigned on a platform of belt-tightening, including an explicit pledge to abstain from earmarking.
After Republican leaders of the House approved an earmark ban in that chamber, President Obama promised during his State of the Union address last month to veto any bill that contained spending for what are also called pork-barrel projects.
Initially, Democratic leaders of the Senate resisted following suit. But this week, Senator Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii, the Democratic chairman of the Appropriations Committee, announced that the committee would prohibit earmarks over the next two years.
?The president has stated unequivocally that he will veto any legislation containing earmarks, and the House will not pass any bills that contain them,? Mr. Inouye said in a statement. ?Given the reality before us, it makes no sense to accept earmark requests that have no chance of being enacted into law.?
On Capitol Hill, though, many lawmakers remain opposed to the ban, including Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand of New York, who has long supported overhauling the earmark process and who was among the first lawmakers to place her own requests online.
?It?s shortsighted and misguided,? Ms. Gillibrand said, noting that such money is particularly important these days with local and state governments making cuts.
For all the debate that earmarks stir, the amount of money directed toward them is relatively small. For the fiscal year that ended in September, earmarks made up $15.9 billion of a $3.5 trillion federal budget, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense, a government watchdog group.
But as political theater, earmarks provide a compelling story line, particularly with Tea Party loyalists like Ms. Hayworth seeking to root out waste and reduce the federal deficit.
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