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Will new budget negotiations unravel the sequestration riddle?
Tuesday - 10/29/2013, 3:12pm EDT
For the first time since the government shutdown ended two weeks ago, lawmakers are sitting down at the table to negotiate over the fiscal 2014 budget.
A bipartisan House-Senate budget conference committee met Wednesday to begin discussing how to avert a second year of automatic, across-the-board spending reductions from going into effect.
Democrats and Republicans have remained at odds over how to account for the sequester cuts in their respective spending plans. But even though formal budget negotiations have now commenced, experts and insiders are throwing cold water on any notion of a comprehensive budget accord, or so-called "grand bargain," that would see the cuts repealed or replaced.
What does that mean for federal agencies, managers and employees? Sequestration is likely to stick around — at least in some form — and about the best agencies can hope for is a small-bore deal that grants them some greater flexibility in implementing the cuts, these experts said.
"Managers have to at least recognize the possibility that the second round of automatic cuts may kick in and that they're unlikely to be able to recover what they have lost through the first round," said Don Kettl, dean of the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy. "But they may have more flexibility in figuring out how to allocate it. And beyond that, who knows what deal may be made?"
Grand bargain? Forget about it
The experts are clear on one front. The possibility of a "grand bargain" on the budget, giving agencies long-term certainty over the direction of federal spending, is highly unlikely.
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2014 Funding Levels
|Current levels
(after sequester)
|2014 - BCA caps
|2014 - BCA caps
(after sequester)
|$518 billion
|$552 billion
|$498 billion
|$468 billion
|$506 billion
|$469 billion
|$986 billion
|$1.058 trillion
|$967 billion
|Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Budget experts and members of the committee, themselves, are downplaying any talk of a comprehensive budget deal.
"I don't think much is going to come out of this at all," Stan Collender, a partner with Qorvis Communications, told Federal News Radio. "No matter what happened with the shutdown and the debt ceiling almost-debacle, the basic issues about the budget continue to remain, and that is that Republicans don't want to raise taxes and Democrats don't want to cut entitlement programs. And that only leaves one other area of the budget to look at and that, unfortunately, is appropriations where most federal agencies and employees get dollars to spend."
For much of the year, Democrats and Republicans have remained at odds over how to account for sequestration in fiscal 2014 and are billions of dollars apart from a compromise.
In their spending blueprint, Senate Democrats have called for replacing sequestration outright with alternative cuts and tax increases, allowing spending to remain at about $1.058 trillion. The House Republican budget lowers spending to $967 billion, the level allowed for after a second round of sequestration, although it shifts funding to Defense to spare it from further reductions.
But Collender pointed to even more fundamental disagreements about the overall purpose of the federal budget: Whether its focus should be on continuing to stimulate the stalled economy or to continue reducing the deficit.
"It's not a question of compromising between two people on the same playing field," he said. "It's not even clear they're in the same game, and that's what the problem's going to be."
Sequestration here to stay?
Such chasmic disagreement makes it unlikely that Congress will be able to come up with an alternative to sequestration's harsh budget-cutting mechanism.
"The real problem with the sequester is that everybody hates it, except everyone hates all of the alternatives even more," Collender said.
Kettl agreed that a continuation of sequestration seems likely, albeit with some adjustments to blunt its impact.
"In some ways, the most likely outcome of this may very well be locking into place sequestration that is scheduled to occur but to give agencies more flexibility in figuring out how to manage it," he said.
Collender agreed that that outcome is probably the "ultimate fallback" for Congress: Keep the sequester in place but make it a little less painful.
"One of the alternatives may be to ... allow both domestic and defense agencies a bit more flexibility so that they can determine priorities, and some things get more money and others get less as long as the top line stays the same," he added.
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Soul Purpose Astrology: How to Read Your Birth Chart for Growth & Transformation, by Margaret Koolman
Llewellyn Worldwide, 1998, 2002
Ms. Koolman, in her preface, explains what she hopes to accomplish, and how she plans to do so. She even says that you need not read the introduction, as it "merely" outlines her philosophical approach to astrology. I encourage you to read the preface and the introduction as a means of furthering your understanding of where Ms. Koolman's attitudes and positions come from.
This book is designed for the individual who wants to learn how to interpret charts. As such it does Not deal with the erection of a chart, nor is there any mathematics involved. It deals with relationships. It does mention the relation of the planets to the charkas. And it deals in depth with all of the traditional ideas related to astrology: the planets, the houses, and aspects.
Although my astrological needs are minimal (I have a couple of friends who are, at least, semi-professional astrologers who handle my chart and interpretation needs), this book was easy to understand. It was written in an easy, flowing style that reminded me of my own astrology instructors thirty years ago.
Assuming you already know how to do the calculations, or already have a copy of your natal chart (which you can obtain, for FREE from Llewellyn through an offer in the back of the book) this book will enable you to make sense of your chart. It offers insight and understanding. Last, but not least, at $14.95, it is less expensive than paying for an interpretation by most professional astrologers.
This is not a book for everyone, but for someone who wants to be able to do their own interpretations, it is a valuable resource.

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Men's Soccer Dominates William Peace on Senior Day
November 2, 2013
MISENHEIMER, NC - On senior day, the Pfeiffer men's soccer (9-8-1) team dominated William Peace, winning by a final score of 7-0 and finishing the regular season above the .500 mark. Six different Falcons tallied a goal, with senior Simon Leslie scoring twice. Senior Aldo Ramirez handed out three assists in the one-sided affair.
Leslie scored the game-winner in his final home match, as Kyle Toler sent a cross that Leslie put into the back of the net in the eighth minute. Just under three minutes later, Toler scored his fourth goal of the season, with the assist going to Dammy Balogun. In the 41st minute, Jamie Sanclemente connected for his first score of the season off a cross from Ramirez. At the end of the first half, Pfeiffer held a 20-2 lead in shots and pressured the Pacers the entire way.
Senior Seth Dey scored his second of the season in the 54th minute, pushing Pfeiffer's lead to 4-0. Ramirez would set up Leslie for his second goal of the game in the 58th minute and Corey Davis struck in the 61st minute, also from Ramirez. Balgoun's goal in the 66th minute capped the scoring spree, with Leslie earning the assist.
Freshman Miles Maynard earned the win in his first career start, making one save.
For the match, Pfeiffer held a 40-4 advantage in shots and a 9-1 lead in corner kicks.
This was the final match of the regular season for the Falcons, who will find out their first round opponent of the Conference Carolinas Tournament this evening.


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