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Planetary Highlights – March/April 2008 March 1, 2008

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 Planetary Highlights – March/April 2008

We begin this season with a Pisces New Moon on the 7th March and this New Moon is a perfect time to put spiritual plans into place. But the major event of this season is the Autumn Equinox on March 21st. This Equinox is a transition time, a time of Full Moon and a time we become aware of, and can release, inner tension.

An Equinox marks the time the centre of the Sun is directly above the earth’s equator. The length of the days and nights are now equal. From now on the Sun will begin to spend more time in the northern Hemisphere, and leave us to endure the coming winter chills. The fertile times are now over, and the land lies still and refreshes itself over the fallow months. The Sun this Equinox is in a difficult connection to Pluto, the God of the Underworld, and to Mars, the Warrior God. This suggests we struggle to overcome entrenched and overly rigid principles, and seem to be in the middle of a gladiator battle. But once we realise that we are making no headway we can then purge the negativity and look for compromises, and thus a new sense of equilibrium in the achievement of our aims.

Adding to this dynamic is the Libran Full Moon which is also on the 21st March at the Equinox, and will help us attain the balance to release the unwanted principles, feelings, attachments and the toxins within us. On an individual and practical level, it is an ideal time to start activities like start a diet or clean the house/shed, but it is better if we can also cleanse and refresh our souls. Then prepare to bring in fresh exuberance and actions at the Aries New Moon on the 6th April. We will have another chance to clean-up, on both the physical and metaphysical levels at the Scorpio Full Moon on the 20th April.

Palmistry Hints – The Head Line March 1, 2008

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 Palmistry Hints- Your Head Line

This is a major line that runs across the palm from below the index (Jupiter) finger. It is between the Life and Heart lines. The Head line represents the way we think, our brain power, our memory and concentration, and our reasoning ability.

Sometimes the Head line is connected to the Life line at the beginning and this suggests that a person is cautious and listens to the ideas and values of the family. The more the Head line begins above the Life line and separate from it, then the more it suggests a self-reliant and independent, perhaps impulsive personality that will not appreciate restrictions.

Difficulties can arise between people if one has a wide space and one has a close connection of the Head and Life line. Have a look at your partners and children’s hands to understand their needs for either a cautious, or a freedom orientated approach to life.

Sometimes the Head line will not start immediately at the side of the hand and this represents a person who does not feel that they really became their own person and had their own mind until some time had passed. They (we) are the late developers in life. J

Occasionally the Head line will look like one long crease directly across the palm. These people are likely to be incredibly intensely focused on just one idea or concept at a time. Sometimes the Heart line will merge into this Head line and appear to be one line. These people will thrive in careers that are intellectually demanding. But they are apt to find the emotional complexities of relationships confusing as they try to analyse and “think” their way through their feeling life.

We are all so very different, and our palms can really show our unique qualities.

Your Sun Sign Forecast – March/April 2008 March 1, 2008

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Sun Signs – March/April 2008Aries

Your home sector is activated and the New Moon in Aries on the 6th April represents situations with your family where you are taking your sense of righteousness onto very high moral ground. Once up there, there is only one way down. Look deeply within and ask yourself if you are taking it to extremes. Then have the last word; apologise!

During March you will find out some interesting information which will be important for your current job and future goals. This will result in a surge of ideas. Late in April your ruling planet, Venus, enters a time that you feel a lack of sparkle, and so its time to unwind and rest from the hurly-burly of the last few months.

This season its time to take time to “smell the roses” and appreciate the beautiful and the divine. These simple pleasures will endure through time. Female friends can help you tap into a deeper awareness of life and will encourage you to participate in new activities. But it’s also time to be concerned how wasteful you are with your money and resources.

Mars, the planet of energy and activation, re-enters Cancer to propel you to expect something more. This is likely to be focused on your working situation, even if you work from home. There is a repeating theme of over-reacting and taking on too much. This could lead to increased stress levels and a feeling of chronic tiredness.

You may be in too much of a hurry to release what you think is no longer useful. But is it change for changes sake? Are you throwing the Baby out with the Bathwater? Chances are you are being your own worse enemy. Enough of the fancy sayings! Ask your beloved, they continue to tell you what you are missing.

Time to concentrate on relationships; and not just the fun stuff. Its commitment you want! Commitments to the future, commitments to holiday plans, in fact, undertake a contract with someone and you will be happy. But after recent sensitive times, it’s really a need to be emotionally self-disciplined and have some solid evidence that what you are feeling is real.

The Equinox Full Moon is in Libra on the 21st March and brings in intense feelings and perhaps a sense of apprehension. These illuminate the need to balance and realign your emotions with your reality. If you don’t love it – get rid of it. You will receive help via messages from someone important, but demands at work will be a big distraction.

This is a great time to plan and start new projects but there is a real tendency to give 150%. This will help you achieve a great deal; but you may overdo it. Take time to factor in a holiday or short break, especially when emotions are heightened at the Full Moon in Scorpio on the 20th April.

Got yourself stuck in a rut? Over these two months it will take a just tiny bit of effort and you can achieve the changes you want. The “stars” are on your side and bringing you a bit of luck, so changes are not as difficult as you think. Even changes outside your control will easily and smoothly happen.

There is a “Slow Down” sign hovering in the heavens for you. So if you have to bide your time then take the time to reflect and reassess events from the past. Put it to good use and take care of details you may have overlooked. A sense of discomfort (or even cross words) with loved ones will not solve any problems.

March starts with a whirl of activity, with people or just thoughts swirling around you. But does this help? Are you longing for the old tried and true solutions that worked in the past?

Does it really matter – as long as it works! Add a pinch of self-discipline and tenacity to increase your potential for insight and natural wisdom.

There are changes and adjustments that are needed and these may tend to start happening around the New Moon which is in Pisces on the 7th March. The very good news is that you currently have great connections and communication skills to get the wheels in motion. But there may be young people/children in your life which need some guidance.

Moon Gardening March- April 2008 March 1, 2008

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Simple Moon Gardening

If you do not know how to use this guide for your garden; please scroll to the end.

March 2008

1st Sagittarius – Third Quarter Moon is waning

2nd Sagittarius to Capricorn

3rd Capricorn

4th Capricorn to Aquarius

5th Aquarius

6th Aquarius

7th Pisces

8th Pisces – New Moon is now starting waxing phase

9th Pisces to Aries

10th Aries

11th Aries to Taurus

12th Taurus

13th Taurus to Gemini

14th Gemini – First Quarter Moon is waxing

15th Gemini to Cancer

16th Cancer

17th Cancer to Leo

18th Leo

19th Leo to Virgo

20th Virgo

21st Virgo

22nd Virgo to Libra – Full Moon. Will now start its waning phase

23rd Libra

24th Libra to Scorpio

25th Scorpio

26th Scorpio

27th Scorpio to Sagittarius

28th Sagittarius

29th Sagittarius to Capricorn

30th Capricorn – Third Quarter Moon is waning

31st Capricorn

April 2008

1st Aquarius

2nd Aquarius

3rd Aquarius to Pisces

4th Pisces

5th Pisces to Aries

6th Aries – New Moon. Will now start its waxing phase

7th Aries to Taurus

8th Taurus

9th Taurus to Gemini

10th Gemini

11th Gemini to Cancer

12th Cancer

13th Cancer to Leo – First Quarter Moon is waxing

14th Leo

15th Leo

16th Virgo

17th Virgo

18th Virgo to Libra

19th Libra

20th Libra to Scorpio – Full Moon. Will now start its waning phase

21st Scorpio

22nd Scorpio

23rd Scorpio to Sagittarius

24th Sagittarius

25th Sagattarius to Capricorn

26th Capricorn

27th Capricorn

28th Capricorn to Aquarius

29th Aquarius

Moon gardening can become more detailed in the specific times to plant root or leafy crops, and in further refinement of the semi-barren and semi-fertile signs. But to begin your life of gardening by the moon, begin with this simple technique; and success will be yours.

Rule 1. Make use of the Moon Phase. When the moon is getting bigger, known as waxing, the life force or energy is going into a growing phase. So its time to plant seedlings, apply foliage fertilisers, prune to stimulate growth and any activity where you want growth and foliage and general expansion.

When the moon is getting smaller, known as waning, the life force or energy is going into the roots. Now its time to apply organic manure, plant your roots crops, prune to retard growth, kill weeds and pests, cultivate, and strike plants that need a period of dormancy before they grow.

Rule 2. Find out the Moon Sign. The Moon moves through the zodiac and is in each sign for about 2 or 3 days. Some signs are fertile and some are barren. If the moon is in Earth signs (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn), or Water signs (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces), it is considered to be fertile. If it is in Fire signs (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius) or Air signs (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius) then its barren.

Just think literally – real earth and water are the ideal place to grow things so they must represent fertile signs. And fire is hot and burns, and air blows the dust around, so they must represent barren signs. But……..see exceptions 1 and 2!

Exception 1. The air sign Libra should be barren, but is really semi fertile. Why; because Libra is concerned with balance and harmony, and plants want to grow and bloom and be beautiful, just like the essential qualities of Librans.

Exception 2. The earth sign Virgo should be fertile – but is actually barren. Why; because Virgo is symbolically the untouched ideal, and very fussy, and being a Virgo I must admit we are a (tiny?) bit critical, so it’s not a good time to plant things. These plants will be selective and hard to please. They find everything just too cold, too hot, too dry, too wet, too……….do you get the idea?

Yours in the Stars

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Its already December…. so its time for your Astrology and Moon Gardening Forecasts! December 1, 2017

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Hello and welcome to December,
Nature and Life go hand in hand….. it is subject to change without notice!
We have had 2 weeks of intense Summer weather and now that it becomes Summer.. .we are in for a return to Winter weather!
And I ask that all those going through huge changes to bend with the winds ….like a garden does.

For the complete inspiring Earth Moon and Stars newsletter click on this link

12 December 2017 Earth Moon and Stars with Kerry Galea print version

for a quick look what the stars have in mind.. scroll down
and may they smile for you

Your Sun Sign Astrology Forecast December 2017

Aries 21 March – 19 April
Your rational brain seems to have turned itself off as imagination take over from logical thinking. This helps you see things in a creative and inspirational perspective but may also seem confusing. Later in the month your role in the world, or your work, means you either become a leader or challenge authorities. Having the facts helps; so work at being rational.

Taurus 20 April – 20 May
There is more going on than what’s on the surface and this is a time to delve deep into mysteries and uncover all that which is hidden. People share their deep feelings and inner tensions, and you may find yourself acting as a comforter and counsellor. Decide carefully about what to share and what to keep; in knowledge as well as finances.

Gemini 21 May – 20 June
Stronger connections with other people seem likely, but they promise more than they can deliver…. most likely due to mix-ups and confusion rather than by design. It will help if you keep asking questions and double-check assumptions. Your own emotions run high and intuition and creativity is enhanced, which is great for creative outlets but lousy for practical and logical situations.

Cancer 21 June – 22 July
You are open to ideas which are quite different and unusual for you, your creativity is enhanced and your spiritual nature is seeking an outlet. The urge to help those in need is so strong that you many find yourself feeling their pain. The urge to take risks or to gamble is also strong but please note: risk-taking is not a solution.

Leo 23 July – 22 Aug
Pressure builds as Goddess Venus says “let’s play”, but action based Mars says “let’s tussle”. Use your mind to go inward and see where the tension is coming from. Perhaps it’s the past, perhaps its deep unrecognized insecurity. Then turn around and look to seeing your own foundations, your own home, your own dreams and imagine them into peaceful reality.

Virgo 23 Aug – 22 Sep
You want to connect with family, including extended family, and while some may not be keen on this idea; will all work out fine. Your ability to talk and express feelings and love is enhanced, and you are able to radiate welcoming warmth. While logic is lost and you may forget things; any party you host will be one to remember.

Libra 23 Sep – 22 Oct
Others are trying to help you release firmly held ideas that are holding you back. It’s time to shake out old habitual ways of thinking and while you are doing this I recommend that you do not make any major decisions. Some of these ideas involve how you spend money, treat it, make it, or even what you value.

Scorpio 23 Oct – 21 Nov
There are opportunities, celebrations, creativity, a spiritual yearning, a youthful spirit and even an increase in your inner dare-devil this month. Action will be your motto and direct will be your approach to all that you wish. Big things will get bigger, and difficulties can appear to increase, but you are being offered alternative solutions which help you see solutions.

Sagittarius 22 Nov – 21 Dec
Venus enters your sign to help boost you into the limelight and bring a touch of luck, but the planet of communication and information is going backwards to bring confusion and the need to be careful making logical judgements. Now is the time to accept what life offers, and to cease ineffective “pushing”. Be open to receive rather than initiate.

Capricorn 22 Dec – 19 Jan
Your ruling planet soon comes home for a long visit and this propels you to enter a time of commitment to developing changes in your long-term plans. It means steadfast work, a practical approach and a healthy dose of ambition, all of which you excel in. Till then, it’s time to sort out what you really want without repeating previous (family) learnt patterns.

Aquarius 20 Jan – 18 Feb
You are shining bright and work also bring opportunities, but I bet you are spending (or is it wasting), the benefits of being noticed as fast as they come in. Make the most of what is here right now and don’t assume it will last forever. Any great ideas need to be recorded or you will simply forget to follow through.

Pisces 19 Feb – 20 March
The focus is on your working life and your public persona, and you don’t know what is going on, or are not told what is happening. People see you differently than you expect so watch, wait, and ask a lot of in-depth questions to figure out what they are expecting from you.


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Event Based Deliveries With WIP Ranges

Principle W5: The Batch Size Decoupling Principle in Donald Reinertsen’s excellent book The Principles of Product Development Flow states:

Use WIP ranges to decouple the batch sizes of adjacent processes

Reinertsen explains: “By using a range of acceptable WIP levels, we can use different, and economically optimal batch sizes in adjacent processes”

Here is a “real-life” example of this principle…

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Building Great Teams

Year 2000 marked the beginning of the first Galácticos era in Real Madrid. In an attempt to build the best fotball team in the world, President Florentino Perez´ambitious goal was to buy at least one new Galáctico each season. The Galacticos of Real Madrid could celebrate some initial successes, winning the Champions League in 2002. But the success would not continue. As more and more star player were brought to the spanish capital the performance of the team started declining, allowing Barcelona to overtake them as the No 1 club in Spain and Europe. The first Galácticos era ended in 2007.

What the leaders of Real Madrid failed to understand was that it takes more than world class players to produce a great team. The individuals must be able to work and function together as a team.
The same is true for any other team, software development teams included. Building a team takes time, and simply allocating the “best” people is a poor strategy.

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Scale down, not up

During the 10 years I’ve been working as a software developer I have participated in both
successful and unsuccessful projects. When a project is stumbling and failing to deliver
what is expected, it is natural to look for changes to make and when pressure from managemenent above gets too intense and time to market is crucial, the project manager’s weapon nearly always seems to be:

“Let’s bring in some more resources to ensure the delivery date will be met.

This way, when the project fails, the project manager can stand tall and state:

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Evans Pipe Band Snare Head

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The eagerly awaited Pipe Band Snare Head from Evans.

Debut for the Evans Pipe Band Snare Head at the British Pipe Band Championship at Paisley, Scotland 20/05/2017 with a winning performance from the current grade 1 World Pipe Band Drum Corps Champions, St Laurence O’Toole Pipe Band from Dublin, Ireland.

Evans is breaking into pipe band drumming with a brand new, high tension snare head.  This new drumhead was designed in collaboration with Stephen Creighton and his championship winning corps, the St. Laurence O’Toole Pipe Band. Pipe band snare drummers require an extremely bright and articulate sound and often have to push the limits in terms of pitch and tension on their snare to get those sounds.  The Evans Pipe Band Snare Batter is a new option that gives drummers the confidence to push their heads to the limits and achieve the tone and pitch required for a championship winning corps.
Previously, Pipe Band drummers had to choose between a head that offered a bright and articulate sound for solo performances and a heavier head for more projection in outdoor settings. The Evans Pipe Band Snare batter offers the best of both worlds which drummers can appreciate on and off the green.
This drumhead will be available for 14” Pipe Band Snares in both standard (for Andante and Pearl
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  • Thin top laminate for increased sensitivity
  • Tightly woven fabric for strength and durability
  • Settles at performance pitch immediately (does not require long break-in)
  • Built-in UV-inhibitor for defense against harmful sunrays
  • 14” Pipe Band Snare Batter Oversized PB-SB1A (PREMIER)
  • 14” Pipe Band Snare Batter Standard PB-SB1B (ANDANTE/PEARL)

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Go Bats in Tattershall

From John Dudley:

Holy Trinity Church, Tattershall
24th August 7:30pm until 9pm ish
See the bats as they emerge from their daytime roost

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From John Dudley

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Enjoy the Lincolnshire Wolds on video

Earlier this month I noticed three rather nice videos on Youtube promoting the Lincolnshire Wolds which have now been compiled into one feature. Why not sit back, take your mind off mustard gas down in the woods and see how many places or people you recognise!

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Lincolnshire Heritage Open Days

Heritage Open Days celebrates England’s architecture and culture by allowing visitors free access to interesting properties that are not usually publicly accessible or would normally charge a fee. It also includes tours, events and activities that focus on and celebrate the local heritage of the area. Since 1994 Heritage Lincolnshire has coordinated Heritage Open Days within the historic county. This year’s festival will be one of the biggest yet, with over 140 free events. The theme is Freedom, Justice & Equality to mark the 800th anniversary of the Charter of the Forest, a copy of which is held alongside Magna Carta at Lincoln Castle.

The festival brochure was launched at the Lincolnshire Show on 21st June. It is also available from libraries, tourist information centres and heritage sites across the county and from our offices in Heckington. You can also download a printable copy here.

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Bat Talk and Watch at Holy Trinity Church, Tattershall

See the bats emerge from their daytime roost. Friday 25th August – Booking essential

Cost: £2.00 per adult, £1.00 per child, Family Ticket (2 Adults & 3 children) £5.00. Light refreshments available for purchase

Contact: Ian Nixon: 01205 723342 or 07833 674500 or David Mullenger: 01526 352322 htt.tatt@gmail.com

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Chamber Music Festival comes to Tattershall

Romance and REVOLUTION: Lincolnshire International
Chamber Music Festival Concert at Holy Trinity Church, Tattershall, Tuesday 1st August 2017, 7.30pm

Life Begins at Forty: Celebrating our Joint Artistic Directors Ashley Wass and Matthew Trusler, who have been performing for over two decades. Details on the Tattershall Church Website Thanks to John Dudley

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From the Woodhall Spa notice boards: March 2017

Our early spring selection of things to do in and around Woodhall Spa:

March 21

Returning to Woodhall Spa this month is international concert organist Nicholas Martin. He will be on stage at St Peter’s Church Hall, Woodhall Spa, 7.30pm. Contact Philip Groves, Music for Woodhall, 01526 353225. Website.

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Date and almond tart

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    more than 1 hour
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    serves 8

  • 125g butter, at room temperature
  • ½ cup caster sugar
  • 1 egg, separated
  • 1 cup plain flour, sifted
  • ½ cup blanched almonds
  • icing sugar for dusting
  • whipped cream to serve

  • ¾ cup coarsely chopped pitted dates
  • ¼ cup water
  • ¼ cup caster sugar
  • 2 teaspoons finely grated lemon rind
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 20g butter

Preheat oven to hot, 200°C. Grease a 20cm-round sandwich pan. Line base with baking paper.

Filling: Combine all ingredients in a small saucepan. Bring to boil, then reduce heat and simmer, stirring, for about 8 minutes, or until mixture is thick. Cool.

In a small bowl, beat butter and sugar, using an electric mixer, until pale and creamy. Beat in egg-yolk. Stir in flour. Divide mixture in half.

Roll out one portion of pastry between two sheets of baking paper, until large enough to line base of prepared pan (pastry will need to be a 20cm circle). Press pastry into base of pan.

Cook in a moderately hot oven, 190C, for about 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool.

Spread Filling over pastry base. Roll reserved pastry between two sheets of non-stick baking paper, until it's a 20cm circle. Place pastry round over Filling. Brush top with lightly beaten egg-white, decorate with blanched almonds.

Cook for a further 30-35 minutes, or until pastry is lightly browned. Stand tart in pan for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool. Dust with icing sugar. Serve warm or cold with whipped cream.

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Home Update!

So it’s been a few weeks since I last updated and the house has come a LONG way! Btw, we close in TWO WEEKS! Say, what!? So here are some pictures of the house though they’re not up-to-date with where the house is right now; those will come in a few days.

Yay, new house!

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We’re going to become VERY close with our neighbors if our houses are any indication…

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Cabinets in boxes…

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Cabinets in the kitchen!

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Foyer and Master Bath:

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So there’s my home update. I think you’ll be surprised once I post the newest pictures this weekend. 🙂

Pumpkin Spice Latte is Back!…Well, Almost.

For my fellow pumpkin spice latte lovers out there I have a secret I’d like to share…the pumpkin spice latte is back on the D-L.

If you go into a participating Starbucks and give them the secret code “PSL 10” then you can get your pumpkin spice latte before the general public!

I got mine this morning and I’ll admit that after finding out about this amazing secret I would have been beside myself with grief had my Starbucks not been one of the stores taking part.

However, my worries were for nothing because lo and behold the PSL…

I hope I have given you something to look forward to as you can take advantage of the PSL 10 between now and Sept. 3rd when the pumpkin spice latte has its official roll out for the 2013/2014 season.

Good day to all and enjoy the pumpkiny goodness!

Are you heading to Starbucks right now? I bet you are!

Things I Love (Slash Want)

“Totes Ma Goats” from West Elm (click the pic to visit the product page):Things I Love (Slash Want)

What do you think? Pretty amazing, right? They have a slew of awesome totes!

20 Historic Black and White Photos Colorized

20 Historic Black and White Photos Colorized

These are some of the most beautiful colorized pictures I’ve seen. Stunning, really. It almost seems as though the pictures become real once you see them in color. Like the black and white make them dream-like and then color makes them modern day.
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An Ulch House in Progress

My fiance and I put a contract in on a house being built in a new development. As first-time home buyers you can imagine how crazy this process can be. However, it’s also very exciting.

Here’s where our house currently stands…sorry for the crappy photo quality.

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Dave being silly and “washing his hands in the sink.”

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This is one of our spare bedrooms looking out onto the second floor “media center.”

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Spare bedroom in the above picture.

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View from the mater bedroom. Oh yeah! That’s a lake…just in case you didn’t get that. And that’s all that will EVER be behind us. Score!

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The master bathroom. Not too large, but it’ll do.

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Where the “magic” happens. Sorry, is that inappropriate? The magic I’m referring to is sleep!

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Our garage, which will eventually be more of a body shop/carpentry space for Dave and I.

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Stairs! Eee!

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View of the living room area and kitchen. I’m standing in our breakfast nook.

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Site of our future outrageously awesome kitchen.

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Lake view…say, what!?

So that’s our house. 😀 We should hopefully be moved in by late September/early October but with the summer rains in Florida you just never know. Ugh. We’re keeping out fingers crossed that everything stays on schedule and we can move into our first home soon.

Do you have any wisdom to impart to us first-time home buyers and new construction home buyers?

New Header!

So I finally sat down and created a new blog header. It was long overdue.

But, hey. Better late than never, right?

What do you think? Comments, suggestions?

Taystee…Be my Friend! #OITNB

So I’m sure most fans of NetFlix’s Orange is the New Black (OITNB) have noticed the slew of behind-the-scenes pictures of the cast being posted across social media and the internet lately.

Aren’t they adorable!? Like this little gem:

Talyor and Danielle Selfie from BuzzFeed

Those pictures just make me want to be their best friend!

I mean, are we serious? It’s cuteness overload:

Another Talyor and Danielle selfie from Buzzfeed.

Needless to say, this campaign should start soon: “Katie Needs to be One of the New Faces of Orange is the New Black”. I can be a crazy white girl who made horrible decisions!

How can I make this happen? Any ideas?


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Looking for a high energized and a customer-oriented potential employee

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Educating a student costs a lot of money, but incarcerating someone in the United States costs much more because of the required 24/7 care and supervision of prisoners. The data from the 40 US states with operating prisons in 2010 reveals just how much money the US government spent on the incarcerated in contrast to elementary/secondary school students.

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Serpent Bohème Bracelet S Motif

Bracelet set with citrin, in yellow gold

Bordering on impertinence, Boucheron has subtly reinvented this Serpent Bohème bracelet, imagining an even more elegant allure. Its dainty yellow gold chain magnifies the teardrop shape adorned with citrine, which symbolizes the head of the serpent.

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Frédéric Boucheron is born in 1831 into a family of clothiers. He breaks with family tradition at a young age to open his jewelry shop. Having learnt much about delicacy in materials, he begins to make his gold work as supple as the fabrics and lace of his childhood. Success is immediate and soon the whole of Paris is rushing to the door of his Palais Royal boutique. In 1893, he is the first jeweler to start trading in Place Vendôme, making this place a showcase of savoir-vivre, savoir-faire and French elegance that has no equal in the world. It is Frédéric Boucheron's unique ability to capture the zeitgeist that also leads him to invent new ways of wearing jewelry. His success spreads abroad and the order books start to include the names of members of Royal families and later of Hollywood's biggest stars.

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Serpent Bohème Bracelet S Motif

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why i write

The other day, Eric asked me why I write.

You see, sometimes we don't quite understand each other's life purposes. He designs computer systems, and I write fictional stories. Where he is reason and logic, I am passion and dreams. He is steady and realistic, and I am the one with my head in the clouds.

And to be truly honest, it irks me sometimes. A lot. Because I want to appreciate what he does, and I want him to appreciate what I do. Even though they are so very different things. It's hard for me sometimes to accept that fact that he is not as giddy about visiting Barnes & Noble for hours on end and sitting at coffee shops talking about existentialism, than he is about playing golf and talking about how modern technology is changing the world.

And lately, I've been a little harsh with myself about my dreams. My writing. As if maybe it's not good enough, purposeful enough. Questions like, "what if I never get published?" or "what if it never really reaches anyone?" plague me at times, but as I sit and think about why I write, I just feel it. I just know.

I write because I need to. Because I want to, because I have to. I write because it's my life. I think sometimes, it's hard for people who aren't readers to understand that. To see the value and the difference writing makes on the world. But the impact is so huge and wonderful and yet quiet and unsuspecting. Writers change the world through words. It's a philanthropy in itself. I am motivated by love. I write because I want to help others, and the only way I know how to do that--and do it well--is through my voice on the page. I think we're all given different talents, desires and passions, and even the arts have their purpose.

I want to write stories that touch your heart. I want them to wrap you up and not let you go. I write until my hand cramps or the screen blurs and then I keep writing. I write for you. I write for me. I write for all of us. Because I know the hope that exists within the words on the page. I was once a little girl, who dreamt of the things that lived there. Those things that kept me hoping. Wishing. I want to make you smile and cry and everything in between. Just so we can all feel something, really and truly. To become a part of something, to open ourselves up to be vulnerable, fragile. I want stories that reach farther.

You see, stories change you. They are not just words without purpose. When you read a story, it becomes a part of you, and you become a part of it. You lose yourself in the things you love, and you find yourself there, too. In my lifetime, I've read thousands of books, and each one of them has changed me. Opened me up to new things, challenged me, made me face myself, helped me grow and keep seeking. Stories teach you things you wouldn't learn otherwise. They find you and embrace you and mold you. They make you feel at home and yet, have the power to make you feel new and alive and different all at once.

And even if I never get published. Even if my words never reach a great audience. Those things don't matter. Because all you have is right now. And it's not about the money, or the success, or the fame, or any of that. It's about the sheer fact that the words you write hold meaning within themselves. They are able to affect you.

So I will never stop writing. I will never reach some crazy goal and be done. Being an artist is not a job, it is a life. And what you do, has the power to do so many amazing things at one time.

I write because I want people to know they are not alone.
I write because I know how words can change the world.
I write because stories don't just remain within the pages of a book.
I write and I write and I'll keep on writing until the day I die.
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Your Family Doesn't Like Your Practicing Buddhism

Your family doesn't like you practicing Buddhism, many people have that situation. Why is that? Because they love you. All human beings want to protect the people they love. Because all human beings have an idea of what is correct life and what is good for their family and their children. Everybody has that.Eugene is director of a Zen Centre in Czechoslovkia. His parents are No.1 good Catholics and have never heard of Buddhism. Buddhism in Eastern European countries is really new and people consider that it could be a cult. After finishing a seven-day retreat, Eugene said, "Su Bong Soen Sa, let's go to my parent's place and take a little rest." Right away, I was a little uneasy - "That's OK with your parents?" So he said: "Don't worry." Then we went there. When we arrived at his house, his mother put out food, all vegetarian. They never are vegetarian but she put out vegetarian food. After the meal, I lay down and sleep on a couch next to the dining room, because I could perceive his mother's mind is very open. The feeling to us is like - "You are my son. To me, you are family." So I could do that. But still I didn't understand. At around 9 o'clock, Eugene's father came home. Eugene stood up from his seat and went to the cabinet, took out his father's eyeglasses, held them, and said "Dad, sit down, please." He gave to his father the eyeglasses, then introduced us to him. Then I understood, this Eugene is No. 1 correct son. Not dependent on his practice or what he believes or not believes, always he has correct relationship, function and situation to his family. So his family doesn't care, meditation practicing or demon practicing. Most important is what is our son's relationship to us. That's the proof. "One action is better than ten thousand words". One action - what you are doing, is beyond dependency on name and form.


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Although it can be extremely infuriating when you're unable to find the object you're supposed to see, it becomes very rewarding when you finally spot it....Right?

Check out this optical illusion, can you see it?

You know just an ordinary drawing of a frag and a horse. Hidden somewhere in the picture is a second animal, but you have to look at it just right to spot the horse. Here is some help to make you go OHHH AHHHH, now I see it.

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Could a little, black box hold the key to new antibiotics?

Eric Brown is a professor of biochemistry and biomedical sciences, and a researcher with the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research at McMaster University. (Photo Credit: McMaster University)

On the quest for new antibiotics in a world trying to fight antibiotic resistance, could the answer be in a little, black box? A McMaster University lab developed a tool that has the potential to change the way scientists search for new antibiotics.

The Printed Fluorescence Imaging Box – or PFIbox, for short – can collect massive amounts of data that will help researchers in the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research in their pursuit to discover new antibiotics.

The research was published in the journal Cell Systems.

This box has the astounding ability to allow scientists to analyze more than 6,000 samples of bacteria at a time.

The tool uses LED lights to excite fluorescent proteins found in bacteria. It then wirelessly sends data to researchers studying how cells respond to antibiotics over time.

The PFIbox’s nine structural parts can be 3D printed in about a day, snap together in minutes, and cost about $200.

“3D printing is allowing us to create tools and instrumentation that simply don’t exist yet,” says infectious disease researcher Eric Brown, who led the work on the project, along with Shawn French and Brittney Coutts. “Here, we have designed and built an absolutely cutting-edge lab instrument for about $200. It’s simply game-changing for our work to discover new antibiotics.”

The researchers have made the PFIbox’s code open source and available to anyone who wants to use them.

“We fully expect – in fact, we hope – people take the code for this tool and improve upon it,” says French. “We want people to have full access to what we think is a very important new development in the battle against superbugs.”

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What to do if your Vehicle is Overheating

Posted May 24, 2018

An overheating engine can be one of the most stressful roadside emergencies a driver will experience. What should you do if your vehicle starts overheating?

Watch for warning signs.
If the temperature gauge starts rising rapidly, pull over. If steam (often looks like smoke) starts coming out from under the hood, pull over. If your engine starts making unusual noises, pull over. If the check engine light comes on, pull over.

Find a safe location.
Pull over as quickly as you can safely. If you are on a busy street, find a safe place to park your vehicle. Stay calm and do not put your family or other drivers in danger.

Avoid the impulse to open the hood right away. If the engine has reached a very high temperature, you could burn yourself while opening the hood to look. Instead, wait a few minutes or until the temperature gauge has returned to a cool position.

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The most common cause of overheating is a low level of coolant. You can test the level of coolant or antifreeze in the radiator. If you’re not sure how to do this, check your owner’s manual or ask our technicians to show you where the coolant reservoir tank is during your next inspection.

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Our expert technicians are here to help. Call Kenny’s Lakes Area Auto Experts and we’ll help you to identify the best next steps – whether you can safely drive your vehicle to our auto repair shop in Oakland County or whether you should have your vehicle towed. With a thorough inspection, our team will be able to identify what caused the vehicle overheating so we can get it fixed and keep your family safely on the road!

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The Shirt Box and Kenny’s Lakes Area Auto Experts are holding a bike drive for Back Alley Bikes at their respective shops NOW thru Saturday, September 22nd, 2018. Both locations have already started accepting donations to take in your used bikes. They are both competing a little…so let’s help them get a ton of bikes that we can then put in the hands of kids all over Detroit.
The Shirt Box (248) 851-6770 is located at 32500 Northwestern Hwy. and will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Lakes Area Auto Experts (248) 668-1200 is at 490 North Pontiac Trail and will be open from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. to accept donations.

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ONE EVENING in spring 2015, a finance minister walks into a bar in Washington, DC, looking for some insider advice. No, this is not one of those man-walks-into-a-bar-type jokes. On this occasion, the man walking into a bar is Yanis Varoufakis, the then-newly-minted finance minister of virtually bankrupt Greece, and the person with whom he’s having a drink is Larry Summers, one of the American capitol’s real insiders. Indeed, Summers, the former US Secretary of the Treasury in the Bill Clinton administration, former president of Harvard University, and former director of the National Economic Council during President Barack Obama’s first term in office was once a consummate Washington player.

Though the two men, both economists by trade, had fairly different views on fiscal policy — one a self-described “erratic Marxist” and the other often labeled a “neoliberal” — it was a friendly get-together. The veteran insider told the neophyte Greek politician, “There are two kinds of politicians: insiders and outsiders. The outsiders prioritize their freedom to speak their version of the truth. The price of their freedom is that they are ignored by the insiders who make the important decisions.” The insiders, he went on, are obedient to an unbreakable code of conduct: never turn against other insiders and don’t talk to outsiders about what insiders say or do. In return for such fealty, the insiders get access to inside information and a chance to influence people and outcomes. “So, Yanis,” Summers asked, “which of the two are you?”

The full answer to that question is of course Adults in the Room, the memoir in which Varoufakis brilliantly details his brief tenure as Greece’s minister of finance in 2015. (The eponymous pop phrase, in this instance, comes from Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund [IMF], who was chastising the “children” in the room, of whom Varoufakis was apparently one.) For the moment, however, Varoufakis keeps it simple, admitting to Summers, “By character I am a natural outsider.” Nonetheless, he adds, he’s willing to behave like an insider if it’ll help get Greece out of its “debt prison.”

The evening ends in a spring rainstorm. “As I saw him to a taxi,” Varoufakis recalls, “the downpour soaked my spring clothes in seconds.” Rather than dismay about the drenching, “I had the opportunity to realize a wild dream of mine […] to walk alone, unnoticed, in the rain.” There will be several more occasions in the coming weeks and months, in Athens and other capitals across Europe, where Varoufakis finds himself in “pristine solitude” on long, often late-at-night walks as a break from the noise of politics and the strange boredom of bureaucratic life.

For those unfamiliar with what happened in Greece nearly three years ago, in 2015, and why it matters (or for those who have simply forgotten, since amnesia is an increasingly common affliction in this era of Donald Trump–inspired hyper-speed news cycles), a brief reprise of the situation may be in order. The financial conditions facing the early 50ish, telegenic Greek economist, who held professorships at both the University of Athens and the University of Texas at Austin, as he contemplated whether or not to enter politics in his Aegean homeland were — to put it mildly — dire.

Of all the countries hit by the global Great Recession of 2008, few were more damaged than Greece, a small, southern European nation of some 10 million inhabitants. In 2015, long after the international fiscal meltdown and the partial recovery of less-devastated economies, Greece was still suffering from 25 percent depression-level unemployment (over 50 percent among young people), a GDP that had shrunk more than a quarter from pre-crash levels, and a third of whose population was living on the edge of or below officially designated poverty lines. Although those are the kind of statistics of distress that cause eyes to glaze over, it’s useful to remind oneself that the abstractions represented real people: senior citizens whose pensions became almost worthless; whole families living on one of those shrinking pensions; the young, deprived of a future and forced to flee the country to look for work and sustenance elsewhere.

The precarious situation obtained despite more-than-250-billion-euro “bailout” loans, ostensibly directed to the Greek economy by the European Union in 2010 and 2012. In reality, the bailout money was used to rescue European banks, mainly in Germany and France, who had made bad loans (which they likely knew in advance were bad loans) to governments in Greece and other struggling economies. The money from the EU bailout loans did not go toward a restoration of the Greek economy, claims to the contrary notwithstanding — a point Varoufakis underscores in his book.

Worse, the bailout was accompanied by five years of an “austerity” program designed to correct the long-standing failings of past notoriously corrupt and incompetent Greek regimes, both conservative and social democratic, as well as national bad habits, such as widespread tax avoidance and local bribery. The austerity program was imposed by a so-called “troika” of EU-associated institutions: the IMF, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the European Commission (which functions as the executive cabinet of the EU), and the program is largely “administered” by the “Eurogroup” of finance ministers of those EU countries that use the multinational currency known as the euro and who comprise the member nations of the “Eurozone.”

The conditions of the loans and the accompanying austerity program were contained in a 2010 “memo of understanding” (MoU). The American Nobel Prize–winning economist Paul Krugman, a widely read columnist for The New York Times and a professor of Economics (currently at City University of New York), described the MoU document as “remarkable […] in the worst way.” The troika, said Krugman, “was peddling an economic fantasy. And the Greek people have been paying the price for those elite delusions.” The plan “assumed that Greece could impose harsh austerity with little effect on growth and employment.” The projections were — again to put it mildly — wrong. “What actually transpired was an economic and human nightmare.” Instead of the Greek recession ending by 2011, as the troika plan predicted, the situation worsened. By the time Varoufakis was being lured into electoral politics in 2015, Greece had “experienced a full-fledged depression,” and was on the verge of negotiating a further bailout, or another “extend-and-pretend” loan, as Varoufakis calls such financial instruments.

Further, despite widespread publicity to the contrary, the fault for the ongoing failure didn’t lie entirely with the Greeks. “I fairly often encounter assertions to the effect that Greece didn’t carry through on its promises, that it failed to deliver the promised spending cuts,” Krugman observed. “Nothing could be further from the truth. In reality, Greece imposed savage cuts in public service, wages of government workers and social benefits.” The claim that “the direct job-destroying effects of spending cuts would be more than made up for by a surge in private sector optimism” proved false.

All of this matters, first and obviously, because of the suffering endured by thousands of Greek families and, more broadly, because the fiscal disaster in Greece was, and remains, a litmus test of the ability of the European Union to actually live up to its ideals in the face of serious crises. Indeed, the future of the EU as the great mid-20th-century utopian vision of a peaceful, prosperous Europe is probably more dependent on its political response to Greece than the far-more-publicized Brexit referendum decision in 2016 that will see the United Kingdom abandon its membership in the European consortium. That, in part, is why Varoufakis’s account of what goes on inside the EU decision-making institutions to which he briefly had intimate access matters so much.

Many people find Varoufakis a sympathetic figure in a landscape of fiscal bean-counters who are often colorless and obtuse. That empathy extends to a somewhat flamboyant personal style in which he’s garbed in T-shirt and chic leather jacket, aboard a motorcycle circumnavigating the roads around Athens’s Acropolis. Admittedly, such a perspective is not shared by everyone. His opponents painted him as an arrogant showboat, and weren’t shy about making their views known to the media; indeed, the smear campaign against Varoufakis personally (as “amateurish,” condescending, bereft of ideas or possessed of bad ones, et cetera) was part and parcel of the EU insistence on carrying out its austerity program in Greece.

How Varoufakis came to find himself running for political office in the pivotal January 2015 Greek parliamentary elections is a crucial part of the story and much of how one reads this memoir hangs on it. He arrived in the Greek electoral forum as a well-traveled academic — educated in England at the universities of Essex and Birmingham, he had teaching stints in the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States before settling at the University of Athens at the beginning of the century — and he maintained a sideline as a controversial TV pundit and op-ed writer (including a piece for this magazine).

Varoufakis presciently told an economics conference on the Greek budget in December 2006,

Today […] we are threatened by the bubble in American real estate and in the derivatives market […] If this bubble bursts, and it is certain it will […] none of this budget’s figures will have a leg to stand on […] The question is not whether this will happen but how quickly it will result in our next Great Depression.

Since a couple of Varoufakis’s fellow panelists were former finance ministers who took the line that Greece was somehow impervious to such dangers, their brash colleague’s Cassandra-style warnings were seen as somehow unpatriotic, thus initiating accusations against Varoufakis as a “national traitor” — that is, when he wasn’t simply being treated as “an inconvenient fool.” In the event, the bubble did burst, Greece was not impervious to the storm, and a virtual tsunami of economic disaster rolled out of the Aegean Sea.

Varoufakis’s anticipation of the financial catastrophe led to frequent public appearances as a popular TV commentator on economics and an occasional speechwriter and advisor to the social democratic George Papandreou government of 2009–’11, during the Greek debt crisis. It was Varoufakis’s public admonitions to the Greek government not to seek bailout loans to avert bankruptcy that produced titillating European headlines to the effect that “Former Greek PM adviser says Greece is bankrupt.” Again, this unpopular anticipation of the facts was viewed as a lack of patriotism; eventually, the disobedient economist was blacklisted from both state and private TV channels, almost all of which are controlled by the Greek oligarchy. There was also a serious death-threat phone call made against Varoufakis and his wife Danae’s teenage son — the economist cites it as one of the reasons he and his family took up residence at the University of Texas in the years preceding the 2015 Greek elections.

Unsurprisingly, Varoufakis was also an early opponent of “austerity” programs as a cure for economic depression. He saw their imposition as not so much an economic policy as a moralistic injunction with practical consequences. As he says in Adults in the Room,

Austerity is an awful economic policy that […] is guaranteed to fail in bad times. But austerity is not really an economic policy at all. Austerity is a morality play pressed into the service of legitimizing cynical wealth transfers from the have-nots to the haves during times of crisis, in which debtors are sinners who must be made to pay for their misdeeds.

It was this wide range of public and academic activities that made Varoufakis attractive to the Syriza Party, and its mid-30ish leader, Alexis Tsipras. The leftist party (itself a coalition of various Greek political factions) was in the process of becoming a significant player in Greek politics, circa 2012, when Nikos Pappas, Tsipras’s chief of staff and an economist himself, brought Tsipras and Varoufakis together. Although Varoufakis initially found the “young prince” of Greek politics distracted by internal feuds within Syriza and insufficiently focused on the crucial economic questions, he gradually warmed to Tsipras, discovering him to be a quick study once he set his mind to the issues at hand.

By late 2014, correctly anticipating early elections sometime the following year, what Varoufakis had to offer the Syriza leadership, as a non-party advisor to Tsipras and his chief of staff, Pappas, was both a strategy for negotiations with the EU, and specific proposals for those negotiations. The plan was aimed at getting Greece off the hamster-cage treadmill on which it had been placed by the EU bailouts and austerity program. Both the strategy and the practical proposals to resolve Greece’s dilemma are key to a reading of his memoir.

In terms of how to negotiate with the EU, Varoufakis insisted on absolute good-faith negotiations that included a specific but politically moderate plan to “restructure” Greece’s massive debt, and to ameliorate the austerity program in the name of what Syriza called the “humanitarian crisis.” So, for instance, Varoufakis was not suggesting a blanket write-off or “haircut” of the debt, but rather a very long-term repayment plan tied to Greek economic recovery and growth-rate percentages. At the same time, the overarching idea was to commit to continued membership in the EU and the Eurozone. In contrast to Syriza’s internal left caucus, Varoufakis opposed the idea of making an exit from the Eurozone (a “Grexit”) a campaign goal and, equally, he opposed those within the Greek political establishment who wanted to further extend the bailout in return for accepting a continuation of what Varoufakis called the “fiscal waterboarding” of the EU austerity program. Instead, Varoufakis offered a more sophisticated strategy. If, in the end, the EU refused to modify the terms of the debt and austerity deal, then, rather than bluffing or accepting a continuation of the situation in return for a third bailout loan, the Greek government should be prepared to take the Grexit route out of the Eurozone, while remaining in the EU.

This strategic approach entailed two practical plans. The first had to do with Greece’s proposals during negotiations with the EU, and the second involved what to do if negotiations failed and Greece returned to a devalued national currency, the drachma. Varoufakis had been working on all aspects of his approach in concert with various other economists during his time at the University of Texas at Austin, principally with Jamie Galbraith, the son of the renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith and, like his father, a proponent of Keynesian strategies for depression recovery. The only question for Varoufakis was whether Alexis Tsipras would be willing to commit to such a strategy in the face of internal opposition from Syriza’s Left Platform, as it was known, and from the right in the form of powerful bureaucrats, bankers, and the EU insiders themselves.

Varoufakis had expected that he might be asked to lend a hand to a Syriza government’s negotiations. Instead, Tsipras not only accepted Varoufakis’s strategic proposals, but offered the economist the key post of finance minister should Syriza win the election, which had been pushed forward to the end of January 2015. Rather than being parachuted into the position, Varoufakis insisted on running for a parliamentary seat and, more importantly, persuaded himself that Tsipras and his team would stand by the admittedly precarious plan Varoufakis had devised and that they had received with such preliminary enthusiasm.

This initial agreement within Tsipras’s inner circle raises a host of questions that can’t be resolved here, but which should at least be broached. How realistic was it to enter the fray with even faint hopes that the EU was prepared to substantially restructure the deal, or that it would do so once it saw that Tsipras and Varoufakis were serious about Grexit? If it was possible to anticipate the EU’s intransigent stance on maintaining “austerity,” as would quickly become apparent, wouldn’t it have made as much sense to simply invest one’s energies in a Grexit from the Eurozone as Syriza’s Left Platform had called for from the start?

Second, how plausible was Varoufakis’s package of proposals for a restructured deal? In a sense, that’s an argument best left to economists, but leaving aside the question of whether arguments left to economists ever come out well, minimally we can note that Varoufakis’s ideas made sense to a raft of professionals in the field, including Galbraith, Jeffrey Sachs, Joseph Stiglitz, and Paul Krugman. As well, Varoufakis’s arguments were sympathetically received by people like Larry Summers, Britain’s former Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont, and such political figures as US Senator Bernie Sanders, and an obscure, youthful, appointed economic minister in France named Emmanuel Macron. Finally, wasn’t Varoufakis being wilfully naïve in expecting to retain Tsipras’s political loyalty through thick and thin — and, more important, through the magical “spell,” as Varoufakis calls it, of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and her finance minister, the influential Wolfgang Schäuble?

In the event, Syriza scored a landslide victory in the Greek elections of January 25, 2015, securing a near majority of 149 out of 300 seats (Varoufakis himself led the polls among MPs elected), and quickly concluded a deal for a majority coalition with a small, right-wing, but anti-austerity party. In jam-packed celebrations in Syntagma Square, the Athenian forum facing the Greek parliament, it was a night for the ages. Paul Krugman (in the column cited above, published the morning after the election) called it a “political earthquake in Greece” that had produced the first European government “elected on an explicit promise to challenge the austerity policies that have prevailed since 2010.” On the morning after the historic electoral night, Varoufakis was with Tsipras in the PM’s new office, lightly joking about their abruptly changed circumstances, before heading over to his own ministry.

“When our eyes met […] Alexis had acquired a serious look, which he followed up with serious words,” Varoufakis recalled. Tsipras told his finance minister,

Listen! Don’t get comfortable in here. Don’t learn to love the trappings of office. These offices, these chairs, are not for us. Our place is out there, on the streets […] And be ready. If the bastards find a way to stop us […] you and I must be ready to hand back the keys and get out on the streets again, to plan the next demonstration.

It was a moment to savor, Varoufakis recognizes. “I felt ashamed at the qualms I had had about Alexis […] I did not care if the light died, as it inevitably would. Here we were, together, raging against its dying.”

A few minutes after that poignant moment with the new prime minister, Varoufakis took one of his solitary walks — alone except for a few press stragglers, who were befuddled by a minister on foot, unaccompanied by security — over to the finance ministry from which he would preside, looking out a window onto Syntagma Square and across to the seat of Greek government.

As the new minister sat in his office that evening, after talking to his wife who was in Austin clearing out their Texas apartment, the first official call from the United States came from, of all people, the socialist US senator from Vermont. Bernie Sanders wanted to know if there was anything he could do to support the new Greek government. He was just about to write a letter to Christine Lagarde, the IMF head, and wondered if there was something in particular that Varoufakis wanted him to say. It was, if nothing else, a much appreciated gesture of solidarity from a populist leftist who would be running for the US 2016 presidential nomination within a few months, and who would turn out to be an unexpectedly strong candidate for the Democratic Party nomination (although, in the end, he would be edged out by Hillary Clinton).

Sanders’s greetings were soon followed by an invitation to meet the US Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew, an offer from renowned Columbia University Economics professor Jeffrey Sachs to more or less join Varoufakis’s team (an offer that was accepted), and even some kind words for Greece from then-US President Obama. Since the Americans wielded considerable influence within the IMF, these first contacts were a hopeful sign.

And thus Varoufakis, the “many-minded” Greek voyager (to recall an appropriate Homeric epithet) set off on an odyssey that would take him not only to magic isles with spell-casting sibyls and caves occupied by cyclopian monsters, but also to relatively sterile committee rooms, government offices, and the labyrinths of Brussels’s EU bureaucracy. I needn’t recount each and every meeting or cliff-hanger moment in the ensuing fiscal negotiations. Anyway, Varoufakis himself does a surprisingly entertaining job of telling the story of the next six months of polite confrontation. Usually, books that are this heavily invested in financial minutiae don’t exactly keep you up at night, but Varoufakis’s account has the narrative drive of a rollicking detective novel. Election euphoria was quickly succeeded by the sobriety of Varoufakis’s first visitor, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Dutch finance minister and president of the Eurogroup of finance ministers from Eurozone countries. There were the usual public pleasantries, and then the two retired behind the famous “closed doors.” One of the principal virtues of Varoufakis’s book is that it takes us behind those doors and tells us exactly what was said and done there.

“What are your intentions for the Greek programme? Are you planning to complete it?” Dijsselbloem asked. Varoufakis repeated what he had told the Dutch minister on the phone a couple days earlier, namely, that the new Greek government recognized that it had inherited “certain commitments to the Eurogroup while at the same time trusted that its partners would recognize in return that it had been elected only a few days before in order to renegotiate key elements of this programme.” Only a few days before, on the phone, Dijsselbloem had responded to the same remarks, “This is very good.” This time the Eurogroup head aggressively declared, “This will not work!”

After a few more minutes of fencing, “Jeroen told me, his voice dripping with condescension, ‘The current programme must be completed or there is nothing else!’” In short, if the troika’s austerity dictates were not obeyed, Greece’s banks would be shut down, negotiations would be terminated, and Grexit would be imposed. It was the maximum hard line. At the closing pro forma press conference with the two finance ministers, Dijsselbloem more or less stormed off stage, barely pausing for the ritual departing handshake photo-op.

Unfortunately, over the next six months, there was not much improvement in relations between Varoufakis and any of the establishment colleagues with whom he ostensibly negotiated. Instead, Varoufakis provides incisive portraits of the EU insiders, and a lot of the insider conversation and gossip. As Varoufakis tours the European capitals, the major players perform their cameos, usually accompanied by promises upon which they fail to deliver. EU Commissioner Pierre Moscovici, a former French finance minister, offers support privately, but in public his well wishes are unceremoniously squashed by Dijsselbloem. Poul Thomsen, the Danish IMF technocrat in charge of Greek and Portuguese programs, at one point not only sympathizes with Varoufakis on everything from the Syriza agenda to ideas about debt swaps, but insists, “This is fine. But it is not enough. We need an immediate annulment of part of your debt. No swaps, no delays. Just take €53 billion and erase it.” Varoufakis thought, as a very old cinematic cliché has it, that he was dreaming in Technicolor.

Almost needless to say, it all comes to nothing, even though we get to meet the British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne; the head of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi; and perhaps most important of all, Wolfgang Schäuble. There are a couple of delays or time extensions, but nothing substantive is accomplished. The troika continues to insist on its austerity program in return for a further bailout loan to pay off the previous unpaid loans.

Varoufakis and his team had put together serious proposals, vetted them among Wall Street and London financiers, and then presented them to Greece’s creditors. “Then I would sit back and observe a landscape of blank stares. It was as if I had not spoken, as if there was no document in front of them,” reports Varoufakis. “Their responses, when they came, took no account of anything I had said. I might as well have been singing the Swedish national anthem. It would have made no difference.”

Near the end, Varoufakis went to the German finance minister for insider advice — the sort of thing Larry Summers once offered to Varoufakis over a drink in a Washington, DC bar. “Will you do me a favour, Wolfgang?” Varoufakis asked Schäuble, who is often depicted as the villain of the piece, since he is in many ways the architect of the austerity scheme, and at one point even toyed with a plan for the “temporary exit” of Greece from the Eurozone. “You have been doing this for forty years,” said Varoufakis. “I have only been doing it for five months […] I want to ask you for your advice. Not to tell me what to do. To advise me instead.”

When the elder German statesman assented, Varoufakis asked him, “Would you sign the [Memo of Understanding] if you were in my place?” That is, would you agree to the troika’s plan for further austerity and extended unpayable loans? He expected Schäuble to tell him that, under the circumstances, there was no alternative. “Instead, he looked out of the window. By Berlin standards, it was a hot and sunny day. Then he turned and stunned me with his answer: ‘As a patriot, no. It’s bad for your people.’” Varoufakis adds,

As I departed that day, I was not leaving behind me a Machiavellian dictator. I was leaving behind a sunken heart, a man ostensibly more powerful than almost anyone in Europe who nevertheless felt utterly powerless to do what he knew was right. As the great tragedians have taught us, nothing causes greater wretchedness than the combination of supreme authority and wholesale powerlessness.

Meanwhile, back home, and to make matters worse, Varoufakis gradually lost the confidence of the inner cabinet in the incessant internal struggle between factions within the government. Most important of all, Tsipras cracked. This was a crack that, contrary to poet Leonard Cohen’s famous line, did not function to let in the light. There will be historical controversy over what happened, and since Tsipras is still in office as of this writing, we won’t really know for a while. Maybe Tsipras was gradually worn down by Angela Merkel and the other powers of Europe; maybe he was never as fully committed to resistance as he appeared to be. At some point, however, he accepted that Greece would bow to the will of the troika and sign on the dotted line.

The denouement in late June 2015 was painful and confusing, but relatively swift. In the end, there was a last meeting of everybody — commissions, Eurogroups, and EU government leaders — in Brussels. There was a final private conversation between Varoufakis and Schäuble, as bittersweet as the one described above, during an intermission in Varoufakis’s last Eurogroup meeting. There was a final intransigent “offer” from the EU, delivered by Dijsselbloem. Contrary to appearances, rather than admitting his submission, Tsipras and his team flew back to Athens and announced a Greek referendum for July 5, asking a straightforward question of the Greek people. Should Greece say yes to the EU’s latest proposal package or should it say no? Varoufakis asked the relevant question, “Are we calling this referendum to win it or lose it?” One of Tsipras’s minions replied, “We need an emergency exit.”

I vividly remember the night of the referendum, having watched it on TV from Berlin. A heat wave had engulfed the German capital and much of Europe for days. A couple of hours before midnight, the TV announced the referendum vote count. To everybody’s surprise — the pollsters had said the outcome would be too close to call — the Greeks voted an overwhelming 61 percent against accepting the EU plan. The booming “No!” echoed across the continent. Varoufakis had campaigned heroically in favor of the No vote; he’d promised that if the Greeks voted to accept the EU proposal he would do the honorable thing and resign immediately (a pledge notably not made by Tsipras or any of the other cabinet ministers); and Varoufakis was surprised as the rest of us by the results. He had fully expected the vote would be to accept the EU plan. When the actual outcome was announced, he was stunned but exultant.

In Syntagma Square, thousands of citizens celebrated the unambiguous act of resistance. It was a modern, momentary, flash-mob version of the historic and legendary “glory that was Greece.” That evening, as living room TVs, computer, and smartphone screens showed jubilant Greek crowds in the square in Athens, a magnificent storm burst over Berlin. There was lightning, thunder, wind whipping the courtyard trees, and a deluge of rain falling through the darkness, as people stood on their balconies in summer shorts (and less) to get a taste of the relief. It felt like an ecstatic pagan moment, Zeus unleashing a populist thunderbolt to rend the heavens.

It was tempting to welcome the stormy weather in Berlin as a romantic metaphor for what was happening in Athens to the south. But in real unromantic life, the weather quickly returned to the usual ups and downs, and people like Varoufakis knew that the thunderbolts merely presaged a Pyrrhic victory. Though he had announced he would resign if the people accepted the EU scheme, what he hadn’t announced was that he would also resign even if the people rejected austerity, given that he had lost the confidence of Tsipras and the cabinet. Of course, there were last-ditch meetings with Tsipras, and alternative cabinet offers, but all this was empty, melancholy ritual. When Varoufakis got home in the middle of the night and reprised the events of the evening with his wife, he concluded, “Tonight we had the curious phenomenon of a government overthrowing its people.”

By dawn, Varoufakis had ended his career as finance minister of Greece. In due course, he rode off on his motorcycle on the winding roads around the Acropolis and toward the Parthenon. A successor, Varoufakis’s friend Euclid Tsakalotos, was appointed; the troika deal was obediently accepted (with both the prime minister and the new finance minister publicly admitting it was a bad deal); and Varoufakis, now an ordinary member of parliament, joined about three dozen Syriza colleagues to vote against the government. Since the official opposition supported the acceptance of the EU plan, the bill passed. A few months later, in September, Tsipras called an early snap election to deal with the internal Syriza rifts, and was handily reelected. Varoufakis did not stand for reelection.

What came next, after the period on which Varoufakis’s memoir focuses, was a muddled two-year continuation of the dispirited negotiations that had characterized the Athenian economist’s tour of duty. Varoufakis tells an unexpectedly riveting story, about the nature of power, the ins and out of navigating through Europe’s “deep Establishment,” and of the thwarted but hopeful moments of attempting to recover a sense of national dignity. It’s a story with no shortage of villains emerging from the poisoned ideology behind economic austerity, from the rather mean-minded Dijsselbloem to a corps of technocrats, both from the EU institutions as well as from inside the sporadically disloyal Greek bureaucracy. Wolfgang Schäuble was often cast in the media as the über-villain of the piece. But Varoufakis’s book illustrates, vividly, that Schäuble was more interesting than the caricatures, a real person caught up in the tragedy of a compromised and morally bankrupt system that perpetuated the Greek depression and its human crisis.

A year after Varoufakis’s resignation, in July 2016, an unusual report appeared in the business pages of the conservative British paper, The Telegraph, that received almost no public attention outside select professional circles. The findings came from the IMF’s Independent Evaluation Office, which reports not to managing director Christine Lagarde but directly to the IMF’s board of directors. Its “lacerating verdict” charged that the fund’s “top staff misled their own board, made a series of calamitous misjudgments in Greece […] ignored warning signs of impending crisis” and much more. For our purposes, the crucial finding is that Lagarde and the IMF knew that the Greek bailouts and austerity wouldn’t work, that it would only benefit the European creditor banks and immiserate the Greek people.

Despite knowing they were pursuing a policy set for failure, Lagarde and the IMF staff persevered, in order to avoid risks to their own credibility. “The injustice is that the cost of the bailouts was switched to ordinary Greek citizens — the least able to support the burden,” said The Telegraph, “and it was never acknowledged that the true motive of EU-IMF Troika policy was to protect monetary union. Indeed, the Greeks were repeatedly blamed for failures that stemmed from the policy itself. This unfairness — the root of so much bitterness in Greece — is finally recognised in the report.” Since Varoufakis will inevitably be blamed for merely telling “his side of the story,” this independent assessment stands as confirmation of his major claims in Adults in the Room — a vindication of his credibility, however bittersweet.

In June 2017, another full year on, the press at last reported, “Greece reaches a deal over bailout funds.” After a long period of muddling and bickering, the European finance ministers agreed on a deal to unlock further funds to meet further debt repayments due that summer. As one on-the-scene analyst put it, “Yes, Greece is being lent more money so it can pay older loans back.” Varoufakis, who had moved on to organizing a Democracy in Europe Movement (DiEM), was suitably scornful. The troika has again imposed upon Athens, he said on his website, “an ‘agreement’ according to which the troika will re-pay to itself a part of Greece’s unpayable debt.” He added, “In truly Orwellian form, the Eurogroup has exercised again, and with no compunction, its unique capacity for truth inversion.”

A month after that, in late July 2017, the Guardian’s Athens correspondent conducted a lengthy “exclusive” interview with the now-43-year-old Greek prime minister. “The worst is clearly behind us,” Alexis Tsipras declared. “We can now say with certainty that the economy is on the up […] Slow, slowly, what nobody believed could happen, will happen. We will extract the country from the crisis […] and in the end that will be judged.”

He pointed to nascent signs of recovery. Although more than a million Greeks, or 21.7 percent of workers, were still unemployed, that was down from 27.9 percent in 2014. Among Tsipras’s goals is a further 10 percent drop in employment, but that is “in the next five years,” the article reported. Some Greek bonds would soon be back on the market, and credit ratings agencies were about to upgrade the country’s status. “I have made mistakes […] big mistakes,” Tsipras readily admitted, adding that maybe his biggest initial blunder was “the choice of people in key posts.” Asked if he was referring to his former finance minister, Tsipras politely denied it, claiming that Varoufakis was the right pick for the early strategy of “collision politics,” but allowed that Varoufakis’s drastic Plan B for a possible Grexit was “so vague it wasn’t worth talking about.” Nonetheless, Tsipras had paid the price for his U-turn of acquiescing to neoliberal austerity policies: his own ratings had nosedived, reported the article, citing polls that show Syriza trailing by as much as 16 points, and that its charismatic leader was widely regarded as having lied.

Interestingly, the same Guardian reporter, Helena Smith, returned to Athens the following week to get the “view from the street,” as if, perhaps, she had passed on a bit too much government spin. One volunteer food bank worker, responding to Tsipras’s “the worst is clearly behind us” line, replied, “Politicians clearly have no idea of the reality on the ground. If they did, they wouldn’t make such pronouncements because, really, it couldn’t be worse.” Other interviewees said much the same. “Greeks can’t see any light at the end of any tunnel,” an elderly small businesswoman told the journalist. A director of a research institute predicted there would almost certainly be a need for a “new financial credit line, a bailout lite, and that would come with new, additional conditions.” More than two years after Varoufakis’s departure from office, the prospects seem, at best, “mixed.”

When Adults in the Room was published in England last spring, Paul Mason, the Labour Party activist and author of Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future (2015) declared in the Guardian: “Varoufakis has written one of the greatest political memoirs of all time.” Be that as it may, Varoufakis’s book is very good, very readable, and ought to be on all the important “notable books of the year” lists. But the book’s success is not what worries me. I’m concerned that not enough people will be inclined to pay attention to the story of an obscure economist who briefly served as a government official in a small, bankrupt country in southern Europe — a country that all of the powers of the European Union refused to rescue from a decade of human misery.

Stan Persky is the author of Letter from Berlin (2017) and Post-Communist Stories (2014). He lives in Berlin.


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