The Friday after Thanksgiving, is our annual Holiday Tea. There is much preparation involved in getting this organized - from menu planning to decorating to enjoying Thanksgiving dinner with family... it can be a bit hectic (so much so that I forgot to take any pictures on the day of the tea alas). This special event is one that has become a tradition for many of my guests. This year, I was surprised with a beautiful shiny green box - a present that featured an adorable teddy bear perched upon a tea cup, enjoying tea. The mother and daughter that presented the gift to me told me they just felt it belonged in a tea room! How thoughtful is that! Teddy will indeed find a special spot in the tea room, and every glimpse of him will remind me how thankful I am for tea room customers that have become good friends.
Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
These fun collections belong to Marj, our Jim Thorpe sister. An artist all her life, she creates vignettes throughout her home that inspire you to stop and observe, to admire and wish to recreate. In her recently remodeled kitchen, she had very narrow shelves built in above each doorway providing a perfect location for a visual display of her fun collections.
The matching pitchers are remembrances from our Mother's collection of luster ware. The wooden statue is a figure that I brought back from Spain well over 30 years ago. It makes me happy to see it has a very special spot in her kitchen collections. The little milk bottles are from Peplau's dairy. Mom's maiden name was Peplau, no connection to the dairy though.
As part of our year long 40th Anniversary celebrations, we held a Founder's Day Tea and honored our parents, Bertha and Byron Reppert. It was a joyful gathering of family and friends, a day of remembering and sharing as we talked about the early days of Rosemary House. A full Afternoon Tea was served and ended with Lane Cake and Rosemary for Remembrance cookies.
We have been serving delicious Mushroom Bacon Pinwheels at several of our Afternoon Tea events, and they have received rave reviews, so I thought I'd share the recipe with you. Not only are they yummy, but they are fast and easy to prepare. You can make them a few hours before serving, and then bake them just before serving. Enjoy!
Blend cream cheese, mayonnaise, bacon bits, mushroom pieces and garlic powder until well mixed. Separate crescent dough into four rectangles; seal perforations. Divide cream cheese mixture evenly between all 4 rectangles and spread to within 1/4 in. of edges. Roll up jelly-roll style, starting with the short side. Cut each into 5 or 6 pieces. Place slices cut side down on parchment lined baking sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 12 minutes, until golden brown. Serve warm. Yield: 20 - 24 pinwheels.
These little tea party bears simply make me smile! Purchased in a tea room gift shop many years ago, they have made their home in my tea room bath room! Simple to recreate with a hot glue gun and the right components, perhaps it's an inspirational idea for you to make at home. The hardest part might be to find a flat backed basket; but once you have that, I would imagine you're on your way. Bears, lace, and a fancy bow, coupled with a miniature tea set completes the tea party bears.
A bit of love from someone near.
Best wishes for the coming year. . ."
It is the time of year to bring houseplants inside to keep them warm over the winter. This large window creates a cozy reading nook for us to sit, rock and read. We believe "back door guests are best" and it is a good thing too since this is our foyer, and the front door is barely accessible!
These girls nestled themselves in amongst the greenery.
We have the largest citrus grove in Mechanicsburg. Five large citrus trees come in - 1 lemon, 1 lime, 1 grapefruit and 2 orange varieties. The oranges have very fragrant blossoms on them now and I was very fortunate that this grapefruit did not fall off when the tree was jostled inside. In another month I will enjoy a home grown grapefruit treat!
With all the citrus trees, I like to close my eyes and pretend it is my own orangery, a large greenhouse designed to overwinter fruit trees popular in the 17th - 19th centuries. You might be familiar with large ones such as what is featured at Kew gardens in England, but wealthy Victorian gardeners would have some enclosures on their homes as well.
Pat Hartman of Your Tea Life, and former owner of Civil-la-Tea, a closed tea room once located in Gettysburg has graciously agreed to allow me to post her recipe for Cinnamon Chip Scones. Now that fall has arrived, I particularly enjoy serving these scones. Pat has published two cookbooks, Teatime in Gettysburg and Lunchtime in Gettysburg that are available from Your Tea Life, her online shop. They are both great cookbooks! I've enjoyed making and serving many of her recipes in Sweet Remembrances.
In a large bowl, mix together flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and nutmeg. Cut butter into dry ingredients with a pastry blender until mixture reaches a crumbly consistency resembling coarse oatmeal. Mix in cinnamon chips. In a separate smaller bowl, whisk together heavy cream, egg, and vanilla. Add to dry ingredients and mix thoroughly, being careful not to overwork the dough. On a floured surface, shape dough into a circle about eight inches in diameter. Cut circle into eight equal wedges. Place on a baking sheet either separated or left in a circle. Bake 18 - 20 minutes at 350 degrees until tops are lightly brown and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Note: When I prepare these, I divide the dough in half, form two balls, and cut each ball into 6 triangles. Bake for 13 - 15 min at 425 degrees.
Thanks Pat for sharing this great recipe!
Chef Henry Haller, who served for two decades in the White House from Lyndon Johnson thru Ronald Reagan, devised this unique way of presenting appetizers. At cocktail parties and receptions, the simulated cake was quite a conversation piece and breathtaking to behold.
The base is a styrofoam circle 8 to 10 inches in diameter and shaped like a 2-layer cake, about 6 inches high. The "cake" is draped with non poisonous leaves. Chef Haller was partial to galax leaves which are thick and sturdy. On the one pictured here Nancy has used our comfrey leaves from the garden. A variety of bite sized canapes are then attached with decorative toothpicks resulting in the edible visual delight. Any number of cold canapes can be used to create the "cake" as long as all the choices are bite size and can be readily fastened with toothpicks (a canape is any appetizer that can be eaten out of hand and without the use of a fork and spoon, thus leaving one hand free for holding a cocktail). Chef Haller usually created the "cake" with around 300 canapes, to serve 50 to 150 people. On the one that Culinary Artist Nancy Reppert created for our Road to the White House dinner, she featured cheese stars, shrimp wrapped in snow peas, marinated mushrooms, and beef rolls filled with horseradish and cream cheese.
One of our recent fall classes was to create this clever Bay Leaf Wreath. We used all organic bay leaves, dried apple slices, dried orange peel, organic chili peppers and cinnamon sticks also. The wreath can be hung in your kitchen and when you need a bay leaf or two - there it is!
All the busy hands simply thread the fruit, bay leaves, and cinnamon sticks onto a 16 gauge wire. It is such a simple and fool proof craft we even had a mom and her kids working on a wreath.
When you have filled up your piece of wire, loop the two ends together and tie on a raffia bow to hide the loops. It's fast, festive, and fun! Simple too! Enjoy!
Bright baby eyes, and little button nose.
We're excited to announce the arrival of the newest addition to our growing family. . . . . the second Great Grand-daughter for the Patriarch of our family.
the end of the campaigning and a new beginning!
The table is set, and the menu is prepared. Tonight's special dinner, featuring recipes from White House Chefs, is prepared once every four years - not to be repeated again until 2012.
Please remember to vote today!
In the past four presidential elections, Family Circle magazine has held a bake-off featuring a favorite cookie recipe (not necessarily an original recipe) submitted by the candidates wives. We've been serving and enjoying the cookies submitted by this years 'hopeful' First Lady. The cookies on the left are Michele Obama's shortbread cookie and the ones on the right are Cindy McCain's Oatmeal-Butterscotch. The results are in, and Cindy McCain's cookie recipe has won the popular vote 54% to 44% as shared in the Nov. 1 issue of Family Circle magazine. In past years, the winner of the bake-off has also won the White House. Wonder if they've calculated the electoral votes?
We used this 'book' to offer the chocolate covered garlic at the end of our Garlic Dinner. Each time you open the cover, there is a unique comment in a witchy voice, with about 6 different phrases. We had fun opening and closing this book, offering Chocolate Covered Garlic to all those that dare. Thanks Marj, our Jim Thorpe sister, for sharing this book with us!
Peel and separate 20 cloves of garlic. Place garlic cloves in a small pan of water and boil until tender, about 6 minutes. Drain garlic, pat dry, and set aside. Melt 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate in microwave. Add 1 tsp. shortening to melted chocolate. Stir well. Dip each garlic clove in melted chocolate, place on wax paper. Sprinkle with chopped pecans. Refrigerate until firm. Place in candy cups, and enjoy!
Note: For true Garlic die-hard fans and a real 'garlic bite', do not boil the garlic cloves.
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Sorry If You're Offended, but Socialism
Leads to Misery and Destitution
by David Harsanyi
'Intimidated' GOP opens borders to 'everyone'
by wnd.com
{ wnd.com } ~ The "constant drumbeat of the liberal media" in favor of open borders has "intimidated" some Republicans, said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich... after GOP members joined dummycrats-Democrats in an amendment that effectively would enable anyone from Latin America to obtain asylum in the United States. "Republicans often behave as though they represent a minority interest, when, in fact, even most people who are here as immigrants would like to see a law-abiding country that's physically safe," Gingrich said in an interview Thursday with the Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson. In 2014, the liar-nObama administration dramatically expanded the criteria for asylum in the United States, which had been largely restricted to the threat of persecution on religious or political grounds. Under the liar-nObama rules, anyone claiming a threat from gang violence or domestic abuse could get asylum, effectively opening the borders to the 500 million people of Latin America, much of which is plagued by gang violence. In June, Attorney General Jeff Sessions reversed the liar-nObama rule, but on Wednesday House Republicans added to a House appropriations bill an amendment that would make the liar-nObama rule permanent... https://www.wnd.com/2018/07/intimidated-gop-opens-borders-to-everyo...
Tax Cuts in Every Congressional District in Every State
by Kevin Dayaratna, Parker Sheppard and Adam Michel
{ heritage.org } ~ The Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA), signed into law by President Donald Trump in December 2017, is one of the most significant policy reforms passed by Congress in recent times... Following this tax reform, individuals, families, and communities across the country have been reaping the benefits of bigger paychecks, lower taxes, and more economic opportunities. In this study, we model the effect of the TCJA on every state and congressional district in the country. We find that the average household and the average married couple with two kids in every congressional district in every state benefit from the tax cut, both in 2018 and over the next 10 years. Nationally, average households will save $1,400, and married couples with two children will save $2,918 in 2018. The tax cuts also induce changes in wages, employment, and investment. Including these economic effects, the typical American household will benefit from more than $26,000 in increased take-home pay between 2018 and 2027. The average family of four can expect over $44,000 of increased take-home pay. These benefits could be even greater if the TCJA is made permanent—and they could disappear if the tax cuts are repealed. For individual taxpayers, the TCJA reduced federal income tax rates, increased the standard deduction, doubled the child tax credit, repealed the personal and dependent exemptions, created a new business deduction, and capped the deduction for state and local taxes. The law also made significant business tax reforms, including lowering the corporate income tax rate and reforming the tax treatment of investments. To model the impact of the TCJA on typical households, we implemented the following provisions...
https://www.heritage.org/taxes/report/tax-cuts-every-congressional-...
Memo to Mueller: liar-nObama
gift to al-Qaida affiliate is REAL collusion
{ wnd.com } ~ The liar-nObama administration gave $200,000 in taxpayer money to a group it knew to be an al-Qaida affiliate in Sudan, according to an investigation... The joint i24News-Middle East Forum probe found the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID, gave $200,000 to the Khartoum-based Islamic Relief Agency, a designated global terrorist organization, reported i24News, the Israeli international news and current-affairs television channel located in Tel Aviv. The relief group, ISRA, had been placed on the U.S. sanctions list for its financial support of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and other terrorist groups, including Hamas. Independent sources said the funds were stopped as soon as it became clear that ISRA was a banned group. But the U.S. Treasury, nevertheless, issued a special license permitting a one-time $125,000 transfer to ISRA after officials became aware of the mistake...
https://www.wnd.com/2018/07/obama-gave-200000-to-al-qaida-affiliate/
Nunes Confirms the Worst: FISAs
on Carter Page Will Be Disaster for FBI
by CHUCK ROSS
{ westernjournal.com } ~ The release of heavily redacted versions of the FBI's applications for surveillance warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page... has generated speculation about what's behind the black boxes that cover up a significant portion of the government documents. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes claimed in an interview that aired Thursday that what's behind the redactions is "really bad," and shows the FBI relied on flimsy evidence to obtain the spy warrants on Page. "What's in the redactions is equally bad, some would probably say worse than what the American people can see today," Nunes said in an interview with Hill. TV's Buck Sexton. "I would argue that what's left in there is really bad, if not worse, but also what's not in there is even worse than what people can see, what people can't see." On Friday, the Department of Justice released heavily redacted versions of four applications the FBI submitted under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in order to obtain warrants to spy on Page, an energy consultant who joined the Trump campaign in March 2016...
https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/nunes-confirms-worst-fisas-carter...
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Inside Judicial Watch: DOJ/FBI Misled FISA Courts with liar-Clinton-DNC Dossier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhb6oHKTULM&utm_source=deployer&...
Tom Fitton's Video Weekly Update – July 27, 2018
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Trump Should Declassify FISA Documents
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujnNnBaxzSM
"Stop Trump Gang" is Running an Information Operation to Manipulate the Public
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc4BZDake5I
DOJ, FBI Officials Committed Criminal Misconduct
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQPfzBvm_cU
'This liar-Clinton Dossier was Disguised Inappropriately and Misleadingly by the DOJ and FBI'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q6IEfxwJ88
Sorry If You're Offended, but Socialism Leads to Misery and Destitution
On the same day that Venezuela's "democratically" elected socialist president, Nicolas Maduro, whose once-wealthy nation now has citizens foraging for food, announced he was lopping five zeros off the country's currency to create a "stable financial and monetary system," Meghan McCain of "The View" was the target of internet-wide condemnation for having stated some obvious truths about collectivism.
During the same week we learned that the democratic socialist president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, is accused of massacring hundreds of protesters whose economic futures have been decimated by his economic policies, Soledad O'Brien and writers at outlets ranging from GQ, to BuzzFeed, to the Daily Beast were telling McCain to cool her jets.
In truth, McCain was being far too calm. After all, socialism is the leading man-made cause of death and misery in human existence. Whether implemented by a mob or a single strongman, collectivism is a poverty generator, an attack on human dignity and a destroyer of individual rights.
It's true that not all socialism ends in the tyranny of Leninism or Stalinism or Maoism or Castroism or Ba'athism or Chavezism or the Khmer Rouge — only most of it does. And no, New York primary winner commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doesn't intend to set up gulags in Alaska. Most so-called dummycrats-democratic socialists — the qualifier affixed to denote that they live in adummycrats-democratic system and have no choice but to ask for votes — aren't consciously or explicitly endorsing violence or tyranny. But when they adopt the term "socialism" and the ideas associated with it, they deserve to be treated with the kind of contempt and derision that all those adopting authoritarian philosophies deserve.
But look: Norway! Socialism is perhaps the only ideology that Americans are asked to judge solely based on its piddling "successes." Don't you dare mention Albania or Algeria or Angola or Burma or Congo or Cuba or Ethiopia or Laos or Somalia or Vietnam or Yemen or, well, any other of the dozens of other inconvenient places socialism has been tried. Not when there are a handful of Scandinavian countries operating generous welfare-state programs propped up by underlying vibrant capitalism and natural resources.
Of course, socialism exists on a spectrum, and even if we accept that the Nordic social-program experiments are the most benign iteration of collectivism, they are certainly not the only version. Pretending otherwise would be like saying, "The police state of Singapore is more successful than Denmark. Let's give it a spin."
It turns out, though, that the "Denmark is awesome!" talking point is only the second most preposterous one used by socialists. It goes something like this: If you're a fan of "roads, schools, libraries and such," although you may not even be aware of it, you are also a supporter of socialism.
This might come as a surprise to some, but every penny of the $21,206 spent in commie-Ocasio-Cortez's district each year on each student, rich or poor, is provided with the profits derived from capitalism. There is no welfare system, no library that subsists on your good intentions. Having the state take over the entire health care system could rightly be called a socialistic endeavor, but pooling local tax dollars to put books in a building is called local government.
It should also be noted that today's socialists get their yucks by pretending collectivist policies only lead to innocuous outcomes like local libraries. But for many years they were also praising the dictators of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders, the nation's most successful socialist, isn't merely impressed with the goings-on in Denmark. Not very long ago, he lauded Hugo Chavez's Venezuela as an embodiment of the "American dream," even more so than the United States.
Socialists like to blame every inequity, the actions of every greedy criminal, every downturn and every social ill on the injustice of capitalism. But none of them admit that capitalism has been the most effective way to eliminate poverty in history. Today, in former socialist states like India, there have been big reductions in poverty thanks to increased capitalism. In China, where communism sadly still deprives more than a billion people of their basic rights, hundreds of millions benefit from a system that is slowly shedding socialism. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the extreme poverty rate in the world has been cut in half. And it didn't happen because Southeast Asians were raising the minimum wage.
In the United States, only 5 percent of people are even aware that poverty has fallen in the world, according to the Gapminder Foundation, which is almost certainly in part due to the left's obsession with "inequality" and normalization of "socialism." Nearly half of American millennials would rather live in a socialist society than in a capitalist one, according to a YouGov poll. That said, only 71 percent of those asked were able to properly identify either. We can now see the manifestation of this ignorance in our elections and "The View" co-host Joy Behar.
But if all you really champion are some higher taxes and more generous social welfare, stop associating yourself with a philosophy that usually brings destitution and death. Call it something else. If not, McCain has every right to associate you with the ideology you embrace.
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/57366?mailing_id=3656&utm_medium...

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Crews will close Sunland Park Drive from Mesa Hills Drive to Doniphan Drive in both directions – along with all ramps at Sunland Park – from Sunday, April 29 at 3 a.m. to Monday, April 30 at 6.
The closure is needed to prepare for a traffic shift. During the 27-hour closure, motorists will be allowed access to businesses along Sunland Park Drive. Police officers and road signs will be in place to help drivers navigate the closure. Through traffic should avoid the Sunland Park corridor.
The traffic shift starts April 30 when crews close the Sunland Park overpass and shift traffic onto the newly constructed turnaround bridge parallel to the overpass for travel. The shift onto the turnaround bridge will mean fewer through lanes: two northbound lanes and one southbound lane.
To assist drivers during this shift, the new Sunland Park flyover will be open. They can also use the westbound on ramp to I-10.
The closure and traffic shift will last at least five months. During that time crews will demolish and replace the Sunland Park Drive overpass. The new overpass will have an increased clearance height and additional lanes.
I-10 will close in both directions between the Sunland Park exit and entrance ramps, the Sunland Park overpasses will close, and the Sunland Park flyover ramp will close from 9 p.m. Friday, May 4-Monday, May 7 at 6 a.m. Crews will be demolishing the Sunland Park Drive overpass. Drivers will be detoured onto the I-10 eastbound and westbound frontage road ramps.
The following weekend, I-10 will close so crews can continue the demolition and begin to remove massive steel girders from the old Sunland Park flyover ramp. I-10 at Sunland Park will close; Sunland Park Drive will close from Mesa Hills to Paisano, the Sunland Park flyover ramp will close, and the I-10 westbound on ramp at Sunland Park Drive will close.
Drivers traveling on I-10 eastbound will use the on/off ramp as a detour. Westbound traffic will exit at Sunland Park and use North Mesa Street (SH 20) as a detour. Closures will be in place Friday, May 11 from 9 p.m.-Monday, May 14 at 6 a.m.
A third 57-hour weekend closure may be needed if work does not progress as planned. Progress could be impeded by factors such as wind. If a third 57-hour closure is needed, it will be Friday, May 18 from 9 p.m. – Monday, May 21 at 6 a.m.
A new traffic configuration will be in place on I-10, in both directions, through summer starting May 7. Lanes will be reduced to two lanes between Sunland Park and Buena Vista. Crews will be replacing the pavement and guard rail in the median of I-10.
9 pm each night to 6 am each morning · North Mesa Street (SH 20) will be reduced to one lane in both directions between Osborne Drive and Remcon Circle.
Crews will demolish the median of North Mesa (SH 20).
· I-10 Westbound will close between the Executive Center Boulevard exit (Exit 16) and Sunland Park Drive.
Detour: Motorists will exit at Executive Center Blvd (Exit 16) and follow the detour signs to North Mesa St (SH 20) and then to Sunland Park Dr. Motorists may re-enter I-10 Westbound via the Sunland Park entrance ramp.
Crews will be plugging potholes and hauling dirt.
Through Monday, April 30 · Sunland Park Drive northbound will have a right lane closed between Constitution Drive and Paisano Drive (US 85).
Motorists should proceed with caution.
Crews will be conducting pavement work at the I-10/Sunland Park interchange.
On April 30th, the Sunland Park flyover opens and the Sunland Park overpass closes.
But first, a 27-hour closure of Sunland Park Drive is required on Sunday, April 29.
· Sunland Park Drive in both directions will close between Doniphan Drive and Mesa Hills Drive.
· All entrance ramps and exit ramps at Sunland Park will close.
Businesses: Access to businesses along Sunland Park Drive will be maintained.
o Motorists on I-10 Eastbound who want to exit at Sunland Park Drive (Exit 13) will instead exit at North Mesa Street (Exit 11), then follow the detour signs to get to Sunland Park Drive.
o Motorists on I-10 Westbound who want to exit at Sunland Park Drive (Exit 13) will instead exit at Executive Center Boulevard, then follow the detour signs to get to Sunland Park Drive.
Crews are reconfiguring traffic patterns on the Sunland Park Drive overpass. The change will detour motorists onto the newly constructed, adjacent overpass starting at 6 am on Monday, April 30. The reconfigured traffic pattern will be in place for at least five months and until further notice while crews demolish and reconstruct the closed overpass. More at http://bit.ly/SunlandSwitch.
· The Sunland Park Drive flyover entrance ramp to I-10 Eastbound remains inaccessible.
Detour: While the flyover entrance ramp is closed, motorists should continue to follow the detour signs to the Paisano Drive entrance ramp.
Starting at 6 am Monday, April 30 and until further notice · The Sunland Park Drive overpass that allows traffic across I-10 will be closed for at least five months.
Detour: Traffic will be detoured onto the newly constructed turnaround bridge located alongside the closed overpass.
Crews will be demolishing and reconstructing the closed overpass. More at http://bit.ly/SunlandSwitch.
For two weekends in May, the I-10/Sunland Park interchange will shut down. Crews to demolish bridges.
A third weekend closure may be needed if work does not progress as planned.
· I-10 in both directions will close between the Sunland Park exit and entrance ramps.
· All Sunland Park Drive overpasses in both directions will close.
NOTE: There will be an interruption of work on Sunday, May 6, from 4:30 am to 10:30 am. During this time, southbound traffic on Sunland Park Drive will be allowed access across the Sunland Park overpass.
OVERSIZED vehicles and high clearance vehicles may have a different detour route during this closure. For oversize permits and routes, go to http://txdmv.gov/motor-carriers/oversize-overweight-permits.
· Sunland Park Drive northbound will close at the I-10 overpass.
OVERSIZED vehicles and high clearance vehicles may have a different detour route during these closures. For oversize permits and routes, go to http://txdmv.gov/motor-carriers/oversize-overweight-permits.
Crews will painstakingly remove 28 massive steel girders from the old Sunland Park flyover ramp. Each girder weighs more than 100,000 pounds. The girders will be cut into 30-foot sections, then carried (not dropped) and placed onto waiting trucks.
The dismantling of the girders will be accomplished with the help of cranes, each positioned near newly erected Sunland bridges. Crane setup alone takes six hours. Re-positioning of the cranes will be necessary during the girder removal process.
The operation is dangerous and requires precision. If winds reach 25 miles per hour, the operation will be halted.
Thank you for your patience during these high profile weekend closures.
A third 57-hour weekend closure may be needed if work does not progress as planned during the first two weekends. Progress may be impeded by factors such as wind.


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When we read or hear about identity theft, we naturally think about adults being the targets. After all, they have the money, right? However, identity theft statistics indicate that a rising percentage of victims are children, and when you think about it from a thief's perspective, that makes sense. After all, thieves want to be able to continue stealing for a long time. Since most children are years away from worrying about credit scores and credit reports, stealing a child's identity makes it easier for a criminal to commit fraud undetected for years.
Keep your and your children's SS cards away from purses and wallets, and hide them in a secure spot in your home. That way, if your purse or wallet is lost or stolen, a thief won't have your SS information. Don't let your kids have access to their cards until they're ready for a first job and they understand the importance of protecting this information.
Shred any mail or documentation with your child's SS number and other personal information just as you shred your pre-approved credit card applications and other sensitive mail.
Social Security numbers are passports to identity theft. Once a thief has one, he can commit many different types of fraud. Use strong passwords with a mix of alphanumeric characters that will be impossible to guess.
Once a year, contact the SSA to request an earnings report for each child. If they're not of working age, there should not be any records of income. If there is reported income, it's probably an indication of identity theft.
An identity monitoring service provides many different tools to alert subscribers to suspicious activity and much more. Family plans provide the best savings and protect the whole family.
Pay close attention to the sites your children visit online. Lacking experience, they're easy targets for information that identity thieves need to commit crimes. Talk to your kids about identity theft, safe online surfing habits, password strength, security, and other important things to look for when online.
Protecting your kids from identity theft begins with you. Talk to your kids about your own information security habits and the importance of having them. Impress upon them that there's never a good reason to share sensitive information with strangers online or in person.


"The Head's only single, a pressing of 1,000 on the Ellie Jay label, is valued at £60 in a certain price guide and was a contender for Worst Single Of All Time on the Kenny Everett Show. It never made the Top 10 though (sometimes Detour's detailed 16-page CD booklets can be a little too honest). Eight hundred copies of Nothing To Do In A Town Like Leatherhead went missing after a management company took over handling the band. So keep your eyes peeled if you go to car boot sales in the Leatherhead area. Neither really punks nor mods, The Head (1979-82) were "local heroes" not blessed with masses of ability and natural talent. That said, their combination of droll humour and two-fingered Farfisa organ hooks on songs about their hometown, how their girlfriends fancied Billy Idol and how drugs were uncool have a certain amateurish charm. If you remember that Vaultage '78 sound or Leamington Spa's The Shapes, then this may appeal. Detour is a fine label, full of love and dedication to its roster of bands from yesteryear, but sadly this is not on a par with previous releases."
Addendum: The band released a second single in 2009, Music For Intelligent People...And Morons.


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How to Help (Without Micromanaging)
New research points to three strategies.
Colin M. Fisher,
Teresa M. Amabile,
Julianna Pillemer
From the Magazine (January–February 2021)
Nathalie Lees
Extensive research shows that when employees get hands-on managerial support, they perform better than when they're left to their own devices, but unnecessary or unwanted help can be demoralizing and counterproductive. So how do you intervene constructively?
The authors share three key lessons learned during 10 years of study: (1) Step in only when people are engaged in a challenging task and ready to accept help; (2) clarify that your role is to offer assistance, not take over the project or judge anyone; and (3) align the rhythm of your involvement to employees' needs, determining whether the situation calls for intensive guidance in the short term or intermittent path clearing over a prolonged period. These strategies are especially valuable for helping teams that are physically separated, as so many are during the current pandemic.
"Micromanagement" is a dirty word in today's workplaces. Bosses who intervene too often or too extensively in their subordinates' activities get a bad reputation, and most forward-thinking organizations have come to value employee autonomy more than oversight. Research shows that people have strong negative emotional and physiological reactions to unnecessary or unwanted help and that it can erode interpersonal relationships. Even the U.S. Army general George S. Patton, a leader in one of the most traditional command-and-control groups in the world, understood the danger of micromanaging: He famously said, "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
Managers shouldn't be completely laissez-faire, however, especially when subordinates aren't colocated, as is the case for many during the global Covid-19 pandemic. People doing complex work often need more than just superficial advice or encouragement; they need assistance that is both well-timed and appropriate to their issues—and providing it can be challenging without opportunities for serendipitous encounters in a physical office. Extensive research indicates that pervasive helping in an organization correlates with better performance than letting employees go it alone does. So how can you give subordinates the assistance they need without undermining their sense of efficacy and independence?
Over the past 10 years we've been studying how leaders effectively offer help without being perceived as micromanagers. We have observed and talked to people inside various companies, including a prominent strategy consulting firm (we'll call it ConsultCo) where we interviewed partners who were named by top management as exceptional hands-on leaders. At a design consultancy that's well-known for its helping culture (pseudonym: GlowDesign), we conducted a large-scale qualitative study using daily diaries and in-depth weekly interviews with help givers and receivers. And we've run two behavioral experiments in the laboratory, exploring how 124 groups responded to differently timed interventions when asked to make decisions about opening a fictitious restaurant.
Together those projects have yielded important insights into how managers can better assist their employees. As a starting point, your employees need to know that you're willing to offer help—and they must feel comfortable asking for it. Additionally, you need to have a baseline understanding of their work and its challenges, as well as time and energy to give. But just how and when should you roll up your sleeves to get involved in employees' work? We've uncovered three key strategies for being a hands-on boss without micromanaging: (1) Time your help so it comes when people are ready for it, (2) clarify that your role is to be a helper, and (3) align the rhythm of your involvement—its intensity and frequency—with people's specific needs.
Time Your Help Wisely
When involving yourself in your employees' work, timing matters, but not in the way you might expect. Conventional wisdom suggests that heading off potential issues is the best strategy (recall Benjamin Franklin's famous adage "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"). We've found, however, that the leaders who are viewed as the most helpful don't try to preempt every problem or dive in as soon as they recognize one. Instead they watch and listen until they believe their subordinates see the need for help and are ready to listen receptively. They understand that people are more willing to welcome assistance when they're already engaged in a task or a project and have experienced its challenges firsthand.
GlowDesign, where we spent two years studying leaders' helping behavior, offers some illustrative examples. In one case, a manager checked in on a shorthanded team and discovered what he felt were fundamental issues with the project's scope. But rather than jump in right away with assistance or advice, he simply told the project lead, Violet, that he was available. (All names in this article are pseudonyms.) "I offered help," he told us, but "it took a while for Violet to figure out how she could use me." She ultimately asked him to weigh in on several key matters.
Those known as great helpers at ConsultCo were similarly careful about the timing of their help. One of the firm's partners, Adriana, described her approach when some of her people were struggling with their work. She told us that even before she met with them, "I thought the team was on the wrong track. [But] when I got in the room, I listened. I limited my questions to clarifying questions to make sure I understood what they were saying. There are two reasons I did this. One is that these are smart people, and I have enough respect for them—even the most junior-tenured people in the firm—to know that the work they do is very valuable….Second, I thought they would be more willing to rethink [their ideas] if they had a chance to first explain what they were doing." By the end of the meeting, the team seemed ready for Adriana to offer suggestions, so she did.
Our experimental research—studying those 124 groups making entrepreneurial decisions—confirmed the importance of lending a hand at the right time. We found that when advice was given in the course of teams' work, after problems had emerged rather than beforehand, members understood and valued it more. This led them to actually use the help, improve their processes, share more information, and make objectively better decisions than did groups that received more instruction at the start of their discussions.
What prompts employees to welcome assistance may vary from situation to situation. But we'd counsel managers not to provide input without first allowing those they supervise to gain knowledge of the task and express their views on it. In many cases, a well-timed cure may be better than that ounce of prevention.
Clarify That Your Role Is to Help
Even if the timing is right, intervening can go wrong when it isn't clear why you are getting involved. Managers play a lot of different roles, and their responsibilities include evaluating employees and doling out rewards and punishments. This power dynamic can get in the way of effective help. When bosses step in, their involvement can imply that people are messing up in a big way. That's why employees often hide or downplay issues and fail to solicit guidance. They can become unreceptive to the assistance, defensive, or demoralized, which hinders creativity and performance. Therefore, as a leader at GlowDesign told us, managers must be careful "not to go in there and create so much anxiety that you're in a worse spot….It can be like 'Here's the boss, and gosh, he's really unhappy with what we're doing.'"
Because seeking and receiving help can make people feel so vulnerable, managers need to clarify their roles when intervening in employees' work. They should explain that they are there to help, not to judge or take over. They need to foster what Amy Edmondson, a professor at Harvard Business School, calls psychological safety—an environment in which interpersonal risks are encouraged.
The importance of this framing was evident at GlowDesign. We found that leaders rated as particularly helpful took pains to persuade subordinates that they were stepping in for only one reason: to support their employees' work. Consider what happened when a team tasked with one of the firm's biggest projects was hobbled by several members' personal issues. The project leader, Aaron, emailed one of Glow's senior partners, Gary, for advice. Gary was the client's main contact at the firm, but Aaron knew him only slightly and was surprised when he volunteered to fly from Chicago to New York to help. Many people would balk at accepting such an offer, worrying that top managers lacked confidence in them. But Gary was careful to emphasize that he would not supplant Aaron as the person in charge. "I'm not here to change the project," he said. "I'm just here to help you…to be your crutch."
Across our research, we found that when managers clarified their intentions, as Gary did, employees were more candid about the problems they faced and more willing to accept help and work collaboratively to solve them. Don't assume that employees concerned about performance reviews and pay can accurately discern your intentions. No matter how supportive you are as a boss, they won't forget that part of your job is to monitor and assess them. So when you start taking a stronger hand in their work, assure them that you're there as an adviser, not an evaluator. Be explicit about what you are trying to accomplish with your intervention.
Align the Rhythm of Your Involvement to People's Needs
To give people useful help, leaders must take the time to fully understand employees' problems, especially when the issues are thorny. If the work is complex, creative, and cognitively demanding, you'll need to engage deeply. But that means more than delivering help with the right content. It also means allocating time and attention in a pattern that works for receivers. We call this the rhythm of involvement, and it will vary depending on whether employees need intensive guidance in the short term or intermittent path clearing over a prolonged period.
Concentrated guidance is required when employees encounter hurdles that can't be overcome with quick feedback or a few hours of input. In such scenarios, leaders collaborate closely with subordinates in long sessions tightly clustered over a few days. That might sound like the definition of micromanaging. Indeed, bosses who assisted in this way without ensuring that their people were ready for it and without clarifying their helper roles were perceived as taking over. Employees felt undermined, with morale and performance suffering as a result. But when managers instead began with the other strategies we've described, this kind of time-intensive deep help was heartily welcomed.
For example, Hazel, a senior manager at GlowDesign, successfully guided a team as it moved from the research phase of a project to the design phase. Though she had attended a brainstorming session early on, she had been hands-off until the team leader asked for help. She obliged but spent the first day listening and asking questions to better understand the project and ensure that the team was ready for her input. On the second and third days, she suggested a framework to help everyone identify and communicate their key insights, articulate ideas, and move forward. Her intense involvement over a short period wasn't viewed as a threat or a commentary on the team's performance; instead it eased the pressure enormously. Moreover, it marked a turning point for the project: The work done during those three days became the foundation of the client presentation, which led to contracts for several additional projects.
In the second form of help, path clearing, leaders offer assistance in briefer, intermittent intervals when employees face ongoing problems. For instance, if your team is short-staffed, you might stop by every few days for a half hour or so, to help with whatever needs doing—whether it's participating in an important client call or simply ordering lunch during a long work session.
Path clearers maintain enough general knowledge about the project to understand emerging needs but seldom dig into the core work. Rather, they look for smaller ways to give relief to their subordinates. That's how Kaya, a partner at ConsultCo, helped the members of one team who were so busy struggling to meet client demands that they barely had time to update her on what was happening. She found ways to take pressure off them in short, scattered bursts: by talking to individuals about their concerns, cleaning up the team's shared calendar, and handling meeting logistics with the client.
Leaders trying this approach shouldn't underestimate the importance of staying informed about the work. Those who fail to do so can provide only shallow criticism or vague advice when they drop in—interactions that Glow designers derisively referred to as "swoop and poops." So keep abreast of the issues your employees are facing, and step in when you see roadblocks you can remove.
Our research suggests that leaders can help their employees in hands-on and meaningful ways—without being accused of micromanaging—if they pay careful attention to timing, articulate their helping role up front, and match the rhythm of their assistance to receivers' needs. These guidelines are especially important when teams are physically separated, as so many have been during the ongoing pandemic. When workers aren't colocated, managers are more likely to either check in too frequently and interrupt their colleagues' flow or fall out of touch and leave employees adrift. People working from home or from any separate location can easily feel isolated, confused, or even abandoned. Thus being a hands-on manager in such situations is critical; it not only improves employees' performance but also lets people feel supported and connected.
However, intervening in your team's work while ignoring any one of our guidelines can render your help ineffective or even harmful—potentially worse than doing nothing. Offering preemptive advice can keep people from seeing its value. Failing to frame your role can allow subordinates to feel threatened and undermined. And using the wrong rhythm—especially not allocating enough time to be an effective guide or path clearer—can lead to superficial or off-target feedback or be perceived as an invasion, engendering cynicism rather than gratitude. You can easily avoid these micromanagement traps, however. Follow the three strategies we've outlined and become a boss who truly comes through for employees when they need it most.
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Colin M. Fisher is an associate professor of organizations and innovation at University College London's School of Management. His research examines how teams involved in creativity, improvisation, and complex decision-making can get the leadership and help they need.
Teresa M. Amabile is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and a coauthor of The Progress Principle. Her current research investigates how life inside organizations can influence people and their performance, as well as how people approach and experience the transition to retirement.
Julianna Pillemer is an assistant professor of management and organizations at New York University's Stern School of Business. Her research examines the complex dynamics of interpersonal connections at work.