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Marijuana And the Brain In 1970, marijuana was placed on Schedule 1 of the Drug Enforcement Administration's controlled-substances list, largely because scientists feared that, like opiates, it had an extremely high potential for abuse and addiction. But the discovery of THC receptor sites in the brain refutes that thinking, and may force both scientists and the DEA to re-evaluate their positions. Introduction The next century will view the 1988 discovery of the THC receptor site in the brain as the pivotal event which led to the legalization of marijuana. Before this discovery, no one knew for sure just how the psychoactive chemical in marijuana worked on the brain. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, researchers made tremendous strides in understanding how the brain works, by using receptor sites as switches which respond to various chemicals by regulating brain and body functions. The dominant fear about marijuana in the 20th century has been that its effects were somehow similar to the dangerously addictive effects of opiates such as morphine and heroin. Despite widespread decriminalization of marijuana in the United States in the 1970s, this concern has remained the basis for federal law and policies regarding the use and study of marijuana. The legal manifestation of this fear is the continued classification of marijuana as a Schedule I drug, a category shared by heroin and other drugs that are banned from medical use because of their dangerous, addictive qualities. While only 11 states have formally decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana, 45 states distinguish between marijuana and other Schedule I drugs for law-enforcement and sentencing purposes. Until the 1980s, technological limitations obstructed scientific understanding of the neuropharmacology of THC, of how the active ingredient in marijuana actually affects brain functions. Observations and conclusions about this subject, though based on some biological studies, were largely influenced by observations of behavior. This has allowed cultural prejudice to sustain the faith that marijuana is somehow related to heroin, and that research will eventually prove this hypothesis. Actually, the discovery of the THC receptor site and the subsequent research and observations it has inspired conclusively refute the hypothesis that marijuana is dope. Many important brain functions which affect human behavior involve the neurotransmitter dopamine. Serious drugs of abuse, such as heroin and cocaine, interfere with the brain's use of dopamine in manners that can seriously alter an individual's behavior. A drug's ability to affect the neural systems related to dopamine production has now become the defining characteristic of drugs with serious abuse potential. According to the congressional Office of Technology Assessment, research over the last 10 years has proved that marijuana has no effect on dopamine-related brain systems - unless you are an inbred Lewis rat (see below), in which case abstention is recommended. The discovery of a previously unknown system of cannabinoid neural transmitters is profound. While century-old questions, such as why marijuana is nontoxic, are finally being answered, new, fascinating questions are emerging - as in the case of all great discoveries. In the words of Israeli researcher Raphael Mechoulam, the man who first isolated the structure of THC, "Why do we have cannabinoid receptors?" Mechoulam's theory will resonate well with marijuana smokers in the United States. He observes that "Cannabis is used by man not for its actions on memory of movement or movement coordination, but for its actions on memory and emotions," and asks, "Is it possible that the main task of cannabinoid receptors . . . (is) to modify our emotions, to serve as the links which transmit or transform or translate objective or subjective events into perceptions and emotions?" At a 1990 conference on cannabinoid research in Crete, Mechoulam concluded his remarks by saying, "Let us hope, however, that through better understanding of cannabis chemistry in the brain, we may also approach the chemistry of emotions." A BRIEF HISTORY OF THC RESEARCH The receptor breakthrough occurred in 1988 at the St. Louis University Medical School where Allyn Howlett, William Devane and their associates identified and characterized a cannabinoid receptor in a rat brain. The breakthrough has a long history leading up to it. Major figures in American and British organic chemistry, such as Roger Adams, Alex Todd and Sigmund Loewe, did important work in determining the pharmacology of cannabis in the 1940s and 1950s, but their work ground to a halt due to the disinterest cultivated by the 1937 federal ban on marijuana. While synthetic compounds were created which were close to the actual compound, THC, they were not equivalent to it. The structure of one related chemical, cannabidiol, was determined. After repeating the isolation of cannabidiol, in 1963 Mechoulam began work with Yehiel Gaoni that led to the determination of the biosynthetic pathway by which the plant synthesizes cannabinoids. In 1964 Gaoni and Mechoulam isolated tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and a few years later they reported the first synthesis of THC. Following the identification of the active constituent in marijuana, scientific research began to fill in the gaps and build on Mechoulam's initial breakthrough. The neutral and acidic cannabinoids in cannabis were isolated, and their structures were elucidated. The absolute configurations were determined, as was a reasonable scheme of biogenesis. Total synthesis of the chemical was obtained, and the structure-activity relationship was established. These developments laid the foundation for pharmacological research involving animals and man. This work, along with observations of marijuana's therapeutic applications, opened up investigation into the medical properties of cannabinoids in general and THC in particular. Medical research into the health effects of cannabis also matured throughout this period. In a comprehensive 1986 article in the Pharmacological Review, Leo Hollister of the Stanford University School of Medicine concluded that "compared with other licit social drugs, such as alcohol, tobacco and caffeine, marijuana does not pose greater risks." Hollister wondered if these currently licit drugs would have enjoyed their popular acceptance based on our current knowledge of them. Nonetheless, it has been widely held throughout the 1980s, as Hollister concluded, that "Marijuana may prove to have greater therapeutic potential than these other social drugs, but many questions still need to be answered." The primary question, though, was how do cannabinoids work on the brain? By 1986, scientists were already on the slippery slope that would lead to the discovery of the cannabinoid receptor. The triennial reports from the National Institute on Drug Abuse summarizing research on marijuana had begun to omit references to research on marijuana-related brain damage and instead focus on brain receptor research. A comprehensive article by Renee Wert and Michael Raoulin was published in the International Journal of the Addictions that year, detailing the flaws in all previous studies that claimed to show brain damage resulting from marijuana use. As Hollister independently concluded, "Brain damage has not been proved." The reason, obviously, is that the brain was prepared in some respects to process THC. Also in 1986, Mechoulam put together a book reviewing this research, Cannabinoids as Therapeutic Agents (CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL). One promising area of research was the use of cannabinoids as analgesics or painkillers. A synthetic cannabinoid named CP 55,940, 10-100 times more potent than THC, was also developed in 1986; this was the key to the cannabinoid receptor breakthrough. Receptors are binding sites for chemicals in the brain, chemicals that instruct brain cells to start, stop or otherwise regulate various brain and body functions. The chemicals which trigger receptors are known as neurotransmitters. The brain's resident neurotransmitters are known as endogenous ligands. In many instances, drugs mimic these natural chemicals working in the brain. Scientists are just now confirming their determinations as to which endogenous ligands work on the cannabinoid receptors; it is likely that the neurotransmitter which naturally triggers cannabinoid receptors is one known as anandamide. Research continues. To grossly oversimplify the research involved, a receptor is determined by exposing brain tissue to various chemicals and observing if any of them uniquely bind to the tissue. The search for a cannabinoid receptor depended on the use of a potent synthetic that would allow observation of the binding. CP 55,940 provided this potency, and it allowed Howlett, Devane and their associates, working with tissue from a rat brain, to fulfill precise scientific criteria for determining the existence of a pharmacologically-distinct cannabinoid in brain tissue. A year later the localization of cannabinoid receptors in human brains and other species was determined by scientists at the National Institute of Mental Health, led by Miles Herkenham and including Ross Johnson and Lawrence Melvin, who had worked with Howlett and Devane on the earlier study. RECEPTORS IN THE BRAIN The locations of the cannabinoid receptors are most revealing of the way THC acts on the brain, but the importance of this determination is best understood in comparison with the effects of other drugs on the brain. Neurons are brain cells which process information. Neurotransmitter chemicals enable them to communicate with each other by their release into the gap between the neurons. This gap is called the synapse. Receptors are actually proteins in neurons which are specific to neurotransmitters, and which turn various cellular mechanisms on or off. Neurons can have thousands of receptors for different neurotransmitters, causing any neurotransmitter to have diverse effects in the brain. Drugs affect the production, release or re-uptake (a regulating mechanism) of various neurotransmitters. They also mimic or block actions of neurotransmitters, and can interfere with or enhance the mechanisms associated with the receptor. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter which is associated with extremely pleasurable sensations, so that the neural systems which trigger dopamine release are known as the "brain reward system." The key part of this system is identified as the mesocorticolimbic pathway, which links the dopamine-production area with the nucleus of accumbens in the limbic system, an area of the brain which is associated with the control of emotion and behavior. Cocaine, for example, blocks the re-uptake of dopamine so that the brain, lacking biofeedback, keeps on producing it. Amphetamines also block the re-uptake of dopamine, and stimulate additional production and release of it. Opiates activate neural pathways that increase dopamine production by mimicking opioid-peptide neurotransmitters which increase dopamine activity in the ventral tegmental area of the brain where the neurotransmitter originates. Opiates work on three receptor sites, and in effect restrain an inhibitory amino acid, gamma-aminobutyric acid, that otherwise would slow down or halt dopamine production. All of these substances can produce strong reinforcing properties that can seriously influence behavior. The rewarding properties of dopamine are what accounts for animal studies in which animals will forgo food and drink or willingly experience electric shocks in order to stimulate the brain reward system. It is now widely held that drugs of abuse directly or indirectly affect the brain reward system. The key clinical test of whether a substance is a drug of abuse potential or not is whether administration of the drug reduces the amount of electrical stimulation needed to produce self-stimulation response, or dopamine production. This is an indication that a drug has reinforcing properties, and that an individual's use of the drug can lead to addictive and other harmful behavior. To be precise, according to the Office of Technological Assessment (OTA): "The capacity to produce reinforcing effects is essential to any drug with significant abuse potential." Marijuana should no longer be considered a serious drug abuse because, as summarized by the OTA: "Animals will not self-administer THC in controlled studies . . . . Cannabinoids generally do not lower the threshold needed to get animals to self-stimulate the brain regard system, as do other drugs of abuse." Marijuana does not produce reinforcing effects. The definitive experiment which measures drug-induced dopamine production utilizes microdialysis is live, freely-moving rats. Brain microdialysis has proven that opiates, cocaine, amphetamines, nicotine and alcohol all affect dopamine production, whereas marijuana does not. This latest research confirms and explains Hollister's 1986 conclusion about cannabis and addiction: "Physical dependence is rarely encountered in the usual patterns, despite some degree of tolerance that may develop." Most important, the discoveries of Howlett and Devane, Herkenham and their associates demonstrate that the cannabinoid receptors do not influence the dopamine reward system. CANNABINOID RECEPTORS Research has enabled scientists to know which portions of the brain control various body functions, and this knowledge has been used to explain the pharmacological properties of drugs that activate receptor sites in the brain. There is a dense concentration of cannabinoid binding sites in the basal ganglia and the cerebellum of the base-brain, both of which affect movement and coordination. This discovery will aid in determining the actual physical mechanism by which THC affects spasticity and provides therapeutic benefits to patients with multiple sclerosis and other spastic disorders. While there are cannabinoid receptors in the ventromedial striatum and basal ganglia which are areas associated with dopamine production, no cannabinoid receptors have been found in dopamine-producing neurons, and as mentioned above, no reinforcing properties have been demonstrated in animal studies. There is one study by Gardner and Lowinson, involving inbred Lewis rats, in which doses of THC lowered the amount of electrical stimulation required to trigger the brain reward system. However, no one has been able to replicate the results with any other species of rat, or any other animal. The finding is believed to be the result of some inbred genetic variation in the inbred species, and is both widely mentioned in the literature and disregarded. According to Herkenham and his associates, "There are virtually no reports of fatal cannabis overdose in humans. The safety reflects the paucity of receptors in medullary nuclei that mediate respiratory and cardiovascular functions." This is also why cannabinoids have great promise as analgesics or painkillers, in that they do not depress the function of the heart or the lungs. In this respect, they are far superior to opiates, which decrease the entire physiological system because the receptors are all over the medulla as well as the brain. Marijuana is distinguished from most other illicit drugs by the locations of its brain-receptor sites for two predominant reasons: (1) The lack of receptors in the medulla significantly reduces the possibility of accidental, or even deliberate, death from THC, and (2) the lack of receptors in the mesocorticolimbic pathway significantly reduces the risks of addiction and serious physical dependence. As a therapeutic drug, these features are God's greatest gifts. THE CHEMISTRY OF EMOTIONS Mechoulam regrets that more has not been done in the therapeutic application of THC. In a 1986 interview with the International Journal of the Addictions, he said that, "Knowing what I know today, I would have worked more on the therapeutic aspects of cannabis. This area apparently needs a major push that is has not had up till now, particularly given that it has a therapeutic potential. One of the reasons that it has not been pushed was than most pharmaceutical companies years ago were afraid to get into that field. Companies were 'burnt' working on amphetamines and LSD. . . . They are afraid of notoriety." Clearly, cannabis acts on coordination of movement by way of the receptors in the cerebellum and basal ganglia, and on memory by way of the receptors in the limbic system's hippocampus, which "gates" information during memory consolidation. Mechoulam believes that in humans these actions "are rather marginal." "Cannabis," he states, "is used . . . for its actions on mood and emotion." The key to understanding the reason for the presence of cannabinoid receptors in the human brain lies in understanding the role of the receptors in the limbic system, which has a central role in the mechanisms which govern behavior and emotions. The limbic system coordinates activities between the visceral base-brain and the rest of the nervous system. "We know next to nothing on the chemistry of emotions," Mechoulam instructs. It is his hope that future research on the role of cannabinoid receptors in the brain will shed light on this new area of investigation and reflection. THE FUTURE OF MARIJUANA LAWS Advances in neurobiology are redefining the scientific basis for addiction. These advances have important ramifications for addiction treatment, and for the treatment of numerous organic diseases and conditions. More importantly for marijuana users, these advances in neurobiology will ultimately force changes in the law. The law is constantly being modified in response to technological changes. The passage of the Controlled Substances Act in 1972 was in part due to a greater understanding of drug abuse brought about by the medical research of the time. The law instituted a policy by which regulation and criminal penalties regarding controlled substances were to be correlated with the harmfulness of the substance. Specifically, the law lists the "actual or relative potential for abuse" as the first matter to be considered in determining the appropriate scheduling of a drug. Schedule I is for drugs which have a "high potential for abuse." While the scheduling of marijuana and its subsequent availability for research and medical use was the subject of a 22-year unsuccessful court battle spearheaded by the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, the question of marijuana's abuse potential was never addressed during the litigation and related proceedings. The suit over medical marijuana sought to reschedule marijuana as a Schedule II drug, which also implies a "high potential for abuse." This made the abuse question irrelevant to the court proceedings. However, the abuse question is the pre-eminent issue in attempts to reform marijuana laws, and it is the weak link upon which the entirety of marijuana prohibition rests. The most recent research indicates that marijuana does not have a high potential for abuse, especially relative to other scheduled drugs such as heroin, cocaine, sedatives and amphetamines. The medical-marijuana petition was rejected by the administrator of the DEA because of the lack of scientific studies detailing marijuana's medical value. The court appeal essentially concerned whether or not this was a reasonable standard in light of the government's historic disinterest in funding such studies. While courts have ruled that DEA can rely on research studies, or the lack thereof, in its decision-making about the scheduling of marijuana, they have not ruled on the actual issues which determine the proper legal scheduling of marijuana. The discovery of cannabinoid receptor sites, and their relevance to the understanding of the pharmacology of THC in the brain, provides the basis for a new challenge to the legitimacy of marijuana's Schedule I status, a pivotal event in marijuana's eventual legalization.
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The Iranian church is one of the fastest growing in the world. Since the establishment of the Islamic Government in Iran, multitudes of Iranians have come to know Jesus personally, and in spite of fierce persecution, have stood their ground in following their newfound faith. The conservative view is that there are at least a couple of million Christians inside the country, and thousands scattered all over the world.
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One of my most…no, my #1 MOST FAVORITE activity is to devote large blocks of time making up complicated hypothetical dilemmas and then challenging myself to find an efficient solution that still has a little bit of panache. I don't like it when people walk around with their chest puffed out because they performed an act of kindness. Questions form. Did they do it for the accolades? Is he going to write a Facebook status update about his bravery and pray for at least 15 likes? But I also don't like it when heroes act like it's NBD. I tread a fine line. I never ask for a parade or anything extravagant at the end of my make-believe dramas, but will I turn down an edible fruit bouquet? That's just stupid. Fruit is a wonderful source of vitamins.
Once in a while, I allow myself a happy scenario. A place or a situation that could never actually exist in real life but I can't help wanting anyway. My father is in most of these moments. Sometimes I pretend that he stayed for my entire high school graduation. I erase all the shame I used to feel when my friends saw my father in his industrial coveralls and Volt sneakers from Wal-Mart.
I don't talk about my father a lot, but it's not because I dislike him or because there aren't any stories about him. He's been absent for so long that I just don't think about him that much anymore. At least I think I don't. But my behavior seems to indicate that I have daddy issues.
I never wanted my badness to be the result of anyone else. I refused to accept that other people influenced my choices and my outlook on life. I didn't want it to be about other people because I can't control other people. I can only control me. And I'm not even good at that. Ask me about the entire bag of wasabi peas I just ate. Lord Jesus, my esophagus is on fire.
My father was rarely at home as I was growing up. He worked odd hours as a government employee, and on his free days, he spent most of his time in the garage, tinkering with cars in various stages of crisis. I only went out to the garage once before I left home permanently at the age of 17. He preferred solitude, but he let me stay just this one time.
As I sat on the hood of his car, he showed me pictures of tools that he wanted. They were some brand called Snap-on. He said those tools were serious business and very, very expensive. One day when I grow up, I thought, I'm going to be a millionaire and then I'll buy my dad the whole entire set of Snap-on tools. Even the little accessory parts and a red Craftsmen chest to store them. The rolling kind.
To this day, every time I see a Snap-on company truck drive by, I think about my father and my unfulfilled promise.
But maybe I'm thinking about this all wrong. Maybe he's the one that was supposed to give me tools. Tools so that I could navigate adulthood. Tools for me to repair the cracks in my relationships and seal the leaks in my friendships and tighten up those loose ends that happen when you focus on one area of your life for too long and let everything else slide.
I spent four months locating my father in 2012. We hadn't seen each other since he divorced my mother in 2000. When I found him, I flew to Texas and we met for lunch. I didn't have anything in particular that I wanted to say. I just wanted to see my father. And I thought he might want to see me all grown up.
I told him that I turned out okay. You know, in case he was worried about me. I always feel better when I know Cal is safe. That doesn't mean I coddle her or anything though. She's on spring break right now and when she asked about the activities I had planned, I told her that she would be building me some Ikea furniture. Nothing crazy. Just a bookcase and a rolling cart. Some people are really sensitive when it comes to child labor, but I'm not one of those people.
Ironically, on the day that I was in Texas having lunch with him, this Huffington Post piece about the absence of my father came out. We exchanged phone numbers after lunch. He wanted to plan a get-together for the summer with my aunts and uncles. He said he would call me. I don't know why I believed him because he made that exact same statement years before.
I haven't heard from him since. I think my father needs to work on follow-through.
Sometimes I think about what that phone call would be like. You know how you talk to someone on the phone and there's not one awkward or dull moment? And in that giant expanse of all those words, there isn't one tiny moment of stupid? And then you want to talk to that person again?
It would be just like that.
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I would like a clarification about the margins for an APA Style paper. The APA Publication Manual (6th ed.) says to "leave uniform margins of at least 1 in. (2.54 cm) at the top, bottom, left, and right of every page" (p. 229). I believe the correct thing to do is to space 1 in. at the top margin, then single space down and insert the running head. Some of my students are using a ½ in. margin for the top of the page, then single spacing down to type in the header, followed by a double space where the text of the paper begins. Who is right here? A lot of grades are riding on this.
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Unless you're teaching at Luddite State (where manual typewriters are a must), no one should be "spacing down" anything. The APA Publication Manual (6th ed.) does direct authors to use a 1-in. margin (p. 229), but it also directs them to "use the automatic functions of your word-processing program to generate headers" (p. 230). That means there's no need to adjust the spacing around the header—it's automatic!
Just set your margins at 1 in. (2.54 cm) and use the default setting for headers in your word-processing program. Voila! Your paper is correctly formatted in APA Style.
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Now my whole study group is extremely confused, because your instructions seem to contradict the sample papers in the Publication Manual. It looks like there is more margin at the top of sample p. 4 than sample p. 3, and some of the pages are cut off at the bottom. What gives?
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The sample papers are illustrations, not scale models. Just enough of each page is shown to illustrate the rules that are called out in the attached boxes. They're not intended to show every point of APA Style, however, and you certainly can't deduce margin guidelines from them. Fortunately, those guidelines are clearly stated on pp. 229–230 of the Publication Manual. If there ever appears to be a contradiction between an illustration and the text, follow the text.
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Why, that's crazy talk! A margin is empty space. If you have a 1-in. margin, then there should be 1 in. of empty space at the top of the page, with no headers in it.
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Think of it this way: The margin is, by definition, the part of a page outside the main body of text. The running head (again, by definition) is not part of the main body of text. Therefore, it is included in the margin, not below it.
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Where do I start? I've been in software development since the early 90's, and I've been in a variety of roles and what I am known for is falling early into Agile software development. I started with extreme programming on a team in 2000 where the consultant was Kent Beck, the guy who wrote the book on that, and then just fell very deep and hard into Agile software development since then and I am the person that's always had a problem with Agile development, that it didn't focus enough on users and enough on product stuff so I tend to be known as the Agile guy that focuses on user experience in Agile development and good product design in Agile development. I worked as a product manager for years, worked as a consultant for many years for a company called ThoughtWorks and these days I run a tiny consultancy of two people and an office manager called comakers. That's me.
2. And then you're here talking about comaking?
It's been just this summer that I've went from just Jeff Patton to comakers, I had to give the company a name, and I am seeing an emergent different better way of working that's sort of a step above Agile, sort of a synthesis of a lot of the things that are going on in the product communities, the design communities, and the Lean startup communities. One where we're moving away from this traditional Agile role of customer product owner tells team what to build to one where whole teams take responsibility for working together and figuring out what to build and taking responsibility for it, the terms for that are cocreation and comaking, I like the word making better because it seems like your hands are a little dirtier, so comaking is the best word I have right now to describe this way of working.
I'll start as, where do I back up? One of the fundamental problems I see in software development is teams are taking responsibility of building stuff and meeting deadlines and success is often this project success definition of delivering all this stuff on time. But if we widen our view to be product sensitive, the life of the product doesn't start until after it's delivered, the project ends, the product's life starts and what really matters is the results of delivering that product. So, you were at the talk I gave yesterday and I'll talk about the thing we deliver is output, what we get after we deliver is an outcome. So we first have to start by saying "we have to be outcome centric, teams now care whether this stuff is good or not, it isn't just the product owner's responsibility, it's the whole team's responsibility.
Now, if we care about outcome, we need people that understand, it's not a simple, it's a mix up of a lot of different concerns, is the product we're building is it valuable to the people who want to buy it and use it, is it valuable to our organization to invest in building it, can people actually use it easily, is it fun and then is it feasible, can we build it on time using the tools that we've got. So to cover those valuable, usable, feasible concerns you've got to have people that understand product and business, people that understand users and use and people that understand technical concerns. So we refer to that as a balanced team, so to get some balance in that team you've got to have a mixture of these kinds of people and not separate them into different teams.
Your question was how do you build a comaking team? First you get some balance into it, second what we might call a product owner isn't, since everyone owns, we're looking for leadership, we're looking for vision and sometimes the leader emerges out of the team at times, but it's best to be aligned in the same direction and not competing with each other for ideas. Where do we start? There's a lot of components, you need a place to work and a way to deliver and a way to experiment and an organization that's friendly to all this and that seems to be the biggest impedance I see, is organizations to see software development as the ditch diggers of the organization and the people that decide that a ditch needs to be dug and where it needs to go, they're on the other side of the building.
Harry: That sounds like a lot culture or sponsorship is very important for this effort.
We were talking ahead of time about the culture issues and this way of thinking is a big culture change. So many organizations look at their IT group as the people that, once we figure out what the work is that needs to be done you will have them do it for us, and since we aren't the ones that are technical, we know how long that's going to take, we'll tell them what it is, they will tell us how long it takes, we will complain that it's too long, we'll pressure them and they'll finally come up with something that they can deliver on time, it doesn't work right, we blame them, they blame us and that's the kind of culture most organizations are built around.
In a weird way, we treat our internal software development teams the same way we treat outsourced vendors, we treat them like vendors we bought, and so they work for us, oddly they behave like outsourced vendors with only one client, which means that they don't have a choice but to make them happy or they'll go hungry. But culture change is moving over to a culture: we are all in the same team, and we all work together to be successful and business success and development success aren't separate things or two different things. But the idea of other people, other than management, being responsible for making choices about what to build that's a tough culture change, that's a tough change that a lot of organizations are struggling with.
Oh, that's a good question. Well, where do we start? We can attack the way that we're working, let's go up a level. The first thing to start doing is asking more questions, the simple questions are who's using our product, what will they do with it and how do they benefit from it and to start having conversations about that. The minute your conversations start becoming a bit more about that, the minute you start realizing that some of the things we're doing we don't need to do, and some of the things, now that I understand who we are building for, some of the things we should be doing we are not doing, the minute you start sensing that there's problems, and we stop talking about the specifications of the thing we're building, what the requirements are and start talking what the needs of people are.
So step one is to elevate the conversation and make sure it is indeed a conversation, you're working and talking to other people about this. Now, in a lot of organizations that I work with, people start asking questions like that and the first answers are often "I don't know" and "I am not sure", and then I'll recommend some insurgent behavior of just getting out and finding those people. Actually, I won't name any names, but I spoke with somebody who works for a very large company that everybody knows, whose name starts with G and he had a goal to learn about users and he couldn't seek approval from his organization for his plan to go find users and that would have taken time and talking with him he said "if I would have asked they would have just said no so I didn't ask, I went out and found them, and talked to them and learned about them", and that starts to be a next step, you can have conversations about users, but if there aren't people in the office that understand, that's the go and get learning.
Harry: So, once you understand the goals for comaking it almost falls on your shoulders to take advantage of that and start walking the walk, so to speak.
Yes, and walking the walk means becoming very deliberate about understanding who you are building for and making sense of it, understanding the way they work and making sense of it, so I'm known for a practice in Agile development called story mapping. And story mapping is a way to come up with a product backlog, but it's a simple practice where left through right I'll think through given some understanding of who's using the product, I'll think through a day in their life or how they use the product and that's left to right flow and I'll break it down top to bottom to decompose it into parts or things we can build, it's a great backlog building technique because it helps you find holes, it helps you not build things you don't need to, helps you not forget things you need to build, but where that practice goes wrong sometimes is when people don't understand users, but once you do, you start making sense of it and modeling it that way, you can start slicing away small parts and start building small parts as simple tests or prototypes and vetting it, getting that back in front of the users or in front of people, testing whether that solves a problem for them or doesn't solve a problem for them.
And those start to be next steps, next steps are even testing ideas verbally or testing ideas with simple paper prototypes, testing ideas with more rigorous prototypes and really taking responsibility for whether the thing you are doing is going to solve people's problems or not.
Harry: And then hopefully gaining support from your teammates and hopefully making that critical mass.
You can't do this alone, it's hard to do it, you've got to convert people. The fastest way I've been able to convert people to want to do this, you can't talk people into caring, but how can I say, I remember back when I was running teams the fastest way for me to get developers to start to think like this was not to talk with them about it or tell them to, it was to say "come on, we're going on a field trip" and taking them, driving the car out to where someone was using our product and having them watch them use the product.
A colleague of mine that was working with a large chain of hotels and he was working with executives there, they've been trying to tell the executive there that people using your product they don't like it or having trouble with it, things like that, and he was saying "oh, we've got this road map and we've got these demands" and he told me about inviting the guy to lunch and they've met the guy for lunch, "ok, it's time to go to lunch", the guy said "I can drive", he says "oh, no, I'll drive", they got in the car and he drove him straight to one of the hotels where they wrote software, walked him straight into the backroom, the guy's "where are we going?" And then before he knew it he was standing behind someone using the product. As soon as you watch someone use your crap software, one of two things happen: First off, you're always horrified and then secondly, you either care or you drop back into "the stupid users don't know what they are doing" sort of talk.
But most people care or maybe secondarily they say "I care and I know this is really important, I don't ever want to do that again, but I want to make sure that somebody else does". You need to do this with other people and the fastest way to make them care is to have them feel some empathy for the people they're building for, and some responsibility for what they are building and then ideally some pride. We're sitting in San Francisco and I just came to you from, I just walked over from one of the customers I've worked with before and this is a company that makes software for travel. I first started working with them a little over a year ago and it's been just incredible to see the change in this organization. We were making fun of one of the product managers because he was so successful and the guy just has this big grin on his face, the corners of his mouth go up to his ears, and he has so much pride in what they've done, they've figured out some interesting things that have made things a lot better and that's the stuff that just pumps me up, we are no longer having stupid conversations about story points and backlog prioritization or any of that crap, we are talking about people that are building stuff that have strong outcomes and impacts on their organization and they're proud of it. That's what matters.
Yes, and as you latched on to, it's a bit of a culture change. Maybe I'll be blunt with you, I was talking with another friend of mine, since we are at a conference talking, this is a great opportunity to meet a lot of people I don't see all the time, I was talking with another friend of mine last night, and I was telling him I prefer to work with clients where the adjustments I am trying to make are more chiropractic, I might go see a chiropractor to knock my skeleton back into place. Versus going to somebody who is an orthopedic surgeon who has to really mend some seriously broken bones, he'll never be quite right again.
I've worked with organizations whose culture already has the seeds of people caring about this stuff, people already have a sense of what they are doing, they have a sense of who their users are, a sense of what they are doing can matter and sometimes with just a little bit of nudging to get out there and meet the users, to pay closer attention to what the outcomes are, they snap back into place and before you know it they are there. But if you are in an organization that needs orthopedic surgery so to speak, some of those tactics just don't … it's going to take more and I don't know what it is.
The shift I've seen, and hopefully we are on the same wavelength here, I started with Agile software development in the 2000s and this was a big shift into getting a lot more deliberate and better at how we deliver software, and then the minute you get better at delivering software, the minute you learn some of the basic collaboration things it takes to make Agile work is the minute the bottle neck starts to shift upstream to realizing that what matters more is that we are making better decisions about what to make. The bigger things that are driving public awareness of this shift are the rise of concepts like Lean Startup, where Lean Startup describes a cycle of build, measure, learn. Where measure and learn are things that have to take place not inside of our organization, we're not measuring development speed as velocity, we are measuring what people do with our product or don't do with it, and that's what we learn from. But most of Lean Startup activity takes place outside of your building or outside of the development team, that's driving a shift.
Some of the organizations I'm working with, what's driving their shift in thinking comes from design thinking, and design thinking as popularized by companies like IDEO and the Stanford Design School, and they describe this very collaborative, energetic way of working together, to solve problems. And when you combine Lean Startup learning and design thinking, design process, that starts to drive culture change and none of this crap works if you can't build, if you don't have that raw Agile engine underneath it, that delivers predictably and high enough quality. You start to combine those things and you end up with a really strong secret sauce. Does that answer your question about what brings this shift around?
Harry: Absolutely. Thanks a lot for your time, Jeff.
Thank you, it's been a pleasure.


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Sometimes a PJ is the only person who has access to the story subjects (in foreign countries). Occasionally, the PJ is the only person who's initially motivated to get a story to print (great shots – no reporter available). PJs at smaller newspapers tend to write more stories. PJs at larger papers are surrounded by great reporters who live for big stories. However, a rare major story can still land on the PJ like a boulder. If PJs don't know where to start, they're in trouble.
For freelancers, writing is a critical skill. Several magazines ONLY accept story packages (photos and text). If PJs can write, they earn more money and make wiser use of their time.
I suggest most PJs should take a Journalism (J-102) course at a community college or university. J-101 is typically "mass media" and is nice to know, but it doesn't get into the mechanics of writing as quickly as J-102. Otherwise, PJs should at least get an introduction to reporting book and read it while working toward a PJ job.
Then, read. Read newspapers to learn style and brevity. Critically analyze each story as one would a photo. Pick it apart to understand its lede (the beginning), structure, use of quotations, transitions and pace.
Next, ask questions. See the list below.
PJs can also do this with a magazine. I've found stories written in a newspaper format can easily adjust to a magazine, but the opposite does not hold true. In either case, keep it simple and sharp. PJs want the story to be understood by most people. Again, this isn't dummying down. It's good, tight writing.
Editing lessons
When I was in college, I was the news editor and later the editor/semi-publisher of the independent campus newspaper. It taught me never to want to be an editor again.
At a college newspaper, most reporter applicants were journalism students and understood basic grammar, AP style, as well as reporting and editing techniques. However some had obviously never read a single newspaper. Nonetheless, it takes more college reporters to fill a newspaper than professional reporters because the writing and editing process takes much longer for new reporters.
Consequently, I needed a plan to save myself editing stress and get stories to the press quicker. So I came up with the following checklist. There should be some items added, and I've already deleted one item because the style books have changed. But for most PJs, this should be an adequate checklist before turning in a story.
* Have these answers been provided?
* Are there active verbs? (Is the subject doing the action?)
      Active: He hit the ball.
      Passive: The ball was hit by him.
* Does it make sense?
* Does it have a quotation? – It shouldn't.
* Does it ask a question? – It shouldn't.
* Are there five sources?
* Is at least one of the sources a student (or local resident)?
* Is there a conflict?
      Woman vs. Woman
      Woman vs. Environment
      Woman vs. Herself
* Are the characters revealed?
* Are the quotations legitimate?
* Has the writer removed herself/himself from the story?
* Is all jargon defined?
* Is the story objective?
* Have both sides of the conflict had a voice?
* Is the story grammatically correct?
    (Are there any fragments, comma splices, dangling participles?)
* Is each prepositional phrase necessary?
    (Can it be re-written without the preposition? Can the whole phrase be dropped?)
* Is every word necessary?
    (Check every "the," and remove every "that" which is not in a direct quotation or can't be defended.)
* Have all the questions been answered for the reader?
* Has the story been spell-checked?
* Is the story written in AP style?
* In news stories particularly, the writing should evoke exclamation points. Therefore, remove exclamation points.
* The word "said" may be used throughout the entire story. Don't worry about repetition because "said" will be ignored by the reader. For written documents, use "states." Characters in compositions (plays, books, poems, etc.) "say" because they will always say the same thing to each reader.
* Be specific and use common language.
* Be aware of the reader. If the average reader can't understand the story, the writer failed most readers.
* Quotations move the story, not stop it.
* Transitions move the reader through the story.
* Read the story aloud. Listen for odd phrases or rough areas. Then, fix them.
* If a sentence can't be read aloud on one breath, break it down.
* Finally, is this story better than your last one? Why/why not?
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Dear jasonp, I don't know. This method is a new way to investigate Pi digits. I had done some counts of base ten digits frequencies before this. I have no real explaination of why the difference is higher in higher number of digits. The groups of positive "Sign"s should random. It is Sign[x]-> {-1,0,1} depending on the difference in consecutive differences. It is the probability of a digit pair: {a,b}--> Sign[a-b] p=Probability [a]*Probability[b] If they are equal as p0: p->p0^2 If the Mathematica for such a probability would be: p0->Random[Integer,{0,9}] as a Distribution Since this is an straight type probabilty and not a Gaussian the probabilies are equal and should be over a long term 1/10 each or a total of p-->1/100 different for different combinations: {a>b}->+1,{a-1},{a=b}->0 at {4/10,4/10,2/10} that gives something like 4/1000,4/1000,2/1000 I'm not seeing that kind of behavior except for the bimodal which is expected as (a=b) is only about 2/10 of the 1/100 and I'm seeing more zeros than that. It appears to be a much more complex distribution. I want to try E and orther irrational numbers by this method as well! I'm glad you asked as I hadn't thought to do a probability analysis until now! I can simulate the probability above in Mathematica and see what I get and compare them. jasonp at boo.net wrote: >Quoting Roger Bagula : > > > >>(* Sum of the sign of the differences between the first 2000 digits of Pi*) >> >> > >Shouldn't this behave like a random walk, i.e. the variance >increases over time? > >jasonp > > >------------------------------------------------------ >This message was sent using BOO.net's Webmail. >http://www.boo.net/ > > > -- Respectfully, Roger L. Bagula tftn at earthlink.net, 11759Waterhill Road, Lakeside,Ca 92040-2905,tel: 619-5610814 : alternative email: rlbtftn at netscape.net URL : http://home.earthlink.net/~tftn
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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Happy New Year!
Can it be that another year has already whizzed past? It's been a busy year. Between baking, homeschooling, vacationing, hosting cooking camps, and watching my granddaughter grow up, I haven't been posting nearly as much as I would've liked to. I'm not making a resolution of it, but I will try to be a bit more consistent in the coming year.
So here's a toast to the year gone by and the one yet to come. May the joy increase, the inevitable pains be productive, the lessons be learned quickly, and the calories not count.
I'm toasting with a glass of the best eggnog I've ever had. I've never been a big fan of egg nog. My family always got excited when the cartons showed up in the grocery store and I would buy it for them. But the gloopy texture and the odd taste didn't please my palate, so I'd pass.
But this fall a friend told me about his family's tradition of making eggnog. More specifically, Gramma made the egg nog. A gallon at a time. Every Christmas. Even on vacation.
He related how one Christmas the extended family was on vacation together in Mexico and it just wouldn't be Christmas without Gramma's eggnog. So they hiked into to town to buy the supplies for a gallon of eggnog. After hiking back with their burdens, Gramma put together the splendid libation, and they took turns stirring it for the 40-50 minutes needed to thicken it. Then it needed to sit in the refrigerator overnight to let the flavors meld. Having nothing else on hand, she poured the eggnog back into the plastic jugs that had held the milk.
The next morning, arriving back after some frolic time, they were appalled that the jugs were empty and in the garbage can. The cleaning crew told them they'd thrown the milk away since it had obviously gone bad. Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!
Back to town. More supplies. More stirring. Then after more chilling, the cleaners held at bay, Christmas was back on. There was eggnog at last!
If the eggnog was worth that kind of perseverance, I just had to try. And, yes, it's worth it. Light, delicious, frothy, and not overly sweet. One small glass is never enough. I've become an eggnog fan!
You could make the recipe as written, but then you'll probably kick yourself and say, "Why didn't I make more??" If you want a whole gallon, multiply the recipe by 4.
I used raw, whole milk and farm fresh eggs from healthy chickens. If you are uneasy about using raw egg whites, you can substitute powdered egg whites for that. And if you are not comfortable pouring rum into your eggnog, you can use rum flavoring (which is alcoholic, too). If there are kids at your gathering, you can put the rum on the side so adults can add their own to taste. And if anyone dislikes nutmeg, putting it on the side accommodates their tastes as well.
Gramma Jane's Famous Eggnog
- adapted from Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook, 1968 Edition
serves 6 to 8
1/3 cup sugar
2 eggs, separated
1/4 tsp salt
4 cups whole milk
3 Tbsp sugar
1 tsp vanilla
Rum to taste
Freshly ground nutmeg to taste
1/2 cup whipping cream (optional)
1- In a large saucepan beat the 1/3 cup sugar and the egg yolks. Add salt. Stir in the milk.
2- Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture coats a spoon. It will not be as thick as a custard. (I timed it while making a gallon. This took about 50 minutes. Taking turns stirring is a good way to make it easier.)
3- Pour this mixture into a medium mixing bowl and set that into an ice bath to speed the cooling. Stir occasionally as it cools.
4- When the mixture is cooled, beat the egg whites until foamy. With the mixer going, gradually add the 3 Tbsp sugar, beating until soft peaks form (when you pull the beater out of the egg whites, they should make little mountains that floomp over at the tip).
5- Add the beaten egg whites to the custard and mix thoroughly. Add the vanilla, rum (unless you'll be serving it on the side), and nutmeg. Chill 3 or 4 hours.
6- Pour the eggnog into a punch bowl or cups. Dot with dollops of whipped cream and add a dash of freshly grated nutmeg.
Thank you Jane for sharing the recipe.
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Christmas Crack
It's been 4 years now since I shared on my blog the perilous substance known as Killer Crack Peanut Butter Fudge. I've been strong and resisted the temptation to make it for quite a while now, but I've gotten some terrific comments from readers who have. My favorite was this:
This is the fudge my husband rebukes, the way any good evangelical man rebukes sin, fearing and secretly lusting after it. He literally carries plates of this stuff to the neighbors so that it will not dwell under his roof, or on his waist. And yet I keep making it. The making AND the rebuking; a weird holiday tradition now.
Yes, I am all about holiday traditions and keeping it festive for my readers. With that goal in mind, I present to you my latest concoction, Chocolate Caramel Pretzel Crack. This is the evil cousin of the Killer Crack Peanut Butter Fudge. It's pretty simple to make, and yet it's irresistible. And once you've tried it, you are helpless; you simply must go back for more. And more. And....well, you get the picture.
I've made it three times now. The first time was just playing around with the idea, the second time was refining it and the third time was because the second pan went so fast I didn't take any pictures! And the third pan has been cut up and put into containers to be given away because I don't want my family to be in such a carb coma that they can't open presents on Christmas. But I'd better get those containers out the door quickly, or else certain unnamed family members might "accidentally" happen to pry open a container (even if it's already in a sealed box ready to be mailed) and "accidentally" fall face first into it. Not pointing fingers or naming names. I don't want to spoil Christmas. I'm just saying it's a possibility.
If you're looking for the ultimate last minute gift, the perfect hostess present, or just a decadent treat for your co-workers or yourself, this is it. Go buy some pretzels, cream, and chocolate and in a couple of hours (you can wait for the chocolate to set up, can't you?) you can be in serious salty-sweet heaven.
Chocolate Caramel Pretzel Crack
8 oz. pretzels
1 cup heavy cream
5 Tbsp unsalted butter
1 tsp sea salt
1/4 cup water
1-1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup light corn syrup
1 lb. good milk chocolate, chopped
Sea salt (Fleur de Sel or Maldon Sea Salt are good choices)
1- Line a jelly roll pan (10-1/2 x 15-1/2-inches) with parchment paper and butter the paper. (Mine is a seasoned stoneware pan, so I skipped the parchment paper.)
2- Spread the pretzels in an even layer in the pan. Break up a few pretzels to fill in gaps as needed.
3- In a small saucepan combine the cream, butter, and salt. Bring to a boil over medium heat and remove from the heat. Set it aside.
4- In a large saucepan combine the water, sugar, and corn syrup. Stir gently just to combine. Be careful to not splash the sugar crystals up onto the sides of the pan. Cover the pan and bring to a simmer over medium-high heat. The steam from the simmering will help to wash any errant sugar crystals from the sides of the pan.
5- When the sugar is dissolved, remove the lid from the pan. Continue simmering until the liquid turns a golden caramel color. If your liquid is getting dark in one area and not in another, DO NOT STIR. You can pick up the pan and gently shake it side to side the even out the color.
6- When the liquid is golden caramel color, add the cream mixture and stir. The mixture will bubble up, so be careful. Simmer and stir with a clean wooden spoon until a candy thermometer in the mixture reaches 248 deg. F, approximately 15 min.
7- Pour the caramel over the pretzels evenly.
8- After the caramel has set, melt the chocolate in the top of a double boiler. For a prettier presentation, you can temper the chocolate. (I was attempting to temper the chocolate, but got distracted, so it didn't go well, hence the artistic swirliness of the chocolate. If that happens to you, don't worry. People will think you went to an extra effort to get those swirls, so if they compliment you, just say thank you.)
9 - Spread the melted chocolate evenly over the caramel layer.
10- Sprinkle sea salt sparsely over the top of the chocolate layer.
11- When the chocolate has set up but not hardened, use a pizza cutter or a knife to cut it into squares.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
When I was typing up my last post I looked and looked for the recipe. I searched in all of the likely spots -the shelves that holds my cookbooks, the other other shelves that hold my cookbooks, the other other shelves that hold my cookbooks (what do you think, too many cookbooks?) and in the magazine holders that hold all my old Bon Appetite's and other cooking magazines. I came up empty handed and frustrated. I decided that since I hadn't posted since the paleozoic era (or close to that), I'd just throw up the post as is and hope that one of my faithful readers would know just what I was talking about and be able to supply the recipe. And there were many good suggestions, but none was it.
My husband saw my frustration and quietly went on a quest. While I had given up on the recipe and had moved on to other tasks, he methodically worked his way through all the possible hiding places, thoroughly checking each one. Then, with a pleased smile of satisfaction, he set the errant Baking Sheet in front of me.
"Where did you find it?" I squealed, leaping up to kiss him. He modestly informed me that it had gotten jammed behind the magazine holders and had slipped down and gotten somewhat squashed under them. What a guy! Santa's going to have to find an extra special way to reward this good boy. Maybe something with lace....
Whole-Grain Soft Molasses Cookies
- adapted from King Arthur's Baking Sheet - Julie Christopher
1/2 cup (4 oz) applesauce
1 cup (7 oz) sugar
3/4 cup (6 oz, 1-1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
1/4 cup (3 oz) molasses
1 large egg
1/3 cup (2-1/4 oz) crystallized ginger, minced
1-1/2 cups (6-1/4 oz) King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
2 cups (6-3/4) King Arthur Whole Wheat Pastry Flour
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp ground cinnamon
2 tsp ground ginger
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1/2 tsp ground allspice
Sugar for dipping
1- Drain the applesauce for several minutes in a fine strainer set over a bowl to remove excess liquid.
2- In a large bowl, cream together the applesauce, sugar, and butter; beat at medium speed until well blended (about 3 minutes). Add the molasses, egg, and crystallized ginger; beat until well combined.
3- In a separate bowl, whisk together the flours, baking soda, salt, and spices. Gradually add the flour mixture to the sugar mixture, beating slowly until blended. Chill the dough for at least an hour. If you bake it the same day, the cookies will be crispy, flatter, and chewy. If you bake on the second or third day, the cookies will be taller and softer (like in my photos).
4- When you're ready to bake, preheat the oven to 375 deg. F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
5- Scoop the dough by tablespoons and form into 1-inch balls. (If the dough gets sticky while you're working with it, pop the dough back into the refrigerator to chill it.) Dip the tops of the balls into the sugar and place them, sugar-side up, 3 inches apart on the prepared baking sheets.
6- Bake for 10-11 minutes, until set, but still soft and puffy in the center. Remove the cookies front he oven and allow them to cool for 5 minutes before transferring them to a rack to finish cooling completely.
Makes about 30 cookies.
Monday, December 5, 2011
Surprise Cookies
I love surprises. That tingly feeling of anticipation as they hold your wrapped package in their lap, wondering what on earth it could be, not daring to hope, but hoping anyway that it might be that one thing they really wanted. The tension builds as they gently ease open the wrapping paper (or tear it off, if that's the way they roll). And then, if you shopped/planned/or made correctly, the look on their face makes it all worthwhile.
Early in my marriage I tried for surprises and they always failed. First of all because my husband has an almost supernatural gift for knowing what's inside a wrapped package. I tried wrapping a tie rolled up into a squishy ball, foregoing the standard and obvious tie box. My husband, picked it up, gave it a squeeze, and said, "Oh, that's a tie." I was quite depressed. Then I tried the box within a box gambit. He'd pick it up, shake it, listen critically, and announce the contents. Boo again. He guessed the cologne before he even picked up the box, smelling it three feet away from the tree.
Finally my husband realized that knowing what all of his presents were a week before he even unwrapped them drained Christmas morning of a lot of its fun. He now has a strict no guessing policy. He doesn't shake, squeeze, or sniff any packages under the tree. Until Christmas morning. Then he releases his inner Karnack and has a good time.
But the other reason my surprises fail is because of finances. Since he pays the bills, unless I pay cash, he knows about it. And accumulating a stack of cash isn't something I'm good at. I do many things fairly well, but none of them generate income, so I'm stuck either asking him for money to buy him a present (which he always vetoes, saying he doesn't need anything) or buying in a very modest price range.
Last year I finally managed to surprise him. I'd been saving cash in my super secret cash stash and when I found a really good deal on Amazon on something he had on his wish list, I asked my daughter to order it and handed her the cash. She kept it at her house and brought it over Christmas eve, sneaking it into the house while my husband was occupied with the grand baby.
Christmas morning he was happy, amazed, and confused when he opened his gift. He said thank you many times, then asked over and over "How did you do it?" It drove him nuts. I loved that best of all.
Today's cookies are molasses cookies. An obvious choice for Christmas time and always welcome. What's the surprise part about it? Um, (she coughs in embarrassment and nervously shuffles feet), it's the recipe. There is no recipe today. You see, I made these cookies a while ago. I've been too busy with life to stop and take pictures of stuff I've made recently, so I was really scraping the bottom of the barrel for this post. And after I'd gotten it written, I could not find the recipe. I'd helpfully written the notation that it came from a King Arthur's Baking Sheet and was Whole Wheat Molasses Cookies. So, if any of you happen to have the recipe, please email it to me and I'll post it. Till then, I'll keep looking. And hopefully I've inspired you to go bake your own favorite molasses cookie.
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