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SAN FRANCISCO, CA—"I've never done work playing someone who lived before, and I was terrified at the notion of that," said actor Ashton Kutcher, on stage during the opening keynote of Macworld/iWorld 2013. He and Josh Gad, who plays Steve Wozniak across from Kutcher's Steve Jobs in the upcoming biopic jOBS, opened the annual conference by talking about their experiences getting into the roles of Jobs and Wozniak for the silver screen. The team even addressed criticism from Woz himself about the film's authenticity: "If I had the chance to sit down with [Woz], I'd tell him it was done with the utmost love, admiration, and respect," Gad said.
Backing up a few steps, Kutcher started the talk by detailing his own experiences growing up with Apple products. He owned an Apple IIGS as a kid and went on to program in FORTRAN while in college for biochemical engineering. He eventually bought a PC to communicate with his professors in school but switched back to a Mac once the iPod came out in 2001. "You couldn't even integrate your iPod easily at the time with a PC; it was a little bit hacky," Kutcher said during the interview.
"Working with Ashton and seeing his technical savvy was mindblowing," said Gad.
Kutcher pointed out he had followed Jobs' career throughout his own life as a student, then an actor, and now a venture capitalist who invests in technology. "Steve was someone I try to emulate in my work, and somebody I've learned an immense amount from," Kutcher said. "When the screenplay popped up in the industry, we knew this movie was going to be made. I wanted it to get told in a way that honors my hero."
But the prospect of portraying a real person—instead of a fictional film character—was daunting for both Kutcher and Gad. Gad highlighted his relative lack of technical expertise compared to Kutcher going into the film, having only been familiar with Apple since the 1997 return of Steve Jobs. "I was as computer illiterate as Steve Wozniak was computer literate," said Gad, who took programming classes as part of his preparation for the role as Woz. "The fact of the matter is that acting, by its very nature, is faking," he said. "You don't really become that person unless you're psychotic, so [the classes] were about understanding what the hell I was saying."
But despite the team's focus on authenticity, there has been criticism of the film since its debut at the 2013 Sundance festival. Most notably, Wozniak himself nitpicked the accuracy of various parts of the film, telling Gizmodo certain elements of the personalities were wrong and that he himself never would have dressed the way Gad did in some scenes. "I never looked like a professional," Woz said.
"Sorry I didn't know what your exact wardrobe was during that particular week," Gad joked during the interview, "but there will always be debates about what we got right and what we got wrong. I really appreciate [Woz] and I hope that when he sees the movie in his entirety, he'll understand that we went to great lengths to capture the essence of his journey."
Kutcher added that the film isn't a documentary—it's a movie interpretation of events. "These are the first private conversations [between Woz and Jobs], and we weren't there. If you look at the extent of these two guys' journey together, there were a lot of moments when there was probably nobody else there," Kutcher pointed out. "You have to kind of ride the arch of the entertainment of the film and interpret who these people were and what their intent was. What was important to me was to capture the authenticity of the people involved."
The team also detailed how learning about Jobs and Woz affected their lives after the film. "To me, the second I delved into the research, it really is this story to a certain extent like John Lennon and Paul McCartney," Gad said. "It was a once-in-a-lifetime duo who is so mutually beneficial to each other. I am in awe of what Steve Wozniak created and his legacy, but I'm also in awe of the other side of him, which is his prankster fun-loving spirit."
"Steve [Jobs] had an ability to say no to everything except for the mission," Kutcher added. "The message I hope people take away is that Steve believed it was possible to do something impossible. Don't settle for what life gives you. Have that passion and understanding that you can be greater than what you are today, and you can make something to make people's lives greater."
It's clear that Kutcher and Gad felt connected to the characters despite Woz's criticism. And when asked whether Kutcher—now an entrepreneur with his hands in numerous technical companies—would have invested in Apple back in 1977, he gave a measured response. "When I look for companies to invest in [today], I look for people who are hacking a solution to a problem where there's a great density of people hacking that solution," he said. "At that time, there was a growing density of people putting together kits and motherboards and whatnot. They found a way to eliminate friction from that process by saying you can have the package all in one. I would hope I would be intelligent enough and wise enough to invest in that opportunity."
jOBS premiered at Sundance on January 27 and will open in US theaters in April.
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Explain it to me: John 3:16
By Eric Marrapodi, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor
(CNN) - When quarterback Tim Tebow threw an 80-yard touchdown pass Sunday to secure an overtime victory for his Denver Broncos over the heavily favored Pittsburgh Steelers, some saw a biblical connection.
The completion gave Tebow, an outspoken evangelical Christian whose penchant for last-minute heroics have given him a reputation as a miracle worker, 316 passing yards for the game. His ten completions averaged 31.6 yards a piece.
Those figures inspired plenty of conversation and debate about a connection some saw to one of the most famous verses in the Bible, John 3:16.
The New Testament verse is held up by Christians around the globe because it neatly summarizes some key points of Christianity: "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whosoever believes in him would not perish but have eternal life." (NIV)
In the third chapter in the Gospel of John, Jesus is having a late night discussion with a Pharisee, one of the Jewish teachers of the law, named Nicodemus. The chapter is also where the expression "born again" originates.
Jesus tells Nicodemus: "...no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again." In his longer explanation of that idea, Jesus gets to the core of his message in verse 3:16.
The verse is popular with Christians looking to share their faith because it's short and information-packed: God loves humankind, man has sinned and is destined for eternal punishment, but eternal live awaits all who believe in God's son, Jesus.
John 3:16 also has a long history with football and pop culture.
During last year's Super Bowl, the Fixed Point Foundation, which promotes Christianity in the public square, tried to buy an advertisement pushing people to a website to learn about John 3:16 but the ad was was rejected.
The spot showed people watching a football game noticing the phrase John 3:16 on a player's eye black - a sticker or grease that players wear under the eyes to reduce glare from the sun. A man in the ad says he's going to look up the verse, while the ad directed viewers to www.lookup316.com.
At the time, Fixed Point Executive Director Larry Taunton told CNN that Fox Sports said it rejected his commercial because it contained "religious doctrine," though Taunton said the ad avoided featuring the actual words of the verse.
"Increasingly religion and Christianity is treated like smoking – you can do it but only in designated areas," Taunton said. "They were saying there's no place for (faith) in the public square. There's a place for the soft core porn of Go-Daddy, violent movie trailers, and irresponsible drinking, but not for faith."
As a workaround, the Fixed Point Foundation ran its ad on Fox stations locally in Birmingham, Alabama and Washington, DC during the Super Bowl.
Tebow wore Bible verses on his eye black when he quarterbacked the Florida Gators in college. In the 2009 BCS championship game, he wrote John 3:16 on his eye black. After he left college football for the NFL in 2010, the NCAA banned players from writing on their eye black, which some have called the "Tebow rule."
John 3:16 came into the pop culture view in the late 1970s and early 1980s at sporting events, when a man named Rollen Stewart would don a rainbow colored afro wig and a John 3:16 T-shirt. He was especially good at getting himself in front of the cameras at sporting and big cultural events, including the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana.
Stewart grew increasingly fanatical about his crusade. In 1992 he took a maid hostage with a loaded gun at a Los Angeles hotel, demanding a national press conference to proclaim his new message that the end of the world was near.
He plastered John 3:16 on hotel windows. CNN reported at the time that it took a SWAT team nine hours to free the woman.
At his sentencing hearing Stewart had to be removed from court when he would not let the judge speak. As deputies were dragging him out of the courtroom he screamed, "Don't take me out, I said. God sends love to the world. Forgive them, Lord, for they know not what they're doing. They know not what they're doing, Lord."
That last phrase is also biblical, attributed to Jesus while he was praying for his executioners as he hung on the cross.
Stewart was convicted and sent to prison in 1993 on three counts of hostage taking and is currently serving three life sentences at Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, California.
Despite Stewart's story, many sports fans continue the tradition of evangelizing at sports games by holding up John 3:16 on placards.
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NEW YORK — Superstorm Sandy grounded more than 15,000 flights across the Northeast and the globe, and it could be days before some passengers can get where they're going.
According to the flight-tracking service FlightAware, more than 6,000 flights were canceled on Tuesday. That brings the tally of flights canceled because of the storm to more than 15,000. By early Tuesday morning, more than 500 flights scheduled for Wednesday also were canceled.
The three big New York airports were closed on Tuesday by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Stewart International Airport remained open, but airlines had suspended operations there.
New York has the nation's busiest airspace, with about one-quarter of all U.S. flights traveling to or from there each day. So cancelations here can dramatically impact travel in other cities.
Delays rippled across the U.S., affecting travelers in cities from San Francisco to Atlanta. Others attempting to fly out of Europe and Asia also were stuck.
Narita, the international airport near Tokyo, canceled 11 flights Tuesday — nine to the New York area and two to Washington, D.C. All Nippon Airways set up a special counter at Narita to deal with passengers whose flights had been canceled.
Hurricane Sandy converged with a cold-weather system and made landfall over New Jersey on Monday evening with 80 mph winds. The monstrous hybrid of rain and high wind — and even snow in some mountainous inland areas — killed at least 16 people in seven states, cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses from the Carolinas to Ohio, caused scares at two nuclear power plants and stopped the presidential campaign cold.
The storm was forecast to head across Pennsylvania before taking another sharp turn into western New York by Wednesday morning, bringing heavy rain and local flooding.
The flight cancelations surpassed those of a major winter storm in early 2011 that forced 14,000 flights to be scrapped over four days.
Even if storm damage is minor it could be a week before operations are normal at major East Coast airports, said Angela Gittens, director general of the Airports Council International, a trade group for airports worldwide.
"The storm has such a wide swath and so many major airports are involved that it's going to take some time (to recover) because those airplanes are so far away," said Gittens, who served as aviation director at Miami International Airport Dade during several hurricanes from 2001 to 2004.
JetBlue Airways Corp. canceled 1,200 flights for Sunday through Tuesday. The airline is hoping to resume flights at its Kennedy airport hub Wednesday, but is worried about flooding of the airport's runways since they are all basically at sea level and near bodies of water, according to Rob Maruster, the company's chief operating officer.
Delta Air Lines Inc. has canceled 2,100 flights over the three days. American Airlines has scrapped 1,000 flights, including 260 on regional affiliate American Eagle.
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Travelers overseas could wait days to get to the East Coast of the U.S.
Frankfurt airport canceled 12 incoming and nine outgoing flights because of the storm, adding to 12 it scrapped on Monday. Spain's biggest airports in Madrid and Barcelona axed 19 flights, on top of 13 canceled the day before.
British Airways cut another 11 return flights to and from the East Coast on Tuesday, adding to 20 on Monday, when London's Heathrow airport canceled a total of 59 flights to and from the U.S.
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South Korea's Korean Air said it canceled three flights to New York and one flight to Washington on Monday and Tuesday. Asiana Airlines canceled its Tuesday flight to New York. Its Monday flight to JFK was delayed by 26 hours, then was postponed again by another 26 hours.
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The U.S. economy could be poised to plunge over the so-called fiscal cliff by year's end. But with the bruising election cycle now behind them, lawmakers are showing signs they may finally be ready to work together to avert another financial crisis.
President Barack Obama met with congressional leaders Friday to discuss options for avoiding the more than $500 billion in tax increases and spending cuts slated to take effect starting Jan. 1. That sum is eye-popping enough on its own, but it's just for one fiscal year. Without an agreement in place, that total tops $7.1 trillion over a decade.
It sounds alarming, and it is. However, there is a lot more common ground than one might expect. Four-fifths of the $500 billion for the year 2013 would come in the form of increased tax revenue — the vast majority due to the expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts.
There is broad bipartisan support for extending those tax cuts to 98 percent of Americans. The only sticking point is whether to allow the tax rate for the wealthiest 2 percent — individuals whose income exceeds $200,000 and couples whose income totals more than $250,000 a year — to stay at 35 percent, rather than return to the 39.6 percent tax rate.
Doing so would raise about $1 trillion over a decade and, frankly, I don't buy the argument that it will stifle small businesses and harm job creation. First of all, 82 percent of those within the wealthiest 2 percent make more than $1 million in adjusted gross income. Secondly, during the Clinton era, when the wealthiest 2 percent did pay a 39.6 percent tax rate, small business growth was more than double what it was under Bush's tenure.
"The arguments against allowing the high-end tax cuts to expire on schedule echo those made against President Clinton's proposed 1993 tax increases, which set marginal rates at the levels to which they are set to return when the Bush rate cuts expire," wrote Chye-Ching Huang and Chuck Marr in a report for the non-partisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. "Critics claimed at the time that those tax increases would seriously harm economic growth and even send the economy back into recession. As it turned out, job creation and economic growth proved significantly stronger following the 1993 tax increases than following the 2001 Bush tax cuts. Further, small businesses generated jobs at twice the rate during the Clinton years than they did under the Bush tax code."
According to national exit polls, more than 60 percent of voters agreed with Obama's stance on taxes. Seeming to accept that mandate from the American people, some Republican leaders are now indicating they might be willing to compromise.
"To show our seriousness, we've put revenue on the table, as long as it's accompanied by significant spending cuts," said House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, after the meeting Friday. "It's going to be incumbent on my colleagues to show the American people we're serious."
Democrats, too, are willing to make concessions. Spending cuts are likely to include entitlement reform, even for programs that were once seen as sacred cows by Dems.
"I have been listening for a long time, since I was on the Simpson-Bowles Commission," Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday. "And what I hear is a perceptible change in rhetoric from the other side, and what it is is an invitation for our side to basically sit down and say, what can we do for this country? Push the special interest groups to the side for the moment, and what I hear the president saying is, we're not going to solve this by asking the wealthiest to pay their fair share, but it will be part of the solution.
"And what I hear from the Republican side is, well, what is the rest of the solution? That is the beginning of a negotiation. It's an indication that the election had an impact on all of us. The American people are sick and tired of all the obstruction and all the rhetoric on both sides. And I can tell you that the fiscal cliff is focusing the mind."
Only time will tell if this spirit of bipartisan cooperation will result in real, lasting progress, but this kind of balanced approach to governing and budget reduction could help drive the U.S. economy forward, not over a cliff.
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VAIL, Colorado – Vail Resorts' dependency on snow conditions is proving vital to the company's success as evidenced Tuesday in the company's latest financial report.
Vail Resorts reported some ski season metrics Tuesday covering the beginning of the ski season through Sunday compared to the same time period last season. While there were gains, especially over the holiday season, the company doesn't believe it can fully recover from a challenging early season in order to reach the fiscal guidance it put out in September.
The highlights are that skier visits are up overall by 2 percent, taking into account higher utilization from season pass holders, the company reported. Revenues from lift tickets, ski school, dining and retail were all up over the same time period last season, too, outpacing the growth in skier visits.
Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz calls the growth "a reflection of a very strong holiday season which saw double-digit percentage increases in visitation, ski school revenue, dining revenue and retail/rental revenue."
"Unfortunately, as we discussed in our early December earnings release, this was partially offset by very weak results in the period from the start of the season through mid-December, when conditions at our Colorado resorts were very poor and highly unusual," Katz said in a statement released Tuesday afternoon. "We were very pleased to see that once more typical conditions arrived at our resorts, we saw very strong visitation and guest spend. In fact, a number of our resorts broke visitation and revenue records during the holiday period. All of this bodes well for the remainder of the season."
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It bodes well, but not well enough for the company to reach its fiscal 2013 guidance of $260 million-$270 million issued last fall.
"While we are very pleased with our strong holiday season performance, the challenging early season contributed to season-to-date results that were below what we had anticipated in our guidance originally issued in September 2012," Katz said in the statement. "As a result, we do not believe we can fully make up those shortfalls during the remainder of our fiscal year. Consequently, we now estimate Resort Reported EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) to be $244 million to $254 million representing an approximate 19 percent to 24 percent increase over fiscal year 2012. Our revised guidance for fiscal 2013 assumes normal weather conditions for the remainder of the season."
The company reiterated its real estate EBITDA guidance of negative $9 million to negative $17 million.
Katz reported that net income attributable to Vail Resorts, Inc. is now expected to be in a range of $39 million to $49 million in fiscal year 2013, up more than double from last year's results, but down from the original guidance of $50 to $60 million stated last September.
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A well-off New Yorker finds comfort in his love for his sons after his business fails and his wife leaves him
A Gentleman's Guide to Graceful Living: A Novel. By Michael Dahlie. Norton, 281 pp., $23.95.
By Janice Harayda
Does it ever make sense to give up a beloved family tradition? Michael Dahlie offers surprising answers in his witty and intelligent comedy of manners, A Gentleman's Guide to Graceful Living.
Arthur Camden cherishes his hereditary membership in the Hanover Street Fly Casters, a fictitious fly-fishing group founded in 1878 by his great-grandfather and 11 other patrician businessmen. Those pre-Freudian bluebloods weren't too self-conscious to name their Catskills lodge Maidenhead Grange, though the club always barred women from the premises. And for decades that's been fine with Arthur, who has looked forward to passing his membership on to his oldest son and seen the group's annual Meeting-in-Full as the highlight of his year.
Then Arthur faces a series of calamities fostered by his sweet and vulnerable nature, which includes a lack of self-awareness that would have allowed him to anticipate the disasters. His family business goes bankrupt. His wife of 32 years leaves him. And he accidentally burns down Maidenhead Grange while lighting a fire in an ill-maintained chimney in order to seduce a date who insisted on seeing the lodge.
All of this might have devolved into a pseudo–P. G. Wodehouse novel full of absurd middle-aged or older men throwing trout heads instead of breadsticks. But Michael Dahlie takes a gentler approach as Arthur tries to regroup in the face of dismay of the Fly Casters and the bold sexual reconnaissance missions of his ex-wife, Rebecca.
"I hear she slept with absolutely everyone, and during your separation, no less," an acquaintance tells him. "Most people have the sense to wait till the final paperwork is done. But from day one it was like she was on Spring Break."
Amid such embarrassments, Arthur finds solace in his requited love for his sons, in the support of a few loyal friends, and in small pleasures such as the pine-needle liqueur he discovers when, hoping a vacation will help, he visits a boyhood friend in France. And for all its comedy, this novel has a serious theme.
At a family gathering on Nantucket, Arthur wonders how to help his younger son, David, who can't seem to keep a job:
"It was a perplexing question: what sorts of things does a father owe his son? On one level the answer might best be nothing, since too much parental help so often had such obviously bad results. Moreover, there was no reason a person shouldn't try to make his own way in such an obviously prosperous nation. But in terms of smaller-scale help, a leg up in the world, a little nudge forward, you could say that a father should at least give his son what his own father gave him."
Dahlie's thoughtful exploration of such issues gives his book a depth unusual in comedies of manners, which often ricochet from one bright line to another. America abounds with men blindsided not just financially but emotionally by the economic meltdown, and if Arthur has more money than most, he struggles with widely shared questions: How did I get into this fix? How can I get out of it? How will my losses affect my children? Many people who have stopped reading their 401(k) statements might profitably transfer their attention to this enjoyable novel.
Best line: A comment by the friend whom Arthur visits in France: "If there's one thing the Swiss are good at, it's running rehab centers. It's like the Minnesota of Europe."
Worst line: "Not unlike the outrage over Arthur's distaste for salmon sandwiches and lobster Newberg, Arthur's father was often worried 'for the boy's own good' about one thing or another that he felt made Arthur look absurd." The sentence doesn't scan well grammatically, and the three Arthurs don't help.
Published: June 2008. A paperback edition of A Gentleman's Guide to Graceful Living is due out in June 2009 www.michaeldahlie.com
Consider reading also: Guiseppe Pontiggia's Born Twice, a novel of fatherhood that won Italy's highest literary honor, the Strega Prize.
Janice Harayda wrote the comedies of manners The Accidental Bride and Manhattan on the Rocks


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Mike Foley: Never Enough
Mike Foley likes to draw, usually portraits, in charcoal. He spends anywhere from a couple of hours to a few days on a given drawing. "I like stuff that involves a lot of fine-detail work," he says. "I'm pretty meticulous like that." He also likes complex, "minute-detail" climbs.
This article appeared in Rock and Ice issue 198 (December 2011).
Mike Foley likes to draw, usually portraits, in charcoal. He spends anywhere from a couple of hours to a few days on a given drawing. "I like stuff that involves a lot of fine-detail work," he says. "I'm pretty meticulous like that." He also likes complex, "minute-detail" climbs.
Foley, 21, of Lincoln, Massachusetts, was the relative unknown who in July busted out the third ascent of Jaws II (5.15a), Rumney, New Hampshire. First done as Jaws (5.14b) in 1998 by Dave Graham, the line lost crucial holds over time, and was freed and rechristened in 2007 by Vasya Vorotnikov. Jaws II saw a second ascent only last year, by Daniel Woods.
As a person Foley is quiet, though humorous, and focused. In describing his own process on climbs, he says, "I have a really good spatial memory, so I just remember a lot of things that people overlook." He laughs. "Lots of micro beta."
Andrew Freeman of Brookline, Massachusetts, a frequent climbing partner, concurs. "He has an amazing geometrical memory," he says. "He remembers the shapes of holds."
The send was no surprise to those who are aware that Foley did Rumney's China Glide (5.14d) last summer; and his name is known all too well by anyone he'd beaten for years on the junior-comp circuit. A climber since age 11, Mike was Junior National Champion in bouldering in 2007, Junior National Champion in lead in 2008 and 2009, and Continental Champion in lead in 2009.
His climbing background includes redpointing the eight-pitch bolted route the Black Dyke (5.13b) in Squamish, British Columbia, in a day having taken only one fall, on the crux pitch; and some trad, up to the Zombie Roof (5.12d) in Squamish.
"Growing up around a lot of artists taught me always to be very thorough in everything I do," he says. "I've learned never to half-ass anything."
A student in environmental science at Quest University in Squamish, Mike is the son of an Irish father and a Filipino mother, and he grew up in a very artistic family. His father is a graphic designer and his mother a book binder, while his brother, 24, majored in studio art.
"Growing up around a lot of artists taught me always to be very thorough in everything I do," he says. "I've learned never to half-ass anything."
As it happens, problems can arise from his laser focus: He says of his art pieces, "I'm never really satisfied with my work. I always end up focusing on the details so much that I lose sight of the piece as a whole."
What, though, could force synthesis better than a redpoint, with all its finality?
"Maybe the reason I've stuck with climbing so long," Foley says, "is that it's one of the few things I've ever tried where I can put the pieces together to make something I'm proud of." Nothing's simple, though.
"Whenever I finish a project, I'm always looking for what's next. In that sense, I'm never really satisfied. "
Q&A with Mike Foley
What made you decide to study in Squamish?
I like to be outside all the time and this just seemed like a good way to go. It's a good change of pace from New England. The people here are different and the scenery and everything is so opposite from the East Coast. It's cool to bounce between the coasts.
In what way are the people different?
People from the West Coast are just a lot more polite. I'm used to dealing with a lot of Massholes.
What made you choose Jaws II?
I've been climbing at Rumney for a very long time and have sort of done pretty much all the stuff I could do and I was running out of projects. There were only two left for me, The Fly and Jaws. The Fly is a two-bolt 5.14. It was summer and I thought I might as well start trying Jaws. I spent a few weeks on it and found some beta that worked for me. Once I finally did the move I couldn't do before, I got really excited.
What did you think watching the video of you on it?
I remembered it being a lot harder than it looked [on film]. I was trying pretty hard!
"I really respect people that can manage to balance school or a fulltime job and still climb hard. I think I respect that more than people who are bumming around climbing."
Has this gotten you excited to try other routes?
It was a really good confidence boost. I'm excited to get on some stuff in Canada.
[Chris Sharma's 2005 5.14d in Squamish, repeated by Sean McColl in 2009]
Yeah, exactly.
Do you want to do more trad climbing?
I prefer sport climbing but I can see myself getting more into trad climbing. I don't have my own rack, though.
Other hobbies?
My brother's a very good biker. He got me into biking when I was younger. Now that I've moved out to B.C., I'm getting into it more. I think it's definitely helped my climbing. Kind of gets my mind off climbing and puts me in a different mindset, and my overall fitness gets better if I'm biking a lot.
Role models?
I really respect people that can manage to balance school or a fulltime job and still climb hard. I think I respect that more than people who are bumming around climbing. It's easier to meet your climbing goals if you're only climbing.
Ever made a particularly good decision in climbing?
Not to get surgery on my shoulder after being told by two doctors that I needed it.
One you regret?
Missing the registration deadline for the Vail World Cup because I misread an e-mail. Lesson learned.
What do you think about before trying a big redpoint?
I try not to think more than one move ahead at a time, and I tell myself that I'm going to try really, really hard when I get to the crux.
Why do you call your top three routes on 8a.nu all "soft"?!
I don't believe that I can actually climb that hard.
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A big thatta-boy-thump on the back for Kevin Grothe of the Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties in Vadnais Heights, Minnesota for being the first person to submit a correct answer to last month's Stump the Chump!
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
Happy Birthday to Me
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I love your blog it makes me smile :)
Enjoy your day!
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Happy birthday! Your day sounds perfect, as oozing with glamor as my own. Happy, happy - look forward to laughing with you through the year ahead, and may it contain many joys. xoxReplyDeleteReplies
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Happy birthday, my friend. And isn't it cool that I can say "my friend" in the real sense and not in the just-saying-it sense? You are my friend. And I am glad that you were born. Make it a spectacular day. Shake your hips next to the station wagon and put on high heels for dinner. See if all that hugging and kissing on your biggest guy leads to something more. :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks, sweet friend! I like your ideas. I will go for it! xoDelete
I hope your day contains at least a few happy surprises along the way as well. Have a good one.ReplyDelete
Sounds about perfect. Happy birthday, sweet Mother Of Bob, dear Lisa.ReplyDeleteReplies
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Happy birthday, wonderful Lisa.
Can't wait to see the card from Bob ( you WILL show us tomorrow, won't you?)
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Happy Birthday Lisa! Sounds like a perfect way to spend another day on the green side of the grass.ReplyDeleteReplies
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Yay - happy birthday, indeed!ReplyDelete
And that photo is absolutely perfect. I love it.
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A perfect picture for a perfect, happy birthday. Enjoy the day.ReplyDelete
Love, love, love this, Lisa. Happy Birthday to a wonderful person. xxooReplyDeleteReplies
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I love your birthday girl picture and the look on your face is priceless.
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Happy Birthday, Lisa ... your day sounds just about right for this time in our lives, and I think that's pretty darned perfect. Continued blessings to you for a wonderful "new" year!ReplyDeleteReplies
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Happy Birthday! You always have the best retro pics.ReplyDelete
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Happy Birthday. Amazingly enough, doing a lot of those things actually sounds like a fabulous day. Hope you enjoy it.ReplyDeleteReplies
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! God bless you and Bob and your husband and oh my goodness aren't birthdays fun :)ReplyDeleteReplies
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Happy Happy Birthday to you!! Sounds like a pretty darn good day to me! :)ReplyDelete
Happy birthday! And I'm suddenly having fond recollections of my family's old station wagon...ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks, Marianne! I'd be lost without the wagon! xoDelete
Happy Birthday Lisa with an S from Suzy with a Z.ReplyDelete
Yes, I'm dating myself.
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Happy Birthday to one wonderful mom! My roommate(s) and I have cherished our moments laughing at all the Bob-isms you've shared with the world! We hope you had a wonderful day & accomplished all your wishes above & more! [:ReplyDeleteReplies
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Sounds perfectly lovely! Happy birthday! I myself join the 48 Club on Sunday and shall spend it eating fried things at the LA County Fair with my hubby.ReplyDeleteReplies
Birthday funnel cake sounds perfect! xoDelete
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Elmo puppeteer accused of underage relationship
The puppeteer who performs as Elmo on "Sesame Street" is taking a leave of absence from the popular kids' show in the wake of allegations that he had a relationship with a 16-year-old boy.
Sesame Workshop said puppeteer Kevin Clash denies the charges, which were first made in June by the alleged partner, who by then was 23.
"We took the allegation very seriously and took immediate action," Sesame Workshop said in a statement issued Monday. "We met with the accuser twice and had repeated communications with him. We met with Kevin, who denied the accusation."
The organization described the relationship as personal and "unrelated to the workplace." Its investigation found the allegation of underage conduct to be unsubstantiated. But it said Clash exercised "poor judgment" and was disciplined for violating company policy regarding Internet usage. It offered no details.
"I had a relationship with (the accuser)," Clash told TMZ. "It was between two consenting adults and I am deeply saddened that he is trying to make it into something it was not."
At his request, Clash has been granted a leave of absence in order to "protect his reputation," Sesame Workshop said.
No further explanation was provided, nor was the duration of his leave specified.
"Elmo is bigger than any one person and will continue to be an integral part of `Sesame Street' to engage, educate and inspire children around the world, as it has for 40 years," Sesame Workshop said in its statement.
"Sesame Street" is currently in production, but other puppeteers are prepared to fill in for Clash during his absence, according to a person close to the show who spoke on condition of anonymity because that person was not authorized to publicly discuss details about the show's production.
"Elmo will still be a part of the shows being produced," that person said.
The 52-year-old Clash, the divorced father of a grown daughter, has been a puppeteer for "Sesame Street" since 1984. It was then that he was handed the fuzzy red puppet named Elmo and asked to come up with a voice for him. Clash transformed the character, which had been a marginal member of the Muppets troupe for a number of years, into a major star rivaling Big Bird as the face of "Sesame Street."
In 2006, Clash published an autobiography, "My Life as a Furry Red Monster," and was the subject of the 2011 documentary "Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey."


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Getting Strong After a Layoff
I slacked all winter and didn't train a lick, and still want to dominate on the rock this spring/summer. How can I whip myself into shape in short notice?
I slacked all winter and didn't train a lick, and still want to dominate on the rock this spring/summer. How can I whip myself into shape in short notice?
—Duane Raleigh, Redstone, CO
Wait! Stop! There is no such thing as a quick comeback in climbing unless you are a super-talented young hotshot, and even then you are risking injury. If your performance curve looks a little like a roller coaster, it's time to consider a few home truths. We all know how frustrating it can be to take time out and lose strength and technique, but the worst thing you can do is jump back in the deep end. Don't hit the campus board. Chances are that if you attempt to play catch-up too fast then you will get hurt and slide further down.
Any sound training program should be based on this progression: start at a low level, build back up to your current level and then reach past it. You should also start with volume-based training such as laps on easy routes, and only move on to high-intensity training such as bouldering or campusing once you have built a solid base. These are the basic principles of a peaking cycle for any sport. A typical peaking cycle is usually between four and eight months, and the longer you take to peak, the higher the level you will reach and the longer you will be able to sustain it. But if you don't have much time, you can construct a mini-peak. This will still need to be a minimum of six weeks:
Phase 1: Endurance base. Two weeks of climbing one day-on, one day-off. During climbing days do up-and-downs or double laps on easy routes. Do plenty of stretching and CV conditioning on rest days.
Phase 2: Increase intensity. Two weeks of day-on, day-off with bouldering and routes on alternating days. Bouldering: After a thorough warm-up, do the usual format of short, steep, powerful problems with plenty of rest to prevent premature burnout. Endurance: Do harder single routes (one grade less than your onsight max, 6 to 8 reps with 5 minutes rest between reps). Keep the rest-day conditioning sessions going.
Phase 3: Prepare for peak. Two weeks of two days on, one day off. Do bouldering and bar exercises (such as pull-ups and leg raises) on Day One, and climb routes on Day Two. Stronger climbers may substitute the bouldering session with campusing. Reduce or cut out CV training on rest days but keep stretching.
Phase 4: Recovery and peak. One week of light maintenance training (one light boulder session and one light route session) to taper for the climbing season or trip.
Remember, though, that the best advice is not to let your performance slide in the first place. Even if you are busy with work, try to do a couple of hangboard sessions a week, just to maintain. Climbers don't respond well to fits and spurts. Try to climb a minimum of twice a week, every week, and you won't need to ask this question again!


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By Juan A. Lozano
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HOUSTON — Prosecutors on Monday dropped charges against a 22-year-old man who authorities initially believed was involved in a shooting that wounded him and two others at a Houston-area community college.
Carlton Berry was arrested soon after the Jan. 22 shootings at Lone Star College and charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
But authorities later accused another man, Trey Foster, 22, of being the shooter.
Foster has been charged with two counts of aggravated assault and faces a charge of resisting arrest in an earlier case.
He was arrested Friday in the Dallas suburb of Plano.
Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia defended his agency's initial arrest of Berry, saying two of the victims initially indicated that Barry was the shooter.
He also said Berry at first refused to talk to investigators, and it was only after he was charged that he pointed authorities to Foster.
"I support my investigators. I continue to support them," Garcia said. "I remain proud of their thoroughness and their relentless pursuit of the truth. They did what they were supposed to do."
Investigators say the shooting happened after 25-year-old Jody Neal bumped into Foster while Foster was walking with Berry. Foster and Neal argued but went their separate ways.
But when the two ran into each other 30 minutes later, they argued again and Foster fired at Neal, wounding him in the abdomen and leg. Berry also was shot and wounded, and a maintenance worker for the college, Bobby Cliburn, 55, was hit in the leg.
Authorities say at least 10 shots were fired, causing panic and a leading to a campus lockdown. Berry's attorney, Robert A. Jones, said his client never should have been charged or jailed because the evidence showed he was a victim.
Berry was shot in the left hip, which Jones said was an indication that Berry might have been facing away or running away from the shooter.
"He said that continually, whenever (authorities) talked to him, that he didn't do anything. But that wasn't enough. Then they started their investigation based upon his statement and they realized he didn't do anything," Jones said.
Prosecutor Alison Baimbridge said authorities dropped the charges in the interest of justice. She said that as with any investigation, the more witness interviews and evidence collecting that are done, authorities are "better able to determine who was where, what actually occurred."
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Garcia said investigators confirmed Foster bought the gun at the store, but noted there are questions about whether he should have been allowed to do so because of his criminal history.
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"Gander Mountain operates in strict compliance with all local, state and federal laws regarding firearms ownership and fully cooperates with law enforcement," Myers said in an email.
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Man who posted marijuana-growing videos on YouTube sentenced
Prosecutor says man showed face, name on videos
An Auburn man arrested after posting YouTube videos of his marijuana-growing operation was sentenced to jail Tuesday.
In court, prosecutors said in that addition to the video postings, Kyle Berry made other big mistakes that led quickly to his arrest.
Berry pleaded guilty to manufacturing a controlled drug. Prosecutors said that last fall, he posted several videos online that showed his marijuana-growing operation in the basement of his Auburn home.
"Showing how to grow it, how to set it up, what chemicals he uses, where he gets his seeds," said Assistant Rockingham County Attorney Jerome Blanchard. "He's very detailed about how he is doing it."
Authorities were tipped off to the videos and began watching them. Eventually, Berry made several mistakes. In one video, his face was reflected off a shiny surface. Blanchard said there was other direct evidence identifying him.
"In a video dated Oct. 17, 2012, the defendant showed a package received from the United Kingdom containing marijuana seeds that shows the postage from the Royal Mail," Blanchard said. "The package has the defendant's name on it."
In court, Berry said he wasn't doing it to make money, but rather because of the pain he was in.
"I did it because since 13, I've had 17 surgeries," Berry said. "I didn't realize how bad the medications I was on were clouding my judgment and killing me."
Judge Marguerite Wageling said she was having a hard time believing that Berry was growing all of the marijuana for his own use. But she agreed with the defense attorney that Berry was not a drug kingpin.
"Someone can't be all that smart to go on YouTube and post the types of video footage that you did," Wageling said.
Berry was sentenced to one year in jail with four months suspended.
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Robert Mulkey, owner of Regal Car Sales and Credit in Tulsa, Oklahoma, earned the industry's top honor when he was named the 2007 NIADA National Quality Dealer of the Year. Mulkey was recognized this past Saturday at the annual NIADA Convention and Expo in Nashville, Tennessee, at the Gaylord Opryland Resort. Mulkey was selected from 24 of the nation's best independent dealers. He demonstrated an outstanding commitment to quality, customer service, community involvement, and to the used motor vehicle industry.
Mulkey's first career after he graduated college was in the hospitality industry, a far reach from the used car business that he has now been a part of for 22 years. He was managing a Hilton in Tulsa when he was offered a management position by the owner of a Buick dealership. Initially, his response was a quick no. Then, the owner told him the salary range. Within half an hour, Mulkey was at the dealership ready to start talking about the job. It was an insightful move; during the first three years of his new career the dealership was named one of the top 100 service departments from more than 3,500 Buick dealerships nationwide.
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Apple sued Sanho Corporation, HyperMac's parent company, in early September, alleging violations of Apple's MagSafe and 30-pin iPod connector patents. The lawsuit resulted from HyperMac's popular line of batteries that could charge any MacBook or MacBook Pro, or an iOS device with the 30-pin connector. Apple said the company had violated six of Apple's patents related to both technologies, and that Sanho's alleged infringement caused damage to Apple's business.
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In its statement issued Monday, Sanho said that it is in "ongoing comprehensive licensing negotiations with Apple regarding a wide array of technologies and issues," and that is the reason it has decided to cease sales of all MagSafe-related products. The company specifically mentioned the MacBook charging cables, but did not mention the 30-pin iPod/iPhone/iPad connector, leading us to believe that those unmodified cables are still kosher.
"If you wish to get the world's ONLY external battery and car charger solution that works with ALL MacBook, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro (supports dual voltage) as well as the iPad, iPhone 3/3GS/4, iPod and all other USB devices, NOW is the time," reads HyperMac's website. "On November 2, 2010 00:00 U.S. Pacific Time, they will gone for good."


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text: Secret path revealed for Chinese billions overseas By Bloomberg - Monday, July 14, 2014 14:00 Share this A signage of Bank of China (BOC) is pictured in Shanghai, China. For years, wealthy Chinese have been transferring billions worth of their money overseas, snapping up pricey real estate in markets including New York, Sydney and Vancouver despite their country's currency restrictions. Now, one way they could be doing it is clearer. Last week, when China Central Television leveled money-laundering allegations against Bank of China Ltd., the state-run broadcaster's report prompted the revelation of a previously unannounced government program that enables individuals to transfer their yuan and convert it into dollars or other currencies overseas. Offered by some banks in the southern province of Guangdong, across the border from Hong Kong, the trial program was introduced in 2011 for overseas property purchases and emigration and doesn't constitute money laundering, Bank of China said in a July 9 statement. The transfers were allowed by regulators and reported to them, the bank said. "What it shows is the government has been trying to internationalize the renminbi for a lot longer than we thought," Jim Antos, a Hong Kong-based analyst at Mizuho Securities Ltd., said by phone, using the official name for China's currency and referring to policy makers' long-stated goal of allowing the yuan to become freely convertible with other currencies. "I'm rather encouraged by this news because this is the way they need to go." Currency controls China's foreign-exchange rules cap the maximum amount of yuan that individuals are allowed to convert at $50,000 each year and ban them from transferring the currency abroad directly. Policy makers have taken steps in recent years, including allowing freer movements of capital in and out of China, as they seek to boost the global stature of the not-yet-fully convertible yuan. "There's a silver lining in this incident as it may force the regulators to address the issue in a more open and transparent way," Zhou Hao, a Shanghai-based economist at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd., said by phone. "This is an irreversible trend." The issue came to light after CCTV said Bank of China helped customers transfer unlimited amounts of yuan abroad through a product called Youhuitong, which means "superior foreign-exchange channel." Positives, negatives The program is another sign that China is testing methods to allow outward yuan flows before full convertibility, May Yan, a Hong Kong-based analyst at Barclays Plc, said by phone. The goal has been announced by policy makers since the 1990s, and is a step toward stated plans to make Shanghai a global financial capital by 2020. "For an experiment, you want to see if there's any positives or negatives," Yan said. "When the bank or the regulators can accumulate that experience, then they will decide if they want to move forward, or broaden it or shut it down." The central bank in February unveiled rules to make it easier for companies with operations in Shanghai's free-trade zone to move yuan in and out of the country, a further loosening of controls on currency flows. The yuan surpassed the euro as the world's second most-popular currency in trade finance in 2013, according to the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication. The Guangdong branch of China's currency regulator, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, picked Bank of China, China Citic Bank Corp. (998) and a foreign lender to let individuals transfer yuan abroad in a trial the banks were told not to promote, Time Weekly reported in April 2013. A Beijing-based Citic Bank press officer declined to comment on the program. $3.2 billion estimate While Bank of China didn't provide figures, the 21st Century Business Herald estimated the lender has moved about 20 billion yuan ($3.2 billion) abroad through Youhuitong, citing people with knowledge of the trial program. "Many commercial banks" in Guangdong offer a similar service, Bank of China said in its statement, without naming them. Today, a link on CCTV's website for the report on Bank of China led only to advertisements. A spokeswoman for CCTV's international relations department, which handles foreign media inquiries, didn't immediately respond to an e-mailed request for comment on why the story appeared to no longer be available. The People's Bank of China and SAFE didn't reply to requests for comment. The central bank is "verifying" facts related to media reports of bank money-laundering, the official Xinhua News Agency reported July 10, citing a PBOC spokesman. Youhuitong suspended Youhuitong has been suspended while the PBOC and its anti-money laundering bureau request records of all previous transactions, according to a person familiar with the product, who asked not to be identified because he wasn't authorized to speak publicly. Transfer approval for Youhuitong customers usually takes several weeks to a month, the person said. They need to provide documents showing how the money to be transferred was obtained, such as tax-payment receipts and proof of income, as well as a property-purchase agreement or proof of emigration, he said. Youhuitong customers would typically deposit yuan with Bank of China (3988) at least two weeks before the transfer, the person said. Once approved, the customer and the bank agree on an exchange rate before the funds are moved to an overseas account designated by the customer, he said. Money destined for real estate would go directly to the property seller's account to ensure the cash won't be misused, he said. A Beijing-based press officer for Bank of China declined to comment. Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. and China Construction Bank Corp. (939), the nation's two largest banks, declined to comment on whether they offer similar products. Another way HSBC Holdings Plc (5), which runs the largest branch network among foreign banks in China, offers its Chinese clients another way to access offshore mortgages while avoiding the cap on foreign-exchange conversion, according to a person familiar with the mechanism, who asked not to be identified without having authorization to speak publicly. Customers deposit yuan with HSBC's mainland unit or purchase its wealth-management products, and the bank's overseas branch then issues a foreign-currency denominated mortgage using the China deposits as collateral, the person said. "We seek to abide by the rules and laws of the jurisdictions and geographies in which we operate," said Gareth Hewett, a Hong Kong-based HSBC spokesman. Affluent Chinese have been moving money overseas in search of greater investment returns. China's benchmark stock index has tumbled 66 percent from its 2007 record, while the government has clamped down on property lending to rein in rising prices. U.S. purchases Chinese buyers, including people from Hong Kong and Taiwan, spent $22 billion on U.S. homes in the year through March, up 72 percent from the same period in 2013 and more than any other nationality, the National Association of Realtors said in its annual report on foreign home purchases. Vancouver's real estate market has also seen the impact, having been "fueled tremendously in the last couple of years by high-end wealthy Chinese and Hong Kong buyers," according to real estate agent Malcolm Hasman. "Clearly the property market wouldn't nearly be so robust as it is today without mainland money," Mizuho's Antos said. "How did they do it? With Bank of China's help. There has been a tremendous amount of mainland money flowing offshore and it couldn't have happened without" official approval. Chinese have become the biggest investors in Australia's commercial and residential property, with purchases surging 42 percent to A$5.9 billion ($5.6 billion) in the year to June 2013, according to the country's Foreign Investment Review Board. Vancouver property Vancouver's real estate market has also seen the impact, having been "fueled tremendously in the last couple of years by high-end wealthy Chinese and Hong Kong buyers," according to real estate agent Malcolm Hasman. China needed to improve its oversight of capital flows after $2.7 trillion in unexplained funds moved overseas in the decade prior to 2012, Anthony Neoh, a former government adviser who helped the country open up to foreign money managers, said last year, citing data from Integrity International. Those funds fueled property bubbles in cities such as Hong Kong instead of being invested in domestic assets, he said. "We know the demand to move abroad is there," said ANZ's Zhou. "Even if you impose various restrictions, the money will find its way out of the country, via underground banks and other means."


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These tasty and chewy cookies started with a minor disappointment: I've tried one of the popular recipes for flourless peanut butter cookies (the ones that contain only peanut butter, sugar (or sweetener) and an egg), and the result was not as exciting for me as it was for a lot of the online reviewers. I thought the cookies were on the boring side taste-wise, and found their texture too crumbly to handle.
However, by then I was already in "flourless peanut butter recipe" mood, so I started to add "this and that" to the original recipe. The cookies here are the result of that process.
They are tasty on their own right, but the chocolate drizzle adds another layer of flavor, which goes so well with all the ingredients.
Try them and decide for yourself.
A couple of notes:
* Unsweetened, all-natural peanut butter has a fairly coarse texture, which is perfect for these cookies. I'm not sure how well the recipe will work with creamy/sweeter types of peanut butter, and can only assume it will.
* I used coconut palm sugar here, as I was curious about this type of sugar, which is new to me. It worked quite well and the result was not too sweet, as I usually prefer. Yet, another batch, made with soft brown sugar, turned out to be quite similar, so feel free to substitute if you don't have coconut sugar.
* If you prefer sweeter cookies, you can increase the amount to ¾-1 cup.
* Freezing: place the tray with the cookies in the freezer and let them freeze before storing in an airtight container. This way they will not stick together.
Makes: about 40 (small)
Prep time: 15 minutes
Baking time: 14 minutes
For the cookies:
1/3 cup mashed ripe banana (from 1 small)
1 XL egg
1 cup unsweetened natural peanut butter
½ cup unsweetened desiccated coconut
1/3 cup coconut palm sugar (or soft brown sugar)
¼ tsp salt
½ tsp vanilla
1 tsp cardamom or cinnamon
For the chocolate drizzle:
1/3 cup dark chocolate chips
¼ cup heavy cream
1. Preheat the oven to 335F (170C). Line a cookie sheet with baking paper.
2. In a large bowl, mix the egg and banana. Add the peanut butter, coconut, sugar, salt, vanilla and cardamom and mix well. The dough will be quite sticky.
3. With slightly wet hands, roll the dough into about 40 small balls and place in the pan. Press the top with a fork, to flatten the cookies and create a pattern.
4. Bake for 14 minutes, or until the top is firm and the bottom is golden. Let cool to room temperature in the pan.
5. The chocolate drizzle: place the chocolate chips in a bowl. Heat the heavy cream to almost boil, and pour over the chocolate. Let stand for 1-2 minutes and then stir well, until the chocolate melts. Drizzle over the cooled cookies. Let set before serving.


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