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Grandview Heights and Upper Arlington officials will get another chance to make a final pitch to Marble Cliff for a new three-year contract to provide services to the village.
The village council voted 5-0 Nov. 21 to set a deadline of 11 a.m. Dec. 5 for final proposals.
Council member Matt Cincione recused himself from voting because of a potential conflict, since he serves as a magistrate for Grandview.
Council decided to extend the request for proposal process after Grandview Heights presented a revised proposal Nov. 14.
The village had set a Nov. 10 deadline for a request for proposals for the service contract. Grandview and Upper Arlington responded.
Mayor Kent Studebaker presented an overview of those proposals at a Nov. 14 town hall meeting.
In the first set of proposals, Upper Arlington put forward a three-year contract that was $288,050 lower than the offer presented by Grandview.
Arlington�s proposal did not include sanitation services.
The village is considering allowing the Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio to negotiate its sanitation contract. Three companies have submitted bids. If the village were to accept the $62,304 bid offered by Rumpke, which included a scope of sanitation services closest to that now provided by Grandview, and add it to the original Arlington proposal, the total of Arlington�s proposal for 2012 would be about $92,000 lower than Grandview.
Marble Cliff Mayor Kent Studebaker said Grandview�s revised proposal reduces the contract by about $30,000 each year from the city�s original offer.
That would bring the difference between Grandview and Arlington for 2012 to about $60,000, he said.
Since Grandview has presented another proposal, allowing the two communities to make one final proposal would be the fairest and most equable way to handle the situation, Studebaker said.
Grandview�s submission of a second revised proposal �threw us in a tizzy about how to address this,� village solicitor Mitch Banchefsky said.
Setting a new and final deadline for both communities to present a final proposal appears to be the best way to address the situation, he said.
Banchefsky told council two other options were possible.
The village could have considered that the process was indeed closed on Nov. 10 and accepted Arlington�s proposal and only the original offer made by Grandview, he said.
The village could also reject the entire request for proposal process and start over, Banchefsky said.
In allowing Grandview and Arlington to make one last proposal and setting a final deadline of Dec. 5, the village must make clear that �this time we mean it,� he said.
The communities� submissions to the village�s request for proposal are not actual bids, Banchefsky said.
They serve as indications as to how Grandview and Arlington would meet the requirements set by the village and serve as parameters for a final negotiated contract, he said.
Council will schedule a special meeting in December to discuss the final proposals it receives, Studebaker said. The special meeting would be held ahead of the regular meeting scheduled for Dec. 19.
The current service contract with Grandview expires at the end of the year. The village hopes to decide on a new contract before then, he said.
Grandview has agreed to continue to provide services until a decision is reached if the process extends beyond the expiration of the current contract, Studebaker said.
Marble Cliff is paying Grandview $494,773 this year for services, including police and fire, parks and recreation and trash collection.


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Have you ever heard someone say, "I'd go vegan, except I could never give up cheese."? Of course you have.
Lucky for us, vegan, dairy-free cheeses have come a long way! Even in the past couple of years, so many new vegan cheeses have hit the market. Brands like Follow Your Heart, Field Roast Chao Slices, Tofutti, Dr. Cow, Daiya, Treeline, Miyoko's Kitchen artisan cheese, nut-based Cheezehound cheeses, Kite Hill, and Heidi How (to name just a few) are making a huge splash in the marketplace and gaining more widespread distribution.
Where to Buy Dairy-Free Vegan Cheeses
Online retailers, specialty health food markets and Whole Foods aren't the only places you can find them either. Target, HEB, Trader Joe's and other big mainstream stores are starting to carry these cheesy dairy alternatives. There's even a vegan cheese shop in Brooklyn, NY. Riverdel is a classic gourmet vegan cheese shop and a hot spot destination that carries many of these cheeses. They also make their own line of vegan cheeses, and offer other dairy-free, vegan eats likes soups, sandwiches and salads. Their grilled cheese sandwich is quite outrageously delicious!
Vegan Cheeses Galore!
There's pretty much a dairy-free cheese to satisfy any cheese craving. Vegan cheeses cover the gamut. There's parmesan-style, hard cheeses, soft cheeses, vegan cream cheeses, ricotta-style, nacho cheesy dips, cheese slices and shredded cheeses. Miyoko's Kitchen, Vtopian and Cheezehound make artisan cheeses – think brie and camembert. And guess what, these aren't frankenfoods. The ingredients are not mysterious or highly processed. While some are more wholesome than others, they are all free of the harmful animal fats and animal protein (casein/whey) found in dairy cheeses.
Some of my favorites include Follow Your Heart Smoked Gouda Slices and Parmesan-Style Cheeses and Field Roast Chao Original Vegan Slices. These two in particular have been omnivore approved and even celebrated as unrecognizably vegan. They are right on par with, or dare I say better than, their dairy versions.
With these products, you have every cheesy texture and taste to enjoy straight up or use them to make a plethora of foods. Mac n' cheese and pizza are only the tip of the iceberg. One of my favorite ways to enjoy the melting cheeses like Daiya Pepper-Jack Style Shreds is just fried up in a pan. The cheese melts and gets crispy – so yummy!
Awesome Vegan Cheeses
What are your favorite dairy-free vegan cheeses? Please feel free to drop a comment below. Love to hear from you!

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Surrendered is a southern gospel trio based out of Gadsden, AL and began singing regionally in 2015. Current group members are
Russell Wise, Tiffany Hamilton and Jesse Fuson.
Surrendered started touring nationally in 2016 after gaining notoriety for their first top 40 hit, "I've Been to the Well", which stayed on the top 40 for three consecutive months. Since then, their follow up single, "You Don't Know The Half Of It", was also a charting success. They followed these two songs with a rendition of "His Tomb Is Empty Now" - which is Spring of 2018 became their highest charting song on Singing News - landing at #33! Their current single - "What Kind Of a Man" debuted for SN Nov 2018 chart at #71, it is doing well on stations across the US, Scotland/UK, and Canada.
2017 Top 10 Fan Favorite New Artist (Singing News)
2017 Trio of the year (Crimson Music Awards)
2017 Social Media Ministry of the year (Crimson Music Awards)
2016 Sunrise Trio of the year (Diamond Awards)
2016 Winners of Sing Atlanta - hosted by The Nelons and Daywind Records
With heartfelt delivery and family harmony, Surrendered has fast become one of America's favorite trios. They consider it an honor to perform at some of the biggest events in southern gospel music including Singing in the Sun, Gatlinburg Gathering, National Quartet Convention, Sing Atlanta, Jubilation Atlanta, and Dollywood.


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Northeast OH – We have seen many instances where a short sale that should have been approved was denied. If your short sale realtor doesn't know what they are doing, then you might get stuck with a promissory note that you don't deserve.
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Devil's Postpile Day 1
Devil's Postpile of the San Joaquin River Day 1
After a leisurely morning at the Devil's Postpile National Monument campground with lots of coffee drinking and other such pre-expedition activities designed to stall out the inevitable and approaching high water putin, we began a solid crack of noon start.
All we really knew about the river is that you want the "perfect" water level, which according to Willie Kern is 550-650 cfs flowing into the Mammoth Pool. Rick Smith and Scott Lindgren both told us that we want a meager flow at Rainbow Falls, with the brink of the fall having water all the way across, but barely. They also said that the first rapid should look "not runnable or barely runnable" and that the river should be almost not floatable. We were facing ample flow, easy to float on and the first rapid was "Awesome".
Willie also told us we were facing a seven-mile "portage" down the river to the "slides".
We had a pleasant chat with a "bro-bra" ranger who informed us of the new "CFR", Code of Federal Regulations changes, which made it illegal to kayak in the National Monument. But he did say if he saw us the he would give us the Devil's Horns hand signal and say "awweeaayeeah". From the appearance of the volcanic rock in the riverbed and the potential for trouble with the law we elected to drive a mile downstream to the Rainbow Falls trailhead and walked a mile and half to the base of the 80-foot falls.
Earlier in the week we found a postcard of the falls that appeared to have the recommended amount of flow for the run, and the water spouting off that 80 footer that morning was certainly more than we were supposed to have in the riverbed.
Tommy and Freddy ran the first gorge we came to and then we started walking high staying out of the riverbed and on the granite bench on river right.
Right at the end of our long portage Tommy and Toby dropped in early and ran a nice double drop.
Toby paddling the Bliss-stick MAC somewhere above the first crack in the earth, Devil's Postpile
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Toby portaging after the sweet double drop.
photo by Nikki Kelly
Near the end of the day we came upon a pothole into a slide affair with a huge recirculating hole. Tommy ran it and barely made it out of the backwash.
We ran some big slides and then deicided to camp mid slide section.


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Finding New Money to Fight Poverty in Israel
In July 2014, TheMarker, Israel's daily economic newspaper published an article written by IVN's Jackie Goren. The following is a translation of the article. To read the original in Hebrew, click here.
Recently the Allalouf Committee Report was published, according to which Israel currently has one of the highest rates of poverty among the OECD member countries. The Committee proposed a series of measures to reduce the poverty rate by 40% by 2024, but the billion shekel question is, where do we get the money from?
Without detracting from the fact that dealing with poverty is the state's responsibility – it is possible to significantly increase the size of cake and bring in more money that can be invested in solving the problems that are the cause of the poverty, referred to in the report, such as affordable housing, sheltered housing and employment for disadvantaged populations (people with special needs, Haredim, Bedouin and Arab women, etc.). We do not need to reinvent the wheel. We already did this when we created the hi-tech sector in the 90's, using the smart Yozma (meaning: initiative) concept. Yozma was a government initiative in 1993 offering attractive tax incentives to foreign venture-capital investments in Israel and promising to double any investment with funds from the government. This motivated local and foreign investors to invest in the new sector, then considered risky.
This model was copied by an investment fund established in Britain at the outset of the 21st century, when the poverty levels became severe but there were insufficient funds to allocate to fight the problem. The fund was established in 2002 with an investment of 50 million pounds, of which 20 million was invested by the state. The fund focused on social business, primarily in the areas of employment, affordable housing and social bonds. Today, 12 years later, the fund has become three funds that together manage nearly half a billion pounds. Today, much of the money comes from institutional and businesses investors who firmly believe that investing in social enterprises generates both social and financial return. Israel of 2014 is Britain in 2002. There are those who are trying to solve the problem of poverty in Israel, especially in terms of employment and affordable housing.
One example is the Israel Venture Network's Tandem Fund, investing in around 25 social businesses that deal mainly in the field employment of disadvantaged populations. Such a business includes Ravtech, a sub-contracting software house that trains and employs over 30 ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students, allowing them to study Torah in the morning and work in the afternoons. We believe that businesses like Ravtech can employ thousands of Haredim over time, but first they have to prove that they can sustain themselves as a business and not just generate social impact. To date, most of our investors are philanthropists, and it is too early to show the financial return on the investments over a three-year investment period.
Government involvement in acquiring "parked funds", i.e. National Lottery funds and/or the Administrator General, would provide a safety net for business investors and would increase the amount of money to be allocated to such funds. If in Israel, as in Britain, we can prove business viability in the near future, in less than five years we could raise hundreds of millions of shekels towards reducing poverty in Israel, and this without increasing our tax payments. And not get confused, the new money does not release the state from its responsibility to reduce poverty on all levels, but only those places where you can solve the problem while generating social and financial return.


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We've got a new release from Story of the Sea, a 2CD album, half-instrumental and half-b-sides/alternate versions of their songs. Go get it.
Sally Delehant's A Real Time of It, was reviewed at Read This Awesome Book. Peter O'Leary's Luminous Epinoia was reviewed by Robert Archambeau over here and by Broc Rossell over at Colorado Review's site.
Here's a few publications by CultSoc contributors:
· Cerebus the Barbarian Messiah: Essays on the Epic Graphic Satire of Dave Sim and Gerhard, edited by Eric Hoffman
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Announcing 2013 U.S. Tour Dates For Newsted
Former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted's new metal band is called Newsted. Newsted's new metal EP is called 'Metal.' Now, Newsted are set to promote 'Metal' with a U.S. tour beginning April 19.
Newsted's upcoming series of shows are not only geared to promote the 'Metal' EP, but are also being used as "warm up club shows" before the band releases a full-length album and starts touring internationally. Throughout Newsted's upcoming dates, the band will offer the Newsted VIP Experience, which includes a ticket to a show of your choosing, a meet & greet with the group, a picture with the band, a tour t-shirt, a commemorative VIP laminate, the opportunity to have one personal item signed by Newsted, first entry into venue (where available) and lines-free merchandise shopping (where available). Packages will become available on March 27 at 10 AM local venue time. Tickets will go on sale beginning on March 29 and March 30.
During our recent interview with Jason Newsted, He talked about the challenges of beginning a tour with a new band. "I am reaching out and stepping on new ground and there's a whole lotta new stuff going on for me with this thing, man," he told us. "[There's] new roles to be played. I'm going to be the frontman. Sometimes I'm going to be playing guitar and fronting, most of the time I will be playing bass and fronting but we will switch instruments onstage and all of that crazy stuff to keep it interesting."
Newsted recently welcomed Staind guitarist Mike Mushok into the band, adding a new element to the lineup, which Jason Newsted promises is "gonna come out and kick your ass!"
Check out Newsted's full list of 2013 U.S. club tour dates below.
Newsted 2013 U.S. Tour Dates:
4/19 – Walnut Creek, Calif. @ Red House
4/23 – San Jose, Calif. @ San Jose Rock Shop
4/24 – Fresno, Calif. @ The Starline
4/26 – Sparks, Nev. @ The Alley
4/27 – Sacramento, Calif. @ Ace of Spades
5/01 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ The Roxy
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5/04 – Mesa, Ariz. @ KUPD Ufiesta / Quail Run Park
5/15 – Battle Creek, Mich. @ Planet Rock
5/17 – Pontiac, Mich. @ The Crofoot
5/18 – Chicago, Ill. @ Bottom Lounge
5/21 – New York, N.Y. @ Highline Ballroom
5/22 – Cambridge, Mass. @ The Middle East Downstairs
5/23 – Asbury Park, N.J. @ The Stone Pony


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As you can see I did some paper quilling for the snowman, I love the quilled look on cards and will be using it more often LOL now that I know that it's not hard! Lesson learned on thinking something is to hard without trying it first LOL so I am going to try new things more often!


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When Twitter's IPO launches and its stock becomes publicly traded in a few months, the offering will create several instant millionaires. CEO Dick Costolo, who provided $25,000 in early investment money, has a stake worth about $10 million, according to The New York Times.
But the Times also found a couple of workers from the early days of Twitter who didn't get any stock. One was Dom Sagolla, the former head of quality at Odeo from 205 through 2006. Odeo was the forerunner company to Twitter. He told the Times:
"To see it come to life and have it taken away, I was devastated," said Dom Sagolla, an early employee of Twitter who was laid off in May 2006 and never received stock. While Mr. Sagolla has made some money by proxy from Twitter — he wrote a book that tells newcomers how to use the service and is doing some paid public speaking — he does not stand to benefit as Twitter heads to Wall Street.
Another was Florian Weber, a German programmer contractor. Weber was a lead developer at both Odeo and Twitter. The Times says:
And then there were those who never got any stock at all, like Florian Weber, one of the earliest programmers at the company. He worked on the project before it was even fully separate from Odeo, the now-defunct company where it was hatched.
Mr. Weber, a German citizen, said he was hired as a contractor, not an employee, so he never received any stock options.
"Coming from Germany, it's not something that I pushed terribly hard for," said Mr. Weber, who often worked remotely from Hamburg and eventually tired of telecommuting.
"As far as I know, I'm the only one who does not have stock options," he said. But he has no regrets. He eventually started his own company, Amen, in Germany, which was just sold to a bigger firm, Tape.tv. "I'm very happy with my life."
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SYNOPSIS: Bush is a conservative ideologue, but, hey, he'll sacrifice those principles in order to curry political favor with a special interest group
Some months ago an academic colleague — a man with strong Democratic connections — urged me to write a couple of columns praising the Bush administration. "What should I praise?" I asked.
There was a long pause — funny, isn't it, how "balance" becomes a goal in itself? — but eventually he came up with something: "How about its commitment to free trade?"
Ahem. In fact, George W. Bush has turned out to be quite protectionist. The steel tariff and the farm bill attracted the most attention, but they are part of a broader picture that includes the punitive (and almost completely unjustified) tariff on Canadian softwood lumber and the revocation of Caribbean trade privileges. When it comes to free trade, the Bush administration is all for it — unless there is some political cost, however small, to honoring its alleged principles.
Which brings me to the story that has Washington's political groupies twittering: that Esquire article in which the White House chief of staff, Andy Card, frets that with the moderating influence of Karen Hughes gone, the hard-liner Karl Rove will run the show. If the past 18 months have been what policy looks like with Mr. Rove only partly in control, one shudders to think what comes next.
For the most distinctive feature of Mr. Rove's modus operandi is not his conservatism; it's his view that the administration should do whatever gives it a political advantage. This includes, of course, exploiting the war on terrorism — something Mr. Rove has actually boasted about. But it also includes coddling special interests.
One of Bill Clinton's underappreciated virtues was his considerable idealism when it came to economic policy. The Berkeley economist Brad DeLong lauded Mr. Clinton's "record of being willing to take major political risks in order to do what he thinks is right for the country as far as international economic policy is concerned." What he had in mind was the way Mr. Clinton went out on a limb, defying the polls and reaching across party lines, to pass the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993, and the even bigger risks he took to rescue Mexico from its financial crisis in 1995. Like Mr. DeLong, I know some of the key players in both of those decisions, and I'm sure that they were taken on the merits: the Clintonites really, truly believed they were doing the right thing.
That scrupulousness continued to the end. If Bill Clinton had given the steel industry the tariffs it wanted, Al Gore would probably be living in the White House. But administration officials actually worried about the consequences — for the nation, and for the world economy — of giving in to special interests.
Mr. Rove's administration has no use for such niceties. The deals don't stop with trade and farm subsidies. As analysts at the Cato Institute point out, the Bush-Cheney energy plan may have been conservative in the sense that it was anti-environmentalist, but otherwise it was stuffed full of things free-marketeers are supposed to abhor: expanded government power to seize private land (for transmission lines), large tax incentives for energy sources that don't pay their way at market prices (nuclear power, in particular). The energy plan wasn't about principles; it was about payback.
And if the administration won't take a stand on principle, who will? I was particularly struck by a story in the newspaper The Hill titled "Unions taking fresh look at G.O.P." It quoted the U.A.W. spokesman saying his union was "looking beyond party labels" to where politicians stand "on certain issues." In other words, his union will go with whoever caters to its special interests.
To some extent we've been here before. Paula Stern, the former head of the International Trade Commission, matter-of-factly describes Ronald Reagan as "the most protectionist president since Herbert Hoover," and says that he "legitimized efforts by powerful industries to use political muscle — not necessarily economic merit or legal criteria" to get what they wanted. So in a way Mr. Bush is following in Mr. Reagan's footsteps.
But it seems to me that it's worse this time — that we are witnessing a race to the bottom in interest-driven politics, taking us to depths not seen since before the New Deal. And if that Esquire story is to be believed, it's about to get even worse. Smoot-Hawley, anyone?
Originally published in The New York Times, 6.11.02


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Krop Knao is a Thai dessert, made of mung beans, sugar, coconut milk and egg yolk. In Thai, the dessert is called med kanoon, whereas the Cambodians call it krop knao. It doesn't look the best. Okay, so they look like yellow turds - sweet and sticky yellow turds. Mmm.. very appetizing. Hahaa!
This is another dish my mom makes without a recipe. When she cooks and bakes, she doesn't necessarily know the exact ingredients and measurements, but she does know how it's supposed to look and feel before/when she cooks and bakes.
The recipe is taken from Thai Sweet Taste, since my mom doesn't know how much she put. I asked my mom to look at the recipe on the blog and confirm the measurements. "I don't know. Depends on how much you want to make," she answered. I added two additional ingredients to the recipe and changed the steps up a bit because that's the way my mom did it.
For the mung bean:
450g Yellow Mung Beans
200g Sugar
400g Coconut Milk
½ Teaspoon Salt
2 Drops of Rose Extract/Water
5 Egg Yolks
For the syrup:
3 cups Sugar
2 cups Water
To prepare the mung beans, soak it in water for 2 hours. Then steam the mung beans until cooked. While the mung beans steam, boil some of the coconut milk with the sugar until it becomes as sticky and thick as liquid honey. Cool the coconut syrup for a few minutes.
Once the mung beans are cooked, mash (or blend it in a blender) and then mix them with the coconut syrup, the remaining coconut milk, salt, and rose extract. If you like the mung beans smoother, mash it more. You can add more or less drops of rose extract, depending on how fragrant you like it. Same thing applies to sugar. If you like it a bit sweeter, or less, just adjust the amount – but remember, this is a dessert.
Separate the egg yolks from the egg whites and scramble it. Set the scrambled yolks aside.
Prepare the syrup by simmering the sugar and water in a deep pot on medium-high heat until its consistency is a bit thicker than syrup. My mom says that she tests the syrup by adding a drop of yolk. If the drop of yolk spreads out and doesn't cook quick enough, then the syrup is not thick and/or hot enough.
You're ready to start dipping and cooking the mung bean pellets when the drop of yolk holds it's shape and cooks.
While the syrup gently simmers to the right consistency, you can form the mung beans into small pellets. Then when the syrup is ready, take the mung bean pellets, dip it in the egg yolk and then drop them into the simmering syrup. They should float up pretty quickly. Once the yolk-dipped mung bean pellets start floating, give it an extra 30 seconds before taking them out. You can serve them right away or throw them in the fridge to enjoy later.
Sometimes my mom takes some syrup and mixes it with a few drops of rose extract/water, then pours some of the rose scented syrup onto the cooked pellets.


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Simon Dumont came out big looking to make an answering statement after Justin Dorey posted a 91.25 in his first run to take the lead in the Men's Ski Superpipe Finals today at the Winter Dew Tour's Nike 6.0 Open in Breckenridge. Dumont nailed a double cork 1260 on his first hit and followed it up with a sick run including a super stylish double flip before crashing on his final hit for a disappointing score of 56.25.
Welcome to the third season of the Winter Dew Tour, where landing two doubles in a run can still leave a guy near the bottom of the pack. Dumont was visibly flustered after the fall but was determined not to become his own worst enemy.
"I just felt like I'd worked really hard for this one and thought I could win it, so I went back up to the top, regrouped, and put it down when I needed to," Dumont says. He's resolved to carry the trend into 2011, calling his shots with a bold New Year's resolution: "I'm looking forward to dominating the halfpipe scene all year and staying consistently on the podium."
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He'll have his work cut out for him.
"I went to New Zealand for four weeks this summer and I've never learned so much so quickly," Dorey says. "All Fall I've been planning runs and getting ready, so there's a lot that went into this week before it even got started, and I've still got four different new doubles I learned in New Zealand and will be breaking out this season. My main goal for this season is to be consistent and stay on the podium, so I'm happy with today's finish and I'm stoked on my run."
Start brushing up on your French as the Dew Tour heads to Killington, VT next month: Kevin Rolland (La Plagne, France) won Prelims this week and landed on the Finals podium in third place, just ahead of his fellow countryman Thomas Krief (Alphe D'huez, France), and says he's looking forward to making an even bigger mark as the tour progresses.
And, in one of the biggest underdog stories in Dew Tour history, 15 year-old Gatorade Free Flow Tour winner Torin Yater-Wallace from Basalt, CO finished in 5th place, proving that the next generation of freeskiers has already arrived.
"It was crazy to be in the Finals competing with all the biggest names in freeskiing," says Yater-Wallace. "I couldn't be more stoked on how I came out. Top 5 is great for me! It's better than I ever dared to dream this would turn out."
Canadian skier Dania Assaly dominated the first-ever Winter Dew Tour Women's Ski Superpipe competition, winning Prelims then blasting to the top of the podium in Finals ahead of Mirjam Jaeger and Jessica Cumming.
Dania Assaly
Cumming led the pack after the first of two runs, posting a 79.50 on the scoreboard. Jaeger improved her score from 71.75 to 83.00 in the second run to take the lead, leaving it down to the wire for Assaly, who nailed a 900, back-to-back 540s, and a 720.
"I'm still in shock," Assaly says. "All my friends were at the bottom and it was so fun when that score came up. I just started dancing around. It's so huge for girls right now and it's great to see everybody stepping up. To be in the Dew Tour, be in the X Games, and maybe have this all heading in to the Olympics is very exciting. The progression in just the last year has been huge and it's been really great to see all these new opportunities opening up for us."
The women's competition, new this year, will continue at the Toyota Challenge, the final stop of the Winter Dew Tour at Snowbasin in Ogden, Utah, February 10-13.
"I'm super happy we're finally on the Dew Tour. I think women's skiing is getting better and better, and Breckenridge has been just great this week," says Jaeger. "The pipe is awesome here and I'm really looking forward to skiing again in Utah. There are so many young girls out there killing it, and I think the sport's just going to get better and better. Today there was a clear winner: Dania skied way better than everyone else and she definitely deserved to win."
Cumming says she's looking forward to 2011 and has high hopes for women's ski halfpipe becoming an Olympic sport. She thinks being included on the Dew Tour is a good start in that direction.
"It's always great to be at it in front of this kind of audience, and all the girls have brought tons of new tricks to prove we belong here," Cumming says. "The conditions were a little tough today but I think everyone skied their best and it was a great start for women's skiing on the Dew Tour."
Freeski Superpipe Final Highlights
|Simon Dumont
|Justin Dorey
|Kevin Rolland
|Thomas Krief
|Torin Yater-Wallace
|Walter Wood
|Duncan Adams
|Xavier Bertoni
|Noah Bowman
|Byron Wells
|Josiah Wells
|Mike Riddle
|Dania Assaly
|Mirjam Jaeger
|Jessica Cumming
|Anais Caradeux
|Devin Logan
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Hillary Clinton is Rocky Balboa.
That's what she said Tuesday:
"Let me tell you something, when it comes to finishing a fight, Rocky and I have a lot in common. I never quit. I never give up. And neither do the American people," Clinton said.
The "and neither do the American people" is the part I love. Whether it's a Barack Obama, John McCain or Clinton speech, a cheesy line like that always is part of the big finish.
But maybe Hillary will be like Rocky. Maybe Obama's delegate lead is just like those fake punches that Rocky endures in the early rounds of his unbelieveably exciting title fights.
Now all we need is for Obama to step up to Rocky and give the Ivan Drago statement, "I must break you."
Clinton can come back with, "Go for it."
And then the ghost of Mickey the trainer will yell, "You can't win Hillary. This guy will kill you to death in three rounds!"
Add a song like "Eye of the Tiger" and we've got Rocky VII.


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Bearded rockers also pull in The Black Keys for 15th studio effort
ZZ Top have teamed up with producer Rick Rubin, who has worked with Beastie Boys and Johnny Cash, for their first album in seven years.
The as-yet-untitled record will be the band's 15th studio album and their first since 2003's 'Mescalero'.
"He's very instrumental in striking a resonant chord," frontman Billy Gibbons told SpinnerMusic.co.uk of Rubin's involvement. "He's able to find ways to pull things out that you might not know were there in the first place."
The band have also recruited The Black Keys to play on the record, which is due out later this year.


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Catalyzing the Participation of Women-Owned Businesses in Intra-East African Community Trade Through Evidence-Based Policies and Programs. Trade and economic integration is an important component of the integration strategy of the East African Community. The Treaty for the Establishment of the EAC recognizes the importance of the effective participation of women in trade and development activities of the Community.
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|Fragment of press for making bread for Eucharist. Byzantine.
I fall on my knees in the chapel. The smoke that curls around me smells of incense and oh, so faintly of ashes. Of prayer and of destruction. The chant pours over the two of us kneeling before the altar, piles up and spills out the door like a wave, there is a moment where all is still, and song washes back in. We remain until the music is spent and I step into the clear cool air on the other side of the wall to let the embers die.
For whom shall we pray? For Mother Church. For public officials. For those who believe and those who don't. For pilgrims, return, and salvation for the dying. I kneel and I stand until I wonder if I can stand again with this weight on my shoulders, or whether like Jesus I will stumble and fall.
I watch the choir recoil at the stark news. Ecce lignum Crucis. A member has been suddenly widowed, can we lean on you? Now? Today? Behold the wood of the cross. It's 9:00 pm and part of me is in an office outside a hospital waiting room 30 years and 3000 feet away, as a nurse offers to call someone for me. All I can see are her hands, poised over the dial.
A psalm in the darkness, I can see nothing beyond the pool of light on the text. Have mercy on me, O God.
Black silk pants, black silk shirt. A white pall flows over the coffin. The alb slides over my head. "See in this white garment the outward sign of your Christian dignity." Water from the aspersorium splashes against my hand, and arcs overhead. Renew me.
The sacrament of salvation lies broken in my hand, and I breathe in Easter.


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September 24
F. Scott Fitzgerald
On this date in 1896, celebrated novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald was born into a Roman Catholic family in St. Paul, Minn. He was named for Francis Scott Key, a second cousin three times removed. He went to Princeton, where he cut short a lackluster record there to join the army in 1917. The second lieutenant was posted to Camp Sheridan, Ala., where he met Zelda Sayre, 18, a Southern belle from a well-to-do family. Zelda broke off their engagement over money. Fitzgerald, who briefly worked for an advertising business in New York, wrote This Side of Paradise, and began a successful career writing short stories, such as "Bernice Bobs her Hair," for the Saturday Evening Post and other periodicals. This Side of Paradise was published in 1920, when Fitzgerald was only 24. He and the book became an overnight sensation. The couple married a week later. (Zelda's Episcopalian family was unhappy about the "intermarriage." ) They had their only child, a daughter, Frances Scott "Scotty," in 1921. Fitzgerald followed his successful first novel with The Beautiful and the Damned (1922), The Great Gatsby (1925) and Tender is the Night (1934). The couple was renowned for their high-living, fast-spending, hard-drinking lifestyle. Moving to France for a time, where he wrote The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald became friends with Ernest Hemingway. Zelda had her first breakdown in 1930. From 1932 on, she spent the rest of her life as a resident or outpatient of various sanitariums, her madness taking a religious turn. His own health broken by alcoholism, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood in 1937 as a screenwriter to help subsidize the cost of Zelda's care. He met and had a love affair with columnist Sheilah Graham, and died at age 44 of a heart attack at her apartment. Her book about the relationship, Beloved Infidel, was a bestseller in 1958. D. 1940.
"But be sweet to your mother at Xmas despite her early Chaldean rune-worship which she will undoubtedly inflict on you at Xmas."
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, letter to his daughter "Scottie," 1940. Source: Who's Who in Hell edited by Warren Allen Smith.
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Trooper Seizes Nearly 100 Pounds of Marijuana
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - A South Dakota Highway Patrol trooper and his drug-sniffing dog seized nearly 100 pounds of marijuana in two unrelated traffic stops east of Box Elder.
The Rapid City Journal reports that two people from Mariposa, Calif., were arrested after the trooper discovered 57 pounds of marijuana as well as some hashish in their vehicle on Dec. 5
Three days later, the trooper stopped a couple from Milwaukee and found 41 pounds of marijuana in their van.
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Fit for Broadway (Grades K - 8)
April 30, 2019 –
Join us for an hour of dancing, jumping, twisting and bopping! Get on your way to an all around
healthier YOU in this high energy, fun-fi lled class. We jam to our favorite upbeat show tunes with
dance styles similar to hip hop, jazz, salsa and more. You are guaranteed to sweat, sweat, sweat while having fun, fun, fun!


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Stream Energy is a company that provides quality energy at a low price. The company is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and they are presently expanding their presence in the Northeastern states of the US. The company is supplying these states because of the rising demand for energy, especially during the winter months when more heat is required. The company was established by Rob Snyder and Pierre Koshajki in August 2004, and their primary objective was to bring affordable energy to all households in the United States. They initially focused on serving the state of Texas, but they were later on allowed to expand their services to other states. Delaware is the latest state to be included in the areas that they are servicing, making the local population happy. The people from Delaware are thankful to Stream Energy because of the affordable energy that they provide, comparing the prices from large corporations which they claimed to be unreliable.
Aside from expanding their presence in other states, the company is also focusing on doing philanthropic activities, being involved in a lot of relief operations for people who have been victimized by natural disasters. When Hurricane Harvey hit the eastern coast of Texas, communities built along the coast were wiped out. Cities within the state were flooded, destroying properties along the way. Stream Energy, through its philanthropic arm called Stream Cares, mobilized its rescue units, providing relief goods to the survivors and offering assistance in repairing their homes. Stream Cares also handed out cash donations to charities and institutions that are helping those who were fallen victims to Hurricane Harvey.
Most of the states that were devastated by the hurricane now lack power, and Stream Energy promised to provide them with the energy that they needed for a lower price. According to Stream Energy, they are doing their best in helping the people who experienced the wrath of the hurricane. They stated that it is embedded in the company's values to reach out during the times of disasters. Stream Energy also has employees whose properties have been destroyed by the hurricane, and they also reached out to them and provided them with assistance.


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The Courage of Faith
Feb 22, 2018
Jem Sullivan
Each Lent a thousand miracles take place across the Archdiocese of Washington. Accompanied by catechists, godparents and sponsors, hundreds of men, women and children make a life-changing decision to follow Jesus Christ as members of the Catholic Church. Cardinal Wuerl welcomes these catechumens and candidates at the annual Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion, an inspiring celebration of their call to receive the Easter sacraments.
Each one's path to the Catholic church is a uniquely personal encounter with God's grace that warms the human heart to choose friendship with God. Each faith journey is nothing short of a miracle.
Last Easter, I had the privilege of serving as sponsor to Frankie, a Yale graduate and young mother, who decided to enter the Church after years of searching for truths to live by. Her perseverance to the Easter sacraments witnessed to the courage of faith. This year, as I watched hundreds of candidates and catechumens make their way to the sanctuary of the Basilica during the Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion, I was struck by the courage implicit in every act of faith. These men and women are powerful reminders of Jesus' invitation to ongoing, daily conversion to which we are all called.
Soon after the Rite of Election I spoke with Jessie, a young mother of two. Her faith journey began as a child growing up some two blocks from the only Catholic church in the historic section of Beijing, China. Then, while living in Perugia, Italy, she was moved by the warmth and kindness of a Catholic family who invited her to Sunday Mass. Years later, those seeds of faith would be nourished by the parish community of Saint Jerome, Hyattsville, where Frank, her godparent, and a nurturing RCIA team led her to embrace the Catholic faith. "In every Catholic community I've known I always felt like I was really wanted," she said.
Then I had a chance to catch up with Laura, a Latin teacher at Georgetown Preparatory School. She shared that the school community has been, to her, a living catechesis. Laura credits her school colleagues for opening her heart and mind to faith. A turning point came while on a school trip to Rome, where she felt the presence and love of God while praying in a side chapel in Saint Peter's Basilica. Drawn to faith, particularly by those who lead by example, Laura wants to put her Catholic faith in action rooted in the grace and peace she will receive at Easter.
Catechists, godparents and sponsors play a vital role in the journeys of catechumens and candidates. Like Frank Abbey, who has served faithfully for decades as godparent, sponsor, and RCIA team member at Saint Jerome, Hyattsville. Frank is a "model parishioner," whose service touches every area of parish life – RCIA, Knights of Columbus, outreach to the homeless, men's faith sharing, bible study group, and the list goes on. A Catholic community is blessed to have dedicated, selfless parishioners like Frank, whose example encourages each of us to take our place at the table of service to others. They show us that every parish community is itself a living catechesis, and not merely the location where faith formation occurs.
We live in a time when people of faith are often misunderstood, and routinely reviled and marginalized. In many places around the world, just being a Christian qualifies one as a target of discrimination and violence, sometimes to the point of martyrdom. In this country, Christians are not being fed to the lions (at least not yet!), but the forces and values of a secular culture requires people of faith to have the courage of non-conformism.
Faith is not a one-time decision, but an ongoing and daily act of courage, hope and love. As Bishop Mario Dorsonville exhorted the catechumens and candidates at the Basilica in his homily, each one of is called to be a missionary disciple of Jesus, open to the action of the Holy Spirit in our lives and willing instruments of God's love, peace and justice in the world.
So much depends on our living witness to faith. The courage of catechumens and candidates who have chosen to walk by faith to the Easter sacraments is a miracle to inspire the rest of us in our daily Christian witness.
Jem Sullivan, Ph.D., serves as Secretary of Education for the Archdiocese of Washington.
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1st-year garden at Westside Community Center greens up
As the summer growing season comes into its own, the 74 raised beds at the Westside Community Center's garden are showing definite signs of greenery.
It's the first year for the garden, which was organized by Pikes Peak Urban Gardens (PPUG) in conjunction with the center. The raised beds filled with topsoil were created last fall as a result of a grant engineered by the center, other business donations and about 100 volunteer builders.
Each bed has since been rented for the summer, with payments covering the cost of city-provided water. Other improvements in the garden have included a fence around the garden to address security and wildlife issues.
The site is what used to be the playground area of Buena Vista Elementary (which relocated elsewhere on the Westside after 2009).
The garden's success ōis all due to people taking ownership,ö said Larry Stebbins, head of PPUG, referring to the individual plot renters. ōWe did it right, with a good partnership and use of resources, and the raised beds are as good as it gets. But they're only as good as the people using them.ö
Plot renters agree to donate 10 percent of their produce to the Care & Share food pantry.
Westside CARES, which has an emergency pantry of its own inside the Community Center, is gardening in two of the Community Center's raised beds, using them to grow food for its pantry
The nonprofit PPUG has started community gardens in different parts of the city, including the 2800 block of Pikes Peak Avenue and Vermijo Park.
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13/10/2016: Happy birthday to Enter the Farside! One year old. Blog post here about how the year has been.
If you want to read Enter the Farside without spoilers, click here to get started.
Enter the Farside is a story where humanity found a way to stare into the abyss, and the abyss predictably stared back. The world that we walk upon is no longer natural, for every fibre of existence has been tainted by this place forever afterwards. The Farside, as it's come to know, is a plane mirroring ours that is filled with raw, incomprehensible madness, one that seeps into the people and everyone's lives.
Despite this, things settle. Humanity endures as it always does, and the Farside is as much a common part of life as any other. It can never be something in the background though, for the Farside is a pervasive force. When people are born or given with powers that defy logic and eldritch creatures that slip through the cracks of reality exist, it can never truly be taken for granted.
Enter the Farside follows the story of Shaun Larson, in his late teens. After starting the first year of sixth form, Shaun is put into a position where he has to choose, making decisions that may affect him and everyone around him for the rest of his life.
He navigates a world where everyone's spark of madness shines a little brighter. But the Farside can never truly dull how noble a human's soul can be or how dark it can truly descend. A person may find themselves scarred by the Farside, but how they let those scars define them is their own choosing.
Enter the Farside is a web series released in small chapters over time. It started on on October 2015.


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It has emerged following the semi-final draw for the Lisburn Junior Invitational Shield that there could be a Lisburn team in all five finals.
Lisburn Youth are in the under-13 and under-14 draw, playing Blackstaff Youth and Tollymore Utd respectively.
Hillsborough Boys play favourites Portadown Youth in the 15s and also face a difficult task against Willowbank Youth in the 17s, where Lisburn Rangers Youth play Greenisland Boys. Lisburn Distillery Youth have a tough battle with Carrick Rangers in the under-16s.
Matches to be played on Saturday, December 5 and the full draw reads:
Under-13: Windmill v Camlough, Lisburn Youth v Blackstaff.
Under-14: TTBS v Windmill, Tollymore v Lisburn Youth.
Under-15: Ballyclare v Shankill, Portadown v Hillsborough.
Under-16: Lurgan Celtic v Donegal Celtic, Lisburn Distillery v Carrick.
Under-17: Hillsborough v Willowbank, Lisburn Rangers v Greenisland.


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A man killed in a pedestrian-versus-bicycle accident on the Santa Ana River bike trail was a Newport Harbor High School alumnus, according to classmates.
Johnathan "Johnny" Coontz, 58, died at 6:58 p.m. Friday at Western Medical Center in Santa Ana about an hour after a bicyclist hit him near where Atlanta Avenue meets the bike trail in Huntington Beach, according to the Orange County coroner's office.
More recently Coontz was homeless, and court records show several convictions for drinking in public, among other offenses.
One fellow student described Coontz as a jokester and skilled athlete who could do wheelies and other acrobatics on his Schwinn Sting-Ray in junior high.
"He seemed to make friends with everybody," said Gilbert Barnes, who now lives in San Diego. "He just had that personality."
Many classmates remembered Coontz for his surfing prowess.
His signature move was to walk the nose of an old longboard dangerously close to the rocks near the jetty in Newport Beach, striking a cheater five position before backpedaling, then dropping back into a bottom turn, former classmate David Kitchens said by phone from Henderson, Nev.
"We had a lot of good times together as kids," he said.
Coontz's athletic ability stretched to other aquatic sports.
He was on swim and water polo teams and was a lifeguard for Newport Beach, said former neighbor Gary Robertson.
"He was probably one of the most prolific surfers back in the early '70s," he said. "One of the top guys in Newport Beach."
Another former neighbor described Coontz as a blond surfer popular with girls and "Newport's answer to J. Riddle."
"He could run to the nose and hang five on take off, and crossover step back in time to make a regular bottom turn, a feat I still have yet to see from another surfer," said former Dover Shores-Westcliff area neighbor Larry Conn.
Kitchens said about 20 to 25 years ago Coontz worked as a gardener and may have lived in West Newport before he became homeless.
The last time Kitchens saw Coontz was about three years ago at Garcia Recycling in Costa Mesa, where he gave his former classmate his recyclables.
"He was always kind of marching to a different drummer," he said.
Fellow class of 1972 alumni missed him when Coontz didn't show up for their recent reunion.
"All of us are pretty upset because we just had our 40th reunion and we were looking for him to attend the reunion," said former classmate Lorie Smith Suntree.
Details for a memorial service for Coontz were unavailable as of press time.
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The Buffalo Bisons, the Blue Jays' Triple-A affiliate, shattered a number of team records on Thursday with a 27-9 blowout of the Syracuse Chiefs in Syracuse.
The 27 runs are the most in Bisons' history, breaking the old record of 25 set in 2004. They also set a club record for hits with 29.
No International League team has scored 27 runs or recorded 29 hits in more than 40 years, according to the club.
The Bisons also set modern-era team records for the largest margin of victory (18) and most runs in an inning (10).
Buffalo-native Jim Negrych became the fifth Bisons' player to hit for the cycle, while Moises Sierra registered the third six-hit performance in team history. Ryan Langerhans and Sierra each scored five runs, while Luis Jimenez put up eight RBIs.


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Kyle Bennett, a member of the 2008 U.S. Olympic BMX team, was killed in an auto accident early Sunday morning near his home just outside Houston.
Bennett, 33, died when his 2006 Toyota Tundra truck, traveling at a high rate of speed, left the road and struck a wrought-iron gate, a culvert and several trees in a residential area, according to the Montgomery County police. Bennett, who was alone in the truck and was not wearing a seatbelt, was rushing to check a break-in involving his fiancee's car (via the Montgomery County Police Reporter).
Bennett, a three-time UCI world champion and a three-time NBL champion, was inducted into the BMX Hall of Fame in June with the 2008 Olympic BMX team.
In addition to his fiancee, he is survived by a 4-year-old daughter.
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More than 100 part-time positions available; dealer training school begins Nov. 30
One of the most unique and exciting customer service jobs in Western New York - being a table games dealer - will be available for more than 100 people, as Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino will host an upcoming table games dealer job fair.
The fair takes place Thursday, Nov. 19, at the Hawk Meeting Room inside Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino. There will be three sessions of open interviews for part-time jobs: 11:30 a.m., 2:30 and 5:30 p.m.
Prospective employees are encouraged to bring copies of a resume, dress professionally and be prepared for on-the-spot interviews. Basic math tests and card handling demonstrations may also take place. No experience is necessary, but experienced dealers are welcome to attend. Successful candidates will be asked to complete a 10-week dealer training school that begins Monday, Nov. 30.
Team members of Seneca Resorts & Casinos receive generous benefits, such as access to a free team dining room and fitness center, both open 24 hours a day. The progressive company has many additional wellness initiatives, such as diabetes prevention and smoking cessation programs, as well as a health office with services offered free-of-charge and no need for co-payments or insurance. For more information about current job opportunities and to learn about career experiences with Seneca Resorts & Casinos, visit www.SenecaCasinos.com and click on "Careers."
More information is available by calling 1-877-8-SENECA (1-877-873-6322).


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How To Choose The Right Penile Extender
There are so many brands of penile extenders available, all claiming to be the one and only for you. This article helps you decide for yourself by going through what you should have in mind when buying penis enlargement extender.
It also explains why the choice is maybe not as difficult as it may seem at first. This is because the difference between the penis extender brands is not as great as you may think.
The Difference Between The Penis Extender Brands
All penis enlargement extenders work on the same principle, i.e. by applying gentle but consistent traction to the penis. The actual traction devices are therefore similar (if not the same).
There are not many manufactures of medically approved penis enlargement extenders. The actual device may therefore not only look and work similarly… it may be manufactured by the same manufacturer.
The main difference between the different penile extender brands is likely to be in the extras included with the actual penis traction device.
You can usually choice between few versions, i.e. from basic version (traction device only) to deluxe / gold / ultimate / premium versions that include various extras, like comfort kit, spare parts and even penis enlargement supplements and lotions.
Which package to go for is therefore very much up to your preferences, i.e. what do you want to have included. If you are interested in the extra items, then it is usually cheaper to buy package than buying all the items separately.
What To Have In Mind When Buying Penile Extender Device
Even though the difference between the penis extender brands is not as much as it may seem at first, there are still things you should consider before buying your penis enlargement device.
We have already seen that Penis Traction Devices work. They can enhance both penis length and penis girth.
Any man should be able to lengthen his penis by using external penis traction device. It is just how they work. If you apply continuous traction on a tissue, over time it will get longer.
Penile traction devices are classified as non-invasive low risk devices but still you don't want to take any chances. You only have one penis and it is important to you. Only use quality penile extenders, ideally they should be medically approved devices.
To evaluate the quality, look at the material used in the actual device and the sturdiness of the structure. This may seem difficult to judge when buying on-line but you should be able to enlarge the photos to have a good look (if you cannot, maybe that tells you something?).
Medically Approved
Many penis extender brands claim their traction device is medically approved but what do they mean by that?
Unfortunately, there is no one universal certificate that gives product the medically approved stamp. Meaning there can be different criteria behind the medically approved claims.
The most commonly used medically approved claims include:
- FDA Approved is the ultimate goal (quality and safety recognition) but to my knowledge there is no FDA approved penile extenders on the market
- FDA Registered is a legal requirement for company in order to be able to produce and distribute medical devices within the US
- European Union (EU) Medical Device Directive means the manufacturer has undertaken responsibility to ensure their products are always manufactured in standardized way
- CE Certified Device but all products sold within the EU and the European Economic Area must have CE labeling, certifying that they confirm with above EU manufacturing standards
- Doctor Approved is when doctor gives his / her approval or recommends certain product, putting his professional reputation on the line
- Scientific Studies are good indication of product effectiveness, though not all studies are of equal quality. But don't take the sellers word for it, look for confirmations, i.e. is there really a study, does it confirm the claims and is it for the relevant product and results
Comfort Kit
The basic versions usually include only the penis traction device, i.e. no extras. If you are serious in using traction device for penis enhancement, you need to be dedicated to your treatment. It means you have to wear the device for hours (6-8 hours) every day for few months to get the results you are looking for.
Getting comfort kit is therefore highly recommended.
Good quality penile extender is low risk device but you still need to follow the instructions carefully. Instruction manual (booklet or DVD) should always be included with your device, even if you go for the most basic version.
Warranties And Guarantees
Most of the penis extender brands offer some form of warranties and guarantees. The warranty covers the equipment itself and usually varies from 1 year to lifetime warranty on parts and labor.
While the guarantees are to encourage the buyer to try the product risk-free by offering money back guarantees, even double refund, if you are not satisfied with the results. However, conditions tend to apply, often making refund not as straightforward as it may sound at first.
Still, the warranties and guarantees do matter when comparing the different penis enlargement extenders. Just make sure you read the small print too.
Reading users reviews can be helpful when deciding which product brand to go for. The problem with on-line reviews are though how trustworthy are they?
Many writing product reviews are writing them because they are promoting the product. There is nothing wrong with that as long as that is clear to the reader (it should be obvious in the website Disclaimer). It is up to the reader to decide if he feels the reviewer is trustworthy or not in his / her approach.
The same applies about anonymous reader comments; they can be "manufactured" up to some extent. Lot of highly positive reviews only might ring some alarms, very few products are 5-stars for everyone.
But do read reviews, they can be very helpful to decide which penile extender to go for. Just read them with your sceptical glasses and common sense hat firmly on.
Finally yet importantly, it's the price. You usually have to pay more for better quality products.
Good quality medically approved extenders should be more expensive than low quality penile extenders but it is not always the case.
The price difference tends to be about what is included in the package, e.g. spare parts, comfort kit, extend of warranties and guarantees and other extras, like penis enlargement supplements, lotions, guides, etc.
Just make sure you are satisfied with the quality of the actual traction device. It is worth paying little bit more for better quality device. The optional extras are then up to your personal preferences, only the comfort kit is kind of must.
Nb. some penis extender brands offer discount codes so when comparing the prices you should deduct the discounted amount.
Quality Penile Extender Brands
The following penis extender brands are all of similar quality and all claim to be medically approved penis traction device. They are all safe (low risk devices) and easy to use. Most come in different versions, including various interesting extras. All come with good instructions and offer various warranties and guarantees.
Penis Enlargement Extenders
The following penile traction devices (in alphabetical order) can be used for penis enhancement, i.e. can improve both penis length and penis girth:
Penile Extenders For Medical Conditions
Penis traction device can also help with some medical conditions, like:
Andropeyronie (for Peyronie's disease)
Andropenis Mini (for men with micro penis)
I recommend evaluating the different penile extender brands yourself before making your mind up about which one is the right one for you. Just make sure you are comparing like to like, i.e. what is included in the package and the total cost (including shipping, deducting any offer codes).


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What: Remembering Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey: The Mothers of Modern Gynecology by Kevin Lessmiller
From: NPR – Hidden Brain Podcast
The Hidden Brain podcast has been a fascinating segment on NPR. Each story has been intruguing and thought provockind, and last week's offering did not disappoint.
There are three statues in the United States honoring Dr. James Marion Sims, a 19th-century physician dubbed the father of modern gynecology. Invisible in his shadow are the enslaved women whom he experimented on. Today, they are unknown and unnamed except for three: Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey. This week, we talk with historian Vanessa Gamble and poet Bettina Judd as we grapple with the troubling history of medical experimentation on African Americans.
I have to give fair warning, that is is a frightening listen. It focuses on Dr. James Marion Sims, a man considered as the father of gynecology. But, it it is not the happy go-lucky biography you would expect. Dr. Sims' major findings are based on experiments he conducted on slaves.
This story is an excellent example of narrative voices in history. In the mainstream history and medical books Sims is lauded as a medical hero, but the voices of the women he experimented on have gone mostly unheard.
Listen to the full story below or check out the story on NPR here:
What: Banned Books Week 2016 Theme, Diversity by Dianna Dilworth
From: GalleyCat
This week it was announced that the theme for Banned Books Week" will be DIVERSITY. Banned Books Week is held every year and encourages readers to fight against censorship by reading books that have been banned.
According to ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom, more than half of all banned books are by authors of color or reflect issues of diversity. This year's Banned Books Week global event will celebrate banned literature and will also deal with why diverse books are disproportionately challenged.
"It's alarming to see so many diverse voices facing censorship," stated Charles Brownstein, chair of the Banned Books Week Coalition. "2016's Banned Books Week is an important moment for communities to join together in affirming the value of diverse ideas and multiple viewpoints. By shining a light on how these ideas are censored, we hope to encourage opportunities to create engagement and understanding within our communities, and to emphasize the fundamental importance of the freedom to read."
This year the week is from September 25 through October 1st 2016. The LA Times wrote a more extensive piece on the event. You can read that article here.
What: Chiwetel Ejiofor on diversity: It's good for society, good for films and good for business, too by Bob Strauss
From: DailyNews.com
The #OscarsSoWhite conversation is happening. It just is. And it needs to be an active conversation.. Movies are being whitewashed and the few films that are being released featuring diverse characters are being ignored from an awards stand point.
People can argue that movies like Furious 7 have proven diversely cast movies can be a commercial success – because duh. But there is something to be said about the awarding bodies/guilds recognizing that films with diverse casts should be awarded. This isn't an instance of these movies being poorly acted, edited or directed. Many of these films that have been given huge critical acclaim have been ignored.
The Daily News published an interview with actor Chiwetel Ejiofor this week, and Ejiofor articulates the issue perfectly:
"It's really important to carry on a really strong narrative about diversity, and how we can continue to better the societies we live in," says the British actor, whose new release features a variety of African-American, Anglo, Asian, Latino and Russian-Jewish characters. "It's good for our industry, it's good for media, it's good for the society itself if we all have a very deep and complex understanding of each other.
"I don't think there really is another opinion," adds Ejiofor, who appeared in "The Martian," "Secret in Their Eyes" and "Z for Zachariah" last year and will play the villainous Baron Mordo in Marvel's upcoming "Doctor Strange" movie. "I haven't heard the opinion that is, like, 'Oh, no, less diversity is really important.' There's no intellectual position that comes out of that that is, like, of the other persuasion. I've not heard a single person talk about that. So yeah, I think we all agree.
"Diversity is massively important, it makes for better films. I, as anybody else, have loved cinema all of my life. Yes, I also am aware that in the context of that, the majority of the stories have been from the perspective of white men. That's complicated, ultimately, because there's only so much of that information you can receive before you hunger to see a movie like 'Carol,' to understand the world from maybe somebody else's perspective. If you can see something from 'North By Northwest' to 'Back to the Future' and understand the white male perspective in all of its categories, great! But I do hunger for a different understanding of cinema, of different people's perspectives, different people's writing, diversity in the issues of the language of cinema that we all embrace.
You can read the full interview here.
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Kari Schultz on
Yay, can't wait to see the game!
Ramsey Wright on
@Wayfoward uhh...you might wanna add a chart showing current paypal amount so we can keep track of how much the stretch goals are getting close to
Dominick Tortorice on
I hope in the future of the project we can play as the 3 additional characters for the 900k mark. I would've really liked to play as Bolo :)
Jeffrey Mather on
Man that stream was so great, between hitting, the 800k goal in the last half-hour, Spanky Joe and all of the "Thans". I really hope Wayforward has a similar stream on the last day or so they are accepting paypal donations so we can make sure we hit at least a couple of the other stretch goals. Really want that VA goal,or at least the hero mode, I mean we were already a tenth of the way to hero mode at the end of the stream. Thanks for everything guys, but hopefully the best is yet to come.
Abdullah Al-Khalagi on
Can you please help us with this awesome video game...Only 3 days left...
Thank you all..
netwarrior on
Congratulations! Shantae is one of the best platformers I've seen for a long time.
Good story and great characters.
I wished that we had also reached the Hero Mode.
Would have been cool also to play with Bolo or Sky.
But maybe this will be possible to a later point.
It is a good thing that this game will be also available on PC.
Keep up the good work!
Ezhno on
Accepting donations after the pledge is over? Giving backer rewards to late donations? Using this source of income to further develop the game?
You're leaving the door wide open to be as inclusive as possible while simultaneously giving as much dedication to the product as possible. I have to say, if this is how WayForward always operates then I might have a new favorite developer.
Devin Trager on
I reaallllly hope that the 900,000 goal gets hit- It would be awesome to play as other characters!
Darby Stone on
Congratulations!! A winner is you. ^_^
Dustin Burnett on
Awesome! Congrats!
Matt Krolikowski on
@Winson Poh
Half-Genie Hero will be an HD game, so it will not be getting a 3DS version. But the 3DS will be getting its own Shantae game, Shantae and the Pirate's Curse. Perhaps leading up to its release, WayForward can remind fans that if they enjoy the game, to contribute to Paypal for Half-Genie Hero for their other consoles.
Robert Wicker on
How long will the Paypal be open? Bills look tight this month until mid-November.
DeafTard on
I hope Kickstarter goes easy on Wayforward by not taking too much money! I know that Kickstarter takes a small share of the amount from this successful kickstarter campaign. So even though we have raised over $811k dollars, I wonder how much the REAL total is after kickstarter takes their share.
Other than that, CONGRATS WAYFORWARD! Now even though we didn't reach a million dollars, we have to admit we did a damn good job since this is Wayforward FIRST Kickstarter campaign! I think this was a VERY successful kickstarter campaign because not everyone knows about Shantae and not everyone has heard of Wayforward BUT one thing for sure is that if Wayforward does another kickstarter in the future, it will be even more successful than this one!
For now, let's get working on Shantae! Let's spread the word and tell everyone to download the Shantae Game Boy Color game AND the DSiware version as well! Those two games can help new Shantae fans catch up and it will help die hard Shantae fans cope with the wait for the new Shantae games! I can't wait for the 3DS Eshop version coming this winter!
William Brown on
I can wait to get the game when it comes out. It will be the greatest thing :) Thanks WayFoward for a great series and to the donors for the support of this game.
Göran Isacson on
Congratulations to WayForward for getting even this far! While it may be a lot to hope for to raise the half a million required to nail all the stretch goals, I do nonetheless hope you'll reach as many as you can with the coming paypal donations. Looking forward to all the Shantae-goodness to come!
Adam Steen on
@Winson Poh
Actually Winson I've been crunching the numbers and if everyone below the 60 dollar mark were to up their pledge (over time if they can't afford it upfront) like you did then the total funding for 1/2 Genie Hero would be 1354609. And thats NOT including the pledges from Paypal. Hope that puts things into perspective. There is nothing to feel bad about in donating any kind of money to a kickstarter project given the risks involved. Taking that first step to even drop any small amount of money is, in and of itself, a HUGE gesture. But if people are feeling generous, now that the games funding is official and all that, consider upgrading to that tinker bat tier status and 1/2 Genie Hero will reach 1.3 mil in no time at all. ;) Just some food for thought for the community.
Winson Poh on
Can you make a Stretch Goal at $1.4 million as "Nintendo 3DS Version"?
At least get people to reach for that goal. If we can't we are not losing anything. If we do reach it, we get a Nintendo 3DS Version of this game as well as others, and you get $600,000 more funding, and it'd end up a Win/Win situation.
Felix Melendez on
Phone auto corrected name Winson.
Felix Melendez on
@Winston, I did the same but at least we were able to reach some stretch goals because truth be told, it was looking like it was barely gonna be funded with so many good projects and M#9 getting more love.
Winson Poh on
Despite raising my pledge from $35 to $60 and making me pledge more money to this than to Mighty No. 9, the fact that we couldn't get them to 1.3 million makes me feel like I've failed them.
Adam Steen on
Awesome job guys! Was wondering if it isnt too much trouble would you guys consider doing a secondary pallet swap similar to the blue genie costume for Shantae, only this time make it a Nega-Shantae pallete swap. I know there are hopes to get to the stretch goal chapter in which Nega-Shantae makes a reappearance but if we were unable to make that goal how fun would it be to have her their in spirit as an alternate costume for Shantae? ;) Good luck on the game I cant wait till next year! Gonna be hype!
Michael Heras on
It was a pleasure to help you guys out,hope to see the project become a great success,and congratulations on making it this far!
CarsonBrown on
Sweet!!! Can't wait
Sergio Silva on
It was a pleasure to help, I'm sure the game will be great :)
Lorenz Jugel on
Caketae/Shancake looked yummy. I hope you guys didn't overdo it. By the end of the stream you seemed well worn out. Take it easy this weekend, OK?
Let's hope the paypal option works out, I'd love to see more stretchgoals with that "Funded" tag.
Antonio Ortiz on
Congratulations everyone : D! And Wayforward,you truly deserve it ^^
P.S I almost cringe when I see "from the bottom..."until I reach to "heart" xdd Just kidding : p
Stuckov the Admirable on
You can help reach the other stretch goals by donating to their PayPal, that will fund the remaining stretch goals so they can be put in the game.
Stuckov the Admirable on
@Hyper Then they would have to redo the whole game. This game is for the Vita, consoles, and PC.
Hyperdimension Call on
@ Klink I only see that happening if Wayforward suddenly announces they bring this to 3DS too. Then that kind of funding may happen.
Chris Edwards on
Nevermind my previous comment.
Chris Edwards on
Is there a way for us to hear about the Paypal contributions in the coming months?
Hyperdimension Call on
@Abdullah not it isn't as of this time...
Alexandre Hong Huot Tiv on
Keeping the Paypal pledges open for a few months huh?
Actually this is great for me. That means I might be able to put in an extra pledge or two.
I pretty much murdered my wallet/credit card/finances for the month by doing multiple pledges on Mighty No 9.
Hyperdimension Call on
I can see the additional missions definitely becoming dlc but is disappointing the voice acting and animated sequences didn't make it.
Guilherme Reis Bonfim on
Hey Christie, it's very possible we'll have her playable depending on Paypal activity in the next months.
I really hope they manage to get the other stretch goals because that last chapter looks techlicious.
Christie Grahame Bryden on
sad we wont be seeing playable rootytops.
Paul Walker on
Thanks for the update. How long will the paypal store be open for? I'd be nice to get some add ons later on when I'm not so broke.
Aaron "AZYG4LYFE" Asante on
I was so worried when I came back home, checked my email that the payment failed, quickly changed credit cards, and now it's all well and good! Congrats on the milestones wayforward! Can't wait to receive the goods!
Abdullah Al-Khalagi on
Is this game coming to 3DS?


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