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		<title>Full Disclosure</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[If honesty wasn&#8217;t the best policy, I would have declared myself a pro-snowboarder hucking 1600&#8217;s long ago but fortunately for me the honesty of being your average rider has taken me a lot farther than lies could ever have.  Recently the FTC announced that &#8220;bloggers must disclose any freebies or payments they get from companies for reviewing their products&#8221; among other guidelines.  While I might not be reviewing brand new cars or cameras&#8230;I do a lot of snowboarding product reviews each season that I&#8217;ve come to realize are the bread and butter of this site. When it comes to reviews on this site, you will never see a paid review where a company pays me to have that review on here.  Every product that goes through my hands and ends up in written form is something I&#8217;m interested in and want to try (or also requested by you guys).  Receiving a free product doesn&#8217;t guarantee a review nor does it mean the review will be good&#8230;it will be honest and it&#8217;s up to that company to decide if the risk is worth it.  Fortunately for me, demo days are the days where I spent the most time reviewing products and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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