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In response to a request by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for comment, the Federal Trade Commission has urged adoption of policies to protect and empower consumers as they buy and use communications services, including telephone, cable, and Internet access services.
The FTC's comment suggests that the FCC: adopt a policy requiring advertised prices of competing communications services to reflect the price the consumer actually pays, including all taxes, fees, and associated charges; consider whether certain standardized information disclosures would help consumers understand competing offers; and adopt measures to prevent the cramming of unauthorized charges onto consumers' telephone bills.
The comment explains that the FTC received more than 37,000 consumer complaints regarding communications services during the past year. A significant number of complaints related to consumer confusion about the purchase and billing of communications services. Complaint data also indicate that consumers may fall prey to cramming. Based on complaints, the FTC's law enforcement experience, and the agency's economic and consumer disclosure research, the comment suggests policies that the FCC can adopt in three areas: advertised prices, information disclosures, and anti-cramming measures.
FTC complaint data shows that consumers complained that providers had advertised an introductory or teaser price but did not indicate the price the consumer would pay once the introductory period ended. In other instances, associated charges or preconditions to obtain an advertised price were not specified. These types of complaints suggest that consumers believe that the advertised price is the actual price they will pay when the bill arrives.
In addition, the FTC's comment explains that when price advertising fails to reveal what the consumer will actually pay, the likely effect is not only consumer confusion, but also a distortion of competition. This is especially true in situations where consumers are attempting to compare similar functional services, such as Internet service, based on whether they use wire or mobile technologies that are subject to varying levels of fees, taxes, and other charges.
The comment suggests that advertised prices should reflect how much consumers actually pay, including taxes, fees, and associated charges. If the advertised price does not include these costs the advertisement should allow consumers to obtain this information easily.
Information Disclosures
Consumers have found it increasingly hard to understand key features and costs of communications services options, often expressing surprise at charges on their bills and services they did not realize they were ordering. The FTC's comment urges the FCC to seriously consider whether standardized information disclosures would facilitate consumer understanding of competing communications services offers. The comment also suggests that if uniform disclosures are considered, it may make sense to require them at the time an offer for services is made. Making disclosures at the time the consumer accepts the contract is too late to allow meaningful price comparisons.
Anti-Cramming Measures
The FTC has protected consumers against the cramming of unauthorized charges on their telephone bills by taking aggressive law enforcement actions. Based on these actions, the FTC's comment suggests five policy changes that could eliminate cramming.
The Commission vote to file the comment with the Federal Communications Commission was 4-0. The comment was filed on October 28, 2009, in response to the FCC's Notice of Inquiry on how consumer-friendly information policies can protect and empower consumers as they purchase and use communications services.
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From one of the most watched events of the year debate number one and a brand new Rasmussen poll shows many of you can still be persuaded for either candidate.
Are considered uncommitted.
In other words you're open to changing your mind one key feature these voters don't see the election result -- Affecting their lives and any major way what about this -- -- powers Daily Beast columnist.
Fox News contributor rich Larry entered the national review -- -- Fox's contributor.
Good morning to both of you aren't so -- rich you know Chris Christie predicts a whole new race on Thursday morning as this.
Does this help -- never -- up Chris Christie -- With that that is that a game changer not on Wednesday well.
We'll see I -- one thing -- I do think in this Rasmussen poll goes to this.
That people aren't more persuade -- -- and more susceptible to argument and changing their mind.
Than we think and the Democratic Convention moved the needle.
In this race and is largely because Bill Clinton went out for 45 minutes and need the case on substance largely against Mitt Romney but he made it.
And Mitt Romney's 47%.
Remark knew the needle at least a little bit in the opposite direction.
So that's a good sign that this is still open it's still close to polls a national polls out this morning showing 4947.
Narrow lead.
For President Obama so -- needs to go out there make the case affirmatively for his program and why it is better.
Then the president's this is not just a referendum that was the Romney.
Theory going in that's proven false he needs to prove that he's a better choice the next for an -- than -- -- what about that.
Yeah -- -- -- people are definitely still persuade a ball that 15% is is it is a pretty big number though if you look at.
Undecided voters usually in most polls -- around 6% -- it's much.
Much lower but that rich is right I mean people people will pay attention to this and they -- Look for something maybe to make them change their mind for people who aren't completely thrilled about their choice which actually I think in -- bowl parties in this.
Yeah most people most people really aren't that excited about their choice but it's mostly that the independent voters that they're gonna have to focus on -- and -- and you can make the case that this debate is really for them.
The -- -- -- -- way to -- absolutely and it's.
And it's not just for that and them it's -- those that are in certain states you know it's it's great that -- we can talk about the race what's happening nationally.
But but the reality is this what matters and it's happening in battleground states and battleground states it looks like the race is moving in Obama's direction and -- now we will see.
-- whether or not that ships as a result of -- Wednesday night but -- it take you both back to an event in 2008 a lot of folks have.
Forgotten about I believe this was January during the primary battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama you remember this exchange -- Because while I was working on those streets watching those folks see their jobs shift overseas you were a corporate lawyer sitting on the border -- It was presented as though the Republicans had been standing up against the conventional wisdom with their ideas.
I'm just reacting to the fact yes they did have ideas and they -- bad idea or bad for America and I was fighting against those ideas when you were practicing law and representing.
Your contributor -- -- In his slum landlord business in inner city Chicago.
I mean talk about us down.
Yeah I loved every minute if you got that you did.
You get an exchange like -- and Wednesday night what's the likely impact.
One of these uncommitted or persuade it will voters well we don't know I mean that's what weather is weather reasons -- -- so fascinating as there are moments like that and you just don't know.
Which way it's gonna bounce and neither candidates can be totally.
Prepare for it but.
They'll both of these guys have been through an awful lot of debates in their careers they're both pretty good they'll both be well prepared.
The one thing I think that has -- Cause for optimism for Republicans usually -- -- -- the president comes out a little rusty.
That we saw that 1984 Reagan's first debate was a disaster.
George -- he Bush's first debate was a disaster I don't think of the disaster necessarily for the president but -- saw that Univision interview a week or so ago.
When your incumbent president you're not so used to being challenged as a win here you know primaries you're insulated on what color -- you're right you're right you're right you're so what do you think the the impact potential exchange like we just -- Will have on this 15% progress and.
Hit it well I -- -- is -- just depends on what it is that it.
And there was another debate moment in 2008 that that just seems that changed it -- factory a little bit murmur when Hillary was told that.
That people don't like her and she set -- you know while back hurts my feelings and it it was a very kind of like.
Bonnie and self deprecating moment combined with her crying and that it separately.
At united seemed to sort of move women voters in a way so you can't ever really now these are just you know.
There could just be some sort of moment that that -- people on a certain direction though I think the bigger issue is is Mitt Romney making people feel like.
I'm a good alternative.
To Obama you're not really that happy with -- you wouldn't just be undecided or persuade a -- you've -- -- -- with me but.
But yeah I'm safe I'm you know I'm I'm somebody who you can trust it with the future and I'm not the person that they've been telling you I am I'm not as president -- People at the audience is enormous greater than fifty million Americans will watch this.
I mean this is golden opportunity with a capital GC then -- and thank you.
Rich -- in -- hallway of those thank you.
We are your headquarters for Wednesday night.
All of it pregame post game full analysis the following morning which will be interesting too because out of -- days and it sets and a little bit self.
What have all that stuff where -- enters in 100 years well Wednesday night's big.
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Skoop LLC says its new "A Game" food powder provides micro-nutrients equal to eight servings of fruits and vegetables.
Now, food entrepreneur Greg Stroh, television wellness guy James Rouse and advertising guru Alex Bogusky have created "A Game," a 21st-century response to mom's admonishments.
The food powder is said to provide micro-nutrients equal to eight servings of fruits and vegetables. A 30-serving bag of "A Game" costs $65.
Stroh, Rouse and Bogusky are the brains behind Skoop LLC, the company they started recently to sell "A Game" products. The food powder comes in "sweetgreens" and "chocofresh" flavors.
Angel investors, including the founders, are funding the startup company for an undisclosed sum, Stroh said. Stroh founded Izze Beverage Co., which was sold to Pepsi Co. (NYSE: PEP) in 2006 for an undisclosed sum. Rouse is a naturopathic doctor who co-founded Mix1 Beverage Co. with Stroh. The protein shake drink company was sold to Hershey Co. (NYSE: HSY) in 2013. Bogusky is the former partner in Crispin, Porter + Bogusky, a national ad agency with offices in Boulder.
For a business person or for anyone who is reacts to stress by eating unhealthy food, adding a scoop of the "A Game" powder to a daily diet is a start down the path to feeling better, Stroh said. Both he and Bogusky swear by the product, the ingredients of which include Chinese herbs.
"We have good intentions, but life gets in the way," Stroh said. "I think people are sick of being lectured to. So this is hopefully a fun, easy way to get some really good nutrition."
Among a small but growing number of people in the local community, "to skoop" as a verb is quickly becoming a shorthand term for a way to feel more calm and focused during the day, Bogusky said.
"If I'm grumpy, my assistant would say, 'Did you skoop today?' Bogusky said. "You don't usually feel a difference with supplements. At least I haven't. But apparently I'm a nicer person with Skoop."
Skoop LLC workers get their product into customers' hands through social and direct marketing techniques. About 50 personal trainers, nutritionists, yoga instructors and others who work in health and fitness jobs sell the food powder, Bogusky said. It also can be purchased online at healthyskoop.com.
The unconventional sales route is expected to help the new company grow quickly, Stroh said. That's because traditional grocery store chains charge food companies "slotting fees" to stock products, meaning that companies are charged for preferred placement on grocery shelves, Stroh said. Stores also often ask startup companies for product discounts, which tend to put small companies underwater financially, Stroh said.
The unconventional marketing model works well with products that don't weigh much and are easy to ship, which makes "A Game" products a perfect candidate, Stroh said. Skoop operates out of a Boulder warehouse, he said.
The unconventional model creates more jobs, too, and distributes wealth in a different way than a company that goes through traditional grocery store retailers and distributors, Bogusky said. While some former companies have given "social selling" techniques a bad reputation in the past, Skoop is operating under a new model, he said. One of the main differences of Skoop's social selling strategy is that the company ships products directly to consumers, so sellers don't have to buy unused inventory, he said.
"People like to buy from people they know," Bogusky said.
In response, Skoop is working on building its network of salespeople, Bogusky said.
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A massive manhunt that spanned 1,000 miles ended in gunfire in the Idaho wild late Saturday afternoon -- shots that ended the life of the family friend who was suspected of abducting 16-year-old Hannah Anderson and killing her mother and brother.
The teenager was rescued near Morehead Lake, Idaho, where an FBI tactical agent killed her alleged kidnapper, James DiMaggio, around 5:20 p.m (7:20 p.m. ET), authorities said.
"It's now healing time," Brett Anderson, Hannah's father, said in a message to CNN.
Hannah Anderson had last been seen in San Diego County, California, at her cheerleading practice August 3. The bodies of her mother, Christina Anderson, and 8-year-old brother, Ethan, were found the next day about 45 miles east in DiMaggio's Boulevard house; lab tests were needed to identify the boy because his remains were so badly charred.
That horror spurred a manhunt, which turned to central Idaho after a telling tip from a horseback rider and the discovery of DiMaggio's blue Nissan Versa in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness, about 15 miles outside Cascade, Idaho.
By Saturday morning, there were more than 250 law enforcement agents on site scouring 300 square miles of rough terrain.
By late Saturday afternoon, they'd accomplished their first mission: finding DiMaggio and his alleged captive.
The pair's campsite was first spotted from the air, then law enforcement personnel moved in on the ground, said San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore. He said that there had been a "confrontation," though authorities speaking a short time later in Idaho declined to say whether there had been a shootout.
However the scene unfolded, it ended with an FBI tactical agent fatally shooting the suspected murderer and kidnapper.
"Obviously we would have liked for Mr. DiMaggio to surrender and face justice in the court of law," Gore said. "But that's not going to be the case."
Saga starts in California, ends in Idaho
The suspect's car was found after a man on horseback reported he had a brief conversation with two campers in the Idaho wilderness on Wednesday.
The horseback rider was not aware of the manhunt at the time, but he called the Amber Alert tip line after he saw a news account that night and realized the pair matched the description of DiMaggio and Hannah Anderson, according to Ada County, Idaho, sheriff's office spokeswoman Andrea Dearden.
The rider's impression was that the pair "seemed odd," though he wasn't alarmed, she said.
"They did speak and exchange pleasantries. I don't think there was a lot of information exchanged," Dearden said. "He left the conversation believing they were camping in the area."
The rider said the man and girl were on foot, hiking with camping gear, Dearden said.
DiMaggio's car was found unoccupied Friday -- hidden by brush and its license plate removed -- spurring authorities to intensify their search in that area even further.
This massive effort included law enforcement personnel from a host of federal, state and local agencies, with Dearden saying they'd "use every single resource possible." Still, despite the numbers, they faced a daunting task given the expansive, rugged nature of the area.
Ultimately, DiMaggio was spotted and killed not far from where he left his car, according to Dearden.
His alleged captive didn't appear to have suffered significant physical injuries, though she was nonetheless helicoptered from the scene to a hospital, the sheriff's spokeswoman said.
"Hannah is safe, and that was our first priority from the very beginning," Valley County, Idaho, Sheriff Patti Bolen said.
She should be reunited Sunday morning with her father in Idaho, according to Gore.
In his text to CNN, Brett Anderson admitted to feeling a range of emotions upon hearing of his daughter's rescue soon after his wife and son's death.
"I am nervous excited saddened 4 my wife and son and worried what my daughter has been through," he wrote.
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Strongsville Halloween Hullabaloo is an indoor event this year, set for 6-9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26 at the Ehrnfelt Recreation Center. Cost is $8 for ages 3 and up; $5 for kids 1-2; and free for under 1 year.
SouthPark Mall in Strongsville will have a Malloween Party and Scare Away Hunger Scavenger Hunt on Sunday, Oct. 28 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Westlake Fall Festival and Pumpkin Hunt is geared toward children ages 9 and under. It includes a pumpkin hunt, face painters, hay rides and inflatables. At the Recreation Center Park 28955 Hilliard Blvd, Westlake. Oct. 13 at 1 pm, parents must be present.
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The Massillon Zombie Walk takes place Saturday, Oct. 13 at Duncan Plaza (off of 1st Street) in Massillon. The night kicks off at 6 p.m. with a "Thriller" performance and ends with a showing of "Night of the Living Dead." We found more details on the Massillon Zombie Walk's Facebook page.
Summit County
Hale Farm and Village in Bath Township -- Harvest Festival Weekend, presented by Giant Eagle 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 13, 14, 20 and 21. Press apple cider and apple butter. Visit the barn animals and enjoy jumping into hay piles. $10 adults, $5 children.
Visit the Bath Nature Preserve from 11 to 3 p.m. on Oct. 13 for fun fall activities. Live band, corn hole tournament, hay rides, face painting and much more at this Bath Township event.
First Christian Church of Stow sells pumpkins every fall in front of the church. Sales hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays and 12:30 to 5 p.m. Sundays. Tim Neitz, who chairs both the church's board of trustees and The Pumpkin Ministry, said funds raised each October go to a variety of programs – from sending parishioners to youth camps and on U.S. mission trips to funding world outreach projects.
On Saturday, Oct. 27 from 2 to 6 p.m., stop by Falls River Square in Cuyahoga Falls for the annual Community Spooktacular. The festival includes a costume contest, face painting, a pumpkin carving contest and live entertainment. Parking and admission are free.
Lake County
Corn and Pumpkin Harvest Weekend at Lake Farm Metropark, 8800 Euclid-Chardon Rd., Kirtland. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 13 and 14. Harvest and decorate a pumpkin, make a cornhusk doll and more. Admission varies.
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Lorain County Metroparks Halloween Fair at the Carlisle Reservation is set for Fridays and Saturdays in October. Family friendly hours are 5-7 p.m., scary hours are 7-10 p.m. Check out the animated skeleton and the flying vampire bat, food, games, tractor pulled wagon rides. $2 admission, children under 3 are free.


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It is time for a Tea Party Agenda. This is an agenda that we can point to and say if you elect Tea Party Congressmen and Senators, this is what we are going to work on.
This agenda is based on ideas from Tea Party activists across the nation. The idea behind the agenda is simple. We decided that the best course would be to pick out a small number of goals that everyone would agree on. We kept in mind that the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party does not control the leadership, so the parts of the Tea Party Agenda would have to have overwhelming support.
This is a simple agenda that can be passed. That is the idea. This should be an agenda we can take to the American people and ask our Tea Party Senators, Congressmen and candidates to embrace.
It will not solve all of our problems, but it will be a start.
Final consumption sale tax.
The reason we have this federal debt is that congress buys their political power by selling us on programs we believe will benefit us. Congress is there for their personal and political power not for the benefit of America. We Americans believe we are getting something for nothing. It is a big lie and in a democracy we Americans should be smarter. It is an insult to our civilization that we have allowed this to happen. Our federal debt is a result of Americans being immature, childish and not excepting their responsibilities in a democracy. It is also irresponsible of the Tea Party to not face the reality of this.
Final consumption sales tax – only – no item or person exempt. When a family buys $100 in groceries and the clerk adds, $5 for local tax, $6 for county tax, $15 for state tax, $35 for federal tax and $45 to pay off the federal debt the s*** will come out of their heads about the cost of government. That will be the day that socialism ends and reality and solving our own problems takes over.
Then give the American people the wright to decide directly what they are willing to buy threw government. Americans will clean out waste and corruption very quickly. We will have more efficient and productive government.
This government debt has been with us though out history. No civilization has ever managed the problem. If America manages the federal debt, history will be change forever.
The 16th Amendment (for the first time in our Nation's history gave the Federal Government the authority to Put Their Hand "Directly into The Citizen's Pocket").
More than The United States Congress having the "authority & means to fund their wishes".....The Power of an "Oligarchy" was begun !
The Founders would have Never.....authorized a "direct" tax by The Federal Government (that circumvented the authority of State, County & City Governments) to "Protect" the Individual Citizen from Federal Government.
This is a "Power Issue" !
You're dead on, Ronald. This is my major concern with the federal consumption tax. That we would be allowing the door to be cracked open, allowing the devil to enter, knowing full well that the next step or steps will be to kick that door wide open and completely abuse the situation (based on the precedent that they would then have), until we've got a huge European-style VAT on everything... I don't like it. Where are the controls? The limits? The checks on it?
The federal government has proven, time and time again, that it does not and will not check itself, or stop itself from continuing to grow. That's how we got here, in the first place. Will we now give them the power to not only continue to grow (after all, we'll need a bigger bureaucracy to collect and manage all of the "new revenue", they'll argue!) but to grab more control, more authority, and eat away more of our liberty?!?
I don't like it. Not one bit.
I would add a few to your list ;
6. Require any and all bills introduced to Congress (either house) to clearly state what section and verse of the Constitution authorizes the bill's actions and HOW the Constitution does this.
7. Term Limits for Congress = 12 years per person ( in either house) for example 6 yrs as Senator + 6 years as Rep = 12 (Maxed Out) That would be 1 term as Senator and 3 terms as Rep. (or any other combination that comes to 12) .
8. A clear written understanding that "natural born citizen" does NOT mean simply born in America or "citizen". But that it means henceforth and forever what it meant when it was written which is "born to U.S. citizen parents " (and raised in the USA)..
9. Pass and adhere to a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution .
10 . Place limits on Executive Orders.
11. Pass legislation disallowing Czars appointed by a President. Require Congressional approval for any Presidential staff member with power.
You've made a great start.
Let's just add to the list ....... and I think together we can put together a pretty decent Tea Party Agenda.
While I agree with several of your listed items, #8 has been clearly defined in several SC cases, in natural law theories, and in application of practical law practice.
#10 - can we id the Constitutional section that even permits these?
#11 - czars are entirely outside of the constitutionally identifiable offices of any branch, so why not simply outlaw and deny ANY monies for these "appointments?"
Love it! Finally, a common platform of ideals that reflects our values and that we can hold up to interested candidates, and the rest of the country, to say, "this is who we are; this is what we stand for"!
EVERY ONE of these 5 simple ideals is a dead-on bullseye! They are self-evident, common sense oriented, and long overdue.
Well done, Judson. I can stand behind this. And help rally others around these, also.
That's a start we need.
We need to also focus on why we're not reaching our policy goals and what we have to do to win them. For nearly my entire life, the Republican Party has been unable to deliver the policies we need and want while the majority of our population is in general agreement with them! How can this be? I think that it's time to focus away from personalities and to focus on policy goals and results, voting only for those who deliver the results, not just the election. Winning an election only gets you the opportunity to win policy, but winning policy isn't an add-on to winning office: it's the only purpose to be in the office. If you're not charging ahead to win policy goals, you're wasting space someone else could use. You're a boat anchor or worse, an enabler for our political foes.
"Representative Government" has been perceived by politicians and many Citizens that we elected polticians to "do that which is Best for Us rather than Carrying The Message of Our Desires to the decision makers" !
Once we "elect" them...Our part is over !
9-9-9 IS Not a reasonable plan At ALL. No plan that includes a National sales Tax should ever be considered.
You've never studied the Fair Tax.That is the only conclusion one can come to with a statement like yours. Please choose not to be ignorant.
Please choose not to be so arrogant and divisive.
As a PS, who exactly are the "leadership"? I mean, what are their names (other than Boehner, Cantor, McConnell, Priebus and etc.)?
Our organization as I understand it makes very little sense to me. In the first place, why should leadership be simply people who have won election? Without the party, they wouldn't be elected, so why by dint of one battle should they suddenly be "leaders" of that party, especially in terms of policy and policy goals? It's all too ad hoc , subjective and uncoordinated -- not to mention, if results matter, historically ineffective in terms of winning policy. I'd far rather see the party leadership -- not elected -- determine who our policy front men will be, and then send them to Washington with the party banner to do the party's bidding rather than going there with their own prerogatives first and foremost in mind.
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Third candidate joins Vt adjutant general raceThe Associated Press | February 06,2013MONTPELIER Another candidate has joined the race to become the next adjutant general of the Vermont National Guard.
Retired Col. Michael J. Bullock, of Hinesburg, says he has the right background for what the job demands.
Bullock said he is a retired Special Forces, Airborne, Ranger and Basic Mountaineering Infantry officer who currently serves as a civilian senior training adviser.
He volunteered to come out of retirement in 2010 to deploy to Afghanistan, the Burlington Free Press reported. Because of that deployment, he said, he knows the challenges the Guard faces.
I know what changes need and should be made to help them, he said. I know the programs designed to assist them and how those programs can improve. I want to be their voice in Vermont and in Washington.
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Fair Season
A summer spent touring Maine's agricultural fairs reveals the state in all its wonder and weirdness.
- By: Michael Burke
Photography by Alan & Linda Eastman
A small crowd has gathered around a barn stall at the Blue Hill Fair in late August. It is the kind of gathering that pulls other people to it, everyone staring at the same thing. I stop at the fringe and peer over heads. We are all looking at a large buff cow, lying on her side, rear towards us, out of which a hoof protrudes.
Who knew there would be calf birthing at the fair, as though it were another exhibit, among the displays of chickens, rabbits, pigs, horses, oxen, steer, lambs? In another half-hour the crowd will double, and the calf will now be a hoof and a leg, and the cow will moo loudly, sometimes moan low, and we will all be moved by the sight, by the sound, by the experience of a public birth.
It's all here at the fair, everything is here at the fair! The fair is a universe, as rich as a forest in diversity, more colorful than any art museum, having the variety of an entire city.
One summer a couple of years ago I immersed myself in the Maine fair experience. I made it to almost half of them, saw things I'd never seen before, or even imagined, and wondered at many aspects of the fair, including why there is such a fascination with pulling heavy objects.
Who can resist a fair that is both "free" and in Harmony? The Harmony Free Fair is a tiny fair in a tiny town, hidden in a tiny valley where a cluster of roads come together. No signs are posted directing you to this fair, because anyone who is going to it already knows where it is. The fair experience is distilled to its essence at Harmony, which means there will be rides, a midway of games, food, live music, animal and agricultural exhibitions, a demolition derby ring, a demonstration area for traditional skills, and various types of "pulls."
I eat a hamburger made specially for me at the Patriarch Club booth, watch a blacksmith demonstration, the wood-cutting, the antique engine set-up, a horse dressage competition for youngsters dressed in their western best; watch a display of weaving, the animal "barn" (a three-walled shed with three or four cows, two calves, and a tired-looking pony), and walk up and down the "midway," which takes me but three minutes to traverse, even while strolling. I listen for a while to the local band, Miles to Go. Like most local bands, they aren't bad, as long as they stick to what they have played a hundred times before. I somehow miss the Women's Skillet Tossing contest, and the parade. I particularly regret the parade, as I would have liked to see what kind of parade could do justice to the hundred yards of Harmony.
There is nothing like fair food. Fair food is food you would never eat on your own, at any other time or in any other location. Between the grease, the fat, the meat, the reused grease, the fat, the oil, the sweets that rival the grease, fair food is an exercise in blissful mass suicide. After eating at the fair one feels that is the end of eating, that one will never take pleasure in food ever again. Until the next fair.
At the Windsor Fair, I encounter the problem of having so many choices, the choices a kind of chant.
French fries, curly fries, fried dough, fried scallops, fried chicken fingers, fried clams, clam chowder, lobster roll, ice cream, hot dogs, hamburgers, gyros, cotton candy, candy apples, roasted nuts, blooming onions, onion rings, apple crisp, baked potatoes, stuffed potatoes, Thai noodles, funnel cake, pork wings, whoopie pies, vegetable soup, baked beans, corn chowder, Italian sausage, kielbasa, falafel, lemonade, steak, kettle corn.
I settle on onion rings, Moxie, and a red hot dog.
Agricultural displays are a form of witnessing: you might not care about them, but you are obliged to visit them, to honor the labor of your fellow citizens.
Finished with my onion rings, I turn into a long shed displaying vegetables and crafts. There are quilts, garlic, green tomatoes, bonsai trees, an eclectic mix. Then I notice the ribbons, hundreds of ribbons, ribbons on every single item. I stop to look at First Place in the category of "Tomatoes, Plum" in the Windsor County Fair. The tomato is starting to slump on its plate, has sprung some cracks, and may be leaking a little juice. I'm wondering what second place looks like.
From vegetables I head to history and antique farm implements. This is always an important part of a fair, as it is the past that fairs celebrate, and only grudgingly the present. There is a barn full of farm equipment, including a thresher, a hay wagon, a one-horsepower Johnson outboard motor. All of the people in the museum are old enough to have once used the harrow, the thresher, the motor.
This past and present tension is everywhere in the fair: Are we in the past, or are we in the present? The rides are now, the fairgrounds are yesterday, the food is current, the barns are the past, and so on. Anything that smacks of the future is banished.
In North New Portland at the Lion's Club Fair, on a miserably wet Sunday, I see my first demolition derby. A heat of ten cars enters the square ring, made of concrete barriers and boulders. They form two rows of five across from each other, each row facing the outside of the ring. I couldn't understand at first why the cars were arrayed with their rears facing each other, but it quickly becomes obvious: hitting with the front end would destroy the engine, and then — tragically — one would lose the derby.
The derby begins at the shrill sound of a horn and the cars burp into action. Motors roaring, tires screaming, mud flying, they back into each other and soon smoke fills the air. The entire scene, oily smoke obscuring it, is beyond satire, too bizarre to require commentary — nothing could heighten the absurdity of people destroying automobiles for no good reason, other than the thrill. I am amazed at the sheer waste; "derby" is far too genteel a name for it. It is also great fun, to watch the cars slam and jerk around. An old sedan smashes into the side of a station wagon and the tire of the wagon falls off. It can no longer move, so the driver just sits inside and waits for the mayhem to end.
If demolition derbies are not the part of fair culture that would be most puzzling to someone from, say, Afghanistan, then truck pulling would have to be. I heard one before I ever saw one. Having just arrived at the Clinton Fair, I am assaulted by a roaring, whining, terrible sound, and I wiggle through the crowd to get to a chain-link fence where I can see as well as hear. A pickup truck, motor shrieking, front wheels in the air, and huge rear wheels spitting up dirt, is attempting to pull a bizarre machine from my left to right. The sight of the truck straining in agony at its task is weird enough, but weirder is the thing it is pulling: a long, flat vehicle, with a sort of pilot house on the back end. The vehicle is chained to the truck, which has now given up, the front wheels dropping to the ground, the engine reduced to an idle. Someone comes out and marks the spot where the strange thing has stopped. The strange thing turns out to be a pulling sled, a surprisingly complicated and sophisticated piece of machinery whose sole purpose is to be pulled in competitions by other vehicles.
Stenciled on the side of the sled is "Northern Penobscot Pullers Association," which implies that this is an official activity, sanctioned and organized. The fair's Web site says "Ear protection is Strongly Recommended for all spectators." Indeed.
There are only two types who ride the rides at fairs: small children on the miniature rides and merry-go-round, and posses of teenagers who descend in packs on the wilder ones. Oh, I suppose there is a third group, too: older people, like me, who take the Ferris wheel into the soft sky on a clear night to face the full autumn moon, feeling as though you are approaching it, rising to its level.
The rides never change, but the names are magic: Octopus, Round-up, Tempest, Aladdin, Super Slide, Sizzler, Gravitron, Mind Power, Cat House, Zippy (and also the Zipper), Haunted House, Lightning Bolt, Tiltawhirl, Thunder Bolt, Rope Ladder, 1001 Nachts ("Night," in German for some reason), Sea Dragon, Rock and Roll, Hammer, Typhoon, Flying Bob's, and for the kids, Jeep Safari, Super Slide, Churning Around, Ferris Wheel, Dragon, Dizzy Dragons (distinct from regular dragons), Train Station, and Bumper Cars. On a rainy night at the Cumberland County Fair, there is one lonely child riding on the Rock and Roll. Music blares and the ride races around and up and down, but he doesn't seem to be either rocking or rolling.
The Farmington Fair is not a fair so much as it is a meteorological marvel. Locals know to plan for fair week — "the best week for painting houses is fair week," I've been told. From the start of fair week, in flip-flops, to the end, in a sweatshirt or fleece, the weather in this mid-September stretch is the best of Maine. And somehow there is always a full moon during fair week — I don't know how this can be, but it is.
I spend many days at Farmington watching the pulling contests. This is another event that couldn't possibly occur anywhere other than at a fair. My favorite is the obstacle course to test one's "twitching" skills, that traditional art of hauling logs out of the woods using a team of horse or oxen. The contest involves pulling a log around and between cones set in a sort of figure-eight pattern. One contestant, a toddling older man named Jesse Pierce, leads two oxen that tower over him as he hobbles around the course, as though they were loyal dogs, desperate to stay close to their master.
A series of hand gestures and shouts were the ways Jesse and beasts communicated, impossible to decipher by a layman, except that you could tell love was involved. Jesse led his oxen around in smart order, speaking sharply if they headed out of line, but that was all he used for motivation. Another driver, when his team had paused between pulls in a weight-pulling contest, would suddenly run at them, roaring and waving his arms to get them moving. He was a big man, tall and powerful, but no one seemed particularly disturbed by his methods.
And then, finally, the end of the season came, as it does every year, at Fryeburg. No one calls it "the Fryeburg Fair" — it is only "Fryeburg." Fryeburg feels as though it has absorbed every other fair — it has the elements of them all, it combines them all. It is a planet, exerting gravitational force, pulling in people from all over northern New England, even people who will camp for the week in the parking lot across Route 5 from the fairgrounds.
Fryeburg has the biggest racetrack and grandstand, the largest number of animal barns and exhibition halls, the most rides, food, games, and the only marching band I've seen during fair season. The aisles for food and games are tight, and tall, with facades stretching up high, and walking this alley feels most like being in a medieval city — dirt and sawdust beneath you, a slightly crazed jumble of desperate and rowdy minstrels hounding you from all sides.
I finally engage with cows at Fryeburg. On this last weekend the judging is over, and navigating through the stalls I see ribbon after ribbon. One winner is standing out in front of a barn, being hosed off. A crowd gathers around and the cow patiently poses for picture after picture with kids who want to stand next to, but not too close to, this enormous being, as though doing so is a kind of dare.
Someone tells me there are 330 cows showing at the fair this year. They can't all be placing first, second, or third, or even tenth. What about the others, I ask one owner. "Oh, some guys'll use them in the woods, all right, and some guys, if they [the cows] don't show, they'll beef 'em."
I'm stumped by "beef 'em" but don't ask for an explanation, not wanting to appear ignorant about this technical term. It dawns on me later: "beef 'em" means to turn them into beef, of course. It seems like an unfitting end for these nurtured beasts, but with the smell of hamburgers drifting over the fair, along with lamb and chicken and fish, it is hard to argue with the order of things. The fair deals in both ends of life. I am reminded of that cow back in Blue Hill, a month before, giving birth with a crowd of witnesses.
I have had my fair season. I have ridden the rides, played the games, witnessed the vegetables and quilts. There is one more thing to do, here at my last fair. And that is to try. . . .
Fried dough. I avoided it all season, even while willing to consume falafel, hot dogs, two bites of kielbasa, fried haddock, gyros, candy apples, and other exotics.
So on the last half hour of my last day on nearly the last day of the last fair of the summer, I step up to a fried dough stand and place my order. The woman inside the trailer smiles wryly, as though she is in on the fact that this is my first time. "One dough," I say, like a veteran.
"What kind?" she asks.
Kinds? How could there be kinds of fried dough? I look more closely at the menu. I could have dough with cinnamon, with maple syrup, with powdered sugar, with stewed apples.
I take the powdered sugar. The woman hands me my dough, a big flat cylinder of hot dough, glistening from the fryer. I spoon some powdered sugar on to it and eat.
And discover a doughnut. Fried dough is a big, flat doughnut, that is all. Like many other things at the fair, fried dough is not quite what it seems — it is neither exotic nor pedestrian, neither ordinary nor unusual.
But that's okay, because it is an experience, a novelty. The fair introduces you to a country, a country that vaguely resembles the one you are a citizen of, but that you had forgotten existed; one where you might own a cow, or need to knit something, or wonder how maple syrup is made, or what an old schoolhouse in Maine looked like, or what kind of tools they used on farms back then, or what it takes to be a First Prize Tomato. Maybe you'll have a desire to see a pig, a horse straining to pull cement blocks, kids on a merry-go-round, cars smashing backwards into each other, or want to try out the stuffed-toy games you know you'll fail at, or eat the fried thing you never would otherwise eat, or watch the couples and families stroll along absorbed in their own private fair, and in the air feel fall coming and see the full moon which is always — always — there.
- By: Michael Burke


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Check the bus terminal tourist office for the best deals, cheapest fares and quality services.
Absorb Córdoba's rich history by taking one of the guided walking tours that depart at 9:30am and 11:30am Monday to Friday from Casa Cabildo. Reserve a day in advance if you want a tour in English. There are also free thematic tours on an irregular basis – ask at the tourist office to see the schedule.
Córdoba's international airport, Ingeniero Ambrosio Taravella , charges a departure tax on all international departures.
Córdoba's lovely and lively central plaza dates from 1577. Its western side is dominated by the white arcade of the restored Cabildo (colonial town-council building), completed in 1785 and containing three interior patios, as well as basement cells. All are open to the public as part of the Museo de la Ciudad , a block to the south.
Trains to Cosquín (two hours) leave from Estación Rodriguez del Busto on the northwest outskirts of town at 10:50am daily. Buses A4 and A7 from the central plaza go to the station.
Antique stores line Calle Belgrano in barrio Güemes, where there is also a feria artisanal , one of the country's best.
Offers accommodation and afternoon activities at extra cost and discounts for extended study.
A cozy little lunch spot with stools and window seating. Order at the bar.
Tango classes and milongas (tango halls) Tuesday to Saturday. The website lists times.
An upscale Spanish restaurant with the best-value set lunch in town. Going à la carte gets you all sorts of goodies, including some excellent seafood selections.
On the 3rd floor of Patio Olmos shopping center. Nonprofit student travel agency with great staff. Open to all ages and nonstudents.
Córdoba's beautiful Manzana Jesuítica (Jesuit Block), like that of Buenos Aires, is also known as the Manzana de las Luces (Block of Enlightenment), and was initially associated with the influential Jesuit order.
Extremely popular bar and dance club on La Cañada. Check it out, especially on Thursday night.
It's well worth going to a performance here, if only to see the opulence of the country's most historic theater. The theater was completed in 1891, and the floor was designed to be mechanically raised and leveled to the stage, so seats could be removed, allowing for grand parties for the aristocracy of the early 1900s.
A laid-back bar playing an eclectic range of music. Live music Thursday to Sundays and a big patio cervecero (beer garden) make this a standout.
Part of the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.
The Colegio Nacional de Monserrat dates from 1782, though the college itself was founded in 1687 and transferred after the Jesuit expulsion. Though the interior cloisters are original, the exterior was considerably modified in 1927 by restoring architect Jaime Roca, who gave the building its present baroque flare.
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Continuum Aquatics Reef Micro-Fuel Bacteria & Bacterioplankton Accelerator
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Reef Micro•Fuel
Description: Fuel for Bacteria Growth
• Safe organic carbon source for accelerated bacteria growth
• Technologically advanced, sugar and alcohol free
• Contains no gluconates or polygluconates
Reef Micro•Fuel is gentle on the system, it provides an alcohol free, non-flammable and sugar free rich carbon source for accelerated growth of bacterioplankton for food sources for corals and other invertebrates as well as for the crucial functions of nitrification, denitrification, nutrient assimilation and remineralization. Proper use of Reef Micro•Fuel will result in reduction of nitrates and phosphates to very low levels providing for a cleaner and more beautiful aquarium.
Use in Aquarium Keeping:
Reef Micro•Fuel works well, as a growth accelerator, for natural bacteria in the marine aquarium by stimulating reproduction, and particularly well with microbial cultures such as BacterGen•M or BacterGen•MD. It can be used in place of alcohol or other food sources in denitrators, as well. Continuum recommends that you consider using BacterGen•M regularly, along with the Reef Micro•Fuel to replenish and accelerate the growth and maintenance of both aerobic and anaerobic bacterial populations in your aquarium. This will reduce the levels of toxic ammonia, and nitrites, as well as phosphates and organic pollutants. BacterGen•MD is designed to be used primarily to establish and accelerate anaerobic bacterial populations in denitrators and live rock, helping to keep nitrates in check.
Shake well prior to use. Always use this product with a well functioning protein skimmer (which can be turned off, if desired, upon initial addition, but should be re-started within a few hours of addition). Monitor phosphate and nitrate test readings during use. Add the following dosages depending on type of system:
Normal Systems:
Add 1 capful (5 ml) per 50 US-gallons (200 L) of marine aquarium water daily. When phosphate and nitrate test readings are basically immeasurable, lower dosage by 50%, and adjust up or down as needed to maintain proper levels. Low Nutrient Systems: Add 1 capful (5 ml) per 100 US-gallons (200 L) of marine aquarium water daily. Measure phosphate and nitrate levels and lower addition amounts until levels begin to rise. Adjust up or down as needed to maintain proper levels.
Keep out of reach of children. Not for human consumption. If ingested drink water. If in eyes flush with water.
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The vision for Continuum Aquatics is to continue the quest of Jack Kent, long time hobbyist and aquarium products pioneer, for the most innovative and high quality aquarium products combined with excellence in customer service. Continuum products are innovative and cutting edge. Continuum manufactures nutritional supplements, vitamins and filtration media, as well as aquarium tools designed for use by the novice aquarist, and the most advanced hobbyist or maintenance company. Through Continuum, Jack has put his over 20 years of expertise in design and manufacturing of aquarium products for aquarium hobbyists and public aquariums into high quality new products that are available to and affordable by hobbyists.
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