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GSAOI OT Details
An introduction to the Gemini Observing Tool (OT) is presented elsewhere. This page provides detailed information on GSAOI component, GeMS component and GSAOI iterator.
- GSAOI Component
- GeMS AO Component
- Defining the CANOPUS AO WFS Stars and GSAOI ODGW Stars
- GSAOI Sequence Iterator
- GSAOI Offset Iterator
GSAOI Component
The GSAOI component editor is accessed by selecting the GSAOI component in the science program, and is shown in the figure below:
Selecting a filter
Choice of filter is made by clicking on the "Filter" pull down menu (i.e. the down-pointing arrows). The filter is chosen by selecting one from the list (by clicking on it). The central wavelength is given for each filter to assist with identification. You can move the vertical slider bar or click on the arrow buttons to browse the list.
Setting the position angle
The facility Cassegrain Rotator can rotate the instrument to any desired position angle (PA). By default the MASCOT automated asterism-finding algorithm (see below) will pick the PA that gives the best asterism that it can determine. To manually set the PA uncheck the "Allow Guide Search to select PA" checkbox. Then the PA (in conventional astronomical notation of degrees east of north) is set by typing in the "Pos Angle" box. The view of the science field in the position editor will reflect the selected angle. Alternatively the angle may be set or adjusted in the position editor itself by interactively rotating the science field.
Controlling the exposure
The exposure time is set by clicking in the relevant window and typing the required number of seconds. Each occurrence of the observe element will cause N exposures to be taken and coadded in the instrument control system. The value of N is set by typing an integer in the "coadds" window. The total exposure in each output image will be the exposure time multiplied by the number of coadds.
Arrays readout modes
The GSAOI arrays are read in three different modes for different kinds of observations. Select the button corresponding to the desired mode (Bright Objects, Faint Objects, or Very Faint Objects). Note that the low noise reads, the read noise, the recommended exposure time and the minimum exposure time will get updated when a different readmode is selected. Details about the read out modes can be found in the GSAOI Detector page.
GeMS AO Component
GSAOI can be used "only" with GeMS. The GeMs AO component is automatically included in the GSAOI observation element. The GeMS component editor is accessed by selecting the GeMS component in the science program.
Observers should choose the default values for "Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector" (disable), for the Astrometric Mode ("Regular). The Dichroic beamsplitter is set to 0.85 µm and should not be changed.
Defining the CANOPUS AO WFS Stars and GSAOI ODGW Stars
Important notes about ODGW
As mentioned below, the CWFS and ODGW guide stars are selected automatically in the OT. In "Auto Guide Search" mode the ODGW cannot be removed. To remove it from the target component, the "Manual GS" mode must be used (see the Guide Star search algorithm below). After the asterism is selected, the ODGW star can be removed from the target component using the "Remove selected" button (see target component section for details). The ODGW selection will be disable in a future version of the OT.
GeMS uses 1 to 3 Optical Natural Guide Stars to compensate for tip-tilt wave front sensing ( CANOPUS WFS or CWFS) and plate-scale modes variation. One of the NGS is also used to compensate for the slow variation of the sodium layer altitude (CWFS3). 1 GSAOI near-infrared On-Detector Guide Windows (ODGW) star for flexure correction (not required anymore). The CWFS stars and the ODGW stars are specified in the target component of the main observation.
Information about the base position (i.e. the science object) and guide star(s) may be edited by clicking the appropriate line in the target table and then editing the various fields through the text boxes below. Changing the type of target may be done using the pull down menu at the middle left.
Details on how to add guide stars (of any type) can be found on the guide star selection page. By default the OT will automatically select the best asterism that it can find and place it in the Auto guide group. These stars cannot be edited. Guide stars can be added by clicking the green "plus" symbol in the target table. Manually-added guide stars can be deleted by clicking the red "cross" symbol in the table target. Double-click on a deactivated (greyed-out) guide group to activate it.
In the figure below the GSAOI detector arrays are the large squares (cyan) and identified with a number (the orientation is N-up, E-left). The GSAOI base position, defined in the target component, is marked as a small yellow cross within a circle. It is located at the bottom right corner of array 4, ∼7.6" from the center of the GSAOI detector arrays. The CANOPUS Wave Front Sensor (CWFS) probes patrol field area is represented by a large red circle with a radius of 1′, centered at the GSAOI base position. Note that the red circle indicates the area where the CWFS probes can move. The probes of the CWFS1 and CWFS2 are shown as a red rectangle in the figure. The probe of CWFS3 is located under CWFS1 and CWFS2 probes and is not shown in the position editor. Up to three CWFS guide stars can be used for tip-tilt wave front sensing. Only one ODGW star has to be used to compensate possible flexure drifts between CANOPUS and GSAOI.
Guide star search algorithm
As mentioned, CWFS and ODGW guide stars are selected automatically. The asterism will update as the observation changes (e.g. rotation, position, offsets, conditions). You may manually run the selection algorithm using the "Manual GS" icon in the position editor (or using the buttons located in the target component if the position editor is not already open). in both cases, the search for the guide stars is performed using MASCOT (Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Tool) algorithm. The algorithm searches different catalogs for tip-tilt guide stars at given coordinates, compute the best tip-tilt guide star groups that will provide the best compensation (best Strehl) across the 2' CANOPUS field of view. The best asterism, based on the best average Strehl, is then selected by default. More details on the algorithm can be found in the How to find the best NGS Asterism web page. Note that in the automatic mode the select CWFS and ODGW stars cannot be disable or removed.
In manual mode, the "GeMS Guide Star Search" window is displayed (upper panel in the figure below). The user can configure the catalog, the near-infrared band and the asterism (CANOPUS and GSAOI, CANOPUS alone or GSAOI alone) by clicking on the "Catalog", "NIR" and "Asterism" pull down menus respectively (i.e. the down-pointing arrows). If required, the position angle can be adjusted (every 90 degrees) by enabling or disabling the "Allow position angle adjustments" button. When a "Query" is requested, then a list of guide star candidates inside the CANOPUS field of view is given (lower panel in the figure below). The list can be reviewed and modified.
In automatic mode the "CANOPUS (CWFS)" is the default asterism search and the "UCAC4 Catalog" is the default catalog for MASCOT. Note that the bright and faint magnitude limits for the CWFS stars are R=8.0 mag and R=15.5 mag respectively.
By pressing on the "Analyze'" button (located at lower right in the above figure) the algorithm searches for the best asterisms and returns a list of candidates sorted by the average Strehl, the average rms and the maximum and minimum Strehl (see figure below). The algorithm can handle also sub-optimal cases. For example, it can return the best two-star asterism if a three-star asterism is not available.The user can also select more than one candidate asterism. When two or more asterisms are included in the target component, they are grouped separately. To add the candidate asterisms to the GSAOI Target Component, just press the "Add" button located at lower right in the figure below. Note that the selection of the ODGW for flexure compensation is not required and can be safely removed from the GSAOI Target Component. To remove it, select the ODGW star and press the "Remove selected" button in the target component.
Visualization of the selected asterism and average Strehl
The selected asterism can be visualized in the position editor. In the figure below, the three CWFS stars and the ODGW star are marked as a small green square. The average Strehl ratio, the associated error, the minimum and maximum Strehl values, calculated using the MASCOT algorithm, and the FWHM for the selected filter and Image Quality condition are shown at the bottom of the position editor. The Strehl map is visualized in the position editor as narrow curved green/yellow lines. To visualize the Strehl map, the average Strehl ratio, the associated error, the minimum and maximum Strehl values, and the FWHM, click on the "Strehl" button located in the left panel of the position editor.
The MASCOT algorithm returns an average Strehl ratio and the FWHM for the filter defined in the GSAOI Component and for the Image Quality selected in the Observing Conditions component. To estimate the average Strehl ratio and expected FWHM using different filters (e.g. J and H) and Image Quality conditions, the users have to change the filter in the GSAOI Component and the Image Quality in the Observing Conditions component. The calculation of the average "Strehl" ratio (and the visualization of the Strehl map) is performed automatically after a new filter and a new Image Quality condition are selected. Note the Image Quality Conditions allowed are IQ=20%-ile, IQ=70%-ile or IQ=85%-ile.
Important Note: The average Strehl, the associated error and the minimum and maximum Strehl delivered by the Mascot algorithm are only indicative. The values are based on data collected during the GeMS/GSAOI commissioning (see Table 1 in the GeMS performance web page). The FWHM values provided by the OT are also indicative and based on the values listed in Table2 in the GeMS performance web page. The Strehl calculation derived by the Mascot algorithm in the OT does not take into account for example the laser guide star (LGS) photon return (this parameter varies seasonally), turbulence profile (Cn2(h)), non-common path aberrations and other AO optimization and calibration parameters. The Strehl and FWHM values returned by the OT may vary if, for example, the LGS photon return is too low or turbulence profile is dominated by high altitude turbulence.
For choosing suitable CWFS and ODGW stars consider the following:
- Only Canopus NGSs (CWFS) can be used for fast tip/tilt and plate-scale corrections.
- All observations must have from 1 to 3 CWFS guide stars for tip-tilt wave front sensing. The ODGW guide star for flexure compensation is not required.
- The CWFS guide stars must have the following limiting magnitudes: 8 mag < R < 15.5 mag.
Detailed information about the selection of GeMS guide stars and the restriction in magnitudes can be found in the GSAOI Guiding Options page.
GSAOI Iterator
The GSAOI Sequence Iterator is a member of a class of instrument iterators. Each works exactly the same way, except that different options are presented depending upon the instrument. The GSAOI iterators are required when the observation is stepping through different GSAOI components. Use this component to change the instrument configuration during the observation, for example, to repeat the same basic observation at two or more filters.
In right panel of the figure below we see a few iterator features (the left panel shows the GSAOI Science Observation).
An iteration sequence ("GSAOI Sequence" in the above image) is set by choosing "GSAOI Sequence" from the "iterator" menu. The table columns in the "GSAOI Sequence Component" are items over which to iterate (four in total). In the example given below, we are iterating over filters. Table rows correspond to iterator steps. When an observing sequence is started, all the values in a row are set at once. Since there are three GSAOI configuration steps in this example, an offset iterator is required. It would be embedded inside the GSAOI sequence iterator (see below). Then, an "observe" element would produce an observe command for each of three filter setups times the number of offsets defined in the offset iterator, using the specified integration time defined in the main GSAOI component.
Rows or columns may be added and removed at will. Rows (iteration steps) may be rearranged using the arrow buttons. Rows can be added or removed by clicking "Add Step" or "Delete Step" buttons, and columns can be deleted by clicking "Delete Item". Adding column can be done by selecting one from the "Available Items" box.
In the above figure, the iteration the table shows the observations for one of the filters. The first twenty exposures are taken with the step 1 configuration (in this case the J filter) with the telescope dithering at each exposure (p, q offsets). Note that in the first 10 exposures the telescope is dithering on-source, with all guiding loops in "guide" mode. For the next 9 exposures, the telescope is dithering "on-sky" (for sky subtraction), with all guiding loops in "freeze" mode. After step 20, the instrument is re-configured with the H filter for the next 20 offset exposures (10 on-source and 10 on-sky).
GSAOI Offset Iterator
The GSAOI Offset Iterator is a member of a offset iterator class. The offset iterator is common to all instruments and is used to define the sequence of dithers and sky offsets to be used. The offset sequence from the example given in the previous section is shown below. The offset sequence can be visualized using the position editor by clicking in the "offset" box at the Target menu. The different offset positions can be visualized in the position editor by selecting different steps in the figure below. This visualization is very useful to check if the selected guide stars are within the CANOPUS patrol field area and the GSAOI detectors during the observation. Detailed information on some of the considerations to be taken into account when setting up offset sequences with GSAOI can be found in the observing strategies page.


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Sanders will fight to keep Saturday mail
Vyto Starinskas / Staff File Photo The mail is delivered on Route 100 in Ludlow late last year.
Sen. Bernard Sanders, I-Vt., pledged to oppose the U.S. Postal Services plan to stop Saturday mail delivery.
Cutting six-day delivery is not a viable plan for the future, he said in a statement Wednesday. It will lead to a death spiral that will harm rural America while doing very little to improve the financial condition of the Postal Service.
Sanders argued that providing fewer services would drive away customers and that rural residents, businesses, senior citizens and veterans would be hurt by the change.
The Postal Service said Wednesday that it plans to cut back to five-day-a-week deliveries for everything except packages starting in August. The Postal Service, which suffered a $15.9 billion loss in the past budget year, said cutting Saturday delivery should save $2 billion annually.
Our financial condition is urgent, Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe said Wednesday.
Package delivery has increased by 14 percent since 2010, officials say, while the delivery of letters and other mail has plummeted. Email has reduced the mailing of paper letters, but online purchases have increased package shipping.
Congress has voted in the past to block the elimination of Saturday delivery, and Wednesdays announcement immediately drew protests from some lawmakers. The plan also brought vigorous objections from farmers, the letter carriers union and others.
Last year, Sanders drafted a measure reversing a 2006 requirement that the Postal Service pre-fund 75 years of retiree health benefits over a 10-year period, a requirement he said accounts for 80 percent of Postal Service debt since 2007. The House did not consider the bill, according to Sanders.
Tom Rizzo, a spokesman for the Postal Service in northern New England, said the elimination of Saturday delivery would not affect the Saturday hours at Vermont post offices. He stressed that the offices would remain open Saturdays for retail window services and picking up from rented postal boxes.
Rizzo said the need for mail carriers would be significantly reduced as a result of the change, but that any workforce reduction would happen over time, through attrition.
We are currently working to define the employee impact and will be meeting with our unions and management associations to discuss the employee impact in accordance with our collective bargaining agreements, Rizzo wrote in an email.
The Postal Service has a proven track record of working with affected employees, he said. In fact, the Postal Service has reduced over 193,000 career positions since 2006 without major layoffs.
A call to Robert Broxton, president of the National Postal Mail Handlers Union Local 301, which covers Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and most of Connecticut, was not immediately returned Wednesday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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"Strategies like that can help," she said, "Just stay persistent and consistent, and don't cut out the nutrient parts that are needed each day."
Eating For Nutrients
Berry said taking the focus off of food can help people cut back calories. She recommends thinking about food as a way to refuel your body and to notice the nutrients you are putting in it.
Rather than counting every calorie you pop into your mouth, use general rules of eating, such as controlling portion sizes and fat content.
"This helps you control calories without having to count them," she said.
She encourages people to pause and think about what they are consuming. If you make a mistake, correct it with your next meal.
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If you decide you need to lose weight, it doesn't mean you should just cut the number of calories you ingest.
"Counting calories will not necessarily solve problem," Berry said. "You have to eat the right kinds of foods."
Berry said people cutting back don't eat foods that are nutrient dense.
"If you eat all of your daily calories in sweets, you are not going to lose weight," she said. "Empty calories make your body work without providing a lot of nutrition."
Even though they may have the same calorie content, eating things high in fiber like oats is better than a bagel, because your body is getting nutrients while it is working. She recommends filling up on colorful vegetables, fruits, proteins and good fats like avocados and olive oil.
Berry said it is also important to stack your plate the correct way to control your portion size. Your plate should be half high water-content veggies and the other half should share protein and starch.
You can watch your portion size by checking the size of your palm. Berry said a serving size of protein or starch should be about that size. The veggies on your plate should be about twice that.
When you are full, Berry said to listen to your body and stop to avoid taking in excess calories.
"Most people are heads dragging bodies around," she said. "People don't pay attention to bodies and are overeating."
If you find yourself still hungry, add more veggies or drink more water.
"We can't hurt ourselves by packing ourselves with vegetables," she said.
Cole said becoming aware of what she was eating and thinking of food as fuel helped her avoid consuming so many calories. She dropped 15 pounds.
"I just have a different outlook, and food and my weight is no longer an issue in my life," she said.
Berry said once you become familiar with things like serving sizes and the right foods to eat, you will know what your body needs to stay healthy without having to do the math.


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State acquires new wildlife area
ATHENS The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife has completed its purchase of a 400-acre parcel of undisturbed wetlands and forest in Windham County called the Athens Dome, now known as the Turner Hill Wildlife Management Area.
The plateau is home to the northeastern bulrush, an endangered plant in Vermont, as well as a rich wetland environment that supports moose, bear and other animals.
The idea of preserving the area was conceived by Bob Anderson, a naturalist from Saxtons River, who started walking in the area a decade ago.
This is very special land, Anderson said. And this means it will be open to Vermonters to use forever. In this age when more and more land is being parceled and posted this is a significant step in keeping land open and accessible for everybody.
Over the years, Anderson has worked with local officials, state agencies, non-profit environmental groups and the Vermont Electric Power Company, or VELCO, to conserve the property.
The deal required the approval of the towns of Athens and Grafton as well as volunteer work by people determined to preserve the land.
VELCO got involved after the company started acquiring land as part of a major expansion, part of which required the company to preserve wetlands on another piece of land for any wetlands it damaged as part of its power line expansion.
The Athens Dome wetlands fit the bill.
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On a day where temperatures will be about 50 degrees lower than they were on this date last year, Butler County's prosecutor took action.
Prosecutor Michael Gmoser "indicted" Punxsutawney Phil for "misrepresentation of early spring, a unclassified felony."
Gmoser said that the groundhog "did purposely, and with prior calculation and design, cause the people to believe that Spring would come early."
"Contrary to the Groundhog day report, a snowstorm and record low temperatures have been and are predicted to continue for the near future," the "indictment" read.
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Worst "Jeopardy!" answer ever? Maybe.
A contestant named Joe drew a rare "Oh no" from host Alex Trebek when he answered a fairly easy hockey question with "Who is Magic Johnson?"
He was responding to this clue: "100+ assists has been accomplished only 13 times in an NHL season, 11 times by this player."
The correct answer? Wayne Gretzky.
While that may not be obvious to many, what should be obvious is that Magic Johnson had nothing to do with hockey or the NHL.
As Trebek, a Canada native, added: "We're talking about hockey, not the NBA."


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A homeless man spent the night in a southwest Florida jail after a police officer accused him of stealing by charging his cell phone at a public park.
An arrest report said a Sarasota police sergeant spotted 28-year-old Darren Kersey charging his phone Sunday evening in a public picnic shelter at Gillespie Park.
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Call it interstate bonding. Every year, nearly 25,000 people gather along the Florida-Alabama state line to throw fish at each other.
The event is called the Interstate Mullet Toss, the "mullet" in this case referring to a 1-pound dead fish as opposed to the hairstyle of the same name.
This is the 29th year the event has been held, but businesses are counting on it bringing in tourists a bit more than normal after a nearby music festival was canceled and the Blue Angels were grounded due to federal budget cuts.
"They need more things, because we're not going to have visitors if we don't have something to do," said Deidei Brown, a Pensacola, Fla., resident who was at the mullet toss.
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I happened to ask myself: What are the best documentaries about design?Here are a few that make my list. Some you'll have heard of, others I dug out of the recesses of the Internet, my DVD closet and the minds of design-interested chums who were also online. Most are readily available at Netflix and elsewhere. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
Things get rough for Jay Leno at Potawatomi Bingo Casino
The sun is six months away from setting on Jay Leno's two decades as host of "The Tonight Show," following 40 years of being in the comedy business.
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During the past few years, nothing about Summerfest has been as constant as the annual visit from country piano man Phil Vassar and the good-timing fans that his party-friendly shows draw. So, it is fitting that this year's Summerfest crowd plays a starring role in the music video for Vassar's new single, "Love is Alive." Presented as a narrative of "love in three acts," the video, directed by Steve Condon, follows a romance across the years with a midlife pit stop onstage at Vassar's shows in Chicago and Milwaukee this summer. The song is bright, catchy and uplifting.
In the video, the raucous crowd at the Briggs and Stratton Big Backyard stage cheers as Vassar looks down at his hands on the piano keyboard and sees them as a child and an old man, all in love. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
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This week's concerts
7 p.m. Saturday, Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy. $48.50 to $157 at (800) 745-3000 and ticketmaster.com. »Read Full Article
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New DVDs for release Aug. 27
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The Port Washington Maritime Heritage Festival has music (headliners include the Finn MacCools at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Naima Adepapo at 7:45 p.m. Saturday, and SaddleBrook at 3 and 4:30 p.m. Sunday), food and lots and lots of boats — as well as ticketed (read: you have to pay) tours of the city's harbor. »Read Full Article
Milwaukee movies off the grid
'Plan 9' lands at midnight
Ed Wood Jr.'s worst-movie-ever opus "Plan 9 From Outer Space" crashes midnight Friday at the Times Theater, 5906 W. Vliet St. »Read Full Article
New Cafe La Paloma serving Mexican fare in Walker's Point
A new Mexican restaurant is open in Walker's Point: Cafe La Paloma debuted last week at 606 S. 5th St.
Milwaukee artist Jose Chavez is the owner. His own artwork and works from his collection decorate the restaurant, he said, and one wall is dedicated to the Day of the Dead. »Read Full Blog Post
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Sandra Wilson's bunny ears blink in frenetic fashion, and the glow-in-the-dark whistle hanging from her neck sways as she steps to "The Electric Slide."
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'World's End' is hearty comedy about friendship and robots
If someone turned "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall" into a movie, it might look like "The World's End."
If you added killer robots. »Read Full Article
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Life happens in slow motion. And the moments that change our lives only become obvious in retrospect.
What happens to two teenagers in "The Spectacular Now" is a victimless crime. »Read Full Article
Northless frontman channels negativity
With an album title like "World Keeps Sinking," you kind of know where the 7-year-old sludge metal band Northless is coming from.
"I have a negative view when it comes to life," singer, songwriter, guitarist and band founder Erik Stenglein told me recently at Hi-Fi Cafe, a perspective informed in part by some of what he's seen as a social worker for about a decade. »Read Full Article
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As the blackout of Journal Broadcast Group stations on Time Warner Cable enters its 28th day, the cable service took out a full-page newspaper ad listing services it would be offering customers "to make this easier on you."
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Stronger Ke$ha keeps the party going at the Rave
When Ke$ha came to the Rave's Eagles Ballroom three years ago on the heels of her vapid first single, "Tik Tok" (that's the one where she endorsed Jack Daniel's as toothpaste) "many female fans of the glittery pop starlet were locked in a figurative arms race to see who could be the drunkest, most scandalously dressed in the audience," according to a Journal Sentinel review.
But the message evidently has changed. Ke$ha's sold-out Eagles show Wednesday was about being "free," living the night as if it were "our last," celebrating "misfits" and fighting for "acceptance," we were told via recorded message at the start of an 80-minute set. »Read Full Article
Milwaukee Film Festival opening party details
The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, featured in the documentary "Brothers Hypnotic," will perform at the opening-night party of the 2013 Milwaukee Film Festival, it was announced Wednesday.
The party, which annually starts the festival off with a bang, will be held at Discovery World, 500 N. Harbor Dr. starting at 8:30 p.m. Sept. 26. The fifth annual festival runs through Oct. 10. »Read Full Blog Post
On Tap Today: Dar Williams, Shaun Jones and Tree Top Flyers all take the stage tonight
The weekend starts today at Turner Hall Ballroom with the musical styling of Dar Williams, a contemporary pop-folk singer-songwriter who has been likened to Jewel. Doors open at 7 p.m. and tickets cost about $25 bucks.
Tree Top Flyers take the stage at Mad Planet at 9 p.m. to feature songs from the band's first full-length album, "The Mountain Moves." Tickets are only $7, and The Gazettiers will open.
If comedy is your style, swing by Comedy Cafe to hear Shaun Jones perform live from 8 to 9:30 p.m. The comedian has been seen on BET's "Comic View," Starz's "1st Amendment Standup" and the 2003 film "Shade," starring Jamie Foxx and Sylvester Stallone. Tickets are normally $12 with a two-drink minimum. »Read Full Blog Post


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The Wanted, Jepsen get intimate with small but adoring crowd
Turns out the Wanted isn't so widely wanted in Milwaukee after all.
Despite the hype surrounding the British boy band, the main floor had unfilled seats and the balcony was largely empty Tuesday for the group's show at the 2,500-capacity Riverside Theater — even with "Call Me Maybe" hitmaker Carly Rae Jepsen as co-headliner. »Read Full Article(1)
Yang, Milwaukee Symphony rock house with Rachmaninoff
The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra took a walk through the musical life of Sergei Rachmaninoff Friday morning, starting with a piece written in the second decade of his life and ending with a piece written in his final years.
Music director Edo de Waart led the orchestra through the composer's 1891 "Prince Rostislav" tone poem and his Symphony No. 3, on a program that featured pianist Joyce Yang playing Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 4. »Read Full Article
First Stage clues into first official girl sleuth with 'Nancy Drew and Her Biggest Case Ever'
Before Veronica Mars, before Kate Beckett, before Olivia Benson, before Temperance Brennan, before Christine Cagney, before Ziva David and Flavia de Luce and Maisie Dobbs and Jessica Fletcher and Aimee Leduc and Kinsey Millhone and Amelia Peabody and V.I. Warshawski came a teenage girl in River Heights.
In 'Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932,' life overwhelms art
Inspired by a classic photograph, "Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932" is best when it focuses on figures in the background.
First, the photograph: Prolific novelist Francine Prose saw in an exhibit the Brassai photograph "Lesbian Couple at Le Monocle, 1932." In it, two women are sitting at a nightclub table — one of them gazing off, wearing an evening gown and a 1930s wave in her hair; the other, in a man's suit and tie, embracing her in an almost possessive fashion. »Read Full Article
Larry McMurtry's Wyatt Earp novel a takedown of Old West myths
Three years after publishing the Pulitzer-Prize winning "Lonesome Dove" (1985), a bemused Larry McMurtry wondered whether his readers had missed the point, while suggesting that many cowboys are "twisted, fascistic and dumb."
As he'd later make clear in "Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen" (1999), McMurtry intended "Lonesome Dove" as a takedown of the romanticized Western myths that exercise such a strong and detrimental influence on the American mind. »Read Full Article
Spring Literary Luncheon to feature novelist Shauna Singh Baldwin
Milwaukee novelist Shauna Singh Baldwin will be the featured speaker May 8 at the Spring Literary Luncheon, an annual fundraiser presented by the Friends of the Milwaukee Public Library.
Born in Montreal, Singh Baldwin has a significant reputation on the Canadian side of the border. Her novel "The Tiger Claw" was shortlisted in 2004 for the Giller Prize, Canada's top fiction honor. She's one of three jurors who will pick this year's Giller winner. »Read Full Article
Wild Space Dance takes its wild 'Life' indoors
Wild Space Dance Company is taking its upcoming program to the decidedly tame confines of the Stiemke Studio, to explore the wildest of all topics: life.
"'All About Life' is really big in title," explained Wild Space artistic director Debra Loewen, "but we are really going after the small things in life." »Read Full Article
Guest House's 'Wine Not' event helps open doors for less fortunate
Independence and stability. Those sound like fairly simple goals. But for the homeless and for people suffering from mental and physical challenges or substance abuse problems, achieving those goals can be monumental. But supporters of the Guest House say their organization is quietly helping the homeless and disabled reach those milestones. More than 150 of those boosters were at the Guest House's "Wine Not" event to help the homeless held March 26 at Pier Wisconsin's Pilot House.
In operation for more than 30 years on Milwaukee's near north side, Guest House hosts 86 men every night in its emergency shelter and transitional housing program and provides case management to more than 300 individuals and families living in apartments throughout the city. About 20% of its program participants are veterans. Its services include an employment readiness program, counseling services and its Cream City Gardens program, which provides homegrown produce for Guest House as well as local food pantries while providing job training in urban farming. The shelter is in the process of completing a capital campaign that will enable it to expand at its 100-year-old location, a former church. While additional beds are not part of that plan, the funds will allow Guest House to renovate its kitchen and have a dedicated space to conduct its educational programs that provide classes in areas such as financial literacy, health and wellness, life skills and responsible fatherhood. »Read Full Article
It's time for Milwaukee Art Museum to take 'Folk' art more seriously
What was it in Bessie Harvey that inspired her to look at a twig on the ground and see a person? She took something broken and dead, a root or branch that once gave life, and created "Pregnant Woman." The figure's teeth, made from rows of tiny beads, are awkward and a little fierce, and her dime-store eyes seem to follow me like the Mona Lisa.
What's most remarkable about this figure, though, is the confident, all-too-human sway that surfaces from that old stick. »Read Full Article(11)
'Plugged In' Danceworks program a blast
Perhaps it's time to change the old adage from "two many cooks spoil the broth" to "lots of cooks make a great buffet."
The Danceworks Performance Company presented an absolute feast of collaborations Thursday evening, opening "Plugged In," the final series of performances in a season of creative collaborations with a wildly creative, thoroughly entertaining evening of music and dance. »Read Full Article
Burrito Heaven opens on Greenfield in West Allis
Burrito Heaven is selling not-the-usual burritos, chimichangas and nachos in West Allis.
The counter-service restaurant with seating for 16 opened last week at 9130 W. Greenfield Ave. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
Stuff to do in Milwaukee this weekend
The Best of Brew City is your mobile guide to going out in Milwaukee. Locate events, live music, bars and restaurants near you and in Milwaukee's most popular neighborhoods. Visit bestofbrewcity.com and download the app for iOS or Android today.
It's a very beery weekend — good thing, since it's the start of Milwaukee Beer Week. (Read more at jsonline.com/beer on Best of Brew City.) Among the weekend's hops-related highlights: »Read Full Article
Schoolboy Q: What music I'm listening to
Rapper Schoolboy Q talked about his favorite artists and other topics for a 10 for Tap video interview, before his sold-out Rave show April 17. Associated Press photo by Darren Abate. »Read Full Blog Post
Miller Park food offerings go way beyond the brat
Watching the Milwaukee Brewers chew up all those opposing teams can make a baseball fan hungry, and not just for the post-season. What's good to eat at Miller Park these days, anyway?
I went concession-stand hopping at the ballpark to try some new offerings and to see how some longer-standing foodstuffs were holding up. You'll find a mix of the straightforward and the State Fair-esque to sustain you, in addition to the cheese curds, hot pretzels, peanuts, fruit cups, ice cream... »Read Full Article(15)
On Tap for Today: Brewers meet the Cubs, a guide to Miller Park food and Gallery Night & Day picks
The Brewers begin a three-game stand against the Cubs today. So you know, we've got that going on.
If you're headed out there, use this guide to Miller Park food. »Read Full Blog Post
Luke Bryan to headline Summerfest June 28
"Bro-country" poster boy Luke Bryan is bringing his kind of party to Summerfest June 28, the 10th Marcus Amphitheater headliner confirmed for this year's Big Gig.
Looked at one way, Bryan's booking is a big surprise. Looked another way, it makes perfect sense. »Read Full Article(7)


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Branding: More than a tagline and logoBy Gayle Hanson
STAFF WRITER | May 19,2013Nike has its Swoosh. Wal-Mart has its asterisk. And then theres Springfield, Vt., which has a hidden reference to the Simpsons TV show in its logo, a sly wink to the communitys being chosen as the site for the world premiere of The Simpsons animated movie.
Trip Muldrow, a principal in the South Carolina-based branding and community development firm of Arnett, Muldrow & Associates, has worked with more than a handful of Vermont towns seeking to shake up their image and boost downtown development. He said when his firm asked the Springfield community to reflect on the things that made the town unique, Some people really wanted to latch onto the Simpsons. Others not so much.
The final logo produced by the firm features the words Springfield Reinvented with golden rays streaming out of the top of Springfield and blue and green swirls below.
We chose all of the colors used in the logo to represent different aspects of the town, said Muldrow. The blue was sampled from a picture of the river. The main silver-gray color of the typeface represents machine tool colors. When it came time to reveal why we chose the color of the sun rays we just showed a picture of Homer Simpson. Its the same yellow.
Welcome to the world of municipal branding, which is just one of the tools increasingly used by Vermont downtowns in search of an understanding of how to move forward at a time when many city centers are just beginning to see a recovery from the moribund economy of the last six years.
Rutland, Springfield, Brattleboro and Waterbury are among the towns that have used the services of Arnett, Muldrow & Associates and in June the company will again return to Vermont. This time Muldrow will be one of the speakers at a state conference in Barre celebrating 15 years of the Downtown Program.
Muldrow and others will also meet with representatives from seven towns that were devastated by either the spring storm of 2011 or Tropical Storm Irene. As part of an ambitious program being run through the states Downtown Program, and funded through federal grant money received in the wake of the devastation, the communities of Barre, Waterbury, Warren, Waitsfield, Brandon, Brattleboro, and Wilmington will all have the opportunity to work with Muldrow and his colleagues, as well as architects and planners, all in the name of helping to boost their downtown recovery.
Leanne Tingay, coordinator of the Vermont Downtown Program, who will oversee the project, said not every town will necessarily do a branding exercise, Waterbury has just completed that process, but all of the towns included in the program will have the opportunity to avail themselves of the process.
I dont really want to say anything about what wed like to see come out of this, she said. Each community needs to have its own needs and what they want to do respected. My hopes and dreams are that there may be some downtown master plans that will come out of this and focus on the four pillars of downtown revitalization.
The Main Street Four-Point Approach embraces four ideas: organization, economic restructuring, design and promotion. Additionally communities seeking official downtown designation which enables them to bring tax credits, grants and services to a community towns must also be willing to embrace principles that include self-help, quality and a comprehensive approach.
When a community goes through a branding process as executed by Arnett and Muldrow, it is a three-day process of intensive meetings with everyone from town officials to longtime residents. The firm can give a town a new way of looking at itself, and if you add in additional market analysis and marketing strategies, the whole is a blueprint for potential downtown success.
Waterbury, which saw its downtown devastated by Irene, recently went through a branding and market analysis along with marketing recommendations facilitated by Arnett, Muldrow & Associates.
Jeanne Kirby, who was our longtime director, had heard them speak and was impressed by the way they were so highly collaborative, said Megan Rivera, interim director of Revitalizing Waterbury.
The Waterbury logo features the outline of the state, with rays either emanating out from Waterbury Center, or pointing toward Waterbury depending on how you look at it. The tagline: Waterbury Uncommonly Vermont.
In describing the process of the branding, Rivera said the company met with everyone from retailers to longtime residents.
What came out over and over was the food link, said Rivera. We have Ben & Jerrys, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, The Alchemist Brewery ... Hen of the Wood restaurant. This is a very alive culture.
Revitalizing Waterbury also learned from the market analysis that its a town where many people from New England and beyond pass through on their way to ski country. In fact, the old town slogan was Waterbury The Crossroads of Vermont.
The word crossroads implies that youre going through a place, said Rivera. We want people to come to Waterbury and stay for dinner.
Anyone who has driven through Barre in the past couple of years will not forget the experience, or the We Dig Barre banners that were affixed to poles throughout the city, all to keep up peoples spirits during the massive downtown renovation project that was just completed.
Now, said Dan Jones, director of the Barre Partnership, the city is ready to take the next step.
The whole We Dig Barre was huge, said Jones. I dont think a lot of people realize what it took to pull this off for two years. This was a totally local endeavor and it was meant to be something for the construction.
He added, Our mascot Digger? We used him well, and while there are a few people who would like to see him stick around, I say let him retire and go to Florida. We were always saying when the construction process is done we would be ready for the next step. So were very excited.
Rutland was the first community in the state to go through a branding process with Arnett, Muldrow & Associates. Mike Coppinger of the Downtown Rutland Partnership said the experience was an important opportunity for the community to view itself through the lens of those who came from a distance to do the work.
This is an experience that is very rich, said Coppinger. When a community goes through this process it is looking at itself and you are looking at the good, bad and ugly. Certainly people like me want to promote the positive side of things, so having people run the process who werent from here really helped the process.
Four years after the branding and marketing project began, Coppinger said Rutland is halfway through the list of applying the strategies developed in partnership with the branding and marketing mavens. He said the effect has been incredible.
Rutland has a very rich history in relation to the railroad and once being a transportation link throughout the country, he said. But once the marble and rail industry dried up, the town went through a real malaise. Now were recognizing that we have world-class mountain biking and hiking. Were connecting parks and we have a farmers market that is going 52 weeks a year. Since Rutland went through the process, downtown occupancy rates have risen from 75 percent to 90 percent.
Coppinger also said local business owners are investing in their own properties. We are getting a lot of atta boys on the street.
Montpelier has yet to go through any kind of community-branding exercise. The town fondly known as Montpeculiar has its own host of homegrown festivities that have sprung up organically and sometimes secretly.
The Valentine Phantom, who annually plasters the city with red hearts in February, operates in complete anonymity. Poem City, co-sponsored by the Kellogg-Hubbard Library, brought dozens of poets to the city in March and put hundreds of poems in downtown windows. This year Montpelier Alive launched the Montpolar Frostival, a mid-winter outdoor event that featured a road race and lots of outdoor winter activities.
Still, said Phayvanh Luekhamhan, director of Montpelier Alive, a community-branding exercise might come into play with the establishment of the new downtown improvement district. We havent talked about it internally.
Luekhamhan added that shed heard good things about the Waterbury branding process. For the time being, she said, Montpelier would be happy to be known as a small, quirky place where interesting things were always happening.
Carol Whitehall of Springfield on the Move echoed the sentiment that going through branding and a market analysis wont guarantee success.
I think that sometimes people want to believe that, if you do this one thing, it is going to answer all your needs, she said. As much as we want to believe that downtown revitalization is anything but hard work, it is hard work. But going through a process like this lights the path and keeps us thinking. Were always asking ourselves now, What can we do next?MORE IN This Just InMONTPELIER A new report from a commission that studied the cost, availability and quality of... Full StoryVermont fish hatchery changes focus, looks inland
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December 2012 is the 10th anniversary of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth's building designed by Tadao Ando. The Modern will mark the anniversary with a series of new acquisitions on view this fall, culminating in a celebration gala and dinner on December 6, 2012.
Director Marla Price comments, "These are exciting additions to the Modern's permanent collection. We are acquiring work by important new artists in several cases and increasing our holdings of works by Vernon Fisher, Dan Flavin, Howard Hodgkin, Sol LeWitt, Bruce Nauman, and Nicholas Nixon."
The city provides the context for the visually packed work of San Francisco native Barry McGee. Since the mid-1980s, when McGee was a teenager, he has lived in the city's oldest neighborhood, the Mission District. At that time, the Mission held a colorful, somewhat seedy, antiestablishment atmosphere with a thriving culture of youth, alternative musicians, artists, and thinkers. The vibe of the Mission influenced the artist early on, and he began to infiltrate the area's flourishing graffiti boom with images that he created to reflect his surroundings.


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Education taxes expected to riseBy PETER HIRSCHFELD
Vermont Press Bureau | February 17,2013MONTPELIER A perfect storm of increased spending, declining student enrollment and flagging property values could conspire over the next two years to create historic increases in the tax used to pay for public education.
The debate over taxes in Montpelier has until now focused largely on break-open tickets, gasoline, soda and health care. The arrival of projections last week detailing the tax implications of skyrocketing education costs, however, will soon steer legislators attention toward schools.
Rep. Janet Ancel, a Calais Democrat and chairwoman of the House Committee on Ways and Means, characterized as staggering the rate increases about to show up on the doorsteps of many Vermont homeowners.
Gov. Peter Shumlin on Thursday said theres nothing he can do about the looming increases. If taxpayers have grievances, he said, they should take them to their local school boards, not Montpelier.
Vermonters decide how much we spend on education every year when they go to town meeting and vote on school budgets, Shumlin said. Montpelier doesnt make those decisions.
A number of lawmakers, however, say the severity of the problem, and the speed with which its intensifying, demand intervention.
On one thing I hope we all can agree, and that is that Vermonters are not ready for this one-two punch in property taxes, said Rep. Heidi Scheuermann, a Republican from Stowe.
People need to come together now and admit there is a problem with our current funding system, she said.
Statewide education spending over the next two years is forecast to rise nearly $150 million, even as student enrollment, already on a decade-long decline, dips by another 2 percent.
The nearly 11 percent rise in spending, unveiled last week in projections tallied by fiscal analysts for the Legislature, would have a commensurate effect on statewide property tax rates. If the projections hold true, the base rate on homes would climb from 89 cents per $100 of assessed value up to $1 by fiscal year 2015.
The nonresidential rate is forecast to climb 12 cents over the same period, from $1.38 to $1.50.
Rep. David Sharpe, the ranking Democrat on Ways and Means, said that while the 5-cent rate increase for next year may be set in stone, projections for fiscal year 2015 are still highly speculative.
Those projections assume a 5 percent increase in school spending between next year and fiscal year 2015.
Education funding formulas are notoriously complex, and the statewide tax rate is one of several variables affecting homeowners bills. But it is among the most significant factors.
And it means that even taxpayers in districts that hold spending to the rate of inflation over the next two years could see a double-digit percentage increase in the real dollars paid to support public education.
One of the problems we have in this system is that the financial impacts of spending decisions are no longer felt by the people who are making them, said Rep. Adam Greshin, a Warren independent who also sits on the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Provisions like income sensitivity, many lawmakers argue, have insulated voters from the financial consequences of the budget increases they approve.
Democratic lawmakers tend to reject the notion that progressive tax policies have spawned a spendthrift electorate. Ancel said many taxed-out residents appreciate the impracticality of increased spending on a dwindling population of students. But when it comes their own districts, she said, they want the best education money can buy.
Its kind of like how people dont approve of Congress but really like their own congressperson, Ancel said. I think people are legitimately concerned about spending statewide, but they dont want their kids to go to a school that isnt of the highest quality.
Lawmakers will consider a number of changes to the property tax code this year aimed not only at curbing education spending, but changing the way Vermonters pay for it. The more consequential reforms wouldnt kick in until fiscal year 2015 the school budgeting process creates a 12-month lag in any property tax legislation.
Efforts to reduce spending could include stiffer financial penalties for higher-spending towns, the elimination of special grants for low-enrollment schools, and the continuation of the two-vote mandate, which requires a second vote for school spending above the rate of inflation (the provision is scheduled to sunset).
Other measures on tap would look to redistribute the tax burden in a way that increases the share borne by people making less than $90,000. Households in that income category pay school taxes based on their income as opposed to house value, a perk that often lowers their taxes considerably.
Legislators will also consider capping the value of homes that qualify for income sensitivity, and lowering the income threshold needed to qualify for it.
Also up for debate is the nonprofit sector, and whether buildings owned by universities, fraternal organizations or other not-for-profit groups should continue to enjoy their blanket exemption from property taxes.
Scheuermann and others will push for more systemic reforms, including the mandated consolidation of supervisory unions and an overhaul of the education funding formula.
Ancel said there are no easy solutions.
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3. Press the seams toward the outside on the top and bottom row. Press the seams toward the inside square on the middle row. This will help in matching up all those little square points.
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Sanders warns about 'chained' Consumer Price IndexJanuary 31,2013By EDWARD DONGA
WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernard Sanders on Thursday spoke out against a plan aimed at reducing the federal deficit by changing the manner in which Social Security benefits are calculated.
Sanders, an independent and founder of the Senate's Defend Social Security Caucus, was joined at a Capitol Hill news conference by Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., as well as AFL-CIO President
Richard Trumka and representatives of advocacy groups for senior citizens, women, veterans and those with disabilities..
The news conference targeted a proposal to alter how the federal Consumer Price Index is calculated. The CPI is a measurement of the average change in cost of household items, and it is used to help create cost-of-living estimates that govern benefit increases for programs such as Social Security.
But Sanders noted that some members of Congress, in an effort to reduce the federal deficit, want to adopt what has become known as a chained CPI. According to published reports, this plan was pushed, but ultimately dropped, by some Republicans during discussions last month on ways to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff.
Declared Sanders, "My Republican colleagues in Congress and some Democrats are attempting to use the deficit crisis as an excuse to cut Social Security benefits. That is wrong."
He added: "Deficit reduction is important, but it must be done in a way that is fair. We must not balance the budget on the backs of the elderly, on the backs of veterans."
Rather than simply adjusting the cost of living based on changes in the price of basic goods, as is done currently, a chained CPI would factor in the assumption that, as the price of one good increases, consumers will purchase a similar, less expensive commodity instead.
For instance, when the price of apples goes up, the current CPI accounts for the change only in the price of apples; a chained CPI would factor in an assumption that many consumers would buy oranges instead of apples if the former were less expensive.
But Sanders warned that if the government begins basing its calculations on a chained CPI, senior citizens would see a significant cut in their Social Security benefits. Veterans with disability benefits would face the same problem, said Sanders, who is chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee.
"The chained CPI for seniors who are 65 today, by the time they are 75 years of age they would lose $650 a year (in benefits)," Sander said, noting that Thursday marked the 73rd anniversary of Ida May Fuller, of Ludlow, receiving the first Social Security check ever issued.
Nancy LeaMond, executive vice president of AARP, echoed Sanders' statement.
"It has been put forward as a relatively easy, relatively harmless solution to reduce the deficit," LeaMond said of the chained CPI proposal. "However, this policy would have very negative effects on millions of seniors, retirees, working families, women, veterans and the seniors."
Sanders said 3.2 million disabled veterans in the United States would also see their benefits affected, contending that veterans who started collecting disability benefits at age 30 would see a $1,400 decrease in those benefits by age 45.
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Vermonters protest flood insurance hikes
MONTPELIER Vermonters gathered Saturday on the Statehouse lawn to bring attention to the massive increases in flood insurance premiums expected Tuesday, and to call on Congress to stop it.
Similar rallies took place in 10 other states around the country, according to Vermont organizer Chris Winters. All of them aimed to curtail the effects of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012.
The law called for changes to the National Flood Insurance Program administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Among the requirements was to raise rates to reflect true flood risk and make the program more financially stable. It also called for changes to FEMA flood maps.
Winters, who owns a home in Berlin along the Dog River, said the law is having a major, negative impact on homeowners across the country.
Its because of newly drawn maps and because of the Biggert-Waters Act of 2012 thats trying to balance the budget for FEMA, and theyre doing it on the backs of the policyholders, he said.
Winters said he became involved after learning about the laws impact on his own family from his mortgage company.
We received a letter from our mortgage holder that we have to get flood insurance a couple of months ago. As we looked into it and looked into quotes we were shocked to find our bill was going to be $8,000 a year, he said.
Now, Winters says he is trying to determine what his family will do. His home, a former sawmill built in 1848, did not flood during Tropical Storm Irene. Nonetheless, it is now considered to be in a high-risk flood zone based on new FEMA maps, Winters said.
We cant afford to move, because if we try to sell, whos going to take on an additional $8,000 yearly bill? he said. So were in a really bad spot and we still dont know what were going to do. The one thing we thought we could control is making some noise about this and letting people know.
People who already have insurance policies will also see rate hikes. Rates for existing flood insurance will see a 25 percent increase in policy costs each year until they hit the new rates standard, according to Winters. The higher rates will also kick in if a home is sold, he said.
Sen. Anthony Pollina, P/D-Washington, attended the rally to show his support for alleviating the impacts on homeowners.
Its really unfair to hit people so hard with these big increases, Pollina said. Its kind of like Congress does things without thinking about the impact on people who are already struggling.
He said there is little the state can do other than urge Congress to address the issue.
Congress did it and Congress needs to fix it, Pollina said.
Vermonts three-man congressional delegation is engaged, according to Winters. He said the delegation Sen. Patrick Leahy, Sen. Bernard Sanders and Rep. Peter Welch have written to leaders in both the House and Senate urging a delay in the rate hikes until an affordability study that was required in the law is completed.
Matching insurance rates to current flood risk is good policy, the delegation wrote in a letter dated Sept. 27. However, the new rates are hitting families and small businesses with unexpected and steep new rates. Therefore, we urge you to consider a postponement of these costly increases until FEMA can assure policyholders that the rates are fair.
Winters said he hopes Congress will address the issue in a bipartisan manner.
Theyre distracted by a whole lot of things down there, he said. A lot of gamesmanship and budget things. Its a mistake that they made and they all recognize its a mistake now. There are a lot of people behind this, both Republicans and Democrats. It was a bipartisan mistake. Id like to see them do a bipartisan fix.
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Richard Childress Racing invites everyone to RCR Fan Fest at the RCR campus in Welcome, N.C., on Thursday, Oct. 24 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. This FREE event will feature shop tours, vendor displays, autographs from RCR drivers and crew members, food and fun for all ages.
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11 a.m. - 12 p.m. - Driver Autograph Session (Kevin Harvick, Ty Dillon, Brian Scott and Dakoda Armstrong)
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