I'd like to call the meeting to order for the village of Essex Junction Planning Commission December, excuse me, 20th, 2018 on the agenda tonight. We have a public hearing for discussion of a joint town village energy plan. Before we get into that, do we have anybody that would like to disclose a conflict of interest or anything like that? Any changes or additions to the agenda? Anybody that will participate in the hearing tonight, please make sure you sign in. If you plan on participating, anybody that's going to present, can you please raise your right hand and repeat after me? I hereby swear or affirm that the evidence I give and the cause under consideration shall be the whole truth and nothing but the truth under the pains and penalties of perjury. Who's supposed to repeat that? Just say yes. Yes. Okay. Robin, do you have anything to add before we? No, just Melanie, really the meeting tonight, I told her about Melanie and her presentation, which she gave to the town commission. Okay. Few weeks then? November 8th? November 8th. Yeah, it was a while. Okay, and just one more thing before we get into the presentation, is there anybody in the audience that would, at this time, is anybody they want to have or talk about other than what's on the agenda? Nope. Okay. It's all you? Great. We're going to do these next first? Oh yeah, we can do them then. I forgot about that. Can we delay them? Can we make changes to them from last time? No, as far as it appeared, then we have not met since July 19th, which is suspicious. No, what I mean by that is I think we're supposed to approve these at the last one, but we didn't for some reason, if I recall. Okay. At any rate, does anybody have any changes? Yes. Okay. So it's just essentially a typo, but Doug Henson is spelled correctly in the other present section, and then throughout the rest of the document, his name is spelled several different ways. So we just need to make it fixed. Oh yeah, I see that. Doug Henson has changed all the Hansons to Henson. Henson, yeah, he's referred to as Hanson. Good catch. Anything else? In our decision, I just want to make sure that it was clear because I know I said it that the building design needs to come back to the PC. It's not just going to staff has to come back to the PC. That's the Pearl Street elevation. That's the whole thing. We haven't seen any elevations that reflect the actual floor plan in that building. They gave us a generic presentation that did not match and needs to come back here, the whole thing. I'll check the TIP and see what it says. Okay. Anything else? Do I hear a motion to approve the Nets from July 19th? As amended. So moved. Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Now on to the next. Good evening, everybody. Thank you for having me. My name is Melanie Needle. I'm a senior planner at Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission. My presentation will focus on enhanced energy planning for the Essex community and for the purpose of this presentation and the draft energy element that you have in front of you or have received via email, we are collectively referring to the village of Essex Junction and Essex Town as the Essex community. So the presentation is intended to be an overview of the Department of Public Service Act 174 energy planning standards and essentially what that means for the Essex community and how that plays itself out into an energy element. So, you know, I was here a year or maybe 18 months ago. We talked about the regional plan. The Regional Planning Commission has finished and approved the ECOS plan, which is the Enhanced Energy Plan for the region. And now we're focusing our technical assistance on municipalities. So I just wanted to bring everybody's attention. I don't know if you've seen the early December newspaper, the Essex reporter, there was an article about this project and the energy plan as a concept. If you haven't seen it, I encourage you to read it. I think the reporter did a really great job of, you know, summarizing the process and the work that, you know, we've been doing with staff and the Essex Town Planning Commission. So I just wanted to bring your attention to that. It was early December. I think it was like the December 4th or 6th newspaper. And you probably know you can access it online. It's on the front page and then it continues on to the back page. Okay. So Vermont Energy Goals that are rooted in both statute and the State Comprehensive Energy Plan means big changes for the state itself, for the region and for municipalities. And so as a starting point with the Energy Plan, the goals are to reduce total energy consumption per capita by 15% by 2025 and by more than one-third in 2050. An intermediate milestone is meeting 25% of remaining energy needs from renewable sources and then obtaining 90% of energy from renewable sources in, by 2050. And then weatherizing 25% of the state's housing stock by 2020. We're not on pace to meet that, but it's still a goal that we're shooting for. And then also greenhouse gas reduction targets below 1990 levels by 2050. So that's the framework for the Energy Plan. And that is what the Energy Planning Standards are rooted in. And then the remainder of the plan talks about implementation actions. What does this look like on the land in terms of renewable energy generation? What actions municipalities can do to lead by example to weatherized buildings, do fuel switching, those kinds of things, and we'll go into more detail. So in terms of where is Vermont now, total energy is 20% renewable. And when I say total energy, I mean transportation, heating, and electricity. When you just look at electricity alone, that sector is more renewable. It's 43% renewable if you are thinking about it from a source perspective, meaning that you are taking into consideration efficiency and line losses in transmission. It's a little bit higher when you're thinking about it in terms of site energy. It's about 53%. So electricity is our most renewable sector. Thermal, which is heating, a majority of Vermont is rural. And so people are heating with delivered fuels, propane oil, those types of fuel sources. And so thermal is 20% renewable. And the transportation sector is the least renewable. So that is the sector that we need to do the most work in and has the most impact on carbon pollution and climate change. So that sector is about 5% renewable, mostly from the small amount of electric vehicles that are driven in the state. So in terms of enhanced energy planning for the Essex community, the concept here is one plan for both jurisdictions that would be referred by reference in the updated Essex Junction comprehensive plan that's going through an update and will be approved and adopted in August. Same concept for Essex town, though their plan doesn't expire until 2024. And so what does one plan bring the two communities? And that is a determination. Well, so the Regional Planning Commission is the one who would approve the plan, grant the jurisdictions a determination of energy compliance. So we will look at the Department of Public Service requirements and checklists for these enhanced energy plans. And if a positive determination is provided, then the village and the town, once they incorporate the plan into their plan, will be given substantial deference in the Public Utilities Commission Section 248 process, which is the state regulatory permitting process for approving renewable energy generation facilities. And substantial deference means greater weight, greater influence, and that is, you know, the benefit for doing enhanced energy planning. So really the rubber meets the road in terms of these citing policies that we'll talk about later. Those are the citing policies that the Public Utilities Commission will use to make their determination on whether it meets the orderly development criterion in the Section 248 process. Before I go on, any questions about that? It's kind of a big mouthful if you're not that familiar with the 248 process. Where's this being funded from? Is it like federal and state? So the Regional Planning Commission has gotten support from the Department of Public Service to provide municipalities with technical assistance to update their plans. Department of Public Service? Yeah, so it's state funded. Can multiple regional regions have substantial deference? So if they all go through this process, can they all be at that level? Yes, all the 11, well, yeah, the 11 Regional Planning Commissions all have regional plans. And so they have all gone through this process. And because it's a requirement, whereas at the municipal level it's optional. But so all regional plans have substantial deference at the PUC. Okay, and from the municipality level, is that a substantial deference? Is that the norm? It's not. If you don't have an enhanced energy plan, it's due consideration. So it's less weight. The policies are looked at from kind of a guidance perspective. So they're not applied as strictly or transparently as if you have substantial deference. So you have greater say in the process. Your plans hold a greater weight in the process if you comply with the energy planning standards. At what point does the state determine if we're not on pace to meet our goals that changes need to be made? So the goals are in a sense just, I shouldn't tell you just, but there are pathways for understanding the order of magnitude changes that need to happen to get to the 90 by 2050 future. There are projections. Nobody knows how, you know, what the future holds. And so it gives municipalities a sense of how much energy we need to save through efficiency and weatherization and how many electric vehicles we need to have on the road. But there's no enforcement. You get your energy compliance if you have these projections and data goals in your plan. And we're going to be tracking them along the way. The Energy Action Network is coming out with a new dashboard that is tied and rooted in these energy planning standards. So it's a mechanism for tracking progress over time. So the Public Service Board has also put regulations in place governing new construction and alterations that will tag anything that goes through the construction process to meet energy standards. So like elite certified building, for example. That's a whole other realm, but they have targets for insulation and energy use and lighting that you have to meet. So that's a requirement, not just a guide. I'm just trying to get my head around what are the benefits to the municipality other than the environment to doing this. We get a place at the table. Okay, all right. That makes sense. So I think we went over this already from one of the questions. We're doing this in partnership with the Public Service Board. The basis for this is the energy planning standards. That screen's off now. Is that supposed to be off? It was on earlier. Was it ever on? It was on when we first started. Now it's off, so is it? It sounded really good eyesight. 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Okay, so the energy plan requirements, which you've seen, you know, make up the draft energy plan, include analyzing current energy use. We get that data from Efficiency Vermont. Identify a scenario for future energy use in terms of the three sectors I named before. Heating, transportation, and electricity. Setting renewable energy generation goals. Mapping energy generation. Potential for solar and wind. And then developing exciting policies for renewable energy generation. So in February 2018, we sent local data guide to all our municipalities, and these show the potential energy transformation that could take place between now and 2015. The modeling behind that was done by the Vermont Energy Investment Corporation using Elite Model. It's an accounting tool which looks at the fuel sources, the existing energy being used currently, and gives us a sense of what the fuel type and quantities need to be in 2050 to get to 90 by 2050. The model was done at the regional level, and then we have portioned out the data analysis of each municipality based on, for example, Essex Junction and Essex Townshare of commercial industrial buildings, residential buildings, and the assumption about heat intensity for those buildings. And so that serves as the backbone to the target standards for the Essex community. So in terms of real world or boiling it down, what that means is switching 89% of the light duty vehicles to electric vehicles, decreasing driving alone, so decreasing the number of miles that are driven through walking, biking, transit, car sharing, 38% of businesses and 60% of homes using cold climate heat pumps, which are powered by electricity, so that's a more efficient, renewable source of heating homes and businesses. 14% of homes using wood heat and 98% of homes and businesses using increased electric efficiency, so that's more efficient refrigerator and other appliances that are used in buildings. So I talked about energy generation goals. So as of October 2018, about 27,000 megawatt hours of renewable energy is generated annually in Essex community, so that split between 430 solar sites, half of the number 19 GMP hydrodam, I say half because it's on the Winooski River and we're counting these facilities in terms of where they're sited and the boundary line between Essex and Williston goes right through the dam. So half of Essex community and then half of Williston and we've done that and applied that methodology for Winooski and Burlington. So even though, for example, Winooski 1 hydrodam, even though BED owns it, half of the generation is being applied to the city of Burlington and the other half is being applied to the city of Winooski. And then also the methane digester at the wastewater treatment plant. As part of the ECOS plan, we set renewable energy generation targets for the region and then apportion them out based on each municipality's share of population and electricity consumption. So the aspirational target for the Essex community is about 183,000 megawatt hours of generation on the low end. And the low end is considering it's rooted in the regional plan target and the low end looks at Chittenden County's ability to share of solar and wind resources. So it's about 15% of the state and then the high end is based on Chittenden County's share of the state population, which is about 25%. So that's the difference. The low end is about 15% of the state's sort of resource and 25% of the state population. So we have done an analysis exercise that determines that 13% of the land area is needed to meet the renewable energy generation targets for the Essex community. And that is to assume if it was all done through 100% solar. Again, it's an exercise just to give you an order of magnitude of what this is going to look like. In total, the Essex community has about 8,600 acres of area that is suitable for solar energy considering incorporation of some environmental constraints. In terms of the environmental constraints and where they are, we have broken them into two categories. So the constraints are where development might be inappropriate and we've considered those possible constraints. So those are kind of the least restrictive. Some mitigation would need to be applied if something is a possible constraint. If something is a known constraint, that means 100% prohibition. That's the most restrictive. And the process also looks at preferred sites which are areas where renewable energy generation is strongly incurred. The state has a definition of preferred sites. So it's rooftops, solar canopies, previously disturbed areas, closed landfills, brown fields, gravel pits. And so those preferred sites get an enhanced benefit through net metering if they're over 150 kWs. So in terms of the siting criteria that's included in the draft energy plan, if you want to follow along with me, the siting criteria starts on page 5 and it's the second section, siting policies. And so this next set of slides is kind of a visualization of what these siting policies look like on the landscape. So the first one deals with, again, preferred sites. The intent of this policy is to strongly encourage development of renewable energy generation on those preferred sites. Rooftops, parking lots, previously disturbed sites, et cetera. In the state-designated village center, in the village of Essex Junction, the Essex Town Center and the Historic Preservation Business Design Control, there is an application of design standards to ensure that rooftop solar is integrated into the built environment. And I need to add that we have the design standards in here as a draft, but in practice, because the municipality is there's not really a notification process, and the municipalities are not part of the administrative approval process that PUC staff does for rooftop up to 500kW, these may be, as we continue to digest this plan, these may be more like best practices as opposed to standards. I was talking with somebody at the Public Service Department today about that, that in practice, there's little way the municipality can require a solar developer to follow these, so we need to work that out a little bit more. The second policy is about ground-mounted facilities, and so that is talking about locating ground-mounted solar and wind turbines outside of the state-designated village center in the village of Essex Junction and the town center and the business and historic preservation design control districts shown in those maps. The intent of this policy is that the plan is prioritizing homes and businesses in these areas for growth or shopping and services over ground-mounted generation facilities. The third citing criteria deals with the constraints. Remember a few sides back, I talked in terms of known constraints, the most restrictive and possible constraints, the least restrictive where the possible constraints would require a level of mitigation. Development of renewable energy generation shall not take place in areas with known constraints and in areas with possible constraints they should first and foremost avoid them, and if they can't avoid them then mitigate the adverse impacts in the areas with the possible constraints. So there's a set of state-known constraints that are contained in the energy planning standards and that's the floodway, the river corridor, rarecretin and endangered significant natural communities, vernal pools and wetlands. The ones I just named are known constraints at the state level, state, you know, DEC, the agency of AG, other state departments will weigh in on behalf of those resources in the full Section 248 process. And then in terms of local known constraints, slopes 20% are steeper and conservation areas within the resource preservation industrial district in the town are considered known constraints. And so what that means in practice is that if an applicant comes in with a ground-mounted facility in the 45-day comment period, staff could write a letter if one of these known or possible constraints, if there's a presence of one of those known or possible constraints on the site and say, you know, kind of as a red flag, you know, hey, this resource is on your site. You know, it's we've identified it as a local known constraint and our policy says, you know, that area shouldn't be developed or if it's a possible constraint, these are our recommended mitigation strategies. The local possible constraints are actually this, so the state possible constraints are ag soils, the special flood hazard area, priority forest blocks, protected land and deer wintering areas. And then the local possible constraints are the scenic resource protection overlay district, industrial designated areas of the resource preservation industrial district. There's parts of the RPI that are known and possible slope 15 to 20%. And then just priority forest blocks and then the designated village center because of the design standards and attention to be paid on integrating it into the built environment. So the fourth siting criteria has to do with the resource preservation district. And the intent of this is to site generation facilities greater than 500 KW only in the industrial zones in the resource preservation district in the town. The fifth one, the intent of it is about co-locating the facilities with existing distribution and transmission infrastructure. So the map on the screen is Green Mountain Powers kind of a capacity map that shows where the distribution and transmission is. And so there are some areas that are constrained. Orange is a signal that interconnections on that circuit area may experience higher cost and delayed interconnection. And green has enough capacity remaining to connect to it. And so the intent of this policy is just to connect facilities in areas where there's adequate capacity and near areas with high electric load. The sixth siting criteria is related to the scenic resource protection overlay in the town. And that is a possible constraint. And there's mitigation standards associated with this in the appendix. Those mitigating factors are screening the ground-mounted facility with vegetation that provides screening all seasons, citing standards so that you're not citing the facility out of your line of sight but it's impacting somebody else's line of sight so that's kind of the intent of those standards. The next one is related to the resource preservation district and applies policies related to vegetative buffers within this zoning district. This is the eighth siting criteria regarding steep slopes. Anything over 20% is 100% prohibition. Below that is a possible constraint. And I think in recently there was some good results relating to this criteria. I think it's the Sand Hill proposal. The regional plan has these local constraints in our regional plan and we worked with the town in the spring and identified that the applicant facility was kind of encroaching on some of the steep slopes and they reduced the amount of vegetative cutting that they were doing because of the identification of these constraints in the regional plan. Next siting criteria is regarding wildlife habitat and that is also a possible constraint so the intent of that is to not destroy or significantly imperil wildlife habitat identified in this map and ask that reasonable means of minimizing the destruction should occur. And then the last... How am I reading this graph? Say that again? How am I to read this graph? The dark green areas are the highest priority wildlife habitat and the light green areas are you seeing that? Is it showing up on this screen? And then the light green is just priority wildlife habitat. Okay, there seems to be this gray block of the village. Why is it... Because there's no habitat. Yeah, there's no habitat and it's a screenshot from A&R's Bible finder and I think it's... I identified this map using just Essex Town so I think it's just... I don't know why there's a gray blob but I would... We don't count right. There is priority habitat in the northern part of the village between 2A and 289. So this is a screenshot for visualization purposes in the presentation. Any of the maps in the plan itself I mean they'll look like this but Essex Junction won't be grayed out. Sorry about that. So I have a question about the sighting criteria in regards to you prefaced each area by saying some are definitely not allowed and then some others you said are potential. Yes. Are these things that we have to decide on when we're writing our plan when we're rewriting our plan in words when you mentioned the scenic... You said potentially. A potential. Yeah. Is that something we can say we care a lot about and we're going to make it tougher to use those areas to sight? So I say potential in the sense that if something was proposed in that scenic overlay district there would need to be mitigation to ensure that scenic resources are not impacted. It's not potential in the sense that you need to consider it for inclusion although it could be but there was some upfront work done on the side of staff and the planning commission early on when we were doing the ECOS plan and we got feedback from both jurisdictions that these were the local constraints to be considered in the regional plan and that's kind of our starting point for getting to the municipal level. And so it's a possible constraint in the sense that maybe you can develop here and if you do you have to do X, Y and Z. Does that... Yeah. Does that answer your question? And then in terms of its relationship to the town plan there needs to be consistency. So like for example if you're saying that something is a constraint in the energy plan then in your natural resource plan it also needs to be the same level of constraint. Making sure that the ambiguity on the constraints is removed because then when the PUC is looking at it we try to include the siting policies all of them in the energy plan but they can also have town plans can also have land use measures in the natural resource and the land use policy and the PUC reads the entire document and so if there's contradictions then it makes it hard for them to make a decision on your policy. Gotcha. Okay. So the last siting criteria is related to storage. Storage is a big part of our energy future in terms of reducing peak demand, resiliency, reducing costs. So this is a statement that the intent of it is to encourage renewable energy generation developers to think about including storage in their projects where feasible. So it's an eye towards the future as technology is going to change. I think it's an important aspect of this energy transformation that we need to go through. Okay. So then in terms of the implementation actions as part of the energy planning standards these start on page six and they're broken down into conservation. So weatherization, button up workshops, switching out street lamps to LEDs or more efficient light bulbs. I think Essex has done some of that work. Making the wastewater treatment plant energy efficient, the methane digester. So those kinds of conservation minded types of things. Educating residents and businesses on efficiency of Vermont's programs, Vermont gas's programs. And just leaving by example and thinking in terms of if a vehicle needs to be replaced how can it be replaced with a fuel efficient alternative. As well as transportation energy demand so those implementation actions look like more biking and walking facilities, promoting GMT, car share providing telecommunication abilities for staff, promoting these activities, educating them within the community. And then land use is compact development. All these things I've mentioned before the junctions already considering it's part of the comprehensive plan. These aren't new concepts. So compact development. Also looking at the zoning regulations to see how you can incentivize energy efficiency in the new building stock and having buildings, you know, solar ready or passive. And also thinking about considering the Vermont stretch code which, you know, there's a Vermont state-based code that all new development needs to adhere to in Act 250 projects those larger developments need to adhere to the stretch code and so those have a higher insulation value your home energy ratings score increases if you have renewable energy generation and your project and so one of the recommendations is to consider having all development meet the stretch code. This plan, you know, kind of just sets the stage for thinking about that going forward. What exactly is the stretch code? Is this detailed outline of what is to occur? It's a state law? Yeah, so it's a state law for development, all new development to adhere to the base code and it has to do with the insulation values, the R values, how much air sealing is done, how thick the walls need to be what the glazing is on the windows information about the HVAC system how the building breathes and is ventilated so it's very technical but that's a summary version of what the base code says and then the stretch code it kind of has the same elements but it asks for development to be built to a higher standard so the insulation values are that much higher and every two to three years the code is updated so what is currently the stretch code now when the code is updated the stretch code then becomes the base code and then the stretch code is increased. I think it's going to be worse than that actually it's going to be better than that but the 2015 we've been working with for three years and there's a base code and a stretch code and there's a 2018 version under consideration right now which is what are they in the middle of comments or have comments and now they're responding to comments and so that'll be out shortly and it packs a whole other ratchet another rung on the ladder going up toward the overall goal of the state's energy goal. Okay, so I'm taking that in essence the citation on page seven should probably also be a hotlink. Okay, no problem. So that's it for my presentation I think next steps are review the draft in front of you send me comments, send Robin comments I need to work on the data update section because I was some of the data that we received from efficiency from Vermont had some missing information work on the maps and then integrate the energy plan into the town plan update process going forward. Is there any penalties that you know of if there's only a certain goal or residential buildings if there's anything like a penalty like this if you don't make it nobody's really watching So this in terms of the building energy code itself report so when a new building is built the contractor or the homeowner or the building owner files the energy certificate with the clerk and it's tied to the certificate of occupancy process so you need to file that certification of energy to get your certificate of occupancy We do that with a base energy code of demand I think it would be quite simple just to put it into the lines update the plan then shall we switch energy standards as per the date of this document and future iterations and we do get them decided we keep the coffee and we send garden coffee How does the plan take into account the future growth of the community is that already factored into what business growth and residential all of that's factored in? It is in the data in the sense that so when we ran the LEAP model it was consistent with the population and employment projections that were part of the ECOS plan so I mean it assumes that the population is going to grow That's the assumption and that same question I have in regards to the amount of acres so when you're looking at the 8600 acres for potential that's a finite number we don't have any so that's to the goal or is that help me understand how? Yeah the 8600 you don't need all 8600 sorry if I'm making people dizzy it's the 3200 acres to get to the minimum Presumably sort of balance or improved efficiency and size over time if you change that you reach the end of the useful amount See many need to use less than that Any other questions? Page 9 under actions number 1 fund an energy coordinator position can we have an energy coordinator now and we have an energy committee right and is that so that would be an energy it's something that the trustees and the select board has to kind of step up to the plane and do something there So in reviewing the actions and even the citing policies so these are conceptual suggestions and so when you're reviewing them think in terms of whether they're relevant or appropriate for the Essex community Yeah I have a tendency I have a tendency to think that our biggest opportunity is to be more efficient with energy it's a huge opportunity and it's the biggest hurdle because you have to have a little change It is a huge part of reducing the energy pie but as we start to electrify the transportation sector and the heating sector we need to meet that demand with more electricity I mean it's a more efficient use of electricity so that's where the renewable energy generation comes in so it's both it's generation and efficiency and you know we were both on the TCRPC Energy subcommittee Energy subcommittee and I brought in one time I remember it was an ad out of the paper from an automobile company for an electric vehicle and it said it cost less to drive, drive more so at some stage it's going to have to be like they said by petrol it's going to have to be put on it it encourages people to have good energy So at the same time we're pushing for these efficiencies and transportation the use of electric vehicles didn't I see a report on the news saying that most of the major car companies are sort of pulling their electric vehicle because nobody's buying them and they're selling more SUVs and trucks than they ever had before It's a presidential Well, it's habits too Absolutely But so we're putting in we see more vehicle charging stations showing up which is good There are certain fleet vehicles that you know Green Mountain Messager and other places are using more of these electric vehicles and they probably know where they can plug in So that's what I'm encouraging but kind of actually be good to have an action item which I can't remember that says in the village and the time we would encourage more charging stations as part of developments not just bike racks How much have we gotten when we've encouraged things before have we gotten this? People could get a 20% density bonus because it didn't make sense Well, I've heard to put it in We need to say more than we encourage something and we have to do something to make it Then we say it's shy The stretch code does require parking spots for large commercial projects to be EV-ready and multi-family residential If you want to check it out I'll have it in there So that'd be a quick link So it's up to Robin to encourage the stretch code Well, I'll just put it in and say must be good to the standard When you're talking to applicants The scary part is that it's not easy to get to the goals that are out there and the pace that we're going at right now will not get us there in the time frame we're hoping for There's a cost to it too We really have to do something serious if we want to even come close to that goal I won't throw a question, John but if we move from the basic energy requirements to stretch code ballpark, how much would that amount to $2,500 for this? I can't answer that I can tell you're just reaching the regular goal The two aren't that far apart like you're going from maybe our 30 installation above the decks I don't do residential so I know that's our 49 but I don't know like does it go to our 60 yet But you're talking about feet of insulation though, you're not talking about something that's easy In a multi-family building it will cost less per unit because you're fencing outside walls The major elements to improve are still windows and places where elites happen so all the air sealing and that's huge and the industry is maybe 10 years into knowing this so anything built the really big thing is that your older housing stock and it can be 15 years old is junk I mean it's just awful and that's because the building community didn't really get the importance of stocking all the leaks so you might have some decent insulation but you don't have the other components that really make a nice tight building so we could really use a lot of deep retrofits things where you go in and you fix that and that's hard to incentivize because it's fairly expensive because you're talking about all the building joints all the windows you know cracks and it's just everywhere so tough to do it's tough to get them to do it right now so going back and finding all the places where it didn't work before Of course I would have a lot of applications out there that have not even broken ground yet that's gone through the permanent in process now I know that we can't go back but could we they're already required they're required by this so there's Vermont commercial building energy standards and residential building energy standards and those are in place already so you're supposed to be certifying your designer and your contractor both have to verify that it was designed and constructed to meet those requirements so if it's under construction right now chances are that it's supposed to comply and if it's in our Village Robin can't give them a CO till they hand them a piece of paper that says we certify that we did this so there is a decent mechanism in place now and it's you know there is well the buck stops at the CO right I mean there's all this effort to get your CO and that's kind of the last hurdle in many cases is getting all that paper together Any other questions for our presenter just remind us of the upcoming process so there's another version that comes out and we look at it and the town looks at it and then there's a big meeting between the Village Plaintiffs and the Village Trustees during which we approve or we'll get you you mentioned this approved pending completion of the Municipal Plan if you really want that I have a question is it possible or maybe it's already there is it possible to post this on the Village website or something like it doesn't have to be word for word the more we can get the information out people will ask questions and have ideas maybe because we're going to be starting this this is just one piece of the project that we're going to be starting we're hoping to involve more people this time when we did the CODE it was like this I wouldn't like to I understand I'm just trying to create some interest We had the time at our committee we had a farmer we had four or five groups who were interested we personally invited and they came the process was great the feedback was great but I'd like to see more residents here in the seats the more of this kind of stuff we can get out and get people interested it'll be great especially if we got a press release out and say hey can we discuss this anything else? okay thank you very much thank you very much I do have a question for you guys before we adjourn does anybody have anything else they want to talk about? any other items? we may not be able to I'd like to schedule a work session we may not be able to do it in January because I know is the joint meeting supposed to happen in January? if everything comes back yes so you guys should be getting me and Terry information on typos and stuff because that's busy work that's not substance and then we can talk about the substance we should so maybe we can I know everybody checked their counters but I know that the 11th is a Friday I can't do that Thursday but the 10th I believe in this but I can see if we can do that if not we can shoot for the first week of February maybe nice or do you think in what time it would be roughly the same it would be six and because it's a work session we don't have to warn it correct do you have to warn it if it's a work session? it's best to warn it then but I do need some time the 11th I'll be at a time of yeah me too it would not work for me you don't have to miss a meeting until you've been you got so many the 10th and 11th yeah the 10th would not work for me because I'm out of town shoot for the next week what was the first Thursday of February I was going to suggest another day but I think it's best to have it on our normal on a meeting yeah I think it's a good idea because people get used to that yeah do you want to shoot for the 7th? yeah okay alright so we'll warn that and you know everybody communicate to Robin and Terry about ideas what you know plan on being here at 6 o'clock anything else? do I hear a motion to adjourn? second all in favor? alright thank you very much thank you


Hi, this is Stu Miniman with wikibond.org. Here with SiliconANGLE TVs continuous coverage from VMworld 2011. Talking desktop virtualization, joining me today are Andrei Lipovic and Jason Langoni. Thanks for coming on theCUBE, guys. Thank you, sir, you're welcome. Great, so we've been talking about the virtualization adoption and really cloud adoption going on, but desktop virtualization is one of those conversations that's been going on for many years and last year at EMC World and some of the other shows that we've been covering for the last couple of months, we believe we're beyond just talking about it but really doing it. As the theme this year is, you know, own it, you know, do it, and there's new opportunities. So both of you have been involved with desktop virtualization for many years. Jason has happened to have your CEO on our program few months ago, back when we were actually at the same convention center. So back in Vegas again, you know, hopefully some new things. And Andrei, you're with EMC as we can see by your attire, so why don't we just a quick second if you can give us a little bit about your background, you know, professionally as well as your experience with desktop virtualization to bring us to today. So Andrei? Sure, sure. I actually have been doing VDI, even before VDI I was called VDI. And before joining EMC I was working for VMware and professional services where I was the Asia Pacific lead for end user computing. Prior to that I was in Brazil, my country I was born in, and now I've been relocated to US and working for EMC as a senior phase specialist. Great, so maybe before we go to Jason for a second, do you see adoption of VDI desktop virtualization different by geography? I definitely see adoption. I think it's been taken a little while to actually to ramp up the way organizations were expecting to. But I think the organizations that have been through the deployment are really happy with what they're getting. Great, Jason, if you could give us a little bit of your background. People that follow the Wikibon community might remember that you were part of a peer insight that we held towards the beginning of this year. Really felt we got some great information about the journey to going from, you know, traditional desktops to virtual environments. So it gives a little bit of your background and what's been hot with you these days? Sure, so I work for a federally focused bar micro tech service disabled veteran owned 8A small business. And we focus primarily on VMware Citrix delivering it in the federal space. Both here, obviously in the US and then supporting the missions abroad. And much like Andre, I think over the last couple of years we've seen it go from 50 C proof of concepts to 100 C proof of concepts. And now it seems to be like the 500 mark is where people are starting to dip their toes in the pool of VDI. And now we're moving on to four or five figure VDI deployments finally, which is kind of nice because I know people like Andre and myself have been waiting for this to gain a little traction. And I think we're starting to see some really good numbers now. Great, so Jason focused a lot on the government federal especially Andre, do you have a specific vertical that you're focused on when it comes to the desktop deployments? No, not really. I've been working with several different types of companies, government and private companies, banks. I just relocated to US, I'm sort of new to this market, but in Asia Pacific there is definitely a great adoption. One of government in New Zealand doing big rollout with tens of thousands of desktops. They're definitely, I agree with you with that we actually seeing a ramp up on the number of seats. Proof of concepts really ramping up. Now before we had proof of concepts with tens, with hundreds. Now proof of concepts are like 5,000 desktops. So definitely ramping up. Maybe soon we will be on hundreds of thousands. Great, so Jason when we talk about going from a traditional desktop to a more virtual desktop environment, I wonder how many of your clients are thinking about disasters. I mean if we look at what's been happening there's earthquakes happening where they've never happened before. Hurricane Irene just hit. And VMware really has almost a dare out there in the marketplace. Let's do it, it's the cloud, we're going to go there. So I would think that, and government has this mandate to go to clouds. So how do you see that fitting in to the whole desktop environment? A little tricky to be honest with you. You're going back to hurricanes, to earthquakes. I was in Arlington, Virginia a couple miles from the Pentagon when the earthquake happened. 15 minutes later I'm getting text messages. We're ready to do our SRM, should we hit the panic button. So I think SRM has been adopted as a proper DR tool by a lot of agencies, a lot of organizations. And now I think a lot of those same folks are looking at view and saying great, this will enable our workforce to actually do something. SRM for the most part is failing over mission critical applications or email, web, whatever these services are. But it's not still allowing people to work from home in the case of an earthquake or something like that. So a lot of those same folks are now making a phone call and saying, hey, we're finally ready for that VDI deployment. We've been kicking around for the last 12 months. That's been good. As far as cloud goes, yes, you know, federal agent, US federal has this cloud-first mentality. I had espresso with Randy Bias earlier. I think him and I are more in the same camp on what cloud is and what it is. So I won't quantificate too much on that, but VDI, what we're here to talk about is, you don't necessarily need the cloud. You don't need a desktop to do it. Desktop makes sense for a lot of folks, but for US federal, everyone's doing it in their own data set. Interesting, if I could just interject there. I happen to have a conversation earlier this year with Brian Madden, who, the interesting thing he said is he said, anybody that needed VDI as a solution actually has it. He said cloud is a big piece of it. Enabling security is a big reason, especially in the government space, as you guys are talking about. So I guess where I wanted to go with this is desktop and cloud. One of the things I've heard from EMC and also from the VCE group is desktop as a service. So Andre, maybe if you can tell us, is this reality? How much is the desktop and the cloud merging? And where do we see this going today from a real customer deployment? I think we're really moving towards as a desktop as a service. If it's going to be in private cloud, if it's going to be a public cloud, I'm not sure about that yet. But what I see is that we're creating containers, so we're providing desktops from a container. We might provide user profile from a different container, and we might provide applications from a different container that can be consumed in different ways. How everything is going to plug together and if it's a public or a private cloud. I'm not sure about that, but definitely we're moving to a consumption-based desktop. Right, so one of the big themes that we see is service providers are obviously a huge piece of the cloud deployment. And I've heard from EMC, I've heard from NetApp, I've heard from HP, that desktop, as a service from these service providers is one of the real ways that we might be able to overcome some of the slowness that we've had in the VDI marketplace. Just kind of rip the cord and go full bore with the cloud and own that technology. Jason, any comments on the service provider market? Is that playing to the government space much? No, I think a lot of people are interested in it, right? It's a very sexy solution. People like the idea of having a Win 7 instance on demand, I think there's a lot of folks that are saying we want to do desktops as a service when in reality they want to do published applications and not a published desktop. So there's some confusion there. And if you look at the two main heavyweights, Citrix and desktop and VMware view, neither of them natively are designed to do multi-tenant from a front end or even a back end, to some degree, multi-tenant solution properly, right? So I've got my VMware view admin console and you're the service provider and Andre and I are tenants. How do we all access it and manage our own little piece of the puzzle? We can't today. So Jason, can I put you on the spot here for a second? So when we talk about desktop virtualization, the big player, we're here at VMworld talking about VMware, Citrix is a big player here. So there's been some rumors going around that potentially we'll have some announcement this week regarding desktop virtualization. Obviously we can't pre-announce anything, but how's VMware doing with the adoption compared to the likes of Citrix? I would say in my primary focus, which is US federal, VMware is very strong from an adoption standpoint. A lot of the federal agencies, the operate both here, Conus and Oconus have been very comfortable and very happy with the way vSphere has performed. Very happy with the way it's been managed from a security perspective with things like Stig and the way it supports PAC from a VMware view perspective. I think a lot of the agents rarely do I get, hey, we really want to do Send Desktop. I'll get the bake-offs, which if it's a LAN scenario is tit for tat normally, but VMware view is nine out of 10 what I'm doing in US federal. Okay, well it's interesting because I guess anecdotally what I've heard is first of all, most vendors. And if you look at EMC, EMC has lots of solutions using vSphere with Zen Desktop as deployment in Zen Desktop still is the market leader out there. So we think VMware is looking to close the gap, but also Citrix isn't sitting still. So we had a lot of coverage at Citrix Synergy. There's definitely a large ecosystem there. So I think it's good for the marketplace that there's some strong competition there, VMware and Citrix there. I didn't want to put you on the spot, Andre, but working for EMC at VMworld. But I mean, maybe I did hear an announcement this morning around VCE. I don't know if you wanted to comment on there. They have a new solution that they're offering for desktop. Yeah, I'm not aware of the con. Okay, fair enough. Maybe I can pivot off that. One of the biggest challenges I think when I talk to Jason in Lakeside Software is tools that help us really understand a desktop environment. How do I get from what I have today to where I need to go? And the problem is it's not standardized and everybody's environment's different and they're users and applications. So you have a tool, I believe, that's very popular out in the blogosphere out on the website. Maybe you can tell us a little bit about that? Yeah, I do. By the way, my blog is myvutualcloud.net. I'm also on Twitter and Relay Bovich. So basically I built over time when I was at VMware working as a consultant. I built a calculator, online calculator that helps people and administrators to size their VDI environment. And over the years it's been improving and that calculator has more than a million hits per month today. Wow. So it's myvutualcloud.net. So do you have a sponsor yet for that webpage? Yes, I do have a sponsor there. Okay. One more. Excellent. So here with Jason and Andre talking about the future of desktop virtualization. I guess we've got a couple more minutes to wrap up. Jason, if I could start with you, where do you see the white space in the marketplace? What are your customers asking for today that's really kind of lacking out there? And I just think part of that's probably what your company helps provide. You know, I think one of the things, again, U.S. federal focus has been across domain, you know, like a zipper nipper type solution where you have unsecured networks, secured networks. How do I roll that into a VDI solution? And I think it was last week or the week before at ClearCube, which if you're not in U.S. federal, you may have never even heard of this company. You know, they make zero and thin clients. They now have a certified and approved cross-domain solution, PC over IP zero clients.  So I could have unclassed, classed, top secret, secret, all coming into one device, KVM between them all. I've had people asking for that for years. I mean, at the three-letter agencies and some of the other folks, I mean, I do a lot with DoD. We bumped into one of the DoD guys on the way in here. So, you know, from what I do, that's been very much welcomed. I think the other big hole is something Horizon will next year or 2013 or 2052. At some point, Horizon will bridge the other gap that I think we both agree exists. And then one other thing before I forget, EVGA is kind of this newcomer in the zero client space.  You know, I look at like, what are all the zero clients available today? What are their price points? So like wise, we're talking about some of the great examples there. So I'm probably not going to make any wise friends here in a minute, but you got the wise P20, zero client, which in theory is the same thing functionally as an EVGA PDO2, there's a pretty significant price delta. You know, if all the zero clients roughly do the same, more or less they're all copper, they all do this. You know, why would I pay a price delta? So it's interesting to see a consumer electronic company like EVGA come out of nowhere and start to ramp up and get market share. So I guess Andre, that's kind of a similar point, but from a vendor standpoint, you know, just a new vendor that I heard from Jason. One of the biggest challenges I've seen in this marketplace is it's highly fragmented.  So, you know, where do you see, you know, the ecosystem maturing and how are you guys trying to help that? Let me focus on what we provide at EMC. So most VDI deployments where I go in, even before I was EMC, the problem, the bottleneck is most often the storage, but it's not because the storage is the problem, it's because it was not properly architected for a VDI solution. And we at EMC now have been trying to help customers, not only to, we're not only selling the storage arrays, and we're not selling solution, but we're trying to educate them on how they should size and adjust the storage for performance in where VDI has very specific performance requirements. And, you know, we're trying to help customers, we're trying to help customers deploying VM review, deploying Zendesk top, and it's been great. I've been enjoying it. I think VDI is really a great solution for companies who have adopted. I have a very interesting example from an American company, a call center who started deploying VDI and for remote workforce. As soon as they realized they completely changed their hiring process because they're hiring part-time workers, moms they had their kids at home in the morning, they could work during the morning and disabled people. It's great. I think it's been very good and I'm very happy in the industry that I'm working on. Yeah, it's interesting because we've seen a number of startups come into this space and there's that balance between, okay, how do I take this environment and really make it fit into it? And there's some companies that are trying to come in and say, I have, you know, flash-based technology that really takes care of all of those desktop virtualizations. Obviously EMC plays heavily in the flash space and it's been moving there and it's good to see some startups moving into the space to help, just build for virtualization and even for desktop virtualization to help fix that space. All right, so gentlemen, I really appreciate you coming on the program, especially on some short notice here. Expect to see more desktop virtualization. So Andre Leibovich and Jason Langoni, both of them, you can find, Jason is Langoni J on Twitter and Andres Andre Leibovich on Twitter. When these videos are posted, you'll be able to see how to spell all those names and everything there. So this is Stu Miniman with continuous coverage from VMworld2011.


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Poor driving conditions caused by wintery weather resulted in numerous vehicles in the ditch around Bemidji today and included one fatal crash. The state patrol says 51-year-old Claudia Libby of Solway died when she lost control of her pickup truck on Highway 2 near Wilton and rolled into the ditch. The crash happened around 10.40 this morning and roads were covered with snow and ice at the time. The state patrol says Libby was wearing her seat belt and alcohol was not involved in the crash. Bemidji police chief Mike Mastin reports at least 30 vehicles went into the ditch since seven this morning with at least six resulting in rollovers. Mastin says there have been numerous reports of black ice and poor road conditions and drivers should exercise extreme caution while traveling in the Bemidji area. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


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Terry Keller says there isn't any danger, and he thinks we're foolish to follow the Butterfield Trail when there's a shorter route from Phantom Hill on.  Well, it's not fair to say such a thing about Terry. At least you ought to wait until he's here to defend himself. Well, he ought to be here. I've been up with Carver and Beauvais going away like he did. Terry said they were going to do some trail scouting, Will. What's he know about scouting? Oh, the other two for that matter. Just because Beauvais and Carver have made one trip out here, they seem to think they know it all. Well, I suppose Terry wants to be sure everything goes right because his father financed the trip. Well, I wish to put in charge of this wagon train, and what I say goes. Unless you all get together and vote somebody else in my place. That's all right now. Come along, Lucy. On the trail ahead, Terry Keller, a young man about 25, was returning to the wagon camp with Beauvais, a Frenchman, and Carver, a rough-talking, heavy-set man. As they rode, Carver was saying, Terry, you and the others listen to Will Halden. It'll take weeks longer maybe to get where you're at. It'll take our word for that branch trail we just showed you. Get the wagons there safer and quicker. Hey, Beauvais. But of course. We have traveled these short routes, and we know it is a far better way to go. Is there danger if we leave the World Travel Butterfield Trail? Ah, the Indians are well under control now. Carver, it's right, Terry. Talk to the others, Terry. Get them on your side. They'll listen to you. Convince them the short route is better all the way around. All right. I'll see what I can do.   Late that night after the camp had quieted, Beauvais and Carver slipped away and rode west along the trail to meet an Indian scout and send word to Chief Likefoot that the wagons would be certain to take the so-called short route, a route leading into wild and unpatrolled country which was ideal for an Indian attack. As the two men rode, Beauvais was saying, What do we get out of all this crap? All the cash invaluable in the wagon train. And there's plenty. The Comanche's get the guns ammunition and horses. But if Will Alden is still wagon master and insists on going the regular route, I've been putting the idea in Terry's mind to get the men to boat out hold and elect me as wagon master. You? That is laughable. Yeah? Well, I'll be able to stop the wagons for the night just where the Comanche chief wants them to stop. And you and I'll slip away just before the attack. Come on, let's hurry. Get up there. After meeting a Comanche brave and sending the message to Chief Likefoot, Carver and Beauvais return to the wagon camp. All the next day as they rode slowly over the prairie, Terry talked to the pioneers one by one. That night after the wagons were circled in camping formation, a man who had been chosen as spokesman called for a boat to replace Will Alden as wagon master. After the boating, he spoke to the group. The boating shows that Carver is to replace Will Alden as wagon master. I hope there's no hard feeling. Here, go ahead. Follow Carver from now on. As for me, I'm taking my wagon and leaving the train with anyone who want to go along. I'm still going to follow the Butterfield Trail. Early the following morning, Malone Ranger and his Indian companion, Toto, rode the Butterfield Trail eastward toward Fort Phantom Hill. It's not far to Fort now, King was happy. Maybe two, three miles. That's right, Toto. We'll stop and see our friend, Colonel Davis. Look, King was happy. Wagons coming this way. Only three of them. Then shoot. Have you think we outlawed? Stop and wait, Toto. Don't draw your gun. We're not outlaws, if that's what you think. Don't listen to him, Will. I've heard about the masked outlaws out this way. Well, maybe he's telling the truth. Maybe they aren't outlaws. Of course he is wearing a mask. Oh, wait a minute, Lucy. I remember hearing about a masked comrade when we lived out here before. He was said to ride a white stallion and carry silver bullets. My gun belt is filled with silver bullets. What's your horse's name, mister? Silver. Lucy. He's the one I heard about. Hey, mister, you must be the lone ranger. That's right.  Well, I'm glad to meet you. My name is Will Holden. This is my wife, Lucy. How do you do, Mrs. Holden? This is Toto. How do you do, sir? I'm surprised that only three wagons made the trip west, Mr. Holden. He'd run into hostile Indians.  What happened to the others? Well, it's a long story, mister. But if you have a few minutes, I'll tell you all about it. Go right ahead. Briefly, Will Holden told the lone ranger and Toto what had taken place. When he finished, the masked man spoke. The trail the others have taken isn't really shorter. It's far rougher. Oh, so there's more danger running into hostile Indians. Yes, that sounds terrible. I wonder why Mr. Carver and Mr. Beauvay think it's the better and shorter route. That's what I wonder, Mr. Holden. What type of man are they, Mr. Holden? I'll answer that, mister. I figured there'd be a couple of no-good pole cats. They pulled the wool over Young Keller's eyes and got him to side with them against Will Holden. Now, take it easy, Jake. Terry Keller has the right to his own opinion? No, he hasn't. His father put you in charge. He should have stuck by it. Don't tell him what those three will lead the wagon train into on that other route. I suggest you turn back and wait at Fort Fannham Hill for another wagon train coming west. I'll now turn south and take a shortcut to the other trail. As soon as we locate the other wagons, the better. We'll get word to you later. Adios. Adios! Let's go! We'll continue our lone ranger adventure in just a moment. Now, free stamp offer from Cheerios, the ready-to-eat old Cheerios. Free for one special Cheerios boxtop, a 64-page guide packed with information on stamp collecting plus 10 genuine foreign stamps to start your collection. Begin the world's most thrilling hobby, collecting stamps from strange, exciting faraway lands all over the globe. You'll want this handy 1955 stamp guide for your very own. It contains many pages in full color, gives you tips on how to collect stamps, how to start your own stamp club, and even includes a whole illustrated section on U.S. stamps. Get your 64-page guide plus 10 stamps free for only one special Cheerios boxtop. 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A short time later as they topped their eyes, they saw a rider just disappearing over the low hill ahead. A few moments passed before they reached the top of the low hill and saw him turn from the trail into the woods. The masked man and Indian also left the trail and rode cautiously through the woods for some distance. Then they approached the edge of the low mesa. They stopped and dismounted as he stood in the middle. The hoof marks go right to the edge of this mesa. Come on, pal. A moment later the two men saw that the hoof prince followed a steep narrow path to a valley below in which there was an Indian camp. Using field glasses, they saw a white man talking to the Indian chief in sign language. Tato watched. Then said, Hey, Masabi. Yes. White pal attempt chief about wagons. In say there many rifle comes much ammunition. And he's from the wagon train. Now chief makes signs. Say Indian attack from behind when wagons reach the river. Tato, it will be a massacre. We must get help. You ride to Fort Phantom Hill. We'll take those wagons several hours to reach the river. The troopers may have time to get here. Make own out. Adios. After Tato left, the lone ranger mounted silver and rode out to the trail. Then he headed eastward to meet and warn the pioneers. In time, Tato started back along the shortcut trail. He had ridden about a mile. When rounding a bend, he saw a Comanche scouting party approaching. Oh, Tato, Tato, Tato, Tato. Quickly he turned his horse around and started back. Get a little scout. The Comanches saw him and urged their pawn in for a gallop. Tato glanced back, then, feeling sure he could outrun his pursuers, gave scout his head. But at that moment, more Indians rode from the bordering woods ahead of him and barred his path, realizing he was trapped. Tato pulled to a stop. You piece, not one trouble with Comanche. Yo, not Comanche. What you do here? Come on, come on. Come on, come on. Brave say, we take your chief life foot. If you move, you'll die now. Hey, guns, fire! On the trail and slowly moving westward, Terry Keller rode at the head of the wagon train with Beauvais. Where did Carver go? He has gone ahead to do some scouting, tell me. He should be back here. I wish Holland had stayed with us. Even though he's no longer in charge, I still think... Say, look. A rider coming toward us. Must be Carver returning. Oh, it cannot be. He doesn't ride a white horse. That rider is masked. He must be a highwayman. I'll stop him with it. No, wait. We have 30 men to his whine. He can't harm us. Better stop the wagon. Stop the wagon!  You are covering me. You're not going to reach for your guns. I come as a friend. Who's in charge here? A new wagon master isn't here at the moment.  I'm Terry Kelly. Well, Holland told me about you. I came to warn you of danger. The Comanche plans to attack. Why should we listen to you and outlaw? This is some trick, Terry. Do not pay any attention. I'm not an outlaw and this isn't a trick. Wait a minute. You mentioned Will Holden. Yes, I met him on the other trail earlier today. He told me all that took place. Terry, we get the men to tie up this mask man. And we turn him over to the first sheriff. We... Just a minute. If you talk to Holden, he must consider you a friend. Yes, he does. You must heed my warning. A heavy-set man went to the commanding camp a while ago and talked to the chief. Heavy-set man? He must be Carver. And you? I heard you call out, come on, Silver. Yes, that's right. My horse is named Silver.  A man who carried two fancy guns and used silver bullets. Here's the silver bullet he gave dad. I carry it now. Here's one like it from my gun belt. You must be the lone ranger. I am.  He attacked with the Indians. We'll take place at the river. River? Yes, it's about 10 miles from here. Oh, Carver would betray us, eh? And all the time I trusted him as a friend. Almost as a partner. And you knew nothing about all this, Bouvet? Of course not. But what are we to do? Turn back and head for Fort Phantom Hill. The Comanche camp is about two miles from here. Let's hope they don't find out the wagons have turned back. All right, we'll do whatever you say, Mr. I agree with you, Terry. Let us start them back at once. I'll ride back until the others. Dealer, get it back. Ride back. Bouvet played his part so well that neither the lone ranger nor Terry suspected what he intended to do. A Frenchman rode toward the rear of the line of wagons and told each driver to turn back. After all the wagons had turned, he waited until they moved past it. After the last of them had gone by, Bouvet turned hurriedly and rode into the woods. Get it! Meanwhile, at the Comanche camp, Tato tied hand and foot was a prisoner in one of the TPs. Realizing what would happen if the troopers weren't warned, he struggled for some time to loosen his hands, but without success. I know you... ...throats... He's plenty tight. Oh, hello! Oh, uh... Hey, boys. One more time. Chief Shady, my pale face, come back with other pale faces. Tell the chief to come and ward the wagons back. The way is to turn back. Oh, me don't have a mouse. I don't have a mouse. Tato listened intently as the chief and the other Comanches discussed the situation. He understood their language and heard the chief say his brains would soon start in pursuit of the wagons and attack them on the open plain at dusk. Tato looked about him practically for some way to get loose. At first it seemed hopeless. Then his eyes rested on a double-edged tomahawk, securely wedged into the center post of the TP. He struggled to his feet to hop to the post, then turning his back, worked the rope on his wrists against the protruding sharp edge of the tomahawk. They hoped no one'd come in the TP. The rope frayed, strand by strand, until finally it parted. As we know, next neon tied feet. Just as he loosened the rope on his ankles, he saw the shadow of an approaching figure. Quickly, he lay down and waked. Then the Indian who had captured him and taken his guns entered. Soon we take you out. Time to post.  As the Indian moved close, Tato suddenly went into action. He reached out, grabbing the surprise Comanche and pulling him to the ground. I'm not dying. This keeps you quiet, sir. The Indian went limp and Tato took back his own guns. Next, he took the fallen savages' warp on it to use as a partial disguise and placed it on his head. He used his hunting knife to cut an opening in the back of the wigwam. Making sure he wasn't observed, he quickly headed for a nearby grove and soon made his way to the horses where he found Scout. A moment later, he mounted. Then, discarding the warp on it, hurriedly rode away. Get him out, Scout! Later, the lone ranger rolled at the rear end of the wagon train to watch for the Comanches in case they followed. Toward dusk, the wagon stopped and circled for the night. The circle had just been completed. When the Indians, a hundred strong, appeared over a rise. The Comanches are coming. Every man to his post! The Comanches began circling the wagons, using what guns they had and firing placing arrows. The Masked Man was everywhere at once, advising, helping. Keep down, make every shot count. Watch out for those placing arrows! Mister, we haven't much chance. Don't give up, sir. They haven't many guns. We must hold them up. For some time, the battle raged. The Comanches rode in an ever-closing circle. Many of the pioneers had been wounded and Terry Keller felt certain the end was near for them all. No use, Mister, we can't hold out. This is my fault. I'd listen to Will Hall and everything. There's no time to blame yourself, Terry. I saw Beauvais and Carver at the edge of the grove with the Indian chief. They got us into this. Yes, I should have realized Beauvais was in with Carver on the plans. They're too much for, as I tell you, a bugle. That means two birds. Yes, I see them. Numbering almost 200 moved in from two sides. Their sudden appearance looked the Comanches by surprise. And though the savages fought desperately, they were soon subdued. Those who could still ride tried to escape, but failed. The fight had come to an end. In the battle, Carver, Beauvais and the chief were captured. Later, within the circle of wagons, Will Halden, who had come with the soldiers, spoke to the pioneers. I mean, I understand you want me to take over as wagon master again. He's sure to have a better one. Well, thank you. Carver and Beauvais were captured and are going back to the Fort as prisoners, along with the Comanches chief. Here, serve some rice. Thanks to the mask man and his Indian friend, Tato, who came to the fort with the news, a massacre has been a first. I... I want to apologize for the way I acted.  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Hey guys this is Giovanni from Spaya Options Trading here with a new trading video for today. Happy Halloween everybody, I hope everybody stays safe and has fun today on this awesome holiday. There are a couple things that I want to talk to you about, but first of all let's get to the big mistake that I made. I've been so frustrated with myself the last couple of weeks but I can't be myself up too bad. But rookie mistake, I'll let you watch the trading video so you can watch exactly what happened.  Mistakes are absolutely going to happen and they're going to happen. That's another thing that you guys need to get used to, you're going to make mistakes. I'm going to make mistakes. We're all human. We're all human beings. That's what makes us human. Yesterday, I didn't trade yesterday's ginormous move. I think spy moved about $4 and about, gosh, 20 minutes, 25 minutes, something of that nature and it made me rethink my strategy. Not necessarily rethink it but refine it just a little bit. I did a lot of back testing yesterday and last night and I think that's what contributed in today's mistake. I really love my strategy. I built my strategy to where even when it's wrong, it's not going to be wrong big. I love that. I have now defined a really good entry and in my opinion a really good exit strategy, exit plan on bad signals or bad trades. In today's trading video, you'll see that. I actually followed through my strategy through my plan, my trading plan and I stuck with it. All of this said, trading in general day, trading investing in a stock market, it's a process. It's a process. It's a process. It's a process. I can't tell you enough. I have a passion for this. It's the only way that keeps, it's the only reason that I'm still doing this. You got to have a passion for this. You can't get, it's not a get rich quick scheme sort of thing. You have to have the patience, the diligence, the discipline to trade and be successful at it. I'm trading with $500 guys. That's okay. I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep going and keep going. I'm going to see how far I can take my $500 trading account and go from there. Thank you everybody so much for watching everybody. I'll let you get to the trading video. Don't forget to subscribe. Don't forget to enter my drawing. I'm going to pick three people at random on November 7th. The drawing ends November 5th. Send me an email with the subject line round two at spyoptionstradingatgmail.com. Pick a number between one and 50 and tell me a little bit about yourself.  Tell me anything you would like to tell me in that email. Thank you so much for watching everybody. I'll let you get to that trading video. Good morning everybody. Today is October 31st, 2018. Happy Halloween everybody. We are waiting on signals here. We are going to check for Xfactory, see what's on the docket. We have a couple things here at 9.45 Eastern time. We have Chicago PMI at 10.30. We have crude oil inventory. So that's medium impacts, medium impact crude oil inventories and low impact Chicago PMI. We did get a cell signal there. I like it. Let's go for two 70 puts that expire in two days, 234. So I bought the two 70 puts that expire in two days at 234. I'm down a bit here. You got the finger on the trigger here. Oh no. I just not noticed something. Oh no. Boy. That's a big mistake. I had it set on one minute. Big mistake there. Big, big mistake. Oh gosh. I'm so disappointed in myself and that's rookie mistake. Wow. It's definitely moving to the upside. Alrighty. I went ahead and bought one call. I bought two 71 calls that expire in two days. I bought it to 51. I'm still in this trade here. Down a little bit. Not much. Let's see if we can get something going here. I'm still in it. I'm holding. I have a very particular exit strategy here. Still in it. I'm down about 10 bucks right now. The ask is 241. I got in at 251. Again, I'm still holding. I'm looking for a push up higher here. I'm still in this trade, believe it or not. 244 is on the bid. Not down a whole lot. I only bought one contract anyways. Looks like we're about to hit even again. Let's see if we can get a push up here. There we go. I sold. Let's see where I sold. Sold at 262. But at 251 sold at 262. It feels so bad about trade earlier today. I made back a little bit of that money that I lost. I lost essentially today lost 20 bucks. Here are my trades. Boy, that was just a huge, huge mistake. I was like in shock. I was in shock as to what I did. I basically lost $30 here, 30 cents here. Made back 10. I'm down 20 bucks overall. Still in the green, still in the green, but boy, gosh, what a big mistake. Absolute big mistake today in trading.  Then I got in. Let's see. Where did I get in? 745. I got in like right here, literally like the high of the day and then came back down. Finally after it came back up, it took off a little bit and I just, I took it. I took it. I took it. I took it, especially after today's big mistake. My strategy works here. It works on the five minutes very well. The good thing I didn't sell, I'm just really excited that I didn't sell in that retracement. Again, I had a very clear exit strategy on a bad trade. Thank you so much everybody for watching. Hit that subscribe button down below. Like and share my videos. Comment down below what you thought of my trading today. Anything, what you made money on, what you lost money on, what you need help with, what kind of videos you would like to see from me. And also don't forget about the drawing. Send me an email with the subject round two. Pick a number between one and 50 and tell me a little bit about yourself guys. Thank you so much for watching. We'll see you here next time.