There are a lot of great metaphors in the Course, and they seem to address the mind at different levels of awakening.    That's not any kind of collective or person or individual. And I would say that the errors are corrected from the bottom up. So a top-down approach would be God is love, all is one, all is love, and that's accurate. But it's just that it just flies over the head of everyone on the planet. If Jesus had just come here 2,000 years ago, and he just had two words to share, God is, and then he kind of did a little treatment show bow, that good afternoon, good evening, and good night, and poof! He just vanished. He probably would have been forgotten pretty quickly. I saw some kind of mirage, and there was a few of us who saw it, but it was the strangest thing. This guy showed up with his long hair, and he said God is, and then he vanished, and quickly forgotten. No, he came, and he was teaching with all these parables, whether it was with the apostles in the upper room, or in public standing in a boat or on the mount, the sermon on the mount, and so on and so forth. And it really was a bottom-up approach where a lot of the chorus is spoken as if the separation has occurred, as if there's two parts of the mind, one part that has denied spirit, and one part that remembers spirit. And it's all very practical. It's written as if. And when we talk about healing, people talk about sometimes healing the planet, or healing through groups, or all different kind of aspects of it. But the more you go into it, you start to realize that really there's only one ego, and there's only one mind that seems to be sleeping, and it's your own. And it's sneaky because you see all these people, the ego peopled the world, and it seems like they've all got minds of their own, and they're all sleepwalking too. And it's like, then you've got, instead of one problem, you've got like seven billion problems walking around. Seven billion problems interacting with themselves every day, which is kind of a mess, really. When you think of it, it's like, talk about a traffic jam. Seven billion egos trying to make it on planet Earth without blowing the place up with nuclear weapons or something. And sometimes it seems to get pretty close to that, you know. But actually, the deeper you go, you start to realize that every lesson is always for your own consciousness, for your own awareness. And at first, it just doesn't make any sense that there's only one of us here. It just doesn't seem, there's so much evidence that it's more complicated than that.  I actually had experiences when I was traveling around the United States and Canada and the world, where I'd be speaking in groups. And I was like hearing what was coming through for the very first time. And it's still that way, you know. I will be talking and a song will come through or a parable will come through. And sometimes it's, I'm like, oh, this is a new one. You know, it's like watching and observing, watching like this is brand new. I'm listening too. And I found that that's what was happening, that everything was being spoken was really for my own mind. And it was a mechanism for me to hear the spirit and hear what I needed to hear. Just by trying to be truly helpful for seemingly others, that was my mechanism to hear what I needed to most hear. And that's a great way to move quickly through the spiritual process is hearing what you need to hear. Getting it, getting those lessons. So in the early years, when I was just working with the Course at the beginning and then, and I just kind of memorized the Course and I was so devoted into it, then the travel years came after that. And when I was traveling in a different place every day, meeting new people every day, nothing was stable in the world of form. I was like on the move. I was going around 49 of the 50 states, not Alaska. I mean the other 49 states, I was generally on the move and then up into Canada too. I kept getting this one lesson in my mind which was, it's your own lessons, it's your lesson. It just would come in like a broken record.  Everywhere I would go, it didn't matter who I met, who I was talking to. There was no their lessons. The voice never went, that's their lesson. It was always your lesson, your lesson, your lesson. And that was good because that, for me, that's the way out of projection. That's the way out of blaming. That's the way out of thinking there's a cause outside your mind. Always pay attention to your emotions. How do you feel? How do you feel? Your lesson. How do you feel? How do you feel? Be authentic. Be honest. How do you feel? That really sped up the process for me. Because I wasn't trying to figure the world out. I'd already spent ten years in university trying to figure the world out. Failed miserably. I gave up after those ten years. I finally got into psychology and got into the mind and then I really knew I didn't know what anything meant. Listening to all these experts who've written books and turned their learning, so-called, worldly learning into careers. I would say constantly to the spirit, these professors really don't know what they're talking about. And the spirit was like, and you do? No, okay, I don't. They're just reflecting my own doubts, alright? I don't get it. I can't figure the world out. So the first, maybe the first two key aspects of really accelerating on the spiritual journey is to start to realize that you cannot figure the world out. You can't figure anything out about it.  That's why the first lessons of the course, nothing I see means anything. I've given everything I see, all the meaning it has for me. I do not understand what anything is for. He's not bluffing. He's just saying, if you can get this, you're going to be really happy in a hurry because you're going to go into that blank slate, the tabula rasa really quick. And so that's the first thing I had to really be convinced of, is that I didn't know anything about anything. And I didn't have to apologize about that.  I could just say I was being more humble and admitting that I really couldn't figure it out. My friend Jennifer, who's been on these last two shattaks with me, she would oftentimes frequently find herself in some room in her house or where she lives and then she just would have no idea how she got there or what she was doing.  And I had that happen a lot to me too, where I just had these moments where I just couldn't remember what happened before or how or why I even got there. And yet there was a calmness with it. There was a calmness like, this is good, not like you're losing your mind or you've lost it now or whatever. I would really get into that. And there were moments of openness. And then I could really see that that was part of my lesson of just presence, being presence and not judging anything. That's perfectly taken care of. There was never any harm, no harm ever came to me from those Chansey Gardner moments or those Mr. Magoo moments. I was actually feeling much better, more Mago-ish every year and perfectly taken care of as well. And so that's how I knew that I was on the right track. And then you go with it and then you find that things are all taken care of. When I first started traveling I thought, well this is going to be complex. How can you just simply travel? There's just so many logistics that have to be taken care of and the traveling. That's why a lot of people just choose to remain somewhat stationary because it's airports and searches and tickets and reroutings and delays and blah blah blah and all these things. Who would subject themselves to that? Yes, I could just forget about it. Forget about it all. Just stay present and let me do it through you. Let me do it through you, even including other people handling aspects of things. Big, huge gatherings and I just show up and have fun and think, well that was fun and I didn't have to know about all the details what went on behind the scenes. I manifested the spirit, had it. And so I did become better and better at just giving it over to spirit and just remembering all I had to do was show up. I love giving talks because I didn't know what I was going to talk about. I don't know what I'm talking about today. I didn't come here with an idea of what I would talk about or whether I would talk. I never have an expectation that I would actually talk. Which is kind of good to have too because those things happen too. One's to do eye gazing. Okay, let's do eye gazing. We had a lot of one-on-ones like that where people book a half an hour with me and then they just sit in this chair across me and then they get all comfortable and they go, and they don't say a word for the whole half an hour. The previous one talked, tried to tuck my arm out. The next one, not a word, just eye gazing for the half an hour. You know, it's all just given. There's not any expectations of how it's supposed to go. So that's really what the spiritual journey is. I think the process is letting go of the expectations.  It works out so well that it's almost surprising a little bit that it could be so easy when before you thought, oh no, it's never going to be that easy. It's going to be a lot of work. I have not found, as I've got into the surrender mode, I have not found it to be work at all. It's like having just fun all the time. It's very childlike, but there's not even any preparation for it. People say, do you like meditate before you talk? Oh no. If you mean like meditate as an activity of sitting and closing eyes and everything like that. No, it's all turned into a meditation. It's just one big meditation. I don't do anything before anything because I don't believe in preparation anymore. I'm kind of enjoying the way things are turning out. I'm always happy if somebody calls me on the phone, sends me an email. I'm always willing to be truly helpful around the clock, really. But really, there's no shoulds and ought tos and have tos. There's no pressure. There's no got to do this, got to do that, got to get this done. It's like a lot of times, human beings have to-do lists. But if you're being done through, the spirits is doing the sequencing. The spirits are just giving you one moment at a time, one thing at a time. There's no pressure because it's not your list. It's its list. And you're being done through and you feel glorious at being done through. It doesn't really even feel like a list. When we make things into a linear list, we put expectations on trying to get them accomplished in the morning or one day or one week, then the pressure comes in. But this is more of just what's given and then what's given and then what's given. And things can be stopped or interrupted. I don't even know what an interruption is. I don't believe I can be interrupted because it's such a continual flow that everything is part of that flow and there's nothing outside of that flow, so it's actually impossible to get even interrupted.  Just acceptance. Just pure acceptance.


to my channel guys it's sugar cocoa styles and on this channel we talk about beauty fashion lifestyle and styling guys so today i wanted to just come on here this is going to be about because i was doing something on instagram and i was thinking about i talked about the struggles of tall women and when it comes to like buying pants and jeans and dresses sometimes um mini skirts mini skirts we can't do guys you know that there just be way too short on us and to be quite honest as much as we have legs i personally think that we look really really nice in midi skirts so i'll probably pop in photos as i'm speaking to you guys um in the name of places so i wanted to talk to you about some brands that i think we can shop at um they don't necessarily focus on tall women stuff however you can get creative when it comes to shopping at these places and this is not a huge list but i find myself shopping here a lot um i didn't put every single brand that i have and i'll tell you why um i don't want to put things here that's super expensive because i sometimes do not care about the price depending on what the item is and it's because i really want it and i know i can't find it in my size so i have a list here for you ladies and i hope you guys enjoy because i think it's affordable um i think i think they're it's affordable let me just jump right into it so first i'll say this a lot of people shop at zahra right um zahra does not cater to tall women um however they do have pants and jeans sometimes that we could actually fit um i'll probably pop in the picture of me i have on a pair of their jeans and the only reason is the only reason why these jeans fit me is because of this styled number they have a lot of wide leg pants however they all are not created equally guys okay i bought another pair in black i have to cut them into shorts they just didn't fit me um they actually have nice shorts that i think are pretty nice um i actually have on a pair now maybe i'll show you guys maybe not maybe i will let me stand up really quick let me just stand up the way my camera is it might seem a little weird but can you guys see these shorts so let me slide the chair over i don't know if you guys can see so they're not they're short but they're not like like cooch cutters um and i have room around the leg part right i wasn't supposed to do that but you know so you can definitely find some things in there but it's not a place that we could always go i should add another i'm gonna add one more place here because they carry tall so sorry guys and yeah so i'll say this too uh you guys know i do not always shop at brands that cater to tall women and i've said this before i'm just not really a fan of the quality of the items so i don't do it um it's kind of bright in here let me turn this down so yeah so i sometimes i just don't do it um i don't like the quality i don't like the material it's just a few things i just don't like most of the time they'll make pants trousers with no pockets and i'm just like come on give us some pockets guys like they really do us dirty and i'm kind of over it but being that i'm from new york want to raise in new york so certain things i'm just like kind of accustomed to just like maneuvering through you know the fashion world as far as still being stylish right and tall because it's not easy for us so i'm gonna jump into brands that i currently buy and i'll go into i won't do like hats and stuff it's okay because they're just hats right however you guys know i love lack of color hats um brexton has decent hats i'm gonna say decent two things i don't like is their shipping method how they pack their things um and i think it's three things i don't like and the quality of their straw hats i just don't like um but their shipping method if they can fix that i think they would be a pretty decent affordable hat brand um but i am lack of color to the day i die okay so let me jump right into the brands so Levi's guys i know Levi's is an old brand but they carry 34 uh i want to say they go up to a 36 i have some pants that are extremely long um i know a lot of girls are getting away from like the super super long long jeans and they'll get something a little bit more crap at the ankle so they can wear their pumps and stuff um and to me that's perfect because you know you don't necessarily have to be stuck with finding long an extra long inseam because if you want them to just hit by your ankle honestly if you're like six feet a 32 would be just fine for you it'll hit right there um or maybe a 33 get your little ankle bracelet and you're good so Levi's now here's the kicker they're 501 jeans um i'm not gonna say that because i can't fit them and i'm not i'm not the thickest girl i'm far from big i'm not the thickest girl but i think what happens with those is because we are tall when you pull the pants up where it would typically hit a shorter person it's it's the struggle for us right um that's why i always say plus-sized women they have it better to me i always see really really nice things for them and a lot of stores cater to them so they forgot about us poor girls so Levi's is one good place they do have shorts now their shorts are not like oversized baggy type shorts i think the girls are wearing now um they're more fitted so if you still like that style they stretch yes they definitely have skinny jeans for us i don't know what's going on like why they think all tall women just want to wear skinny jeans we do like wide like pants because they look extremely nice on us so Levi's is one place to get some jeans from and the gap the gap has cigarette pans that i love um but they also have barrel jeans i think i have a picture with myself with them on maybe not i'll probably pop in a photo barrel jeans are nice they're like almost like mom jeans kind of like that baggy look so here's the thing i had to literally size up to a 14 guys which i couldn't do the 12 now that i'm thinking about it um but i had my tailor go in and she pretty much hooked me up like she cut the waist and she brought them up did all that good stuff this is why i say having a tailor as a tall woman is like your best friend so they have nice jeans also don't sleep on the gap and do not sleep on Levi it's just that they have our size guys um and those are for jeans river island and asos of course now i'm only saying asos because i know that they have a tall section but i usually don't buy stuff from asos river island yes river island has better way better quality um they also have really nice sweaters their their nits like their long cardigans are a one so i just want to throw those two in them the frankie shop they don't have a tall section guys right so all these places they don't have a tall section except for asos and river island but the frankie shop i bought a shirt it was like a crop white button-up shirt and again i'm not the biggest girl but i got a little bit of broad shoulders and my my breasts are kind of big so the shirt was cool but it was so tight around my breast so i had to take it back however they do have one size fit all tops those are perfect for us because they they're very oversized they're very cute and the quality is awesome guys the frankie shop has amazing amazing quality i would buy anything from them any given day um so the frankie shop is one of course banana republic i'm sorry they have a tall section so when banana republic um it's like a hit or miss for me honestly but when i do go there i do find that i can find ankle pants that are the proper length okay we us tall women we love ankle pants too the problem is that if we go to a regular store ankle pants are not so ankle now i have never tried to buy like a regular size 32 to see if it would fit me like a real ankle because it's not quite down there at the bottom it's it's a little bit above it but banana republic definitely has them they have trousers i have not seen jeans there and they have my kind of like cargo pants there so if you look at something like that definitely go for go there um affordable they have blazers that are also good let me see yeah the frankie shop has blazers i have no not yet it's it's still out of stock um but of course banana republic has nice blazers um and and zara guys i can wear zara blazers depending on where it's made um i did the video a couple of weeks ago with the blazer that was tailored that actually fit me but the other blazer fit me too short at the the wrist and i got it cropped so it's just getting creative guys so the frankie shop definitely has like really nice tops um for us that are one size fit all that we can actually fit and looks stylish guys um the other place is alc now i don't know if i have a video i probably do and if i can find it i'll pop it in i bought a pair of faux leather pants from alc and they were actually long enough for me and it also had enough room inside for me to take out if i wanted to and i think i did um they were pretty expensive but i will say that they ripped the first time i wore them in like the little middle area and again i'm not a big girl but i just think that they should have did a little bit better with the stitching but the pants are actually really really nice so alc i've purchased blazers from them nice blazers now they are a lot of ones to their price but for some who don't want to spend $400 on a blazer or even $600 on a blazer it's not for you then stick to zara stick to zara blazers that are the ones that are $149 those are the best quality guys you know i'm big on quality so yes alc is another place you can find some good pants that are pretty long and nice blazers for us now i have a shirt and a pair of pants from this place called hofman kopen kopenhagen and i found this brand on intermix so intermix is a place that has multiple brands that they sell multiple items jewelry shoes clothes whatever and i came across this brand and oh my god this shirt is a gorgeous like the sleeves are long so it's just really really really getting creative and really doing your research guys um because i'll tell you this i'm not going to be stuck only shopping at places that cater to tall women and the reason why is being from new york i was able to find other things that were fitting for my body that were not just made for tall women if that makes sense so um another brand is iro iro they have nice things and they don't cater to tall women but their tops and their jackets we can definitely get away with now if you have an arm length that is probably longer than 24 then you may start to struggle a little bit with some of these brands um but if you don't mind just cropping up your sleeves and stuff then go ahead chow so iro has really nice things they're not the cheapest and they're not the most expensive but if you want something a little bit more unique then i would say go for them um so those are the clothes the brands and the stores that i like to shop at um that's just a small portion of it guys i'm looking around because i have other stuff in here um and then when it comes to shoes okay i got some big old feet and i have wide feet i got my mom's feet so i have to be creative i have rebecca minkoff shoes right i have jimmy shoes i have berman shoes now berman runs small so i have to literally size up to a 12 like literally i think they just run narrow um and i have sam edelman which sam edelman pumps they're they're not expensive they're like 150 guys seriously and i actually think they're really good now they came out with a new style same they're supposed to be the same one as the old ones but they're just not the same i think the quality is not as good as they were before so i'm hoping that they kind of go back to the old style um because those are pretty pretty decent and then what else i have i have quite a bit of shoes in there but those are the brands that i strictly strictly go for stowed has has nice shoes good quality they go up to a size 12 i believe um and berman goes up to a size 12 as well so if you have narrow feet you'll be fine with berman if you're feeling like super wide you may have a problem but if you have like an average wide foot like my feet are wide um i'm i'm okay with getting into them uh so i wear a 10 and a half but i always get like an 11 11 and a half all the time um so those are the shoes i like to buy um and if you do have a size bigger like bigger than a 12 i think there's a brand there's a young lady on instagram she's always um promoting the lady shoes um i'm gonna get it something with a l laniya lonaia l o a and something like that i'm gonna find it um but i think she goes up to like a 14 maybe um but you guys listen being tall it's not like the worst thing in the it's not the end of the world right it's not the end of the world we can definitely find things that are stylish we can still be stylish we may not be able to jump on every trend which is fine but it doesn't mean that we can't look nice right so that's why i'm here guys i just want women to know like you can be confident and be tall we're not average height we're always gonna stand out um people tell us not to wear heels but screw them okay wear your heels ladies embrace it um and that's it right just always look nice you know if you can't figure out how to style yourself if you aren't tall you guys know i do personal and i teach women how to actually do this um it's fun because i think women get kind of caught up in what they see online and feel like they have to dress like everybody else and you actually really don't because if you really think about if you look at instagram this is like this is gonna sound so bad but it's like sets of girls actually you have the girls who are like basic neutral colors all the time they have the real colorful girls then you have the girls who are always wearing body kind of dresses no matter what the girls who are always wearing sports bra tops with like biking shorts with heels like you have those girls um so don't think that you have to do what everybody else is doing to be stylish you really don't like stylish like i said before is unique to the individual and fashion is more of a collective so everybody's doing it so you can mix a little bit of fashion with your style but you definitely don't have to always be fashionable like on every trend it's just you don't have to do that but i just wanted to come over here and give you guys some of the brands that i really like to shop at and just get creative and you know what think about it when you buy shirts and stuff that are what okay i'll say this i feel like now a lot of shirts are crop tops like i like i didn't get that memo like everybody got like a six pack or something but all the shirts are crop now that's not really my thing however you can get creative with it like you can get creative if you really want to wear if you don't want to show too much of your body definitely wear a shirt over it make it more of a sporty look opposed to wearing a sports bra top in like leggings and heels like you know if that's not your thing don't do that try something different throw a white shirt over it um if you still want to wear shoes with it that's that that's fine but if you want to like dress it down because you normally want to bring too much attention to yourself wear sneakers wear some cute classic sneakers you guys know i love me the coyotes okay i love coyotes um their classic they're all white and they're sleek and they're affordable and they just have style guys so that's it like just make sure you are like really diving into your own personal style if you have any questions for me guys put them in the comment box for me um let me know what you would like to see as far as tall girls stuff you guys know i'm still trying to really get the hang of this thing like i'm so serious because youtube is it's different from instagram but you know it's still a place for me to express how i am as far as being a tall woman some of the struggles that i deal with in places that i shop at so comment below if you stay to the end of this video please comment koko we see you don't forget to follow me on instagram my koko styles and why that is my business page and koko styles nyc is my personal page and my blog koko styles nyc.com and my personal styling website koko styles and wides.com and i will catch you guys in the next one bye guys


Hello and welcome to this presentation of the iCache module which is embedded in all products of the STM32L5 microcontroller family. The instruction cache or iCache is introduced on the CAHB code bus of Cortex M33 processor to improve performance when fetching instructions and data from both internal and external memories. It implements a slave port connected to the Cortex M33C bus and two master ports connected to the AHB5 bus matrix. The purpose of the instruction cache is to cache instruction fetches or instruction memories loads coming from the processor. As such, iCache only manages read transactions and doesn't manage write transactions. The iCache supports two configurations, two-way set associative cache or direct mapped. The memory address remap capability enables accesses to external memories to be steered to the C bus instead of the S bus. The iCache contributes to reducing power consumption. Accessing the small internal iCache memory in case of a cache hit consumes less than reading from flash memory or external memories. A software configuration of iCache as direct mapped allows even lower power consumption. The iCache supports memory address remapping for up to four address regions. This improves bus transaction concurrency as accesses to external memories are performed using the C bus instead of the S bus. The cache line size is 16 bytes, the replacement algorithm is sued at least recently used based on a binary tree and critical word first-bus ordering minimizes the latency of the instruction or data requested by the processor. Two performance counters provide statistics about the utilization of the iCache. A hardware sequencer activated by software is in charge of invalidating the entire contents of the iCache. Dual master access is a feature used to decouple the traffic according to targeted memory. For example, iCache assigns fast traffic i.e. addressing flash and SRAM memories to the AHB master 1 port and slow traffic i.e. addressing external memories sitting on OctoSBI and FMC interfaces to the AHB master 2 port thus preventing processor stalls on line refills from external memories. This allows interrupt service routine fetching on internal flash memory to take place in parallel with a cache line refill from external memory. The non-remapped traffic goes systematically to master 1 port. For any remapped region, traffic can be routed to either master port 1 or master port 2. The iCache flags an error and possibly asserts an interrupt request whenever it detects unexpected cacheable write accesses. An interrupt request can also be asserted upon completion of the cache invalidation sequence. The iCache doesn't manage AHB bus errors on master 1 or master 2 transactions but propagates them back to the execution port that received the initial C bus transaction. The ARMv8M default mapping and also the MPU define a cache attribute that the iCache uses to determine whether a lookup has to be performed. Two conditions have to be satisfied to perform the cache lookup. AHB lookup attribute asserted an iCache enabled. In case of a non-cacheable access, iCache is bypassed meaning that the AHB transaction is propagated and changed to the master output port except for the transaction address which may be modified due to the address remapping feature. The bypass and eventually remap logic doesn't increase the latency of the access to the targeted memory. iCache is disabled at boot. This slide details the cache organization in the two possible configurations. Two-way set associative and direct mapped. In two-way set associative mode, each way contains 256 lines of 16 bytes. Thus, the four LSBS of the address represent an offset within a cache line and the 8-bit index selects one entry among 256 in the tag memories and in the data memories. In direct mapped mode, the unique way contains 512 lines of 16 bytes. The index has therefore one additional bit. All cache operations such as read, refill, remapping and invalidation remain the same in direct mapped configuration. The only difference is the absence of a replacement algorithm in the case of a line eviction since only one way is possible for any data refill. The other difference is for power consumption. In two-way set associative mode, both cuts of memories, way zero tags plus data and way one tags plus data, are read speculatively at each cacheable memory request. In direct mapped mode, only one hardware memory cut is accessed, the one containing the 9-bit index. So direct mapped reduces the power consumption. A complete cache invalidation occurs in three circumstances. Automatically, after iCache reset is released, when software sets the cache-INV bit in the iCache-CR register, when software disables the iCache by clearing the EN bit in the iCache-CR register, cache invalidation is performed by a hardware sequencer that sets the busy F-bit until invalidation is completed. The B, S, Y and F flag is set upon completion of the invalidation procedure and can be used to assert an interrupt request. Software must test busy F and or B, S, Y and F values before enabling the iCache. Otherwise, if iCache is enabled before the end of an invalidate procedure, any cache access while busy F still at one is treated as non-cacheable. iCache is placed on CAHB bus and thus caches the code memory region, ranging from address 0x0 to 0x1FFFFFF of the memory map. In order to make some other memory regions cacheable, iCache supports a memory region remapping feature. Up to four external memory regions can be defined, whose addresses have an alias in the code region. Addressing these external memory regions through their code alias address allows the memory request to be routed to the CAHB bus and to be managed by iCache. Typically, any external memory space physically mapped at an address somewhere in the range 0x60 million to 0x9FFFF can be aliased with an address in range 0x0 to 0x07FFFF or 0x10 million to 0x1FFFFFF. The remapping functionality is also available for non-cacheable traffic and when cache is disabled. The burst type of AHB memory transactions for remapped regions is programmable. INCR for increment or wrap. A cache line is aligned on its size. Wrap for burst ordering minimizes the latency of the instruction or data explicitly requested by the processor. The word containing the data targeted by the address driven by the processor will be transferred first. It's called the critical word because it contains the information actually needed by the processor. The remaining words are then transferred using the wrap ordering. For instance, if the word number 3 is transferred first, there's a wrap to the beginning of the cache line and the sequence of words that follows is word 0, word 1, and word 2. In INCR mode, it's the same word ordering, word 0, word 1, word 2, word 3, whatever the read request address at line A, at line A plus 4, at line A plus 8, or at line A plus C. The software can program the kind of AHB burst that is generated by iCache masterports. Typically, wrap for remapped external memories accessed through the Octo-SPI interface. INCR burst mode for external memories accessed through the FSMC interface that doesn't support wrap burst mode. The hit and the miss capability is the ability to serve processor requests for an access to cache data during an ongoing line refill due to a previous cache miss. In step one, the Cortex M33 requests data contained in a cache line that is not currently in the cache. A cache lookup is performed because the region containing the target address is assumed to be cacheable, accessible from C-bursts, and iCache is active. The result of this lookup is a cache miss. Consequently, the iCache issues a cache line read request to memory in order to acquire the cache line containing the data explicitly requested by the processor. In step two, the memory returns the cache line and forwards the critical word to the processor, data i. At the same time, the processor issues a second request targeting the same cache line. In step three, the iCache detects this occurrence and delivers the corresponding data to the processor, thus avoiding a cache miss. The hit and the miss feature consists in serving a hitting request just after the previous miss without waiting for the complete refill of the cache line. The hit monitor counts the AHB transactions at the input of iCache execution port that do not generate a transaction on iCache Output Master 1 or Master 2 port. It also takes into account the hit and the miss events. The miss monitor counts the AHB transactions at the input of the iCache execution port that generates a transaction on iCache Output Master 1 or Master 2 port. It also takes into account all accesses whose address is not present in either the tag memory or the refill buffer. These counters do not wrap over when they reach their maximum value. They can be dynamically enabled and disabled by software, which is useful for analyzing specific pieces of code. The iCache has one interrupt request output but two sources of interrupts. Error detection on cacheable write request, flag is S-R-E-R-R-F, end of invalidate operation, flag is B-S-Y and F. Each interrupt source has independent status, enable and clear bits. iCache implements an ARM V8M trust zone. iCache registers are protected at system level, enabling only secure software to access them when trust zone is enabled. The TAMP module can autonomously trigger the erasure of the contents of the iCache for security reasons. iCache is clocked by the Cortex-M33 CAHB bus clock, so it has the same clock domain as the Cortex-M33 core, the same clock frequency and the same behavior during low power modes. When disabled, iCache is bypassed except for the remapping mechanism that is still functional. The code bus input requests, remapped or not, are just forwarded to the master ports. To reduce power consumption, the hit and miss monitors are disabled by default. They are to be used only during code debug and optimization. This is a list of peripherals related to the iCache. Please refer to these peripheral trainings for more information if needed. ARM Cortex-33, TAMPA and backup registers, nested vectored interrupt controller, internal flash memory, external memory interfaces, oak to SPI and FSMC.


up to our wide load. I think we're nine and a half feet wide. So it's not that wide. So here's our load for today. We're about nine and a half feet wide. Not too wide. We'll be able to stay within our lane, but it'll be close, especially with this piece back here. Time is about 9 a.m. So according to my permits, I'm now allowed to enter city limits. Don't got to worry about rush hour. I'm not allowed to drive this thing to rush hour anyway. I'm honest with you guys that I'm not perfect and I'm always learning stuff and re-learning stuff and refreshing my memory on stuff and one of my co-workers here refreshed my memory on our permits. Before you pull a wide load anywhere, you should be reading through all of your permits to make sure you know where you can and can't go and when. So we're giving up this morning and reminded me that between 7 and 9 a.m., you can't pull a wide load into city limits. Outside of city limits is a different story, but inside city limits, between those hours, you can't pull that in there. So wait until 9 o'clock, head on into the city. I'm okay with that because I wasn't really excited about pulling a wide load through rush hour anyway. But before you leave with a wide load, always check your permits. You are to disregard the permit and go into the city during that rush hour period. I've not been there, therefore it's 100% my fault for this. I got to go move into a sleeper truck after this because we're going on an overnight to Saskatchewan. Good thing there was no cars this side of. We're done with this trailer for today and we're also done with that truck. I've got to go find a Dark Hole Unit 42. I'm going to be taking that truck up to Saskatchewan. I think it's a Kenworth T680. Better go find it. Apparently it hasn't been started for about a month, so I'm hoping that I won't have any issues getting it going. But we'll see. 42 on the back to me. Oh, please be plugged in. Please be plugged in. Please be plugged in. Yes, it's plugged in. Good. It's up 42. I mean you've got a date overnight. We're going to spend the night together. Good thing my wife is an understanding woman. Kenworth T680. I'm actually kind of excited. If I wanted a big condo unit like one of those big luxury trucks for the highway use, like if I was over the road still, my first choice would be a Kenworth T680 just like that.  But if I was going for pure comfort, that's the truck. Let's go say hello, shall we? Place your bets now. Is she going to start up for me or is she going to be stubborn? She's going on a date with me, whether she likes it or not. Thanks girl. Caught me. Would have fell over. Fell into the fender instead. Huh. Oh, look at this fancy herd bumper on the front. Okay, let's see if we can get her going. It says 42. Yeah, 42 going on a date. Before we start her up, better check her oil. We're looking at a pack our power plant in here. Nicely tucked inside the frame. Just like always. Check the oil here and then give her a start. It also, it already says low voltage. It's been parked here for about a month. So let's see if she'll turn over and her cycle through. Just held her air pretty good still. Wow. Here we go. Oh, no problem. No problem. That's a Kenworth for you. Oh, yes. We're going to have fun. Oh, creepiness aside though. I mean, this is a beautiful truck. Look at this. Look how much space is in here. Nice. Huge. That is awesome. So if you were to come work for us on the dark hole side, this is probably one of the units that you might be put in on the highway. Looks pretty comfortable.  Thank you very much. DEF is reasonably full. A little over three-quarter. Nice. What's up with this? That's like sticky goo on here. Oh well. Okay, I'm going to move my stuff over into here. I'm going to do the pre-trip on this. A little change of plans, everyone. I got myself all set up in here. This place is amazing. I'm going to give you more of a tour of it tomorrow, I guess. My bed all set up here. This thing's amazing. It's like a condo on wheels. But, however, our receiver was supposed to receive us Saturday. That's why I was leaving today on Friday and they're going to receive me tomorrow. They don't want to receive us on Saturday now. They want to receive us on Sunday, which is odd. But that's what they want. That's what they'll get. Good thing they caught me before I left Winnipeg. I was just probably about 45 minutes down the road. I had to turn around and come back. I'm going to go home for the night. Probably leave around like noon or something tomorrow here. It's only an eight hour drive and then we'll drive on Saturday. We'll drive back Sunday and that'll be my weekend. That'll be my weekend. Back to work here on Monday. Probably recapping hours all next week because I'm not going to get a reset in now. But good thing that I don't use a lot of hours while I'm doing my city work. So I still have like, let's see here, because I use e-logs, right? I still have 48 hours, almost 49 hours left on my 70. I'm going to use about 16 to 20 of it this weekend.  Can't go more than 14 days like that in Canada recapping hours, but oh well. I wasn't going to take diesel with me. I really wanted to, but this truck, again, was just detailed and it's not my regular truck. So if I were to do that, I want to make sure I have permission to do that. And of course, I'd have to detail it myself again after not like diesel is a big mess maker. He doesn't make a big mess, but you know, he does shed some hair. So I'd have to vacuum everything up and make sure it looks better than it was when I got in here. And this thing looks pretty good already. So we'll see. I'll think about it tomorrow. Maybe I'll text and see if they mind. But it's the weekend. I'll probably end up just going by myself quickly running it out there and running back. That's a conversation for tomorrow though. So we have two more days of trucking coming Saturday and Sunday. Not going to miss a beat. Good thing I love trucking so much. Let's go home. See the dogs. Let's surprise them. They thought I wasn't going to come home until tomorrow night.


Yeah, the Premier League side at home though, we want to add to the home mentality. I think it's growing, like I said early season, I think the performances were there, the outcome was, but we're getting the outcome right now and we certainly did last night. So we'll look forward to that game.


Good evening. My name is Clay Purvis. I am the director for telecommunications and connectivity with the state of Vermont. We're here tonight to discuss the final draft of the 10-year telecom plan. This is the second draft earlier last month. We issued the public comments draft and held hearings and accepted comments on the public comments draft. We've now made changes based on those comments and also incorporated the comments into the final draft. So this hearing tonight is to discuss the final draft. I have with me Alex Kelly from Rural Innovations. What's the S stand for? I'm sorry. Strategies. Thank you. Rural Innovations Strategies Incorporated. Thank you business buzzword. Yes. And he's here tonight to give a very brief, much more brief than the public comments version of to go over the plan. And then we'll open it up to public comment. We have received questions from the public about whether we'll consider these comments. Statutorily, we're not obligated to incorporate these comments that we received on the final draft from the plan, but we're interested in hearing from you what comments you have and what changes, if any, should be made to the plan. And we'll certainly take them under consideration. So with that, I will turn it over to Alex. And then at the conclusion of Alex's presentation, we will open it up to comment. I think I'll start first with folks who joined online. Then we'll go to anyone who might be on the phone who wants to comment, and then we will end the evening with comments from the member of the public in this room. So we'll do it that way. So with that, Alex, take it away. Great. Can you all see this deck on the screen? Yes. Fantastic. Well, thank you all so much for attending this input session. I just want to reiterate what Clay said, which is that we received a lot of feedback on the public input draft version of the report, which was fantastic. We are here again to listen to your feedback on the draft version of the report. I will move through this rather quickly because we are assuming that everyone who is commenting on the final draft version has read that version, and so does not need this reminder. But nonetheless, I will move through this and outline what is included in the final draft to prompt comments. So without any further ado, it's worth noting at the outset that we're in a very unique position as a state with a large number of premises still lacking good wired 25 over 3 service, but significant resources from the American Rescue Plan and other sources, perhaps, to serve a number of these premises. So our mission with this plan is to document how kind of new wireline broadband deployments can be done efficiently with accountability in a way that achieves secondary goals as well, or really other goals besides wireline broadband deployment, namely mobile voice coverage, enhanced public safety, and advance all of the statutory goals in 30 VSA 202C. So another thing I wanted to call out at the outset is that this plan was informed by core values that we as Vermonters have, and those values also are informed by a statute. And so in accordance with 30 VSA 202E, B5, and 9, for example, the plan illustrates how these new deployments can be done efficiently, targeting households that currently lack infrastructure capable of 253. You know, other goals were longevity. We want to fix broadband for good and not have to deal with this again in five years. We want future proof solutions. In accordance with 30 VSA chapter 82, the plan prioritizes local control and local input over the process. There are perhaps faster ways to deploy broadband that don't involve as much local control and local input, but that is a core Vermont value and that value informs the plan. And lastly, we wanted to do so with equity in mind to ensure that the benefits of expanded broadband access are not out of reach to Vermonters for any reason. So we'll start with a quick recap of the section of the plan that addresses the 100 over 100 broadband, wireline broadband. The plan documents where the state is in terms of its current deployment and current challenges. And, you know, the past year outside of the pandemic has been very impactful on our broadband deployment. Not only has the Ardolf subsidy been awarded and locations across Vermont have been awarded resources to build broadband, and that is complicated CUD planning in many regards. But the Ardolf subsidy and stimulus money is creating intense labor and materials demand. So for all of these reasons, you know, we need to keep being strategic and supporting the vehicles that we've empowered to address the broadband gaps in our state with technical assistance as complexity grows. So the plan endorses the framework laid out in H360. And the plan also suggests frameworks and mechanisms for what the Vermont Community Broadband Board should be thinking about as they enact H360. And our recommendations in the plan align with, again, the goals laid out in statute. I think the main questions we have, and I'll pause longer on this slide because it's new from the draft plan, is some of the following. So, you know, we talk about how can the Vermont Community Broadband Board establish more granular and precise rules for awarding funding? So there's no ambiguity about who should be winning subsidy, what their metrics are for grading applications, and so forth. In H360, there is language about ensuring that eligible applicants who are not CUDs don't conflict with the CUD's universal service plan. And so we talk about making sure the rules that the VCBB establishes don't cause undue antagonism between entities that otherwise would be great partners. We talk a little bit about accountability and making sure that resources are being spent responsibly and monitored closely. And we talk about, you know, the idea that the VCBB should be very concerned with the long-term sustainability of new networks of any kind. And a little bit about what the VCBB may have to think about in instances where the economics are really tough in our very rural areas. Can you go full screen and just use your arrow keys to move through them? Yeah, tell me if this continues to share screen and hold on. Is he still seeing the screen? Yeah, it's good. Yeah, just like that. I think your arrow keys will get you through it. Thank you so much. Yeah, good idea. So the plan also recommends technical standards for networks that are subsidized by funding from the VCBF. Those standards include a number of things. I would point you to the plan to see them fully fleshed out, but scalability, extra strands, and capacity to accommodate public safety and expansion of cell service, avoidance of host remote isolation, multiple paths of egress, appropriate resiliency and redundancy, and of course, regular third-party audits for cybersecurity and other measures. The plan also talks about the path of the CUDs ahead of them. And I think it's just important to reiterate that now is a pivotal moment to make sure our CUDs are successful in achieving their mission, and we want to set them up for success for decades. So we recommend in the plan specific capacity and expertise the CUDs might need to be successful, including what you see on the page here and what is in the plan. And then lastly, as we mentioned, equity is a focus of the plan and a goal of the state. So we discuss in the plan ways to ensure and strategies for ensuring that all vermonitors can take advantage of our telecommunications networks. When it comes to mobile, you can see in the plan a propagation analysis and an assessment based on our modeling of both addresses that are covered indoors and outdoors or not covered at all. And again, because signal strength diminishes as you go through walls, there's a difference between the addresses covered outdoors and indoors. The one thing I have note here is that we did the analysis based on Vermont-based towers. So there are some border towns that perhaps have service from across the river, across the lake. The plan also includes an assessment of coverage along roadways, because that is in statute as a goal of the state. As you can see, Class 1 roads are covered. We estimate it over 90%. That drops off as you go to Class 2, 3, 4, and other roads. So the plan recommends a mechanism for increasing mobile coverage based on an RFP process that welcomes a variety of infrastructure types and solutions. I think we can all agree that especially with mobile deployment, different towns have different appetites for different types of deployment, whether that be small cell deployments, 4G, 5G towers, and so forth. And so our mechanism here that we propose does not prescribe a type of infrastructure, but focuses on ensuring that the community has vetted and validated the proposal, as well as suggests scoring mechanisms along state priorities. Public safety is critical and we received a lot of good feedback on the public safety section of the plan. There are some bright spots in the state. For example, during the pandemic, Vermont migrated to a next Gen 9-1-1 system and that migration went very well. Related to public safety, obviously, is that the broadband expansion needs to adhere to best practices for resiliency and security. And mobile broadband, obviously, is a big part of that. We received a lot of feedback on land mobile radio systems. There are some local land mobile radio systems that are aging. And local areas and local first responders don't yet feel that FirstNet is sufficiently mature, reliable to abandon the land mobile radio systems, and we would agree with that. And lastly, we noted that public safety communications increasingly rely on private networks. That's networks from AT&T and Verizon and others. And so we recommend specific applications and technical considerations around that fact. Lastly, the plan addresses PEG-TV, public educational and governmental TV. We want to reiterate that PEG-TV channels are an incredible asset to the state. They were during the pandemic, they were before the pandemic, and they will be long into the future. And what we heard from them is that they are seeking funding predictability and stability as their traditional funding sources are jeopardized by changes in the way we interact with technology. So we certainly endorsed the premises in the Berkshire report, which was just written last year to address changes in PEG business models. They also recommended some alternate sources of funding that PEG could use instead of their current mechanisms. And I think we would really reiterate what they note, which is that any significant change in funding source does require extensive legal tax analysis and may carry some legal risk. And so it should be vetted extensively and appropriately before adoption. Of course, I think PEG-TV has demonstrated their extreme value in the state. And so, if there is a funding shortfall, of course, the general fund is an option before a long-term funding source can be established. So with that, let me see if I can give you a screen share, and then I'm excited to listen to your input and take notes. Great. Thank you very much, Alex. I appreciate it. So if you're online and you'd like to participate, please use the raise hand feature on the Microsoft Teams. And we'll begin calling on you. So first, I see Tom Lepolt. Sorry, Tom, if I butchered your last name. No, you got that right, actually. I just want to say thank you for everything that you're going to do and are doing for Public Access. I won't rehash what Alex went over. My name's Tom Lepolt. I'm the executive director of Public Access. I'm the executive director of Public Access. I've gone on six years now. I've actually been part of that organization since 1993. During the pandemic, we actually served our community greatly. We teamed up with the Rulan Regional Medical Center and did six live updates with doctors. So folks actually could call in and speak to a doctor locally and ask questions. And the hospital was very thankful for that. I'm very happy to be here. Thank you very much. Very thankful for that, as was the public. We teamed up with Catmout Radio and they simulcasted that, all of those broadcast. We also have a strong relationship with Brock. So during the pandemic, we helped them promote their food drives and let public know where they could get food and supplies, folks that really needed it. Currently, we're in the midst of graduation season and we've covered every major graduation in the county. Anyone that has asked us to do so, we've gladly sent someone to the school to cover graduation. We even helped some schools stream our signal. So when we're there recording it, we offer the video and audio out to our camera to their website so folks can see it live once they can't go. And as you know, I believe a loss in our services due to a funding cut would be very detrimental to the area. Thank you for supporting some of the recommendations in the Berkshire study. And I do believe that public access television does add to a strong democracy in the community. And I appreciate that the state of Vermont does everything it can to continue to support PECTV over the next 10 years and beyond. Thank you for your time. Thank you, Tom. How do we have anyone else online who would like to make a comment? All right. David Jones. David, take it away. Yes. Thank you, Clay. This is David Jones. I'm with DV Fiber. I have one technical question and one general point, which is a which I'm not prepared to provide a specific recommendation for. Technical question. Figure 16, page 89, PDF page 96 suggests that the cumulative cost per passing for a fiber optic network would be about $10,000 in year one and somewhere in the range of $17,000 by year two and then be stable at that level. It would seem to me that a cost per passing of $17,000 would be an insanely high amount. And I believe that there's either a calculation error or a labeling error. And I think it should be corrected in the report. I don't believe that your overall estimate of cost to deploy for the entire state assumes a fiber cost per passing of $17,000 per location. So that's the technical point. I would suggest taking a look at that. Again, that's figure 16, page 89, PDF, page 96. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Clay. And then a topic I'm wrestling with but don't have a specific solution to provide is that as we go to deployment, time is going to be of the essence because the marketplace does not wait for us. And so the degree of oversight to be applied by the broadband board is going to need to balance the necessity for a rapid deployment with the other objectives of trying to make the deployment plan as good as possible. So again, I think that's something that the board is going to have to wrestle with and to the extent that the plan gives the broadband board discretion, I think that will be helpful. Thank you very much. Thank you, David. Do we have Larry Lackey next? Hi, Larry. Nice to see you again. Likewise, Clay. Yeah, just for the record, I'm Larry Lackey, resident of Stowe, just appearing here on my own behalf, not as an on behalf of Stowe Electric Department of which I'm a commissioner or the oil fiber net of which I am the treasurer, just my own thoughts. First, I wanted to mention pole attachment fees. I know that few years ago, the PUC amended rule 3.7 to both to clarify and expedite the process for licensing and make ready. And the PUC also reduced the pole attachment rates or the formula at the time. But I feel that there's more work left to be done on the pole attachment rate, which as you probably know, established as a presumption that the rate would be set for the communication space on the assumption that the attached cable would require one and a quarter feet of vertical space on the pole. And the electric safety codes that dictate the amount of space needed on the pole only require one foot. And while that may sound like a small amount, but it means that the pole rates are 25% higher than they ought to be if they were based on a fully allocated cost formula. So I'd recommend that the department take another look at that issue and advocate for an amendment to the rule or at a minimum allow the attaching entities to demonstrate that they don't need that much space on the pole. And I think this is especially important in a time when so many new providers are attaching cables to poles to bring broadband to everyone in the state. And those recurring costs for pole rent are a significant operating expense for all of those carriers. Second thing I wanted to mention was railroad crossings and the difficulty to any wireline communications provider or even an electric utility in trying to obtain access to cross a railroad, whether underground or aerial. VTrans, as you know, owns a lot of the rail beds in the state and they're good to deal with, they're very fair. The private rail operators seem to view any communication, any wire that would cross their right of way as a complication and that the best way to deter it is to charge such a high fee that people just go away. In fact, I once had a rail operator told me that was how they set their exorbitant fee. And I'm not sure what the remedy is given their property rights or what they believe their property rights are, but it's just it's like a landmine for any any wireline carrier that's trying to design a network and sometimes they just have to be on the other side of the track and there's no way around it. So it would be, it might be helpful for the department to look at remedies for that and maybe some guidance on what are reasonable reasonable access policies would be. The next comment I had before you was about cellular coverage and it's good to see that the draft plan recognizes that there's a great deficiency of cellular coverage in the state. My own view is that the root cause of the gaps in coverage stem from weak bill out requirements in the radio frequency licenses issued by the FCC. They typically talk about a carrier serving maybe x percent say 95 percent of the the potential population within a certain number of years. And unfortunately, Vermont always seems to be in the last five percent. And that's at the same time the FCC is auctioning spectrum and getting billions of dollars for it. And it just seems to me that the FCC ought to raise the bar for coverage and presumably accept a little less than auction revenue that just goes into the federal coffers. And so there may be a role for the department to play in advocating for for the interests of Vermont in having more stringent radio frequency coverage licenses. Next item I wanted to touch on was this idea of mobile backhaul over fiber. And I do agree there's an opportunity for or some synergy. But I think that whatever financial assistance that the state offers would need to recognize there's an additional cost to that. And that the resources of that any carrier, including a CUD that's looking to to provide universal coverage are going to be stretched. And I think there's a possibility that the money spent that the state might require a CUD to invest in spare strands would just go unused. And so I guess you just need to be mindful of adding an additional cost burden to not any district that's already seeing just the provision of basic broadband service as a as a stretch. I don't think you want to make it add so much to their responsibilities that they can't really aren't viable. The plan mentioned this idea of issuing RFPs for solutions that would bring improved cellular coverage to communities. And I think it's appropriate that they are the processes is very general. But I think you're probably aware of the experience with coverage code, which had a solution that may have been technically feasible, but commercially the major cell carriers had wanted nothing to do with it. And so I just think whatever the state does, they need to be mindful not just of the they really have to have the commercial feasibility foremost in their mind, not just what's technically feasible. So that's it for now. I don't want to dominate your hearing, but thanks for the opportunity to comment. Thank you, Larry. Appreciate it. Would anyone else who is on the team's meeting like to provide a comment? Okay, going once, going twice. If you have anyone on the phone, going once, going twice. All right. Are you going to ask if you're recording who it is five, seven or seven? Yeah, I just asked if anyone on the phone wants to participate and I'm not hearing anything. So it's fine to come to a meeting and listen. So we'll open it up to people in here. Who would like to go first? Steve Whitaker. I have studied the I commented in 2018 extensively. I commented in 2014 extensively. Most of those comments were never incorporated into the plan. The law changed since 2018 and requires that the department respond to all public comments in the public, in the final draft for all comments that were made in the public comment draft. Either incorporate those into the plan or provide a detailed explanation of why they were not incorporated. What I find in the final draft is an appendix G wherein one of the department staff, not CTC engineers who have the capability to see the merit in those voluminous detailed comments, but a department staff basically dismissed and trivialized most of the precise public comments, especially relating to a network to support the public access channels, resiliency and route diversity to protect cell coverage as a last resort when a lot of aerial fiber gets blown down or power outages disabled systems over fiber or coax and public safety radio. The the pretense to not know what I was talking about when I referred to the microwave network. The state has a multimillion dollar state microwave network, which is mission critical backed up with generators and diverse routes in most cases. That has an OC three capable capacity right now, and it could be upgraded to an OC 12 or OC 48 if needed, and be our first line of recovery and resilience in the event of a major hurricane coming through. We could get the microwave system back up and running and access it from most of the remote areas weeks before we would be able to restore fiber backhaul in such a disaster scenario. So for that to be dismissed and the Department of Public Safety be considered to be a closed island that we don't have the right to look in, the statute requires that the department analyze all state systems, including the state microwave system and propose I'll quote from that one. Well, let me let me back up a minute. Let me just start with a generalized statement. The final draft of the 10-year telecommunication plan falls dramatically short of 90%, approximately 90% of the statutory requirements. Among them, the final draft plan proposes to allow the CUDs when negotiating with consolidated communications or other internet service providers to negotiate a way crucial and hard won Vermont laws and statutory goals and policies such as net neutrality, open access to shared infrastructure, a competitive choice for consumers. Those are not negotiable. Those are foundation elements. And I'm troubled understand not from Matt's but Alex pointed to your reliance on chapter 82 of title 30 is only the CUD chapter and that came much later only past in recent years. But the 202C goals and policies have been in effect since 1987 with limited exception, open access and competitive choice were added in 10 years ago. But this idea of shifting and waiving the rights and the obligations of state for net neutrality, competitive choice and open access in favor of local control, which only relates to CUDs is absolutely absurd. It's an abuse of the statutory framework for this telecommunications plan. The legal analysis section, despite the statutory requirement fails to address the public comments or provide analysis on proposals for revising the tax structure for telecommunications infrastructure and services to support public benefits such as 911, telecommunication services for the deaf, funding for access media organizations and whether CUDs might unwillingly be forfeiting sovereign immunity from liability in favor of claiming trade secret protection for publicly funded fiber optic plants. Those are the issues that were raised in public comments were not addressed in this final draft and are required to be have been addressed in this final draft by statute. That's what we're paying the legal analysis bill for and those issues you were supposed to build on and provide analysis of alternatives for funding the AMOs above and beyond the Berkshire report, not just refer to it and say that's outside of our scope. The detailed responses to the public comments made on the plan were provided by the department amount to a haphazard dismissive trivializing of public safety broadband, land mobile radio communications, issues such as 911 call delivery assurance, interoperability with state systems such as the microwave and the VCOM channels, failover network resiliency, diverse protected fiber routes and new network and funding options for regional dispatch consolidation efforts. Analysis of funding alternatives for AMOs is likewise missing from the draft plan. Several important comments raising prerequisite design issues relating to active optical network were not responded to at all and are not even included in appendix G for some reason. I noticed that VTEL had provided comments through survey monkey comment number 95 and is not responded to related to active optical network. But the reason I raise active optical network is because the statutory goal of 202c requires that the state support infrastructure support the application of broadband infrastructure that does not negatively affect the ability of Vermont to take advantage of future improvements in broadband technology. If we in the interest of saving a few dollars now deploy networks such as consolidated is deploying, EC fiber is deploying, others are planning to deploy, we forfeit the option with all those splitters in the field we forfeit the option to allow competitive choice another statutory goal of 202c to come in and reach a customer directly over top. By putting those splitters in place we are foregoing our undermining our option for both competitive choice and modern infrastructure. Some customers, some neighborhoods will only want to be happy with gigabit service. Some few customers may need 10 gigabit or or higher and that will not be possible through a splitter of passive optical architecture. You would need the active architecture to accommodate that especially from another competitor. This is what I had hoped was the capacity in the skills of CTC engineering but I fear that this was compromised by the department's view of a political spin and told CTC and Ricci not to focus on certain items, not to fully expand and elaborate. That is what I fear happened here. In statute 202d per end C in developing the plans the department shall address each of the state telecommunications policies and goals of section 202c of this title and shall assess initiatives designed to advance and make measurable progress with respect to each of those policies and goals. This assessment shall include identification of the resources required and potential sources of funding for plan implementation. This draft plan does none of that and that is the most specific statutory obligation and requirement and I believe that the CTC contract specifies that they will be held accountable to accomplishing that. I have not yet to see the receipt contract with CTC but I will. Instead of surveys, well I could go on but I think you're sufficiently bored. I want to leave some time for Donna. Plan requirements, a geographically specific assessment of status coverage. There's no mention of completing the cellular coverage surveys that were done in 19 in 2010 and 13. Carrier specific every road so that we know where we would get the most bang from the buck by using a neutral host small cell of all carriers and where we could actually calculate the economics of other carriers sharing small cells possibly owned by the communication union districts. That is the best coverage. We do not want to create a state that only AT&T customers are welcome to visit and that's really the concept of RFP because VTEL as a potential neutral host carrier cannot compete against AT&T in an RFP scenario. It would destroy their relationship with their prime partner in roaming. So the first statutory goal is to strengthen the state's role in telecommunications planning and this plan does nothing of the sort. It kicks the can down the road and says that would be nice and this would be nice and intelligent vehicle highway systems would be nice but maybe in 10 years we'll think about that again. This plan is an abject failure to meet the statutory requirements. It should not be adopted and I plan to continue to go to the wall to make that point. Thank you. Thank you Stephen. So would you like to make a comment? Yes I do and you're who? I am Clay Purvis with the Department of Public Service. We also have the Commissioner June Tierney on the line and Alex Kelly is our consultant. We have a couple of one other department staff Michael DeHart as well and we're here to take public comment so everyone online is already commented so. I gathered that. So if you could please state your name. Yes I will. I'm Donna Bate. I live in Montpelier. I'm here as Central Vermont Public Safety Authority chair of the board and we have comments we want to make which we've already submitted some written comments to you directly or to the public service and that's another thing just to find out where I send all these attachments that go with this letter. So that what our concern is that we are writing dealing with this preliminary draft that we request that local and state can anyone see me? Yes this camera here you should look at this. This camera moves around the room. If you talk it'll you see in the lower right hand corner I'm talking so it's showing me enough you talk. Okay all right so once I talk it'll pay attention. Thank you it's helpful that we're requesting that state local and regional public safety entities become partners active partners as we all struggle with limited resources challenging geography and obsolete telecommunication equipment. We need land mobile radios LMRs to be included in the definition of telecommunication and broadband devices. We need local and regional public safety systems to be included in the state's 10-year telecommunication plan and if the state chooses to not include these essential elements in its 10-year plan then we need another mechanism for statewide planning to improve local FAR and EMS services that depend on land mobile radios. We would like to have a partnership with you this particular letter that I'm giving you a copy of went out to Anne Cummings she is the chair of the finance committee I'll also send June a copy and anyone else you should have one and that we're really wanting to reach out to both the public service department public safety department we've already reached out to the medical center to Washington Electric co-op to CV fiber and other stakeholders because we feel that we all need to be interoperable and that throughout the public safety trans telecommunication in Vermont need to be on that scale of the interoperability to interface with one another and that the local and regional public safety providers which provide the police far and EMS are the first responders when there's a severe storm when there's flooding when there's a health crisis it's the local people that are the backbone of the reality of public safety in Vermont and in the telecommunication and they depend on radios we have been told by state officials that the and I have an email here from Terry LaValley and Corey Chase that's I've included that says that it's the 10-year plan is all about state-owned and state-managed public safety services and that when we feel we need a more holistic planning just as the federal and the state and local governments are expanding their investments in dependability and interoperable telecommunication systems now is the time to be inclusive of all the public safety providers and then I talk a bit about the definition of interoperability which you probably are familiar with not everybody I think in some of the legislators people were reaching out to are is that it really is the ability of different telecommunication systems to readily connect exchange and make use of information between different organizations but also between different manufacturers and it's really crucial for the dependable timely effective communication I've included a chart is a five page brochure from homeland security about their interoperability continuum and that's a piece that all public safety entities need to function with and we would like the state support to fulfill that that reach central vermont public safety authority hard a consultant elevate to do a central vermont telecommunication need assessment their preliminary findings show that our current land mobile system for the fire departments is seriously flawed and they ranked us on the lowest of the low tier on the interoperability continuum quite embarrassing and they they are going to be presenting their report July 8th and I will forward it to the public safety commissioner public service commissioner all these yes oh they're all going to get it but I actually want you to have it so we feel the preliminary findings of a report that has been paid for through the taxpayers very in Montpelier but it is a regional report because we work together regionally is really going to be important to be included in someone's awareness here of just where we are that things are not okay in telecommunication on the ground level of the first responders I've also attached letters from the city of berry montelier and capital farm mutual aid system as well as central vermont medical center and their support to join together under the umbrella central vermont public safety authority to reach out to the federal earmark application both with lehi and sanders because we really need to work together to maximize our resources we serve over 70 000 residents and some 23 towns and our members have seen the benefit of working together regionally to resolve current communication problems and to join together to maximize cast capital investments we want to share revenue share expenses and to do the planning together holistically I feel that the statute of which 30 vsa 202 d telecommunication plan we feel that under there that talks about telecommunication network servicing all service areas in the state it mentions a need to seek information from the public safety sector to determine what is needed now and in 10 years and it also refers to the emergency communication and homeland security communication interoperability plan we have a letter here from one of our board members kim cheney who's a past vermont attorney general that has written his own opinion as why the term telecommunication should include land mobile radios and that's attached and this attached also is the email between terry valley the radio technology service of the department of public safety i'll get the right word there and cori chase department of public service and there's a letter that i sent about broadband there was a bill in the house h360 this past year we sent a letter again to andcomings as the head of the finance committee there that they need to understand them the use of broadband services to enhance radios is very important and there are many other ways that public safety uses wireless an example medical records from the ambulances to the hospital and sometimes they can't doesn't reach it it's really a matter of the patient may be going to the wrong place because the records don't come through and they don't put them to the right hospital or when they get there they don't know what's the stats of the patients and they're not nearly as prepared as they like and hence that's why we have a letter included here from the medical center and so in conclusion we need land mobile radios to be included in the definition of telecommunication and broadband devices we need local and regional public safety systems to be included in the 10-year plan for telecommunication and we would prefer the plan have accurate information on the current needs and vision of center remote public safety telecommunications we appreciate an opportunity to meet with you to join with you to improve public safety services through planning thank you for your time thank you thank you sorry i'm a terrible reader it's much better than i tried to read it to catch all the details very very good and well well stated comments so thank you very much for that um so in order to be in the record do you want a copy of everything uh you can email us a copy of everything and after the conclusion of this hearing um i can i can help you with that okay um but this is being recorded all right and alex here from uh rizzi uh is taking notes as um as is our staff so um we will um we will have that comment um it's reported okay so we can go back and watch it and um and um and uh think about and then address it so uh thank you very much um would anyone else like to make a comment before um we uh go to the end of the session all right we'll think thank you everyone for attending uh really appreciate it a couple more we've still got a few minutes are you gonna come to the the uh to all of them depends depends if you uh i want to raise one because five minutes even public safety uh the host remote isolation and for the folks listening i'll explain what that is a telephone central office switch it normally runs processing and call switching not only for its own telephone exchange but it also supports what are called remote switches which could be basically like a series of hubs in rural communities and that connection between the host and the remote if there's not a diverse connection a protected diverse routed uh connection to that between that host and remote that a car accident or a tree limb falling can isolate that remote exchange so that no one can call outside of their local exchange can't call any other exchanges and most importantly can't call 911 and this has been studied for a decade or two by the public service department and public utilities commission the department has not made it resolution of that problem uh a priority in negotiating instead of regulation plans it is uh likely cost prohibitive for consolidated to build a diverse route just to protect a single remote presuming they were building and owning all that fiber and all on their cost on their balance sheet however when a c ud is building fiber in those areas the c ud could prioritize routes which would enable uh consolidated to build a diverse route back to that host switch and thereby resolve that host remote vulnerability but that necessitates transparency with the information the the public utilities commission opened an investigation and it pretty much stagnated because everything was secret we don't want to tell I think it's reckless endangerment to refuse to tell the customers who are in a frequently isolated exchange Montgomery for instance that they should plan on not having another way to call 911 and many of these areas also don't have cell coverage so if there's no cell coverage and they're isolated between the host and the remote you've left people seriously in danger and prioritizing this requires transparency and notice to the consumers that they are vulnerable and therefore they can engage in prioritizing fiber routes being built by the communications union districts and the incentive reg plan coming up next summer can require consolidated to close those host remote isolation vulnerabilities but this again was raised in public comments it was swept off the rug and not incorporated into the final draft and I think it's it's a travesty um okay that's three minutes or is that five did I use all five you should submit written comments to us Steven at just point after the treatment all my written comments four sets of written comments got in the public comment draft the treatment they got uh you have a lot of nerve asking me for written comments all right well with that uh we will end the session thank you all for your attendance really appreciate it and if you'd like to follow up with written comments you can email us at psd.telecom at vermont.gov or you can visit our website we have a page on the telecom plan that gives instructions for providing feedback as well if you have any questions please feel free to give me a call or email me clay.pervispurvis at vermont.gov I will say it again after uh but and and someone maybe michael can put that in the chat too uh for the folks online all right will you be posting transcripts of these uh Steven will post the the recording online all right thank you very much for your time have a good night