Well, good morning. My name is TJ Dunham and I'm a Vermont's attorney general joined with me today is chief Don Stevens Representative Brian Chiena representative Tom Stevens representative Carol Odey rest for representative Jessica Brumstead. I am here to add my support and ask the Vermont legislature to pass H 716 which Representative Brumstead and representative Chiena are the sponsors of what H 716 would do would exempt members of the Abnaki tribe from paying a license fee for hunting and fishing in the state of Vermont Why I support this is simply because it's the right thing to do and we should look back at our history and Acknowledge it's the right thing to do In 2006 the Vermont General Assembly Formally recognized the Abnaki people They acknowledged that Vermont was originally the home to several indigenous Native American people now known as Western Abnaki Tribes who originally inhabited all of Vermont for hundreds of years beginning long before the arrival of Europeans The General Assembly also recognized that carefully maintained oral traditions show that native peoples have long lived in the Champlain Valley And that they demonstrate that the Abnaki people farmed Vermont's River Plains since 1100 they also hunted and fished this land for centuries and When European settlers came here and treaties were negotiated and did Dave share for my offices here who At the request of Don Steven asked us to do some legal and almost historical research into this issue The Abnaki people have always made a claim to hunt and to fish these lands and More important they always reserved their right to hunt and to fish These lands which is now Vermont is part of and when we look at it why this bill is appropriate now We are in a unique period of time in our nation's history We are going back and revisiting our history We're in a period of reconciliation. We're in a period of reckoning And in the spirit of that of understanding the history of our state Of understanding and acknowledging the history the proud history of the Abnaki people And recognizing that they've reserved these rights and have made this claim for hundreds of years For centuries the state of Vermont should simply recognize this claim And exempt them from these license fees because it is the right thing to do It is the right thing to do for the state of Vermont is the right thing to do For the Abnaki tribe and in the spirit of history and the spirit of reconciliation This bill should be passed. So chief i'm proud to stand with you I want to thank you for asking us to look at the historical record To look at the law to understand our history To acknowledge our history and to look back at our history As I said at this unique time where we are revisiting our history in so many different ways This is the right thing to do. So let's do it chief. I look forward to working with you I thank you for your leadership. I thank you for your friendship And I'll turn it over to you. Thank you. I appreciate that tj Did you want to put something up you can before I start Oh, no worries Thank you. There you go Great Well, I want to say kway greetings Today today is a really a historic day In the grand it seems like an average day, but today is a historic day I mean we all acknowledge and we see what's happening in the nation today is that there's still a lot of hate and lateral violence But it really brings me hope In working with tj over these last Year or close to it on trying to get people to acknowledge Our sovereign rights And of hunting and fishing that we never ceded That we we As a people Have struggled since before europeans are here And there's always been like I said a lot of hate and lateral violence, but vermont Has risen above the national level You have the legislators you have the the the state departments including the attorney general's office where where there was adversarial relationships before We have found a way to get above that And work in partnership to uplift people and to acknowledge our rights I also want to say that For the people who always fear what they don't understand We are not asking for anything special This the fish and wildlife department already gives free licenses to senior citizens They already give licenses to the veterans of this of this Great, you know country they give they give free licenses to disability people with disabilities All we're asking is to people that the state of vermont honors our ancient agreements Of vermont before vermont was even a state That we always retained our rights to hunt and fish our sovereign rights to hunt and fish And as a tribal leader we try to work in a government-to-government relationship with the state of vermont And the state of vermont has been and as you see as we continue to uplift they reject Violence against minority people They are trying to do the right thing and this is a huge step in our history And and with the attorney general's office And all I can say is that I urge The legislators to follow And without the legislators support of doing this we would still be in the same place we are and now that the The fish and wildlife are coming out saying there's not enough hunters in the woods That we're we're seeing a lot of people that aren't going into the woods anymore that we see That The governor wants to bring in more tourism and also mentioned to bring more hunting and fishing People to come and enjoy the outdoors and also that They're having a hard time managing to deer her Well, we're here on our rights. Let us come. There are people that live out of state Our citizens that would love to come in and be able to hunt guess what they'll spend money in lodging They'll spend money on items They'll actually help and we might even be able to bring in some educational funds if we work with the fish and wildlife department To do to provide education, right? So i'm not going to continue To stay up here a long time, but I just want to say you're right. It's the morally the right thing to do We acknowledge the fact that you had the Wherewithal to stand up as the attorney general in the state of remont and acknowledge that And to urge that the legislators and the governors follow through with a commitment of our ancient agreements and honor those And we're not taking anything away from people It's just giving us the rights that we already agreed to way back when and just to allow us to be able to sustain our people because We live off the land. We're one with nature. We just want to have our rights recognized So, thank you Orioni Thank you Thank you, chief Stevens next I'd ask again one of the Co-sponsors of this bill was representative Brian Sheena from the city of Berlin to say a few words Representative Jessica brumstedt from shelbert is also a co-sponsor. We thank you both for your leadership representative. Sheena Thank you We're we're at a time in our history Where we can no longer Ignore what has happened in the past and we have an opportunity now To make things right in the present so that we can have a better future for everyone And in this time, there's a lot that we could be doing as a state To reconcile what happened in the past And um, and there's many ways we could be doing that. We did Change columbus day to indigenous peoples day as one way of recognizing And uncovering What really happened in history and honoring who was here first We're we're standing on lands that were have been inhabited by abanaki people for thousands of years And we need to recognize that in every possible way And in everything we do And so as part of moving towards reconciliation and and towards a better future We have to take action to make things right We need to apologize as a state for the harm that the state has caused towards abanaki people And in addition to an apology, we need to take actions to make amends And one of those actions A simple action Is to allow abanaki people to hunt and fish And to get free licenses from the state It's the least we can do as a state to begin to make things right And and we and we need to honor the cultural and religious practices And freedom of abanaki and all other indigenous people And acknowledge that hunting and fishing is more than sustenance. It's a sacred act Thank you Thank you representative chena Next representative carol odi from brollington is a member of the committee of jurisdiction and i'd ask representative odi to say a few words Thank you tj It is The house natural resources fish and wildlife committee that will be taking up this bill We look forward to doing so and i am personally Very pleased to be able to work on this bill. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you representative odi Before i open it up for questions. I just want to acknowledge because I know we'll get this question I know representative odi will get this question We're going to be talking about revenant And this does not exempt the abanaki people from the hunting or fishing regulations. It's just to the fee And I went online this morning and a five-year fee for Fishing is 134 dollars for a five-year license 134 bucks for hunting combination. You get a bit of a deal. It's 229 bucks for five years I don't think we're talking a lot about a lot of money here I think as chief steven said I think as representative chena pointed out That this is an opportunity for us just to acknowledge the history of this state The tradition and culture of the abanaki people And a recognition that they have always reserved their right to hunt and fish on these lands Long before we came here and continue to assert that that reservation of rights during the time when europeans came And treaties were negotiated They always made the claim to hunt into fish and today We simply seek to acknowledge it and i'm proud to stand with you chief and members of your tribe So with that charlie, do you want to say anything? Sure? Sure This is charlie delaney Hi, um I'm a citizen of the uh, know he can call us luck tribe I considered an elder now It was many years ago This come this bill comes full circle for us many years ago we had a A fishing where we're given citations and arrested uh, I was one of many people who went in front of judge will check and our and they State of remand at that point in the legal system Recognized our aboriginal, uh, rights or created that question for us to go forward And uh, and all the years that have been sued There was a lot of things that we we didn't realize or didn't think that would be possible For this day and things like this to happen But it's because of the, um, state of remand Realizing changes here The leadership that we have today with our chief And other people that have worked hard on this It wasn't just one person. It wasn't just me. It was many people over many years For us to have this relationship with the state of remand And it's something that that it's good going forward And there'll be other things in the future that will be asking support on And we appreciate Who we are today? We appreciate the state of remand and and what it has to do And uh, I thank you for that Oh Thank you charlie Finally, I asked carol mcgranahan to come up and Say a few words carol Hi, i'm carol mcgranahan, and i am chair of the remand commission on native american affairs I want to thank everyone who has been involved the legislature the Especially brian has worked closely with us Chief and all the other members of the commission and members of our apenaki community For making this possible I think the probably the most historic and impactful event Was when we were recognized as being here and being a people And that was the opening of the door We now have our display here in the state house. We have indigenous people's day And with this hunting and fishing Bill and several others that are before the legislature We're going to continue to make progress form relationships And It's it's all positive. I can't thank you enough for everything Thank you Thank you Before I open into questions again, I just want to thank Rumstead and representative china for co-sponsoring this bill. I believe representative web From shellburn and representative carol odi. Thank you for being here and the invitation to For your committee to take this bill up under consideration. We appreciate that invitation With that we'd open it up for questions That these rights aren't legally valid I think when you get into the treaties which we've gone through and whether or not they apply Because as a successor government as the chief said, you know, that's an open question I I think the fact of the matter is that I support this and we hope that any legal question Is resolved by passage of the bill As far as the logistics those who are eligible the license is free To go somewhere and pick up the tag Yeah, yeah, this is this is just the license feed all other regulations apply And Yeah, sorry. I'll answer some of that as well We have a great relationship with the fish and wildlife service. If you don't know we carry eagle feathers You know, we have cultural permits And we work closely with the with the fish and wildlife department So we would do the same as what they do in the federal Arena is that we would certify That the citizen is an enrolled citizen of our tribe and that would give the fish and wildlife the Certification knowing that they were legitimate. If that's what you want to call it A citizen of one of our recognized tribes because this pertains to the four recognized tribes in the state So since we know who our people are we would certify that they are an enrolled member Of our tribe or enrolled citizen and then we would they would provide that to the fish and wildlife department And then they would be able to issue that that tag So we would still be involved with that and hopefully we would also be involved with some of the educational We already do educational things at camp kehoe and and dead creek days and a few things So we work pretty closely with the fish and wildlife department. So it's it's not like a willy-nilly thing So that's why I said it's not really affecting a lot of people or or and having a valid license The enforcement the law enforcement team or the fish want game wardens would still be able to enforce it and not have to determine Who's who so it's just like you said, it's just the fee Like they provide every other senior citizen or other people with free licenses We'd just be another category in that in that free license system and and every all the processes would still stay in place So it shouldn't be that intrusive Yes, roughly how many people would be affected by this? Well, it depends right? I mean, we have probably about 6,000 people in tribal roles throughout the state But not everybody hunts and fish some people already get free licenses because they're senior citizens Some people are already active military who get the licenses. So we're not talking a huge number It's not going to be all of a sudden A drain as as we said on the system It's just honoring our rights But also there are a lot of people that are citizens our territory goes from Turner's Falls mass up into lower Canada across New Hampshire and to moosehead lake in main Right now even the governor had said he would like to get more people in the woods and increase the number of people To help manage the deer herd Well, we have non Vermont residents that are citizens of ours that would love to come and hunt And and and be on our property up in up in the northeast kingdom and around Vermont And that they would come in and they would they have to have a place to stay They have to eat that they would bring some revenue in as well. So it might even offset whatever Costs that might happen No questions. Yeah Yes, and I'd ask the representative Stevens to speak on that Sure, thank you Um Yes, we are actively looking at that Is a joint resolution right now in the language in that is very simple As it should be We've taken a long time Very long time to apologize for the eugenics survey UVM made it an apology last year To start this process, but and here in the state house We started 10 years ago with one that actually was put together prior to recognizing the Abenaki tribes And we know that the Abenaki were really A target of this eugenics survey along with french canadians or or The names that we don't we take have taken out of the statutes feeble minded Miss not miscreants, but just people who are considered subhuman essentially Huge mistake in our dark dark history here in the state of Vermont So the language that we're working on is very simple Um, but we're still taking testimony on it. We're still taking recent We're making research on it We're trying to find out exactly how far this this research went to make sure we get it right and to make sure we do it with humility and regret and make sure that it's an honest Apology from the state at least from the general assembly's perspective And hopefully as a whole government what we did in the 20s 30s and 40s was Was terrible Simply terrible and we need to make amends and so listening To folks whose families were affected by this is an important part of it and getting them getting the history right Is an important part of it. So we're in the process of doing that now other questions Well, I want to thank again chief Stevens and the Abenaki people for your advocacy For your courage and for your leadership. I want to thank you for pushing our office for For taking a look at this. I want to thank Dave share From my office who looked at these treaties There's a lot of them and They're unclear And they're really old And I would just say from a personal note, you know, this this was fascinating as somebody who loves history But acknowledging that the history we may know is not always accurate And that we have to be cognizant of the lived experience of people who would be here before us To reconcile their experience with the history that we think we know And to do the right thing and that's why we're here today Not only on this bill, but certainly as representative Stevens So eloquently talked about Saying sorry goes a long way. You know, we should never be afraid to do that so I certainly support that resolution and it supports The right of the Abenaki people to be exempt from fees because it's the right thing to do and we should have the courage to do it Thanks for being here


The crisis of the 1st Corps had ground progress across the Varaxian front to an effective halt. All to grant high command and the departmental immunatorium the time required to simply assess the sheer scale of the losses inflicted upon the enemy, and more importantly, sustained by the 88th Siege Army. Any advance orders, amongst the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th line corps, were immediately ceased. The Varaxian militia's 2nd defense line held firm. There would be no mass imperial rush upon it. The 1st line, although costly to crack, had been far larger, with its defensive capabilities far less concentrated. This inner line was now bolstered by what enemy forces had managed to fall back, in addition to its previously formidable manpower. It was the opinion of high command that, tempting as a headlong rush into the militia's teeth may have been, the 2nd line must be taken as the 1st had been. Careful, relentless imperial attrition, grinding away at the defenses that one fragment of them may yet crack. In circlement, followed the pattern the Kreeg had laid down many, many months before. At the very beginning of the Siege. Crawling artillery barrages covered the soldiery of that dead world, as they broke out their entrenching tools to establish rudimentary lines, before chugging Atlas excavators transformed the creeping web of man-dug ditches into more permanent emplacements. To those Kreeg that had survived the first fage of the siege, it may have struck them that time was in repeat. The whole bloody, grinding business of their work begun again. The landscape had not even noticeably changed. Clogging mud of the Van Meersland wastes was the same here as it had been kilometers back. Such, of course, is the fate of the Kreeg soldier. It was not until 120, 816, M41 that Imperial Command echelons felt confident enough to commit to another offensive. But when the move was taken, it was not done without full commitment. Six entire Kreeg regiments were thrown upon the militia's lines. To what was, to the annoyance of the commanders in their relative comfort far behind the lines, absolutely no effect. The pattern here was entirely the same as it had been for the first defensive line. After saturating an enemy line segment with punitive artillery bombardments, the military would advance through the mud of no man's land, plunging into the opposing trenches to fight in brutal close quarters combat with the enemy. Where gains could be made, they were transitory. Should a Kreeg squad be lucky enough to slaughter the enemy in one particular trench section, pre-cited Vraxian artillery would then saturate the area, cutting off the Imperials from reinforcements while turning bodies into red, muddy pulp.  Worse, the sheer necessity of each stall widening the field of engagement pulled more and more platoons into combat situations. A vital sector where a push looked to even possibly gain some ground would not be considered secure until its neighbouring sectors had been locked into their own engagements. The negligible gains did not apparently seem to factor into this. The pressure, according to High Command, must be maintained. Hundreds if not thousands of advances across no man's land were ordered over the following months, but not a single one achieved a breakthrough. Even in the north, in the remnants of the First Core's disaster, enemy skirmishers delayed full reclamation of the land lost by six whole months. Another year passed. And then another. And then another. There is little within this particular span of the Siege of Vrax worthy of notation to Acolytes. Never an exactly fluid situation, the conflict had truly entered the realm of the Tallymen.  The lines were effectively static, each side making itself known only through daily artillery barrages, vicious nighttime raids, and the occasional whirlwind clash in the churned ruins of the wastes. Soldiers died and were replaced. The numerical designations of the Kreeg infantry ticking up noted, recorded, committed to ledgers of cost. These were, of course, people, humans, like you or I, and yet their lives were spent to achieve naught but the static preservation of an operational situation as was. Of their individual tales, of the terrors of their final moments, we will never know anything. To bruise these records of these years of the siege is to see nothing but numbers bereft of meaning, an endless screed of loss removed from anything remotely personal. The arithmancy of death. It was not until 649-818 M41 that the military reports provide an incident of note. 158th Regiment had been tasked with mounting a raid on sector 5045. Military Intelligence Analyticae adepts had identified the presence of a laser defence silo in the region, part of the Varaxian Citadel's outlying orbital defence capabilities. As with all such weaponry, its systems had been sunk deep into the planet's surface to prevent it from suffering from orbit, meaning no surface-based artillery had any hopes of harming it or the militia currently garrisoned there. No forward shellfire would attempt to soften the facility, which had the added benefit of providing the 158th with the element of full surprise. Per Standard Creek Doctrine, the attack was led by the Grenadier squads of the regiment, who began their advance under the cover of the gloomy night. The journey across No Man's Land was a perilous one. Raids were a commonplace occurrence on Varax, and both sides constantly bathed the wastes between their lines with the harsh phosphorescence of starlight flares. Each time the land was lit by the slow arc of one such flare, the Grenadiers were forced to simply play the part of corpses, squatting amongst the torn ruin of their former comrades and former enemies. Progress was torturously slow and difficult. Several squads became simply lost in the wastes, with one running into an enemy scouting party, the clash erupting into a ferocious, brief firefight. Eventually, contact was made by the forward Grenadier squads with the outer ray as a wire banks. The creak began the slow process of cutting through the wire. With only a small entrance path cleared, suddenly the entire area was lit up by a randomly fired starlight shell. Freezing, the Imperials hoped that simply by not moving would they escape undetected, for the area was, unfortunately, entirely corpseless. They had no cover. Maybe they would have managed to avoid detection, or it not for a malicious sentry recognizing the unusual shapes on his outer perimeter and immediately raising the alarm. A creak soldier answered, a las gun barking in response, and suddenly all was gunfire. A defense heavy bolter spat massive caliber shells at the attackers. Alarms whooped in the depths of the silo, and people began to die. Opting in typical creak fashion to push forward rather than retreat, the Grenadier squads that had made it through the razor wire charged the enemy, fully aware that the area they must now cross was an active minefield. Militia squads were rushing to their posts, and into them were flung grenades, mud, and creak bodies with seemingly equal measure. One bunker suffered under a deluge of promethium from creak flame troopers, the explosion of its magazines torching the area around us, and bathing the whole combat zone in flickering orange light and choking smoke. Dawn broke, weak, and shrouded, and from the imperial lines all that could be seen of sector 5045 was a blank, impenetrable haze. Officers in command could simply not establish the truth of the situation. No survivors of an aborted attack were returned, but neither had a mission accomplished signal been given. Clearly, the fight was still progressing. Given all the options, the order was given to advance in full, to provide reinforcements, and hopefully force a break in the line. The soldiers of creak advanced to their death. The attack of the Grenadiers had completely failed to take any significant portion of the enemy line. The fighting seen from afar were the last stands of hopelessly outnumbered squads. When the wave of imperial reinforcements slogging through no man's land came under immediate artillery and heavy arms fire, forcing an eventual retreat with severe casualties. Captured Grenadiers were tortured for information before their corpses were hung from the razor wire, grisly marks of arch enemy devotion carved into their putrefying flesh. It should serve as an apt illustration of the sheer inertia of the conflict on Vrax, that this almost completely archetypal spat over a small segment of the line was one of the largest and most furious engagements in years. It was now some seven Terran standard years, since the first Imperial shells had fallen on the first defense line. The death toll was now within millions. While the 88th siege army had made progress, the resolve and capability of the defenders were nowhere near to collapse. Lord Commander Zwellk was painfully aware that the Vrax campaign was falling upon the more dire side of the Munitorum's forward planning spectrum. His dispatches to his batters were full of clarifications and reports of the issues involved, but there was one aspect of a recent dispatch he had yet to bring forward. The missive in question, delivered in early 820 M41, concerned an attack mounted on sector 5249 by the Kriegs 261st Regiment. The offensive, mounted by the Krieg in heavy Gorgon assault transports, had actually managed to overrun the outer enemy trenches and looked to be threatening to force an actual breach in the second defense line. That was until the typical counterattack arrived in full, which, to the horror of those reading the reports, introduced a new element to the siege. Power armoured Astartes in dark blue rain. The breach was sealed. The entire Krieg assault force butchered. The appearance of space marines on the enemy side was a matter of gravest concern. While few within the command echelons had even served alongside the Adeptus Astartes, much less faced those in the thrall to the arch enemy, they were at least tacitly aware of the existence of heretic formations of space marines. Such a force, should it add to the siege, would catastrophically upset the balance of the conflict. All modelling of the siege had been conducted on the understanding that it was a conflict of the unaugmented. Baseline humanity struggling against baseline humanity, however corrupted the enemy may be. Mutant and abhuman strains were accounted for within these strategies of course. Genetic super-soldiery was not. Astartes operated on simply another level. One that the 88th siege army was now being forced to contend with. After a prodigious amount of humming and hawing, Zwellke decided that this simply must be escalated. Dispatching emissaries to the Lord Commander militant of segmentum obscurus, he tasked his representatives with identifying the chapter involved, along with a requisition for another full line core that would be added to his available manpower. Zwellke argued outfearing that the appearance of Astartes combatants would lead to a dramatic increase in an already higher than expected body count. It appears that Zwellke also hoped the additional manpower may give him the edge in forcing open the second defense line, perhaps as an attempt to disrupt the enemy as much as these Astartes had spooked the imperial command officials. As a munitorium processed the manpower request, the attempt at identifying the Marines proved significantly more challenging. Certainly no chapters operating within the segmentum had men unaccounted for, and if they had, surely there would have been no reason beyond basest heresy for them to be murdering loyal imperial soldiers. While the ultimate explanation would not be uncovered until many years after the siege's conclusion, Astartors have been able to establish that the first heretic Astartes present on fracks belonged not to mere renegade chapters, but to elements of one of the most hated traitor legions themselves. The Alpha Legion, originally the 20th Legion Astartes, had arrived in system at some indeterminate point aboard the Battle Barge Anarchy's heart. Under the command of an individual styling himself Lord Arcos, the traitor Astartes had surveyed the volume, processing all the intelligence their sensorium suites would allow them, and laterally in an active, stunningly brazen confidence, had landed their squads in the imperial held spaceport far behind the front lines. Posing as loyalist Astartes, their arrival caused a flurry of Vox traffic around the port itself, but none raised a higher command. Whether this was due to Alpha Legion interference, interception, or simply because the duty officers did not wish to counterman the orders of space marines, one cannot say. But ultimately the Astartes were permitted to land and proceed to the front with no resistance whatsoever.  Their true allegiances now profess to sentries and watch captains guarding the second defense line. Lord Arcos presented himself, his warriors and his services, to Cardinal Zafan within the citadel of Rax, stating that the war would provide an anvil upon which the Imperiums hold over the Scaras Sector could be smashed. A victory here would be a beacon to which rebellious activity would turn to and be emboldened by. The Imperium was bleeding soldiers and shells with every year, committed now, unable to simply withdraw. With the Astartes on the side of the arch enemy's forces, they would bleed further still. By 821 M41, Lord Commander's welks' requests for reinforcements had yielded fruit. Cashing in on his political capital, the commander had obtained the Kriegs 46th Lion Corps, previously hallmarked for deployment in war zones much further afield. They were, however, soon joined by an altogether different form of reinforcements. Alarmed by the reports of heretic Astartes upon Rax, the Lord Commander Militant of segmentum Obscurus himself had superseded Zwellk's operational oversight and sought to petition the adeptus Astartes for aid. There was no longer a chance that Rax would escalate into an altogether different form of warfare. It was already happening. And segmentum authorities, over seven years into the siege, were not about to risk any of its progress. Somewhat surprisingly, the response was immediate and substantial. The Dark Angels, formerly the very first Legion Astartes, ancient defenders of the Imperium, answered the Lord Commander's petitions, committing over half their entire chapter to the Rax operation. Led by Supreme Grand Master Azrael, aboard the Battle Barge Angel of Retribution, the fleet of the chapter left their fortress monastery in the Caliban system at full wake. Azrael communicated neither his intentions, nor even his imminent arrival to the 88th siege army, nor to Commander Zwellk. The adeptus Astartes very wildly in terms of their ability to work coherently with other branches of the Imperial military. It is a perennial point of contention amongst military commanders that the Dark Angels in particular are supremely unwilling to act collaboratively. Azrael briefed his subordinates on their stated mission, the destruction of the Citadel's spaceport, to deny the traitors easy access to off-world reinforcements. While gross breaches in security akin to that the Alpha Legion had exploited in their own landing, could only be accounted for upon the Imperial side, the deprivation of their landing zones would, it was hoped, prevent any further traitor forces, and traitor Astartes forces from engaging in the escalating war. Azrael saw no need to inform any military commanders of this course. The Dark Angels required no assistance in their duties, and one must suppose that the actions of the Alpha Legion had significantly damaged the Grand Master's trust in their ability to maintain security of intelligence. As Zwellk was adjusting operational assignments to accommodate his new line core, the Dark Angels were already in orbit, preparing for a landing in force. Thunderhawk gunships of the chapter committed a landing in the CERNA Flats, directly to the south of the Starport, the fleet of the Dark Angels holding orbit just outside the range of defense batteries. The landing was completed in a couple of hours. The Astartes are far, far faster in this regard than the Astrum and the Tarum. Speed was, generally speaking, of the essence here. The Astartes were not troops of attrition. To deploy the Dark Angels to trench warfare would be akin to using a chef's blade to fell a tree. On 944, 821 M41, an armored column of Dark Angels tanks powered across the CERNA Flats towards the spaceport, comprised of land raiders, predators, rhino-armored personnel carriers, whirlwinds, and vindicators, supported on the flanks by the anti-grab land speeders of the Dark Angels' Revenwing Division. Aerial cover was provided, if needed, by Thunderhawk gunships, although the chapter would deploy them only warily lest air defenses prove a bit too capable. The starport of Vrax was less well-defended than any other position's planet side. The Kreeg had made no moves upon it, and accordingly the Militia had fortified it fairly minimally. With a force of 500 space marines now making rapid progress towards it, the Vraxian forces' first moves were to locate and identify precisely what they were now dealing with. Scout sentinels and salamander reconnaissance vehicles criss-crossed the flats in a frantic effort to simply locate where the Angels of the Emperor were, only to be picked off by counter-surveillance land speeders at velocities faster than unaugmented eyes could seemingly even track. The Dark Angels had a 200 kilometer advanced cover. This was all the time the Militia had to reinforce their starport. Azrael was fully aware of the time constraints, but was likewise aware that the starport lay across a massive fault line from the citadel. The Balan Trench, as the chasm was known, was a geographic feature common upon the porous surface of Vrax, and had been bridged by the departmental immunatorium in several locations to allow for road access to the starport. A wing of Thunderhawks under Dark Angels' third company Captain Aureus had thus been assigned to their destruction, denying an overland route to the citadel. In a stunning display of Astartes' prowess, the first bridge was captured within minutes. What retribution and enemy armored column attempted to meet out was denied by pinpoint fire from Dark Angels' devastated Marines. By the time the Thunderhawks bore the third company to their next target, Commander Aureus' casualties amounted to minor injuries on only three Astartes, all of which would be in peak condition thanks to their transhuman physiology by the time the gunships arrived at the next bridge. As the Dark Angels moved into visual range of the starport, Ravenwing Landspeeders detected an inbound armored column from line sector 7046. Azrael immediately signalled Thunderhawk air support to intercept an attack against which the pitiful hydro-battery fire of the column had little effect. Without dedicated air elements, most of the militia were at the complete mercy of Astartes' fliers, such that by the time the Dark Angels' armor engaged the enemy, the scanned remaining Leeman-Rus tanks were attempting to flee to the built-up areas of the spaceport, cut down now by last cannon fire from the lead of Astartes' tanks. Swinging his column to the east, Azrael's broad pincer maneuver was unfolding precisely to plan. Once Commander Aureus' task had been completed on the remaining causeways, the Thunderhawk-mounted Dark Angels would sweep into the port from the west, catching the enemy upon two fronts. Speed was not surrendered. Barely had the Angels mopped up the last of the tanks, then the vindicators of the chapter entered the outskirts of the port, demolisher cannons, targeting and obliterating militia-occupied buildings. Ravenwing Speeders continued to select targets, all of whom were moments later saturated by bombarding rockets from whirlwind batteries. The tempo of the battle was unremitting. Astartes needed no rest that mortals required, and pushed forward on every approach even as the night began to fall. The eastern approaches were completely cleared by the hour of the sun's rise, the militia having fully withdrawn in disarray to the warehouses and hangars around the port's landing fields, attempting to barricade and fortify the area even as whirlwind rockets continued to rain down upon them. Azrael, confirming the destruction of the remaining bridges, was content to simply bombard the enemy for the time being, allowing them to concentrate in one single area he knew his forces could capture with relative ease. Over the next five days, the Dark Angels winnowed the enemy with ruthless efficiency. The counterattacks of the militia were repulsed at every turn. They could not and would not break out. Upon the eighth day, forward Dark Angels squads reported precisely what Azrael had been waiting to hear. Trader legionaries of the Alpha Legion had joined the battle for the spaceport. While Imperial echelons had not even been informed of the Dark Angels' attack upon the spaceport, they were likewise uninformed of even the more secret agenda for the Dark Angels' presence upon Vrax. The near-soul objective of hunting these heretic Astartes all in service of their ongoing search for the Fallen, those members of their original Legion who had betrayed the Emperor during the fires of the Horus Heresy 10,000 years previously. The Alpha Legion's trade of secrets and lies made them prize targets for Dark Angels interrogator chaplains. The chapter was nothing if not utterly relentless in their pursuit of anything that may grant even scraps of information about their traitorous kin. That their hunt may in the process aid another part of the Imperial war machine was merely pleasant happenstance. Azrael committed the lead elements of his first, second, fifth, eighth and ninth companies to a massive assault on the final militia positions with he himself leading the terminators of the Dark Angels' death wing in the attack. As with all conflicts involving such a large amount of Astartes, the destruction was on a scale unparalleled and at a speed undreamed of by mortal minds. The addition of traitorous Astartes to the mix only heightened it. In the ferocity of the assault, the Grandmaster's land raider was struck by a las cannon bolt, the subsequent detonation of its heavy bolter magazine severely damaging its tracks. Undeterred, the commander of the Dark Angels simply plunged into the fray, scything his way through militia soldiery without mercy or compunction. The Alpha Legion, however, were never one to engage on the enemy's terms. Their counter-attack targeted brother and male of the Angels, bearer of the chapter's sacred standard, who fell to a deluge of Bolterfire. Knowing that Azrael would not permit the banner to fall, even into dust and dirt let alone enemy hands, Lord Arcos merely had to wait for the Grandmaster to rush to the body of brother and male. Before emerging from the flames and smoke, the Barak, an ancient power armor of the Alpha Legion traitor, bedecked in runes that swam across its ceramite surface. Their jewel shattered stone and masonry with its fury. The blasphemous power of the warp the traitor had drunk from, empowering his form with ungodly vigor. Reigning blows down upon the Dark Angels Grandmaster. Arcos was fully aware that he would never surrender the sacred standard he now clutched and sought to exploit this at every turn. Targeting the joints in Azrael's Artifacer plate, Arcos was relentless, pushing the loyalists to start his commander back, back until finally he had laid him low. Permitting himself a laugh of triumph above the prone and now weaponous Azrael, Arcos was mere seconds from the killing blow itself. But his indulgence, so rare for the pragmatic Alpha Legion, cost him everything. A burst of assault cannon fire heralded the arrival of Belfigor, the expedition's interrogator chaplain, at the head of the Deathwing.  Concern for the chapter master's health overrode Belfigor's desire to end the foe, however, and administering to the barely conscious Azrael, Arcos was permitted to escape into the merc. The evacuation by Thunderhawk of the Grandmaster was now a priority, with a path that carries summon to deal with the wounds inflicted upon him. Command of the ground forces now passed to Master Aureus, although at this point the battle was a slaughter in favour of the angels. The Alpha Legion withdrew as formlessly as their commander had, vanishing into the dust and smoke, whatever objectives they had been pursuing either achieved or denied to them. It would take another two days to fully purge the surviving militia, fragmented and fleeing as they now were, and once their absolute control over the port had been achieved, the Dark Angels wasted no time in demolishing the facility past any point of salvage. The price, unfortunately, had been quite high. The bulk of the Angels' losses had occurred at the hands of their traitor targets. Some 200 battle brothers had fallen. The Grandmaster still recovering from the wounds sustained in his battle with Arcos. Not a single member of the Alpha Legion had been captured alive, although several high-ranking militia officers were now occupying the cells aboard the Angels' Battle Barge, awaiting the ministrations of the interrogator chaplains. The only communication the 88th Siege Army received following the destruction of the Starport was sent as the fleet of the chapter slipped high orbital anchor. Despite having spent the entirety of the previous near two solar weeks attempting to raise the Astartes, all Lord Commander's wealth ever received from the Dark Angels was a confirmation that their mission to the Starport had been completed. With that, the ships of the chapter left the system and the War for Vrax simply ground onwards. Thank you very much for watching.


Hey everybody, this is Hari Swaminathan from optiontiger.com. It's Monday, Jan 6th and a very very happy New Year to all our subscribers and your families. Welcome to the Swing Trading Signal Service in 2020 and we are going to make this a very good year for Swing Trading. And what I want to do in this video is give a set of guidelines and a couple of changes that we are going to do with the Swing Trading Signals program. So first of all, let me give some guidelines for especially people that have come in new or even if you're older in the program. You want to be aware of these kind of guidelines. So let me jump into that right now. So first of all, I'm trading this account assuming a size of about 50k to 60k. Now you could have more than that, you could have less than that and you will need to choose contract sizes as per your account size. I will generally start with five contracts on a single long or a long put or a long call. And if it's a spread, I may start with 10 contracts. But regardless, the account size is 50 to 60k. So if I'm taking five contracts and if you have a 25k account, then you should just have that maybe two contracts or maybe three contracts. And you can prorate that accordingly. Always leave about 40 to 50% capital for adjustments as we know options. The key feature of options is adjustments. And so we will need capital for that. So make sure you have capital available. Now it doesn't mean that we never use this capital. We are going to use this capital. But if you find a new trade, if you see a new trade recommendation and if your capital is already below the 40% level, then you don't want to take that new trade. You want to keep that capital for adjusting your existing positions. And so you don't have to take every trade. You keep open positions also as per your account. Diagonals and iron condors require a little bit more margin. So please watch out for them. In general, I'll try to be doing more debit spreads rather than the diagonals. And if I do a time, a time spread, which is a diagonal or a calendar, I'll prefer to do a calendar because that does not require additional margin. So this is some of the things that I'm going to be changing here. And once you get a trade recommendation, the trade recommendation will come to you at least an hour or two before the markets open. And so option prices are going to change when the markets open. People have to go to work and therefore I have to put the video out at least an hour or two before the markets open. And so when the markets open, option prices are going to change. And if a trade recommendation has been given, and if the stock is moving up higher quickly, you want to take the trade.  And similarly, if the stock is going down, then you want to wait a little bit at least and pick a good time. Because if you're buying a call option and the stock is going down, then your call option is going to get cheaper if it goes down. So it really the first 15 minutes to half an hour, it would be good if you can watch the market open and pick the right time for your trades. Now you may not catch the perfect trade entry, but it's good to wait and try to catch the best entry there. When we do take trades on some high priced options like Amazon or Google, I will always recommend a spread to begin with. However, if you have a small account and you feel a certain option is very high priced or a certain trade is very high priced, then you might want to avoid that or just lessen your number of contracts. You can always control your position by the contract sizes. And so please keep a keen eye on that. Now obviously knowledge of spreads and advanced strategies is a very big plus even though we mostly start out with long calls and long puts. But sometimes we will be doing spreads and some advanced strategies. And so knowledge of these spreads and advanced strategies is a very big plus. And if you need help with any education on any of these strategies, please email us at info at optiontiger.com. So this is a broad set of guidelines that will apply to the Swing Signals program. And what I'm going to do now is go to the platform and I'll show you some of the things that you're going to see, which will be a little different from last year. And so let's go over to the platform and I'll show you some of the changes. And some of these are very exciting for the Swing program. And let me explain all of those next. So you're going to see a new layout in 2020. And one of the most exciting features is I'm going to add the multi time frame trend indicator into our swing trading analysis. So what I've done is I've moved my watch list here to the left hand side previously. It was under the market watch tab, but I have moved it now to the left side. And so and I've added the swing trades signal. This is the swing trade algo over here, which you can see the very bullish, very bearish neutral and so on. And I've also just trimmed the number of stocks that we look at just a little bit because what I want to do is be able to focus and get the trades right. And so we want to be having a very, you know, fixed basket and these are all high liquidity stocks. So we don't need to worry about that. And then of course, I have some indices like the bonds and of course the ES and maybe gold or something. But I have golden GLD itself. So gold will be the ETF. And what we're going to do is look at this and then we're going to also dip into the multi time frame trend indicator and use it for taking our trades. So the goal is I want to have no more than about seven to eight open trades. And then if I want to make an adjustment, what I will probably do is make it a debit spread instead of a diagonal. But if I do want the advantage of time decay from a time spread, then what I'll do is I'll do it as a calendar. So if we do it as a calendar, the margins are much less. In fact, it doesn't require additional margin at all. And so I'll be doing it as a calendar or I'll just do it as a debit spread to begin with. Sometimes we may have to get into diagonals and iron condos, which we'll decide on a case to case basis. So you're going to see the market watch here, you're going to see the charts are going to be nice and big. And so I've linked both the market watch and the charts tab so we can just cycle through these and we'll know exactly what are the trades to be taken. So these are some of the changes that you're going to see. Most importantly, the guidelines is very important. And so I'm going to include that slide on all of the videos at the end. I'll include that slide. So that's it. Welcome to the swing trading program in Jan 2020. We are facing a geopolitical situation around the world and we'll be structuring our trades accordingly. But I want to welcome you to 2020 and Happy New Year again to all our subscribers. Thank you.


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Hey friends, I am at Epcot today because it is National Coffee Day. That's not really why I'm at Epcot, but I did read on the way in here that it was National Coffee Day and that Joffreys might be doing some 99 cent special. So yeah, I'm gonna check that out. But the reason I came today is because I had two hours before work and what better way to kill time than come to Epcot and check out some of the festivities. So let's go do this. Is that a sign that says if you can read this, thank the Phoenicians? That's amazing, I have to have a photo. Can I please have a photo? That's pretty amazing. If you can read this, thank the Phoenicians photo opportunity. Well, it's not an opportunity, it's just a sign, but I had to stop. I had to get that photo and it was fisheye. So I'll insert the photo in right now. Speaking of the Phoenicians, you know it's very busy at Epcot. What space of birth is that a 30 minute wait? As soon as you walk in, you know it's busy if you see a line. Yip is not with me today, unfortunately she's at work. But if she was, she'd probably be freaking out about that service dog. She loves puppies. Like I said, National Coffee Day, Joffreys is doing dollar coffees or ice coffees, so I must partake. There it is, and it was 99 cents. I guess it's important to point out that they hollowed out the old universe of energy building, which is eventually going to turn in the queue for the Guardians of the Galaxy roller coaster. You can't see much over the wall, but I am going to go up on this grassy knoll. Look at that. Nothing but an empty shell of what used to be Ellen's Adventure. While I'm here, I might as well get my cutting board because I completely forgot about it. We've definitely been here more than four times. So it should be just an easy walk in, grab the cutting board and leave if there's not a line. I don't know. All honesty, cutting board or not, I just love being in here. It is so beautiful. And the only time I get to come in here is during food and wine. So I just appreciate it. Well, it's not that bad of a line. Maybe everybody got all their cutting boards. Maybe they don't have any cutting boards. Uh-oh. Guess I'll find out. I'm leaving without a cutting board. Apparently it's only my third day at Epcot during food and wine. I feel a little upset with myself. I thought for sure I've been here more than three times. Wow. I don't even know what to say right now. There's like this big, big, big depression hitting me over the cutting board. Man, what am I going to do? Okay. I feel better now. I'm over it. I figured I'd just come back next week and get it. But now I'm on my way back out to the front of the park because I'm going to go meet a friend of ours from across the pond. Which is funny because before I started vlogging, I don't think I've ever used a word across the pond. And now it has become a regular term for us. So that's a plus bonus to actually vlogging. You get to learn new things and new sayings. And there's my friend, Maiza. And we're going to go write test track because it's test track.  I mean, there's nothing to really say other than it's test track. That's why we're going to ride it. Ah, the music of test track. We're going to walk right through. Yep. Save ourselves 20, 30 minutes. Yep. It has been forever. I'm so excited. I got to see maybe my old car will load up. It might. I'll wait. No, I got to wait till they load. So it's going to be myself and hello. Hello, I'm from China. How you doing? China? Yeah, sure. What's your name? Jeremy. Jeremy? Yeah. All together. Oh, wait. I got to load up my car maybe. Oh, wait. No. Yeah, it didn't work. Friends, riding test track together. Right, Jeremy? Yeah. It's going to be fun. It's going to be so much fun. You're not going to lose your mind? Oh. Ah. Oh, hi. These two. There is no such thing as a vlog without Beverly. You've never done Beverly? Why is this happening to me? This is going to be great. We're doing a Beverly. We're doing a Beverly. So Maya's never had Beverly. Never, ever, ever. All right. Are you ready? Yeah, I guess. There is. They make a drink with it. With Jen. At Disney Springs at the Coca-Cola store. It's called the Revenge of Beverly. Oh. It's $13. I'm off to the Revenge. Not for the Beverly. No. Here with Maya's, we want to try to get as much accomplished as we can. I do have to go to work in like 15 minutes. So the Chase photo opportunity is open for another four minutes and she's never done that. So I think I should show her and hopefully they don't lock us out. I see the door open. The door is still open. Ah. Watch when we get there.  Very likely. But not today. I love this building in here. It is so pretty, isn't it? It's really pretty. Wait till you see the monorails up here. Whoa. We're coming. We're coming. It's a mystery. Who's going to be behind this corner? Who do you think it's going to be? I have no idea. I don't know either. It's always a mystery. I never know. I'm excited though. Do we knock? Hello. Hello. I'm like, do we knock? Say hello. Look at that monorail. We're coming in. Oh, it's Minnie and Pluto. Hello. Look at that. Fancy. Hiya, pal. Well, thank you. Oh, yes. Absolutely. Oh. That is so good. Yeah. Wow. That's pretty awesome. Man, I have to say I've never pet Pluto's nose before. Now I'm like super excited. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. I have a girl dog. I almost said who's the girl? That's not good. Gracie would not be happy about that. Go ahead, take her photo first. Oh, hang on one sec. Is it meant to be crooked like that? Yeah. Yeah, okay. Oh. Yeah, we don't need crooked ears in here. Wait, now we'll all join. Okay, yeah, come on in. Yes. Thank you, Minnie. Once again, unbelievable. Thank you, Pluto. The weather was perfect. Oh, yeah. Yeah, give me a scan. They went to the Halloween party. Yeah. Wait, how'd you know that? You told them? Oh, you were spanned. Ah. Pluto's on there. Wait, Pluto is on there. Look at that Pluto. I have the home town with me all the time. You're famous. We'll see you guys. Bye-bye. Now, so that's it. That's all there is. Had a fun day though. Like I said, great way to spend two hours before you gotta go to work. Got depressed about not gonna get caught on board. But then got happy and excited because then I realized that I can get a cutting board and just one more trip. So, love the life you live and live the life you love. We'll see you next time. To the moon. Oh, I don't like the way I stand that way. Also, I forgot. Happy 30th birthday, Sarah Canty. I hope your journey is great for the 30s. And a monorail. Monorail.