Alright, good morning and welcome to the University of Vermont. We are here at UVM because the Attorney General's Consumer Assistant Program is part of the University of Vermont. It's been a great partnership for the last 30 years and it really was the Consumer Assistance Program that dealt firsthand with the Equifax breach that occurred in September of 2017. We are here to announce a national settlement and what Vermont's share of that settlement is regarding the Equifax breach that occurred in September of 2017. I'm Attorney General TJ Dunham and joined with me this morning is Charity Clark, my Chief of Staff, Chris Curtis, the Chief of our Public Protection Division, Ryan Krieger, who was the attorney who worked on this national settlement, Crystal Baldwin from our Consumer Assistance Program and members of our Consumer Assistance Program. When the Equifax breach happened in September of 2017, the phones at cap did not stop ringing. 251,000 Vermonters were affected as a result of the Equifax breach. 148 million Americans were affected as a result of the Equifax breach. All consumers had their social security numbers, their birth data, and their address information compromised. Some consumers had their driver license, credit card numbers, and some credit dispute documents were jeopardized. When that breach became public, our Consumer Assistance Program worked around the clock taking phone calls from Vermonters. We received over 700 phone calls that first weekend because people, Vermonters, were rightfully scared. When you're talking about a data breach, you're talking about a higher risk of identity theft, you're talking about a higher risk of being scammed. The bottom line is this, because of this data breach, Vermonters felt anxious, scared that their financial livelihood was on the line. They rightfully should have been scared. We are in the online digital global economy, scams are on the rise, this Equifax breach demonstrated that. That's why we joined with our colleagues around this country to hold Equifax responsible. And I'm happy to announce today that Vermon is part of a national settlement which will total close to $650 million. Let me give you the breakdown of that money. And the most important part of this is about the consumers who were affected. $425 million will go towards a restitution fund. And I'm going to talk about that more in a minute. $175 million will go to the states. Between $50 to $100 million will go to the Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Out of the $175 million to the states, the state of Vermont will receive $1.85 million. Those funds will go into our state's general fund. As I said, we had 251,000 consumers impacted out of 139 million consumers nationwide that were covered in this settlement. That is 0.18% of consumers and that equals our share in terms of the settlement. The effective date of this payment is August 22, 2019. The payment will be made within 30 days of the effective date. Now regarding the restitution fund, $300 million is guaranteed payment that must be paid to consumers. That means Vermoners. How do you make yourself eligible and what is eligible in terms of the restitution? Here's the quick part. Many consumers spend a lot of time on the phone making sure that their money was safe. Consumers can submit claims for time spent dealing with this breach. If you spend any time dealing with this breach, you're eligible for $25 per hour up to 20 hours for time spent dealing with a breach.  If Vermoners spent time making sure that their money was safe, you are eligible for restitution up to 20 hours at $25 an hour. Secondly, if you have documented out-of-pocket expenses, and we're going to talk more about that later, you're going to be eligible up to reimbursement of up to $20,000. Everybody will be eligible if you're an effective consumer for three credit monitoring for affected consumers. If you don't like one of the three options in terms of the credit monitoring, consumers can opt for a cash payment and use it to purchase credit monitoring from another vendor. As I said, those out-of-pocket expenses like freezes or credit monitoring purchased apart from Equifax's offer are reimbursable. If that $300 million is exhausted, that additional $125 million in funds will become payable if the original fund amount is exhausted. In terms of the monitoring services, for adults, you will have free, free Bureau of Credit Monitoring for up to four years. The monitoring will include a $1 million identity theft insurance policy. After those three Bureau of Monitoring expenses expires, consumers will get one Bureau of Monitoring for six more years.  This is a good settlement for Vermonters. This is good for consumers. But most importantly, what this breach did was to raise awareness about online security. But as I said, we live in a global digital economy. More and more of our financial attractions are being done online. That raises the risk level for scams and for these breaches. Vermont has one of the strongest and most robust data breach notification laws in the country. That's a good thing. Why we have that is so we can protect consumers, so we can tell consumers when their money is at risk. And we are in a world where people have anxiety and angst and uncertainty about their financial futures. We have to do everything we can as a state to protect them. And given Vermonters, the knowledge, the information, and the tools to protect their money, their retirement, and their livelihood is good consumer protection. That's what this settlement does today. That's why I'm proud to be a member of this national settlement to bring this money back to the state of Vermont. And more importantly, to open up avenues so Vermonters who are affected can get paid back for the time they spent making sure that their money was safe. With that, let me turn it over to Chris Curtis, the chief of my public protection division, Chris. Great. Thank you, General Donovan. Again, my name is Chris Curtis. I'm chief of the public protection division at the office of the attorney general. I want to invite Ryan Krieger, one of my colleagues and our assistant attorney general who worked on this matter for our office to the podium. Ryan has done an outstanding job. And I also want to thank Crystal Baldwin and our entire consumer assistance program team for all of the work that they have done to reassure Vermonters in the wake of this day to breach and others. When these things happen, this office is responsive. And General Donovan has made this issue a top priority for our office. And Vermonters should know that we've redoubled our efforts with respect to data privacy, consumer privacy, security breach, all of our outreach efforts in this area. And the attorney general has made that a priority for our office. The truth is the future of consumer protection is online. We have a long and historic tradition in the state of Vermont of protecting consumers. And many of those laws are responsive to the face-to-face transaction, the Vermont handshake, the understanding between parties. But increasingly, we live in a wired world and those transactions are happening in cyberspace. So it is crucially important that this office be responsive and be bold in making sure that there is accountability, there's transparency, and that there is an effort with respect to both our education and outreach efforts and our public policy initiatives, that those are reflected in this office. And that's what Attorney General Donovan has done. And that's in part what this settlement is helping to do as well. It's a broad recognition, almost an endorsement of the efforts of this office in that area, that we are going to make sure that Vermonters feel secure and that when there's a breach, there is accountability, that there's restitution available for Vermonters, as in this case, where it's warranted, and that we can have preventive measures in the future, so ongoing credit monitoring. All of those security measures that will be in place for affected Vermonters going forward, critically important. I want to note that two years ago, when news of this massive breach broke, not only did the Consumer Assistance Program triage, in fact, our entire office, we had attorneys taking calls from consumers that were alarmed, hundreds and hundreds of telephone calls from concerned Vermonters all across the state. But that wasn't enough. The Attorney General directed our office to work with our partners in the legislature to have community meetings. We went to Barton, to Springfield, to Bennington, to Burlington, all over the state to convene community meetings to address Vermonters face to face and tell them what they could do to take steps to protect themselves, how to prevent identity theft from happening, how to secure a credit freeze on their accounts. And even that wasn't enough because, subsequently, we worked with our partners in the legislature to make sure that Vermont eliminated fees to place security freezes on their credit files so that no Vermonter would have to pay to put a freeze on their credit so that they can help protect their identities at no cost to themselves. That obviously was a law that took effect going forward in time. So for Vermonters that heard about the news and immediately acted to protect themselves, they may have incurred costs. Another reason why this settlement is so important, so they can get reimbursed for those costs that they may have incurred. So this is a crucially important settlement. It's going to have, I think, major importance across the country for consumers, for federal agencies, and of course for our state. And we're very pleased to be part of this today. I wanted to, Ryan, if there's anything you want to add vis-a-vis our outreach efforts or with respect to, oh, I do want to note that Attorney Krieger has done an amazing job of helping us to facilitate working group proposals, both as to privacy matters, along with our Chief of Staff, Charity Clark, they have spearheaded the effort on privacy working group. There is a bill pending in the legislature on additional privacy measures in the future that may help to ameliorate some of these kinds of issues in the future. And of course, we had a data broker working group that resulted in the nation's first data broker registration law. So all of these activities are part and parcel of this new frontier, new online consumer protections. Our office is proud to be a part of it, and we're proud to get this matter resolved for Vermonters today. And with that, I want to open it up to our Chief of Staff, Charity Clark, and she can share with you what Vermonters can do to better protect themselves. All right. So as Chief of Staff, one of my responsibilities is that I'm lucky enough to oversee the Consumer Assistance Program, which is located here at UVM. And they have, I want to reiterate what others have said. They did a phenomenal job in the aftermath of the breach of being available to Vermonters. They had a website up literally the first day. People didn't know where to turn, and they knew in Vermont, because we were so responsive. So I was very proud of that. I thought it would be helpful if I shared some tips about identity theft. And I also, the Consumer Assistance Program, brought these handy-dandy brochures for you that can help with a recovery plan if you do have an identity theft situation on your hands. These are free from the FDC, so we have a bunch. I'll pass them out, because they really have a lot of great information. And let me say what some of those tips are. So the first step is we should all be revealing our credit report every year. You can get a free credit report going to annualcreditreport.com. And just looking it over and making sure there's no inaccuracies or suspicious activity. When I'm talking about suspicious activity, I'm talking about things like credit card accounts that you did not open, address changes that you can initiate, loans that you did not take out, things like that. And if you do find suspicious activity on your credit report, there are recommended steps to take. The first thing that you should do is call the company where the fraud occurred to let them know I did not open up this credit card account. I need to close it and let them know that you believe you may be the victim of identity theft. You should change your password, your logins, your pin numbers. And then contact the credit reporting agencies to ask for a correction to your credit report. And the FTC is incredibly helpful. Not only do they have this brochure, but you can go online at identitytheft.gov, identitytheft.gov. And they will walk you through a plan that would work best for you. Some of the other things that might be recommended are to put a fraud alert on your credit report. That means that when someone is looking something up, it will kind of have a red flag on it to alert them. You know, this person may have been the victim of identity theft, so just be careful here. And you can also freeze your credit. That used to cost money and it doesn't anymore. So you can freeze your credit and unfreeze it without paying anything. So that's available as well. And the other step that we always recommend at CAP when folks call is to contact your local police and make a report of identity theft. You can use the police report that you'll fill out. If you need it down the road, you might need to demonstrate to someone, this happened to me, and you can have that in your file. With all of this, with identity theft, be sure to keep really good records, keep a file and who you talk to and when, and it'll help you as you move forward. So those are just some of the resources that we wanted to bring to your attention. And like I said, I can pass these out if there are any used to you. So thanks so much. Thank you. Thank you, Charity. So here's, this is where we need your help. How do Vermonters get their money? Here's the website. Equifaxbreachsettlement.com. This is going to be the website, Equifaxbreachsettlement.com, where Vermonters will go to submit their claims, whether it's for the time spent, again, 25 bucks per hour, up to 20 hours, for just time spent. Equifaxbreachsettlement.com. Secondly, if you have those out-of-pockets losses, Equifaxbreachsettlement.com. If you have out-of-pocket losses, it's up to $20,000 reimbursable. So those are the big two, restitution issues for Vermonters to be paid back. You got to submit a claim in addition to that, the three credit monitoring services that will be provided to all affected consumers. So please get this website out and Vermonters should go to Equifaxbreachsettlement.com. I don't want to confuse matters, but there's another website too. The FTC, just explain what that is, Ryan, please. So the Federal Trade Commission has set up, the Federal Trade Commission was one of the parties in this settlement. They have set up a website.  That's probably the easiest way to get there. And on that website, there is a link that you can click on and you will get email updates regarding the settlement. That's important because on that Equifaxbreachsettlement.com, there is a judge in Atlanta that needs to approve this settlement and once that approval comes through, some of the things on the Breachsettlement website will go live that might not be live right now. So if people go immediately to that website, they might not be able to take advantage of all the other things.  Thank you. Okay, so to get updates, the FTC website to submit your claim is going to be EquifaxSettlement... Equifaxbreachsettlement.com. If our partners in the media could put that information out, we would appreciate that. So with that, let me just again make my team. I want to thank our partnership with the University of Vermont. I want to thank the students at UVM who were on the phones talking to Vermonters. It is a great testament to the quality of students here at the University of Vermont and to the institution itself for having such mature, responsible young professionals that the Attorney General's office relies on to handle consumer issues. I just want to say this about CAP. 13,000 calls a year we get from the Consumer Assistance Program from Vermonters. I think we're the only place in state government where you actually get a real live person on the phone. That's why we get so many calls. We're not going to be able to answer every question, but we do our best to navigate the bureaucracy of state government to get information to Vermonters to solve their problems. That's how government should work. That's what we're doing here at the Attorney General's office, working with UVM and working with our CAP program. So with that, let me conclude and open it up for any questions. Joe. You said, what, 256,000 Vermonters? That's your average? 251. The exact number is this. 251,419. 251,419 Vermonters were affected. 148 million total Americans. So I'm trying to do my math here. It comes to like $7 a person. Your math has been in the mind, Joe. I can't. Do you think that's enough? Yeah. Yeah. I think when you are part of a national settlement, which we are in this case, and we are in many other cases historically as well, it comes down to an equation in order to try to bring about fairness and population and the number of affected consumers is always going to be part of that equation. So I think the exact math, and I may be wrong about this, but this is what I have. 251,000 consumers impacted out of 139 million consumers is .18 of consumers. And our share of the penalties is about 1%, 1.05%. So that's the ballpark, and I think the math does work on that. When you're in these national settlements, it comes down to the affected consumers' population, and it's always going to be an equation. What did actual facts do wrong? Was it local? Was it accident or local? I'm going to ask Ryan Krieger to explain that and to talk also about I think the importance of our data notification security law. Sure. So the key thing that Equifax did wrong was not having sufficient data security. And that is often the case when we see these data breaches. It is possible to have a data breach and still have done everything within your power. The bad guys are often just that good. That was not the case here. Equifax had some pretty bad data security. In particular, there was a vulnerability called the Struts vulnerability. It was a known vulnerability that Equifax should have patched. They did not patch it. The bad guys were able to get to a database by logging in through the internet. It was a database with a lot of data that probably should not have been easily accessible from the internet. And another really important part of this settlement is there is an entire data security regime that Equifax is going to have to implement in order to comply with this settlement. So they have to have much better data security. And is it so true two years later that no one has been proven to be exposed and not exposed? But there has been no actual damage yet. These stolen files have not been used yet, is that correct? That is really hard to say. I don't know that the files have been, say, dumped onto the dark web for purchase. That doesn't necessarily mean that they're not being used. Identity theft happens all the time. Were the bad guys using this tranche of data to do that? It's hard to sometimes tie an individual ID theft to an individual harm, although in this case, if someone was affected by the breach and they did suffer ID theft, they will be able to submit receipts to try to get remersed. What were the hacks? I don't know that they were identified. We don't know. I don't believe so. I can look into that deeper and get back to you afterwards, but I'm not sure they were identified. Do you have to do anything to sign up for the 10 years of free, better monitoring? You are going to have to go to the Equifax breach settlement website. You're going to ask for it? Yes. How do you sort it last time? K-R-I-G-E-R. I do want to, I know that there was a mention of the FTC website. One benefit of going to that website, and it is just, it's very simple. It's ftc.gov backslash Equifax. So if you can put that out there as well, consumers can sign up today to get e-mail alerts so that when the National Claims Administrator website goes live or portions of that start to go live, they can get e-mail notifications through the FTC that that's happening. So that is one action step that a consumer could take today so that even if the settlement website isn't fully up and running until after the orders are approved and so on and so forth, the FTC will keep people updated. So if you want to know and not have to be checking back yourself every day on that website or looking for the news about when the settlement is approved, you can sign up for the FTC, through the FTC website for e-mail updates and alerts that will keep you apprised as the process unfolds. The judge's decision to take a plan, when will the plan start? It's impossible to say for sure we are hoping and suspecting that within a few days it will come down. Well, I'm going to conclude the press conference where I file a consumer complaint because of the paint fumes in the room. But with that, there's no other questions. Thanks for coming. Appreciate it.


I like to say a lot of business as usual is dead because everything around us is changing but we're still doing things the same way. So a bank still does paper, shoveling paper around, a bank still does the credit score the same way than 20 years ago, a bank still charges transaction fees, but in the meantime we're communicating for free on social media apps around the world, we're sending money with all kinds of services, we have digital money, we have Bitcoin, and the bank is still saying like it's the same as before just faster, you know, but that's not true. Basically every context of business is changing because of technology and the way we do it is changing and the business model is changing and the money we make is going to change. So business as usual is winding down and we're all being reborn into a new way like the music business is now no longer about selling music. We're being reborn into a new generation of business.


My name is John McIntyre. I'm a scientist consultant for ILRI. I'm working on co-editing a book on historical impact of ILRI and its two predecessors, ILCA and ILRAD, along with Dr. Delia Grace and Ekta Patel, whom you probably know. Many years ago I worked for one of ILRI's predecessors, ILCA, the International Life Stock Center for Africa in Ethiopia, for five years. And before that I had been a graduate student, among other things, working on the economics of rice production near Seigu and Central Mali, which was historically one of ILCA's and ILRAD. Near there was one of ILCA's and ILRAD's field research sites. So long, long ago, once upon a time, I was doing a survey of rice production, as I said, near Seigu and Central Mali. And I was doing questionnaire on how much land people had, how much labor they did, what they produced, how much, et cetera, who did what in the family. And I was approaching the difficult and delicate subject of livestock holdings. People don't want to tell what their livestock holdings are. They're afraid of taxation or confiscation or some of that kind of problem. So, but, you know, I had been living in these villages for a while. I developed a certain degree of confidence, you know, with the people they were used to this crazy white person running around and asking all sorts of personal and intrusive questions and measuring their fields and so forth. So, we got to the issue of pretesting the questionnaire on livestock holdings. So, I assumed, I was 26 at the time, didn't know anything, that the livestock holdings were all by the mint. So, we're interviewing the male head of household. And these were typically extended households. So, he would have an older man and his sons and his wife and their wives and their children. So, you would have at least three generations in most households and they would be extended. And some of the households were as many as 50 people. But I said, okay, I'm going to start with interviewing the head of household and then work down to the other mint. So, I was, I pre-tested this in a few households and I got to the end of one household, which was particularly large. And then what I would do was I would ask the questions and I'd write down, show people what I was doing and the numerator would show them what I was doing. He would explain to them just to make sure that this wasn't going to the tax authorities or anything. And I said, okay, thank you very much and we're finished for the day.  And I said, so what's that about? And he said, he said, she wants to know why you didn't ask her about livestock. And I told her that you weren't asking the women. I said, well, do they have many livestock? And then they all start laughing. That's of course they do. So that was my moment. Well, this influence in many years of doing field surveys in African countries and in Latin American countries after that have taught me that on this area and in the division of labor, the division of assets, the division of responsibilities, the division of control and power, if you will, there's there are no simple answers. I mean, African agriculture is by far the world's most complicated subject. Because just when you think you know something, you find some other stuff that you had no idea that existed and certainly in the area of gender, because it touches on, as I said, the division of labor, the division of responsibilities, division of assets, the division of power and control within and between households, that, you know, you have to be very careful and thorough that you've asked all the right questions to the right people and not just ask one bit, one question or a set of questions to one person on the assumption that he knows what everybody else is doing, and he has some adequate knowledge to respond intelligently or openly to whatever the question may be. This is particularly true in the area of gender, but it's true in many areas of agricultural service as well.


Today is March 20th 2023 and it's the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq Iraq war 2.0 with the coalition of the willing and an incredibly incredibly important moment in history. Really a lot of people, some people anyway, realized that at the moment many people were still in the West anyway full of bloodlust and cheered on the war. Some places in the West the protests were large enough where those countries did not get involved in the invasion of Iraq. Some places even though the protests were large enough to prevent them, their leadership still joined the fray and committed this crime against humanity. So I don't want to say panic new how are you doing and so forth and so forth right and so forth that's a good way of saying it really and so forth. Just a quick note regarding that the only way in the Western world we will see peace is to bring the war criminals amongst our myths to justice. I said this way back then when I was writing blogs, political blogs and whatnot and I'm repeating it now. We didn't bring them to justice then and this is where we are and we need to hold those people accountable for the crimes against humanity. We'll see how far we're willing to go until we wake up and deal out a little justice.


Yankees summer camp presented by Ford. Red Gardner had an outstanding 2019 season, blasting 28 home runs and driving in 74, not to mention in a year where the Yankees suffered more injuries than anyone else in the league, Red Gardner managed to stay on the field and be a constant in that lineup playing in 141 games. Earlier today, I caught up with Gardner to get his assessment on how Yankees summer camp is going so far. Red Gardner, Brett, how do you feel as though summer camp is going as a whole for the Yankees? You know, I feel like it's gone pretty good. I think everybody came in this kind of with an open mind, not really knowing what to expect. And for the most part, it's gone smoothly. I feel like our coaching staff and everyone up here associated with the front office has really done a good job of setting things up where it runs pretty smoothly. And you know, obviously we've got a couple guys that have been away from the team and we're going to miss them for a little while. But hopefully, hopefully it's not too long and we can make it through this season all healthy. You mentioned some of the guys that have tested positive in DJ LaMaheau, Luis Sessa, Raldes Chapman. DJ LaMaheau in particular, he was such an asset to this team last season. How much will he be missed just with his versatility and his consistency at the plate? Well, we've definitely missed him. Hopefully we're not going to be missing him for much longer and we hope we see him soon. But he's obviously a guy who's a huge, huge, huge part of our team and our lineup and his ability to move all around the infield and play different positions. And just a huge addition to this team last year and I think one of my all-time favorite teammates. And we've definitely missed him here this last week or two. And as I said, we look forward to getting him back soon. What makes him one of your all-time favorite teammates? He just, he's all business.  He wants to win as bad as anybody I've ever played with. He's all business and just his work ethic and his routine and the level of consistency with which he does things every day. It's impressive to watch.  Just getting accustomed to wearing a mask on a daily basis. Obviously, try and keep it on here pretty much all times when I'm indoors at the stadium. And then it's nice to obviously take it off and go outside and run around and be on the field. But yeah, I mean, just being smart about what we do and avoid contact with others and constantly just double check and triple checking, making sure we wash our hands and be as safe as possible. But I think if we can all do that, well, things will work out. What do you think of the outfield depth that you guys have at the very moment? Yeah, it's pretty impressive.  And I think all across the diamond, really, I mean, the infield and everybody has seen here recently in summer camp how good our pitching staff is. So we've got a lot of depth. We've got a really good team. And as I said, if we can keep everybody healthy, we'll have a lot of fun in this short season. How has Aaron Hicks looked to you coming back from Tommy John surgery? He may not even miss a game, Brett. Yeah, no, he's looked really good. He's looked good at the plate. I think in the outfield, he moves around really well, as always, and is all but trying to lose 100% throwing the bases in the last couple of days. And he's looked really good. So it'll be good to get him back. And obviously, judges has been looking good. And Big G, having those guys help you together in the same line up, it'll be fun to watch. When you see that lineup coming together, how excited do you get for this 60 games and 66 days season? Yeah, very excited. I mean, obviously, it's definitely a little different than we are accustomed to. But we're definitely excited about it. And anxious to play against somebody with a different jersey on this last week and a half. It's been a little different playing against facing our teammates. So we'll be excited to get to Washington next week. Couple guys mentioned that it's weird facing pictures on your team. Has that been an odd part of it for you, stepping into the batter's box, kind of knowing what guys typically do and seeing how they attack you? Yeah, it has. It definitely has. I think it's good to be able to go up against your own guys and see what they look like. And we'll get a little different perspective and maybe give them a little input on what you're seeing at the plate as a hitter or so. And they can do the same thing, obviously, as a pitcher or as the guy that's catching, calling the game against you. So it's been fun. I think so far it's gone really well. And obviously the pitching has seemed to be a little ahead of the hitting as we've been trying to get our timing back. But the last few days have been better. And as I said, it'll be good to play against somebody with a different jersey on. Do you think there's enough time for guys to feel really comfortable in the batter's box and get a lot of that timing back? I do. Yeah, I mean, I think that most of us are at that point where once you get 15, 20 at bats under your belt and you start to have an idea of where you're at and what you need to work on and what you need to do to get ready in a short amount of time. So for the most part, it's a matter of getting your body ready and making sure that you're ready to go from that standpoint. Miguel Andujar was a huge bat in the lineup in 2018. Aaron Boone said he's going to try to get that bat. And the lineup may play a little bit of an outfield. Have you given him any pointers in the outfield, Brett? He looks really good out there. Makes some good plays, gets good jumps, good reads off the bat. And he's an athlete. So I think that I'm confident in the job he's able to do out there. And I know he's excited to be on the field and play wherever he's at. And like you said, we really missed him last year and we're happy to have him back. So I look forward to seeing him moving around and playing some different positions. Now it seems as though you've just been going about your business like normal. I think I saw you salute the bleacher creatures one day. You also threw a ball to the fans. Well, there are no fans. Are you going to keep doing that throughout the season? Have your teammates been getting a little bit of a kick out of that? Well, yeah, I mean, I think we have to do what we can to just entertain each other. And it's definitely going to be different with no fans in the seats. I know the last week or so has been a little eerie here at the stadium playing with literally no one watching. So it's nice to be back out on the field, but we definitely do miss the fans being in the seats and look forward to the day when we can play in front of them again. Brett, as always, thank you so much for the time. Thank you. This will be Brett Gardner's 13th season in pinstripes. He is only ever worn pinstripes, drafted in the third round back in 2005. He is the only current Yankee on the roster that was part of that 2009 World Series World Champion team, a 2015 All-Star and 2016 Golden Glove winner. You know that he has been an asset to this Yankees team from day one. He is a leader in the clubhouse and he is certainly a guy that younger players look up to.


It's quite bright outside and I am hanging on for dear life as you can see to deliver you this video. So usually here at Hardware Sugar we talk about computer hardware but today we'll talk about solar power. Behind me you can see the tips or the borders of the solar panels I have on my own roof and these panels are basically maintenance free. Once they're on top of the roof you don't need to worry about them anymore. That's a 3 kilowatt system that you can see behind me.  Basically once they're up there, once they're installed you don't need to worry about them. I had a good solar installer the details of which I would provide below. They were quite good, very professional and quite fast with the installation. You notice that there is a new construction behind me. There's a building going up. This new building will not cast a shadow so my energy production should still be good even if that building is taller than my own townhouse. The next step in the solar process which is the inverter. So I've clambered down from the roof and behind me is the next step in the solar setup. Aside from solar panels, you will need an inverter which is this thing because when the solar panels generate electricity, they generate it in a form called direct current or DC. Unfortunately or by design, everything else in your house all the appliances, your aircods, your TVs, your fridges, microwaves, everything runs on alternating current or AC. So energy from the solar panels is generated in DC and our inverter here converts that electricity into AC. And actually the solar panels are very sturdy. They will last at least 10, 20 years or so. Basically again, once they're up there, you don't need to worry about them. It's really this inverter thing that usually gives out from time to time and you need to be sure that you get a reputable provider and make sure you keep the warranty information and things like that because it's really the inverter which wears out or is the most likely part to break in your solar setup. And speaking of break, there's a breaker right here behind me so this green wire is where the electricity or where the breaker connects to the solar panels.  And you notice they're labeled AC and DC. And this particular inverter is by Zorver Solar. It's a Chinese company. It's pretty cool actually because you can go here and press this button, this main button and it'll show you how much electricity you're generating in real time as well as how much electricity you've generated for the day and it even doubles up as a Wi-Fi hotspot. So you can actually connect to this thing when it's on and it's being powered right now by solar energy and it will serve as a Wi-Fi repeater. Connect to your main Wi-Fi and then this is basically a signal booster to your main Wi-Fi. And it's also cool because once you connect it to the internet you can download all the data. It will show you how much energy you've made or you've generated per day and how much you've generated over the month and things like that. So it will send all of that information to a central server which you log onto and you can see all of your data there. So a lot of people who are interested in solar or the kind of people who are data fanatics they have their Excel files. To be honest, I don't know or I haven't researched a lot of the inverters. Maybe that's a standard feature in all of them. Server solar, this inverter was recommended by our solar installer and we also bought it from him. And so I didn't bother to research anymore about other brands and things like that. Here you'll notice the Wi-Fi antenna. And as with most inverters this server solar one will cut off when there is no external power that even if you're getting power from the grid from the Meralco energy grid from your local power wires when the Meralco grid turns off because of a brown out this thing automatically turns off as well even if there is sun outside and you are generating electricity. And the reason for that is for the safety of people who might be working on electric wires outside of your house because it's brown out they might expect that hey, there's no power running through these wires but since you are generating power thanks to your solar panels the wires outside your place are still live and to ensure that they are not live to ensure that there's no power being sent out by the system the inverter shuts off automatically. So those are the two main components of any solar setup are the solar panels and the inverter. So if you're going to consume all of the power that you generate from your solar panels then these are the only two things you need really the solar panels and the inverter. But most consumers will be generating more energy than they consume. So let's say during the daytime you generate 10 kilowatts of electricity and you only consume 5 that means you have 5 left extra and you can sell that extra 5 kilowatts to Meralco under a scheme they called net metering. Basically the energy that you produce will be sent from your house to the closest consumers so that means your neighbors. You'll actually be powering the energy needs of your neighbors and Meralco will pay you for the excess energy that you generate. But to avail of net metering aside from all of the paperwork that you'll do with Meralco you'll need one other thing which we will go down below to see. So the last thing you'll need to enable net metering is that Meralco will provide this digital meter above. It's different from the analog meters which you usually find in older setups. This is also something that Meralco will require of you the fuse box outside the house in a brown out Meralco doesn't trust to turn off the power being generated by your solar panels so they insist that you have a fuse box outside your house and it's actually a main switch that you can open and if somebody flips it that will shut off the power to my entire house and you'll notice it's not really that secure because that's the whole point of Meralco that anybody, any of their linemen can open the box and turn off the power. So I know that some people find this insecure and I do think it's a bit of a security risk but unfortunately that's what Meralco requires. This digital meter will record all of the energy that you export. So again back to our example you produce 10 kilowatts of power and you only use five you have an excess of five that you can sell back to Meralco and Meralco requires these digital meters to record how much power you are selling back to the grid and it's a good bet that when you see these digital meters a lot of them are there because the household or the residence or whatever the business is using solar panels. So if you're interested in solar power in the Philippines as a regular consumer that's basically the only three things that you need. The solar panels themselves the inverter and finally the digital electric meter which Meralco will provide you once you've signed a net metering agreement with them. Basically the net metering agreement is a lot of paperwork Meralco will come over, inspect your place you need to get a permit from City Hall but Meralco can do that for you and at least in Makati I assume other jurisdictions or other municipalities have some regulations on that as well but the net metering for me took a while it was around two to three months because there's a lot of paperwork Meralco will ask you to put that breaker that we saw earlier and once the breaker is there Meralco will inspect it and another thing that took time was the actual digital meter because Meralco did not have any stock to give me and you need to pass an application to the ERC, the energy regulatory body and you know there's a whole bunch of paperwork involved in Meralco's net metering and at the end of the day Meralco was like okay we're finally good where the net metering is finally activated but the problem was after a couple of months I noticed that there was no credit being reflected on my bill supposedly under net metering I was selling Meralco the excess energy that I generated but it wasn't appearing on my bill so I called them up and I'm like I thought I would get credit is it just happening in the background you're just not reflecting it on my bill and Meralco said that oh you know you're right we made a mistake and the net metering wasn't properly applied to your account and there was a clerical error but moving forward we will credit you the energy that you are generating and what was really frustrating for me was if I didn't catch that error and I didn't report it to them it would have gone on forever I would have been selling electricity to Meralco and Meralco wouldn't have been paying me and as a consumer it's a bit unfair that I'm expected to know these things I did not have any experience with net metering how was I supposed to know it was supposed to reflect on the bill how much energy you generated but Meralco's a big company and you're just one consumer so what are you going to do right but so do you know once net metering is activated it will appear on your bill how much energy you are generating and for last month this reading was taken November 2018 so this covers basically October 2018 my solar setup generated an excess because this is the energy because what I sell to Meralco is the excess of what I didn't use the total energy I sold was 153 kilowatts the rate is around 5 pesos and 25 cents per kilowatt so I got a total credit of around 806 pesos and so that's really where your concern on ROI comes into play usually the solar installers will tell you to expect that you can get a return on your investment after 10 years yes it does take some time to recoup or to recover the initial investment of paying for the hardware solar panels and the inverter and then the labor for the installation and things like that so usually it's around 10 years but if you use that energy for more productive purposes meaning you're just not selling it to Meralco but you're using it to make money because to be honest what I did with my energy was I was crypto mining so I was mining Ethereum and that's a whole different bag of worms and maybe I'll do a video on that but if you're using the energy for more productive means like I did for crypto mining then your rate of return will be faster or it will be quicker than the expected 10 years and to be honest it is a good feeling that you can turn on the aircon during a very hot day and you know that your power consumption is not contributing to the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere because you're not using the energy from the grid and if you're interested in data again the server solar inverter will send you all of that your daily consumption your average generation so you can actually tweak and play around with how much power you can generate on a given day and you can experiment if I run my aircon I was only able to export this much versus if I had kept the aircon off and so it's not for everybody again this is not something hardware sugar usually does and we do not sell solar panels but I get asked a lot about it and so I thought I would do a simple video on it. If you have any questions please leave them in the comments below I will also give the details of our solar installer because I had a really good experience with them they're nice guys and if you're considering your own setup I would wholeheartedly recommend them I do not get any commission I'm just a happy customer who is intern happy to recommend them to anyone


and oh no no just dude DP let's go that was sick level seven how's it going everybody dot it away here back with some more dragon ball fighters ranked matches this time playing a team of Goku GT Super Saiyan 4 gojita and base Goku yes this is a team that I very recently did it in order for like a challenge sort of combo video and don't get me wrong I'm still open to doing that combo challenge again but I actually had so much fun with the team and it was actually I was doing really good I know it might not have sounded like I was having fun during the montage oh that was a filthy mix up Bardock turned around on a dive I'm gonna take this watch he's gonna drag a rush he thinks I can't take dragon rush but then I'm gonna shock the world I'm gonna take it right oh that is the first time in my life I've ever come through on my word that is crazy I am serial liar that was crazy oh ex for oki do it again neutral button I'd just be playing neutral with one button out here call me cool dodge that see this is why I really love this team dude this team is just so much fun for some reason it also just gives you access to so much like maybe I don't know if you watch the recent combo video but I'll just say it again this team just gives you access to so much um is shenanigans that you can get I can't believe I drop that I mean it really is the Goku GT show you I don't like to do a lot of switching because you know I want to just get the gimmicks with my other characters like the TOD with base Goku the um the instant TOD with go it feels like I've been blocking for a long time sorry I was starting to panic I don't know why it felt like I was blocking forever I was looking for an escape route that whole time too I was just like no I it's gotta be a time no he must have heard me doesn't matter I'll play gojita if I have to oh right there come here grab I'll take it I will definitely take it like I said though I don't want to spend the bar and lose my stacks so we're just gonna hope that this is enough nope all right I'll spend them I'll spend them you've convinced me I don't want UI Goku sticking around for any longer than he asked you I don't even check how many stacks we spent but we're back to zero regardless and uh it's time to start building them up again it's just time you would think spending half a bar every time you use that move would be bad but with Goku in the back it is just free bar city we get meter for everything throw them to the corner look at that strike come here medium get another bar build up another half bar on top of that mix ups let's go I love this team Goku GT is just too fast I'm bad at the game I am bad at the game though I went quiet because I thought I had it too age yo Goku GT is nice all right all right we have seven bars now so I'm gonna start you know wait what if we actually hit the combo here because I technically could I think oh no way dude I was trying to hit the combo I was trying to give oh no way oh sad why did he give me that little bit of hope dude he don't do that don't give me hope man what does he do he's lost it he's bar docking he's reverted to bar dock oh no he's he's found his he found his inner bar dock player oh no dude why did he give me that little bit of hope all right that's it I'm TOD at him oh no nope nope I'm only at two stacks and he is bar docking right now this is premium bar dock I just I just paid the subscription fee to bar dock weekly no I wanted to counter so bad there but I didn't I'm gonna DP I'm gonna DP let's go okay oh nice it worked okay combos oh I thought that would work no he did his larry it right when I did my larry it okay it's coming down to the wire we still have Goku obviously but counter that you want to be bar dock so bad no oh we win we win kick kick wink kick your average go G to combo a couple of kicks here a couple of winks here and you are looking like you're on your way to a game one victory which we just got man man as the steam is still a lot of fun I was like really would it really work if I'm not using it for the challenge but no it just builds a lot of bar and as long as you're comfortable with not really switching out too often I mean you can if you whoa whoa that was sick all right time to build my bar watch that boom from zero to here a real quick oh nice keep that corner keep that corner we want to see that corner I'll take that get some more bar keep in the corner dragon rush that's the first one we've thrown in a new ingredient has been added to the stew okay get some more bar even though I guess we really didn't eat it oh that's it dude let's see if I can do this meterless for some reason right one two three uh oh yes barely meterless okay I was about to add in a little vanish there but that's fine seven bars that means we have so much room for activities activities it didn't work it oh no dude yeah he's gonna vanish there good punishment nope do it again oh I was looking for that two way right there I was looking for that exact reason EX it don't worry we're gonna come out of this with more bar than we spent this team is nuts oh and there I go really though the meter building assist do allow you to just kind of be uh very wasteful I can just do raw level threes because I feel like it oh that was a dragon rush might have missed my input there and that's probably going to be the end of GT Goku no he lives if he goes behind me I'm I'm too aging all right just level three oh I missed it's fine we have enough meter to miss we can afford a miss no right through the assist get him out of okay fair play that's enough you know I've I've seen it I've seen it I could see how you would feel like that would not be something I could do you want a super dash or something well oh take that punish oh that's that was still a drop oh wow I got mixed I didn't expect that though on that side okay I was really going for a comma there kind of lost focus let's see if I can actually go G to come and that would be it's been a little while but I could probably oh no keep in the corner all right let's see if I got it let's see if I still got it just a touch too high a touch too quick that means if you drop that combo like that it means you were touched too quick I will DP bro I have no other oh no almost got mixed again wink kick oh we got the standard stuff uh oh no that's bad just be faster just be faster no no I tried to jump away there's too much chaos all right if he vanishes I vanish but with a super I'm gonna get phone call no that was an instant hang up my god they must have realized who they were ah phone call back instant transmission I'm out of there all right I'll handle that phone call came through had a hang up unless it was the president of dragon ball fighters trying to tell me how to play defense I can't be taking phone calls right now I'm in no state of mind we do have the TOD mission do I just rock I can do I do that to him come here grabbing no reflex needed hahahaha come on man you can't mess with Kaioken do I do it again do I hit him with the runback Kaioken oh no that's a good count that was a good option Kaioken does beat Kaioken the science is in it's fine we do have sparking so we could afford to be stupid like that a little bit oh nice he dodged it oh just let me get a hit in if we just get one hit in its game oh no oh please it's the spirit bomb I'm an idiot Kaioken all right now he's actually dead come here that should be enough just one key boss that we are going to wipe away this game we're two games out great games to that opponent we'd actually we have a lot to clean up there we gotta hit that go G to TOD at least once I think at least once we've been switching out too much all right we are back with game two and I am very much excited going up against Vegito another Bardock back it up play it safe and we are right in there with a good opening game and just jumping in kick let's go and again we love to see it because this means we can start playing that corner game getting that oh he just oh him him getting hit there was actually smart I did not know what to do with that go super dash I'll take it I'll take that every day of the week do we take a kill here I'm just gonna do it the vanish was kind of for fear does this still hit I'll just go Kaioken just to make sure hold them down no I still missed don't switch out don't switch out oh nice oh I almost still mashed out of it in time I was just hitting square that was crazy Vegito going wild yep gonna hit us with the standard Vegito stuff spirit sword and all couple of cakes and I'm very sad we let him get away we probably didn't need the panic vanish but you know I panicked it was no other way to put it I guess I'm just very uncertain with Goku GTs level when it feels like I always miss it I will take it bro when he drag rushes I'll be there I'll take it frame one oh that why did I even push a button we got so lucky spirit sword clash he's also rocking the B assist we'll take it all right I want Vegito back you know what I'm here to finish what I started but you know powerful oh oh he thought dude counter counter on the ground again I will powerful at this time kick him in the head let's go neutral just let him make that let him play their game and then adjust to it a little bit how is he still alive I no don't let him live again please six oh no please stop no how many times is gonna make this mistake spirits no that's I should have thrown in a panic vanish oh I'm an idiot I'm an idiot I'm just so stupid oh my god oh man this is just this is you know what no no no don't let the confidence go it's fine see we're alive too you didn't feel like finishing soft either go I don't have any real assist so I couldn't comb off that I'll take it though I will fight Bardock I'll let my uh I'm gonna vanish again why am I doing this though I guess just for knockdown no it's gonna miss do it again I thought that I went oh that was just rude unnecessary punch okay so here's what he wants to do right he wants the TOD with Goku and I don't think we should give him the I did not mean to switch I did not mean to switch oh my god did I not mean to switch oh wow oh wow this was no no no no no my good sirs no no you cannot stop I love the reflex in the quarterback it's so it's scary every time he wants the TOD me oh okay he doesn't oh no oh it's a TOD game somebody's getting TOD somebody is losing 100% of their health bar and it's not gonna be me okay guys when it gets to the part where it is me just kind of go easy on me in the comments I didn't know it was gonna happen it's not gonna be me dude it's gonna be me it's not gonna be me it was never gonna be me oh no it's gonna be me it's gonna be me he can't do it you from here he can't hit the spear bomb does he want the spear bomb what is he doing is he playing for real is he just trying to make a good old honest I'm dead the base goku auto combo no its hitbox was too real off my back my back it wasn't a TOD off I didn't I hit heavy thinking the auto combo would whiff oh but it's its hitbox has a higher vertical oh man that was bad okay we can reverse this we can reverse this we could adapt we could adapt we could definitely adapt are we gonna get a rematch though it was close it came down to the wire oh uh oh I don't think we're getting a rematch oh oh he was just picking out a stand I think we're getting a rematch are we getting a rematch one more time that implies that he thinks he could wait we're not gonna oh we are I thought he was I thought he was I thought he was doing a bit at that point that was smooth all right GT goku once again doing good in the neutral let's not let Vegeta escape no we're not letting him escape this time that just can't happen anymore oh we let him escape oh my god please please please no the legs we let him escape wait the back dash on our part and we got him back we got him back boys just level three I did the spirit bomb level three I am stupid he had a block it though he says he's shipped out he's gonna switch he didn't switch do you want to switch now I wouldn't blame you if you wanted okay we got him I was so worried we wouldn't be able to react to raw tag but we took it we took we took the opportunity we ran with it switch Bardock we're familiar with it didn't combo dragon rush yeah shouldn't have gone for it shouldn't have gone for it oh come on I gotta take those take those opportunities me oh oh getting Bardock nice fight back when he goes in for it no no he tried to do it no now we gotta start mashing we gotta let him know to keep those clean I actually was ready for it to hit I just missed curse these tiny hands no no do we spark here I think we do just save it I don't think we're now we're not dead in any way uh I'm expecting kind of a dragon rush oh I'll take advantage it now some might say why did I use oh right there right there that's beautiful that's a kill that should be a knockout um I'm just gonna look not that level three I'm just blanking so hard in this game I am blanking so hard I every time I do a vanish with Goku GT I'm like why did I vanish and I just I'm stupid every time all right hold on oh man okay I have really struggled my IQ is actually plummeting it is just going down the drain right now I can hear the flush sound effect in my in my head all right it's time to just end this oh I got mixed again it's fine that auto combo hitbox is um is a mean one all right this time we just dp this dp for safety take a level all right and now it should be game over whenever we like oh my god we're bad whoo just came over whenever we like we're gojira they built gojira bit differently when they made it okay and they built us differently they built gojira differently normally this would be nothing but with level seven that's going to be game gojira is single-handedly saving us for ourselves right now I am I am I'm trying to fail the team right now all right all right I'm ready it's time game three this decides it all who are winner takes all right here and we're gonna try to win we're gonna go for I'm going to go all out no more drops no more weird level threes no more panic vanishes impossible this guy's hitting me with every stamp in his collection all right it's time no more level threes a bad level threes oh I didn't even see the bar dog see assist oh no that was sick though that was really sick I just didn't see it my eyes literally didn't get that information level one that means we get to do tech however we want I don't know if Vegeta has anything crazy here I'll take it back into the corner throw him back there get some bar for us no problem no problem there three bars keep it all right I thought he might think we were going to do that again he would have tried it too well there but we'll take that as well I should have probably level three with gojira I just I'll be honest I didn't want to waste his levels I didn't want to waste his levels and I regret it do I regret it yes it's just it's just no other way to put it I'm gonna spark oh he knew what we wanted to do he knew he had the two h3 just didn't wait too early and we're gonna luck out of that he wants to bar dog player no neutral neutral what no oh he should have had that all right ex but we're gonna replace that bar anyway ex again but we're probably gonna get that back I'll do one more time for that was sick that was nice good interaction for us ex we'll get the bar back boom we're just replenishing the bar we can just we are an ex machine we're like a factory of the ex dragon flashfish if unless he killed us like he did it could wait something tell nope that was a nice vanish forgot he could do that we should have we should have not done that we should have air dash forward all right that's fine though we can get the tod we don't have to let base goku be base goku should not control our destiny here he base goku can tod with the ingredients he has three stacks of spear bomb and sparking that will kill us from 100 health all right i'll take it i'll take it he can kill us from 100 health here i'm not sure what stack we're at but i'm going to stack instantaneously i'm talking round start boom bam all right boom we'll take seven all right now to keep it easy go gina let's go bot vanish game over oh i dropped it and oh no no just do level seven oh my god we should we should not have dropped that but i missed the input oh my goodness like i said we were we were just falling apart at the end there but go gina still going to take it get the king son of the old shoulder uh that was a great set dude i really enjoyed playing this team again let me know down below if there's any other teams you'd like to see me play or if you want to see me actually attempt to land that spear bomb combo obviously we didn't do a lot of that here but i had a blast if you guys did enjoy it make sure to go down below let me know your favorite moment as well and hit the like button and subscribe to the channel 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A great dream requires an even a greater team and the Lord is building our team He's making us stronger today I'm gonna talk about that in the form of an illustration and also as scriptural references in Jesus's ministry There was two incidents where people were fishing all night and cut nothing The first one happened in Luke chapter 5 and the last one happened in John chapter 21 In Luke chapter 5 you probably remember that verse where it says the following we have toiled all night and cut what is that word? Nothing is disappointing discouraging very very defeating. They were disappointed. They were very tired And this was in the beginning of Jesus's ministry He addresses Peter he gets into the Peter's boat and then he tells him to go out and to launch you to the deep And they will catch something they cut so much fish The Bible says that the net was breaking and the boats were sinking So the harvest was so great that the catching of the fish was so great that it almost drowned the boat and It started to rip the nets and then the next time that this happened again It was after his resurrection where Jesus rose from the dead at John chapter 21 Disciples went back into their old way of fishing and they caught nothing and the Bible says Jesus came to them and says almost like rubber in their face say hey, how's it going out there and They put their heads down and said we cut nothing and then he told them to Put the nets on the other side and when they did that they caught so much fish, but this time boats and nets did not rip and didn't sink It was still a great harvest But boats were stronger Nets were better and this miracle catch did not Kill them two things. I want to bring out of that one is that it is the will of God To turn your nothing into a crazy miracle Jesus didn't come and say well you cut nothing.  Before he saw somebody healed About six months and he said when I prayed for people ten people a day ten or more people a day I prayed and they didn't get healed.  Maybe you caught nothing in your family net Maybe you realize you've done what's right. You've done all that you could but you caught nothing I want to tell you that do not allow that nothing as long as there is breath in your nostrils to become the definition of the will of God for your life Because there is a season there is a time of God where the Lord comes into our life and he shifts things He changes things and you stand and you testify is that there was nothing for year one year two year three year Four year five and then something happened from nothing came something and that something became miraculous That's something became supernatural That's something is something no one can take credit for that something is the grace of God That's something is the miracle from God that something is that you found no more tumor in your body That's something is that you have no more nightmares in your night.   He came into their situation and Jesus though didn't study in fishing He's still lord over fish over the sea over houses real estate health over relationships romance broken relationships Jesus is lord overall Somebody say man And we see that nothing With Jesus can become something But another thing that I see is that Not everyone is ready for something We assume that because we have nets And we have a boat that we are ready, but sometimes what happens is we realize That a blessing Requires a certain system A certain mindset For that blessing not to rip your life to pieces If a blessing can automatically change your life for good then everyone who won lottery Would be somewhere on the level with Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates But they're not Because it's not only about Getting the miracle catch you have to have something and Jesus is not responsible for this part Jesus didn't give and doesn't look into your nets He lets you be responsible for that and if your nets are weak And the catch is great your nets will rip And some people get more destroyed by their blessing than their failure They get more destroyed by their success than they ever had by the struggles that they faced So I want to tell you today is the success is a heavy burden to carry A lot more heavier than the failure and in both cases we need God In our failure we need God and in our success we need God the more when you single ready to mingle you need God And when you're single no more because you're mingling you need God Oh, and you will know you will need God when your spouse because to get on your nerves you're like lord I need you more When you don't have children and you want to have children you need God And when you get so many children that you say God you're only one I need in my life right now Help me to get through this when you're broke and you can't make ends meet you barely can pay bills And then your business is taken off and you have a lot of money and now the employees are driving you crazy The taxes and all of this stuff you know come in it was so easy when the only thing I had to do is pay my phone bill My insurance and my mortgage And now I'm responsible for 40 50 other people where they gonna get their money and all of the stuff because success has its weight Miracle catch was heavy And they required nets to be strong enough You're asking God for a miracle catch. Can I ask you a question? Are your nets ready? We're asking God for revival But are our nets ready and that's one of the things that's going to happen today is we're gonna talk about our nets To have a miracle catch from this story. I want to bring up four simple Points first one is you have to get into the boat You can't catch anything if you're gonna swim into the deep sea And try to catch it with your bare hands. You have to go into the boat Jesus the bible says he rented Peter's boat He got into it and from it. He was teaching what the boat is in our life is It's a place in your mind That is solid where everything in your life is liquid What I mean by that is when your life is a sea You need a boat where things are solid things are stable It's called faith It's called a dream. It's called a vision. It's called a prophetic word The purpose of the boat is not to Drive out the sea Is to get through it The boat doesn't come doesn't cause the water to evaporate and disappear No, the boat Doesn't fight with the water. It can't change the water what it does It just floats on the top of it and it gets you Across of it without dying in it It gives you the freedom from not struggling by swimming through the sea You don't need to stand with a rod and command the sea to split Like moses did you can get into the boat and get through it dry when everything around is wet Some of us I feel like we're like moses We're expecting god to get rid of all of our problems so we can walk through our life on the dry ground But what if jesus Has a different way for you What if instead of drying up all of your problems he wants to He wants you and I to get into the boat of his prophetic word a dream He gave you a vision he gave you or the faith that he has graciously deposited into you And get into it and realize this might not cause all of your water to leave But it will help you to get through it on the other side without it getting inside of you For that for me as a pastor this means that if things around are not moving I have to live in the place in here and in here where I am reflected of what god says what god Thinks not reflecting of what people say how I feel and what I see and what is happening In every situation of your life the first step before the lord does a miracle in your life He wants to do a miracle in your mind and in your heart by pulling it out from the grip of your reality And putting it inside of the grip of his revelation What he says about you what he said about your situation the word that he is given But the problem with the boat is that you get into it and you say but yeah This is this is nice. Jesus said that I will have this.  Jesus lives in your dream He lives in your faith Out of all the grace his faith honors god the most and god honors faith the most Because what faith says about god is god is good. He's trustworthy He's gonna get you through what you're feeling say about god is i'm not sure if he's there if he loves me and all of the stuff And therefore god is teaching from your boat. He lives in your faith And he says, why don't you move in in your faith as well? Let's do this together the problems will be there all the time But you can be Living in my promise not in the reality of the problems There was a young man at 1900s. It was eight years of age. He went to school to start a fire In the classroom to keep the classroom warm As it was the tradition of those days, you know, there was no heaters.  I'm sorry. He was put in the hospital as they were trying to bring him back He was unconscious for some time and then finally they got a chance to bring him back to life He was good. The only thing is that he was not able to move a few months later. They Dismissed him from the hospital on the wheelchair.  You're done Just be happy that you can still be on the wheelchair and he says by god's word says those who wait upon the lord But he didn't just stood on that word every day Family would see him as they would pull him to a park He would fall from the wheelchair Crawl to the fence grab on to the fence And try to take a first step two years like that and two years later he stood on his own See the word of god is not given to you to cause all the problems to go away It gives you a safe place that you can get through them if god doesn't remove them right away That's what happened to disciples. They got into the boat before they got a miracle Not only he walked he trained himself to run To that point that in 1900s He won so many medals that he was known as a kansas city flyer So he was known as the one who flies remember that was his word He will soar with wings like eagles. This was in the newspapers and you can google it where they call him kansas city flyer In 1934 Glenn canningham broke a world record for one mile run. He got to the other side He got to the other side. He took the promise from god And got into it and says, you know what I still have a lot of work to do, but hey, I got these things This is called hustle This is called work out your salvation with fear and trembling.  It's not a slave to your circumstances That means you put yourself in the boat of god's promise. What is the promise god has given you? What is the vision god has given you? What is the prophetic word that god has given to you? Don't swim through life Get in the boat Live in that promise Live out of the promise. I love the testimony that was spoken today Is when she says before I try to fight with the problems in my life I try to pray for my son. I cried for my son now when I gave him to god I have a sense of peace the crazy part the problem is still there What happens with her is that now she's in the boat in those problems She's not swimming through those problems. Now something is protecting her It's called god's peace when you get into god's promise you get god's peace And when you get god's peace you stand in your problems Other people try to get through them survive through them, but you thrive in them Why because god is on your side because god's peace is a profit of what god is going to do Vlad what if I will never see a change in my life You will get to the other side Without getting wet when we die all of our problems are going to be gone Including yours All of them We will all get to the other side my friends We don't believe in jesus only for what he's going to do for us here We have hopes that are bigger than beyond the grave But we must live here in the boat Number one is get in the boat number two Jesus tells disciples who were trying to catch the fish and couldn't he says go into The deep That's your neighbor say go deep Go deep I think this applies to our church this applies to you individually this applies to all of us Is the lord wants us to take a relationship with him from A garage to a highway He wants to take a relationship from the shore into the deep I'm not talking about the deep that every day you see angels and feathers show up and you got golden dust and golden teeth Showing up nothing wrong with that if that's your way of deep that's good But there's more to depth than a lot of spiritual manifestations that accumulate around your life the depth One time I asked the lord, what does it mean to go deep? He's just simply saying you know when when you drop something Deep when the roots go deep they go Down He said as long as you go down you go deep It's very simple He said you want to go deep He says deep is not being profound or confusing or superstitious or people say all that that's him will stay away from him But that guy is deep Which is our way of saying I have no idea what he says when he says something right Come on. That's how we say that's how we with politely we tell somebody they're confusing is saying you're deep That's not the depth that I want to present to you The depth I want to present to you is when you go when your roots go deeper Meaning when you become lower in your own eyes and god becomes bigger in your own When you go in humility you go in god's depth Being deep meaning when you consecrate yourself to to pray to fast and to give yourself to the lord A young lady attends our home group Last year she felt led to fast for 21 days on water And so we saw her fasting, you know every Tuesday when she would come to a home group We saw her face getting smaller and smaller. So we knew she was still fasting and Anna think 18 to something today was pretty tempting To to ended but she she went through it to the end. She had a lot of setbacks and disappointments She finished the fasting and then we announced the sacrifice Sunday. So she's like, oh Really? And so then she takes one more step even deeper where she decides to give a very very painful sacrifice to the lord Little did she know Is in launching to the deep That god had a miracle catch for her Not long after the sacrifice and the fasting She gets a phone call That a clinic from seattle is planning to be start started here and they want her Not to be an employee of the clinic, but to run the whole clinic And not only that a starting pay is they bump her pay three times more than what she was paying at that time And she now is a leader of that clinic in tri-cities Now when I when somebody else gets opportunity like that, they'll say well great because i'm talented When you ask her why did she get that she will tell you this I caught my cap my catch when I launch into the deep God wants you to launch into the deep A lot of times people say I want to see breakthrough You have to go into the deep In prayer go into the deep in fasting go into the deep in what god asks of you God might not ask you to fast for 21 days. He might ask you to eat for 21 days Well, I don't think he needs to ask us of that we will do that perfectly on our own He might ask you to do something else like forgive your spouse He might ask you to to love on somebody that you you hate Don't ever copy somebody's works of faith Copy their faith that propel those works Pharaoh followed israel He copied them the problem is god never told pharaoh to step into the red sea God told israel to step to the red sea, but the red sea was still open He they did it and it worked for them I will do it and it will work for me and he did it and he collapsed in it Many times we copy each other's acts of passion And it backfires on us because we need to copy the faith and the passion that propels those acts And your passion and your faith will propel you to different actions to different works of sacrifice and giving Of of consecration and that is what will give you a blessing, but it's not that It's the fact that you were obedient to the lord and what he led you to do So I just want to encourage each one of you that your depth might be different than mine That's why let's not stand here and compare how deep we are Because the real sign that you are deep is if you cut something If you cut nothing and and you only baramas the shara barahanda That's all you got my friend Maybe you're still not there where the lord wants you to be maybe you're working on it. Yeah Are you with me? Number three not only he says to go deep not only we have to get in a boat But we have to cast down our nets cast down our nets What that means in and I'm not going to touch business or family or relationships But if you're single the lord wants you to cast down your nets I'll talk to other people now not the high schooler students. I see the high school students smiling. I mean not you The lord rebuking in jesus name not you. I'm talking about the single people who are ready to mingle Maybe in other areas cast down your nets There's a practical thing that you have to do in in that for us as a church God wants us to go deep in prayer god wants us to walk in vision and in faith But the third thing that lord wants us to do as a church is always to give an opportunity for people to accept Jesus Christ Cast down our nets whether it's a prophetic service Raise to deliver service on our trips on our mission trips always cast down our nets because we're believing for a miracle catch of Salvation's how we do it is this is that we take a month Month off before the harvest month and we intercede and then during the month of harvest which is for us this month We invite and we're going to do exactly same thing for the month in the summer for august and july But as of this month, I want to give you a little report of what was caught in the month of april We've seen 38 people give the life to jesus on sundays 19 people gave the life to jesus online just in this month 200 people 197 198 people gave the life to jesus at the race to deliver conference That's double from last year It's gonna connect more with you guys 40 people gave the life to jesus on our mission trip 38 people gave the life to jesus just last sunday in a kids zone So a total of three hundred thirty six people gave the life to jesus this month Let's give the lord a round of applause my friend We took a month before this month and we fasted and prayed And this month we went strategic intentional to invite people All of us were like a net we did it together Every person invited somebody I saw my wife invited a young lady named jessica from From ross so she meets a stranger. She'd never seen her before meets her in ross The evangelistic pool of my wife Is stores where they sell clothes on discount She meets her in ross invites her to church Not long after yusenia invites jessica in tg max That girl realizes they need to stop going and shopping because I keep getting inviting to hungry generation So somebody else invites jessica in tg max not long after the same day And last sunday jessica came for the first time to our church and jessica gave her life to jesus The ross evangelism tg max evangelism We see also how dwayne he lived a life where his mom saw the difference And then he invited a family member and she came and she gave her life to the lord I want to tell you that whether it's strangers that you've never met and who will become you part of your spiritual family Or your biological family whom you know the lord wants us to be a net that draws people to salvation Can somebody say amen We are as a church if we lose the focus of people coming to know jesus christ We lost it doesn't matter how many people will come here If saving people is only so that our church gets big instead of the kingdom of god getting big We already lost and we need to close the church down right away Church is dead if it stops saving dead people That's all That's the most important thing about us is people meeting jesus deliverance healing Prophecy home gives all of that follows that but jesus died for lost and we need to live for that purpose Cast the nets down and the last thing is not only we have to cast the net down we have to pull the net to the shore In john chapter 21 when they cast the net down jesus came On the shore and he shouted to them. You know, did you guys get any fish and they're like? Yeah, now we're getting a lot of fish and peter sees that they get they caught a lot of fish Peter takes all of his clothes off and i mean there was no paparazzi there So he was able to do that he swims to jesus like oh my goodness jesus it is you i was such a loser When i denied you three times i did not know what i was doing please forgive me And jesus peter are you done? Yes, he says now i want you to go and bring me some of that fish you caught I wondered and i pondered and wondered this weekend About this verse that jesus didn't say to peter Let that fish go back into the sea. He says bring me that fish You just caught But jesus we caught it already and peter goes back into that sea and the bible says they begin to pool Hundreds of fish to the shore. It's a lot of work The fish wouldn't come to the shore on its own. They needed to be pooled I believe this speaks of discipleship and church community Catching people in the net is the salvation but bringing them into the shore speaks of consolidation and discipleship And the word pool i didn't put word The word that is used in the bible which is said drag I didn't use that word drag But i do feel like Most of us have to be dragged into a community Can we be brave right now When it comes to church it's somehow you we're drawn to church as christians We know it's a christian obligation to show up We don't know what it says in the bible but some what it says in the bible if you don't go to church You don't go to heaven so somewhere we've been taught like that But when it comes to community when it comes to us being Discipled when it comes to us going to a small group when it comes to us Finding some people who can build a relationship with god. We're like a resistant rebellious fish in the net Say uh, uh I got on sunday. That's all i'm gonna do. I am in the net. That's all you're gonna get out of me But jesus is asking us to bring you not just to the altar But put you on the altar He doesn't just want you to come to the cross He wants you to get on the cross He doesn't just want you to be a believer He wants you to be a disciple And for that to happen you have to move from being caught in the net to being Pull to the shore Thank you for watching this content. I know this was a blessing to you We would like to ask you to subscribe to our channel and click on the bell on our channel So that each time we upload something you can be notified Don't forget to share this content with your friends and family and on social media We're so thankful to you better is not good enough. The best is yet to come