Okay. Then welcome to the next talk, which is about production grade cell broadcast. You will see I have removed the production grade from the slide. If you pay close attention to the schedule. So this is about cell broadcast in OsmoCom, and we quickly look at cell broadcast in general and also what this project is about and what we can expect from it. So in classic GSM, we control plus is difficult to reach. In classic GSM, most channels are point-to-point.  It's between one phone and one network, and there is no point-to-multipoint communication with some very rare exceptions. Of course, there's the BCCH, but that's not really containing any user information. It's only for internal management. And we also have the VGCS and VBS. Actually, I should put all those acronyms and ask you guys what it means. So what's the MBMS, by the way? Who knows what the MBMS is? Multimedia broadcast. It's sort of a messaging system, but a multimedia broadcast for sure, yes. But I'm not sure about the second M, but yeah. Okay, yeah, so the VGCS, VBS is a voice group in broadcast calls which only exist in railway GSM but not in normal GSM networks where we actually have TCH, like a downlink TCH, that is received by multiple phones. I really love it, but it's unfortunately not supported by many phones. So it would be really nice to play with that, but it doesn't really exist outside of railway. And MBMS is multimedia. Basically, it's IP multicast for packet switched. But it was specified for 2G and 3G but never deployed there. And now I think it's sort of more on the agenda for 4G and 5G again. And actually broadcasters are looking into that as a new way of broadcasting TV over 5G. I'm not sure what kind of sense that makes, but that's not my position to comment on. So the only way to really broadcast information to many subscribers at once is the cell broadcast mechanism, which is officially called SMSCB, the short message service cell broadcast. Which means the short message service that we all mention as SMS is actually according to the spec is SMSPP, it's the SMS point to point service, which we always neglect to add. So if you talk about SMS that actually includes both the point to point and the cell broadcast service. And the main use case of this is for emergency and disaster warning. There used to be some other use cases which I think are more artificial in nature and mostly of historic interest these days. I'm not sure what like soccer results being broadcasted to people on there like Nokia or Siemens phones in the 90s. But yeah, so it's really emergency notifications. And why is that? Well, particularly if you think of regions of the planet that have earthquakes and or tsunamis resulting from earthquakes, the warning period you have is very short. So with earthquakes I think the state of science is that you're happy if you get something like four seconds of like advance notice that there will be an earthquake. Like it's in a definite prediction. And so it means you need to be really quick to get notification to as many people as possible so they can rush underneath tables and things like that. And using any kind of point to point mechanism. I mean, yeah, you can imagine how many STCCH you can establish within those four seconds and how many like point to point SMS you can deliver. It's not realistic. So the only real way is to use a broadcast mechanism. And many different countries have specified emergency related services on top. There is in Europe, there's something called EU alert, which then has national implementations like UK alert or an L alert. I guess you will know what the UK and L is about. There's no DE alert as far as I know. Because German disaster whatever authorities apparently think that they can cut one at app on Android is the way to go, which for sure will work to notify lots of people in very short time. So there is in Japan, there is the ETWS, the earthquake and tsunami warning system and there is other systems in other parts of the planet. I think there's also a Korean implementation and some American CMS, which is renamed to EWS or WAS, I forgot. So how does SMS CB look like? We have a message that consists of a maximum of 15 pages and each page has 82 bytes of payload data. So if you use the 7-bit alphabet and then you have 93 characters, if you use some other alphabets as in SMS point to point, you must have less space in there. The messages are so optimized that there's no A in the message anymore, so it's messages which are broadcast on logical channels and the logical channels are really more like an address. So you have like somewhere in the header you put 23 and then basically this message is in channel 23 and on the phone side you can then have logical filtering whether you're interested in 23 or not. This logical channel or address determines what kind of message it is and on older phones those who are old enough of you will remember that you could actually select which cell broadcast groups to subscribe or not subscribe on old phones. So you can? Yeah, okay, the comment was you could even choose the language in which you would like to subscribe. I haven't looked at that aspect yet, but yes, I know there is language indications in the SMS CB header so you can actually have the messages in multiple languages. If you want to learn more about this actual message structure there is TS03.41 or 23.041 which describes that in detail. I haven't really studied that part in that much detail yet because well, that's sort of what's in there, okay, fine, but I mean I'm more interested in the transport and the network architecture. So how does cell broadcast work as it's specified in GSM? Well, you have I say the user, in this case that's the emergency service or whoever issues such a broadcast message which is sent over a proprietary, non-specified interface to the cell broadcast center which somehow reminds you that there is like an external entity sending an SMS over proprietary interface into the SMSC. So it's really very similar to point to point but yet basically an unspecified interface. Then there is the cell broadcast center, the CBC. It's not the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and then there's a protocol by which the CBC will forward those messages to the BSCs. You see there's no MSC in that picture so that is completely independent of the MSC. So your HLR can be down, your MSC can be down, your SGS and everything can be down as long as the BSCs are still alive and the CBC is alive you can actually push those messages just around. So the CBSP, the Cell Broadcast Service Protocol then pushes it to the BSC and the BSCs use special RSL messages to then push the messages to the BTSs which then transmit it over the so-called CBCH the Cell Broadcast Channel to the mobile station. Now if we look at this in terms of ladder diagram it looks a little bit like this. It's exactly the same just drawn as a ladder diagram. So we get some new message from the actually it's called the CBE, it's a Cell Broadcasting Entity it's a little bit like an ESME or something if you think in SMS terms which sends a new message into the CBC over this proprietary unspecified protocol and it includes information like the duration for how long time is this message valid and in which geographic area should it be broadcast. The CBC then determines which BSCs are within that geographic region and then issues so-called CBSB write-replace requests to the BSC and the BSC in turn then determines which BTSS are within that geographic region and then it also performs scheduling because if there's many different broadcast messages that you might want to send at the same time of course there's some priorities and you need to pick and choose which to send when and then it actually issues so-called RSL SMSCB commands to the BTSS and the BTSS then will actually transmit the messages over the Cell Broadcast Channel and each 80, what was it, 82-byte payload where was it, yeah, 82-byte payload which ends up in 88-byte with headers is split into four blocks of each 22 bytes and if you remember 22 just fits exactly into the 23-byte MAC block size and now you know how it's transmitted over the radio interface. So you have these four blocks in the CBCH and the BTSS itself doesn't do any retransmit unless this RSL SMSCB command said this is a default message that you should transmit whenever you don't have anything else to transmit in the CBCH and also at times the BTSS can send a CBCH load indication so that the BSC has an idea how much percent capacity of the Downlink Cell Broadcast Channel are currently utilized which can help the BSC in this task of scheduling the different CBCH messages. Yeah, so what do we have in OsmoCom today? It's rather simplistic. Daniel and I were hacking at this, I don't know how many years ago, at Congress. Sorry? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So what we have, we don't have a CBC, we don't have a CBSP, we don't have all that stuff, we just have in BSC we have a VTY command which is a proprietary interface by which we can insert a hex dump of an SMSCELL broadcast message which will then trigger a single SMSCELL broadcast command to the BTS and the BTS will then take care of this transmission and this used to work once but in absence of testing it has broken over time, I fixed some parts of it for some BTS models again and it traditionally was not implemented on OsmoBTS TRX but I added it I think at some point last year. So even that what you see there is not 100% working at this very point in time even though it was working. So how is the situation going to look like soon? Well there is a funded project now by Prototype Fund that I applied for to complete the SELL broadcast implementation in OsmoCom and that's to be completed in third quarter 2019 and it covers at least the full support for 2G and 3G and if time permits within that budget also the 4G related part will be implemented of course only up to the point where we send the respective messages to the MME and if there is no open source MME that can consume them and that's not the scope of this project. So let's look at all the different functionalities required to achieve that. So in the BTS and that as said to a large extent exists already basically what happens is that one STCCH in an STCCH4 or STCCH8 is replaced with the CVCH so in the TDMA multiplex structure and then you advertise the CVCH presence in the VCCH don't ask me which system information message it is but somewhere in there you can indicate it and then you receive these SMS broadcast commands from the BSC where you need to divide these 88 bytes into 22 byte blocks and then you transmit them in what's called a TS04.12 SMS broadcast request on the SELL broadcast channel. So the encoding and everything is exactly like an STCCH or like a PCCH or the CCCH and the difference is just that it exists in downlink only and you don't have anything in uplink during that time happening. On the BSC side so as said on the BTS side that exists at least for Osmo-BTS and it should exist also for Osmo-BTS tierics so far needs to be completed for all the other models and test it. On the BSC side what we need to implement is this SMS-CB protocol towards the CVC and then we need to distribute the respective BTSs since we don't really have a notion of geographic scope we probably just push it to all the BTSs that are currently connected we need to do some scheduling in case there's many different broadcasts but that will be rather simplistic I mean as said these days it's only emergencies really so we don't really need to worry that there's like 15 different emergencies and they need to prioritize between them at a given point in time and then we need to process a bit of flow control so we don't overflow the CVC-H and the BTS. There's also load status inquiries that the CVC can send and ask us basically what's the load on the CVC-H is their capacity for more or not. The CVC itself will be completely new Osmo-CBC program which has the following functions it receives SMS-CB from the external users which is the emergency services receive those we have to invent some protocol will be probably something rather simplistic Sorry? In the CVC I'm not sure but yeah I haven't really thought too much about it I don't want to comment on that that will be seen once it's in development we then need to distribute them for the BSCs and well have maybe some notion of geographic scope where you can see this is where the BSCs have coverage area and then also handle this exploration in terms of time so that when the time out as specified by the user has expired that we remove the messages from these BSCs so that the BSCs don't send it to the BTS anymore and the transmission stops. There was a question there on the phone, yes you have to switch, move the switch up Yes So did you think about the possibility to actually add that into MSC together with a VTY command or something? Similar to what we had in BSCs I have the feeling it's good because then you can send it to all BSCs because the MSC knows about all BSCs there so it can be sort of having an internal one like we have for SMSC I didn't really think about it of course we could I think the only real option we have is to run the entire CBC inside the MSC because of course every BSC only connects to only one well actually strictly speaking the CBC needs to know all the BSCs because the TCC connections are originating from the cell broadcast center to the BSC and not the other way around that's how it's specified at least so it could be implemented there but the point of this project is also that this can be useful even outside of OsmoCom if we implement a cell broadcast center that speaks CBSP to BSCs and has some external interface that can be used on any proprietary MSM network out there because it just uses a specified protocol so I intentionally would want to keep it separate but maybe we can have some intelligent mechanism by which over control interfaces so it can query the list of BSCs from Osmo MSC or something like that but conceptually I think makes sense I was just thinking as having also the MSC being one possible client to that interface it can also work that you can basically on the VTY issue a cell broadcast command when the MSC would send it to the CBC and the CBC would send it to the BSCs okay so well how does it look on the radio interface let's skip that the RSL broadcast command I think also we can as that it can be either default or a non-default message with 88 octets C protocol what kind of procedures do we have there it's spoken on an unnamed interface it's quite funny there is no acronym for the interface actually it's just always called the interface between the CBC and the VSC and there is no everything alright there is no formal syntax description it's a good old human readable table in some word document specification and it runs over TCP port 88049 interestingly over TCP and even on GSM it's spoken over TCP but of course then they assume in the original specs that you do that TCP IP over PPP over a serial line right because the BSC doesn't have any IP connectivity natively so that's sort of how it's a specific interest but at least they didn't use you know X25 or whatever some kind of you know frame relay or whatever and specify it over TCP there's a couple of procedures it's actually not just the key procedures it's actually all the procedures that exist there's a write-replace procedure which is basically well either you write a new message or it's like create or replace I would call it there's a kill procedure which is funnily named which is basically delete and you will see there's some interesting development there there's load status inquiry and the message status query which basically gives you information about whether or not it has been broadcast and there's an optional set DRX procedure which relates to well some optional thing we won't implement about the discontinuous discontinuous receive cycle and there's a reset procedure which like in all the interfaces if one of the two sides dies or loses state you can reset the interface state and let the other side know that it's gone now that was all 2G now in 3G of course it's a completely different thing as we know first of all it's not a cell broadcast it's a service area broadcast the SAB not to mix up with an SAP service access point so again you have this proprietary interface to a cell broadcast center which has retained its name like MSC has also retained its name but then there is a new protocol called the SABP the service area broadcast protocol which is spoken to the RNCs and the RNCs then again transmitted over IUB to the node bees which then transmitted over the broadcast message channel on the common traffic channel the CTCH to the user equipment and if you look at it it's extremely different from 2G the diagram looks exactly the same just that some acronyms are replaced okay is the equivalent in HNB for phantom cells yeah so the let's say the nano 3G for example they supposedly implement cell broadcast support we haven't tested it yet but at least the datasheet says yes we do so we should be able to actually test all of this with our 3G equipment yeah so as you see it's the same thing but with other acronyms and actually there's some slight differences there and the differences are that actually you see here there is exactly the same message between the RNC and the node bee and the node bee and the UEE this is due to the different level of functional split in 2G and 3G where the node bee really is a very dumb transceiver between a wired interface and a wireless interface it doesn't really do much intelligence itself and that's why actually the entire scheduling and whatever is done already in the RNC and this is really just relaying from a wired to a wireless interface so the node bee really doesn't have any functionality in this it's completely transparent it just passes it from left to right and that's it the RNC pretty much does what the BSC does with the additional functionality of doing the low level scheduling which the BTS is doing in 2G but now it's doing the RNC here and in the cell broadcast center well it's exactly what it needs to do in 2G but of course there's a new protocol which is doing exactly the same thing which is the SAPP protocol which is spoken on an interface that now has a name that's called the IUBC interface it's specified in AS1 as everything in that 3G had to be specified in AS1 using a basic packed encoding rules and originally it was transported over something even more obscure than IP over PPP and that is over LCAP over SAL over AL5 over ATM so that's ATM yeah later it was adapted to TCP you can find some sources on the net that some equipment vendors also implemented over UDP or over SCTP I don't know why one would want to do that but well the spec says it's TCP so we'll implement it over TCP can somebody please take care of the guy who is taking the lunch and yeah so it's typically established in the CVC to RNC direction so again this sort of opposite direction the procedures are well the same except does anyone notice what's the difference in the procedures here yeah the DRX has been removed correct max get some bonus points oh there is this one so yeah that's the the procedures that are there I'm not sure actually if it's still the kill procedure because at some point in the evolution from 2G to 40 the kill procedure was renamed in something less lethal I actually found that quite funny that in 2G you know this was specified in the so the yeah that was renamed at some point so if we look at an IUH based interface with an H&P gateway that's exactly the same situation from the CVC point of view you talk the IUBC protocol it's just that then you're not talking to an RNC on the other side but you're talking to the H&P gateway to the H&P GW which then takes care of distributing it to the individual H&P so if we look at 4G before we can finally close this session there it's rather similar again so we have some external user that over a proprietary protocol talks to the CVC and the CVC then has yet a new protocol called the SBC interface with an SBC AP protocol talking to the MNE and the MME will distribute it over S1 to the ENOTB which then transports it over something that I didn't really... it's some NAS message probably some... no it's actually in the system information blocks yes I actually so it becomes part of the system information that we're being broadcast by LTE in this case are we reusing that for 5G because it starts with G so it should be evolved right where is G? generic cell broadcast I'm saying the generic cell broadcast that we had before in LTE was replaced by something that is dedicated for emergency warnings only so basically they removed all the general purpose use cases and said this is only about emergencies it actually reflects itself in this message where it's now longer a write-replace message but it's now a write-replace warning message and to make sure and also you see on S1AP it's a write-replace warning request and an SIP warning but again the same logic the same... the same... what's your name? that's your name what's the problem with the backdoor? system information block so yeah it's exactly the same logic again so the replace procedure yeah as I said it has been renamed a bit but otherwise it's the same conceptually the functionality is also again very much same so the ENLB receives these messages and it just schedules them to transmission over system information blocks the MMC is doing very much what the BCOR and C was doing but it doesn't need to do any of the scheduling because that's inside the ENLB and it's basically just a distribution function so it receives a write-replace over SBCAP and then it retransmits that over S1AP and the CVC is basically accidentally doing the same as in 2G or 3G but has this additional protocol which again is specified in ASN1 is now operated over 4G in 429.168 and you have again a subset of the procedures so which procedure was removed this time yeah now it's the stop warning but I think actually there is something else the reset procedure has been removed interestingly for whatever reason yeah so that's basically how it works on 4G in 3G looking at Wireshark to help us with the development of that we have a detector for the TS04.12 messages we also have an SABP that's 3G a detector, we also have an SBCAP detector that's 4G but for CVSP for 2G there was none I wrote one last year but it's not really tested yet because we don't really implement those interfaces yet so hence it's not in mainline but somebody also sent me a CVSP trace from a real world network and I think apart from one or two mistakes we called it fine so yeah if you want to read specs these are the pointers and yeah as I said by later this year we should have all of this implemented and working good questions there are these geographical scopes it's not clear for me how they are translated into the set of base stations that what is for example format of this geographical scope and how BST is now which base stations to select well there is sort of I mean I don't know how it's encoded in these protocols I haven't looked at that detail yet I know that in let's say location based services and other things there's actually a way how to encode GPS positions or polygons or you know like geographical areas and there is sort of the implicit assumption even though it's not required anywhere that some entity whether it's the OMC or whatever in the network will know where exactly the location areas are and that somehow this can be translated but it's not standardized or specified anywhere so I'm just taking a look at it's pretty much stock Android phone SMS app and it seems to have two configuration sections one is entitled emergency alerts and the other is entitled SMS broadcast and within the SMS broadcast there is an add channel ID function right and the emergency alerts is just either on or off so is that emergency alerts is that relating to the 4G only stuff what's the difference between these two it's basically just one particular channel inside SMSCV where the payload format is structured and not unstructured text so there's some additional information and some additional information and a long field for signature that shall not be used so it's basically an application on top so you see like one of these channels of SMSCV has another protocol layer on top and that's these emergency systems okay just I don't know if anybody might be referencing their own phone looking at the talk stream there's also an area info channel specific ID 50 enabled or disabled function what's the functionality of that I don't know yeah exactly and from phone to phone so there's many different configuration options that some phones have and some not and in the US it's legally required that presidential level alerts may not be disabled on the phone the president must always be able to reach you should be the other way around and receive the message from the president from which yeah I think it was the current president it was recently years ago I think 02 sent the location of their base stations via cell broadcast to everyone I think there was the same mechanism right yes yeah so indeed some operator in Germany used to do that and they said some others had some services where they would broadcast the soccer results and I don't know what other use cases people came up with weather forecast I think was also at some point yeah but that's that's an emergency somehow not a natural yeah the area code was Vodafone did that for a long time to the current area code as in the landline area code of the region in which you're in because that would have a different rate it's more like a local called as opposed to a long distance called outside of that area so yeah these were the marvelous use cases yeah microphone so the connection is always from CBC towards R&C equivalent right yes so as long as we can scan short on whatever and find open ports we can just sell send some useful information to people yeah yeah okay good then we conclude that with some delay in the schedule yeah in terms of testing this now with current all this is more BTS and those more BSC that one would need to can how to say this do you have some tool to generate that or is there details on the wiki I'm not sure I think Daniel once wrote a small Python hack that generates these presidential and whatever alert messages and then it generates the hex thumb that you copy and paste into the VTY that was what we tested but it was broken for years in in Osmo BTS until it was fixed again at some point last year so depending on the software you're running it may not be working okay good then thanks


like a low-glue grandmaster okay so so here's the experiment they they show me okay so so what i'm going to be showing you is where they show this guy who's you know he's at the at the low grand master level they show him a chest position with many many pieces on here and you'll see and they'll and they'll let him look at this for two seconds two seconds it doesn't do great but it doesn't do great but he just saw it okay it's clear that this one is obviously much easier to restruct as the palm chain for example it's just all a little big but go on although i'm almost not sure what what to do with this guy you know i'm not sure what it's here here um oh i forgot my word yeah i'm doing this cluster of these things i can't really remember it after the card goes away here it's like the cluster of pieces here and there's a cluster of pieces here but so is anybody can anybody guess the difference between the two work yeah not quite not quite the first picture was familiar for him it was in the context maybe he knew it before the next one maybe the it was the structure was quite different that's why he didn't do it the second one was randomly put in the first one that's exactly right okay exactly i mean both you can hold it the first one was my real chest position he never saw before okay i mean just why he looks at the thing and in two seconds he got it and so in fact in the study they gave 100 real chest positions with some of them varying number of pieces okay even when the full pieces were on there he made less than 1% hers the second time was exactly right random can't do it and couldn't even do it when there were like 10 pieces on there and in fact what was interesting is they took people who don't play chess they did just as well as he did randomly okay so somebody who plays chess well doesn't make any sense it has no context to it right but but the chess positions you just look at it i mean i i i used to play with the um with the ambassador to um to uh where? Montenegro my wife yeah Montenegro who is a chess champion in Montenegro and i used to go to his embassy in playing he come to my place to play he beat me every time i mean you know i mean i was good but not that good and what's interesting is you know we play the game for an hour and then he's like okay let me show you and you go through all the moves from first move to last move exactly what happened you know okay i did that you did this i did that i was amazed that's what this guy did you know you saw the pieces so here's the point we're teaching a lot of kids at least in america stuff has no context to it you know memorize the different nerves of the body has no context to it you know uh here you know the only thing the only thing you can you can kind of do that way is multiplication table two times two is four four times and all like that kind of stuff but everything else you have to have a concept of what went out all the daughter was in high school in california i was furious reading the book that she had on the brain it was just a bunch of facts without any kind of you know context without any kind of storyline behind it and i went and i told the teacher i said you know if i had this book when i was in high school i would never be where i am today because i would hate this subject it was just a bunch of memorization and so it's it's a challenge for for parents and for teachers to put things in the context that the person can readily grasp in someone and and and and makes all the difference play the lesson oh yeah the lesson play the lesson what i was trying to do was just sort of absorb the position um and understand um where everything was clothed through it and and try to quickly understand what was going on um establish some logical connections between things and i can't usually um i've never done i i've almost never done this sort of thing before so i don't have a good sense of how much time different things are going to take me um but the important thing is to try to make everything make sense got it that's exactly the point try to make everything make sense so when you take your classes here in au make sure your professors make everything make sense and don't complain to the president tell them tell them that uh the lecture you heard here everything should make sense otherwise it's not a good a good lecture and so the last thing is just a um a cover from my article i did for this journal with a colleague of mine australia by dandrea and um uh there was a lead article in there about how the brain develops and they hired an artist to do this cover and i really like this cover it's been a long time ago it's been reprinted out of the places so a guy called eric alex meredith who's a neuroscientist who's also an artist and uh and i like the way he did that so so here is you know a sketch of the brain the two eyes and the and the visual system here is uh a uh the the uh genes and you know the idea is that uh neuroscientists study uh rodents the cats monkeys really really what we want to do is explain what goes on here because that explains you know what we are and how we became that way so thank you very much maybe you can answer to this question is there any location for god in our brain for god god for god for believe to go you know i'm trying to think uh i'm trying to think of studies uh you know there are by the way an attempt to combine religious beliefs with science there are there's a foundation in the united states that actually gives quite a bit of money to this but i don't think that they've done something like localizing in the brain where belief system is i don't have anything or and it may well be but i don't know anything like that yeah um two questions if i may uh first one you may have heard about neurolink uh initiative by you on musk and what do you think about that is it naive is it possible to link brain to computers at some point and uh second a specific religious question what do you think is best audiobooks or regular reading which is better printed in the brain yeah so so there's no in this kasparov book which which is all about this what you're just talking about all about this with computers being linked to brains in the future and in the context that is lost to big blue i really recommend it just came out last month so i think you know i think there's no question that at some point something like that's going to happen because uh the processing computers of information and so on is a fact that happens already how it can be incorporated into functioning of neurons and so on right now it's science fiction and but i you know i wouldn't i would not say it's not going to happen because things change so quickly uh really my guess is the question is what are the ethical implications of it you know there are a lot of things we can do scientifically right now that will not be allowed to do for example we can modify human genes right now and it's not allowed anywhere in the world you know to produce sort of superhuman and so maybe it's maybe some somebody's going to do it some country's going to do it so there are a lot of things we could do technically that is not being done and so it has an ethical component to it but from a science component of it i think i think it just a matter of time before something like that's going to happen there are a lot of people working on this and uh it's just a matter of somebody demonstrating the power of that approach the the issue of audiobooks and reading that gets to the question of what the preference is okay personal preference i mean even let's say let's say kindle you know kindle is kindle versus regular books i read a lot i mean i i i at least one book a week you know i like i always like to read but i don't like kindle you know i have one but i don't use just my preference on the other hand when i go on a trip with a good friend of mine he's got kindles got all the books and it reads it all the time so it's so it's kind of you know what works for you and and i think i take home message from this especially to the young people here very very important as you go through your studies you don't have to be good at everything you have to find out with you what you're good at okay and that's a very difficult thing to do so for example when i was a graduate student um we uh uh had to learn all kinds of things about equipment you know in the laboratory electro physiological equipment uh computers were just coming in they had to go in the forefront i hated that stuff i was very bad at it okay and i worried about that well how am i going to go into science and be you know and there are scientists when i don't really know how to build my own amplifier because we had uh we had courses that you had to learn you build an amplifier for the true recording i didn't like that at all and it made me very worried because of other kids you know my friends could do it like that you know uh and but what i realized very early and i'm so glad i did that was that that stuff was nonsense what you had to do to succeed in science is not to build equipment it's to come up with an idea that was unique that could be funded and figure out how to take that idea from an idea to finish product in a top-notch journal and i found out very early i could do that i'd have a class and a professor would say okay let's say uh we want to test this hypothesis can anybody come up with an idea we test this hypothesis i could do it like that i'm the other guys but i couldn't build equipment so it's very important to kind of figure out what you can do you know if you can come up with ideas you get grant money you can hire


Hi, I'm Tom Handel with a member highlight featuring Independence Association. And I have with me here Dennis Saint-Pierre, the Director of Development for Independence Association and Melissa Rock, the VP of Marketing for Andrew Scott and Bank. And we're here to talk about the Run for Independence, which Andrew Scott and Bank is sponsoring. But before we get into what the Run for Independence is, maybe we could just tell them a little bit about what Independence Association is all about. Well, Independence Association is an organization that is there to support people with developmental disabilities throughout the entire mid-coast area. We actually support towns all the way as north as Gardner. We help people in Damascota, all the way south as far as even in Yarmouth. But Freeport, Durham, Lisbon, so forth, Brunswick and Bath and Tops and Marvara centers. So we support them in every way. Every point of their life from childhood all the way through senior care. We give basically home supports as well as employment supports, as well as community supports so that they can get out in the community and be very involved and more inclusive in their community. And about how many people do you have, sir? It fluctuates. Right now we're probably serving about 200 people, individuals. If you include the families of them, that's a lot larger. And we currently employ about 235 people. And this is in the Brunswick area and they're about sir. Predominantly the Brunswick Bath area. So the Run for Independence, that's coming up in May. May 17th, 2015, Sunday morning. And I take it, I know that it's a run, but what does it involve? It's a run, but there's more to it than that. This year we're actually going to have the first of its kind in the state, 10K for para-athletes, wheel division. So we're really focused on trying to allow anybody with any kind of disability to have the possibility of competing or to enjoy being participating in a run or an event like a run as complete equals. So we have a wheel division, 10K. We have the 10K running division. Again, we have para-athletes that will be running in that as well as our own consumers. So all disabilities are welcome to join us, 5K, one mile, and a free kids' run. And why did Andrew Scoggin Bank decide to get involved with us? Well, you know, Andrew Scoggin Bank is in essence an economic development company. That's what most banks are. So we want to support the folks that we have our economic development relationships with.  We have one of our employees is on the board of the Independence Association. And we just, when Dennis told myself and the president of our bank, Paul Anderson, about the great works that they're doing and this opportunity, we just really couldn't say no. It's just, we try to get our employees engaged with the types of events that we sponsor. So we're really excited about the team that we're forming. We're going to have t-shirts and someone has actually already spoken up and said he'll have a post-race rehydration station at his place afterwards. So whatever that means, I'll let your imaginations go. I may have to go there. Yeah, it might be fun. So we're just really excited. We like to get involved with things that we can get really excited about. And so on every level, this just fit that bill. Yeah. And so you're actually forming a team of runners to go and, oh, wow. Yes, absolutely. That's also new this year. We're really encouraging team involvement and team competitions. We actually have five competitions where they can win team prizes, which we never have had in the past. We're hoping that people will want to get into a team and compete against each other. Hope that branches will compete against each other. The Air National Guard has a team that already has said that they're going to come down with. We've possibly got a couple of police officers and so forth that want to run as well. So we've got a lot going on. Yeah, we have some footage of last year's that we taped that. This sounds like it's going to be so much bigger. Oh, yeah. A lot bigger event. And where could people go for more information about this? Well, they can go to runforindependence.org, which is our website. So they can go there, or they can go to runinnerace.com to register. If there are any other questions, they can just go to independenceassociation.org as well. And they can get all the information about independence association, our run, and everything else. So you're still looking for runners, even though you have all these teams lined up and everything else? How about sponsors? Anything else that you need for this run? We would love more sponsors, of course. We'd love more sponsors. We'd love more sponsors. This is a fundraiser, but it's more an awareness builder event of people with disabilities. And what we're trying to say is we're trying to get out there and say, this is about celebrating ability. Everybody in the world has abilities, regardless of the disabilities that they may have. And we want to welcome everybody to join us, and we believe all businesses would like to support that as well. It's great that it's for awareness, but I have to give away a little bit something. I know I'm on the board of Independence Association as well. And I know that the funding issues isn't necessarily cut and dry. There are some needs there. Could you want to explain that a little bit more? We're facing some major, major dramatic cuts if certain things happen in the near future that could affect independence association to a point of where our solvency will be challenged. So we are looking for new endeavors, new partnerships, like the one we have with Andrew Scoggin, and with any other business or any legislator or so forth to try to help us find new ways to fund what we do, because it is so important what we do. There are major challenges that need to be met. So any help that we can get would be extremely great. And how much do you anticipate to raise? I mean, how much have you raised in the past, and what do you look forward to raising now? It's really hard to say. We raised probably around $12,000 last year. We would like to raise, we would love to raise around 20-25 if we could this year. It sounds like you're pretty much well on your way. And I just have to ask you, Melissa, are you running? Oh, yeah, absolutely. Are you a runner? Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah, we actually have quite a few runners in the bank. So people, I mean, I put an email out and within about a half hour I had 10 people on the team. So we're in. Great. We're all in. Yes. Great. Well, maybe we can get some of the board members in the staff to run. Yeah. And for those who don't run, there's, you know, you can volunteer. You can just come and cheer people on. It's, we are involved all in. Sounds like a family fun festival after as well. Yeah. And it sounds like there's a lot more players. This time should be fun. Yeah, it will be good. Well, thank you very much for joining us. I look forward to it. And I'll be there. All right. See you there. Thank you. You better be.


All right, it's Monday morning. We're on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange with Jim Cramer, the big story, GE CEO, Jeff Immelt stepping down. Jim, what was your reaction? Well, look, I think that there was a lot of pressure on the board that it was time. I know that GE is saying, listen, for 2013 they had always prepared a succession, but the underperformance and the last straw really was that last meeting where he just said, listen, the $2 number, that's the high end. There was a belief, let's say among try-in, try-in at a big position, that this wasn't going to happen, that the big cuts were going to occur and that the $2 number was going to be out there. But the two things that I think doomed Jeff. The first one was the negative cash flow in the first quarter, which was just kind of out of the blue. And the second one was there was great conviviality with try-in. Now try-in is not big enough to be able to move the needle for GE, but there was great conviviality in a meeting that I went to with Nelson Peltz and Jeff Fimwell. And I've been with them together. And there was a kind of a big letdown that it looked like the numbers were coming through, and then the numbers slipped everywhere. But you have to ask yourself, would Jeff have left before the consummation and then the, let's say, next year or two with Baker Hughes? Because that combination is so, so important. So I'd say there was a lot of pressure. And the board felt it had to act because the stock has been the worst performer in the doubt during the period that Jeff's been in there. And that does matter. And I know the company is very adamant that the dividend is safe. I think there are people like the Deutsche Bank analysts who are saying that it's not the case. I'm looking for upgrades. I'm looking for people to cut numbers, perhaps to a buck in a maybe well short of two bucks, but say that Flannery is not going to let you down here. My friends who know Flannery are adamant that he's a Jack guy. He's a Jack Welch guy. And that means firing people. That means taking costs out. That means reshuffling the portfolio. It does not mean breaking the company up. And GE is an Action Alert plus name. It's an Action Alert plus name. And we talked last week about how we wanted to sell it. But we feared that there would be a move within the next few weeks to change the CEO. We were prescient. I've done a lot of work behind the scenes that I know that there were people who were really saying Jeff stayed too long, 16 years. I think from the press conference, it did seem like Jeff felt it was time to move on. But I looked for the Baker use deal. I did not cut and run when oil went down. I think that's important. I think the Baker use deal that they're doing consummates at the end of the month, you're going to see some acquisitions done by that. Remember, rate count is going up. GE has both offshore and onshore. Onshore is very good right now. We own slumberjave for Action Alerts and they're more offshore and they have not done as well as Baker use. Remember, Baker use was going to merge with Halbert and that fell apart. So Baker is merging with GE. It will be very interesting to see what Bornstein, who's vice chairman now did not get the top job. I know Tryon really liked him when I speak with Tryon. Tryon would not talk today. But when I've spoken to Tryon, if you remember, we had Ed Garden last week at our corporate governance Ed Garden is key man and Tryon with Nelson Peltz. I know that when I asked him about GE, it was like, whoa, you know, kind of not happy. So that's a lot of my insight comes from the fact that we did have Ed at the corporate governance conference, which was really a fabulous conference. And I know that you cringed when people cringed when I mentioned ML at the conference, because Ed was just total no comment. And then, you know, obviously no comment made it real unhappy. All right, Jim, let's move on to tech stocks. What do you make of the sell off? OK, now I have a piece of real money about the game plans.  I think Amazon I'm not going to sit with Amazon is going to hold or not. I don't want to do that. I'm going to say if you see it whole, this is very different. One of the things I've learned in sell offs is that you have to let the buyers and sellers tell you what to do. If Amazon holds an auto desk holds, those were two that had great quarters. I know people don't normally focus on Autodesk, ADSK, that had a fantastic quarter. If they hold, then you're going to see buyers come in. Lamb Research had a great quarter. If that holds, you're going to see buyers come in.  You don't want to kill on Facebook or Apple. Apple had that key downgrade last night. You don't want to kill Netflix because that stock has run a great deal. You don't want to kill on Alphabet, Google, because there's no new news. But you do want a key on Amazon because that has been that was up, you know, north of the thousands come down very hard to below 9500, you know, to below 950, and that is the one where there's it's a very big decline and there's been no negatives associated with it. So that is your key, Autodesk Second, Lamb Research Third. You mentioned Apple. What did you make of the downgrade by Mizuho?  It put Mizuho on on the map. Now, that analyst, I'll be interviewing that analyst on Scott Watner's Halftime Report, the thing that was most damaging that I was most concerned about was something that I'm not getting when I do my work, which is that there is a problems with the service revenue. Now, the service revenue has been very key for me. The analyst is thinking that the numbers are too high for service revenue. The analyst doesn't deny that the Apple iPhone 8 is a big cycle. This is a multiple compression story. They're basically saying you're not people are not going to continue to pay up for the earnings that you're getting there. I think that's an interesting call because remember, if it's a consumer product story, the way I think, then I think you're going to see this dot go higher because Procter and Gamble, let's say Procter, Procter trades about 18, 19 times earnings. By the way, here's a heads up. I think Tryon is going to go very aggressively after Procter and Gamble. I think they're happy enough with GE. Procter and Gamble is the next. You should buy Procter, OK? Let's give me a heads up that Procter and Gamble, you should watch that versus Apple. You should watch Clorox versus Apple. You should watch Colgate versus Apple. You should watch Newell Brands, which we own for Action Alerts versus Apple, because this is a consumer product story. Now, I've been saying that for two years. It was great that Warren Buffett adopted and obviously didn't watch me. He was only watching me once when I interviewed John Stump and he didn't like it. That's the former CEO of Wells. But if it's a consumer product story, it should trade higher. The multiples too low. And that's what I'm going to discuss when I discuss with the analysts on Scott Watt, there's a halftime show. How about the way you view the stock? If you view it as a consumer product story, you don't sell it. You buy it. People should look up your interview with Tim Cook because you talk a lot about that as well. And Tim, look, I play with an open hand. I come in with a two-prong story, consumer product and service revenue. The consumer product story is not accentuated nearly enough in the Mizzouho piece as far as I'm concerned. And just as important, the revenue numbers coming from service are basically saying, be careful, they're not going to be there. That's what I'm watching. I need to see. I want to drill down on that. We look forward to your appearance on with Scott Wapner today. But you were also on on Friday talking about NVIDIA with Andrew Left. Yeah.  I feel better about it because I think some of that might have been out of context, but, you know, you take things personally in this business. You play hard and he's been also we've had a lot written about him in real money. I didn't disagree with him. The notion was that he's liked NVIDIA very much and said over and over again that people should own NVIDIA, that NVIDIA was too cheap versus a lot of the stocks that people were buying. And then NVIDIA goes from 100 to 150 very fast. And what he's really basically basically doing is giving NVIDIA stock a speed and speeding ticket saying, listen, this is not what it should be. And you've got the wrong kind of owners, which is what the casino mentioned. I can't disagree with that as much as I like NVIDIA. A lot of people I have an Action Alert Wednesday call and a lot of people said, you know, Jim, you like NVIDIA so much, why aren't you in NVIDIA? And I always come back and say, wait a second, we're in Adobe, we're in Facebook, we're in Western Digital, we're in Alphabet, we're in Apple, you can't own them all or you would have been slaughtered Friday. And that's what we've been trying to avoid. Adobe, by the way, down very big on a downgrade that's totally based on valuation. I don't like historic valuation calls. Why? Because a lot of these companies, businesses have accelerated.  There had been a big cloud adoption in finance and obviously in tech. He's saying now health care and retail, which are very big sectors, are moving aggressively on the cloud. So what that tells me is be careful downgrading Adobe if the story is morphing into a more longer term view because they are how you do a commercial cloud marketing. And I like them, by the way, I think that Salesforce has come down enough. And I would initiate a position in Salesforce. Now, when I say that, Twitter, people say that people come in and say, I bought all the Salesforce at this level and now you crushed me. So I say if you do that, you might as well be shorting Salesforce. I am not talking about you. I'm saying if you want to buy 200 shares of Salesforce, you buy 50 here. OK, there are also reports that Western Digital may be making a better offer for Toshiba slash business. Western Digital is down. Now, why would it be down two reasons? One is that if they get it, people feel that they have to do an equity offering. The articles kind of indicate that they can do a debt deal and maybe have some other buyers with them. They do have a Japanese buyer with them. I've been waiting for Western Digital to actually make a real offer. This is a lot of people saying, well, they have made an offer yet. This is a real offer. Western Digital has basically said they can hold up anything. I don't know if that's true, but Toshiba desperately needs some money. If you go over, there's a David Faber and I were talking about Broadcom last week. Broadcom on its conference call, Haktan, twice said, listen, I won't do anything unless it's got connectivity involved with it. You could stretch the definition of Toshiba's flash to say that he meant connectivity. I've had trouble with that. I'm not sure about arrival bid. What I do know is that the Western Digital bid will be well received by everybody and that you could buy Western Digital here, which we get owned for action alerts. We did sell Summit 91 and I think that you might have to have a second bite at the Apple if they do an equity offering to help finance it, they need to because they spent so much money on Sandisk. But I like Western Digital here on a possible Toshiba flash buyout. Are also Morgan Stanley analysts are raising their bear case on Tesla?  You always have to be careful of Tesla if you think it's a car company. You don't have to be careful of Tesla if it's a technology company because technology companies obviously can you can put a different multiple on a technology company and you can say that the technology is really good. What was frightening for any bear in that Morgan Stanley piece was that they're talking about the possibility of profitability for Tesla. Now, no bear would ever think that there could be anything but phony profitability. Here you're talking about positive cash flow. If there is positive cash flow. And again, I am not saying it is. But if the Morgan Stanley bull case about positive cash flow comes true, then the Morgan Stanley price target north of 500, I believe, can come true. Now that now that will be interpreted as saying Jim Cramer thinks it can go to 500. I want to be very careful. I'm saying Morgan Stanley thinks that if the cash flow is positive. OK, also you talked about stop trading FedEx. Yeah, I've been doing a lot of work on FedEx. They report June 20. And I think that FedEx is a company that is very close to President Trump. I don't know if anyone even remembers last week because it was so comey. We were all comatose by the end of the week. But if you look at what the FedEx has to offer in terms of privatization of the air traffic control system and the privatization of airports, I don't think there's anyone who's better. You got a June 20th earnings report. I think it's going to be good. But I think that you're going to see the FedEx, both the CEO and Fred Smith, a very, very big Trump supporter, in to see the president. I know that people are kind of just saying whatever the president's thinking when he now is irrelevant. But remember privatization of the airport. He's always been very strong that the airports are no good in this country. Privatization of anything involved in the airports has to be public private. And FedEx would be a winner. Maybe they talk about it on the June 20th call. All right. And then one more name we're watching. It's not a public company, but Uber. There's a report that you don't try. People should read Adam Lashinsky's excellent book that came out a couple weeks ago about Travis and remembers his parents were in a very bad car accident. Eric Holder came in. He's a serious guy who was the head of the Justice Department. He did a lot of examination. Obviously, the company has been run in a way that I think most of us would be embarrassed by, except when it comes to the bottom line. No one is saying the bottom line is bad. So I would say that, yes, if it were public, you'd short it, but then you'd have to cover. OK, Jim, what are you expecting from the Federal Reserve meeting on Wednesday? OK, on the Federal Reserve meeting, I have been saying that they're going to raise rates. I don't know what they're going to do in terms of commentary, other than I think they'll be saying, look, we do believe that if the economy stays, if employment stays strong and I don't think they're going to say employment's weak, even though the last number was not that good, then we will certainly take into account the idea and raise it again, raise rates again. The banks have had three days of run. I don't trust them. We have we own key, we own Wells Fargo, we trim city a little, we put a little Wells last week, we're reshuffling because city has been the best performer, Wells has been the worst performer. So we thought we should do that for the chapel for action alerts. I'll talk about the rotation on Wednesday. I think we'll have further information about the rotation as we get closer and closer to the Fed meeting. Yes, that actual alerts plus call is on Wednesday at noon. Exactly, we're looking forward to that. Thank you. Jim Krimmer, thank you so much as always. And for more information on the stocks Jim mentioned, please head back to thestreet.com.


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I'm gonna read one verse and share with you a toward the end of this message or the second part and that is while waiting. Book of Acts chapter one verse 14 it says, these all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication with the women and marry the mother of Jesus and with his brothers. Marry the mother of Jesus. As I mentioned, you know, Mary received a visit from an angel and she has seen that God's angel said, you're favored and that favor did not result in her running a multi-billionaire company. That favor did not result in her becoming an author.  When she brought Jesus the prophecy was given that a sword pierced your heart and that's exactly what some mothers go through is that painful season where she was seeing Jesus being crucified but Jesus took care of his mother even while he was on the cross and what I love about Mary is that she was not only Jesus's mother, she was Jesus's disciple and the brothers of Jesus are here praying after Jesus's resurrection and one of them James became eventually the pastor of the Jerusalem church and wrote the epistle of James and so this family ended up worshiping Jesus and praising Jesus. When Jesus rose from the dead, he gave his disciples a promise and he said this, I want you to stay in Jerusalem. Now you have to understand most of them from Galilee were from Galilee. Galilee, Jerusalem, think of Yakima and Paschal. Okay, so new mind that's where they were from. They were from Yakima, they came to Paschal. All right, we'll make Jerusalem as the Paschal. Okay, it's a little bit bigger than Yakima so Tri-Cities, Tri-Cities is like the Jerusalem so about 80 something miles away that's where they were from and then in Jerusalem is where Jesus got crucified. They were about to leave Jerusalem but then they found out he rose from the dead so he kept visiting them and they kind of stayed in Jerusalem. Right before he goes to heaven Jesus gives them a promise.  Don't go back to Yakima. Don't go back to Galilee. Don't go back to where you came from. I want you to permanently kind of stay here until the coming of the Holy Spirit. I'm giving you a promise. Something is about to shift. Something is about to change and this spirit once he comes he will do a few things to you is he will give you power. Now I know you already went and evangelized, cast out demons and did some other things but this will be another level. So there's 120 people so a little bit more than what we see today. 120 people start gathering together and waiting. Somebody say waiting. So promise was given and they were waiting. Jesus didn't say when the promise will be fulfilled. He just says where the promise will be fulfilled. Let me say that again. He didn't say when the promise will be fulfilled. He said where the promise will be fulfilled and I want to tell you something that every person in this room has a promise from God. If you have a family you have a promise from God for your family. You have a promise of God for your health. You have a promise of God for your business. You have a promise of God for your spiritual life. God has a promise for you and when God gives you a promise you must understand is that there will be a waiting period between the promise and the fulfillment of the promise. There will be a waiting period from the book of Acts. I'm giving you the promise chapter one to book of Acts chapter two when the Pentecost comes in. There's a process between the promise and the Pentecost. Somebody say amen. So what do you do while you're waiting? Three things I want to highlight. Number one, they prayed. While you're waiting for your child to come back to God. While you're waiting for your marriage to be restored. While you're waiting for the breakthrough that God promised in His Word in the area of our finances so that we can be a blessing to other people instead of constantly being in need or living from hand to mouth. While you're waiting for the documents to go through. While you're waiting for that sickness to be completely defeated as God promised in His Word by His stripes you will be healed. While you're waiting for the reconciliation between you and your spouse maybe you're going through a very rough patch. What do you do while you're waiting? God wants to fulfill His Word but you have to wait. Is waiting folding my hands and just we'll see what happens. Is waiting is? I'm waiting for them to change. The way disciples waited. The Bible says they prayed continuously. We pray. God has given us a promise as a church that God will use our church to touch the world. The way we wait for the promise. We have a promise that people will be getting out of wheelchairs. We have a promise that this will be a massive movement. Not just the what we have today. It's going to be a massive movement that will touch the world. See disciples already had 120 people. The average church today the median church in the United States is about 70 people. The median age in the church in the United States is 72. The average church the 50% of churches in the United States are below 100. So 120 people in Jerusalem 2000 years ago when the population was not seven billion dollars 120 people is a mega church. But Jesus wanted something more. See Jesus wasn't interested in making the church slightly bigger. He strategically placed them in Jerusalem. Why? Because in 40 days from now in few weeks from now all the nations will come to Jerusalem and he wanted to strategically infect the nations of the world with his message. Forgive me for using the word infect. He wanted to infiltrate the nations through the small body of people. See Jesus thinks global not just local. He thinks movement not just a small gathering. Jesus thinks massive not just a small maintenance thing. Jesus wants every church to grow. Jesus wants hungry Jen not only to grow and become the large church. He wants hungry Jen to infiltrate and to touch every aspect of our society. He wants the medicine world, the education world, the media world. He wants every world to be touched by the good news of his gospel. Why? Because what we're selling everyone needs. Everyone has an eternal soul. Not everybody might need glasses. Everybody might not need a car. Not everybody might need an extra layer of this or extra layer of that. But everybody needs salvation because everybody has an eternal soul. So the message God has given us to preach and to present is something everyone needs. Amen? And so he has this idea that he wants to cause an explosion to happen and revival to break out. Something viral to become viral. To go quickly without social media, without cameras, without newspapers. To go into all parts of the world quickly. He tells them I want you to stay here and I want you to wait. And how you're waiting? They were praying. They started to pray. They didn't just pray, they prayed continuously. And I want to encourage you, if you are tired of waiting, waiting is not a waste of time if you're praying. Waiting always feels like a drag if you're not praying. Maybe you're praying for a spouse. God has given you a promise. The prophet came and gave you a word that is coming on the horse. Well, honestly, your future husband might be coming on the horse because guest prices are really high. Or you see this, you know, this Cinderella is going to come. You know, you have this vision.  What do you do? Well, do I need to just go and start signing up for all kinds of dating sites? Maybe. But you first need to pray. And you need to pray consistently. You need to pray continually. Pay a price of making prayer permanent in your life. Prayer is our response to waiting. We don't wait for revival. We're not waiting for revival if we're not praying. Prayer is the only way we can show to God that we are waiting. Waiting is not, I need it. I don't have it. Waiting is that I'm praying. The moment I'm praying, God says, that means you're waiting. And God expects you to wait. He doesn't want you to just exist, meaning I want you to wait for it. I want you to anticipate for it. I want you to ask for it. In fact, Jesus himself tells disciples to wait and he went to the father and started to ask the father. So you're not the only one that's asking. He's also asking because he is the high priest. He intercedes on our behalf. Amen. The second thing that we need to do, not only we need to wait, we need to prepare. We need to prepare. Now disciples, after they started to pray and they prayed continually, the Bible says that in verse 15 that they chose a disciple to replace Judas. So some theologians, scholars say they should have waited for God to choose his own apostle, like apostle Paul, but they were doing something. They were not just waiting. They were preparing for what's about to come. When you are waiting for your child to come back home, prepare as well. What do you need to do on your end? Is there something that you can improve on your attitude as your parent? Is there something that you can do on your end as a single person who is waiting for the person to come into your life? Maybe let's start with getting out of debt. Maybe let's start with kicking bad some habits that you should not allow in your life. Maybe let's start with, hey, maybe it's good time to improve this area or improve that area. Maybe it's good time to finish school. You need to prepare as we are waiting for a greater revival to hit tri-cities. We got to prepare for it. We can't just pray and not plan. We can't just fast, but we're not strategizing. We're not using what we can do right now. Oh, I'm just going to wait for more power, but are you using the power you already have? I'm just going to wait until God saps me with so much anointing, but until He does that, I'm going to use the power He has given me, the revelation that I have, the experience that I have, the little bit of faith that I have, the little bit of oil that I have, and I'm going to start working it. I'm going to start exercising it. I'm going to start putting it into practice. Why? Because sometimes God will grow that which I use. Sometimes it's a supernatural. This tipping point happens in the realm of the Spirit where we just go from one realm into another over one night, but sometimes it's a gradual. And because we don't know what God is going to do, we have to pray and plan. Pray and prepare. Pray and then we also make plans. We take a next step. We hold a conference. We write a book. We release e-courses. We release small groups and we move forward. I know we're waiting for the new building to be finished. And as much as I would love to have only one service on Sunday, but for right now, this is where we're at. We're waiting, but we're not just waiting for the new building. We are pressing in as the church into the next level. And even if that would mean three services, maybe one day even four services as hard as that will be. But we know that God has that day of pentacus for hungry Jen. God has that next level of explosion. God has that next level where things will go viral in a way we've never seen or even dreamed of. We only have been prophesied those things. But until that day, we've got to start planning. We've got to find our Matias. We've got to start finding our this person and that person, this ministry and that ministry. Why? So by the time the Acts 2 comes in, we're not only prayed up, we also have plans. Because prayer prepares things. Planning prepares us. Prayer prepares the spirit realm. But when I begin to set plans in motion, when I begin to have a strategy, see it's not enough to pray for God to get you out of debt if you don't have a plan to get out of debt. It's not enough to say, Lord God, let the spirit of our weightness leave me in Jesus' name right now. But if you don't have a plan to cut back on carbs, it's not going to work. We have to pray and we've got a plan. It's not enough also to say, God, send me a husband.  Most likely it's not going to happen. Sister, you've got to push yourself out there a little bit. Start an Instagram. You know, do something. Post a selfie once in a while and we have good photographers, you know, ask Heather to take a few photos of the church and stuff. So yeah, you got to not just pray, you got to plan. Come on somebody, are you with me? We pray, we plan. Now, if we plan, but we don't pray, these plans are made out of flesh. But if we pray and pray and pray, we don't plan. We don't have a strategy. God's going to bring people.  We have to invite them. But if he brings them in, we have to have a room for them. We have to have somebody at the front, greeting them. Once they give their life to Jesus, somebody to follow up on them. You must say, well, God is going, no, God is not going to do none of that. We have to do that. God works in partnership with us. And God is looking at all this waiting because while I am focused on the destination, I want that amazing revival explosion. God is looking not just at the destination, but at the development. How am I being developed right now? Am I preparing for that? Prayer prepares me. It prepares the answer. But there's one more thing that we need to do. And that is we need to be plugged in. A third thing. So we pray, we plan, and then we get ourselves plugged in. For them, the Bible says is they continued in one accord. This wasn't each person praying separately. They were praying corporately. I want to invite you. Every person in this room is waiting for something in their area, excuse me, waiting for something in an area of their life. Even if we have a breakthrough in one area, there's now one person in this room who doesn't have an area of their life. They're currently waiting on God for. And if you do have that area, be careful because you might die tomorrow. If you don't have absolutely nothing you're waiting for, because that's part of our spiritual growth, is we're always going from glory to glory. God is always moving us. God is always stretching us. The amazing part is this, is when you get together in the room of another waiter, something begins to happen. Our faith links together. That's why if you are alone and you're not plugged in into the community or to the church and you're waiting after a while, your waiting will die. Prayer will just fizzle out. Your plans will begin to be so fruitless. You're like, man, what's the point of even planning anything? Nothing really works. I will plan after the day of Pentecost. I will plan everything when I get married. I will plan for everything once my kids get saved. That's when I will be joyful. That's when I will serve at the church and everything, my friend. Do not postpone all of your life to that imaginary day because the moment you reach that day, God will open another facet of your potential and his promise for your life and you will constantly grow from one miracle to another. Because if you don't have a need, you don't need a miracle. And sometimes these miracles we need are in our body, in our finances, in our family and God takes care of them. Then he opens a need for the world and he enlarges your heart and he says, I want you to dream and wait and anticipate for something that could change the world. Yes, your needs are taken care of. Yes, your bills are being paid for.   That is amazing. But now the dream, the plan, the promise to maybe start an orphanage, to start an unprofit, to do a humanitarian aid, to do a ministry, to go and start evangelizing, all of that, God starts pushing on you and says, now I want you to wait for that and I want you to begin to dream about that. Don't cruise, don't get complacent. I want you to step into that. I fixed your problem so I can help you be hungry for your promise. I fixed your problem so I can stir your appetite to fulfill your potential because life is not just about fixing problems, it's about living our life to the fullest and dying empty. Amen. I want to encourage us. While waiting for God's promise, we pray consistently. We plan strategically and we get plugged in into a community of similar, like-minded waiters who are also waiting. When Mary got pregnant, God strategically sent her to Elizabeth so that the pregnant women will unite. And when she came into the room, Elizabeth's baby jumped. Why? Because Elizabeth carried a miracle child and Mary had a miracle child. When you come to Hungry Jen, we don't want just your joy, emotion to jump.  Yes, we need long-suffering, but the promises of God, we need to carry them into fruition. We need to walk into the chapter two of Book of Acts and our life. Our church will experience, we are experiencing revival. What we see today in people's lives, the way they're being impacted, is honestly, it's been a dream of ours when we started the church. To see the blessing that how God is using our church online is simply mind-blowing. It's incredible. But what God has promised, we haven't seen yet. What we believe for, we have not even seen nothing close to. What God wants to do in tri-cities, what God wants to do through tri-cities, he wants an explosion. He wants things that are vital, deliverance healing to become viral. God is zealous over this earth. He loves every person who doesn't know him and hates him. He died for them and God will not settle for my size, your size dream. If we have 10,000 people coming to the church, it won't make a dent in tri-cities. Even that dream is too small. God is not wanting to grow a largest organization in tri-cities. He's growing a kingdom. And that kingdom wants to fill the whole earth. We're strategically positioned in Jerusalem today. You know why? Because of media. What Jerusalem was to the disciples 2000 years ago, social media is to us today. We're strategically positioned here. We know where the promise is coming. It's going to come here. It's going to hit our generation like never before. Because today, when the miracle happens, it goes viral. Like the healing of a boy in Mexico. In Mexico, somebody recorded with the phone and it hit over 2.3 million views, 60 seconds on social media. We live in the generation and day to day, where things travel from one place to another in seconds, not in days and in months. That means the outpouring that God wants to do is strategically. It wasn't in a Galilee. It was in Jerusalem because Jerusalem was a strategic hub of all the pilgrims, strategic hub of all the visitors that will come there and get filled. We just experienced through COVID how things can go viral. I was in Philippines when the first person who had COVID arrived in tri-cities. We were in Philippines. We had a large stadium that they were supposed to use right before we arrived. They closed that stadium and they started closing pretty much all the large gatherings, all the movie theater. They were able to sneak in only 1,200 people. They allowed only pastors and leaders there. We were afraid we wouldn't even get out of Philippines because the borders were already being closed. First person and then only some month later, first person died in China from COVID. Then one more person died. It seems like, oh yeah, at this rate it's going to take. Then next month, next thing, a lot of people getting infected. Fear breaks out. People are beginning to die and almost a million people just in the United States that passed away from this. It got to the point where everyone was locked down in their house. And interesting, nobody went to school how to spread COVID. There was no class in the university. Nobody even wanted to spread COVID. They became carriers of whatever they got infected with and they spread that on their own. Now the gospel doesn't spread like COVID. The gospel does require our volunteerism. We have to volunteer to it. But the gospel has a lot of volunteers. I'm one of them. You're one of them. And the gospel spreads not through teaching, but we share. Yes, we teach, but we also demonstrate. We touch another person. And I believe the same way as COVID went viral. The same thing, revival, the last day revival, is going to go viral. It's going to go like crazy. And America is ready for another wave of awakening, another wave of revival. It's going to be deliverance. It's not going to be just one big shop preacher. It's going to be everyday believers being used by God. My friend, we are positioned for the members becoming ministers.  And that is not just to hold large crusades. And all of us just snap pictures with our favorite celebrity preachers, but that we all do the work that God has called us in our homes, in our workplaces, and that we are used mightily by God to do his work. Can somebody say amen? My friend, while waiting we pray. While we're waiting, we're planning. And while waiting, we're plugged into a local church where we are connected to other believers.  We have morning prayers Monday through Friday, but Wednesday is the special gathering of the church for prayer at six o'clock. I want to invite you as well to the things that we are participating in, the plans that God has for our church. Pray for our new building. Pray for the plans for that new building. If God puts on your heart, begin to give above and beyond so that construction will move forward. And lastly, I want to invite you in just two weeks from now, we are starting our small groups. Transformation, my friend, doesn't just happen at the altar. It happens in the small group. You heard from our friend today, he was in the small group. People prayed for him. It wasn't me that prayed for him. It wasn't one of our pastors. It was the everyday believers filled with the same spirit of God that each one of us are filled with, gathering in the home.  We want you to be plugged in to another believer. If you come to Hungary, Jen, and maybe you're like, man, but I'm not a social butterfly. I don't need to know everybody. I'm completely cool. My social club, my social cup is already filled. It's not just about you. Maybe it's time for you to have your own smoke. Maybe you need to now provide community for other people because as the church gets bigger, it needs to stay smaller. When pandemic breaks out, if another one breaks out or when the other one breaks down, breaks out. If persecution breaks out and I believe the persecution will come, we will see that even in the United States, our church, we pandemic and persecution proved if we do the church like the first church did. Not in large cathedrals, but in homes. First 300 years, the church did not have a building. They did not have an unprofit status and pastors were not on a salary.  We're not here just to get healthy, wealthy, get rich and just one day Jesus will come and sweeps us before the bad boy, Antichrist comes. No, we are here to preach the good news, tell our neighbors about Jesus and we have to know the word. Come on. And how do we convince that our way is the right way? Very simple. We got something nobody else has. We got signs and wonders. We don't rely on our knowledge though it's important. We don't rely on our degree though it's vital. We rely on signs and wonders. When we pray, God confirms His word with signs and wonders. He doesn't just confirm the minister, Benny Hinn, Ray Hart Bonke. He doesn't just confirm Billy Graham. He confirms His word and if it's in your mouth, he will confirm it. After 300 years, the church lived like that. It filled the whole area where Roman Empire was dominating. It got so crazy that Romans were blaming the church for whatever they could blame the church for because the church was thriving. They couldn't be crushed. They couldn't be crushed. Why? Because you can't crush grass root movement. You can't crush that. What's happening with the China church right now is the same way. And it was when the Constantine made everything legal, Christianity legal and gave church the status of honor. Miracles became not essential. Small groups, why do we need to gather in small groups when the government pays for big cathedrals? Believers, why do they need to know the Bible? The pastor knows the Bible. The Bible was taken away from the pew. The believer was no longer the priest. The believer was no longer the minister. There's one minister we pay for. We keep him on the staff to teach us the word and all we have to do is just come in, listen to the thing, pay our tithe and leave. And my friend, and that's where the dark ages began. We're not in dark ages. We're in revival. Every member is a minister. Everyone is called to be a witness. We're filled with the Holy Spirit. But there is an explosion that is coming. I believe that it's coming to Tracities and it's coming to Hungry Jen. But for that explosion, let's pray. Let's plan. Let's get plugged in. Hey, thanks for watching this video. If you enjoyed this content and this was a blessing to you, would you help us and hit thumbs up so that it could help more people to discover this video. It cost you nothing, but it can go a long way to help with the algorithm as well as if you're not subscribed to our channel, hit subscribe, click on the bell so that you can be reminded each time that we upload videos. Thank you so much for being a part of this community. If you're interested in learning more about Hungry Jen, our internship, our conferences, deliverance and so many other things, go to HungryGen.com for more information. And as always, remember, better is not good enough, the best is yet to come.


Over the past six months, I've been collecting items and clothing that I've needed for my local op shops and up until now These are a few of the things that I've collected I prefer to buy my clothes or really anything that I need a second hand first if I can find it as it helps to reduce the amount of waste being thrown away Buying in op shops reduces the reliance on fast fashion Which is basically just cheap poor quality clothes often made from unethical practices in unsafe work environments and working conditions Buying clothes from an op shop reduces your own carbon footprint and helps prevent clothes from ending up in landfill I only recently learnt this but op shop is actually short for opportunity shop. They are close to over 2,500 charity op shops across Australia If I can't find what I'm looking for second hand at thrift stores I'll then look online at some of the second hand forums like D-pop or Facebook marketplace Which is incidentally actually where I found my bike from But if I still have no luck finding it there I'll purchase it new and store I'll always shop for quality something that will last me a long time even if it does come at a higher cost According to the CleanUp Australia website every 10 minutes Australians dump 15 tons of clothing and fabric waste That adds up to over 800,000 tons or 31 kilograms per person every year Every year the price of clothing continues to drastically decrease While the negative impacts to the environment as a result of the fast fashion industry continue to increase According to the Greenpeace the average person buys 60% more clothing and keeps them for about half as long as 15 years ago The fashion industry is one of the highest polluting industries. It's responsible for an estimated 10% of global carbon emissions Australia is actually one of the biggest contributors to fashion pollution as it's now only second to the US Op shopping or thrifting for me means I can find really good quality even designer items for a quarter of the cost And the best part is it gives clothes a second life Hello, everyone. So I thought I'd share my latest op shop haul Collection that I've just sort of gathered over the past six months Again, I don't op shop all that much because they only buy something that I actually need at the time when I need it So if I find something that I need that I don't have I'll go out and find and sort of look around for that So keep searching and searching until I can sort of find it I don't tend to just do that lots of impulse buys or like just you know Random purchases and stuff just for like the guess the sake of shopping I tend to try and be like minimalist as possible one because I find if you have so much stuff I feel like it just clutters your mind like I find if I have a lot of things that I'm trying to sort of Juggle and organize and make space for it just feels like it's clutters it clutters my mind So I feel like less for me is best. So I'll only buy what I need So this is what I've needed over the past six months So we'll get straight into it. I am trialling a new mic that my sister just gave me So hopefully it captures it all right. This is the first time I'm using it. So I'm hoping the sound is a lot clearer Fingers crossed that it is or find out what I'm editing this video I just found some random stuff in my pockets like face mask from when I was on the plane yesterday. Anyway, let's get to it Where should I put you guys where it has like you can see me in the background? So my room is so small. I can't get like a proper viewpoint of my whole body. I'll see if you guys will sit there And I will brighten you up So that I don't look like a dark shadow And you can see all the stuff in my table that I'll do that I'll do don't care So the reason why I'm going for this kind of interesting look I actually saw one of these girls riding their bikes on the beach or near the beach But on the path near there when I was running mine and she had this sort of Very kind of see-through white kind of collared kind of shirt And she had a swimsuit on and like shorts and I thought it looks super beachy But again, because I don't want to go to all the designer places and Trying to buy new eyes trying my first ones already there at the op shop So I kind of went to the men's section and got an oversized Kind of college shirt to wear and I was like I could even just wear this to the beach and like just in my summers and just wear this like it's like a Throwing like throw over the top kind of look and that's what I was kind of going for with this I got to I got this one Which isn't white and then I got one sort of like a greeny color That is the green one So I changed it to jeans so I could show you both with jeans kind of shorts and jeans So this allows kind of thinking Just have this sort of open shirt. You can also sort of do it up as well like so Again, it's not everyone's style and in past videos people have said oh, you know, like I don't really like that I'm like, that's fine. You don't have to wear it. It's for me. Anyway, so this is sort of what I was kind of going for I thought I could even like have it out or like had it before kind of roughly just like tuck it in Like that just a bit of a different kind of look different style and it's a bit great in summer Probably not now because we've had just like a pole blast come through so as I'm doing this I'm actually freezing. It's really cold But in summer I was thinking this would be like a great little sort of like into where and again can wear it just over my Summers and like a light throw over thing and yeah, that's what I was going for So this was my first purchase two shirts one white one in this kind of olivey green room and all sort of greeny color and Both these shirts were eight dollars each So these are from Vinnie's and I like shopping at Vinnie's cuz cuz like a charity shop the money goes towards a certain charity I can't remember off the top of head which one? Yeah, so second hand Second life given some money towards others as well during the purchase things makes me feel good inside Got to share this before also want to do like a little tie up little knot Super in at the moment Not the front super cute to wear like that maybe not double on it It's something like this giving a lot of like kind of cowgirl vibes with the jeans and the bow Yeah, so sort of like that as well kind of tie up a knot same with the green shirt So style it if I don't want to wear it out Bring it into a little knot. Yeah So that was my vibe with it as well. This is one of my absolute favorite purchases This baggy jumper again. I think it's a men's. I like the baggy style In case you didn't know the brand is JJ's Think it's a very old one because I haven't seen them around for a while these kind of jumpers. So This is what it looks like My baggy jumper Love it. I love it. I wear it everywhere. Like this has been probably my most worn purchase this winter So snug and I just love how it's oversized because you can just basically curl up inside it like Put the sleeves over Bring knees up when they sing down and it's just so warm. It's like so warm surprisingly warm something so thin. This was pretty much My reason most recent purchase that and this awesome. Sorry, I had hair on me That and this awesome denim bag. Oh, I love it so much So it's actually made from an old pair of jeans It has so many pockets like it even has the zipper from the jeans at the front here. Oh, no, sorry It's at the back So that's like the front of the jeans and that's like the zipper that you do up with the front It doesn't zip but just it's nothing really there and then these are pockets There's so many pockets to do it up. You just tighten the straps here and bring the top over And it clips onto the front And you can also tighten the back straps, which I do sometimes the only thing is it does tend to sort of If something's heavy in there The straps will loosen a little bit so I have to keep tightening them, but this is my new backpack What do you think? So it's such a cool idea to reuse old jeans that may not be able to be donated or used again So that was how much was it? So this denim pack back pack. So this denim backpack was 23 dollars like 25 dollars. Sorry. It's 25 dollars and It was also from Benny's and I was looking for a new backpack because my old one actually I'll show you this old this old one that I've had since 2014 I think around then was when I graduated high school and That it was around them and I've had it's lasted me so long But in the recent years the tops just come off like I've had to keep sewing and sewing I was like, it's not gonna last too much longer and it's sort of beyond donating So I'm sort of waiting and looking at ways and to recycle backpacks that it doesn't end up in landfill So at the moment it's just waiting idly my room talking to decide what to do with it So hence that's why I got my new backpack last but not least is the sports bra that I bought from Vinnie's as well. Yes, all from Vinnie's actually. I Really like it. It was six dollars and it's Rockware brand and I just really like this type of sports bra Especially because when I go outside Don't something so like so much on me because it's really hot in summer. It's so humid So this is perfect just to sort of wear with some sports shorts And do my exercises and that and it's just really like comfy. I can I could wear this all day It wasn't so cold. So yeah, that is pretty much my up shop haul for the first half of 2022 Yeah, I hope you guys enjoyed my up shop haul share today I don't know if you guys have found some reason up shop like fines and purchases And what you guys buy if you off shop as well Love love to hear about it. I love hearing what people get at the off shop. I'm just fine It's like the market's you always find the coolest things there and I love giving something like a second life That's probably one of the most things that like I like about off shopping Is like not like kind of giving it another chance and rather than going to landfill Especially if it's in really good condition, which a lot of the things are Yeah, it's pretty much my spiel for today. So I hope you guys enjoyed today's video Thank you for sticking out this whole video if you're still here with me I really appreciate it and I really hope you guys enjoy today's video and Yeah, thank you so much.  I read your comments Sorry, if I don't get back to everybody I do see them and if I do see them I tend to give them a like and a heart Just so that you guys know that I have seen it and have been able to reply. So thank you so so much I Mean so much to me to have you guys here watching my videos. It really inspires me to keep going Do let me know if you want to see more of my upshop Halls in the future. I do try and wait until I have enough things to share Rather than just get one thing and be like he's my new thing that I got Yeah, otherwise, I have some more exciting videos coming up in future. So do stick around. Thank you again So much for watching. I love you guys so so much So much with all my heart. Thank you so much for watching and being here today. It really means a lot to me I hope you guys stick around for the next video and see you again soon Bye