Today I'd like to talk to you about carrying the Ark of God. The Ark of God in the Old Testament was a box. It was made of acacia wood, which later had beautiful thorns. And who knows if the thorns weren't used in the crown of thorns in Jesus' head. Now the Old has physical objects that point to spiritual truths, their types and shadows of the Spirit in the New Testament. So you may ask a very legitimate question this morning. What does an Old Testament object like the Ark of God have to do with my life? And I promise it'll be practical and I promise it'll be applicable. But follow with me to the significance of an Old Testament part of the temple of God, or first the tabernacle of God. The tabernacle was a tent that God told them to build according to a design where His presence, the glory of God, would actually physically descend above the two cherubim of gold on top of this box. This box was in the most holy place of all within the tabernacle. The tabernacle had two rooms, one 15 by 15 by 15, a perfect cube with only one piece of furniture, the Ark of the Covenant. It was overlaid with pure gold. It had rings through which poles had to be placed through and carried by specific men called Levites. You were not allowed to physically touch the box after it was made, after the glory of God inhabited or shown above the mercy seat. The mercy seat was made of pure gold and an anointed artisan. You know God anoints us in the marketplace too, do you believe that? Whatever you do, you are anointed by God in your ministry as a layperson, as a professional minister in the church, you're still anointed by God. And this anointed artisan carved out these beautiful angels that as they watched the glory of God once a year, the high priest of the nation of Israel would kill and slaughter a lamb, an innocent lamb. They would take the blood on their finger and they would go into the Holy of Holies once a year, only once a year, and they would drip from his finger on top of the mercy seat. And that one drop of blood covered, not took away, covered the sins of all Israel for a year. Now this pointed to the time where Jesus Christ would enter into the presence of God and he would put the drop of his blood on God's mercy seat and take away our sins forever and ever and once and for all. The other room was 15 by 30, twice as long. And it had three articles, a table of bread, right, which reminds of the communion supper. Seven candlesticks called the menorah that had oil and it never was supposed to go out. And the third was, in the middle was another altar, not for blood, but for prayer.  That signifies prayer. And of course you had the outer courtyard and all the rest of the temple. Now this arc was so important that people took it sometimes into battle hoping that the presence of God would overcome their enemies. Now this is introduction and I have to go really fast here to get to the main points that are applicable to you and me today. It turned out that the priests of God at that time were very corrupt and the high priest had two sons which were not acting as Christian leaders should act and they got into immorality. They did wrong things in the sacrifice that belonged only to God. They stole things, they did things incorrectly.  And so when the arc, when they were fighting the Philistines that God raised up against them, they captured the arc of God and took it to their city and put in the temple of their God Dagon. And so that was a terrible thing. Go to the next slide and you'll see that. So the backgrounds are in first Samuel chapels four and six. The arc is captured by the enemies of God and Eli and his sons let Israel to sin. But what God did is he used that arc not to bless the enemy but to cause health problems. Now one word in the King James says God sent them haemorrhoids. I think God has a sense of humor. These people could not sit down for very long. And so the people start complaining to God why all these strange punishments in a strange place. Maybe the God of Israel is angry at our God. There's a little detail that when they put him in the temple of Dagon, an angel of the Lord came and chops the head of Dagon and puts it down. And so they said, wait, we have to get rid of this arc. Well, how do we know it's God that's causing these things? Look at this cool detail. So somebody came up with the bright idea. Let's take two milk cows. They just had calves. Now cows are moms, right? And they will never leave their little calves, especially when the calves are just starting to drink of the milk of the mom, right? And so let's hitch them up to a cart. Cows don't hitched carts and they will not pull the cart and they will not be separated from their calves. But if this is the God of Israel, they will go by themselves from the area of the Philistines into the camp of Israel miraculously. Everybody said, hey, that's a great idea. If this is the God of Israel is doing that, let's see. You know what the cows did? They pulled the cart moving as they went, leaving the poor little calves behind. They went straight, not to the left, not to the right. Never stumbled. Can you imagine the picture of the Israelis seeing two milk cows with udders, not oxen, pulling this calf with the Ark of God. Amazing, amazing. So let's go to the verses, 2 Samuel 6, 2. Next slide. David and all the people, they wanted to bring the Ark of God to Jerusalem. So verse 3, they carried the Ark of God. Now they put a new cart and put it hitched to oxen. Oxen are professional animals. And they brought it out of the house of Binedab. And then verse 6, when they came to the threshing floor of naked, the oxen stumbled and the Ark was tilting. And this man called Uzza reached out his hand to the Ark of God and wanted to take hold of it for the oxen shook it. He was afraid the box would fall and maybe even crack or be destroyed. Now, did he have a good intention? Yes. But God said, don't touch. Don't physically put your hand on the Ark. We read what happened in verse 7. The anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzza. And God struck him there because he reached out his hand to the Ark and he died right there beside the Ark of God. Now, verses 8 and 9, talk about David, the king, the new king and his emotions. Verse 8 says, David was what? David was mad at God because the Lord had burst forth against Uzza. Second emotion, verse 9, David was afraid of God that day. And he said, how can the Ark of the Lord come into my care? All David wanted to do was a good thing. And all Uzza, the man who died, wanted to do was a good thing. You can have good intentions as a Christian. But if you don't do things God's way, consequences follow that are not up to you, but they're already preset by the Lord. And I'll explain that. So now let's ask some really good human questions. Some of you are there scratching your heads. Why would God kill a man for only trying to help? I asked that question. That's a great question. Secondly, these oxen, professional animals are bringing the Ark back to Israel. Why did they stumble and the milk cows, which had no experience, went straight and perfectly? That doesn't make sense either. Thirdly, why did God allow the Philistines to send back the Ark in an unusual way, but not his people, the Jews? Wow, great questions. Let's settle the most important question of all. What is the Ark of God? The Ark of God in my presentation this morning is the presence of God in our ministry. Whatever you do, you want the presence of God in your labor for the Lord. Am I right? Whatever you do, the marketplace, the church building outside the church territory, in families, at the workplace, in schools, everywhere you go, do you know that then God's glory dwelt only one place above the Ark of the Covenant? And today the Holy Spirit has been shed abroad to live in you, the body of Christ, the temple of the Holy Spirit. And that presence needs to be put into flame. That presence needs to push out the darkness. That presence needs to be carried correctly and you'll see the glory of God in your ministry. There are nine lessons and now this is the actual message. If you're taking notes, you might not want to write these simple, simple thoughts. After I tell you, well, yeah, that makes sense. What are the lessons we could learn from the Ark of God? Number one, the Ark is heavy. It was made of heavy wood to begin with. Then they overlaid it with gold, which is heavier than lead. And then the lid of the Ark of the Covenant was solid gold. Gold is super, super heavy. Then the angels were made of solid gold, the mercy seat, the two cherubim. And it tells us this, that the work of God in our ministry is heavy. It gives a burden. Do you know this to lift up this Ark through the poles? Because that's how they would carry it with the poles. One person couldn't do it. You needed a team of people. And they was very, very heavy. I'm going to say something to you. Ministry sounds exciting. Ministry sounds romantic. Oh, we listen to other people's ministries. I'd like to do that. But can I say to you that ministry is heavy? And true ministry will weigh on your heart. True ministry will be called, what the Bible calls, a burden. A burden from the Lord. You know, I find in scripture at least three burdens. There might be more. One is a burden of sin. That's like carrying a backpack full of heavy rocks. Has serves no purpose and it weighs you down. And the Lord came to deliver us from the burden of sin. Amen. But the second burden is a burden from the Lord. And what do I mean by that? Well, would you feel a heavy weight for someone? Or for something that honors the name of God?  And I remember many times that the weight of that prayer would come upon me and crush me. And there were times where I cried real heavy tears. There were times I sobbed because I felt the heart of God for that person. You know, Paul wrote, he says, oh Corinthians, how I labor until Christ is formed in you. If you want true ministry, you have to have a burden for people. You have to have a burden for the ministry and it's not a light burden. Once you get into ministry, there will be days you say, what did I get myself into? I've got to do that. Oh no, in the beginning it's all exciting, all too great, mighty things for God. But after you've been doing it for a long time, you have to be refreshed in your spirit. Otherwise the burden will crush you. Even Moses said in Numbers 1111, that's easy to remember, 1111. He said, God, why don't you give me these millions of people? Am I their father? Am I supposed to carry them like all babies? He took all the burden on himself and Jethro, his wise father-in-law, said, Moses, you need to set up judges of thousands and hundreds and fifties and tens. And you listen like the Supreme Court to the heaviest cases and the burden was shared. That's the third burden that the Bible says share one another's what? Burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ. Do you know that when you see a person almost falling beneath the burden, either of sin or of heavy ministry, get alongside of them. Say an encouraging word. One of the greatest things that is missing among Christians is a word of encouragement. We have so much criticism, I wouldn't do it that way. Oh, they are this. Oh, and why are that? And then so much criticism. But who is actually getting underneath the load and say, let me help you carry that. That's sharing the burden of someone else because the Ark is heavy. The presence of God is heavy on us. And if it's not heavy, it's not a burden from the Lord. You know, Jeremiah says cursed is the man who does the work of the Lord slackly, easily. Lightly. Don't take the burden of God lightly. The Ark is heavy and it was made to be carried. Secondly, the materials of the Ark are so valuable. You have precious metals. You know, God is not cheap. He chose the best for the best. He chose gold and he chose artists who knew how to form. Do you know that the menorah is not the message, but it's an example of the message. It was made of one piece of beaten gold. Now it had a base and it was hollow right to the center. And then it had three of those candlesticks, but they weren't straight tubes. No, they ended up in almonds and then flower petals. And then a straight tube and an almond and flower petals right to the end. And the guy hammered it with the hammer and possibly fire out of one piece of, no soldering, no cutting, no, well, maybe he filed, but he got the gold, which is very malleable. That takes artisanship. So valuable is a work of art. And you know, the value of what you do for God is eternal. And Jesus praised the man for giving a glass of cold water to a prophet. It's just a small thing that helps someone in service, but it's eternal. How long do we live? 80, 90? My mom lived in 97 and she's with Jesus now. 97, right? Two years ago. And yet what is eternity? Thousands of millenniums of years. There's a cost for ministry. Do you know this building cost something? These cameras, these speakers, the screen, the musicians, all that is involved with church has cost. But is it worth it? We're trading the material for the eternal and it's worth it because God is valuable. Now the third thing is the best lesson of all. So the Philistines put the Ark of God on a cart and milk cows brought it home. David wanted to copy that method and put the Ark of God on a brand new cart, a better cart because he's King David and professional oxen and they messed up. They stumbled. The Ark is tipping and almost fell. And God killed a man for not obeying the warnings of doing ministry improperly. And you know what it was? Later on, David, after he got over being angry with God, after he became over being afraid of God, hey, wait a minute, how are we supposed to bring the Ark of God home? And he went into the book of Deuteronomy and they discovered the Ark should never be put on a modern cart with wheels. The Ark had long poles that you had to lift it up and carry it on your shoulders. Are you following this? The ministry of God cannot roll along by itself. It takes people who are dedicated to lifting up a heavy burden of ministry and carry it on their personal shoulders. That's the cost of ministry and it's called personal responsibility. It's not let somebody else do it. Oh, I gave money by a cart. Let it roll along by itself. The church will never grow, will never multiply and the glory of God will never descend on a ministry unless people rise up called to carry the ministry of God on their personal shoulders.  It's not telling someone else to lift it up. You must lift it up. We all work together and all together they bow down. Then all together they put it on their shoulders and when you have 8 or 12 men carrying it, it's a lighter burden. Hallelujah. Don't expect others to carry what God calls you to carry. You know the other day God embarrassed me. There was a minister who asked me to come next week and I'm coming.  You've got to drive three hours into the woods and we're going to have three services there. And I'm tired. So I was thinking to say no. But I was thinking how do I say no nicely? And God said to me, he says, don't say no to what you can do. If it's in within your power to give it, don't withhold. He said it to me twice in two different occasions. And I said, God, whenever you say that to me, that means you're going to bless that effort. And that means I'm going to put my shoulder and I'm going to go against my personal desires. And you're going to bless that day better than any other day. Because God is putting a heavy burden on us. And if it's God, I will do it. The work of God requires personal sacrifice. And number four, the Ark must move God's way. Now, why did God allow the Philistines to bring the Ark any way they chose? Because God tolerates the world's ignorance. They don't know any better. They didn't read the Word of God, the Scriptures. So they wanted to get rid of this tumor-causing box. So they figured out, let's do it this way. And if it's God, it works and it did. But the work of God cannot be accomplished using carnal methods. Now, please don't misunderstand what I'm saying. I'm not saying use a pencil instead of a word processor. That's not the point. But let's take something like marketing. Marketing is an excellent tool, advertising. New methods, the Internet, Facebook, social media, that's not the point. The point is that is not the substitute for the presence and power and the anointing of the Holy Spirit. The other things are tools. Like a pencil is a tool. Like a word processor is a tool. Like the Internet is a medium that evil can be spread and the Word of God can be spread. Those are tools. But the tools are meant to be used by skilled people filled with the Holy Spirit of God. Are you following that? And where is our dependence on the cart or on the presence of God above the Ark of God? So use them only as tools.  Use them in ways that are counter-intuitive where your mind will say that won't work. And God says still, if I'm in it, it will work and you'll see the results. You know I can't give you examples because there's so many examples.  That's all I can say on that. Let God show you because it's much better when the Holy Spirit teaches that than me. Number five, because the ark is heavy, because the burden is great, because the ark is so valuable, because it must be carried on men's and women's shoulders. Number five, it cannot be carried by one man. It cannot be carried by two people. It requires a team. And when the work of God within a church organization or church organism is a better word, a body works together. Ephesians chapter four talks about the five-fold ministry of Apostle. Apostle today is a missionary evangelist. They could do everything. They could preach, they could teach, they could pastor, they could be an evangelist. God will give them a word of prophecy. They delegate their administrators. And so they start ministries where there's no ministry. That's what an apostle does today. They start new churches. They start new Bible schools, new works. They're like ice breakers. They go to the Arctic where ships cannot go. And that first ship has cutting tools in the prowl of a metal ship and slow progress. And it breaks through and breaks through and breaks through. And finally a passage of water is cut through ice and then big cargo ships follow freely. Because one little ice breaker cut away. I remember when I was a 16-year-old guy, we started taping music in the studio, four walls and microphones. And I was thinking to myself, a teenage thought, who in the world is listening to this music we're singing over shortwave radio to the USSR? We were not the best singers. We were not the most talented people. There were times I was singing at a flu, a temperature. I wanted to quit. Who am I singing to? Until I went to the Soviet Union and I heard our songs being sung in every church. I saw young people got saved through that music because the communist government didn't allow them to sing publicly. They had no public Christian radio. So they would tune in and it would be distorted by towers that were jamming the music so they would move it an inch. And I've talked to people who came to Christ. They would kneel down by the radio and the words of the song. I remember I was so ashamed. I was so convicted that I had thought that no one is listening. It's amazing. It's really, really amazing that it's a team ministry and God does it. Number six. Where is the power in those days of the Ark of God? Was it the gold cherubin now? Was it their artistry? Was it the fact that they use beautiful gold? Gold is so valuable in those days. No. Was it the beauty of the box, the carving? Was it the way it's put together? No, no. It was the presence of the Shekinah glory of God that looked for a place that was clean, that could receive that holiness. And you know the priest had to do it correctly because on his robe were tassels of fruit, which talk about the fruit of the spirit, but they also had bells. And when the priest would move, the bells would ring. When the priest would stop and the bells would not ring for half an hour, there was a rope tied to his ankle because he did something wrong and he's dead.  Is that a serious thing? Do you believe that God would do that today? Well, that's number seven. You cannot touch the Ark of God carelessly.  Okay?  Oh no. I think that when the glory of God, which is supernatural, actually permeates an object on an ongoing basis, that is like high voltage. You know, you ever see those old telephone poles, they have these barrels? You know what those barrels are? Transformers. The cables carry 440 watts. To your house, excuse me, to your house is 110.  They stepped it down. Now in Europe, it's 220. It's twice as powerful. One time I was in the bathroom in Belgium. The pastor was redoing the bathroom and it was dark.  Well, he didn't have a cover on it. And so my fingers touched the open wires of 220. Whoa! Man, I thought a rat bit my fingers. Honestly, I thought there's a rat in the wall and he bit me. Man, I was jumping up and down. If you grab a hold of 220, it causes your muscles to contract. That's why electricians never touch anything this way. They touch it this way. If you touch it, your hand will close away from it. Did you know that? Well, how much voltage did the Ark of God had? I don't know. But all it took was one touch. He was dead. Now, let's be practical about that, okay? Because that sounds so fantastical. In Acts 12, it talks about King Herod. He was over the land of Israel. And he had a stadium filled with people. These people had a high tax burden that they didn't pay. So King Herod, they wanted to get on his good side. And as this politician, this King Herod, ungodly man, started to speak his speech, the people were flattering him. And this is what they said. This is not the voice of a man. This is the voice of a God. And Herod loved that. The praise that belongs only to God he took for himself. And Acts 12 tells us he did not give glory to God. He took what can only belong to God, glory. And the Bible says an angel touched him, punished him. And King Herod died of worms. His intestines began to be infested and he died very, very quickly. Well, you'll say that was then. All right. There was a man who built a ship and he called the ship unsinkable. Well, that's not bad. You can brag about a strong ship, but he invoked the name of God. And this builder of this ship called the, ah, you know the story. The Titanic said God himself could not sink her. Oh, and on his maiden voyage, I spurred and you know the story. You made a film out of it. Well, it sounds so romantic and great, but all the men died on that ship. Because one man touched the glory of God. There was a famous group. No one had affected music like these four young men. No one had changed the face of music from a single rock and roll singer to a group with guitars and drums. No one matched their harmonies or incredible God given ability to write melodious and lyricful songs. They took America by storm. They were the most talked about. They had like 78 or nine number one singles on the same 100 chart. Nobody did that. And in a television interview, one of the men said, we are more popular than Jesus Christ. Later he tried to retract it, but it went out because he really thought that and his life soon ended. Don't touch the glory of God. If God blesses your church, don't brag. If God uses you, give glory to God. Anything we do, anything we have, who gave that to us? It was God. And God gave and God could take away. God gave me a voice since I was 15 right about 65. And now God has taken my voice away and he told me that he would. Because I wasn't writing a book for five years and he told me to write a book and you know what? If you want excuses, I'm a very good excuse generator. I have a million reasons why I'm not good enough to write a book and why nobody's going to buy it and what am I going to write about? God said, okay, I'll take away what you love to do and then you'll be stuck. And during COVID everybody, I had 12 trips cancer, 11. So my wife says, well, maybe you'll write the book now. I said, yes, honey. Thank you, SD. And you know what? I finished the book and it's being a type set right now and I'll send the box to Pastor Vlad. He doesn't know about this yet, but you could purchase that. The glory belongs to God because when he does something is so amazing. It's so beautiful. When David read that the Levites had to carry the Ark physically on their shoulders. Please remember that. That's the most important part of my message. My dad preached this message. I remember that's why I wanted to repeat it and they walked. How fast was the progress? How fast can you go carrying a heavy box? Not very fast. Not like with a cart and horses or oxen. Secondly, the Bible says they gave sacrifices every six steps. Whoa, that really slowed them down. Don't you think you're bringing a box home. You want to do it efficiently? No, God says do it correctly. Oh, no, no, we want to do it fast. God says do it slow. Hear a little bit. There a little bit. Line upon line, precept upon precept. Every building with bricks requires one brick at a time. Are you hearing this? In our modern world, we want it up in a day. We have prefab, throw it up, slap it together, move on to the next project. Know the work of God is slow and tedious, but it's quality and it's God driven. Starting a ministry is fun, but being consistent over many, many years. You will discover is the hardest thing in your life. I've been in preaching since I was 15 years old. Did our first mission trip when I was 16 and did a mission trip every year of my life till this day. I want to finish well. I don't want to do one thing will be the dead fly in the perfume of God. I don't want to do any one thing that will ruin 50 years of faithful service to the Lord Jesus Christ. Are you hearing me? I want to have a good name which is better than rubies and riches and a big house and a fancy car. I want to bring glory to God like Billy Graham did. The secular press never criticized him because he was a man who did not mess with women. He was a man who didn't touch the money. He was a man who gave the glory to God. And that's what I want for a hungry generation. God will use you greatly. Do not touch his glory. Do not take credit for what only the Holy Spirit can do. Don't touch the Ark of God. That's the presence of God. Walk carefully around his presence. Treat his holiness as something that you long for and you humble yourself. And the more you humble yourself, the greater the grace that he could give. Hallelujah. And I've come to the last part. Sacrifice. I want to tell you something that is counter-intuitive. We think in our human mind that if I lose something, I am less or have less. It's not money. Let's take money out of the equation immediately because right away people go right first to money. Money is included. That's not the point. The point is even harder than that. When we sacrifice, it takes a price. We pay a price. But in the midst of true sacrifice done for the right reasons, for the glory of God, there is a secret that unfolds from your sacrifice for God. And it's called joy. J-O-Y.   And all of a sudden, the spirit of joy comes upon you. Here, I've got a scripture for you. I bet you that no one's ever preached to you about this. I discovered after I put this message together, Hebrews chapter 12 says, Jesus Christ, who for the joy that was set before him, he endured the cross. He despised the shame. Jesus was bleeding. Jesus was suffering. Jesus was dying in agony. But his heart was not full of ha-ha-ha. It was full of the joy of the Lord. Because he saw you. He saw the results of his suffering and he was satisfied. Why could he pray, Father, forgive them? They don't know what they're doing. Why could he do that? Because he had joy in his heart. I'll finish with this story. How were the emotions of David when the man was killed? He was angry at God. We mess up and we get angry at God, right? We do the wrong thing and we blame God. Why did this happen? All I'm trying to do is your will, David. That's what you're trying to do, your will. And we get mad. When we don't get our way, that's when we get mad. And somebody doesn't do for us what we expect them to do. We get mad. Something we do for God supposedly doesn't work out. We get mad. Why? I'm sacrificing here. Do it God's way. And then there's fear. And David was afraid. A man died. He's got to talk to his wife and children.  All they do is trying to help. Trying to help. You know? When they took the ark on their shoulders. When they lifted up the burden of ministry. They said I'm going to be personal responsible. When they worked as a team and everybody together. And they walked six steps and they gave a sacrifice to God. The joy of the Lord descended. David took off his crown. David took off his kingly robes. And David started jumping before the Lord. I'm not big on dancing. I'm not a dancer. But you know what? When you have the joy of the Lord.  I have to tell you the story. Because otherwise it's just theory. I was invited to Latvia many, many years ago. 1992, 93 around there. Soviet Union had just fallen. I think it was 91 actually. And I've never been to Latvia. I'm Ukrainian. I don't speak Russian very well. But I understand it. I can speak in Ukrainian. I was just a flight key. We had a Jesus conference. I was there for two weeks of ministry every day. I was exhausted. I was a young man, but I was exhausted. And then they came to me and said, you know, Aeroflot is not paying their bills in Latvia. So the Latvians cancel all the flights into Riga Latvia. I go, yes. I could go home. Oh no, Brother George. We got train tickets for you. No, serious. And so I think it was two day train trip. Train trip. You had 15 republics. And you needed a visa for each one, right? Until it became visa free now. But then you had to have a visa. And they, oh no, no. When you fly in, they give you a visa. But now I'm not flying in. I'm going to train. And I had to go through Belarus. Belarus requires a visa. Lithuania requires a visa. And then finally Latvia, the Baltic States. I had no visa. And I heard stories that they pulled people off the train. You have to find the embassy the next day. Do you eat? Do you have money? They wanted money from the Americans. The Soviet Union fell apart. I'm freaking out. I said, I want to go home. God said go to Latvia. I get on the train. They didn't ask for my passport. Where are you headed? Latvia. In Belarus. In Lithuania. I get to Latvia. I went into the bathroom to shave. Because then I had a very dark skin. A dark beard. I look like Richard Nixon on a bad day. Those of you who remember. I went into the bathroom. It's stunk. Anybody remember Soviet bathrooms? Foo. I ran out of air. As fast as I could. I get to the airport. I think, okay, take me to the Bible school. I'll take a bath and shave. Oh no, it's three hours away by car. I had a happy missionary. I wasn't. I wasn't. It required more sacrifice so that I was willing to do. So I'm mad. I'm angry. I'm tired. I'm in this car. We show up at the Bible school. And all their faces are so happy. An American came to teach at the YWAM Bible school. And I'm like. With two days of growth on my beard. I said, can I just take a shower first? Three days now. They shut off the water to the town. We Americans are so spoiled. We got to take a bath three times a day, right? Oh man. I'm finishing the story. I said, can I have a glass of water? No, are you thirsty? No, I want to shave. I shaved out of a glass of water. I kid you not. I sit behind the pulpit. All these kids are happy faces. Somebody pray, I said. How happy is this? It's going to be a great blessing. I don't want to be here. I don't want to be here. I don't want to be here. But I'm here. And I prayed a simple prayer. I said, dear Lord God. I'm here at the call of God. You know my heart. You know my flesh. Lord, I commit. I will obey you. Give me strength to speak the next three hours. I'm so tired. I'm overwrought. And something happened to me and my friends that I can only tell you. That's why I wrote this message. It's like God poured liquid joy. Not the dishwashing stuff, okay? The real stuff. On my head, it went down my back. Down my feet. The power of God literally came upon me. I felt light as a feather. I preached for the next three hours. It was the best Bible school I've ever taught at. And I learned a lesson that day. That is in the midst of your sacrifice. Done God's way. That God pours the joy of the Lord. Do you want that joy in your life? Then commit yourself to carrying the burden of the ministry upon your shoulders. Would you pray with me? Stand. Heavenly Father, I don't know who you're speaking to in this moment. I don't know what you're saying to their hearts. I tried to be accurate. I tried to be simple. And I tried to speak the word of God in my weakness, Lord. But I know this. That you called me to carry the burden of the ministry of the Ark of God, which is His presence today in the New Testament. The holy presence of the Spirit of God who goes forth to deliver, to break chains, addictions, Lord. To break bondages of alcoholism and drug abuse. Depression, suicide, immorality. And Father, break them in Jesus' name. Because you are the embodiment Holy Spirit of the presence of God.    Let the fire of God be in deliverance, Lord. Let the fire of God be in speaking of the great works of the Lord God. Power God, our shoulders. It is a privilege to sacrifice for the one who sacrificed for us. May your name be glorified. May your name be worshiped. And all the glory belong only to you in Jesus' name. Amen, have a seat. I feel led just to tell you one little thing I heard the other day. It just blessed me so much.  Do you know who it was? It was a black man. Yes, Jesus fell beneath the cross. Yes, on the hill to Golgotha he fell. The weight of the cross was so heavy it fell. And they compelled the man of Cyrene called Simon. It was a black man. And the blood of Jesus was on that cross. And as he lifted up the cross, the blood was on his shoulders as well.  There are three demonic spirits that are afflicting our land.  That spirit has no place in our church. Second spirit is the spirit of Jezebel. Radical feminism, not where women are elevated to place of value and partnership. But they want to do to men what men did unto them, which is revenge. That's radical feminism. That's the spirit of Jezebel. And the third spirit that's afflicting our nation is the spirit of Malik. Where little babies are brought in sacrifice to the demon God Malik through abortion. But God will change all of that, isn't he?


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Welcome back to another video. It's your girl Janice. If you guys are new to the channel, make sure you hit that subscribe button and join the family. So guys, today I have a Halloween party that I'm going to be going to. Not really though. So guys, I am going to be pranking Isaiah by telling him that I'm going to a Halloween party and I'm going to be dressed super sexy and we are going to get his reaction. Now guys, right now Isaiah is downstairs chilling. I already have a second camera set up and I am ready for this prank. So if you guys are ready to see his reaction, don't forget to smash that like button comment team Janice in the comment section below and let's get this prank started. Watch this transformation. So I have the whole costume on and I am ready to go ahead and pranking Isaiah. So I'm going to go downstairs and we're going to see his reaction. Hello. Do you like my outfit? Yes. You didn't even look at me. Babe, give me a second. What are you doing? I'm trying to find my ring. I lost it. Okay, well, can you just turn around and look at me for like two seconds? Babe, give me a second please. Oh. Just give me a second. I'm trying to find the ring. When I find the ring, I will look at you. What ring are you looking for? The one I gave you? Yes. You know how I am about that ring. Okay, well, it's not that important right now. What do you mean it's not that important? You know how I am about my ring. Yeah, well, this is not important. Okay, and I understand that. Just give me a second and then you will have all my undivided attention. No, you always say that. You're going to keep ignoring me. No, I'm not, babe. Just give me a second. So can you just put that down? I will. Just let me find the ring first. My goodness. I don't have my ring now. But if I lost the ring, you know how mad you would be. Yeah, I probably shouldn't have lost it in the first place. Okay, I was fidgeting with it and then it fell and I don't know if it went in between the couch cushions or it just fell behind the couch.  I understand that. Okay, I'm just telling you. What if it fell in here? Babe, I just want you to look. Ow! Are you okay? Did you hurt yourself? It touched the staple. Okay, well, you have to be careful.  I'm not bleeding. Babe, seriously, I look cute. I'm sure you do. You always do. This is like a fantasy of yours, I feel. Fantasy of yours. Ow! Damn it, get it. Oh my God. Me. Dang. Can you pay attention to me? Babe, can you give me a second, please? Oh my goodness. Just a second. I see it. You see? Okay, now can you look at me? Babe, wait. Babe. How long have you been waiting for? Bro, can I put the couch back together? Just give me a second. Oh my gosh.  Oh yeah, impressive. Where are you going? What? I'm going out. Okay, so just give me a second. All right, you keep saying give me a second, give me a second. Like, can you just look at me?  Oh my gosh. Oh!  What are you wearing? Do you like? Where are you going? He said you're going out wearing that. I'm going to a Halloween party, like I told you. What Halloween party? You didn't tell me not about no Halloween party. Yes, I did, yes I did. I told you I was going to a Halloween party a long time ago. This is how I know you don't listen to me when I talk. When did you tell me you were going to a Halloween party? Babe, I told you three times I was going to a Halloween party. I literally said I'm dressing up like a little schoolgirl and everything. Looking for where you told me you were going to a Halloween party? I told you verbally, I didn't text you. No, you didn't? Yes, I did.  I literally just said I told you verbally. Okay. I didn't text you. No, you didn't, so I'm looking for it in the text. Okay, it's not there because I told you. I told you verbally. Babe, Halloween party? Yes, can you just tell me how I look cute? Like, that's what I've been waiting for this whole time. Okay, you look real good, but where are you going and who? Like, who's going to be there? It's all real hard, don't worry. Show that backside again. I'm going to be dancing like this. With who? Myself, like this. You look real good, but it's a little too good for a Halloween party. How? This is a Halloween party? Yes, you do. No, I don't. How would you feel if I went to a Halloween party and I'm like, a speedo? I don't care, that's not you. That's not you. Yeah, you do. You do care. No?  You look good, babe. I feel like that's just too much for a party. I don't think for guys there, I mean different, but I'm guys are kind of like three. It doesn't matter if it's girls, all girls, all guys, it doesn't matter. What do you mean? I think I look cute. Babe, you look real good. I'm not saying you don't. I'm just saying I think it's a little too much to be out on a Halloween party and all that. No, it's not. It's a little too showing. It's not too showing. I would be excited. Yeah, if it's like for me. I was gonna surprise you. Okay, and I- And you weren't paying attention to me. I was trying to find my ring. Okay, well I'm telling you that this is more important than anything else. Okay, I understand that. I was gonna go like this, like. Where? When? You're distracted and now I have to go. Okay, I'm fine with that, but like I said, I don't know how, babe, you got it all out. I really, and then you're fine. What? The whole front is out too. Babe, I can't help that I have big boobs.  You do what you want at the end of the day. Seriously? Why? Do you want me to tell you like, no, go change right now.    Do what you want. I just, I'm not. I don't support it. Okay, whatever. I'll leave you. Goodbye. So go. Bye. You don't care? Babe, what do you want me to say? If you're gonna go out like that, go ahead and go out like that.  Like, all right, like I'm telling you, I don't support it. If you're gonna go out like that, go out like that.  You make me your own choices.  Okay, go off. I don't know what you want me to say. It's up right here. What are you talking about? So that's for me. I guess this was just- Well, no, do I get to see something? Do I get a costume better than this then? No. Or showy? All right, that sounds like a deal. Shake on it. Okay. Dude, I meant the other shape. Oh. Okay, no, no, no. PG. PG. All right, Infinite Fam. So that is it for today's video. Honestly, I did not think he was gonna react like that. I thought he was gonna be a little bit more like angry. And I thought you were gonna look at me and be like, damn, babe, you look sexy, but he was literally not paying any type of attention to me. As he's not right now. Oh my goodness. Anyway. Why? Nothing. It is time for today's post notification shout out. Today's post notification shout out goes out to Rayona Smith. Thank you so much for your love and support. Izan, I love you. 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Statistics and Excel. Combining two histograms on one chart. Got data? Let's get stuck into it. With statistics and Excel. Actually, we're using OneNote here, but we'll still be talking about Excel. You're not required to, but if you have access to OneNote, we're in the icon left-hand side. OneNote Presentations 1345. Combining two. First, a word from our sponsor. Yeah, actually, we're sponsoring ourselves on this one because apparently the merchandisers, they don't want to be seen with us. But that's okay, whatever.  Like our, trust me, I'm an accountant product line.  Because apparently we're among the only ones equipped with the number crunching skills to answer society's current deep complex and nuanced questions. If you would like a commercial free experience, consider subscribing to our website at accountinginstruction.com or accountinginstruction.thinkific.com. Two histograms on one chart tab. We're also uploading transcripts to OneNote so you can use the immersive reader tool. Changing the language if you would like being able to either read or listen to the transcripts in multiple languages using the time stamps to tie in to the video presentations. OneNote desktop version here. Data on the left hand side. Same data set that we've seen in prior presentations related to the height of individuals measured in the units of inches. So in other words, we have individuals of a population which we are imagining that we measured their heights and came up with the first individual 68.5 inches. Second individual 66.79 inches. Third individual 69.9 inches and so on and so forth. Now this is a pretty extensive data set. We didn't add the whole data set here because it's kind of too long to really want to add in a OneNote presentation. So if you work this in Excel, it'll be a longer set of data that we then used to create the histogram. Now because we're dealing with something in nature such as measurements of things like height, the histogram has this familiar type of shape where you would expect most of the heights of the population to be hovering somewhere in the middle and it to be tapering out in somewhat of a uniform kind of patterns. That's what we have here, kind of a bill type of shape. Now what we want to do with this is to be thinking about, well, what if we had another set of data, would we be able to map it on top and have two of these basically histograms on one chart? Now it's a little bit more difficult to do than you would think at first. In Excel, it's difficult to do with simply the histogram, but if you make the histogram from the bar chart, then you're more likely to be able to do that. Now we're doing that with a pretty extensive histogram here because this is a long list of data, so if you have other types of histograms, it might be a little bit easier. However, the first step to do this would be to say, let's make this same histogram, but do it in the form of a bar chart. So you can see what I can do then is list out my buckets and we have a lot of buckets here from 60.28 to 60.51, 60.51 to 60.74, and so on and so forth until we get to this last bucket outside. What that is doing is taking all of the results and this long set of data and counting how many of them fall into each of these buckets. We can do that manually in Excel by simply saying, I'm going to create my lower end buckets of 60.28 and then my upper end buckets which are starting at the 60.51 and the difference between those two buckets is 60.51 minus 60.28 is 20.23. And so we have a bunch of buckets which are .23 difference between them. And so then in Excel I can just say, I want to add the one above it plus .23 and I can easily make these two columns even though there's a lot of them by just dragging down the formula. So we'll do that in Excel if you want to see how that's done in Excel. And then we can then create our bucket range which mirrors what we want on the x-axis. So I want this on the x-axis. Now I could simply type this in but it would be easier if I could use a formula to put this in play. And I have the bottom, I have the top, I want to show it in one cell. So you can do that in Excel by using this formula. It looks a little complicated at first but it's not too bad. It equals C17 represents this cell and because we're going to connect it to not with a formula but just basically to a text. Whenever I put a text in that's not a formula I want to put quotes around it. That's telling Excel hey look that's not a minus sign. I'm not subtracting these two. I want you to put one and then add a dash and then add another and the second cell. And that'll give us this dashed relationship. And then we can simply copy that down and it'll give us the proper kind of formatting. We might have some rounding issues I won't get into here but if you want to dive into that in Excel we'll show you that too. And then we can come up with how many are in this bucket. And that's going to be a formula that looks something like this. A couple different ways you can do it but this is one way that you can do it which looks complicated but I think it makes the most sense to me to do it this way. We could say counts if and then we pick up this whole table. So we're picking up this whole table. That's the criteria range comma that's the next criteria that's this comma. And then the criteria is that it needs to be greater than this bucket. Now I don't want it to be equal to but simply greater than. I want to put brackets around that because that's basically a text and then I have to say and to get to the second the number which is in C 17 representing the 6029 and then second criteria. Here's the second criteria same table. In other words take this table and then and then what is the criteria it needs to be less than or equal to and the top range. So that whole formula is basically just saying I would like you to pick up everything that is in this column that is greater than 60.28 and less than and including the 60.51. So then if I go to the second column I'm saying I want you to take everything that's greater than 60.51 not including 60.51 up to and including 60.74 and so on and so forth. So we have a similar formula I can copy that formula down we have a similar relative formula changing just the cell references to get to this number. And so now we have our buckets. So here's the number of the buckets and here are the buckets. So in this bucket there was there was one over here or this had three in there. So here's our three. So there's the bucket with one. Here's the bucket with with three in there and so on. And now we can make this by simply selecting these two columns. We can make this into a histogram shape but by using the bar chart. So now we have our bar chart and you can see our buckets compared to what we had before look a little bit different formatting but we get the same innocence result. Now that we have it in this format we might be able to then add another chart on top of it. So so let's take a look at what that would look like if I'm just going to take an example of this if we took our height data and we imagine that this was just for men. Let's just pretend and then I created another column by just taking the prior column times point nine five. And I imagine this is for women. Now obviously the women's heights are not going to mirror exactly the men's height times point nine five. But I'm just trying to get two sets of data that are similar so that we can easily recognize them and then put them on one chart. So so I can imagine that this new set of data I can do the same thing right I can make a histogram from it. So if I just generate a histogram from that new set of data looks similar but now it's formatted. And this is the midpoint sixty point three nine is not kind of in the middle versus over here when we had all the data which we're assuming is men now is sixty seven right so so then we have a similar spread of the data around that center point because I just took ninety five percent of each data point. So it's going to look like a similar shape but the shape has basically been shifted. So now so now I would like to get these two on one graph together. So and I can't do that often as easily possibly with the histogram but I might be able to do with a bar chart more easily. So I could then create my same kind of buckets down here but now for for the women's data. Now it's kind of tricky because when I create this one I might not get the same bucket starting ending point and range. So I can adjust the ranges of these buckets and say hey I would like to give it to be twenty three point two three difference so that I can match the same ranges that were in between these buckets because what I want to do is have the two all the buckets kind of line up. So what I'd like to do then I'm what I'm going to do is say I want to keep the bucket ranges from my prior set of data which I'm assuming are the men. These bucket ranges I'm going to copy these bucket ranges over and use the same ranges because I want to still have the same X axis using these numbers and be able to map the new data for the new set of data on the same X axis. So now I'm going to say all right well then if I go here this is the same data. But and so this is all the same the same data. However I need a few more on the shorter side because the data set is going to is going to have a tail end that goes a little bit further on the shorter end. And so I had to add a few more up top. So so now we have the same data set plus a few more that are extending upwards from the prior data set. And so now so now if I do the same formula and I say Excel I would like you to count the number of this column which are between in this case 5729 or above 5729 and below 5752. These are the results we get just for the women column now. And then I can use that to create a histogram from a bar chart. So now we've got now this histogram notices not exactly like this one because I use slightly different buckets because I want my bucket ranges to match up to the same bucket ranges that I had for the first set of data that we are now imagining to be the men's set of data. But now we've got we've got that lined up now. So now we can say OK the next step is to try to put these two this one and this one on the same bar chart right. So so now notice the first thing you might think of is like well what if I took all of my data and I combined it together. In other words if I took these two columns of data and just put them one on top of each other like this is the men's data. And then I put the women's data below it in the same column. That's what this column is representing. And then I took that huge long list of data which has now been doubled. But but I had the men's and women's that we're imagining together and made one histogram it would look something like this right. Because now you've got more data that's kind of overlapping kind of in the middle and you've got you get a histogram that's that's not exactly what we want. What we want is to distinct histograms using the same buckets that are going to be mapped out you know on top of each other. So what we what we want to do then is try to say OK let's take my men's data and my women's data and what I want to have is the same the same X axis. So this X axis is the same as this X axis right so it's the same buckets and then map out the numbers which relate to those buckets. So now we have these two columns are the same which are the buckets and then we have the the numbers for the men and women into separate columns. So now I can tell Excel I'm just going to take one of these two columns as the X axis and then use each of these to line up. To that X axis as the as the why histogram shape so then we can create something like this. So now we have the buckets which we lined up together which which is pulling in from just one of these X's and then we select two data sets. So so and and you might have to go into the actual settings and we'll do that in Excel if you want to if you want to get into that more detail but it's possible to do right. So now we can say I want one set of data set for men or one set of data set for women and we can pop we can populate them on the same graph which can be a useful thing to do. So you can see how this graph you know obviously looks different than than something like this where we kind of merged all of the data together. And so again so that's how you can kind of it gets a little bit messy to do that we did we did it with a pretty complex example here because we had a pretty large you know data set a lot of a lot of groupings of the categories. But you know that's something that's how you can get kind of two histograms so you can kind of plot a histogram on top of each other which can be useful because now you have a pictorial representation. Comparing you know two sets of data and in this sense you can see obviously here they're they're symmetrical because we just multiplied one set of data times point nine five. But they're shifted and and that could be a useful visual type of tool which you can do by by making the histogram into a bar chart and lining up the boxes. So we do that in Excel if you want to check it out there.


I guess today folks is Dr. Kerry Samansky. Kerry is the director of the Tampa Bay Women's and Business Center. It's an entrepreneur center that takes care of women in the Tampa, St. Pete, probably Clearwater area also. Kerry, welcome to TFNN. Hi, Tom. How are you? Thank you so much for having me. Absolutely. So tell us, you know, we're ready to bust out of the COVID era, you know, bottom line is that they were a year later, you know, folks basically coming out of it. You specialize in women business, bottom line, getting women up and going. So first off, tell us exactly what your organization does first. Sure. Yes. I'm so grateful to be here and so nice to meet you. I'm the director of the Tampa Bay Women's Business Center, and we help female entrepreneurs launch and grow successful businesses. So if you have an idea to start a business, if you're in business for a couple of years, we have a team of qualified business coaches to help you along the way. We're also partially funded by the SBA. So we have some wonderful financial resources that are helpful to entrepreneurs. I like to think of us as a connector of resources. We also have a wonderful array of webinars helping everyone from finance to social media marketing to branding to really staying up. I know COVID's been tough for a lot of people for the past year. So we've been able to help our entrepreneurs pivot, help to launch new businesses and expand and really get into territories they never thought they could before. You know, now, with always, it seems to me, being a guy, okay, in business for a long period of time, we've always had plenty of women that have done great. They come into companies and they can accelerate companies in a huge way. What are the challenges, that being said, what are the challenges for a woman that's starting a business at this point? You know, I think there's so many challenges for anyone starting a business. But for women, especially, what we've seen during COVID is so many women lost their jobs. They had to come home. Not only are they moms, but now they're teachers, they're business owners, they're employees. So I think there's so much to juggle with COVID. And, you know, some folks love to work remote, others not so much. So there's been such a big change in the way we work. So, you know, I love working from home, but I'm a fur mama. So I've got three, you know, pets, there's a lot of women that have kids. So working from home, trying to start a business at home, juggling a lot of things has been a challenge. And then where do we go for resources? Where do we get a business plan? Where do we get the finances to start? How do we start an e-commerce store? So we had a great webinar yesterday talking about how to launch an e-commerce store, how to create one from scratch. Nice. We have one webinar next week that we're doing with First Citrus Bank about show me the money. How do you leverage SBA loans? And what are the financial opportunities that are out there for women? So, you know, part of my job is marketing, of telling folks, hey, we exist. I'm also a college professor and I taught entrepreneurship for over a decade. I was an entrepreneur myself. I had no idea the women's business centers existed. And there's over 130 across the United States. Here in the Tampa Bay area, we offer free business coaching for clients that live in Hillsborough, Pinellas, Hernando, Manatee, Pasco, and Polk Counties. And in fact, you guys are in St. Pete. We've got an office at the St. at the Pointer Institute. So we're very excited to expand our reach with our clients in the St. Petersburg area. And we're part of the Helen Gordon Davis Center for Women in Hillsborough County, right in Hyde Park in Tampa Bay. And, you know, when we talk, now Kerry's website, folks, is it looks to me thecenter.org, right? Yes, that's part of this, the Helen Gordon Davis Center for Women. And within there, you'll find the Tampa Bay Women's Business Center. And there's a number of pages that are respective to our organization, the events that we have sign up online with a business coach. And also, if you're curious about loans and grants, I've got a whole page dedicated to the resources to get to the financial aspects of our business. So let's talk about that because it's been, it's really intriguing. You know, if you've never done business with the SBA, folks, they've always been great to do business with. Within the last two, well, actually the last three stimulus bills, it's never been easier to do business with the SBA that you can basically get loans for very large amounts of money with just a signature. So let's talk about the SBA for a bit because there's no doubt that I'm sure that you're out there teaching women on a continual basis that there is plenty of money out here to basically operate businesses. Yes, there is. And, you know, and I think that's one of the number one calls we get, you know, how do you have money to start a business? So there's grants that are available that's free money. And those are hard to come by, but they're out there. What I've done personally is I set up Google alerts. So grants for St. Petersburg business owners, grants for females, grants for entrepreneurs. There's also all the wonderful SBA loans. So the SBA provides the applications for the loans or the traditional 7A loan, the surety loan, the micro loans. And really, the folks that are actually giving the money are the banks. So First Citrus Bank is going to do a great webinar next week on Wednesday, May 5th at 11am. So you can learn more information about that. And during COVID, there's been, everyone's heard of the PPP loans. Those have been extended on May 31st. The Idle loan, which has been extended for that as well. PPP has actually turned into a grant that were clients, if you did receive a PPP, you can fill out PPP loan forgiveness. The Idle is an actual loan, but up to 10,000 was forgiven. So that was a great program. And launching on Monday at noon, if any of your viewers right now have a restaurant, bar, catering business, food truck, they're launching the Restaurant Revitalization Fund. And that's an amazing program. So the government is going to help you with an award. It's not a loan. It's an award for all of the funding that you and revenues that you didn't accept during the past year during COVID. So if you have a business, you lost a lot of revenue, definitely apply for the Restaurant Revitalization Fund. That opens Monday at noon. So there's lots of information on the SBA.gov portal that you can get more information, get all the paperwork in place. So the government's really trying to do a great job. The SBA is really trying to do a good job to help the entrepreneurs. Yeah, there's no doubt that that restaurant loan that Kerry just talked about folks, for the folks that stayed in business, this is going to be a windfall and they should get it. I mean, because it's definitely a windfall. I mean, I was actually looking at the aspect Kerry of like if someone didn't make it, if they just closed down, but they had a good set of books, it's like a sad, I'm hoping that some of those people actually look at it again, because it can bring them right back on their feet, which is pretty amazing. Yeah, you know, it's worth the application. They said it takes about 25 minutes, but I don't know if that was an accountant saying that to apply for this, but definitely you can go on the portal, look at all the paperwork that's needed. They were encouraging people to get ready, all the paperwork ready this weekend so they can apply on Monday. So there's definitely money out there. It's just a matter of searching, having the right business plan, having the right opportunities in place to really apply for those.  So at the Tampa Bay Women's Business Center, a lot of our clients and it's so fun to talk to the clients. We see a lot of life coaches, we see a lot of fashion companies and I've got a couple clients launching e-commerce companies, wholesale companies, hair salons, home health. We've got a great woman that's a client that's got one of the stands at the pier and sell some wonderful products out there.


In this module, we will talk about again the microbial growth kinetics which one is the seventh module of batch culture for kinetics. In previous modules of batch culture kinetics, we discussed about the relationship of biomass to time and then the substrate change during the fermentation process and then how the substrate concentration effect on biomass with respect to time and then we conclude the whole kinetics with respect to x with respect to s and then in finally, we discussed the process kinetics the overall effect in product formation. So, in this module, we will talk about different phases of the growth during the fermentation process with respect to product. In previous module, we talk about four different phases of the growth with respect to biomass and we discuss in detail all four phases depend upon the ratio between the birth and the death of the cell. So, in this way, but when we talk about the different phases during the fermentation especially in batch fermentation, then Barrow et al 1961 divided the growth of the organism into several phases. As you can see in this slide that Barrow et al discussed first of all the balanced phase which is equivalent to the early and the middle exponential phase of the first four which I have already told you lag log stationary and decline phase. But the balanced phase referred to the early and middle exponential phase or we can say that the early and the middle log phase. But as concerned the second which we called as the storage phase, storage phase equivalent to the late exponential phase where increase in the mass is due to the accumulation of the lipid and the carbohydrates inside the cell. And the third stage that referred to the maintenance phase, so this one is also equivalent to the stationary phase of the previous discussed phases. So, in short we can say that the exponential phase can be further divided into two balanced phase and storage phase and the maintenance phase can be called as stationary phase can be called as maintenance phase according to Barrow et al. So, as concerned with respect to Boo log et al 1965 he tried to they tried to discuss different growth phases with his own respect. He divided the growth phase into two major phases that first one is tropophase and the second one is ideophase which will you will see in the later slide. So, the tropophase referred to the exponential phase in which the primary metabolites are produced. So, the classification of Boo log et al basically based upon the type of the products formed. So, as we discussed in the range of products during the fermentation process we discussed that there are different types of metabolites produced primary metabolites, secondary metabolites, tertiary metabolites. But Boo log et al divided the growth phase into two the first one which I have already told you tropophase and tropophase referred to that phase in which only the primary metabolites will be produced. But as concerned the ideophase the ideophase usually referred to the stationary or the death phase during that lag log and other two phases. So during the ideophase mostly the cell formed the secondary metabolites or other metabolites which can be further classified at tertiary metabolites other than primary metabolites. So, when we talk about with respect to the product formation so the different phases can be expressed in different way as by borrow et al by three different phases but according to Boo log et al having two major phases. So actually the four different phases lag phase is we can say only that acclimatization phase but major phase is exponential phase that is mostly referred for the production of primary metabolites. But on other hand the stationary and decline phase referred to the phases in which the scanty and other products can be formed.


Thank you. This is an expression of the will, the resolve and the moral clarity of the American people as represented by its representatives, so we thank you deeply. We say that the only thing greater than standing with Israel is standing in Israel, and we appreciate the fact that you're here, and we appreciate deeply your support. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Good to see you. The United States Senate, without a single vote in opposition, something that happens rarely in support of Israel and Israel generally and Israel in its current circumstances. Well, thank you, senators. I have to say that the moral clarity that I was talking about is the fact that the American people through the Senate and the Congress and in broad swathes of the American public understand that this is a battle of civilization against barbarism. Israel stands at that front line. And it's fighting not only for itself, but fighting also for America, for the free world and for the hope of progress against these barbarians. So thank you. The battle against terrorism. Arbaric terrorism. It's even worse. More with you. Thank you.


This is Buona from Buona.TV and today I want to talk about the Anthem VIP demo. I'm going to give you guys my thoughts on how it is so far and some other thoughts regarding what I think the game has in terms of a future and what I think Bioware can improve. Hopefully they've already improved this stuff. So let me just let me just preface this with saying that the VIP demo is a six-week old build of Anthem and the game went gold a couple days ago. So they've already addressed a lot of the issues that we may be bringing up, but still I mean this is my first time playing it. I have not I didn't play in the alpha at all. So I noticed a lot of glaring issues and I think a lot of people other than me echoed the same thing. So let's let's just talk to the elephant in the room. When I was streaming this on Twitch.TV Slash Buona, you come by and subscribe and say hi. When I was streaming this a lot of people they really jump right to the to the comparisons to Destiny and to Warframe. And you know, I had a kind of a troll title on my stream and it had Firefall 2019 because I believe the game closely resembled Firefall even in some ways global agenda in the verticality and you know the verticality gunplay looting type of stuff. But in essence, this is a game that's borrowing from the genre the looter shooter genre sure it has It has a third person in some cases first person with destiny gunplay there's some abilities mixed in kind of like an MMO mobile type of deal and You have randomized loot and you have gear and you're going to be repeating a lot of levels and dungeons to enhance your gear to be better The old action RPG type of thing. So Anthem is just another one of those it is But I really have a hard time comparing it to destiny Other than some of the UI elements and some of the look and feel of it And also I have a hard time comparing it to Warframe because I think what separates Warframe from a lot of other games It's this movement system Warframe is more of a parkour system if you take out arc lane whereas You know Anthem is all about jetpacks and This suit movement with with rockets It's almost like an Iron Man simulator if you will a lot of people compare it to that and I agree It's like you feel like you're flying a bunch of Iron Man variants of the suits But yeah, that's that's the common question. Is this just another destiny. Is this just another Warframe? And I can't say it is it's by a word. So it looks like they took a lot from what they did in mass effect And they applied it to the looters shooter genre and this is what we have and I think it's I'm not gonna say it's completely unique But it feels different from just about everything else. I've played both good and bad So the VIP demo came with came with a stronghold that you could do which is a dungeon It also came with a story segment from levels You started at level 10. So they put you kind of in the middle of the story And you you do a little bit of one one part of the story and I gotta say it was actually pretty good All those elements in the game were good free roam felt good The stronghold felt really good and also the story probably felt the best out of everything It's BioWare. So everybody kind of holds them to a higher standard When it comes to telling RPG stories and I think I think what they showed us in the demo It's actually pretty good So the the biggest impression I've gotten from the game and what I tell people when they ask me what I think about the game is It's fun Because bottom line when you play the game with the combat with the systems in place Overall the game is extremely fun and I had a great time playing it But it doesn't mean that the game is perfect. Um, I am sold on the game I think it's I think this demo did its job as I've stated so many times on my live stream So when I play a demo, I look for three things I look for the ability to run the game. Can my computer run it? I look for control schemes and options what does the game offer in terms of UI and options and settings and stuff like that And then I also see if the game is fun and I think I think BioWare did a good job in just about all those areas So I'm sold on the game. I think I'm gonna have fun with it when it comes out And uh, I'm gonna have I'm gonna have a hard time splitting time between this game warframe And the division that's gonna be a tough thing to do But However The game does have his fair share of issues and they are monstrous If you look at it from the perspective of a pc gamer, you probably know what i'm talking about This game is a very very poor console port To pc there are so many things wrong. It is reminiscent of the original borderlands Where you can tell that certain parts of the ui They just stripped out the console button and they put a random keyboard key on there The ui is very very clumsy Uh, it's just it's just really unintuitive. There's so many mistakes in it. I'm hoping like I said, this is a six week old build I'm hoping some of these have been addressed But my gut is telling me they have not I think there's going to be a lot of this stuff that makes this way Into the game. So the ui is just awful The mouse sensitivity with flying and swimming. Let's talk about that right there Oh my goodness flying took a little bit to get used to and it looks like they've improved it Some people have kind of leaked out because they weren't supposed to say this probably but They've kind of leaked out that in the alpha. It was a lot worse So they've improved the flight a little bit, but it still feels really really Floaty and just there's so much acceleration going on and deceleration going on with the mouse Oh, man, the good thing is that they put in and and Absorbent it's like an enormous amount of sliders All these different sensitivity sliders. There's three different mouse sensitivity sliders. I believe Four flight three different ones. It's like three different aspects of it So it's just like they're trying to give you the ability to tweak and tune it so I can appreciate that But it's still way off way way off and I think they got a lot of work to do in that area They've already gone on record to say that they have made changes from the demo to live in that area So I hope they nail it.   It is just terrible The game doesn't have any motion blur options. I was so so shocked by that. I don't have any screen shake options There's no f o v slider. I feel like I'm channeling the late total biscuit here I'm just like what in tarnation is going on here um So it's just a lot of little things. There's no text chat It's like this is a console game through and through It's hard it's hard to say that You know, given that the game is so fun But it's a console game through and through if you're playing on ps4 and xbox, you're gonna feel right at home PC players however are gonna have a lot of gripes a lot a lot of gripes Good news is that the game runs fairly well on my i7 3770k with a 1080 video card It runs decent. I was able to stream and play at the same time Um, and I had a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to it. I'm looking up damage charts I'm looking up elements. I'm looking up combos. I'm looking up builds. So I'm getting excited about the game But oh my goodness this pc port is Atrocious atrocious. So let's hope that bio where Actually fixes some of these things between now and release or they already fixed it I should say because like I said, this is the older build They said that some issues have already been fixed. We don't know what those issues are So I could only soon they haven't been fixed So let's hope that they have fixed them And I look forward to playing and covering this game on my live stream And hopefully I'll be able to make more videos like this on my twitch I mean, I'll make more videos like this on my youtube channel Um to show you guys what the game is like drop my my twitch channel twitch.tv slash born and we stream every day About three p.m. Eastern every day If you want to check me out playing other games. I'll see you guys next time Thanks so much for watching this stream and uh watching What stream I've been doing that too long. Thanks for watching this video. I'll see you next time. Have a good day


Welcome to the Fiji Symposium in Cairo, Egypt, where I'm very pleased to be joining the studio today with Mr Mark Hollander, who is special advisor on financial infrastructure for the Bank for International Settlements. Mark, welcome to the studio. Thank you. Now, I'd like to start off by talking a little bit about the digital financial services over cash situation. I was just wondering, really asking you, what will it take for the world's poorest people to prefer digital financial services over cash, and will digital financial services be enough for this to happen? It's a very interesting question because it raises many issues. I think it's important to try to get people to change from cash to digital services. I'll say a few words on that later on. But it's one of the centerpieces of the work we've been doing at the community markets and payments infrastructure at the BIS. The payments aspects of financial inclusion report is really based on having a transaction account for people to be able to meet their needs for making payments and save money. A transaction account is widely defined as being either an account at a bank, but also an account at any regulated authorized service provider, and that could be a mobile terminal communications provider, that could be any non-bank institution, and that's what we would call e-money accounts. So we think it's important to use that. On the other hand, I think I would also want to caution against completely abandoning cash. There are a few countries in Europe where cash is really used less and less. It is becoming a problem, central bank getting worried, not only because it makes life difficult in running their monetary policy and in doing their business, but also at some point, even though you want people to be included, you don't want to force them to such an extent that some people might unwillingly become excluded. In fact, if you're in some of the cities in that country and you want to make a payment, if you don't have a payment card with you, the flock, nobody takes cash anymore, and I'm not sure that's where we want to end up. We would like to incentivize people to move to a transaction account, but I don't think there's anything wrong with using cash. So I think we need to keep a balance here. What you need to do to do so, there are many ways. The report lays out a whole number of things. You could do that through incentivizing providers of money services. The regulatory framework is important. Access points, you need to have access points all over so people can get to their money. You need a good telecommunications infrastructure, wide safety in those things. I mean there's a lot of things, but we have been working on that. In terms of governments, what role can governments play to enhance the usage of digital financial services at the national level? I think governments, and when I say I, the report we published in April 2016, we set out quite an important role for governments and other businesses. We have one of our drivers for financial inclusion, which we call large value recurrent payment streams. This is really talking about payments which happen on a regular basis, low value mostly, but large volume. The government here has a specific role because obviously governments channel a lot of payments. In the sight of government paying out money, I'm thinking mostly about salaries for government staff in most countries. That's a considerable number of people. I think also of welfare payments, health benefits, food stamps, children allowances, all these other payments governments make. Now in a number of countries, some of these payments are still done in cash. I see a huge potential if governments could convince people, give incentives to people to move these payments to an account and do them electronically. Again, I want to emphasize the word incentivize. I'm not sure I would say that governments should simply close the possibility of doing that in cash. I think people need a choice and we need to coax and convince them a little bit to change, but I think that's possible. Another side of this is of course the payments which go in the other direction. We all make payments to the government.  Again, in many countries you can go simply to the post office or to any other place paying cash and get your stuff done. Here, of course, same incentive should apply. Governments could make it much easier for people to do those payments through a bank account or any other account, for example, by offering the possibility of making this automatic. You don't have to do anything, but every six months, every month, whatever payment goes from your account to settle your debts or you pay your health insurance premium or things like that. I think there's a lot of potential there. I think if we think about this and governments initiating these flows or receiving these payment flows, if they have a well-taught out program of moving people from the cash to a transaction account, I think a lot can happen. By the way, I would like to emphasize that your question was very specific on governments and that's where we have maybe the most influence, but of course the same applies to any large collector or payer of bills. I'm thinking of any company employing thousands of people paying out the salaries. I'm thinking of mobile phone companies who have bills every month to collect electricity utility bills. Many people still pay that in cash. Again, these companies could make an effort to convince people to pay those bills whenever they do through the bank account or their e-money account. I see a lot of potential and I think I would say that in our report, this is one of the most important drivers with the most potential. If we really push on this, I think we can give people a reason to change because you can tell people, forget about cash, use an account. You need a reason for that. If you can make a good case for that, I think we can make a great deal of progress. Finally, very briefly, can you tell me a little bit about the PAFI task force, what it is. I believe it's restarted its work and perhaps you can tell us something about the work program. Yes, indeed. It restarted our work in November after publishing the report in April. We waited for it in April 2016. We waited for a while. We thought it was good to collect some experiences. PAFI stands for Payments Aspects of Financial Inclusion. This is a joint report I should emphasise by the committee on payments and markets infrastructure and the World Bank. The World Bank has applied these principles. We have seven guiding principles in the report. One of those I mentioned a minute ago about leveraging these payment streams have been applied in about 14 countries. A lot of information has come out of that and that's why we decided, the World Bank and the CPMI recently, I believe in the November meeting, that we should continue with the work and try to get some more done. So what we are trying to do in the next year and a half is to focus on three things. The first one will be lessons learned. What have we actually learned from those principles out there? How do people think they are? How useful are they? I think a particular thing we need to focus on is certainly my intention to do so, is the developments in the payments world since April 2016. In fact the report was finished a few months earlier of course. Now meaning in particular FinTech evolution, the CPMI and of course other bodies have published in the meantime a number of reports on the use of DLT distributed ledger technology, blockchain as people call it sometimes, digital currencies, instant faster payments, central bank digital currencies. All these new things have been developed and published in the meantime and I think we should revisit if you want our framework and see how far these things are of use. We don't want to engage in a FinTech study on its own but simply see what have we learned, how can we use it. A second stream of the new work will be the measuring progress. It's important to have some kind of indicators to measure progress. It's easy to say you make progress but if you don't know where you were yesterday and you don't know where you will end up tomorrow, how do you define progress? We don't want to overemphasize this in the sense that we would like to make use of existing sources and help countries to find some indicators which are useful for them and maybe put a framework together or something. We certainly don't want to reinvent a new statistical database but I think we can add some value to the existing work there. And finally, the last thing we want to do, the CPMI and the World Bank in this report, in this new work stream, which will lead to a report I'm sure, is to develop a toolkit, guidance you could say the words, whereby we want to look at what are the problems you have encountered in the past with applying the principles. What is difficult to do? Are there gaps, things we forgot to address? If some countries have met problems, how did they solve this? Do we need to make some interpretation of our guiding principles? How can we help facilitate this? So I think it's sort of a toolkit is the word we like to use, sort of a document with boxes or something so that if a country devoting itself to making progress on financial inclusion, it applies the standards or the guidance we give, it has a problem. It can look in a toolkit and say oh but I have this problem, this is maybe what country, X or country, why did, why don't we try it like this. So a very basic hands-on approach to give practical information to people wanting to do something. Thanks very much for these wonderful insights. I look forward to catching up with you again perhaps at the next symposium. But in the meantime, thanks very much for joining us in the studio today. Thank you very much.


In this module, we will talk about the sterilization or the removal of viable organisms from the exhaust air. But as concern our previous module, we will talk, we talked about the air sterilization that is needed to be added into the fermentation just for aerobic fermentation. But as we know that for the better containment level and we have very strict regulation then there is need to remove all those viable cells from the exhaust air. Because if we are dealing with some pathogenic organism then we have to assure that the gases exhausted from the fermentation vessel should be free from the microorganism. But in this case when we are dealing with the exhaust air then the problem is that air is mostly wet because when that passes through the fermentation medium that contains some water vapors because the whole medium is liquid. So in many traditional fermentation the exhaust gas from the fermenter was vented without sterilization or vented through relatively inefficient depth filters. So with the advent of the use of recombinant organisms and a greater awareness of the safety and the mission levels of the allergic compounds, the containment of exhaust air is more common and in case of the recombinant organism become very compulsory. So this is the issue when we are dealing with the sterilization of the exhaust air. So the fixed pore membrane modules are also used for this application. But the system must be able to go with the sterilization of the water saturated air as I have already told you that the exhaust air is having the saturated water content. So at relatively high temperature and carrying a large contamination level. So also the foam may overflow from the fermenter into the exhaust air. So these are very limitation when we are selecting the sterilization process of the exhaust air. So thus some from the pre-treatment of the exhaust gas is necessary before it entered into the absolute filter because if we directly allow the exhaust air to pass through the filter then there is the chance of the blockage due to the water vapors due to the other media content contained into that water into that air. So we have to use some pre-filters or some treatment just to remove the water or some condensation processes in which the most of the water molecules become condensed just to remain inside the fermentation vessel. So this pre-treatment may be hydrophobic pre-filters or a mechanical separate to remove the water aerosol particles and the foam. So the pre-treated air is then fed into 0.2 micron hydrophobic filter as we have already discussed that PTF the filters. So it is important to appreciate that the filtration system must be steam sterilized as well as the inlet and the outlet. So in next slide you will see that that how this whole system having the mechanical separator system designed. So in this slide you can see that in this first diagram you can see here is the fermenter and this one is the exhaust air that how that come and if there is a condensation of the water that come back to the fermenter and then this air is goes to by this line and here is the heater and then is this one is actually the filter which we called as PTF filter just to sterilize the air and then the air oozes out. And in this diagram you can see that how this one is the fermenter and you can see that this is the whole or the fermenter vessel. So this is the different so first one this pass through a condenser. So this is the coil and all the water which is condense here then that would be drop down into the fermentation vessel. Then that go into turbosap in this chamber and then again if there is a condensation then go back. So then the air by this here is the heater and then just to make sure the death of that. So then here is the filter.  So there is the automatic on and off wall. So this is the inlet and then this whole chamber and then there is the outside. So this whole system you can see that a mechanical separator and hydrophobic filter system for sterilization of the off gas from the fermenter. So you can see that how this exhaust air is necessary to be sterilized and what is the possible mechanism to use the pre-filter and pre-treatment before treating the exhaust gas for sterilization. So you can see here in again that the dual hydrophobic filter system for the sterilization of the off gas. So here is the fermenter and then you can see that is the pre-filter and then steam in the barrier filter and then the steam goes out. So this is the whole story of the sterilization that in each and every step sterilization is very critical. So the fermentation process without sterilization is nothing because we are only allowed to grow the organism of which we called as process organism. But after the fermentation when there is a down streaming then there is the need of the proper disposal of the waste which we called as the remaining broth other than the product and then we have to maintain all the containment regulations just by killing the process organism for the better environment.