Okay, we're back here live at the OpenStack Enterprise Forum, O-E forums, the hashtag. Go to crowdchat.net slash O-E forum. We're opening up a public timeline across all the social networks, our new CrowdChat beta preview. We're going to leave it open. We already have 2.2 million timelines reached and over 200 comments. So go there, comment, thread. It's like a Reddit for social. And we're taking all community comments. Thanks to Cube, I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante and our next guest is Raj Dutt's SVP of Technology at InterNAP, welcome to theCUBE. Thanks, thanks for having me, John. So pack house here physically at the event in Mountain View, Silicon Valley, online a lot of activity on Twitter. Enterprise is hot, that's where the action is. And people want to know why. And finally the guy raises hand in the middle of the panel. I've been here two hours and someone explained to me what is OpenStack on the Enterprise breaking out really mean? I think you gave the most candid answer. So why don't you tell the folks out there what is OpenStack really mean in the Enterprise? So to me it means a realization that look, it's 2014, Open Source is going to win. Open Standards are going to win. VMware is a dinosaur.  And I don't mean to be provocative about it but we really believe that Open Source will win. So Mark McCauley online said the following. What happens when we commoditize apps running on open commoditized hardware and open commoditized OS and unlocked open commoditized endpoints? Question, how do we make money putting ourselves out of business? Of course I had a comment but I want to get your take. What's your answer to him? So my answer to that I guess is look you can commoditize your way all the way down the stack from cloud orchestration to the hardware to the data center to the network to the fiber in the ground to the way that you route bits on the internet. But at the end of the day, companies can still differentiate on the value proposition of their application. I don't think that's ever going to get commoditized. And as an application developer, you want to be able to focus on making your app awesome without worrying about all this auxiliary stuff. So your comment about VMware being a dinosaur presumably you're talking about it going away at some point, getting disrupted at some point but of course dinosaurs stayed around for many, many, many years. You would agree I presume that it's very functional. And there's a lot of stuff out there. Don't get me wrong. VMware is a fantastic, very stable product. They've made their name in terms of enabling the enterprise but that was the first wave. We're now in the second wave. So your point about being a dinosaur is that because it's not open source, right? You're talking about from a business model standpoint, correct? I just wanted to. Yeah, no, fundamentally the fact that they're not open source is a huge disadvantage. Yeah, so now of course they'll play the game, right? Pieces are open source. Oh, hey, you can have our SDN or the NICERA piece because nobody's buying it anyway so we're going to put it into the open source. Smart move though.  And so the trick for them is to try to stay ahead functionally and the trick for OpenStack is to try to close that gap as fast as possible. So what's your prognosis for that? My prognosis is while I have a lot of respect for VMware I just don't see how they can overcome this huge tidal wave that is a global open source collaborative effort. I mean, it's happened again and again, whether you want to look at Linux, you want to look at Apache, the same story is going to play out here. And I think that they can reorient themselves to stay relevant. But at the end of the day, they've been a huge enabler in server consolidation. They have done almost nothing in terms of agility. So server consolidation, enterprises have servers running at 20% capacity. I'm going to consolidate a heterogeneous environment. But you tell me what public cloud is running VMware at scale? What internet-centric companies doing that? Let's drill down. That scale is a big gap for those guys. They don't have it right now. Well, that's the point. He preached a good point. The server consolidation works great in the down market. You want to cut costs. Now we're in a growth market. Some say bubble, but obviously growth. New apps, connected endpoints, all that stuff. Okay, growth market. Okay, hyperscale. The hyperscale guys are kick-ass dudes. They're eating glass, spitting out nails. Go to an enterprise they've been consolidated down to, I'm the DBM, the storage admin. Sure. And the enterprises are doing. And now you're going to be an agile DevOps guy? Not really. So cloud ops seems to be the kind of halfway point, halfway house, kind of the recovery zone for want to be DevOps guys. But isn't that what Pivotal is all about? I mean, you know, think about Tucci for a minute, right? EMC is spinning off Pivotal. Kind of an interesting move, right? But that's PowerPoint. More open source mojo, right? Sure. Yeah, but it's one level removed from, you know, what we're talking about here from a cloud orchestration standpoint. Yeah, that's really a pass lawyer. It's more agility. Yeah. Sure. Now, this is a great segment. Staying on the controversial comments, Randy Baez said in the crowd chat, he said there's no place for OpenStack in the public cloud. 80% of the deployments are private cloud. There's no place in the public cloud. I presume you disagree with that. Yeah, no, we definitely disagree. Why?  Look, okay. So Amazon's the 800 pound gorilla, right? So what is, but it's still early days in this whole transition, right?  I'm of the opinion that the game's just beginning. So OpenStack is the main answer that any new player or up and coming player has to defend against Amazon. Look at the very history of the project. OpenStack exists because it was a defensive move by Rackspace acknowledging that they were going to have a very difficult time catching up with Amazon. And hiring people that had cork on them. So I buy that, I buy that, but that's a sell side view. What about the customer view? The customer view, okay, I will be the first person to admit that today's customers don't necessarily care that they are using an OpenStack public cloud. That's not part of their buying decision. But given a few years, interoperability is going to start to matter. Portability is going to start to matter. We're still in early days. Once that starts to happen, I think people, customers and users are going to start demanding OpenStack in the same way they've demanded Linux, Apache, so on and so forth. I mean, you would think that the days of the DeGiori standard are dead, but here's Amazon with the, you know. Hey, look at what Chris Kemp said at this conference. I thought it was a very popular statement that Amazon would eventually end up supporting the OpenStack. And I thought it was tongue in cheek, but he's going to come on, so we're going to have to ask him. But Dave, here's the thing. We started OpenCompute this week. Building large public clouds is fricking difficult. Even Amazon and Facebook with, that's why they went OpenCompute, right? So it is really fricking hard. But that's why I tweeted out. I said, I think eventually the OpenStack's going to be very appealing to public cloud providers. Hold on, hold on. Let me fix my thoughts. Okay, that's a given. We talked about that. I don't think we need to argue that. It's really fricking hard. You know that. But now, Enterprise is one hyperscale. So their demand is for hyperscale. But can they operate? So the question is, whoever can put hyperscale into a simplistic package with automation? I think that's where it's the OpenStack. And that's why I think it's hard to do both a public cloud. That's the opportunity in the challenge right now. That's why Amazon told us that they don't go OpenCompute because quite frankly, they're already doing all this and OpenCompute does this. So as public cloud providers, they got custom, basically it's a custom project. Yeah, look, at the end of the day, servers or servers, everyone's using the same x86 commodity server. It doesn't matter whether you're getting a Dell, an HP, Quanta, OpenCompute, NonOpen, OpenCompute, SuperMicro. The price difference is actually very, very, I mean, across all vendors, it's commoditizing. And as a public cloud provider, do we really care if we're using Dell, or HP, or SuperMicro? It's a supply chain issue. It's really a supply chain issue, right? It's optimizing for the supply chain. And it's about sharing the institutional knowledge that has been gathered at the hardware level, at the data center build level, just like at the software level, right? It's a realization that, hey, everyone's solving the same problem over and over again, and let's share what we're doing in server design and data center design. But again, at scale, that means billions in a supply chain. People who need support, Dave, we're not going to call Facebook for OCP. They have to do it themselves. The people who build their own clouds have to basically say, hey, I'm going to optimize for cost effectiveness and scale. OCP needs solutions. We talked about that. All right, guys, I have to ask you another question. I'm sorry about the rapid fire approach here. We usually like to savor the cube, but we're under the gun here. Explain why bare metal is cheaper. It's somewhat non-intuitive to me. You would think if I'm sharing the infrastructure, shouldn't it be less expensive? Explain what you meant. So, okay, look, at the end of the day, I have a server. I cut it up into 20 pieces and virtualize it. My total revenue for that server as a service provider is going to be better than what I'm going to get if I just sell it as a dedicated server, right? So there's a margin question here. Right. So, I mean, at the end of the day, would I rather as an app sell 100% virtualized servers? Sure, but you know what?  They've built their entire business on bare metal. And how else are you going to ensure to a customer that they're not going to have a noisy neighbor? They're going to have no co-tenancy issues. They're going to have fast access to local storage. I don't know any other way to do it. So this is the debate that we've had with Amazon. And you know, you kind of have a debate with Andy Jassy, but it's hard to debate Andy Jassy. But at any rate, that apples to apples, it's more expensive to use a multi-tenant approach than it is to do bare metal because of the complexity. I think you're looking at a margin difference between the two worlds. Yeah, oh, so from a supply standpoint, again, the margin's great, like you said, from a supplier standpoint, but in fact, even from a customer standpoint to build an apples to apples, true enterprise infrastructure on the public cloud with all the security, compliance, everything else is more expensive. It's always been our premise. I think that's what you're saying, right? Well, we are, but at the end of the day, look, bare metal is not that different.  Does that customer really care whether it's bare metal or virtualized? If it's provided over an API, it's elastic, they can throw it away when they're done. But the customer prefer that it's bare metal, I would presume. And so that's what we found. We found we have had many, many customers who've come from Amazon, they get to a certain dollar amount spend, and then they realize that it's getting out of control. They're on the wrong side of the cost curve and they get to the point where they can basically reboot their whole application on bare metal, save money and get better performance. Rental is almost always more expensive than owning. Assuming you can utilize the- There enough, which is why we offer co-location. And in spite of what people say, co-location is not dead and is a valid offering for many, many companies. Well, sure, right, absolutely. Steve Rajbal, hey, great to have you on theCUBE.  So I wanted to ask you about quality of service. Are you able to monetize quality of service on the storage side, the elastic block storage analog in your world? We're starting to. Today we're not as effective as we'd like in monetizing it, but in our next generation cloud, which is currently in beta and goes into deployment at first half of this year, we will absolutely monetize and bill on metrics like IOPS, megabits per second, allow our customers to build an exact profile of what they need for their storage. I mean, it's early days, I really don't see anybody doing that in a sophisticated way, but the technology's here. It's solving the problems that have existed, performance without compromise. All right, thank you, John. Thank you. Okay, no, thanks a lot, guys, great content. I wish we had more time. Normally we like to do a little bit longer, but we're under a tight window here. Raj, thanks for coming on theCUBE.  This is theCUBE, we'll be right back with our next guest after this short break. I'm John with Dave here inside of the OpenStack Enterprise Forum, crowdchat.net slash OE Forum. OpenChat across all networks, go there for the public timeline.


You know, 16 games up on the Red Sox in the division before the All-Star break. Is that even impressive to you? Yeah, I mean, it's been a great stretch of baseball. No question about it. But I'm going to give you the old boring. We've got a long way to go. Love that we've built up this league. We've made a lot of deposits. And inevitably, you've got to make some withdrawals along the way. But the guys just keep grinding, pedaling down, and playing really well. It seemed like you struck early and often. What did you think about the way the offense came out tonight?  You know, they're heavy. They're heavy, you know, and they never, you know, we get up about nine to two, and here they come and get the time to run there at some point, I think. So, you know, here, especially, you know, they're never out of it. So you never feel comfortable, really. So it was good that we were able to, you know, add on a little bit there late and give us that cushion. Are you surprised to see them go to Jackie? Not really.  Davis has pitched a lot lately, so you got the sense that, you know, they were going to try to stay away from a couple of guys unless they really got right back into the game. And so you got the sense that they were up against it a little bit, just from who they felt like they had available. So I guess not that shocked. But Aaron, it's the first time it's happened, and you were 10 years of manager of this team, that in a Yankees Red Sox game at Fenway, a position player is pitching. Does it surprise you that in this rivalry, this actually has happened? I mean, you know, we threw a position player in a playoff game against them. So I mean, you never know when that day comes.  And they probably didn't want to pitch some of the guys that they did as much as they did. So, you know, I don't know their situation exactly. So, you know, you got to do what they got to do.


Here we are in First Kings. Am I on here? In First Kings chapter one and we see the story of Adonijah. Adonijah is David's fourth son. Now I came across this story in you know kind of my study and my thought on Father's Day sermons when I was thinking about you know fathers and their children and the culture you know the sermon this morning kind of popped this sermon up in my mind and in my reading. So what I wanted to look at was some things that we could learn from this story. We see this story of Adonijah which is basically a good a good lesson for us that good men of God, great men of God don't necessarily pass that on to the next generation. I mean here we see Adonijah which is David's fourth son you know this this kid had some issues and you know it's another son of David's that tries to take the kingdom. All right so what I want to do this evening is I want to look at Adonijah. I want to look at Adonijah and another son of David and I want to look at some aspects of what they did and have kind of a cultural application of that of that of these men's lives and see what we can learn as a church and as people. Now you know both things to watch for first of all and things not to do okay and now this is now first of all let me just give a disclaimer this is one of those sermons where you may sit in your seat and go oh is there something wrong is something going on look not as far as I know okay I mean this is one of those preventative maintenance sermons okay so I mean we used to have preventative maintenance programs at power plants on huge expensive machines right we would have we would implement a preventative maintenance program where we did certain things so these machines would last like four or five times longer than they normally would so this is a preventative maintenance sermon for the church okay and for us all right so we can we can learn some things from these stories because look there's some patterns here that always repeat themselves okay in these stories of Adonijah and someone else that we will look at so let's look at the story first of all we'll do we'll do it we'll get the story we'll study out what happened here and then we'll apply that to us individually as a church and how what we can learn going forward all right so we can be more protected okay think about it that way look at first Kings chapter one and verse number five the first point I want to make with Adonijah and the pattern that he follows that we will you will see with this type of person over and over again is that he first Adonijah he exalted himself okay look at verse number five of first Kings chapter one the Bible says then Adonijah the son of Haggath exalted himself saying I will be king and he prepared him chariots and horsemen and 50 men to run before him and his father had not displeased him at any time and saying why has thou done so and he was also a very goodly man and his mother bear him after Absalom so look this is nothing new under the sun this idea that somebody who's you know trying to take over and trying to you know subvert the leadership would exalt themselves turn back to second Samuel chapter 15 because even this very man's brother was no different than him okay his brother did exactly the same thing so you would have I mean you would have thought that after everything that they went through with Absalom that more people would have noticed but fortunately as we'll see as we go through this the right people did notice okay look at second Samuel chapter 15 and verse number one the Bible says and it came to pass after this that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses and 50 men to run before him so it wasn't that somebody took Absalom and said hey we're gonna we're gonna put you in the high seats and we're gonna give you these men and no he prepared that for himself right he prepared all these men to make himself look special and important and then the Bible says in Absalom rose up early Absalom of course is that the one that successfully took the kingdom from David for a period of time okay he successfully led a coup against his father all right and this is the beginning of it this is how he did it and the Bible says in Absalom rose up early and stood beside the way of the gate and it was so that when any man had controversy had a controversy came to the king for judgment then Absalom called unto him and said of what city art thou and he said thy servant is one of the tribes of Israel and Absalom said unto him see thy matters are good and right but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee so basically he trashes leadership in a in a subtle way here right he basically says oh here's somebody with a problem that's coming to the king for judgment and he basically intercepts that person and says oh man if only the king could help you bummer you know there's nobody right and then in verse number four it says Absalom said more over oh that I were made judge in the land that every man which have any suit or cause might come unto me and I would do him justice so basically what he's saying is man you have a problem it's too bad that the king can't help you but if I were the judge I would help everyone right I mean it's like he's exalting himself he's he's lifting himself up the same as adonijah he's lifting himself up all right so that's the first aspect we see of what adonijah did is he exalted himself he lifted himself up the second is this go back to first king's chapter one first king's chapter one and look down at verse number seven in verse number seven of first king's chapter one the bible says and he conferred with joe ab the son of zariah and abbi abbiathir the priest and they following adonijah helped him but but zedok the priest and baniah the son of jehoida and nathan the prophet and shimei and rhea the mighty men which belong and the mighty men which belong to david were not with adonijah and adonijah slew sheep and auction and fat oxen and fat cattle by the stone of zohoeth which is by enrogel and called his brethren the king's sons and all the men of judah the king's servants but nathan the prophet and baniah and the mighty men and solemn in his brother he called not now look turn to second samuel chapter 15 the the second aspect that we see of adonijah is this he separated people on purpose okay he specifically separated people for strategic advantage okay absalom did exactly the same thing okay go to second samuel chapter 15 and look at verse number 11 and the bible says in second samuel 15 this is absalom it says an absalom went and with absalom went 200 men out of jerusalem that were called so these are men that he chose okay he chose them why did he chose them and they went in their simplicity and they knew not anything so absalom picked and chose certain men to go with him all right and they were the bible says that they were you know chosen for their simplicity go back to first king's chapter one let's look at verse 10 of first king's chapter one go back to adonijah you see the similarities between these two are shocking actually but it's not really that shocking because they were doing their motives were the same so they were following the same pattern and in second and first king's chapter one in verse 10 the bible specifically says but nathan the prophet and benaiah and the mighty men and solemn in his brother he called not and look at verse number 11 and this will tell you you know basically why he didn't choose them in verse number 11 and it says this wherefore nathan spake unto bashiba the mother of solemn and saying has thou not heard that adonijah the son of hageth doth reign and david our lord know if not look he separated people and chose certain people so david wouldn't find out he was separating people in a strategic way so people wouldn't find out and tell david what he was doing it was very simple okay but look david did find out all right look at verse number 12 david did find out and who recognized the issue with uh with adonijah look at verse number 12 now therefore come this is nathan the prophet talking to bashiba even bashiba didn't know before nathan told her so i mean there was some subtlety going on here the but the bible says in verse 12 nathan tells bashiba he says now therefore come let me i pray to you give the council that thou mayest save thine own life and the life of thy son solemnly because solemnly was promised by david that he would be the king so solemnly was supposed to be the king and here adonijah had kind of exalted himself he wanted to be king he was forming this little alliance to the side and he was doing all these things and raising himself up to be king to steal the kingdom from solemn basically david was old he was stricken in years the bible says and he didn't have any idea that any of this was going on okay and look at verse 13 and nathan says go and get thee unto king david and say unto him dits thou not my lord oh king swear unto thine handmade saying assuredly solemn in thy son shall reign after me and he shall sit on my throne why then dush adonijah reign so she's basically saying you better go and tell king david what's going on about about what's happening here okay now look here's some some words on nathan here all right this guy's been around the block i mean this guy has has seen some things in his time and he recognizes this right away okay and he goes and he tells bashiba who's the mother of solomon david and one of david's wives of course and he basically saves the day in this story so nathan saves the day but look he had the experience he he recognized this pattern i mean think of the things that nathan had seen i mean it was easy for him to see when you think about it like hopefully david took good care of nathan in his life i mean nathan pulled david out of the fire so many times you think about it it was nathan that went to david after his major sin with bashiba and it was nathan that that basically confronted david and said you know thou art the man you know you are the one and he brought that sin to david and of course david paid you know the chastisement he got chastised by god but at least david was confronted by nathan and was able to get right right away he had the choice to get right right away so it was nathan who recognized that and brought it to to david then you know nathan again here you know nathan's not he's not 30 years old here nathan's an experienced person he understands what's happening and he saved david big time throughout his life so the conclusion of the story is this adonijah he of course you know his it's brought to light he then you know he gets he gets caught and you know solemn even says you know i'll let him live right but then he takes things too far and he asks to marry you know david's concubine which at that point solemn says you know you've obviously not humbled yourself you're obviously still after power you're obviously still causing trouble and he has benaiah you know the hammer you know first of all every leader needs a benaiah that's not in the sermon but i mean this guy who's just like hey he's just dropped you know whenever the hammer has to be dropped benaiah is like no problem i got it right i mean he takes care of all these people for solemn he's the one that killed joe ab i mean it's just then benaiah went if benaiah is coming for you things have gone south okay one of the mighty men of course all right so here's the story we see that there's a very specific pattern here and i got to thinking about this when i was reading this and i was writing the sermon for this morning and i just want to just bring up some cultural things that we need to watch for and like i said this is preventative maintenance right don't be all you know because there's no problems here as far as i know all right so let's just look at some application here what can we take from this so on this father's day we see some kids here that didn't quite turn out right absalom adonijah they followed a specific pattern and the pattern rings true today and you know as i bring these things up if you can think in your mind things that have happened in churches you know not this one but i mean other churches that you know of this pattern rings exactly true so let's step through it look there's nothing new under the sun nothing so let's learn some preventative maintenance lessons from these kids the first one is this okay you need to be aware of people that need to have the preeminence okay and look don't be this guy right don't be this guy number one but first of all be aware of people that need to have the preeminence you know these are your people that are like your one uppers right i mean where they've always got the better story or they've always got this or whatever think about ad i mean think about this kid think about adonijah think about it i mean what had he done what in the world had this kid done where he would say in verse number five i will be king what had he done nothing think about his dad think about david david was sol's armor bearer before he killed goliath david was anointed by god to be king and david david's heart you you say david you know is is god all kinds of problems throughout the bible agree he did all kinds of things that weren't right and all this but his heart was right towards the lord his heart was right his flesh messed him up a bunch of times but his heart was right towards the lord where was adonijah's heart his heart was for himself so you think about just the the arrogance of this kid the the preeminence i mean he had done nothing yet his father was this great man of god so it wasn't look it was the same with absalom absalom oh that i would be judge in the land what makes you qualified to judge people nothing i mean just because you know he's the king's son you know it's look you have to watch out for these people that need to have the preeminence and i'm not saying that every single person that's arrogant and needs to have the preeminence in their life is going to turn out to be this way that's not what i'm saying but the people that turn out to be these wicked people that would just rebel against leadership they do it for this reason because they need to have the preeminence look good leaders don't need the preeminence good leaders lead out of service they i mean they lead i mean a good pastor leads out of service to the lord that's why he leads a good pastor leads because he wants to serve god with his life that he wants to build people up with his life that's why you'll you'll see a good spiritual leader because they want to build people up it has nothing to do with them it's matter of fact it's very detrimental to them is what you i mean can't you can't you see that with what pastors go through can't you see that with what i mean it doesn't matter what year it is if it's 2020 2019 2018 2017 just think of the the things that pastors have dealt with in their churches with people just like stabbing them in the back and all these different things i mean look a good leader just leads out of service not out of preeminence but they're going to have these people that pop up and that need to have the preeminence that's the first warning sign that they need to have the preeminence these are the people that they're always the ones they have to be the most spiritual like they speak in bible verses like no one speaks in bible verses that's not normal you want to we'll talk about the bible that's good but no one you just like this person that's trying to out spiritualize everybody all the time that's not that's not normal you know that's that's that should raise a red flag okay these people are trying to build themselves up all right here's another aspect of this and this is a big one that i really want to focus on as far as the culture of of a church especially a church our size all right i want to focus on this aspect of these two men these two boys these two sons of david in this aspect that they needed to they were they were always trying to separate people they were trying to pick and choose and separate people off okay now look let me just rabbit trail this thing for a second because look this is a big deal for us especially because we're a small church okay look the importance of unity in our church i cannot stress enough okay because look we're a small church we need to be careful and this is something that i didn't really necessarily understand when i would hear pastor preach it when we first moved to california to sacramento but pastor you know preached a lot against the formation of small groups and look in a bigger church it's less of an issue with with a church our size we do not want small groups for me because we it's people will feel excluded and and we we need to make sure that we're not doing that even if it's innocent okay look even if it you're there's no adenias here all right it's just something we need to be conscious about right so look what i'm getting at is that the culture of our church should be where there's never something where 80 percent of the people are invited that should never happen because people will feel left out right i mean and you say man so i'm gonna have like you know five or six people over and look i don't this has never happened as far as i know preventative maintenance okay but look you say look there's always going to be in a group of people there's always going to be people that you connect with better my wife has a friend and she calls it clickation i just have clickation with these people and with this person i don't have so much clickation right i mean it's true that's the way we are right but especially in a small church like this we need to make sure that you know people are included in things that we do okay because we can't leave people out and you say well that seems like he seems like that's a lot of work well yeah it's a lot of work it's a lot of work if you want to go and do something with four people to call an extra four people and make sure that everybody at least had the invite and all that type of stuff that's a lot of work but but guess what that's church that's church life that's that's life with your brothers and sisters in christ this isn't the world okay there's no cool kids here okay we're all cool all right but look there's no there's none of that here so it's extra work to go to those steps but that's a culture that we have to have here okay so i mean even though we have a tendency towards that you just need to think about each other when we're part of a church right i mean go study the one another's in a bible in the bible you know there's all these different things like you should consider one another you should build one another you should pray for one another you should give to one another you should exhort one another you should forgive one another i mean you can have a sermon series on one another's i mean it's not you and your buddies it's not you and me two people it's one another when we're part of a church so that is something that we always need to be conscious about especially us as a small church okay preventative maintenance so it's just different than being part of a normal group of worldly people it's different because we are going to consider one another okay all right now back to what i was talking about it takes effort right to have a friendly church culture by the way we notice i mean look i can do everything myself and my wife can do everything here ourselves but look we notice when there is people here that aren't necessarily comfortable in the church whether they're not um whether they're not like regular attendees or they're not three you know three to thrive or whatever and and we see that certain people of you are like giving extra effort look that does not go unnoticed because that's exactly the culture that we want to have here and that is so appreciated i can't even begin to tell you okay because look we can't be everywhere at one time okay my wife is talking to somebody some visitor today look there's other people that need attention in this church and you guys you all are taking care of that and we notice it that's the culture that we want here and and it's happening and it needs to continue to happen okay all right go back to first kings chapter one and verse number 45 49 so look here's the thing back to the story and like my second point on unity is this we need to be aware of people that are always trying to separate people okay because you will meet these people that are always trying to separate people and look don't be the one doing it because look even if you're even if you're not you know sinister about it it's it's not a good thing okay so like look at first kings chapter one in verse number 49 where the bible says and all the guests that were with adonijah were afraid and rose up and went every man his way so look the people that got separated by adonijah they got hurt too so we don't want to be and we need to be aware of people that are trying to separate people okay because that's what will happen and i'm telling you it happens every single time that there's been huge trouble in church there's been somebody that has separated four people or whatever and then the trouble starts but i'm telling you that even though that might have started with one bad person all those people got hurt all those people got hurt and that's what happened here too in verse number 49 they were all afraid they're like oh man whoa this guy's in a lot of trouble and we were along with him right so i mean be i mean be careful i mean recognize it and be careful if if you see somebody like that okay because you don't want to get caught up in that right these are people that are always trying to like get people to talk in a corner or something like this i mean that's a huge red flag if that happens okay they're trying to separate you don't be the simpleton as in second samuel okay and it says that absalom picked the simple people he picked the simple guys don't be that all right you know and then because look that leads into all the i mean why are you in a separate conversation it is the it begs the question right why or is there always these separate conversations going on i mean i mean that's why i like the big group that we always talk in i love that i mean if first of all it's fun second of all i mean it's it's the way we should always be together because i mean look you know you just have to kind of ask yourself why someone would want to be doing that if that happens okay because look it will stick to you if you if you if something had an idea grabs you it will stick to you okay and you know think about this too how is your spirit after hanging out with somebody right you ever be or you ever been around somebody who's just really negative i mean so that's another little litmus test for yourself if you're hanging around somebody who is always negative how how's your spirit after talking with it maybe their little red flag comes up something's going on all right because look that's that's where when i think about all the disasters that have happened in the last two or three years or whatever in churches that i know of it's always started that way where people got separated and then they started talking about things that they shouldn't talk about and there was like all these secrets going on and all this i've seen it personally myself up in sacramento you know all these little secrets that's that start going on like and here's the thing okay let me go off on this one too here's the thing about secrets okay and i just dealt with this with somebody in my secular world life okay and americans don't know this anymore secrets are always bad because look we were raised on we were raised on survivor remember that show i don't even know is it still on we're this show where everybody's would form these alliances and it was all about you know stabbing people in the back in the most efficient way like people were raised on that they think it's okay they think as far as long as like in a work environment people think that if that gets them ahead it's okay so i mean i i've told people like at my job and people that are like in groups and teams of mine and stuff look we're never going to tell secrets keep things above board all the time that's how we operate here always secrets are always bad i mean that's a pretty simple rule right because here's the thing with secrets number one you say well you know what do i do about this knowledge that i have number one if it's something that you can't say to certain people it shouldn't be said and number two if it's important just say it to the person just become a man and just say you know if i i don't like the fact that brother ryan wears that shirt um i shouldn't go and tell secrets to people about it i should be like man i don't like your shirt i should at least be a man about it right your shirt's fine it's the best thing i could come up with in the moment but look i mean people i mean it's it's shocking to me i mean i know we know this because we're christians and we know what the bible says but people don't know this people don't know that they shouldn't be going around like doing all this scheming i mean people like 50 year old people they don't know it's shocking but look secrets are always bad secrets bad i feel like i'm talking to a bunch of little kids sometimes you know not you but look the the the secrets thing they they oh whenever something like this happens in a church here's the difference people forget the god factor turn to loop chapter eight here's what people like adonijah and absalom they miss all the time every single time they forget the god factor look at loop chapter eight look at verse number 17 and this is true every single time i've seen it every time amazing how the bible is right luke eight seventeen look what the bible says for nothing is secret that shall not be made manifest neither anything hid that shall not be known and come abroad turn to luke chapter 12 and look at verse number three luke chapter 12 just a few chapters over the bible says therefore whatsoever you have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light and that which you have spoken in the ear in closet shall be proclaimed onto the house tops every single time this is true look so two things they it should either not be said or you should just say it to the person that it's about just just do it right because it will always come out for everyone to see period right and some people won't see it until it does come out but there's always going to be the nathans that see it right away that's another thing so look you will then if you've been involved in that type of stuff this is back to the like the gossip sermon and things like that you'll always be lumped in by association by the nathans right so that's that's why so many people get hurt in these situations that you've seen because like they were able these people were able to like separate out all these people and they didn't just i mean it would be fine if like okay you're just some idiot that was spreading new doctrine around a church or you just some you know arrogant fool who was just trying to rebel against his pastor or whatever right but look they always bring these other people with them they always take other people down with them so look we just have to we have to recognize that it starts you know down this road if some because look the reason that they separate people away from the crowd is because if if somebody that was pushing some new doctrine in this church or was pushing like you know rebellion against the leadership in this church or something like that if they would come into the circle that we always have in the back somebody would just shut them down right away so they're always going to just like grab some people and try to just plant those seeds of discontent right so we just need to be like look we just need to be aware of this pattern it's the same every single time i'm sure we'll we'll deal with it here at some point i'm not really looking forward to it you know i want to come and i want to you know lead a church and i want to do like the first works and i want to come here and look it's hard work doing this right it's hard work you know leading a church it's hard work you know for even you all doing what you're supposed to be doing coming to church going soul-winning i mean it's not the easiest thing in the world at times sometimes when you go out soul-winning if people are just slamming doors in your face all the time it seems a little bit like labor it seems a little bit like labor so i mean we want to just do the work and i mean i don't really want to deal with the garbage like that i'd rather not but i know that it's going to come so i mean if you all i mean that's why we're doing a preventative maintenance sermon so if you all could help me recognize things like this that would be helpful some ben anias some zedock the priests some nathans out there right so look it's just we can learn a lot from these kids okay it's not a really complicated lesson this evening we can learn a lot from these kids both on not doing the things that they did right because look it doesn't even have to be like you don't have to be some sinister person who's trying to take over a church to do things like this that could hurt people's feelings or to to separate people off or to be you know this person who's i mean look because i mean the last thing you want is some nathan to like be like oh why is he doing all that stuff that's weird and then you don't have any intentions bad intentions at all i mean that could happen too right it's just we ought to consider one another and then we won't be separating ourselves right then we won't be exalting ourselves when we think about one another and that's look it's i'm trying to sell you on this i'm not trying to sit here and and i know that as this church grows that we're going to have more people who become more friends and become all this and we and i'm just going to have to keep saying this and keep selling you because the last thing that we want i mean think about it if it's not there's no sinister plot or anything because i mean i don't want to be a paranoid person i refuse to do it right and if i would rather think the best of somebody and then just take the knife in the back that's where i'm at okay but look say that everyone has the best of intentions but somebody just ends up getting left out of things all the time or whatever look that's my responsibility if something like that happens that's my fault because i should be the one watching to make sure that that doesn't happen right that's why i'm preaching a sermon like this is there problems no i don't want problems i want two or three guys in this church that are super good buddies i want them to be good buddies i want them to hang out and to to be friends and all this but i want them to take that extra effort and invite the other four people and include the other four people even though they may think that those people aren't going to come or whatever i want the women in this church that get together at a park and all these types of things even though these two women might be just the best of friends and have the super clickation going on to include everybody every time because someone will get hurt and it's a terrible thing to think that you know you're not included or that they don't peep somebody doesn't want you there that's a terrible thing so look that's what i'm always watching for okay and that's the that's the good side of you know unity right is just that somebody could accidentally be left out the bad side is that it could be something bad like this right and and every single time i want you just to think in your mind uh of the situations that you've that you've remember because i know you all remember these situations they were so high profile they were such messes and every single time that this happened it followed this pattern right here every time every time so let's recognize it before it gets crazy because look they brought other people with them and that to me is the tragedy right because look i mean i don't really feel bad for the guys that came and like like did those things and just you come into a church and you try to spread some different doctrine and all this i don't really feel bad for you and i feel bad for your family a little bit because they're going to suffer with you but i mean ultimately the real tragedy of those situations is that they brought other families down with them and and just like in verse number 49 here the same thing happened with adonijah they were all afraid they were all afraid okay so let's just watch for these things we need to have especially as we're starting look we're building a strong base here we're putting we're building a strong foundation here as this church builds and as new christians new believers come in here and they get baptized we now have a baptistery as you know they get come in and they get baptized and we start turning people into disciples we need to build off a strong foundation okay and that's where we're going to be they're going to come in here and they're going to see unity in this church they're going to come in here and they're going to see a church that's going to include them even though we don't even know them i mean i've known some of you now for years can i say years i think i can i've known some of you for years but somebody that comes into this church should be just as included as somebody that i've known for years and have good clickation with right that's what we need to be that's the cult am i selling you on the culture that we need to have here it's effort it's effort and we need to have it okay let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer and then have some root beer floats all right okay dear heavenly father i thank you for um these stories in the bible i thank you for um even the bad stories in the bible lord you're giving us some patterns that we can watch for some things that we can recognize lord some things that we can just you know be aware of you know the bible shows us everything i pray god that you just give us unity in this church and you just give us that that heart to to take that effort with our brothers and sisters and just to always have that unity lord and as this church builds and grows or we have this unity so you can allow this church to grow and we just need to be strong we need to be tight and as people come into this church or just help us never to exclude people and always bring these new people into the things that we're doing and all of these different things or what we thank you for your word we thank you for this entire day and and for all the fathers in this church ward i asked you just to bless this evening and the fellowship to come in jesus name amen


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Mr. Francis Garry, Director-General of the World Intellectual Property Organization, Ambassador Alberto Pedro Dalotto, Ambassador of the Republic of Argentina and Chair of the Committee on Development and Intellectual Property. Excellencies, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen, good morning. It's a great honour to be invited to address this WIPO International Conference on the important and timely theme of intellectual property and development. This gathering is taking place at a time when many developing countries are either formulating or reviewing their intellectual property policies and it therefore offers a timely and important opportunity to reflect on how the intellectual property system can best assist developing countries, including least-developed countries, to achieve their wider development objectives. We applaud WIPO for taking this step in its continued efforts to implement the 45 recommendations of its development agenda. I want to start by situating my remarks on IP protection in a wider historical view, and that is that all countries that have succeeded in breaking out of poverty and underdevelopment, starting with the Principality of Venice in the Middle Ages, through to Britain during its Industrial Revolution in the 18th and 19th century, to the Asia-Newly Industrialising economies in the 1970s and to China and India today, all of them without exception, have done so by nurturing a cluster of industrial activities characterised by increasing rather than diminishing returns. Nurturing these activities has involved the identification and targeting of appropriate value-added activities, the deployment of public and private resources to support innovation, entrepreneurship and infrastructure development, as well as the judicious use of tariffs and other forms of protection to emerging infant industries. This understanding has informed South Africa and indeed the African continent's recognition that its sustainable development will in great measure be dependent on pursuing structural transformation of our economies through industrialisation and moving up the value chain. Let's step back a moment. Over the last decade or so, Sub-Saharan African countries have shown impressive rates of economic growth, in particular GDP growth, outpacing in many cases the growth rates recorded in advanced economies. This growth rate has also been above the average for emerging and developing economies, with only Asia having recorded higher growth rates and the differential between Africa and Asia has been narrowing. Seven of the world's top 10 fastest growing economies are in Africa and Africa now offers among the highest returns on investment of any region in the world economy. Africa's abundant natural resources, the growing consumer power of its middle class and the favourable demographics offer enormous potential for sustainable economic growth and development across our continent. While all of this has been possible and suggests prospects for future growth and development are much improved, Africa's growth path has in fact been primarily based on the production and export of primary commodities, mineral and agricultural commodities, the sale of these and export of these to countries around the world and strong consumption based on the rise of middle class consumers which is to a very large extent being driven by the import of finished process products. There is now a widening consensus among African government and business leaders that this growth path is not any longer sustainable, will not be sustainable in the longer term and that if we are going to place our continent on a firmer footing towards sustainable development Africa will need to pursue structural transformation of its economic base and build a more diversified productive capacity through industrialising. The recent dramatic decline in the range of commodity prices, many of which have been the mainstay of Africa's productive economies for exports should be a signal that we need to redouble our efforts at industrialisation and economic diversification. In South Africa our government has chosen a growth and development path that prioritises industrial upgrading in more labour intensive sectors with the aim of generating sustainable decent employment. Upgrading South Africa's industrial base in this way and encouraging the production and export of more sophisticated, higher value added products requires purposeful intervention in the industrial economy aimed at achieving dynamic competitive advantage. Our national industrial policy framework, our trade policy and strategic framework depart from the view that deliberate policy interventions are necessary to address impediments to economic diversification and that specific measures are considered on a sector by sector basis dictated by the needs and objectives of sectoral strategies. Two dimensions of this process may be instructive for the remarks I want to make later directed more specifically on IPR and economic development. First our sectoral work is grounded in self-discovery, a process of engagement between government, business and labour through which we collectively identify the specific measures and programmes needed to advance industrial development. Second our approach to tariff policies, one in which we make no a priori assumption of the benefits or costs of maintaining either high or low tariffs. Instead tariff setting is assessed on the basis of evidence obtained at firm and sector level through detailed investigations to consider the impact of proposed tariff changes on among other things economic output and employment across a value chain. In short, tariff setting is evidence based and the product of intensive consultations between affected stakeholders. Of course the upper limits for tariffs are set by the binding obligations that we've undertaken in the WTO as well as in bilateral trade agreements. If the proposition that industrial development and structural transformation are necessary for sustainable development in many developing countries if this is correct a relevant question is whether and how IP protection can be designed to support these objectives. Considerable work has been undertaken on the relationship between intellectual property regimes and economic development including excellent work under the aegis of WIPO. In our reading this literature it seems clear that the international community is far from reaching a convergence let alone a consensus on the question. Indeed this field of work remains a site of considerable contestation. While few policy makers commentators or academics deny the importance of intellectual property protection and enforcement the questions revolve around the nature of the standards that should be implemented and enforced and whether this changes over time as countries industrialize and develop. That's the issue as we see it. Strengthening and extending IPR regimes and enforcement are strongly advanced by countries at the cutting edge of innovation globally. One may recognize that for those countries it is of strategic value to use IP protection as a mechanism to preserve the rent generating and other advantages that arise from the technological capabilities built up by their firms. In this sense such an approach could well be understood as a de facto industrial policy and there is a compelling argument to be made that this should be balanced by appropriate diffusion policies in catching up countries. In any case in the history of development and catching up successful strategies always appear to have involved emulation that requires measures that are targeted at acquiring knowledge and increasing return activities. Furthermore all successful catching up episodes have occurred under conditions of weak IPR regimes that permitted easier knowledge acquisition and imitation. During the 19th century today's advanced economy has used an IP system and a flexibility accorded in a judicious manner as they pursued the industrialization. This allowed those countries to strengthen their IP regimes at their own pace and in support of the overall progress of their economic development. We may recall in this context that Switzerland did not institute a national patent law until 1888. When that law was introduced it was narrowing scope and did not provide protection to chemical inventions. It is argued that this allowed domestic chemical industries to develop imitative capacity. Today of course Switzerland boasts some of the most innovative and accomplished chemical and pharmaceutical companies in the world. Similarly countries like Germany, France and Japan as well as Switzerland only introduced pharmaceutical product patent protection in the 1960s. Only a handful of countries have in fact made the transition from developing to developed. If one looks at the performance of the Asian Tigers it's clear that they relied on a heterodox mix of policy measures to achieve their industrialization. For example Korea relied less on foreign direct investment and initially acquired most of its technology through trade, reverse engineering and technology licensing. When it became competitive its own companies began to invest heavily in R&D to develop their own innovative technology. Singapore followed a different model. Singapore's long had an open trade regime and depended very much on FDI for its technology. While generally working with market principles the government was heavily involved in attracting the kind of foreign investment that it believed would bring cutting edge technology that would underpin wider economic development. The development story of Singapore may be characterized as one of moving quickly from cheap unskilled labor to a knowledge based economy. The government continued to invest heavily in education and skills in time, research and development. It has now become an important regional hub for many knowledge based in service industries. More recently we see that India has pursued an alternate path in so far as it has taken advantage of the transitional provisions in the trade related intellectual property regime of the WTO to develop a globally competitive pharmaceutical industry. By doing so India has been able to increase global output and competition thereby enhancing economic welfare in the process. The industry in that country has become increasingly innovative and then has begun to seek to make greater use of the patent system. The essential point of drawing on these examples is simply to reiterate that countries have taken different paths in pursuing economic development and they have used IP protection in different ways at different times to support their developmental efforts. Opponents of strong IPR typically raise concerns that stronger IPR raises the costs of protected goods and reduces the accessibility of innovations. They often argue that a stronger IPR regime is costly including with respect to the fact that stronger patents confer greater degree of monopoly power on patent holders that are often foreign based multinationals. Opponents also contend that stronger IPR regimes can retard industrial development as weak IPR and function as a kind of infant industry policy allowing indigenous firms to learn from, absorb and experiment with foreign technology at low cost. Said differently establishing a strong IPR regime prematurely limits the diffusion of innovative technology more widely by imposing high prices for patent protected goods and lowering consumer welfare. The role of patent protection in promoting innovation has also been controversial. There are arguments that patents are unlikely to foster innovation in developing countries at early stages of industrialisation. The evidence on the extent to which patent protection contributes to encouraging innovation is at best inconclusive. This point is of particular relevance to industrial policies that some studies contend that other factors notably first mover advantage are more decisive in promoting innovation. The prevalence of stronger IPR regimes by contrast suggests that IPR protection fosters innovation in reforming countries. They also argue that stronger IPR facilitates transfers of technology to reforming countries, increases foreign direct investment and spurs industrial development. They point to the growing literature that shows a correlation between IPR reform and industrial development and argue that the concerns that are shifted to stronger IPR would undermine the development or overstated. As the policy debate unfolds there nevertheless seems to be a wide acceptance that research on these and related topics must be extended and deepened if we were to have a better grasp of the complex relationship between IPR reform and FDI flows, technology transfer and industrialisation. While generalised conclusions can offer insightful guidance, it may not be applicable at all times to all countries. If that is the case it is vital that research is undertaken in a manner that is context specific, taking account of the level of development of the country under consideration with a clear focus on its industrial profile and capabilities. In countries at an early stage of industrialisation where technology, technologically mature technologies may be embedded in equipment, strong IPR regimes may be unnecessary. As the manufacturing production of a country becomes more diversified and higher value added is sought for example chemicals, electronic equipment, consumer goods IPRs may growingly narrow down the freedom to operate in the absence of a license authorising the use of protected technologies and designs. Where countries begin to develop their own innovation through great investment in R&D the demand for strong IPR protection is likely to grow in tandem. What do we to make about these complex varied and sometimes divergent accounts of the historical, theoretical and empirical dimensions of the question of IPR and industrialisation? I would summarise the answers follows. First historically different paths have been taken to promote economic development and the IPR protection provided. Second IP protection has been strengthened and evolved in different countries over time. Third, there is no unambiguous evidence that stronger IPRs foster industrial development and countries may require different approaches and policies depending on their level of industrial development. This all suggests the need for a cautious approach to the reform of intellectual property regimes. It also suggests the need to strengthen capacity to assess the costs and benefits of IPR reform in the specific context where the reform is being considered or undertaken. Reform should be based on robust evidence and should be the product of extensive consultations with affected sectors, industries and firms. There are no simple answers and there are no shortcuts. Having made all of these points it's also clear that as many industrialising as many developing countries pursue industrialisation they do so in the context of an international IP regime that is more constrained than it was at the 19th century where many of today's developed countries underwent their industrialisation. The agreement on trade related aspects of intellectual property rights trips establishes extensive standards of IP protection that are almost without exception legally binding on all WTO members. While developing countries are committed to implementing and enforcing these standards it is also clear that the trips agreement does contain flexibilities that can be exploited to craft a greater developmental role for IP protection in respect to industrialisation. Patents are likely to impact technologically dynamic sectors where domestic value added is higher as compared to sectors where more mature technologies predominate. Therefore as countries pursue industrialisation we need to explore how best patent regimes can be designed to expand the opportunities for access and diffusion of technology. As noted whether or not IPRs in fact generate net benefits or costs to any particular country will depend on its productive profile, its R&D infrastructure and the extent to which policy space is preserved to adapt the IPR regime to local conditions and need. In that context governments retain an important role in ensuring the patentability standards such as the requisite level of inventiveness are appropriate and rigorous in order to avoid the production of patents that unnecessarily stifle local innovation and production. Compulsory licences are another avenue of policy flexibility permitted under the trips agreement that may be used as an instrument to promote domestic production where voluntary licences are not available on reasonable commercial terms. There are several examples around the world where compulsory licences were issued and employed successfully to ease access to affordable medicines. In South Africa our national development plan calls for greater emphasis on innovation, improved productivity and more intensive pursuit of a knowledge economy. We regard the IP system as an important policy instrument to promote innovation technology transfer, research and development, industrial development and more generally inclusive economic growth. South Africa has a long history of IPR protection and the signatories of the WTO we have adopted and implemented all our obligations under trips. As we review our IP policy we are seeking to ensure the appropriate balances are struck in providing protection for innovation and ensuring that the benefits are shared in society. In particular we are interested in ensuring that the IPR regime in South Africa supports our wider developmental objectives and underpins our efforts at industrial development. In doing this we aim to harness the capabilities across the government and draw in expertise across society through a strengthened national consultative process. We have taken this approach in two recent initiatives. First follow in many delays we have now ratified the WTO paragraph 6 mechanism that allows the issuance of compulsory licences for export of medicines to countries that lack pharmaceutical manufacturing capability. As part of future work to give great effect to this effort we will engage with our regional partners to make effective use of the regional waiver contained in paragraph 6 to augment what are relatively small markets by harnessing economies of scale. Second we are now engaged in a process to strengthen the capacity of the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission to enable it in due course to undertake substantive examination of patent applications. For reasons of allocation of scarce resources South Africa has up to now used the depository system in terms of which patent applications are examined to determine whether they meet patentability criteria only if those patents are challenged in litigation. The work being done to capacitate our registry to conduct substantive examination is crucial if the patent system is truly to fulfill its intended purpose of effectively promoting and protecting genuine innovation and avoiding the registration of evergreen applications. As I move to make my concluding remarks it's appropriate that we reference the work we are doing with our partners on the African continent. South Africa has been an active in the African Union in working towards the establishment of a Pan African Intellectual Property Organization PAIPO. Key objectives of PAIPO include encouraging harmonization of IP systems establishing platforms for policy discussions on how IP can serve as a tool of economic, cultural, social and technological development of the continent. In a region exclusively comprised of developing countries and least developed countries, PAIPO aims to pursue a pro-development and balanced approach to IPR protection. Sub-regional configurations on the African continent have done significant work in integrating IP into the development policy mix. The Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa Commessa has a comprehensive IP policy while the East African Community and the Economic Community of West African States ECOWAS have policies on IP that include trips flexibilities. As for IP institutions, the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization, a repo, and the Organization African Property Intellectual AWAPI, serve as registration offices for much of the continent and together with international partners provide policy support. The key challenge for the African continent is to improve coordination of the different initiatives to promote efficient use of resources and ensure alignment in approaches to IP pursued by a repo and AWAPI and sub-regional policies. Such collaboration should give rise to a convergence of standards. A repo and AWAPI have recognized the need to align their approaches and have begun working towards integrating their functions into the broader African Union vision on intellectual property. South Africa will continue to work with regional partners to strengthen these efforts. At WIPO, African countries have consistently strived for the promotion of IP regimes that are balanced and supportive of their public policy objectives. In recent years, there's been much debate on the extent to which the WIPO development agenda recommendations have been effectively implemented as well as reservations over the extent to which the development dimension has been mainstreamed in WIPO's work. The implementation of some of these recommendations remains a work in progress, particularly when it comes to the delivery of technical assistance to poorer countries and the promotion of innovation and access to knowledge. Recommendation one of the WIPO development agenda underlines that, quote, WIPO technical assistance shall inter alia be development-orientated, demand-driven and transparent, taking into account the priorities and specific needs of developing countries as well as, especially LDCs, as well as the different levels of development of member states, end quote. Africa has also been a strong advocate for the conclusion of legally binding global norms for the protection of genetic resources, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions against misappropriation, particularly in the context of WIPO's main body dealing with these issues, the IGC. Clearly this is a vast agenda and requires enormous efforts. We therefore want to be in a position to continue to call on WIPO through the committee on development and intellectual property and pursue into its development agenda to support our ongoing efforts to craft IP policies that support the objectives of African industrialisation. We look forward to continued dialogue and to hearing the advice and learning from the experts that are attending this particular conference over the next two days. I wish this conference every success and I thank you for your attention.


Pretty Ugly Backtracks on Music Removal Claims Rapper Pretty Ugly has backtracked on suggestions that his former record label, Ambitious Entertainment, may have had something to do with his music disappearing from streaming services iTunes and Apple Music. The star got fans hot under the collar on social media this week when he said his music projects had been pulled from the streaming services. He said when he inquired about it, Apple told him that only he or his label could have given authorization for them to be pulled. He said neither he nor his own label, The Gas, Global African Stream, had authorized the removal. He went on to say his album, Egypt, was recorded while he was signed to that other label, but he had done most of the work on his own. While fans dragged Ambitious, Pretty Ugly took to social media to admit that the issue was not with the label, but the metadata. After a few back and forths, the current conclusion is that there were discrepancies with the metadata of the projects. The albums are yet to be reinstated, but we are trying to rectify the matter. I made this matter public because I needed answers, I needed to give context to how the album, Egypt, was produced, the label's involvement and what ultimately led to my departure. He said he would like to extend reparation to Ambitious head K. Gussie Matumaphalo for his statements and claims. This was an incursion on him and the label based on personal scrutiny, personal experience, and vain citation.


Fuck, they got our Philadelphia gig right next to Kansas City. That's why I'm right here. Fuck, they do it. No, we just took the motherfuckin' head over them nicks, you know, put the motherfuckin' I gotta look over to see Kansas City on the motherfuckin' front.  Put the niggas down to B-1 and put us at B-30, nigga. We don't want to see none of the guys doing Kansas City.


Hello, and welcome to this presentation on ST's latest 250-volt RF-DMOS transistor for class D and E plasma generators and industrial power supplies. With a breakdown voltage greater than 900 volts and housed in the innovative STAC air cavity package, the STAC250V2500E is a high-voltage RF-DMOS transistor featuring improved RF performances up to 600 watts typical and ruggedness requirements 20 to 1 all phases VSWR under a 250 volt supply voltage. The device features a 25% lower thermal resistance and higher MTTF compared to devices housed in ceramic packages. As we can see in the following curve, the STAC250V2500E achieves 23.5 dB gain and 75% efficiency at an output power of 600 watts. This makes it ideal for operation in RF class E plasma generators ranging from a few megahertz up to 27 megahertz. Such features make the device a cost effective solution for 250 volt industrial RF power class D and E generators such as induction heating, PECVD plasma sputtering, and production equipment for flat panel TVs and solar cells. In the following slide we show a comparison of the main device features with an equivalent competitors device. Thanks to ST's new high-voltage super DMOS technology and proprietary innovative STAC air cavity package, two STAC250V2500E transistors used together occupy a similar area to that of a single ceramic transistor enabling compact power supplies above 1 kilowatt. The device also features a higher load mismatch capability of 20 to 1 in all phases for industrial applications with stringent robustness requirements. Thanks for your attention. For further information please visit www.st.com slash rf dmos


Hi y'all I'm back and yes, I have a different look why because Why not I can't okay? So I want to talk to y'all today about Okay, so so many women have low self-esteem and have trouble finding a man or keeping a man or keeping a man's attention and They just don't know what to do well Men are visual Creatures and when I say men are visual creatures I'm not lying men are visual creatures, so as You can see how I change it up from time to time and I look like a totally different person Sometimes men like that sometimes men Get excited when a woman looks totally different than what they normally look like all the time because let's face it Men look at other women men like to look at other women men like to fantasize about Being with another type of woman another another race of woman another Stature or size of woman they all do and we know that Let's just get that out the way so don't deny it don't deny Okay, so in order to keep a man's attention You got to switch it up a lot Even if it just means, you know switching up your hairstyle your makeup your perfume your clothing Just switch it up have a variety don't stick to the same old, you know look have something that's exciting that you can pull out your closet every now and then, you know and That's just in general You don't even have to be with somebody Because people will notice you anyway, you know You might be passing the man of your dreams by every day, but he won't look at you because he doesn't like redheads So let's just say you put on a black wig or a blonde wig or a brown wig and You walk by the same guy every day. He stops and talks to you. He's like Hi, how are you?  Oh My You know or with another color wig on like black or blue. I don't know whatever y'all. I don't know Whatever your preference is something different Okay, so you come in looking different and they're like taking back and they then didn't really want to look at you Then they're like checking you out. So a lot of times we get stuck in this rut where We don't change what we look like we don't change what we do. We wear the same color nail polish We get the same we put the same old boring makeup on every day brown up here Berry or nude here a little pink on the cheeks and that's it No, we're good to go You know, that's fine for like when you're in a rush and don't have anything to do if you're already married and like You know, I already got everything I wanted life. I don't I'm not looking for no man I'm not looking for nothing.  You have to look like oh, I want to take her out and show her out to my friends You can't be all raggedy. You got to have your nails done. You got to smell good. Get you some perfume child This is my favorite perfume right now at the moment. This is queen Mike.  That's what we that's what we're here for We're humans, you know, turn on the senses and people, you know Give them something to look at get them some give them something to look at go on YouTube look up makeup tutorials Figure out figure out something because a lot of times There are beautiful women hidden under low self-esteem because they're afraid to try something new now I'm not the most beautiful person in the world, but I will attempt To try new makeup look I will attempt to put on some press on nails every now and then or paint my own nails I will attempt to put some makeup on my face That's different than the makeup that everyone else wears or you know, I Will attempt to do something with my hair that's different from time to time, you know I will attempt to find an outfit that this one But I will attempt to find an outfit that you know, it's different and you know kind of cute Just because I know I've been married so long. I know that if I was a man I'm not even thinking about my husband I was if I was a man I would be so bored coming home and looking at myself every day because I get bored looking at myself In the mirror every day. I'm like, you know what? That's when you get that urge.  Oh, I want to do this.  You know, he's like, okay.  Okay But I'm saying put some effort into what you look like man or visual creatures, they like to look as many Times people say oh, it's a what's the inside that counts and oh you got to look pretty you got a I mean You don't have to look pretty to get a decent man That shouldn't matter but it does y'all know it does y'all know That man will always look the other way when a pretty woman passes and even if he's with you and if he doesn't He really wants to so you have to be that pretty woman You have to be that woman that that keeps his attention, you know You got to try you got to do something. You know that can compete, you know because You know if let me tell y'all the secret When a pretty woman sees a man with a so-so woman or a woman that looks drab and blah blah blah blah She automatically knows that he's gonna look at her and that he's secretly admiring her because his woman or his wife is boring and unattractive Now she already knows That she can take him if she wants to If she wants to and the thing is some women will try some women will just feel sorry and Keep walking and some women will like actually flirt back and try right in front of the woman because a lot of women are just you know kind of mean like that, but That shouldn't happen to people, you know if you're gonna go out in public with your man You have to represent him too. You have to represent like a Status, you know, that's you get treated better as a couple you get more believe it or not If when you go out and you look your best With your man you get treated a lot better you get compliments you get better treatment at the restaurants You know a lot of women have this This weird problem going out looking like they rolled out the bed and I don't understand that If somebody offers to take you somewhere go and put something on that looks decent Go and put some makeup on go and fix your hair do something Don't just roll out the bed and say, okay, let's go. No because you know even though they might not say it to you They really want you to do something with yourself, you know They don't they want they want you to represent them They want people to say oh, he's with a really beautiful woman or his woman looks really pretty today you know not everybody's the most gorgeous woman in the world, but You can you can attempt to enhance your features and what you already have, you know So even if you don't wear makeup if you're not one of these type of women that wear makeup and hair and stuff like that And you're very natural which I am too at times Then just put like some gloss on your lips. Wash your face.  Don't just go out looking like you could be You know a lot of times I'm not I'm just being honest y'all, okay? Y'all know I'm always honest with y'all a lot of time these women who are like very very very natural sometimes men mistake them for being lesbians and even though they're not lesbians because And I'm not saying anything against lesbians because there's some fierce lesbians out there I'm saying that if you are if you have no femininity with your natural Look you need to add some, you know, poke your eyebrows Put some nail polish on even if it's clear put some lip gloss on even if it's clear just Something to add a more feminine touch because I've seen so many women who look natural and have that natural look I thought they were lesbians and they weren't and I was surprised.   I would look like somebody's made. Okay I'm not playing I really would I would look like You wouldn't want to take me anywhere. Like you you would be like, uh, can you go do something with yourself? Uh, yeah, that'd be great Or you'd be like, uh, it's really sunny outside. I want you to grab your sunglasses On the dl. They'd be trying to tell me to put something on my face face right now.      I'm like, you know what? This is my instagram. Y'all I'm gonna show you all my looks Look at that. Okay. I'm gonna show you all my real look. This is what I look like most of the time Okay, y'all know that y'all watch my videos Okay and There's nothing wrong with that whatsoever I just like to look different every now and then And this is me when I told you that y'all would tell me to stay home or put some sunglasses on This is me looking crazy. Okay. I would never leave my house looking like this.  Okay You gotta lure them in a long time ago They used to call makeup and wigs and all that stuff. They used to call it a form of witchcraft but That's because it works. Okay. I'll see y'all later. Bye


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com coming at you with a 2022 capstone baseball pack number 183 with five of those triple play Baseball mixer spots been given away given away an Adley and a Corbin Carroll in that breaks. Go ahead and check that out jaspyscasebreaks.com Big thanks to this group for making it happen. So let's do the pack break itself first And then we'll do a different dice roll for the giveaway part four and a three seven times for names and teams one two three four five six and Seven different dice roll for the giveaway part four and a three seven times for the teams one two three four five six and Seventh and final time You font for the month Here's the first half of the list and The second half of the list right there. Let's print this out. Let's rip open the pack. There's the print out Same as what you saw on the previous screen Ella Iowa jumped out to a big lead with the LSU women Scratching back here Now they're only down by two points suspension strider rookie card And I'll go to Lana Christopher with that one Okay, nothing too crazy there, but Who's gonna get those mixer spots a new dice new list And it's gonna be the top five after ten getting into the mixer. Good luck four and a six ten times one two three four five six seven eight nine and Once more right tenth and final time. Good luck fingers crossed top five after ten so from six through 30 sad times But there are gonna be at least another opportunity or two to get in via filler So please try again if you'd like six to 30 sad times, but happy times with the top five Joe is happy. So it's Christopher Zach Darren and Joe again Congrats to the top five. We'll see you in that mixer. Hopefully later tonight. Jasper's case breaks calm


Going on everyone Sam here with late in sports cards Riffin 23 bowman sterling baseball hobby 4 box break number 13 PYT style Gonna be off a list of our names our teams got Anton H for the Blue Jays David H twins David Oh red socks Edward P Tigers mariners Gary a Marlins Gordon P D-backs Matt's Greg M brewers Cardinals Jacob C with the Guardians Jeff M Yankees red Dodgers Royals and Rangers Jeffrey H Phillies Rays and Rockies Jesse a Orioles Jonathan B Braves Kale D athletics mark G Padres Matt M Pirates Peter M. White Sox Rylan P Giants Sean B Nationals Steven S. Astros Tony Y angels and William G with the Cubs let's get started and See what the hell we've got here everybody. Let's get after it guys Dude me too. I'm really excited for football. I think it's gonna be a lot of fun Play the freakin Seahawks dude. I hate that That's a really that's the number one and two ranked defense in the NFL I don't know.  Yeah And he was on my bench Michael hair Shrooke Eve any pass can see no two 150 Jackson Sharia. Oh, that's right. It goes back, right? Really Nelson rod up nice one there for the angels. Congrats Mitchell and Hunter Brown Kyle get ready man. Me and you big match up this week Lots right there. Hey, what's up, buddy? Thanks for snagging a spot in this one. Appreciate that man As well the Cabrera Raj Garia 299 for the inks got base auto your Donnie de los Santos for the pirates Congrats on that pirates Deon Jorge and Nelson, Alaska's everybody's saluting out here now bunch of saluting bots Dylan's dandy tea is that really the name of your team? I haven't changed it since they made my team a Elijah green to a hundred Dylan's dandy team Sam Zavala for the Padres base auto nice one San Diego Cunha and Ellie de la Cruz can't take it easy on your car You might be going down this week. That is a legitimate matchup of bots Mr. French. Oh, you just got called both of them. It's the French that's sprinkled right there I'm not both junior Kevin arrow base auto nice one there for the rays Congrats rays That guy everybody at LSE's time for first except for him in that league that's bad I Go south Stuart Carthage Simon a Juan nice one there for the Mets That's on that Mets Jordan back in Jackson holiday base I know right He stinks man good Lord, he stinks That is a name that's what I think I Because we were when was it That's what in our group chat yesterday. It's about for that. He goes dashing home right now Gunner Henderson base auto Yankeel Fernandez nice one there for the Rockins, how we doing Gorman Cavalli Kyle Stowers? That is true. You are the son of trash Nolan Jones Christopher Morel rookie Manuel Belichick base auto for the Blue Jays nice one there Toronto the on Jorge Nelson, Alaska's I was thought I was I was on Waste basket fanatics live yesterday. I was like, I love how we just call you both like you're just known as bofa and It's a 150 Jackson Meryl. Most people probably even know what that I know It's a 150 Jackson Meryl base auto of mason hour. I swung there for the race Lawler and tomorrow and he goes. Yeah, he's like I do I do prefer that over other nicknames. I got Moe and he goes. Yeah And rushing the field Oklahoma down Oh Mark Vientos Jackson Meryl to 150 for the Padres telling you the Padres are a good squad in this man Padres are a very good squad in this Rylan with the Mets in 14 Thank You Rylan John picking up the Royals in 14 and 15 down to five to go Hunter Brown and Josh young to Brown and Josh young Thaia Spencer Jones Anthony Volpe refracted a 199 nice one there yanks Ambi or Stavara's base auto that is going to the Braves. There you go. Bravo. I agree William Yeah, I do too I like them in it's nice the quality has been fantastic on these two Not that it was ever like a bad thing in the past But like in comparison to a lot of potential tops products like it's really good man Dodgers ace pirates Rangers four to go four to go See there he is There's no Poisson in this unfortunately, I wish there was God man, I wish there was that'd be awesome. Yeah, I got you here. I can I can blast the last two here And homeboy over there. He's gone man. He's gone. We got to get me getting close to that Yoshida Ohapi to 100 Gabriel Martinez nice one there for the blue jays on the Sterling Silverado Arias Akunyan Ellie base Yeah, getting close to the It's probably it's on to what 730 Half half hour or so first time drinking a Celsius there into shabby. They're good man. Oh, yeah, they're pretty good mob name of the day Tony the sofa Adley Russian prep baby to 50 Christian Veccharo there we go Nats 34 50 Very nice Andy with two spots in the flux mixture that's down to 12 to go now. Thank you, Andy Yeah, I like Celsius man, I'm a Celsius guy. It's way better. Sure. Yeah, I agree with that Kumar rockers Sam Zavala to 125 Mason power hour on the wave auto going to the rays Muncie parada in yasir Mercedes Brosin Dave Gonzalez, Mejia base auto nice one there for the Cardinals John the Mahill Idiot ancestor came up with this last name Lawler and tomorrow Johnson Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I agree. I like a Lonnie's to a Lonnie's are good. Yeah, I've heard those are good Yeah, I'm a big like fan. I like cherry flavored stuff ever really good cherry Yeah, I get you a chair every time I walk in I'm like that's everybody says when I walk in the gas station like look man Get you a chair Xavier Isaac to 150 Jordan a laula We got a blue here blue for the Mets Alex Ramirez 15 to 25 nice one there Congrats Mets Very nice Anthony P with a spot in the flux mixer and the flux other break as well Nice one there. We've got a la Cuxi with a two spots in the flux mixer. Thank you guys. Appreciate that Garrett Mitchell and Hunter Brown I couldn't do that anymore There's like a lot of lawsuits against that company too, yeah I was out on being one of my One of my buddies said that his his buddy like his friend which works like an office job And we drink one every morning at like a seizure in the middle of the day one day. Okay I'm gonna take a step back from that now My last name is French, but we're Scottish less Irish and German There you go, but he up based on a Lee over McGuero rookie auto for the Pirates nice one there That's right. No, I've never had an old-school for low. I've had my share of four locos Yeah, I don't know about the old-school Jackson Holland. I've had yeah I've had my share of four locos, but I'll never forget my like Fashion year of college because they're so cheap. Yeah, that's they're so cheap dude.  They're not good at all, but they're very very high in alcohol, which is good So I'll never forget dude my my freshman year of college. We were going out in a pre-gaming one day and I Yeah, old-school locos. I'll have you bent for sure is what I've heard you are tired of 50 nice one there for the Dodgers to 75 Henry Bolt going to the ace. I think that's Kale right there congrats Kale last team's taken Henry Bolt Ellie Bates and Nelson Rada, and I just hammered through a four loco just to get through it I'm just you know to be like good to have some fun and Stood up and that was it Immediately reversed yeah Stood up and reversed all the four loco I put into my body Gunner Henderson Brady house to 150 Jordan Walker nice one there for the Cardinals was Romantes to 100 nice one there congrats Mariners Cavalli and Kate Stowe's I forget drinking like Bacardi No, what is it?  It's not good and it's like drink it's like drinking gasoline Yeah, Tito's I'm not a Tito's man. Yeah, exactly. It's cheap buzz exactly more Volpe rookie base Reggie Crawford base auto nice one there for it the Giants congrats on that Giants Exactly Anthony exactly jet the Met Jackson churro yon keel Fernandez Exactly exactly that's exactly what it was shite That's a green Yvonne Herrera las romantes nice one there base auto for it the Mariners congrats Mariners Colson Montgomery at Deon Jorge Nelson Velasquez. All right everybody gonna do a quick recap here Gold stuff 50 do cartile that exactly that's what I'm saying Dude Lazaro Montez Reggie Crawford Leo from Aguero Johnson make you and be ours to bars mason hour Manuel Belcher Yon keel Fernandez Simon one Junior Caminero Sam Zavala Nelson Rada your Donnie de los Santos the 150 It's Jackson Merrill. It's 125 mason hour 100 Gabriel Martinez and Lazaro Montez the 75 Henry bolt the 50 Christian Macarro and a 25 Alex Ramirez I'll do it for the break everybody. Thanks again for the fill coming up next is number 14