Good morning and welcome to the Center for Strategic and International Studies. I'm Andrew Schwartz, Vice President of External Relations here at CSIS. And I'm joined by two of my colleagues, Doctors Michael Green and Victor Cha. And I just want to apologize in advance for bringing such lightweights on the issue of Asia to this briefing, but now we're very fortunate to have two of the world's leading experts on Asia, both of who served in the former administration at the highest level of policymaking. And with that, I'm going to turn it over to my colleague, Dr. Mike Green, who will give you a sort of a scene-setter as to what's happening. Thanks. Thank you, Andrew. Thank you, everyone. Victor and I both worked in the NSC and planned trips like the one the President's about to take and have enormous sympathy for our successors who are putting together this trip to Indonesia, Australia, and Guam, especially since it got delayed, which if you're the guy in the front lines dealing with these governments and trying to reschedule everything is no picnic, and I imagine they're pretty busy and are pulling it all together quite professionally. That trip was originally, of course, supposed to take place earlier during the spring break at Sidwell Friends so that the President could bring his family. And it was delayed, of course, because of the health care debate to March 18th, and so his family won't be going. Spring break is over. The kids have to go back to school. As a dad, I'm completely sympathetic with that, too. Indonesia is, in some ways, the highlight of this trip with all respect to our friends in Australia. Australians, I think, would be quite pleased that the President is paying so much attention to Indonesia. It is a critical and pivotal strategic country, not only in Asia but in the Islamic world and in the developing world. And while the Clinton and Bush administrations invested in the Indonesia relationship, I think for U.S. farm policy it is a relationship that could do much more. This is a pivot in the Islamic world. It is a successful example to both Asia that democratization can be successful and to the Islamic world that democratization can be successful. Indonesia has had direct presidential elections. Civil society in Indonesia, including NU and major Islamic organizations, have embraced democracy as a way to advance their agenda and to do it peacefully and within the constitutional provisions of the nation. So it's a success story for democracy, a lesson for the Islamic world, a lesson for countries like China and Asia. Indonesia has also been successful in the war on terror. Just last week they killed one of the terrorists responsible for the bombings at the Marriott Hotel. I remember in 2001 and early 2002, after 9-11, in the White House, there were real questions about whether Indonesia might end up being the next Afghanistan. And instead what has happened is the country has successfully held democratic elections, has built a credible counterterrorism capability, and has actually rolled back Jamiah Slami and other threats in the country. Indonesia is also important in this larger question of East Asian integration and architecture. Indonesia is the largest country in ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Now a member of the G20, founding member of APEC. So for an American strategy aimed at keeping the U.S. fully engaged in Asia, Indonesia is a really important partner. In many ways, I've heard people in the administration say that Indonesia will be for Obama what India was for Bush. It will be the big strategic relationship that they transform. And they come into the trip with a pretty ambitious agenda, at least initially, and I'll get back to why I say initially in a moment. They'll announce a comprehensive, a U.S.-Indonesia comprehensive partnership. The highlights are pretty thin, to be honest, and I think one of the deep concerns in the administration is that they're going on this trip and they don't have a lot of deliverables. And when you're in the summitry business, as Victor and I were, you want deliverables. You want agreements, you want breakthroughs, you want to use the President's trip to justify leaving Washington, to show the importance of the relationship through a series of concrete items. And for a variety of reasons, this trip is not, is going to be a bit thin on, quote, unquote, deliverables. They will have an agreement on educational exchange to modestly expand the full-bite program. They are working on a very important agreement to expand military to military cooperation and education. The problem there is that Senator Leahy has held up mill-to-mill exchange because he doesn't want to include Kopasas. Kopasas is the Indonesian special forces, the Green Beret. And in the past, they've been involved in some pretty bad activities. So the administration is working still, I think, and it will probably go right down to the wire trying to convince Senator Leahy to allow them to expand some military to military cooperation that would include Kopasas. And they'll probably have to compromise by sort of getting younger officers who were brought into the force after some of the human rights violations. And Victor and I have both been sort of trying to take the pulse of this, in our sense, as they have not yet worked it out. If they can, that will be a big deliverable. They'd like to do more on economics, but unfortunately, I think the economic, bilateral economic agenda is going to be rather thin. Part of the problem is that the Indonesians themselves are just not ready and have not been able to step up and answer some of these deliverables. The Indonesian government has some capacity issues in foreign policy to begin with. It's a small foreign service. It's not been terribly active internationally. It's not been terribly active with the U.S. And there are even more handicapped now because President SBY, President Yudyono, is embroiled in this scandal, this controversy over a bank century. Which is a bank which was involved in some questionable dealings, ran into trouble. There were charges that it was giving money to Yudyono's political lieutenants. They ran into financial trouble and the government offered a bailout of the bank in the context of the current financial crisis. And the problem is that the bailout was approved by Yudyono's vice president and some of the major economic reformers. Precisely the sort of economic reformers who would be working with the U.S. to have a successful agenda for liberalizing the Indonesian economy, improving the environment for foreign direct investment. These same guys are implicated in this bailout of bank century. And the DPR, the parliament last week issued a ruling saying that the president and the administration were wrong to bail out the bank. So there's talk of impeachment, this huge scandal, SBY has become very cautious and his economic reformers are not able to mobilize the government to get agreements with the U.S. to open up investment and things. So the economic part is also a bit thin. We're also, frankly, on the U.S. side not terribly interesting right now in terms of trade strategy. The president hasn't advanced the U.S.-Korea free trade agreement in the Congress. We've said we're going to do the Trans-Pacific Partnership TPP, which, by the way, does not include Indonesia. It starts with four countries, Singapore, Brunei, Chile and New Zealand, expands to Vietnam and then we're in Australia is interested. Indonesia's not in it. So there isn't much on our side that we're bringing in terms of trade liberalization in Asia generally and there's not much we have on Indonesia. We can talk about that more if you like. So for a variety of reasons, some of it timing, some of it scandals Indonesia, some of it that we don't have a very ambitious trade strategy ourselves, the deliverables will be rather thin. And I think the White House is a bit worried about this. I would say, though, that this is one place, Indonesia, where the president's popularity really is an asset for the United States. I think that the administration overplayed the president's biography in the trip to China and as a result came up short. I think they've overplayed it elsewhere. But in Indonesia, President Obama is very, very popular and his own history in Indonesia means that just the fact of a trip is going to advance U.S. interests even if we don't get these deliverables. Briefly on Australia, it's the 70th anniversary of our diplomatic relationship. The Obama administration in many ways did not get the Asia it wanted. It wanted to continue building the U.S.-Japan alliance, but then it got the DPJ government in Japan. Very populist, very hard to work with. It wanted to expand and elevate U.S.-China relations beyond what Bush had done, but then it ran into an outwardly confident, almost arrogant China and an inwardly insecure China dealing with its own leadership succession in 2012. And if you saw Wen Jiabao's comments, you can see how difficult China is. So he's not gotten the Asia he wants. And in Indonesia, of course, the big hope for a transformed strategic relationship ran aground because of domestic problems in Indonesia. But he got lucky in two areas. Korea and Australia, with Im Young-Bak and with Kevin Rudd. And the U.S.-Australian alliance has really benefited from a kind of synchronicity of our political bio-rhythms. You had Bush and Howard, two like-minded conservatives at the same time. And then they both switched and you had two left of center multilateralist reformers in favor of aggressive policies on climate change, both very cerebral. So Rudd and Obama are actually very well configured for each other. They will talk about a range of issues. I'm sure they'll complain, but both of them have been stymied by their Senate, the Australian Senate and the U.S. Senate, by conservative opponents who've blocked health care reform and climate change. They have a very similar political set of headaches to each other. They have very similar views on climate change. Australia's been very helpful in the war on terror and in Afghanistan. The President won't get a significant increase in Australian troops for Afghanistan, I don't think he'll ask. The one area where there's a little bit of not disagreement but a different temperature is that Kevin Rudd is pushing this idea of an Asia-Pacific community. Australia's answer for the question of how you organize Asian architecture. And for the most part, the Obama administration's been kind of lukewarm about it. A little bit concerned that it might overshadow APEC, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum, which will be held in Japan and then next year in Hawaii. And I don't think the Obama administration wants anything to overcrowd that. And partly because there's a little bit of not invented here syndrome. If the U.S. government didn't think of the regional architecture, then we're not that interested. So one thing to watch on the Australia trip is how they talk about Kevin Rudd's Asia-Pacific community concept. The Australian press and some Australian observers are saying Obama and Ujjona will endorse Kevin Rudd's Asia-Pacific community concept, which is very vague by the way. But we'll see. It's sort of one of the things the Australian press will be watching. Guam is the last, there's the only other stop. And I think my guess is Guam is a refueling stop, frankly. On these trips, you always have to put Air Force One down to refuel. Usually you do it at a military base so that the president can meet with families and thank them, meet with the military officers. Guam's important strategically, but my guess is the stop is mostly to refuel. So that's a brief overview of the trip. The other place you could refuel is Japan, but that's not a very convenient place to stop these days, I guess. I think Mike covered a lot. Let me just add a couple of points. Mike sort of finished by saying how this was in the Asia that they didn't expect. The other way of looking at this is, they tried Asia one way in year one, and now they get a do-over, right? And they're doing it over again. The first year the focus was on China. China was, as the president said, in the speech in Japan in November, China was central to the US global agenda. China was really all out engagement, and that kind of didn't work out very well, right? And then the other area they were really focused on was opening the unclenched fist to countries like Cuba and in Asia, North Korea, right? And they got, in return for that, they got a missile test and they got a nuclear test, right? And then the unexpected thing they got was Japan, right? The domestic change in Japan, and a lot of the issues that came up there. So that was year one, and sort of year two now is the do-over year, right? They're trying it a different way. We can talk about this tensions with China arising over a number of issues. Clearly on North Korea, a very different track with sanctions, being the prominent aspect of the policy right now. Very major preoccupation with Japan in terms of the new government and how they're doing this, the realignment and the overall future of the alliance. And now they begin year two with the big piece of Asia being this trip to Southeast Asia, right, in the South Pacific. Very unusual, right? Very unusual. I can't remember the last time a US president made a trip to Southeast Asia, only to Southeast Asia when there wasn't an APEC or something like that going on. I mean, I can't remember the last time that has ever happened, because usually it's always to Northeast Asia. So I think this is sort of, they're trying to do it over. And one of the things they're clearly playing on is this notion that a trip like this really demonstrates how the United States is really an Asia Pacific power. In the beginning, in the first year they talked about how this was the first Asian president of the United States because it was upbringing in Indonesia. So you get a lot of rhetoric like this. This trip is really trying to put actions to words. Trying to really show because it is such an unusual trip to take that this is really where the rhetoric of the Asia Pacific president turns into action. I think regardless of how many deliverables or lack of deliverables we tell you about or when they brief you they will try to tell you about. No matter how many times people try to spin you, I think overall for many of you the story of the trip is homecoming, right? President's homecoming. And the fact that he's doing this is such a critical time here in terms of the domestic politics of healthcare. And I can certainly understand, I guess the one thing I would say is you know when we plan these sorts of trips and you try to figure out when is a good time to take the president and his entire tail to Asia for a week or 10 days because if you include refueling it ends up being that long. And the answer is there's never a good time, right? It's like family planning. There's never a good time to have your next child, right? So there's never a good time to do a trip like this. And obviously many would argue that this isn't a particularly good time. But I mean I think in terms if we think about it from our perspective sort of the U.S. in Asia it is a very important trip because you know half the battle with regard to U.S. standing in Asia is signaling, right? And if the president goes at this particular time when there are a lot of issues admittedly on the table here at home that is signaling something to Asia that the United States really is an Asia-specific power and it's not going to let China sort of completely dominate every aspect of this region. So I think that's an important thing. And one of the things I would like to watch carefully is sort of China's reaction to this trip because you know this really isn't, as Mike said, there isn't a whole lot of policy deliverables yet he's taking this trip and in many ways that is Chinese diplomacy, right? The Chinese are very good at having big trips where not a lot happens. So the last thing I would say about these two particular stops is we always talk about how you know there's a new agenda for the 21st century and this trip in many ways I think exemplifies the new agenda because these two countries again are not countries you would normally think of as the first stops or even any stops on an Asia-Pacific swing yet they're the two main ones and then in many ways there are two countries that really represent sort of the new agenda, right, the new 21st agenda. Both countries, as Mike said, are a member of the G20 for different reasons in terms of the global war on terror. You know 21st century agenda item, Australia has had a reputation for establishing a well-deserved reputation for punching above its weight both in Iraq and in Afghanistan and as Mike said there's some issues potentially with regard to Afghanistan and Indonesia is absolutely critical to both the fight against the global war on terror but also preventing the growth of terrorism in Southeast Asia. On climate change Australia's key country in Copenhagen and Indonesia really represents sort of the developing country sort of commitment to this global climate change agenda. There's a big debate between the developed and developing countries on this and Indonesia is trying and therefore very critical to that movement. And the last thing which I think can't be overstated is this whole question of Indonesia representing this combination of tolerance democracy you know the moderate Muslim democracy there are not many of those around and the fact that you know the president will go there in many ways it's a shame that he's not going with the family because pictures you know of the president and the kids you know visiting sites and things those pictures those pictures can probably do more to help reframe the discussion and the discourse and Islam than 50 speeches that the president might give so but in that sense that's kind of a disappointment but I still think he's there he's visiting these sites if he's speaking in the native tongue which you know he can do if he needed to I would assume these sorts of things will go a long way in in terms of reframing the discourse on Islam.


First question on this episode came from my god my god game. He said ain't great in first question ever for me here I've watched question from subs and always wanted to but never asked one myself Well, hey, it's the first time everything baby welcome aboard and I appreciate you sitting this question. He said him Maybe it won't happen. But do you think we can bring back Marcus Peters and? Sign Zach earth so so my guy he wants to double dip and hey Maybe by the time you see this video, maybe Zach earths will have determined where his next Location will be or whatever team he'll go to next, but I Don't think the Ravens was that hurts. That's a possibility Well as of right now as of this recording But Marcus Peters while it is technically a possibility since he's a free agent It ain't happening. It just I just don't see it happening at all They had every single opportunity in the world this past off-season to bring him back every opportunity He didn't get signed till way late in the off-season, but they didn't take it They did not take it they didn't take it and they signed a rocket scene and then I mean what I assume I think a lot of us assume rocket scene was gonna be that number two corner But obviously Brandon Stevens he done stepped in and showed out But I'm Marcus Peters at that's that's a no I just I don't see that happening whatsoever. He said I actually was expecting Jaylen armor Davis to be what Ronald Darby is for us this year And you're seeing started off the year strong Mason big plays against the bungles. No, that's not a typo But takeaways is in peace thing and it seems like we're missing that in a way Okay, I can see how you saying that especially in the secondary I mean Geno stone. He was getting take enough takeaways for everybody for the hot minute And hopefully he can get back to that too But as far as takeaways there Ravens They had well, they have had actually a lot of takeaways and whatnot But that defense has just been so strong that it hasn't all been it hasn't been all about takeaways It's just been about keeping the opponent is keep away So why they throwing some takeaways here and there they play a lot of keep away Keep the opponents away from the end zone and that is extremely important as you already know And he said Humphrey hasn't been out there and I think it's a good idea to test who we haven't seen Compete just to see what we'll have later on in the year when it matters most with Marlowe will definitely be back But it seems so weird. Maybe it's just me But when Peter said I think we ain't done after they lost and then he solidified our win against the Titans the very next year After we lost to them a year before I just like this the time where MP could show what he meant He was coming back off injury and look not himself last year And I haven't seen him tackle the way he has for Vegas in a Raven in uniform I don't know. Maybe I'm tripping Yeah, Marcus Peters He was cool. He was cool. The energy was there the vibe was there On the field. Yeah, last year was rough. But yeah, you're right context is important He was coming back off of injury But now this year he got released Due to lack of effort due to poor tackling due to business decisions and I Mean maybe he's doing on purpose so you come back to the Ravens Maybe he's like, man, maybe they might give me one more shot One last ride this is maybe he was gonna get it do his own little Ray Lewis.  They've been some miss tackles here in there But overall especially in a second there They've been doing a very very good job of tackling wrapping up open field tackling to especially Ronald Dobby So when Marcus Peters, that's an Yeah, yeah, no Zack earth again, maybe but Marcus Peters. No now back to something that you said I was like, huh cuz you said that um Maybe it's a good idea to test who we haven't seen compete just to see what we'll have later on in the year No, no, no, no, no no my friend. No, this is not the time to test stuff out. Uh-uh, no Ravens sitting at 93 like the number one seat is right there right there all they got to do I mean saying it like that make it sound so easy right all they gotta do is when he's last five games Look at the number one seed. Yeah, that's tough but If if this was a throwaway year if this season was done, you know, oh, yeah Tell whoever you want to test so whoever you want to throw out there I don't even matter at this point, but it's not So you you can't do trial runs with this corner back here That's safety there and this linebacker there You can't you can't afford to do that right now because everything counts and everything is of the s Everything is of the essence literally everything. So Yeah, you yeah, you you want to know what you got in Jalen Alma Davis. You want to know what you got and um in a Pepe Williams You you want to know what you got in different but you'll find that out later in tuck We trust next question came from my guy with Sean. He said what's up in great when the team keep it clean I got a quick question after the charges game. I started to get a little scared I was scared because I was wondering if Justin Tucker was on a bit of a decline I know a good amount of his misses this year will do to some block kicks Which in my opinion he can't really do much about but some of the others have been Uncharacteristic misses I choose not to believe mr. Tuck is declining So I am now wondering if due to the long snapper change in the offseason if that has anything to do with the missed field Goes because I believe we were not having these this issue last year looking forward to hearing your thoughts and just like your new baby will be Just like your new baby will be in about nine months I'm out and said PS wasn't the long snapper that got hurt and we were placed in the offseason just making sure I got the position Right. Yeah, it was because Nick Moore. He was the long snapper before and Tyler art I want to say that's his name. He is a long snapper now. Um, I Like have we seen any like bad snaps any snaps where Jordan stout is having to reach up in the air and put it down real quick And that messes up Justin Tucker's kick. I don't think so. I don't remember any. I don't recall any So I believe a little maybe maybe Jordan stout didn't get the laces out on something. I don't but it's on JT it's on Justin Tucker and Yeah, he just been missing and Since we've been so spoiled with Justin Tucker year after year ever since 2012.  You still don't make it But this year. Nope it ain't been like that It ain't been like that and it's like field goals that were once give me field goals Well, not even necessarily give me field goals, but field goals that like normally JJD would hit No, he doesn't miss it. Let's some of them. Now again, like you mentioned block kicks. Yeah, that can't do none about that Can't do none about that like it's the same thing with Lamar if he in the pocket and he getting ready to throw on somebody Oh, they knock it out of there. Can't do nothing about that Can't do a thing about that but The miss kicks. Yeah, that's that's JT. Is he on a decline? Oh, I Think we won't know till next year. I think we would that that'll be something that we won't know till next year Because this year has been has it been his worst year ever. I Think it has been and now again, Justin Tucker, we there's high standards for Justin Tucker Extremely high standards for Justin Tucker. So saying this is his worst year ever and it hasn't been all bad, of course But just the misses like you said, they are very Uncharacteristic of him and we just not used to that but as far as him possibly being on a decline I know that conversation has come up a lot amongst Ravens fans And I got get why because we're not used to it But I think that's something that we won't really be able to see until next season So maybe when Nick Moore comes back or if they run with Tyler odd again, I'm not sure what they're gonna do but um But again, I don't think it's the longest ever though. I think it's the one that's been kicking the ball Next question came from my god job. Oh, he said which free agent signing this all season. Do you see us re-signing? Oh, okay. That's that's a good question right there. So who are the Ravens gonna bring back? He said OBJ Kyle vanoy or jadevian Clowney? Out of those three ah It's tricky, but I would put it in this order Odell Beckham, Jr. Jadevian Clowney like literally right behind them. Maybe even right next to him And then but I don't think they'll bring back Kyle vanoy They Well, they're back on Junior It hasn't been like this crazy statistical year for him anything like that But the way That he's not only that that he's embraced Baltimore the city and of course the team But the way that the team has really embraced him you can tell that with the Baltimore Ravens and Odell Beckham, Jr It's more than just on field stuff. It's off the field stuff as well It's his vibe. It's his energy. It's the leadership. It's his experience. It's his what he can teach the other guys It's him just making sure like a Lamar like making sure Lamar even came back So but with the Baltimore Ravens, I think it's much deeper than just the contract even though that contract 15 real guaranteed. He ain't playing over a year with the chance iron three more Meal like Ravens like they they pay that man a lot of money But so that's why I would say Odell Beckham, Jr. First now today being clowning Now he he been doing the stuff on and off the field So the vibe is there the energy is there the leadership is there him just being happy is there But on a field he been balling man. That dude is amazing So that's why I would put him next to Odell Beckham, Jr. And Kyle vanoy I don't think they'll bring him back even with your David and clowning.  I would love them to go. Y'all know me I'm a clown he got all day, but I'm just especially depending on how the season goes I'm not even convinced that they will bring it. Now if they if they win the Super Bowl Then I definitely think that they will not bring him back I would love for them to but I think like when you win the Super Bowl in my opinion I feel like teams get a bit especially the Ravens especially after their first Super Bowl when they brought everybody back But um, I feel like when you win the Super Bowl, you're a lot more lax You're like, hey, we won a Super Bowl. All right, we could test some more stuff out now.  We'll trade that guy away Remember Angkwan Bolton like Ravens won a Super Bowl. Oh, yeah won a Super Bowl and then they're like, man He's over in Africa right there helping people out Let's trade them for a secret. I'm thinking about that and then remember then a couple years later, Lody Nauta Lody Nauta Ravens one of the best interior defensive linemen ever one of the most disruptive ones Um Then he got traded a couple years later to the Detroit Lions So, yeah, Tori Smith, I think he was with the Ravens after the Super Bowl. He was the Ravens for like One or two more years. Um, I think too. Yeah, two more years because the first year was him and Jacobi Jones in a second It was him and Steve Smith senior then that he was he was out of there after that Ravens tried though They tried to sign him, but it just obviously didn't work out the the San Francisco 49ers offered him five more five meal more Overall than the Ravens contract was I think um Ravens contract was five years 30 mil San Francisco was five years 35 mil I believe so Yeah, but that again back to what I was saying I feel like after and hopefully we get they even had his conversation Everything's lining up for the Ravens to had his conversation Hopefully they do but after a Super Bowl like teams are like, oh, okay. Yeah, we could afford to let that guy go They may not Value certain people as much since it's like, all right. We don't accomplish the big goal. We we don't got it All right. Well, cool. Let's see what's next. Let's see if we could try something differently or whatnot So, I mean, we'll we'll see we'll see like very very soon because the season is creeping up on us It's going by really fast He also said we must protect Lamar Jackson Ronnie has two years around 100 mil remaining on his contract According to an article I read if we cut him before June 1st We save eight million dollars and we'll have 17.8 mil of dead money Is this a good thing to do or should we wait to see if he can regain his old form? See, that's the beauty of it you You can have this conversation right now and you still got at least five games left to see What Ronnie Stanley can do Ronnie Stanley and the Baltimore Ravens had have had a much needed by week that by week is over They back at practice now. So things are getting back ramped up. But um, what Ronnie Stanley? You just hope that alright, you had a nice nice rest nice long rest break cool All right, let's let's see what you got now Let's see if you could do a turnaround for this part of the season where we need you to be the best Speaking of the offensive line next question came from Mars. He said they're low engraving I'll be doing well. Just want to send a not so quick question on our offensive line Seeing as Ronnie Stanley's injury keeps being re aggravated and Kevin Zeidler's contract is up soon I was wondering your take on what I think could be our starting offensive line next year Okay, Ronnie says we can move on from him But historically we have remained loyal to our stars even as they regress see Jimmy Smith and Brandon Williams for examples We keep Morgan Moses for his last year on his contract and let Zeidler walk or retire unless he agrees to a team-friendly deal Maybe three million year To close out his career See, this is what I'm talking about, too. If Ravens win the Super Bowl a Lot of conversations would change especially to another thing when when a team wins a Super Bowl Everybody who's on that Super Bowl team, especially if they played their value Skyrockets the skyrockets even if they were one of the teams not sold with one not one of their best players Their values skyrockets. So that can make teams feel like all right. Well Yeah, we'll let them go test the water somewhere else. We'll let them go see what his value is somewhere else And we'll just go in another direction So there's something to think about anyway, he said it so that leaves us with Tyler Linda bomb He got it on lock and left guard from what I understand Andrew boy He's was expected to transition from tackle to guard coming out of the draft I think Ravens try him at left guard to ease him in we spend a day to pick on a tackle Probably reaching if we pick one late in the first round as insurance for Stanley John Simpson becomes a cap casualty if he doesn't win the starting spot to allow fire Lele to rotate in if needed. I know a long question, but what do you think any guys in the draft that you've heard about? Oh, no Draft no, no, no, no, no, I'm gonna hit by no draft right now We in the middle of season and Ravens in a good spot like had the season been over Yeah, talking draft where we gonna pick in the first round. How high is our pick on the no that question ain't happening right now We ain't talking thinking about that at all. Can we try to get through this year? Now? as far as Voorhees I Feel like with him and they were they drafted him in the sixth round because they traded back into the sixth round Was it the seventh round either one or two? They traded back in to get him in essentially. This is like a red shirt yiffing But I feel like with him. He's a Project and you cannot rely on you can't put all your eggs into the Voorhees basket So I would not think that the Baltimore Ravens will go into next season being like alright He's gonna be a starter there.  Oh, and I mean Well, he did he ended up playing his rookie year, but he was hurt for most of the year But in this year eggs into the David a job. Oh basket didn't work out At least they didn't put all of them in there though, but anyway With John Simpson So you you saying you could see him staying until like training camp to compete for that guard spot And then he said with with Zyla he could possibly either walk or attire again for even to a Super Bowl Maybe he'd be like, you know what? Hey, I done done at all. I done played against every single team in the league Yeah, I'm done. That's it. So cuz got again you win a Super Bowl. That's top of the top that's it like You achieved the ultimate goal so that can we talked about how the team can view a lot of players But that can make the players of you that careers definitely too, especially if you're on the back end of your career You may think like, you know what? I'm done I'm going out on top. I did it Accomplish it or maybe the younger guys be like, hey, I did it. Let's go get another one So, I mean it all just opinion older guys could obviously say that too But yeah, next year offensive line It could look a lot different as far as he said he feels like it will be a reach if we pick the offensive line and left tackle In the first round Is it a reach it all depends on what they would do with Ronnie Stanley If Ronnie Stanley is gonna stay Which is I feel like it's just so up in the air right now But if Ronnie Stanley is gonna stay and you picking a left tackle in the first round It's like man You want you want a really really good left tackle to be ready because Ronnie Stanley here He's missing significant amount of time But at the same time you're investing a lot of money in the Ronnie Stanley a whole lot of money So you if you spend in a first round pick on the left tackle. It's like oof That's like double investments and again it is stay ready So you ain't got to get ready But at the same time you will have other needs that may be more pressing than left tackle if Ronnie Stanley is staying So so much depends on how the rest of the season goals had a guy's performed for the rest of the season because next year like So much is up in the air It's so much that we don't know is gonna go down as so many Pending free agents guys who could be cut release restructure all that good stuff. Whoo Next offseason is going to be wild as every offseason is but next one is going to be really well Now at least we got them off so he got away But we gotta go through all that headache and all that stress and drama like we did this past offseason, but Next offseason so many contracts expire so many guys trying to get paid You can't keep everybody you can't pay everybody and God guys wanting they don't want to get their bread and hey Who knows there could be some guys that end up requesting to be traded next question came from my guy tank Bromansky and now I gotta give a special shout out to my god tank because he just became a team keep it clean Patron so tank. I appreciate you very much. He said hope the family's good and well It's really cool to see how your brand is growing keep it up Might be silly, but and then I appreciate you. Thank you me He said my question is do you think NFL team should scout talented sumo wrestlers for offensive and defensive line spots I've been a sumo fan for a while and those dudes footwork is really impressive They wouldn't let anyone through and are used to hand battles in order to either create leverage for shoving opponents back or Exploiting the opposition's momentum to send them straight into the dirt that would be something and I say go for it What's the worst that could happen the guy don't like football and you don't play okay? Well you tried so yeah Might as well because if it could be one of those things because we hear about it with rugby players I mean we just talked about a loading out earlier, and he was somebody who was big in the rugby Then he obviously made that transition to football. He did just fine So if somebody's a sumo wrestler, obviously, you got to be extremely physical. You got to be strong But you talked about footwork, and that's something that I didn't even realize sumo wrestlers had So hey, I'd say you could try it see how it works in worst-case scenario It doesn't work out and they stick to sumo next question came from my guy Gareth And he sent the video that I had a lot of people talking Recently about how the Ravens by Alex Rollins NFL is called how the Ravens are elite without Superstars and I thought that was very interesting and he said engraving us Gareth. Can you make Excuse me a video on how we use our defense. This is the best breakdown. I've seen yet now I haven't watched the video, but just from the title alone How it is mentioned in the Ravens and I've heard a lot of good things about the video I haven't got to watch it myself yet. I haven't had the time to yet but just to sit thinking about the title and Thinking about who are superstars on the Baltimore Ravens defense They don't have any They don't have any now a suit Listen cuz I know some people gonna get it get me wrong a Superstar somebody like Lamar Jackson. That's a superstar Somebody who's good on a football field but also known across the whole NFL and known outside the NFL too And even bigger superstar then Lamar Jackson on the Baltimore Ravens to Odell Beckham, Jr That's super superstar status right there They don't have that on defense and that's not a bad thing because they make it in work Not to say they don't have good players that we're not saying that not saying that they don't have good players because they have some really good ones But they don't have a superstar on defense They got some players that definitely respected around the league, but we're talking like so It all depends on what type of superstar you talk about you talk about just superstar in general Okay, but you're like cuz cuz even in the thumbnail he got Ray Lewis and back and Ray Lewis was obviously He was well-known A read so it seems like maybe maybe he might be talking about just superstar in the NFL Like one of those guys in the NFL and if that's what he's talking about then you got guys like Roquon Smith And you got guys like Marlon Humphrey some of the best at their position So if we talking about that kind of superstar some of the best at their positions in the NFL Yeah, Ray Ravens got some of those now Kyle Hamilton He is a He's a wild card Because he ain't a superstar yet. He is amazing But he ain't got no regular position. Yeah.  He's just a baller. That's it Madda BK coming up. Is he one of the best at his position? He won the most productive right now for sure So he's working his way up Patrick Queen been doing this thing. So we got some guys we got some guys superstars I would just say the two Roquon Smith and Marlon Humphrey. They've been clowning. He's been really really good to see but I for me I think superstar somebody that has consistently been one of the best at their position for multiple years and Roquon Smith and Marlon Humphrey, they can definitely say that anybody else on this defense Who's been consistently one of the best at their position for years? I can't think of anybody off the top of my head Of course, y'all know my memory is messed up. So maybe y'all think somebody before I do But yeah, though, I would definitely say those two So I guess we we do have some superstars on this Baltimore Ravens defense and their lead So it's like a double Emmy


Hello, welcome to the session on Selenium IDE testing tool, the first test case in continuation with the previous video. At the end of this session, students will be able to use Selenium IDE to execute test scripts. Selenium IDE is divided into different components, each having their own features and functionalities. We have categorized seven different components of Selenium IDE, which includes menu bar, toolbar, address bar, test case pane, test scripts editor box, start or stop recording button, and the last log or reference pane. So this diagram that shows the welcome screen of IDE window that contains all the components as shown in the diagram. That is menu bar, toolbar, address bar, and at the right side, start and stop recording button, test case pane, left side, and the right side bottom that is test script editor box, and at the last bottom, log and reference pane. So this is how it looks the welcome screen of Selenium IDE. Next we'll see the Selenium IDE first test case, how to run the test case on Selenium IDE tool. The entire test script creation process in Selenium IDE can be classified into three steps. The first one recording, recording the user interaction with the browser, then playing back, executing the recorded script, then third one saving the test shoot. So these are the three steps to execute the test case using Selenium IDE. We'll discuss the steps in detail. Recording, for recording, launch the Firefox browser, then click on the Selenium icon that present on the top right corner on your browser. So the arrow mark that showing the icon of the Selenium IDE at the right corner. So it will launch the default interface of Selenium IDE. So that is a welcome screen of Selenium IDE. Once we click on that icon, the window will display, rename the project. So rename the project as demo test, rename the test case as java tpoint underscore test. Click on the start recording button that is present on the top right corner of the IDE to start recording the test cases. So the arrow mark that indicates the start button. Once the start button is clicked, go to your Firefox browser and open the URL. The URL where taken google.com. So it will redirect you to the Google search engine. So in the Google search engine, type as a Java tutorial in the Google search box. So in the diagram in the screenshot, you can see Google search engine box that contains the text Java tutorial. So it will redirect you to the Java tpoint Java tutorial web page. Meanwhile you will get the notification of the actions that are performed by the IDE at the extreme right corner of your web browser. Now go to the IDE and click on the stop recording button to stop recording your actions further. The same button we use for to start the recording and stop the recording in the Selenium IDE. Playing back, click on the run test case button that present in the toolbar menu of the IDE. It will execute all of your interactions with the browser and gives you an overall summary of the executed test scripts. Saving a test suite that is the last step. Save the entire test suite as a demo test. The test suite can be found at the location provided in the above steps. Notice that the test script is saved in .side format that is Selenium IDE format .side. Let us pause the video for a while and use the Selenium IDE tool to execute the test scripts. After performing the hands on, resume the video. Let us see the how to execute the test case using the Selenium IDE. Open the Firefox browser. Then click on the Selenium IDE tool that is the IDE extension in the Firefox browser. So click on the Selenium IDE. When we use the Selenium IDE for the first time, the welcome screen contains the four options record a new test in a new project, open an existing project, create a new project, choose the Selenium IDE, close the Selenium IDE. So click on the record a new project. So give the project name. So just I am giving a demo test that is the project name. Then it asks for the base URL. So for the base URL, I will provide the Google.com. The base URL is the URL of the web application that you are doing the testing. So just click on the start button. Now the Selenium is the recording is started.  The Selenium IDE is recording all the actions that are performed by the user. Click on the this Java tip point. The Selenium IDE is recording all the browser's action. Now I'll stop the recording. Just click on the Selenium IDE. Just click on this stop recording. So it asks for the test case name. Just you give the name as test case one, this test case one. To save the project, you just click on the save. You can choose any location to save the project. The project is saved. So that this is the test case panel. So these are the text editor panels so that it recorded all the actions that are performed by the user. So now I want to run the test case. So just click on the now just to close the browser. Now I close the Firefox browser. Now I want to run the test case. It is playing back the recorded user actions. The test case completed successfully. In color that indicates all the test case are passed. So this is how we execute a test case using the Selenium IDE. First step is to recording the user actions. Then playing back, then third one is to save the test suite. So this is how we execute the test case using the Selenium IDE. These are the references I refer. Thank you.


Greetings. This segment of the St. Patrick's Day week 2016 show of Progressive Discussions podcast, Megalize 21 Mayhem, is a performance involving myself on African gemby drum and the Renaissance man can create, doing creative mime with magical lights. Okay, I hope you enjoyed the first segment of our show, which was before. This will be entertainment wise.  Okay. See, now he's going to sit there and I got to stand over here. Oh, by the way, by the way. No, you can sit right here.  I'm not going to block you. You told me a funny joke. Oh, yeah, man. Yeah. Oh, it's a good one. You know, undercover Bobby's latest joke on us. Okay. Okay. You know, I was reading in the paper the other day, the guy got arrested for robbing the calendar. Do you know what he got? What did he get? 12 That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Like that one. Oh, we got plenty of it, baby. You like that one on the cover, Bob? Yep. Okay. All right, Bob. But no hackling in the peanut gallery over there. I guess not. Okay. All right. This is what we call ad livin ad livin. I'm going to try to get into his mind and what he's playing. I'm going to follow and let's see if I can follow him with these lights, magical lights. Yes, we're going to do, uh, he's going to go to my beats. Now watch Bob, you might fly by with the mask, man. He flies by quick, man. So watch Bob. What the heck is that? Is that a tube? No, it's not a bomb. You smoke out of that thing? It's a bomb. No, it's an African, the Genby drum made of mahogany and goat skin. Oh, okay. All right. I thought it was a lamp. Do you think that was a lamp, Bob? No, we're trying to make fun of my instrument. That looks like a lamp shade and a pole, man, isn't it? Yeah. What do you think? Sort of. Oh, okay. All right, you ready? We got to get this show on the roll. Yeah, don't make fun of my instrument anymore, guys. I'm serious. Don't make fun of my instrument. All right, here we go. Ready? All right. Happy St. Patrick's Day. It was great. Renaissance man can create. Thank you. Thank you. All right. All right. Happy St. Patrick's Day. Drive safe. Don't drive drunk. That's it, man. I'm sure it'll be a lot of DWIs out for St. Patrick's Day. Have fun. And we'll see. And we'll see you guys, all right? All right.


Welcome back to Y254 Business Tuesday. My name is Mary Mesava and today we are talking matters innovation and entrepreneurship in digital space. Now, Gena CS Margaret Kobiya officially handed over the State Department for Youth to the Ministry of ICT. This comes after President Huru Kenyatta announced that the youth affairs was moving to the ICT docket in the recent Cabinet reshuffle. Youths make at least 60% of the Kenyan population. Now, I don't know why the move of the Department to the ICT Ministry. But to help me discuss this matters technopreneurship among the youths is brand why there are found convenience design limited. Kariwisana brand. Yes, yes. Now let's just jump into that point where the youth affairs department was moved to ICT. Why? Why did the government do that? What does it mean? What does it mean when the president reaches such a decision to move the department to the Ministry of ICT? First of all, thank you for having me. Yes. And on to the discussion, I believe that the government believes or basically the trend that the future of employment is in the digital space on the internet or any innovation. And therefore having the ICT Ministry directly interacting with technology and the internet, I believe it's therefore potential to have the Ministry directing youth affairs. But basically, you know, when you hear technopreneurship, you think of technology and entrepreneurship. But what does it actually mean? What does technopreneurship mean? Actually, technopreneurship is not much different from the usual entrepreneurship. It's only that it refers to a niche of entrepreneurship whereby you discover a technological related idea on the internet and then you commercialize it. So unlike the traditional form of entrepreneurship whereby maybe you may decide to set up a hardware or you set up a kiosk, technopreneurship does not require all those things. It just requires the internet. So what's the difference? What's the difference between all the new? So there's a lot of differences. But I think the loudest is with regard to the capital. For example, with the old entrepreneurship, you require fixed capital. Maybe the first thing you may require is an office or a shop, something physical. But for tech, all you need is your computer, be it a desktop or a laptop and connection to the internet. So you set up your business online? Yeah, basically you set up your business online. So it's kind of an e-commerce? Not necessarily e-commerce. Not necessarily e-commerce. E-commerce is just one part of technopreneurship. So technopreneurship actually is wide. Yes, okay. So what do you need to begin or to become a technopreneur? Like any business, you need an idea. And I think technopreneurship much requires an idea than the old entrepreneurship. Because now in the old, you just realize that, for example in agriculture, people just say that every human has to eat. And therefore you're not investing in agriculture because you have noted an itch, but because of the fundamental laws of humanity. But for entrepreneurship, you have to identify an idea. For example, you've mentioned Uba in your news and how they sold their business to Umato in India. So Uba each discovered that people had a challenge, especially as the world is becoming more busier. They had a challenge getting to food kiosks and cafeteria. And so they chipped in and provided a platform to connect the hoteliers and the consumers. So essentially the first thing you need is an idea. Idea then what else? Then from there, you may need skills. For example, essentially on the internet you need to have taken skills, for example programming. Even if you're not a good programmer, you need to get someone who is good in programming. So maybe you can merge up a partner and launch your technology business. So there's a lot of programming, a lot of coding involved, a lot of creating websites. That's one beach. So you can actually use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, all those social media platforms when it comes to techno-pronorship. Or is it necessarily website and all those apps? No, when you're using Facebook to do business, basically Facebook is the other one who are in techno-pronorship. Okay, that's the difference. Because people get confused actually when you mention techno-pronorship, they're thinking it's just your Facebook page and your Twitter page and your Instagram. Or actually it's creating a whole thing from scratch, right? Okay, now having a Facebook page and Instagram account or being on LinkedIn, that is just a component. And it will come in under the marketing of your techno idea. But now, for example, Facebook have already invested in the communication idea for techno-pronorship. And therefore, maybe for you to specialize, you can decide, let me come up with my own Facebook to connect older people, just older people. So now that will be your own gap in techno-pronia. Okay, as per youth, where do we stand when it comes to techno-pronorship? Because are we really embraced or are we just lacking behind? We are sitting on this gold mine instead of embracing it and maximizing it. We actually have embraced it as Kenyans and Africa, especially Kenyans and Nigeria. You are continually and massively investing in techno-pronorship. For example, you may find that in Kenya there are hundreds of startups that are launched. And by the way, when you launch your business as a techno-pronorship, it is called a startup. But now in the old entrepreneurship, it is just a business. So now you find that a lot of Kenyans and youths have invested in startups. And if you want to view some, you just need to watch the funding shows, like this safari program for youths and KCB to JJR. Some of those you will find that they are funding those ideas. And you find that there are hundreds of people who are applying those hundreds of ideas. So that means we need more innovation hubs. Because I am aware of Ihab, Nailab, so we need such innovations. Exactly. But now those Ihab and Nailab, you find that they work as incubation centers. That's another component of techno-pronorship. Now you go with your idea. For example, you realize that in the media maybe there is no one who is specializing in making documentaries. And you want to make documentaries. And then you sell them under video on demand, like views us or something. And so you go to Nailab and you tell them that you have this idea but you don't have capital or resources. So they will host you in the offices and nurture you until your idea goes to the market. And whether some of those challenges, when one wants to venture into such a thing, what are some of the challenges? I wouldn't say capital is a challenge much because now capital, mostly it comes at a later stage. Because now the first challenge is for you to begin. Beginning? Yeah, beginning. Beginning a tech startup is not something easy. And for example, you have to have skills. And if you don't have those skills, you have to look for someone competent who have those skills. And now the next thing is perseverance. Because now you realize that most of those ideas and startups, they may take up to five years before they turn a profit. And therefore if you don't have perseverance to survive under economic hardships, you may give up along the way. The other thing is management. Because now you may find that you are good in programming. So you can structure software. But now you are poor in marketing.  But then you stay with it in your house or in your office. No one is using it because they didn't market it. And actually that's a very big problem, marketing. Marketing is a challenge. Yes, apart from marketing and other challenges, what are the easiest hacks for a beginner? Easiest hacks for a beginner. Nowadays the hacks are very many. Because now if you decide to launch let's say a mobile app, mobile app will do a particular thing. Nowadays we have something called drag and drop platforms for making an application that cuts the cost of the traditional mobile development by almost 80%. And so the first hack you may decide to look for site platforms and you accelerate your project. The second hack is instead of focusing on completing your program, you may decide to first of all have something called an MVP, a minimum viable product. And take it to the market and see if the market will respond to your idea and if there is someone who is interested. If there is none, perhaps then you don't invest your resources in such a time and money. When it comes to technology, how is Kenya performing when it comes to technology and investing technology in the digital express? Because I know Kenya is leading somewhere in Nigeria because you had mentioned Nigeria. How is it performing so far? I cannot treat Kenya on a scale of 1 to 10 but qualitatively I can say we are on the right track. And for you to know that we are on the right track, we just need to look at the number of startups we have and if you go to, you mentioned Nailab. If you go to Nailab and I have, you realize that there are a lot of startups which shows you that there is a market for technology and it shows that we are continually adapting tech startups. So it's a bright future for us. Very bright. We all need to embrace it. Yes, yes. And as we finalize this, how did you begin as a founder for convenience design limited? We just shared your journey and how people can contact you and what you do. So personally I began the long way of learning to code. I had to learn to code. Before now I started up the venture. So now after I learned design and then programming, now I learned business marketing and management and then from there you make your website. After website goes live and you do the optimization such as search engine optimization and then you now create Facebook pages, Instagram pages and start sharing your services. And now when you realize that maybe there is something here people are buying your services now we proceed and register as a company. So now that has been two years since I began. You can mention your company and how people can reach you. So I founded convenience designs limited. You can find us at convenience.co.ke and the business number is 0743-750-385 On Instagram, on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn we are called convenience designs. So we can actually agree that technology and the digital space is such a gold mine. Wide and gold mine. So final comments to Kimalizia. I would like to tell anyone who has an idea, an idea to never give up because now in my line of business I've come across individuals who have brilliant ideas but now because now you can't be in the industry alone. So you realize that you have your idea but there's another one in the market. So you give up. You give up after investing. For example someone who invested 10,000 at the initial stage of designing your software but now before we proceeded to develop the development they gave up under the fear of competition. So I would like to tell anyone who wants to venture into entrepreneurship never give up, do not give up. Just make sure you do your market analysis clearly before you even invest your resources so that by the time you are going to invest your time in design and software development you are already sure that no matter the competition you have something unique. Yes. Well thank you so much Bryan. That was Bryan where there are founder convenience designs limited. Now we can agree that this topic is so what. So we will continue this discussion part two of this discussion we will be discussing why the foreigners are really running up to the digital space the Kenyan digital space and why they are investing so much and even opportunities where you can actually venture into. So join me next Tuesday for this discussion but for now let us leave it at that point. Yes. My name is Miriam Masawa. Thank you so much for staying with me here on business Tuesday. Good night and God bless you.


Everybody looks gorgeous. Oh my heavens. Thank you. Oh, this is great. Kentucky Derby has nothing on Shippulagan. I want to thank my volunteers, Francoise Pietzner, Terry Snow is back. That's good. Jackie Barbo, we all know, and today I've called her Jackie, and I'm not called her Vicki once. And of course, Peg, not Sue, Peg. And Judy Clark is back. She has recovered from all of her owas. So I'm glad you're back here. Yes. And Ruth is here today and her mother, and so we have lots of hands helping. But when it comes time to serving, we will need lots of hands again. Grazia, I want to introduce you, and then I'll start talking about other things. Grazia Perella from Shippulagan, and she is an alderman, but she originally came from where in Italy? Yeah, I come from...  I think I am. Not back at all. At 82, I don't get that anymore. Yeah, so I come from a small village in South Italy, not too far from Naples. Okay, Naples, all right. And what inspires you to come to the United States? Yeah, so I got married to an American citizen who is American-German. That was now 20 years ago. And then... So I moved here because of him. Of him? Sure. And then I moved here to Shippulagan because I accepted a position at Sargento. I am a food scientist, so I started working there in the legal department for Sargento. Now I work somewhere else. I work for Family Service Association, which is a non-profit right here in Shippulagan. Food science? You know what's going on here. Yeah, I know. But the legal department? Okay. Thank you. All of the hats, I wanted to tell you a little story about this hat. My grandfather purchased this for his wedding in 1915. Wow. That's beautiful. Isn't that nice? Yes, it's beautiful. His initials are in here. P.S. for Paul Shavey. Wow. You can put the back on the table. And I searched and searched through my closets for my job first. I did not find them. I bet I gave them away. All my cowboy boots, I put them on. They are slippery shoes. I had forgotten not for somewhat of my age. That's what he means. Today we're going to have Kentucky Hot Brown, which is a sandwich.  And there's variations. Sometimes they add ham, sometimes it's a cheese sauce instead of cheese slices. And the recipes, if you look it up, has put them in the oven. And that's the recipe I gave you until everything is melted and hot. Well, you know we do not have the oven space to do that.  Kentucky Hot Brown sandwich. And then we also have cheesy grits. And I tried grits a couple weeks ago. I cooked them according to directions. They tasted pretty good. And of course it can replace oatmeal with a little brown sugar and cinnamon and cream for breakfast. But these are mixed with, what does it say on your recipe? All sorts of things. With pimento and green chilies and green onions and things to make it a little more than just brown and lots of cheese. It tastes really good. And grits come from, they're called hominy grits. And hominy is some sort of corn that is processed and processed and processed again. So there's hardly any nutrition left in it. But there are calories and our bodies need calories too. They're pillars. They keep the poor people full. It keeps us full. It does. So we'll make some grits. And I did make for you the pimento cheese spread which is so popular in the South. I wanted y'all to have that. The last cooking class I was telling you of all the different kinds of whiskies including Brandy. Boy was I wrong. Brandy is made from grapes, not a grain. So I was wrong. Also, I told you I wrapped up my favorite knife and threw it away. I was wrong about that too. I found it in the bottom of my knife drawer. Alright. Two times wrong. Okay, let's start with the grits. Put on the wok. Put in the, I'm putting in two cups of water, making half a recipe. Now this wok, we hope it works well. We never know for sure. We'll put the lid on and hope it gets hot. I will stir the grits into that. And you do need to add them slowly and keep on a whisking or stirring otherwise it clumps. But then you can just mash the clumps too. Not at the end of the world if you have clumps. I have the grits here. I'm going to add some green chilies for flavor and appearance. And some pimento. But of course you can use your fresh red bell peppers that you have roasted and peeled or not peeled. I'm going to cut some green onions and some parsley. What do I do? Did you grate the rest of this cheese? So we have the cheese to put into that. It's getting warm. A little bit warm. Remember the old red West Bend walks that were so popular 20 years ago? They worked like magic. Yes, you're waving to me about something. I don't know what that means. Oh, would you like to sell them to me? Anyway, I called West Bend Outlet Store, talked to somebody live. They would check on it. I sent a text. They text back. They would get back to me in two days. I wrote a letter. 0000. I got no answer on anything. But if anybody has those little, the red walks that West Bend had, they get hot quickly. The electric part is separate. They work wonderfully well. I used to have four or five of them when I was catering, but of course foolishly. Did you get that knife? I've never seen one like it. I hadn't either. When I was catering, Mr. Volrath gave this to me. It was given to him. It says, Twin Town Cheese in Alima, Wisconsin. So I did not purchase it. It was a gift to me. And it does feel good. I bet. I'm glad I found it on the bottom of my knife drawer. And for Christmas, my kids gave to me the same shape, but when they ordered it, it was a little knife. But it was the same idea. But wasn't that nice of them? Yeah. They know what you like. And I know I complain a lot about the narrow saran. So they ordered a nice wide one for me, too. I'd rather have that than something else. Okay, the goodies that will go into the... Oh, I think I hear this. It is. Okay. That was pretty cool. I'll put the green onions in here. Then you can chop the parsley to put them in there. All right. Here we go. Boiling water. Slowly add the grits. You know, I should not have badmouthed this wok. It's working just fine. Wow, that's true. I have to learn to keep my mom shut a bit more. Okay. And then cooked for five or six minutes and it will get thick. Unless I put too much water in. Oh, I want it to boil. In five minutes I'll come back to it. This knife is really cool. It feels good. It feels very good. Yep. The cheese and then we will mix it all in here. And I was surprised. The grits do taste good and Terry loves them. She likes them a lot. Say that again so they can hear. My mother was born and raised in Florida. And when I was growing up you couldn't get grits here. So my grandma would send us bags of grits. And even I at the grocery store, I looked at the rice. I looked at the barley. All sorts of things. Finally I asked a clerk and she said, Marilyn, the grits are right below the oatmeal. And it was. Hot, hot. So how long the grits need to boil? Five or six minutes until they start to get thick. Okay, let's say that they're thick. Because I've made two large potatoes already. We'll turn this off. Add some Worcestershire. Garbage. Add the chopped green chilies. Not much flavor but they look really good in there. No I don't. The chopped little bitty pimentos. Some butter. And then let's put in all of this green stuff. I'll put it in if you want to keep stirring. I love that. Get a rubber scraper behind you instead of the whisk. It looks pretty cool. Wow. And of course the butter will make it very tasty. We need that giant mirror above here. Don't wait yet. You cannot see. It looks quite green now. Yes, green and red. Let's see if we can tip this a bit. So at least in the front you can... Yep. My mouth is watering. Just looking at it. And a little bit of cheese. Wow. Wow, now it is. That's amazing. How much cheese did it call for? In the grits. Okay, that was a pound. Amazing. So it's kind of like cheese with a little bit of grits added to it. Wow, it looks amazing. Now. Come and taste this. And we're not going to put the eggs in now. In fact, we don't even need to put in the eggs. It tastes amazing. Please. Pardon me? You did one. When you bake it, it makes it more easy. So it is not necessary. Yes. Amazing. Beautiful. Who's braving up to try the grits already? It is. And it's probably... Do we want the cheese to melt? The whole cheese to melt? It's fine just the way it is. Beautiful. I know. You've never heard of cheesy grits in Italy, so... No. When Garcia volunteered to be a sous chef, she probably thought I was going to do Italian food. I'm doing very American food. That's why I like it. Great. Fantastic. Great flavor. It is. Even if there is so much cheese, but I think the green onions and the peppers balance it quite a bit. Very nice balance. And of course you could put in jalapenos if that's to your taste. We'll take all of this away. And we'll unplug this. We'll move this down to the end where we eventually will be serving the grits. Thank you. I'll get out of your way so you can do that. Put the grits at the end of the table because that one I'm going to use next. I'm going to do that next. Cheesy grits out of the way. This can go. Now working with sandwich, I'm making the white sauce for the Kentucky hot brown. Now I have made two large pots of white sauce. It's in the crock pots. But let's make white sauce. Oh, and of course we put everything away and I need the butter again. Thank you. Thanks Jackie. Turn on the wok. Yep. Put in some butter. Now I made all that white sauce yesterday. I made lots of lumps. I can do white sauce but yesterday I made lots of lumps.  And we'll find out today if I can do it.  I need the whisk. Thank you. I don't know. Maybe I was making too large and I added the milk to the... I don't know. I don't know what I did wrong. And I'll leave the flour. And we all know how to make white sauce. You've all done it lots of times. And right now it's fairly smooth. Now let's find out if it stays smooth. Maybe I have to go to a white sauce cooking class. Guess what? That's a professional one. It's lumpy. I'll let you... Don't worry about it. It's a professional class. To have a little more flavor, that is quite unflavored. So let's put in chicken bouillon, not a cube but it's sort of a liquidy thing. Madeleine, but is this the one that is also called bechamel? Yes, it is. Correct. She knows the French word. And the white sauce that I made for you yesterday has a lot of black pepper and paprika in it to look a little more interesting. Oh, nice. No lumps anymore, though. Come on. We did it. And that's it, the white sauce. You did it. When I was researching this, I assumed that the white sauce would be brown because if you don't use some kitchen bouquet or something, it turns brown.  And they can choose to name whatever they want. That's right. Then we can take all of this away and then you can bring down the... Yes. So we have some room. Any questions about the cheesy grits or the white sauce? And I did purchase way too much turkey. So half of the turkey is in the freezer that will be used for the August class, which will be state fair. Because I looked up foods of other state fairs, Wisconsin, it's cream puffs. Definitely will do cream puffs. Minnesota is the biggest producer of turkeys in the United States. Really? And they specialize in turkey sandwiches. So that's something we'll have. And then I thought we need something else for the August class. I was just on a roll to do menus. South Carolina, their specialty at their state fair, Greek salad. Wow. And most of the states also have lots and lots of deep-fried everything. We're not going to deep-fry. That's too dicey. I'm not going to deep-fry. Oh yes, a question. Go ahead. No? Yes, go ahead. Gouda. Oh, Gouda would be Gouda. Yes. I bet. I would eat that in a pan handle. Oh yes. It was cooked shrimp on a bed of grits. Okay. Cheesy grits. Nothing wrong with that. You know, we eat oatmeal for breakfast, but more often than oatmeal for breakfast, we eat oatmeal cookies, right? As kids, we eat lots of oatmeal. Marilyn, this recipe for the Kentucky Hot Brown, when you researched this, was this something that they served there? Or what is the history of this sandwich? It's throughout the state. It's just a Kentucky sandwich. Okay. Kind of like Bratwurst for Wisconsin, which I had never heard of until we moved here in 1965. And it was just from northern Wisconsin. But wow, we love that Bratwurst. Okay. We're going to make the mixture for the pecan pie. In fact, if you put it in, I'll just read the instructions for you. Okay. A cup of sugar. We don't have the sugar. We'll pretend there's a cup of sugar in there. Sugar. And corn syrup. I chose the dark. What do you think this is? Four cups. Yeah, I think so. Four cups. Or weight. And of course you can use white corn syrup. And of course you don't measure, right? Well, we know that we're cooks, we know half of this will be one cup. Okay. We'll put in some vanilla. Yeah, do you measure? Do you? I do. Sorry. I do. Absolutely. You know, my sister in Madison graduated from college with honors, with a double degree in chemistry and physics, for God's sake. So needless to say, when she cooks, it's very precise with the butter. Did we leave, is the butter still here somewhere?  No, that's shortening for the pie crust. That's all right. We put some butter in there and a little bit of salt in there for the bourbon. Can I put the bourbon? Oh yeah, put the bourbon. I love the bourbon. How much bourbon? A little sample. How about that one? A little more. Thank you. That is my very nice. And then to make a chocolate, because this would simply be pecan pie, grate some of this in there or melt it and pour it in there or if you're hard up, put some cocoa powder in there or some syrup. Any of those will work to make the pecan pie chocolate. Wow, this smells very good. Yes, chocolate. And then it needs unsweetened. The unsweetened. And if you only have sweet, that's all right too. I don't want to make a difference. Use what you have at home. And then eggs. And Terry brought me brown eggs. Perfect. I knew the rubber eggs. Well, you expected it in every class, right? Got it. Wow. I'll make a crust. Thank you. And you all know how to make a pie crust. And the only reason I'm doing that is to show you how my mother would fold it. I know. The pre-purchased or even the nut crust that's already made. Okay. I know, it smells very good. That's a bourbon. Yes. Oh. I said by the time I get to the... Yep, right. And I should have graded it, but I don't know where the grader is, so I'll just work it in with my hands. So Madeline, you use preschool, right? Could you use butter as well? Sure you could, or lard. You prefer the preschool? You prefer the preschool? It's whatever I have in the house. Sometimes I use bacon dripping, butter, whatever happens to be in the refrigerator. Do they still sell lard, or is that known as Crisco now? No. Lard is lard, and it's in the meat department. And Crisco is a vegetable. Right. What grocery store in the meat department have you seen it? All of them? Really? I've never... You go to the office. Ask the meat department. Okay, it doesn't take long to do that one cup of butter in there. Did we put vanilla into the pecan butter? We did. You did. Then I'll need about, I don't know, half of this, or almost full of just water. Mother made a lot of pies. I'll bet. Yeah, and they would buy the apples with the bruises. Shall I pour? About half. That's good. Let me mix that and see what happens. I'll need more. And it doesn't need to be warm, right? Just regular water. Some people say it should be ice water that keeps the fat from melting. But the nice thing about the fat melting, it holds together real well. Okay, a little bit more. Probably all of that. Do you always do it by hand? Or you use a blender as well? I always do pie crust by hand. Does everybody do pie crust by hand if they do from scratch? Yeah. You get the feel of it. Want to put your hands in there and feel that? Yeah, very nice and soft. So you don't need more water? I think I do. There's flour on the bottom that is not mixed. Okay, let's see if that works. Oh, I think so. Now, the crust for the pecan pies, cupcakes that I made, instead of making pies and cutting them into servings for 40 people, I made pecan pie cupcakes. That crust, I used flour, butter and sugar. So it's a little sweeter crust. Nice. And also it's more brown, right? And I don't need that, but I do need flour. Coming up. Thank you. And it is easier to roll it on a piece of cloth. That's the only reason I use it. I use it a few times and then it goes in the washing machine and the dryer. Nice. That I've never seen. Dish towel, yes. Absolutely. Never seen that. And I'm making a large crust simply because it's much easier to roll out and get into the pan. Because usually a crust for this size only needs two cups of flour, but I'm doing three. Okay. Now we have, and I put the stocking on here because it makes it easier to roll. I do have this one if I need it. That's to exercise. And then this gadget, I'm wondering from where I got this. It works pretty well, too. Nice. I think so. It's like print shop. The print shop? Yeah, that's what I'm reminding you of. Back in the day, maybe 10, 15 years ago, I bought one just like that. However, it was pampered chef's plastic. And it comes from here because all kinds of odds are there's not really crust but anything else. Rolling out. Reflect on something. Right, right. You're right, pampered chef. It doesn't stick. That's all. What was that question about the lard? What was that question? Why do I use the cloth? Because it doesn't stick. And why do I use the cloth here? Because it doesn't stick. Nice. It's called a sock for rolling bin. You could. You could. But if it's 100% cotton and most of them are polyester, right? So Marilyn, this one, this dough doesn't need to be refrigerated. No. Because sometimes they do, right? To refrigerate them for a while before... Usually bread dough and things sometimes. Pizza dough, for sure. But not pie crust. Right. Not that I know of. But you could. It wouldn't hurt anything to refrigerate it. And mothers was so smooth. Give me the big one. Oh, this does work nicely. Oh, yeah. No, this one does not have a sock. That would be a long sock, wouldn't it? And there's cracks in it and there always is. You know that. I bet you're right, Anne. If I weren't rolling on the crease of the table, good thinking. Thank you. I don't know if it is needed yet. OK. Well, what I wanted to show you is, you know, the new way is put this onto your rolling pin and then roll it onto the pie plate. I've tried a number of times and it's always wonky. So I do the way my mother did. Well, hers didn't break apart like that. She didn't. In quarters, and you gently put it in there, unfold it without all the cracks. We would talk that in cooking. To do the folding. Sure. You know, when I graduated from high school in 1959, yeah. And we girls all had to take home ec. All right. Only home ec. We had to take shop. Yep. That's the way it was. I think I told you the story of driving our Chevy and the tapets would stick and so at a stop sign, which I didn't know what tapets were, but dad told me or showed me how to lift the hood, jiggle something and then the tapets would be unstuck. Mechanics must know what tapets are. I don't. And then I would close the hood and get back in the car and drive. Well, I kind of liked doing that out in traffic.  And it happened fairly regularly. Okay. That's sad. I'm not working anymore on this baby. That is exactly it. And you know, if you work on it patiently, you get a beautiful pie crust. Sorry. I cannot resist. Good for you. That's the scientist when you fix that. And how do we want it around the rim? Well, if we were working nicely, we would do this. All right. The famous thing. Yes. With your fingers. Very nice. Good work. And of course, and then you lift it up and cut the edges off with a knife. And then send them in sugar and they go in the oven. Oh, yes. Yeah, we know that. My mouth is watering already. Okay. Let's put this aside. Put this aside. But let's not throw this away. Did I forget anything? Oh, the lily cocktail. Did I talk about the lily cocktail? Okay. Thank heavens you're there. There's the mint julep, which is kind of harsh. And I didn't think we should be drinking that much, what, vodka or gin or whatever it is. So we did the lily. Jane at the front desk loves Kentucky Derby. She's been there a few times and she has a Kentucky Derby party often. The other beverage, the lily, which is simply cranberry juice mixed with lemonade or limeade or 7up. But it always has a blackberry or two in the glass. And then of course, optional, you can add vodka to it or an orange liqueur of some sort. The Grand Marnier or the Quantreau. And so there's a little bit of Quantreau left there. There's not much.


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As part of efforts to foster peace, unity and mutual understanding in Kagoro community and the entire Kagoro state, Christians and Muslim faithfuls organized the prayer summit, plus TV correspondent Halbila Darufai was there and filed in this report. New Year's celebrations in Southern Kaduna took a new dimension over the recent attacks, killing and loss of properties. The people of Kagoro come together yearly to celebrate their culture and share love with one another. Speaking, the country director of the Global Peace Foundation, Reverend Dr. Joseph Hybe said, despite their attacks and killings, the people are united, noting that there are people feeling crisis for personal gains. Unfortunately, there was an attack weeks ago which led to the death of so many people. We were really disturbed and worried, but the PISA, the Constitutional Committee, said, wait a minute, we'll make progress, we won't allow this thing to deter us. We want to prove to the world that we are making progress and we'll continue to move on. And so they organized what they call a prayer rally to bring Muslims and Christians together to say, yes, you may have seen in the picture that there was killing, but we are still together. Those killing us are criminals and not part of us, so whatever it would take a government to fish them out, government should go and fish them out. But you know, what we hear sometimes is as if it is the people here fighting among themselves. You can see from the whole country here that the people are together, there are Muslims, there are Christians, there are Fulani, everybody is here. Who are these ones killing? They come and they go and no one is going after them and giving a picture as if the people are the ones fighting among themselves. He also lamented and says and killings and attacks on people, argin the government at all levels to rise up to its responsibilities. Let's show the enemy of peace that we are more together. And so we've come today to dispel that it does not exist. I do also know that when we do things like this, enemies of peace can come after to make it look as if it is real. But I can see the determination of these people that they are not ready to give up until peace is restored in Kabul. The city has a way of creating violence. So when people are economically empowered or engaged and have something to do, then they can voice out against any form of violence. The president of the Kagoro Development Association, Professor Gambo Dunia said, people must show violence and respect one another. God always allows challenges to come to you so that you will reflect and correct your ways. We see this as part of those challenges. Perhaps there are things that we are not doing correctly and that is why we need to pray for guidance. We need to pray for direction so that we can take the necessary steps and actions that will engender peace in the community and that's the essence. She is the king of Kassar Kaporuni. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news, please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.