And thank you for joining us. My name is Jan Boivin, and I am this year's president of the Hawaii State Bar Foundation. I am honored to welcome you on the Foundation's behalf. As some of you may know, the Foundation seeks to increase the public's understanding of the law, improve the justice system, facilitate delivery of and access to legal services, promote the highest ideals of the legal profession, and inspire the philanthropic spirit in Hawaii's legal community. With your support, the Foundation has been able to award grants to multiple organizations that support these goals. We are proud of our grant recipients and all that they have done for Hawaii's community. Today we plan to highlight several of our grant recipients and then hear from several community leaders on the power of the legal community and philanthropic spirit during these trying times. First, we have Chief Justice Mark Recton-Wald, who is here to say a few words on behalf of the grant recipient, courts and the community. Thank you so much, Jan. Aloha, good afternoon, everyone. And thank you for coming together today to celebrate the great work being done by the Hawaii State Bar Foundation. I really want to thank the members of the Board of the Foundation, Jan, Vice President Lynn Toyafuku, the Treasurer Craig Wagnild, Carol Kita Okra, the Secretary, and all the members of the Board. And also extend my appreciation to everyone who worked so hard to make this program possible. I think you have more RSVPs for this show than for any of these events before, which is just amazing. So thanks to the co-chairs, Ray Sanchu, Diane Ono, Louise Ng, Matt Winter, ThinkTek Hawaii for producing a wonderful program here, and Marissa Machida and Bobby Sinaha for creating the wonderful videos that we'll watch. The Foundation has done so much good work throughout our community, including supporting a number of judiciary programs. I wanted to talk today about courts and the community, which has really become one of the signature programs of the judiciary and the Supreme Court in particular. It's a very simple concept. It's difficult for the public in general and students in particular to come to the Supreme Court building in downtown Honolulu to watch an oral argument. So our idea was to bring the court out into the community to make it available to students across the state to have the opportunity to watch an actual Supreme Court oral argument. Not a Mach argument or some kind of a simulation, but an actual argument with a real case. And the critical part of it is to give the students the opportunity to learn about that case in advance, to do Mach trials or Mach arguments themselves, and to learn from members of the Bar who volunteer their time to go out to the campuses to meet with the students. And the King Command Mayor of the Fifth Judiciary History Center and the Students for Public Outreach and Civil and Education at the Law School, and thank you, Dean Nelson, for their support, put together a great curriculum for the students to study. We then go and have oral arguments on campus. Sometimes up to 500 students are there from an entire island or area of an island. At the end of the event, we do a question and answer session with the students first, the lawyers do, and then the justices. They can ask us about our role, how we prepare for cases, and our work on the court. So this is a great opportunity for students to learn about and understand the legal system firsthand, to really give themselves an opportunity to think about the issues that we face and also hopefully to envision themselves with a role in that system someday. And why that matters so much is because our entire credibility and authority and legitimacy as an institution is based on the understanding and the informed understanding of our citizens and really that begins with our young people to understand that we are a system that has legitimacy, that it has integrity, that does listen to all sides of an argument and that makes a reason decision. And there's no better way to do that than watch it in action. So we couldn't do it without the foundation. As I said, sometimes we bring as many as 500 students together. It's a long morning. They're being, in many instances, they're coming from quite far away on the side of the West side of the Big Island, East side of Hawaii Island. So we have to have buses for the students. And that's the first main expense that the foundation's generous contributions cover. I don't think the schools could do it, frankly, without that contribution. So we wouldn't be doing this without the foundation. And then to have lunches for the students. The prospect of having 500 hungry high school students riding for a half an hour or an hour on the bus back to their respective schools is also one that would be a deal stopper in our view. So again, I can't, from the bottom of my heart, thanks to everyone who supports the foundation for making this program possible. It really is sort of a cornerstone of our efforts to ensure that everyone in the state can see, understand, and hopefully develop confidence in the work done by our courts. So mahalo to everyone who supports the foundation and mahalo to the foundation and its board. Thank you. Thank you so much, Chief Justice. And now we have a veneer on the impact of this courts in the community program. My name is Mark Rectonwall. I'm the Chief Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court. Public service has been something I've always cared deeply about. And what could be a better job than going to work in the morning with the goal of providing justice to your community? Folks turn to their courts and they look for them to be fair, to provide justice, to help them be able to resolve the difficult problems of their life, and to be part of that process is absolutely amazing. One way that the Hawaii State Bar Foundation has really made a difference is supporting our courts in the community program. It's very hard for ordinary members of our community, students particularly, to come and see an oral argument in person. So we had the idea of taking our court out into high schools across the state and give students the opportunity to watch an actual case be argued before the court and actually come to understand that it's a system that has integrity that is fair. And, you know, I could talk about those things until I'm blue in the face, but there's no substitute for seeing it in action. And because of the Hawaii State Bar Foundation support, we've been able to bring this program to 15 different sites across the state over the last eight years or so. More than 5,000 students have come to these oral arguments and we've had students from 63 different schools. So it's an incredible educational experience for them. And I think it really humanizes the court and, most importantly, I think it provides a real in-person example of how this is a system that has integrity, that it is fair, that we ask tough questions of both sides and it's something that's worthy of their trust and confidence. So really, it's critical. We simply couldn't do it without the foundation's support. Good evening, everyone. I have the distinct privilege to introduce you to the new dean of William S. Richardson School of Law, Camille Nelson. Dean Nelson moved to Hawaii over this last summer. Most recently, she hails from American University Washington College of Law where she was the dean. Prior to that, Dean Nelson was the first woman and the first person of color to serve as dean of Suffolk University Law School in Boston. Born in Jamaica, Dean Nelson did her undergraduate work at the University of Toronto and received her law degree from the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, followed by her LLM from Columbia University. A prolific writer, Dean Nelson's scholarship focuses on the intersection of critical race theory and cultural studies with emphasis on health law, criminal law and procedure, as well as comparative law. Some of you may have heard or speak at our recent Move Us Hawaii panel on alternative facts. And I'm sure you will all agree that Hawaii is so fortunate to have Dean Nelson now a part of our community. She will speak to you today about educating tomorrow's legal leaders. Thank you, Dean Nelson, for not only being here this evening with us, but for being a part of our Hawaii community and for being willing to serve the community at large. Dean Nelson. Thank you so much, Diane, for that incredibly gracious introduction. And I want to also thank you, Diane, for reaching out to me to extend this very kind invitation to participate this evening. I'd also like to thank the Hawaii State Bar Foundation leaders for so graciously and warmly welcoming me here. I really appreciate your kindness. John Maxwell in his book, The 21st Century Leadership, 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, stated that leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. If there is truth to that, it behooves us to consider how influence is earned, especially for lawyers as trusted advocates. I will endeavor to synthesize much of what I've read, a lot of it falling within the nomenclature of level five leadership, authentic leadership, servant leadership, leadership versus management, diversity and inclusion leadership as well, all with an emphasis on what has been written about leadership specific to lawyers. As an educator, I want to also conceptually think about how we backward design what we learn from this body of research into the legal educational system. My starting point is that a life in the law requires an ongoing commitment to learning through careful reading, respectful engagement with others, research and probing analysis. As practitioners, I recognize that you are always working to master your areas of practice. In that way, you are forever students of the law as it evolves, shifts and morphs to meet the present moment, often through your direct contributions. Through your ever increasing knowledge base, you serve your clients with skill and expertise, which in turn engenders credibility, trust and that influence I started with. These are all crucial aspects to effective leadership. As I think about backward design of leadership dynamics into the academics and programming of legal education, it is imperative that we instill in our students this reality, both the importance of the acquisition of legal skills and expertise, and that a life in the law recognizes that the law is not static. So our profession requires an ongoing commitment to learning. We strive to impress upon our students that one must be willing to be engaged with an ever evolving law, its history and its nuances simultaneously. Also, we need to set high expectations for our work and professional ethic as an elevating component of future leadership. Of course, in becoming an effective leader in law, one is also required to have or to develop excellent interpersonal skills as at its core, legal practice requires collaboration, communication and engagement with others. I tell my students that law is definitely interaction and interactive. One seldom does law alone. And I know it's not a verb, but I hope you understand what I mean. For those of us in legal education, we must continue to think about how to ensure that our students have opportunities to build their professional networks through legal and professional opportunities, both internal and external to the law school. Through these networks and through the myriad experiential and extramural opportunities provided to students, they are given the chance to practice and hone these important interpersonal skills and to leverage their EQ in tandem with their IQ. This combination is important, especially when we add agility to the mix. And I'm sure that like me, you often wake up and you have one calendar that you've prepared for and it goes out the window and you're frequently faced with an entirely new day driven by the crises and demands of the moment. Thus, as a leader, you are required to be flexible and to pivot quickly. As such, you must often be a crisis manager, a change agent and a visionary leader. Especially with what I loosely refer to as pandemic leadership, success requires both near term vision, excellently serving one's clients and enhancing your work in each file and matter, but also a longer term view. As Hackett states in his book on lawyers as leaders, quote, leaders in law firms need to be leaders of both the C suite that is expert at daily operations of the practice, but also focus on long-term vision. How one effectively teaches agility remains to be determined. But I think that an essential part of this is instilling in our students and understanding that there is seldom certainty in any given day for a leader, let alone lawyers as leaders, precisely because we are on call in service of others as servant leaders. So we have to educate about the substance, but also the character and temperament of legal leaders and professionals and manage those expectations around certainty. Within this milieu is an increasing nugget and an interesting one. Much of the literature indicates that to be an exceptional leader, it is beneficial if one is humble. In the literature, this is referred to the paradox of duality. This is not to infer a lack of ambition, but the ambition is for the organization, firm or enterprise to excel, rather than just for the individual. These types of leaders are secure and self-actualized or self-actualizing and generous. They are self-aware and they are authentic. So where do we start to hone those skills through law school? As many of us recall, first year of law school in particular is deeply humbling, if not destabilizing. We may think we knew or know only to be convinced otherwise through excellent opposing arguments and brilliantly conceptualized legal reasoning and opinions. This is also consistent with my theory that no one does law alone. And I like to harken to the Beatles and say, we all get by with a little help from our friends. So friends, ultimately backward designing all of these dynamics of leadership into the law school curricula and programming requires an emphasis on professionalism and increasingly on wellbeing. As we work to help students appreciate that they are being onboarded into a profession, one for which there are heightened expectations. I think we do well in the educational space to recommit to the broad possibilities of being a professional school and elevated space of discourse and of practice preparedness to support our students towards leadership in this noble profession in service of others. I think such preparedness is capacious enough to include myriad competencies and inclusive excellence and is consistent with an increasingly diverse and global world, one with a rapidly innovating bar and bench. Thank you for your attention. I look forward to being in conversation with you humbly and to learning your perspectives and insights about leadership in the law and the innovations within the bar and the bench. This reciprocal feedback loop can only help us in educating and preparing the next generation of legal leaders. Thank you. Thank you so much, Dean Nelson. And now we have two vignets of additional grantees, the legal clinic and the National Judicial College. The mission of the legal clinic is really close to my heart. I understand the struggles. I'm sensitive to the extra burdens that immigrants bear. Immigration is not an issue that people think of as being a big issue for you, but it really is. That's the challenge is how do we figure out how to help this massive population, a total of 100,000 or more people in the state who fall into this category of not yet being citizens. Then the legal clinics, free legal services is really an exciting way for us to get involved. You know, our services vary from direct one-on-one legal services to immigrants, to a broader level of trying to improve access for the entire LEP community to unemployment insurance. And then to a lesser degree on a national level by joining with national groups in advocating for improvements in our immigration policy. So the Hawaii State Bar Foundation has been one of the early supporters of the legal clinic. Since June of last year, when that grant was made, we've served 102 clients with direct legal services through our attorney. And then on top of that, another about 170 that we've served through what we call naturalization workshops. There was a young man who has kept in detention for over a year who, without a lawyer, was teaching himself to fight for his own rights. He had several young kids on the big island and a wife, and he'd been there for 30 years and was a beloved community member. But because he had some minor criminal offenses, the federal government was ready to deport him back to a country where he really had no resources and connections. So luckily his sister contacted us, figured out that we might be able to help. And it could be precedent setting for Hawaii if we win this case. It'll help other people who deserve to stay here. You know, and our state has the sixth most immigrants per capita. So for us to just have a handful of immigration lawyers and very few free services to serve all these folks, it's, there's a huge gap. And so we really want to thank the Bar Foundation in helping us try to meet them unmet me. I'm Leslie Hayashi. I'm a retired judge in the state of Hawaii, and I'm now on the board of trustees of the National Judicial College. We are the only educational institution that trains judges. I mean, not only the substantive things, like evidence and so on, but the skills that you need to be a good judge. The reason why we got this grant, and we're so grateful for the grant that we got from the Hawaii State Bar Foundation, was to put on a program that dealt with the Japanese incarceration during World War II in Hawaii. Because it is a moment that justice failed. In addition to the program for the judges, we did a town hall meeting for the public and do a reenactment of the Fred Korematsu story, which is a gentleman who refused to go to the incarceration camps. And then he was convicted, and then he was vilified. And eventually he was able to write this whole thing and the judge said, yes, all of what happened to you was wrong. And at this time the courtroom, her courtroom, was filled with so many other people who had been interned and incarcerated. There was just weeping through the courtroom to know that, yes, what had happened was wrong. Justice had failed them. But now people were recognizing it and trying to make amends. I know we got a lot of comments after we had done the moving Hawaii program that people said, you know, my father never spoke about this. And when he finally did, tears were rolling down his eyes and we were just thrilled to be able to start a conversation. Given even all the racial injustice that's happening across the country and the world, this is how the healing starts by having these kinds of conversations, by judges being out there in the community, by judges learning about the history of this kind of thing. So it's just incredibly invaluable to have this grant as a way to provide a program that provides a resource for so many people and impacts the lives of so many people. Now we will hear from Greg Fry, president of the Hawaii State Bar Foundation. Thank you, Jan. What an honor to be here as I watch, listen and learn from today's program. From today's celebration of the philanthropic spirit of the Hawaii State Bar Foundation, I think really how fortunate I am. As the current 2020 Hawaii State Bar Association president, I have been privileged to listen and learn, to be an ex-official member of the Foundation Board, to watch the officers, Jan, Lynn, Carol and Craig together with the most devoted directors. I think I've never had the privilege to be part of. The passion, the energy, the direction to do what they say they are. We are lawyers with Aloha. That is the foundation motto. Their purpose is to bring charitable missions to our association and to inspire the philanthropic spirit of our legal community. They do that with so many people here being part of today's celebration. Today's tribute to the hard work and the benefactors through the donor program, the fellows. These folks, lawyers, their DNA is quite frankly mirrored by the DNA of our Chief Justice who says to all of us, members of the association, devoted followers and supporters of the foundation that we are to deliver access to justice to those who most need it. I am proud to be a small part of this and to walk hand in hand, perhaps as a bookend with the foundation and its leaders, because these folks really are the true spirit of the Hawaii State Bar Association and Foundation. Aloha and thanks for having me. Thank you so much, Greg. It's been a joy to work with you. And now we'll be hearing from Lee's Ying to help us introduce us to the next speaker. Hi, Aloha. I am so pleased to introduce our next speaker, Micah Kani, Chief Executive Officer and President of the Hawaii Community Foundation and a trustee of Kamehameha Schools. HCF's mission is to help people make a difference by inspiring the spirit of giving and by investing in people and solutions to benefit every island community. Micah has been a visionary at HCF in positioning the foundation as a convener and driver of transformative change in our community. One example is the change framework developed by HCF. It is a carefully selected set of statewide data under six key categories aimed at identifying the gaps where help in our community is needed and opportunities where help will do the most good. The idea is that by working from a common set of data, our community can collaborate between business nonprofits, government and community members in creating shared goals and consistently tracking progress. To help put HSBFs, our foundation's role in the broader community context, here is Micah Kani. Thank you, Louise and Aloha and Mahalo for the opportunity to be with you today. Before I take my three to four minutes, I want to thank you for the work you do in our community, especially raising awareness about some of the systemic inequities that are always attempting to deal with. I also want to thank you for raising awareness about the role philanthropy can play in this work and hopefully as a collective, we can move from addressing symptoms of a problem to moving up the pipeline to changing the systems that are creating them. So again, thank you for making this part of your agenda this afternoon.  It's hard right now, in a time of crisis, to step back and really evaluate the landscape that we're operating in. The Tuesday elections captured the attention of many of us and probably still is right now. There were interesting races across the federal, state and county governments and not to mention, this was all done in an all male in election and first time for many of us. But regardless of who you voted for, we have new faces in office and the political campaign pages are over. What is right in front of us is the sobering reality of all that needs to be dealt with at every level of government. And in our markets and in our communities and not to mention, we're still dealing with the issues of COVID. As challenging of a time as this is, there will be opportunity to rethink the role of Hawaii's government, rethink Hawaii's economic business model, and rethink Hawaii's communities of our future. And as it is in most cases, it's going to be, you know, how do we get alignment? How do we create alignment by those influences and forces out there? And I want to just leave you and highlight with three opportunities that I think give us the greatest opportunity for success. The first is for us to focus on the 80% we agree on and just parking lot, the 20% we don't. There's way too many low hanging fruits out there for us to get stuck on the 20%. Let's focus on the 80 because that's where our consensus is and let's get to know each other. Let's build trust and then we can challenge ourselves on the 20 later. The second is to be very intentional about our actions. And what that means to me is that it's, you know, playing in the gray area is not being intentional and it's the oldest trick in the book. You know, being intentional means being transparent, which really means accepting a higher degree of vulnerability for all of us. And it means that we all have to get a bit more comfortable being uncomfortable. And then lastly, and it may sound a little boring and Louise kind of touched on it a bit. Really want to push us to lean on data. And the reason for that is it takes the emotion out of the conversation. At least it does for a lot of issues. And this is not going to be unfamiliar to you. Lawyers rely on facts. And that's what you do. I'm married to one. So I know that for a fact. And at the end of the day, that's really what's going to bring us home. Keep that emotion out of the equation. You know, we've been very fortunate at HDF to deal with some really, really good partners. Louise is one of them that we hold near and dear to a heart in the work we do with her. But there's many others that are part of your organization that we're just very grateful to work with. And wouldn't be where we're at today without the longstanding years of support that many of our attorney partners have worked with us have introduced us to some critical legacy partners who have really established dreams for others. And so we really want to thank you for all that you do for Hawaii, that all that you do for the White Community Foundation. And we really look forward to growing this partnership with the White State Bar Foundation. Thank you so, so much, Micah. Now we're going to hear from Lynn Toyafuku, past president of the White State Bar Foundation. And she's going to share a little bit more about the genesis of some of our fundraising programs. And a very special board member was at the heart of it. She raised contributions to access for justice, as well as her leadership within the legal community span over 40 years, starting as a young attorney at Legal Aid, then as a public defender, and as an advocate for individuals with disabilities. In the mid-70s, she dedicated her effort to protecting the rights of women and families as the founder of Hawaii Women Lawyers. She also was a founding member of the Hawaii Women's Legal Foundation and its president in 1991, where she tirelessly chaired fundraising events dedicated to raising money to support organizations that protected women and children and advocated for gender fairness. She also served as a board member on the Access for Justice Commission and the Hawaii Lawyers for Justice. Also active as a community leader, Ray served on the board of Planned Parenthood, raising funds to ensure women's reproductive rights are protected, and on the board of the Girl Scouts Council of Hawaii, dedicated to the empowerment of every girl. In 2009, she served as a president of the Hawaii State Bar Association, only the third female attorney to do so. 2012 saw the creation of the Hawaii State Bar Foundation to serve as the fundraising arm of the BAR, purposed to augment funds available for legal services and community educational projects. Ray has been a board member since its inception and created the Hawaii State Bar Foundation's Fellows Program, styled after the American Bar Foundation's Fellows Program. Through her enthusiastic efforts and as well as generous efforts, the Fellows Program has prospered and has raised several hundred thousand dollars to support grants to providers of legal services, including legal aid, BLSH, the legal clinic, Lawyers for Equal Justice, and Restorative Justice, as well as to mediation service providers on the neighbor islands and courts in the community and the Access for Justice Commission. I am so honored to introduce Ray Sanchu, a visionary contributor to the Hawaii State Bar Foundation, and with Ray is her husband, Rich Turbin, an outstanding personal injury attorney, former president of the Bar Association, and a dedicated community leader. Thank you, Lynn. My family and I left China when I was a young kid, although my parents were college professors. I never forgot that I was an immigrant, along with the huddled masses yearning to breathe free and fortunate to live in a democratic society. So I grew up in a working class family in Queens, New York City. It was kind of rough and tumble. As an adolescent, I found myself defending victims from bullies. Eventually I got tired of the physical fighting, and I said, I'll try to defend with my voice. I decided to be a lawyer. And I learned that protecting others is the best way to protect yourself. We both started our legal careers as public defenders where we met. Having the same values and passion in pursuing justice, we have stuck together for well over 40 years. We are the fortunate parents of Laurel Maysang, an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii, and Derek Turbin, a Hawaii and California licensed attorney practicing now in Hawaii. We have an abiding faith and dedication to our legal system, as both of us served as H-S-B-A presidents. Rich in 2004, and I served as H-S-B-A president in 2009, right after the 2008 financial crisis, where so many legal service organizations had many, many challenges to stay afloat, much like the current situation with the global pandemic. During those years, I realized that Hawaii members must step up as a group and as individuals to fulfill the needs of our community. Rich and I have grown up professionally in this community, and we want to give back to this community that we love and has given us so much. Our children are independent and will not need our support. We want to make an impact now. And see the fruits of our contributions to the causes we support to take care of our community. There's no, there's no better cause than to support the pursuit of justice and promote our legal profession. We need to stand together to assist those in our community that would not have access to the justice system, but for the good work of the Bar and the community. Thank you, Rich. Thank you for your support. Every bid helps in providing for the legal needs of the Hawaii people. Please consider us in joining us and making a donation of any size that you feel comfortable to the Hawaii State Bar Foundation. Thank you all very much for participating in this event. Thank you so much. Thank you, Rae. You're just examples of the philanthropic spirit. On behalf of the foundation, I do want to present Rae with a founding fellows award. This is the first ever award of its kind and I want to thank all of these wonderful programs we're hearing about today. And thank you, Rae and Rich, for your 2020 gift of $10,000 to the foundation. I really have to mention that now. Your gift presents really a gentle challenge to all of our attendees here to come together with Aloha to support Hawaii during these trying times. It was Greg who reminded us that our model of community, please know that your legacy will remain with the foundation and Hawaii's community for years, years to come. And then closing our presentation, to all of you who have joined us today, I want to thank you for taking time out of your schedules to hear about our foundation's activities and to learn about our grant recipients and to hear inspiring words from all of our community leaders. We're so grateful that we had this opportunity to talk to you today. Thank you so much to all of our wonderful speakers for being here. Not easy to hold these virtual conferences and everyone you heard today spoke from the heart and I think you did hear the passion that came across and the gratefulness we have for members of the bar and all of your contributions. So I do want to also thank think tech Hawaii and they were so gracious to assist us with this event and thank you Mahalo Nui Loa. Have a wonderful evening and thank you for joining us.


Hey guys, well it's my last day here in DC at the Los Aspen Center and I'm biking home from the African American Museum which was really awesome, I'm glad I got to see it since it just opened about a month ago. It's really cold here but probably not as cold as back in Milwaukee but I just wanted to reflect on the last couple of months here at the Los Aspen Center and I have to be honest the month of November and these last couple of weeks have been really remarkable. Last month I had the opportunity of going to the Marquette Game at the Naval Academy. I got to go to the National Symphony at the John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center and I think the most memorable thing was just being here during the election. I just, such a unique, oh hold on, crossing on a red, just being here during the election such a historic time. I'm extremely grateful to be here for that. I was able to be out at the White House until three in the morning and so it's just been a very interesting time to be out here in DC and I just am extremely grateful to Father O'Brien and all of the professors at the Los Aspen Center. Extremely encouraged, not only in political science majors but all students to come out here for a semester or even just a summer. I've really enjoyed my time but looking forward to being back on campus in Milwaukee for a second semester. See you guys.


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Okay, thank you and welcome to the last talk of the last session of Track A. I realized that there's been a bit of a competition between Track A and Track B. And I did notice that according to the schedule, we're finishing on time 25 minutes before they are. So you're officially all in the winning team, just want to know that? So, starting out, we have good news here. We've done it. So, we've done it. Forward secrecy, full forward secrecy for zero RTT key exchange. If there's one thing that you take away from this talk, I want you to remember it is possible. A lot of people said that zero RTT could not achieve full forward secrecy, but it is possible. Now you're sitting there thinking, what is she talking about? You are in the right place. I'm going to talk about most of the motivation behind this for the majority of the talk. And then give a slight view of what the protocol actually looks like in our construction. So, first of all, if we're going to talk about RTT, zero RTT key exchange, you might as well say what RTT is in the first place. It is round trip time. So, RTT stands for round trip time is essentially when we're sending from a client or any two parties. Say a client to a server and then we get a response back. That is one full round trip. And we're talking about, well, how long is it, particularly if we're talking key exchange, how long is it until we can actually send encrypted data? So, we can say one round trip or two round trips. If you're talking about key exchange with, say, six round trips, we might as well give up because track B wins and they get done first. It takes a while. A round trip takes a while. So, we want to minimize that if possible. TLS, if we're looking for examples, we are going to send a client hello. With probably some other stuff. Server responds back with a finished message. And now the client can compute their own finished message and can actually start encrypting data. We can actually encrypt, compute the session key, which is this green line here and send encrypted data down there. Now, that's one full round trip if we add in TCP because that's what it takes. We're going to have two round trips and it kind of begins to add up. Even if we do TLS over UDP, it still takes a while. So, if we're talking about efficiency, the question becomes, is it possible to send data immediately? Is it possible to actually encrypt on the very first flow of a key exchange? All right, that's a big contradictory. We're talking about sending encrypted data before you've even negotiated a key. If you're thinking that there could be security problems with this, you are thinking correctly. It's problematic. However, no one can argue with the latency here. That's fast. That's sending encrypted data immediately, no waiting. So, this is something that a lot of industry has been getting interested in for obvious reasons. It's quick. Quick, no pun intended, is by Google. It was one of the first FOMORs runners when we were talking about zero RTT key exchange. You're running over UDP. What does quick look like? Well, essentially, there is a medium-lived key up here, this SK, which is going to be part of a server configuration file. During some prior session, this is sent from the server to the client. And then later, when the client wants to reconnect, it will use this to compute a temporary key, a zero RTT key. How it does this is basically a Diffie-Hellman with its own choice of ephemeral value. And then later, the server can choose its own new ephemeral and we can eventually end up with a solid session key down here. But immediate encrypted data can be sent in these flows. Okay. Back to that issue if this could be problematic. Let's take a look at one of those problems can be replays. Replays are a big deal when we're talking about zero RTT data. It can either be the data itself or it could be a key exchange that's replayed and there's a lot of other issues that could come up with replay, but here's just one of them. If we have an adversary, we can replay this ephemeral value and replay the data itself. So if you're thinking that the client is purchasing something, for example, well, then it's been billed twice, essentially. Maybe if we replay this several times and the server thinks, okay, you want to just keep buying the same item. That's not going to make for a lot of happy clients. And an alternative, what happens if this midterm key gets compromised? Well, if that's compromised, then it can compute this temporary key and the payload itself. This is a version of what's known as forward secrecy. So let's take a closer look at the forward secrecy landscape since that is in the title of the talk and therefore we should address it, right? Forward secrecy landscape says we have some initial sessions and then sometime later, after these session keys have been used and completed and et cetera, an adversary compromises the long-term key. Okay, and now in terms of forward secrecy, we're not too concerned about what happens after that. We assume that it's gone downhill. But what we're really concerned about is what happens before that. Are those session keys still safe? And forward secrecy says if those session keys remain safe, even when the long-term key is compromised, then we have forward secrecy. If all the communication that's happened in the past is still okay, even after compromise, then we're happy. In terms of quick, this becomes problematic. Now we're not talking about a long-term key, we're actually talking about a medium lift key because this is part of the server configuration file. However, if we compromise it, there is zero RTT data key and all the associated data can now be read and the adversary knows it, it's gone. The eventual session key in the capital here, that's still okay. But for all the sessions and now that this is any zero RTT session that the client had made to the server, they're compromised. And a lot of people said, oh well, that's all we can do. That's the life of zero RTT. And we said, well, are you sure? Can we take this and make it better? Can we actually get perfect forward secrecy on that initial key exchange? And as I said at the beginning, the answer is yes. Okay, so our construction. Full forward secrecy, check, replay protection, check. How we do this? Well, it's based on hierarchical identity-based Kims with selective security, so it's actually not that strong of a security demand and one-time signatures. It's also flexible. So this is cool. It's flexible so you can instantiate this with any Kim that's sufficient. So for example, post-quantum, if you have a, that satisfies post-quantum, repairings, et cetera. It's a generic construction. So the core idea behind this. It's like, well, everyone said it wasn't possible. How are you actually doing it then? Let's update the secret key. It's a very simple idea. Update the secret key. If the secret key can only be used to decrypt a cybertext once, then even if that secret key is compromised later, it can't decrypt that same cybertext again. So update the secret key. A quick overview of what this protocol looks like. This is the core idea. I'm leaving out a lot of details, obviously. Core idea is it's a key encapsulation mechanism. That's it. We have a key encapsulation happening on the client. The server decapsulates it. And then it updates the key. It punctures it. So we've mentioned puncturing a few times in the session alone. But we puncture the secret key. And then we can no longer decrypt that cybertext again. Some of the hidden details here. We actually have an ID buried in this. The ID is compromised. It's composed of both the one-time signature, verification key, and a time interval before that. So this is how we're going to basically synchronize and track which keys have been used. On a very high level. Let's take a closer look at that key exchange itself, or the key itself. How are we updating this? Now again, I said we have a time interval on the high level, and we're going to have the verification keys of the one-time signature below. And essentially this makes a tree that we can follow through. So we start out with a secret key, shown here in blue. Everything else is just in your imagination. It's just a blue key, right? And then we get a cybertext at some point. And we need to decrypt it. So what do we do? Well, we generate all the keys that we can get us there. And in addition to that, we generate the sibling keys to that pathway. And then we puncture the pathway that gets us to this decryption in the first place. So we can no longer decrypt the cybertext, and we can no longer derive that key by any means. Everything that led us to this key is gone. The new secret key is the blue shown here. So the secret key grows. This is a downside. The blue shown is a little downside to this protocol. Secret key does grow. But the number of times we puncture is per session, because we're actually getting out the session key. So it depends a lot on your use case scenario of how bad this is. If you're talking about, say, a messaging protocol, where you establish a session with a friend, and you set up your message, then you're probably only going to have an initial session and you'll keep talking for forever long until your friend drops their phone in the pond and you have to get a new session started when they buy a new phone. So it isn't necessarily that bad, but it depends a lot on the use case scenario. It's something to keep in mind, though. However, we can improve this memory issue. I mentioned before that we're having some sort of time slot synchronization, and this is on the top part of our tree. So here, we're going to have four time slots, just for an example. And we can erase these time slots when used. So when the secret key has grown a lot because of use over here, for example, we can get rid of that and say, well, let's reduce it back down. Now, this requires only a very loose synchronization between the client and the server. It's not a strict time synchronization. So it's only very loose. But they can improve efficiency, essentially, or improve memory, we'll say. Other evaluations. So this doesn't actually show up in the paper in case you're wondering or have read it or want to read it, but this is just a rough evaluation that we've done for a very basic implementation to give you an idea of what you're looking at. Essentially, encapsulation is taking... Well, seconds, that's good. Decapsulation is taking seconds and it kind of gets a little bit worse for puncturing, which we're talking seconds to minutes. However, as I said, again, this is only a very basic implementation, kind of a no-brainer. I won't say no-brainer, but it's definitely not a detailed implementation. And we need only selective security on the Kim. So this could be improved. We expect it to be. Not to mention the actual implementation itself. Other comparisons. In about two years ago at S&P, Green and Myers discussed puncturable encryption. So if we want to compare what this means versus theirs, here we have a generic... Again, I said it's a generic hierarchical identity-based Kim. So you can instantiate it as you will. There is a specific bilinear groups. So we have a lot more flexibility. It's an improvement in that respect. We expect that we're doing a standard model versus a random oracle model. So this is pretty good, actually. If you think back to Nigel's talk earlier in the week, his invited talk about getting things more efficient and moving from that theory to practice, well, this is now a step where someone here can take it from that theory to practice. There's room for improvement, but we expect it is possible. So what do we have now? What is the outcome of all this? Once again, we have forward secure, zero RTT key exchange. We have a security model for that. We have a generic construction and security proof and a whole bunch of other amazing details which you can, of course, read in the paper. What we have in the future. We can optimize a Kim key delegation. So this is another room for improvement. A lot of work that has been done on these so far have been optimizing, say, decapsulation and not so much the key delegation step itself. For our construction, that's the most expensive part. So if we optimize that, then the whole scheme becomes optimized. And, of course, make it practical. So there's room for future work and, once again, just want to say yes, it is possible and, yes, once again, one of our track B. So thank you very much. So we have lots of time. So we have lots of questions. So can we present the paper in zero RTT time with respect to reviewing? Ah, that would be lovely, wouldn't it? You mentioned that a key discard scheme required some loose synchronization. Could you mention something on how that's done or what do you mean by loose? Yeah, so if we go back to this picture here. So we're only talking about, like, a set time interval. So we're not talking about seconds, for example, milliseconds that are set that way. It's more of a very rough saying of, say, we'll name time intervals. So, for example, if I was to do it, again, this is an example, zero, zero will be our time interval. Here, there'll be zero, one, one, zero, one, one, et cetera. So we'll go up to there as a time interval and then to get us the rest of the tree built we need to use the verification keys of the one-time signature. So, if the, say, the client and servers that are in agreement, and we'll just say this is time zero, which, and that corresponds to puncturing here, then they can both agree we're just puncturing time zero and this part of the subtree is gone. We've purged the keys there. You mentioned TLS at the beginning of your talk. But this sort of expanding key seems like it would be not very appropriate for TLS itself. As it is, no. And it's current form. But again, this is, as I said, the start, so to speak. It's like we've finally gone forward security in zero RTT. There's some room for improvement just for this in itself and our actual construction. And then, I mean, if you expand the idea, it could easily, relatively easily get to the point of usability for TLS. So TLS 1.4, then. Unless it becomes 2.3, right? Have you thought about the suitability of applying this for, like, distributed systems? So, I mean, often we, like, see the ends and stuff, right? You have multiple servers and you want to use the same key with all of them. Would you be able to apply this, or would that synchronization just not be possible? If you want to have the same key in all of the servers? Yeah. Well, obviously, of course, this depends on your security and adversarial model, right? If you're using the same key in all the servers, there can be any complications there in itself. Certainly, there's variations of this that you could apply, but that sort of adversarial model is quite specific. Okay. It's just because that's kind of what Quick faced with there, like, strike lists, right? Is that you can repay a message to just a different server still and still go through. Right, yeah. So, this is, I mean, again, this should only be able to be decrypted once at all, regardless of where you send it. Did you implement it with PN code for 128 security width? Yeah, so our basic implementation, we have a number of variations of it. I didn't want to present any of them in detail because, well, they're, for one basic and also at the trial phase. But, yes, we have... So, I think using PN code for 128 security width should be careful. Yeah, we have a 256 as well. That's why I didn't bother putting up the actual numbers is because we have the variety from obviously insecure key size to probably perfectly fine key size. So, it's all around the same numbers of seconds, milliseconds and minutes.


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Live from Washington D.C., it's theCUBE. Covering Inforum DC 2018, brought to you by Infor. Welcome back here on theCUBE. Along with Dave Vellante, I'm John Walls as we wrap up our coverage here at Inforum 18, Washington D.C., nation's capital. Again, just saying what we are between Capitol Hill and the White House here. And just on top of the show floor, Dave had a chance to check out the goings on down. So good feeling here, good vibe on the floor, good feeling on the keynote stage. I know tomorrow, good lineup as well. But just your thoughts as we wind up here on day one. Well, I think Charles Phillips is an awesome host. I mean, first of all, he looks great up there. He's tall, he's thin, he's got his awesome suit on. I mean, the guy is just dressed impeccably. Add to that his mind. I mean, he's a very clear thinker, a clear strategist. He's able to articulate the value, the strategy that Infor has and has had for quite some time in the value that it brings to customers. So I really like listening to him. He's not a hype machine, unlike so many in this industry who are incredibly successful, Larry Ellison, Mark Benioff, others love to hype what they do. Charles throws a little few little jokes in there, but very low key as we heard this morning. And it seems to be working. I mean, as a private company, they can write their own narrative. All right, if this were a public company, people would be hammering on the debt. They'd be knocking them on the top line growth because the income statement from a growth standpoint is not exploding, but the sass pieces of the business are. So, but you know, Wall Street, they would be picking at that scab. So as a private company, they're not subject to the 90 day shot clock. And so as a result, they can write their own narrative, which I think is incredibly important for this company right now because they have a large install base of customers that they're trying to move to their new platform. Move, migrate, those are scary words for customers. And so the competition, this is why, why is Oracle coming at Infor so much? Two reasons, there's maybe others, but number one, Infor's hurting Oracle. They're taking share away. And Oracle, I think it should have 100% market share. Same with SAP. The second is that it sees an opportunity to fight back, you know, the best defense is a good offense. And so they're trying to go after those customers that Infor's trying to woo to their new platform. And anytime you're moving, it's an opportunity, right? We saw this with big acquisitions like Dell and EMC, kind of, EMC took the eye off the ball.  So you see that, you know, certainly HP when it was splitting up got distracted. So you see that. And so now what's key about sessions like this, events like this, is it allows Infor to stay relevant, to put a relevance story in front of its customers. So what is that story? It's got a platform, it's got a full stack, it's investing in R&D, it's innovating with technologies like AI, it's building organic innovation and it's bringing in inorganic through acquisition, things like burst for modern BI and injecting that throughout its application portfolio. It's got a full suite. It was interesting, somebody said we had to make a bet. Do we go full suite? Or best of breed? Or do we go best of breed? I would argue by going micro vertical, they can claim both. It's very hard to be both best of breed and both full suite. I mean, I would agree. If you just want to do one thing, you're probably going to do that one thing better than anybody else. And so I'll grant you that. But I think that the balancing act is how do you stay like best of breed or near best of breed with that full suite? And I think Infor has found the answer with micro verticals. And bringing in technologies like AI, I was very impressed with all the the robotic process automation talk this morning. That's going to be a huge business. It's already, I mean, it's growing like crazy. So if I'm an Infor customer and I'm an old legacy lossing customer, I'm thinking, wow, these guys are really making some interesting investments. Yeah, I got to spend and I got to maybe migrate, but if I don't, I'm going to get, you know, digitally transformed by somebody else. And they didn't actually put a lot of scare tactics in there, but maybe that's something they should, you know, might want to add in is some examples of customers that are, you know, been left behind. But maybe that's bromide in the industry today. But I think that that relevance message came through loud and strong and I think it's critical for this company. I think it's interesting just to start with the keynotes. And we heard it throughout the various guests that we had here on the program today was that it's a company that really knows who it is. That's the feeling I get knows where it's going. So it inspires a lot of confidence, right? He does, Charles does, the company does. And they're just kind of, they're just real comfortable in their own skin for one. And two, they're committed to other principles outside of business and talk about the diversity and inclusion. That's just not flap. That's really who they are. That's their DNA. I think there's an appealing aspect there too. Yeah, and so, and then we heard a lot about the, you know, the Koch Industries investment, two and a half billion. I said two billion earlier, it was two and a half billion. That money didn't show up in the balance sheet. Okay, so, you know, again, you get to write your own narrative as a private company. So there's still 338 million on the balance sheet. You know, still quite a bit of debt. So again, Wall Street would be picking at that. It doesn't even come up at this event. Customers aren't really asking those questions. They want to see a company that's viable. This company's clearly viable. They're throwing off a lot of cash. That's why private equity and organizations like Koch Industries are interested in them because it's cash flow positive. They see a lot of financial upside for this company. So that's kind of cool. The other thing is Hook and Loop, the design firm that Infor bought several years ago. We heard how that's evolving and becoming a fundamental part of not just design, but product development. I think that's pretty impressive. Many companies are doing that now. These guys got in first, and so they're a little bit ahead of the game. I think they're innovating in a way that I think has ripple effects for customers. I mean, the customer experience. You hear a lot about diversity at this company. I mean, this is not to me lip service. Charles is really serious about this stuff, and he's got the platform to do it, and he's investing in it. And so you see a lot of substantive examples, and I think that will pay off. It'll pay dividends. The Four Horsemen now have been sort of evolving. There's a succession planning with the Four Horsemen, because Stefan and Duncan have moved on. They've left the company, or at least they're not front and center anymore. The LinkedIn still says they're within Four, so they're somehow affiliated, but they don't have operating roles. It's clear. But Charles and Pam still do, and so you're seeing an evolution there. We're going to ask the head of HR tomorrow about that. We heard from Martine back to the University. Corey Tollison talking retail, again, micro-industry, we know. I mean, he didn't mention it, but guys like Macy's, Safeway, these are decent-sized customers of Infor. We're seeing the partner ecosystem grow. We had Capgemini on today, Grant Thornton's out there, Deloitte and others. I think Sentry's out here, I think. Sentry's out here. So that's important. Again, I think Koch Industries helped nudge some people in there. Like, hey, we just made a big investment. We're a big client of yours. Didn't hurt. You're going to pay attention and find some opportunities. They probably said, look, it's got to be substantive, it's got to be a win-win, but we want you to look in earnest. And I think others have. I've heard that there's been multimillion-dollar deals that these guys have catalyzed. Kevin Curry from Public Sector. Critical space for Infor, he has almost 1,000 customers here, and Amazon has a huge presence in Public Sector, and they're drafting off of that. And then, of course, we ended with Raul from AWS, which was a fun interview. AWS is obviously winning in so many different fronts. Big partnerships with guys like VMware, obviously number one in cloud. I mean, others, I guess, if you add up all the revenue or number one, but really, Amazon's number one in cloud. We know they're tops because they're in, for their serve market, which is infrastructure as a service, they're by far the leader, and they started the whole thing. Tomorrow we've got Charles Phillips coming on, we've got Pam Murphy, the two, what I consider founders of Infor, there weren't, but they were the founders of the new, co-founders of the new Infor, if you will. And some customers coming on, so we're really excited to be here. Big day. Looking forward to it. And we, unfortunately, can't share this with you at home, but Venus Williams on the keynote stage tomorrow, looking forward to that. Talk about a human potential. Shaq was going to be here, had a last-minute cancellation, so they've put Venus Williams in and talk about really thematically very consistent. Her life story with what Infor is talking about here this week, and we're glad to have the opportunity to be here with you throughout the week at their show. So that's it for day one here at InforM 18. For Dave Vellante, I'm John Walls. Thanks for joining us here on theCUBE, and we'll see you back here tomorrow from Washington, DC.


This ceremony marks the culmination of a process which began in 2016 for monitoring and evaluating the progress made in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria. The grand ambition of the SGGs, as we know and as we've heard again today, is to engender an economically sustainable, socially inclusive and environmentally resilient world. For Nigeria and indeed Africa as a whole, the achievement of the SGGs is crucial to our the task of ending poverty, hunger, disease and safeguarding our environment. And for our administration, our objective of achieving sustainable development, which means creating wealth, decent jobs, reducing poverty, addressing the issues of climate change, is both consistent with the aspirations of the SGGs and central to our entire vision for the country. This is why in May 2019, Mr. President made a public commitment to lifting approximately 100 million Nigerians out of poverty within a 10-year period. This is a national developmental priority, which again follows on the establishment of our Social Protection Program. And our Social Protection Program, the Social Investment Program, is the largest on the continent and which by itself is an attempt to accelerate the achievement of the SGGs across the country. The program is a multi-pronged approach to wealth creation, human capacity development and poverty alleviation. The conditional cash transfer program is the component of the program which reaches approximately 8.9 million poor and vulnerable households and 37.7 million individuals across the country. The Government Enterprises and Empowerment Program, GEEP, has provided about 2.4 million loans to petty traders and small entrepreneurs worth 38 billion across the country. While the N-Power Program, which is a youth employment and skills enhancement initiative, is designed to employ 1 million youths between the ages of 18 and 35 and further enskill them for the job market over a two-year period. As a successful plan for the millennium development goals, the Nigeria SGGs Indicator Baseline Report 2016 reinforced the need to strengthen our national statistical system to enable effective tracking and monitoring of the SGGs that we're all committed to. But it's a matter of some regret that just as we were commencing the decade of action for SGGs and had started seeing some modest progress, especially in the areas of poverty reduction, the COVID-19 pandemic emerged to undermine the prospects of achieving our aspirations. The pandemic, as we all know, resulted in an unprecedented global disruption of economies. While welfare countries were able to effectively fund massive stimulus programs and social protection schemes to deal with the impact of the pandemic, developing countries, including Nigeria, suffered disproportionately due to resource constraints. But yet it is to the credit of the SDG, especially our office, that despite the restrictions occasioned by the COVID-19 outbreak, our SDG's office in Nigeria succeeded in putting in place effective institutional mechanisms at the national and sub-national levels to drive the implementation of the SDGs across the country. And during this difficult period, Nigeria successfully presented its second voluntary national review reports on the SDGs to the United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development sometime in July 2020. The 2020 voluntary national review process was conducted by the deployment of ICT platforms to conduct virtual consultations, as we've heard, across all the key segments of society. The key findings identified the major successes as well as the challenges that must be addressed if we must achieve the SDGs by the year 2030. There's no question that the Nigeria SDGs implementation plan, 2020 to 2030, offers a coherent pathway for achieving the expected outcomes in the next decade. One of the areas of marked improvement in this document that we're presenting is the increased range of reporting from the 126 indicators recorded in the 2016 baseline report to the 141 indicators in the current 2020 report. So broadening the spectrum of data that is covered by the report gives a more accurate picture of what is going on and can help shape a more accurate or more accurate policy responses. The launch today both completes and officially initiates the process of realigning the national statistical system with requirements of the SDGs. And it is, as we've heard, a product of the data mapping exercise and the design and execution of the SDG data bond. The federal government is committed to guaranteeing the sustained production of relevant statistical information that is needed for effectively tracking and monitoring SDGs in Nigeria. And so we fully support the partners in this important enterprise, namely the office of the senior special assistant to the president on sustainable development goals, the national bureau of statistics and the entire national statistical system. With this launch, we'll be able to track our progress on the SDGs accurately on an annual basis. Also, as this report itself observes, in order for the SDGs to be truly sustainable, they must be integrated into plans and policies of government. And this is precisely the approach that we have taken, beginning from the economic recovery and growth plan 2017 to 2020, the national poverty reduction with growth strategy, and then the economic sustainability plan, which of course, as you know, was a short-term response to the adverse impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. And now the national development plan 2021 to 2025, which was approved by the federal executive council only a couple of weeks ago. Its core components include human capital development, infrastructure and social development, all of which are vehicles for achieving the SDGs. But more specifically, the national development plan identifies as areas of emphasis and action, agriculture, food security, rural development, water resources, enhancement, sanitation, social protection and health and nutrition. These thematic areas, as you'll observe, mirror the SDGs and anchor the national development plan very tangibly on the achievement of the goals of the SDGs themselves. Our approach ensures that the SDGs are central to our national development efforts, and are indeed policy priorities for the foreseeable future. Clearly, all of these policy and planning documents bear the imprint of the SDGs as overarching national priorities. So let me conclude by commenting again the senior specialist assistant to the president on SDGs, Princess Adejioke Ureloquia de Fulure, for her passion and commitment to the enormous task of meeting our SDG commitments, and again to her and the statistician general of the Federation Dr. Simon Harry, for your leadership in this very important process. In presenting this strategic report to Nigerians and the international community, I will urge all stakeholders to pay close attention to its key findings and recommendations, with a view to strengthening the implementation of the SDGs in Nigeria. I must now, in a moment or so, invite you to join me to witness the presentation of the report on the review of baseline and realignment of the national statistical system with SDGs 2020. And I'll ask that you witness this. I'll be inviting, I think, some of the personalities, development partners, the statistician general, and of course the SDG, the national coordinator of the SDGs, to join me as we unveil the report. I thank you very much for your kind attention.


We've put on the pads and strap up the helmets because football is finally back and for the Lumberjacks they are ready to trust the process with a fresh start in 2017 season and home opener tonight at Chetanner Stadium at the Rogers Royal stand on the opposing sidelines and Rogers would strike in the second Cole Larson. He connects with Eli Solberg for the score extra point misses six three Royals at the half end of the third Linnaeus Widing after scoring goals early in the day for soccer. He connects for three here brings them within seven defense the story though for the Jax tonight ball on the ground but Midget recovers and takes over possession in the fourth and very next play offense finally strikes Jacob Bieber, Durian Bieberdorf that's six but the extra point no good they still trail 13-12 but the defense steps up again Royals cough it up Jax pounce on it and they have the ball in Rogers territory after a couple passenger clearance calls sets this up Bieber from just a few yards out he dives in for the score they would add one more later on how about Bemidji they come from behind to win 24 to 21 the final if you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland public television


Check this out folks. Listen, we're getting ready to do a Southern style breakfast enchilada, and guess what? We got that gravy. So, come on in here and take a look at this right here. Look, I got a few things out here and it looked like I got a lot of ingredients but I don't, right? I went ahead and just diced down my red bell pepper. This is a green bell pepper. That's jalapeno and these are the rest of the ingredients right here. And listen, we're using a flour tortilla. Now, I gotta let you know, listen, I got a website. I want you guys to go down in the description box below, click on my website. You can find this recipe along with others for a full printable, you know, printout. So, with that being said, let's get it. Okay, look, as you can see, listen, I'm starting off with a medium flame. You know, we gotta put some heat in the pan. Okay, so look, now I'm gonna go ahead and start my butter, right? Now as this starts to melt, I'm gonna give my veggies a little bit of a head start before I go ahead and add in, you know, my breakfast sauces. And speaking of my breakfast sauces, I want you guys to pay attention. Look, this is the breakfast sauces right here that's got the casing on it, right? If you guys can't find something like this, like this mild Italian, you wanna use this, all you gotta do is open them up and squeeze out the inside. It's very, very simple. Everything is melted, right? So, we gonna add the butter for just a little bit of a flavor, right?  Okay, so notice that I put this down here, right? I'm just gonna give a little pro tip for those that are new to cooking. If I take it like this and I lift this up, you can see that when I kept it whole like that, it forms a little crust, right? I like to see that first before I start to break it up, right? So, I got me one of these mashers, you know what I mean? These are great for you guys that got them nonstick pans. This won't tear up the coating inside, but these are hex clad pans. You can use these with metal utensils, they do work out. All right, look, I wanna show you this part right here. Now look, I still got a little pink weak cooking, right? Let me look at my flame. I got that medium flame going. I gotta do aromatic coming off of there. Now what I wanna do is I wanna go ahead and add, look, my veggies. Cause we just wanna cook these. I still wanna keep that integrity. I'm gonna love the color. You guys gonna love it too, right? So we just put this in here, jalapeno and all. And we'll just get it. And then I'm gonna come with the onions. Now you guys are used to hearing me say that I like to do my onions first, but that's how we're gonna do them today. Now I'm gonna come with my onions. Ooh, I like that onion. If you look right here, look, I got tater tots. I already started getting these to work, you know what I mean?  These were frozen. You guys can use those. You can use regular has browns. I suggest using these. It's like just when you go to build everything, it's just not, doesn't have that mess. You saw how much I put in there. You know, you guys can tailor make that to your own way, but listen, all of the sausage, the mild Italian sausage has been cooked, right? So look, I wanna keep the integrity of my veggies. So if you come in here and take a look at that, only thing that started to go down, because it's the way I dice my onions, they go down just a little bit, right? But it's all good.  And listen, we just gonna take out, probably about a half of this, because now we're getting ready to, I'll show you folks.  I just wanna have about, let me see if I can get this right. We want a medium flame. Hopefully you guys can see that. That's when I say medium, that's what I'm looking for, right? So we got that up there. You can hear, look, the pan's already hot. Come on in here, listen to this. Yes sir, we already back up to a little sizzle, right? So now we finna add, listen to this, we finna add our flour, but we wanna cook some of that flour down, you know? So I'm gonna move this around.  So after about a minute or so, you know what I mean? That heat cooks out that flour taste, right? Now I'm gonna take my milk, and what I'm gonna get ready to do is, this is whole milk by the way, you know what I mean? I'm gonna just start adding this, right? Once we got that in there, don't forget, we just put that flour in there, and we'll cook and let this all marinate together, you know, we'll get some heat on that milk, and just move this around. You guys can see how this is about to turn out. You see how thick that is right there? That's what you wanna have, right? So now I'm just gonna bring all of this down. I'm gonna put it in a bowl, and it'll cool, right? So we'll just bring it in like this. Now listen, I just took out my hash browns, or my tater tots, you know what I mean? So now you wanna get yourself a bowl, right? And you just wanna crack your eggs. You guys should be able to crack eggs the way I'm doing it. I don't know about, you know what I mean? I've been cracking eggs so long, we do it one hand. Boom, open them up, like that. Then what we wanna do is we wanna whisk, right? So we have some salt, and we have some pepper, right? All right, once we got everything scrambled, now we just wanna go ahead and just add it. Okay, so my eggs are done. You don't wanna cook your eggs all the way down, you know what I mean? Cause look, they gotta cook inside the oven just a little bit. So I'm gonna take these, drop them in there like that. They nice and soft. Oh my goodness, I would love to have some of these. You know what I'm saying? With some bread anyway. Now, you see that right there? This is what you guys been waiting to see right now. We got our tots, nice and crispy. Listen to this. Yes, sir. So we just add some of these in, you know? And then what we're getting ready to do is give it a mix. So now what I do is I just go ahead and mix it all up. It'll break the egg up, but you gotta see where we're going. Look at this right here. This is gonna be your filling, folks. And this right here is what you're gonna end up with, right? Now, 13 by nine. You guys can do it the old-fashioned way with the butter. Or if you got that nine-stick spray, you know, I'm one with the pan. Right, so now as you're looking at this, now you can start seeing like, man, this might really be just that easy. So for me, I'll just take myself a tablespoon, right? Now we wanna get some of this filling here. Right, now that's up to you how you make them. You never know which one you're gonna get, so I suggest that you make them all the right way. Right, so a couple of tater tots. The first one is always a little tricky. I'm gonna tell you why.  Now, I just take this like this, roll it like that. You know what I mean? Get it nice and tight. And we want it to be a little bit on the fat side, right? Now check this out. I want you guys to come over here. And then remember, we already sprayed these. Now I put it down with the fold down on the bottom so it won't unravel. Now, we back to this cause we wanna put some of that on there, right? So what I'm gonna do is, remember we had it already separated? Instead of me pouring it outside of the carton, I'm just doing it this way.   I'm hot and I'm ready. You see this right here? Now I'm gonna take this and I like my covers that I have. Right, so let me do it so you guys can see it. I'm gonna start this way and just pour it this way. It kinda like do a little smear, right? So, again, let's look at my thickness. This is the consistency I have right there. I got some nice breakfast sauces inside of that. Ooh, my goodness. So we'll just start right here and just start adding it like that. We going in the oven, probably for just about 20, 25 minutes. Okay, folks, so look, you guys can see, I got it out. Drop a little greenery on the top. Don't forget the green onion tops, they taste good too though, right? So, just drop those like that. Now I'm gonna get in here, see if I can get this up in one whole piece. And it's time to do a taste test. Look at that right there. Ooh, you see that? Okay, folks, now's the moment of truth, right? Listen, you see that right there? I got it, this is a healthy biteful right here. Now, I tell you guys to look down in the description box so you can get the ingredient list, but check it out. Now I got the ingredient list, all of that, plus the written instructions and it's printable. Go by, check it out on my website. With that being said, cheers. Now that there, now that's real nice. Listen, you guys looking for something inexpensive and you probably have all of this inside of your refrigerator anyway, right?   What would you do to level up this? Tell me what you would put in there. Hey, and then those of you guys would like to have a little heat, don't forget, you can put some of them seeds inside of here too, but you know I'm a lightweight. Now, with that being said, don't forget, check out my website. I got most of my recipes on there right now and don't forget you guys, you guys can now print them or do whatever you want to. Better yet, go to them, take a picture screen so I do all of that. Listen, that's smoking and grilling with AB.com. And that being said, listen, if you're new to my channel, let me just take this time to say, thank you for watching this video. Don't forget to like, smash that subscribe button and tell everybody out here this. Listen, there's a channel out here to simplify these recipes and taking the mystery out of cooking. And guess what folks, I'm about to eat.