We're at South High School, the Cutie Field House. We're tonight, Sheboygan North visits Sheboygan South in the first of the War by the Shore games. Alongside the coach, Chris Wright, I'm Mike Martin.  South comes in one and 10. They've really been struggling this year. North comes in eight and four, which sounds pretty impressive, but only four and four in conference. What do you see happening in this first ball game? Well, unfortunately for Sheboygan South on paper, as you just said, it looks like a total mismatch. South struggled this year a lot and they've really been struggling against conference foals and things like that. So one thing it is, it's a North-South game, you never know girls getting nervous and stuff. For Sheboygan North, they've kinda had a team that struggled with some of the upper teams in the league. They're kinda like in the middle of the pack a little bit. They are four-and-one in their non-conference games, but they're kinda just like in the middle of the pack this year, but on paper it looks like a one-side affair, but you never know. Now behind us, we all like collaboration, right? Behind us we have the combined North, South, Peppin. South is directed by Wade Heinen. North is directed by Guyant Curry. So listen to them in the back row while we try and hear each other.  She's one of the kids that South is gonna have to handle tonight. Yeah, she's more than a league and scoring, Marty. She leads the league in steals, rebounds, and blocks. So she almost needs every category, statistically, and so just an outstanding season.  Mackenzie Marver comes in with a 12.2 scoring average. She's really pretty tough, pretty good scorer. That's one girl that North is gonna have to pay attention to. Yeah, and that's something that, you know, as bad as the season has, it's one of the things I was gonna say, Mackenzie Marver's having a real good season. 12 points a game.  She's third in the league in rebounding. So South's got some players. I think a very important thing for South is taking care of the ball, not turning the ball over, you know, leading for extra shots and opportunities like that, because you know the North girls are gonna come after them. No, as it caught you off, when you have a kid, you know, a team at the beginning of the season, you don't want that to be the same team you end up with at the end of the season. Justin Bingham is hoping for that with his kids, one in 10, but you'd like to see improvement as you move through the season. Well, there's no doubt about that, and you know, like I said, it's been a struggle for them, and you know, just trying to get better net and keep morale up. I mean, they've had some tough, tough, tough losses this year, which we'll talk about later on, because I'm not happy about some of the scores, but you're right, just trying to get a little better. They did have a victory against St. Francis just a couple of weeks ago, so just trying to keep morale up a little bit, and you know, there is two months left to this season. All right, we're gonna step out and we come back. We'll have the opening lineups and the tip-off for our first ball game tonight. In your spot, you know my motto, safety first. They could be dangerous. I think we should call animal control. Animal control? To be safe. Don't worry. It's a new motto. You don't have to be perfect to be a perfect parent. There are thousands of teens in foster care who don't need perfection. Throw away money on wasted electricity. You're throwing away everything you could have bought with it. Saving energy saves you money. Learn more at energiesavers.com.  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Sportsmanship is one such value that makes this game an educational experience. The Fox River Classic Conference stresses sportsmanship as a goal and expectation for all in attendance at tonight's game. Please remember to sport a winning attitude by cheering positively for your own team. And now, let's meet the starting lineups first for the Sheboygan North Golden Raiders. Sophmore, number four, Julia Scheringer. Junior, number 10, Mary Schmidt. Junior, number 20, Kylie Girach. Senior, number 42, Kiara Dalman. And Junior, number 44, Mariah Plotts. Head coach, Eric Spillman. And now, your starting lineups for your Sheboygan South High Red Ways. Junior, number three, Katie Beaney. Junior, number 12, Ashley Wyman. Sophmore, number 20, Emily Bridges. Junior, number 22, Mackenzie Marver. And Junior, number 24, Amy Fial. The officials for tonight's game, Russ Miller, Steve Steiner, Jeff Vollin, our official scorer, Michelle Walters. These individuals are registered by the WIAA Their experience and integrity qualify them to administer the rules of the game. Our athletic trainers tonight from North Jeff Lenz. Chris Lenz, I'm sorry, Chris. And Dave Stecher, both from Prevea Sports Medicine. Sim Safford giving us the pregame announcements and lineups. Dalman controls the tap, and we're off and running here at South High School's Acuity Fieldhouse. Dumped down into Plats, her hook shot is off, no good. Rebound goes to South, Ashley Wyman. Right away, right in the post, Marty, that was a nice play there that North had coming out of the gate, just didn't get it to fall. One thing that North has an advantage on is height with Dalman and Plats and that high-low action is pretty effective. North and a man-to-man deep two-point attempt is no good by Danny. Dalman with a rebound. Plats trying to go out of the basket, but was prevented from doing that. Drive through the lane and the shot is up, and he in by Kylie Girak. While we talked about it earlier, I'd like to see South get opportunities at the basket. They got two shots the first time, Marty. As long as they control their turnovers, I think they can hang in here for a while. Inside shot is no good by Salus McKenzie-Marver. Plats loads up a three-point attempt. It's no good. Dalman got the offensive rebound. Drive to the hoop and the shot is up and in by Julia Scheringer. She's going to try for the three-point play, Chris. Justin Bingham not agreeing with that call. Already North's getting real deep on South. Couple drive in penetrations. South's going to have to close up that middle of that lane a little bit better. Uh-oh. Almost. Almost a turnover that time by Wyman, but she's able to keep her pivot put down. Jump shot in the middle of the lane is up and in by Emily Bridges. And South is on the board. Looked to line up the three, but put it on the cold floor. Instead drove it to the hoop for two. Right. Once again, getting to the paint, Marty. Our North shots are all nice and easy. Scramble on the floor and we get a tie-up. We're going to get a foul. I think they're going to get Bridges there, Marty. Yep. She had a shot attempt, Marty, and then a hustle attempt. She kind of went over the back. Kind of jumped in the pile, I guess you could say, which is normally good hustle play. The problem with that foul is it's her second already. Wow. And there's the 15-30 mark. Oh, they got one on each. I agree. I don't know what maybe I missed it. Oh, I take that back. I was looking at the points instead of the fouls. She only has one. Wyman has the other foul. There's that early turnover. To the steal. Oh, there's a travel. Dahlman had a teammate over on the right side. Scheringer, that's where the ball should have went. 6-2 early on, 15 minutes left in the first half of our first ball game. It's a double header. Boys will be next. Shot is blocked by Scheringer. There it is, nice and deep again. Dahlman trying to use that chicken wing to get around the defender, but couldn't quite make it all the way. Nars getting nice shots in the lane. South defense has got to improve a little bit. Here's another one. Dahlman with a nice move to the right. Mentioned in the opening first in the league in rebounds, blocks and steals and fourth in. Dahlman with another steal. Scored and said she leads the league in steals. Baney with the foul, and the team foul situation. South has three already, North none. North in a tide for fourth in their lead. Four up, four down. Deep free ball off the glass and in by Julia Scheringer. And there's a quick timeout by Coach Bahlman. Unfortunately for South, what could happen or thought could happen has happened, and that's a slow start by the Red Wing ladies. I was thinking, Chris, if they could keep it close, like they were at the beginning of the first couple possessions, a lot of passing, make a move around on defense. As long as you can stay close, you've got a chance. They're getting some shot attempts, but now the last two trips have been a couple turnovers. And I have North with a good start, five of seven shootings, so it's a bad combination for the South ladies already. Justin Bingham in red. Eric Spielman in the tie.  We're trying to be neutral. A little bit neutral, thinking like Plymouth tonight. He's in Plymouth last night. There's another turnover, Marty. Can catch it and pass it. You can be a basketball player. Yep. Good defense, though, but they're going to say too much defense there on Barrington. Another follow-up. When do you get back, Marty? I just flew in from Phoenix, and boy are my arms tired. We got home about 2.45. OK. Hope he didn't talk much on the plane, so he could talk tonight, Marty. Not too much. No, I was reading a book on my phone. The almond with the left hand this time draws the fall. She'll be shooting a pair. You'd almost think that maybe a zone would help, or back off a little bit on those players a bit, because things are just too easy for North right now. Yeah, really. Nothing but the bottom of the net for Dalman. Nice rebound. That was a good one. 12-2. Another steal and a good pass inside. The layup attempt is up and in by Meredith Opie. That was a nice pass there by Katie Beshard. That's what Dalman should have done. Another timeout by Salt, their second one. Not Katie Beshard. Kayla Kirchner there. An interesting situation, Chris. We have the War by the Shore tonight, two games. And next week Friday, we got Luther and Over at Christian for the Holy War by the Shore. And it's only an annual now, because they have too many teams in their league, which is kind of sad. You'd almost think they like to play a non-conference game against each other, but in their conference, they do. I talked to Al Holzheimer. He said they're trying to, maybe not this year, obviously, but maybe next year have a non-conference matchup between the two, so they get two and. Right. Now, they could play each other. They do have a conference tournament. Yeah, you're right there. So they could end up playing each other in that thing. But looking forward to that on Friday night, already we're halfway through January. We know that because of the weather. By the way, as a TV station, we are 1, 2, 3, 4, 4 and 3 only. Let's pick it up a little while we pick up a couple wins tonight. And next Friday. Yeah, and next Friday. Well, all of a sudden, we'll be 7 and 3. Looking pretty good. Look at that smothering defense there. Whoa. Well, you mentioned it in the opening, I think. I saw your lips move. Yeah. The bands were pretty loud. But Thalith has got to cut off the turnovers. A bump on the layup attempt, but no call. Hopi had another turnover, Chris. So many. More turnovers and minutes played. I'm sure about that. The 13 minute mark. Look at the post position. Good post position there by Mariah Plotts. Plotts with a good rebound. Rebound shot is no good. Putback is up and in by Kiley Girach. 16 to 2. Three ball is no good. Taking that shot was Mackenzie Marver. Dahlman had the ball tipped away and a scramble. North comes away with it. Three ball is no good. That attempt by Hopi, but North comes away with it again. Plotts with it on top over to Dahlman. Nice. Nice pass and a good layup by Plotts. Good footwork that time. It's like North went to a zone, Chris, and the South is really having a tough time with that. Bridges comes back in. North, we mentioned the opening 8-4. They have four non-conference wins. They've beaten Port Washington. They played Milwaukee Messmer, I believe, at the Bradley Center, Marty, which was a nice little trip for them. Then they played Usperg and Wisconsin Lutheran. So those are their four non-conference victories. That's a pretty tough competition. And they do have wins against Southwest, Manitowoc, Polasky, and they've already played Southwest a second time. So they already flipped their schedule for a couple of make-ups they have because of the weather. File picks up the foul. South with six fouls and zero for North. The scoreboard is pretty lopsided. Nothing going right right now for the ladies in white. We got a good shot of Meredith Hopi. That's home a couple of free throws. North has made three of five so far in the ball game. Doing that zone attack there. Another turnover. No answer. And Hopi with a play-up. And another timeout by Justin Bingham. Well, seven minutes in. Full timeout, guys. Let's take a short break. We'll take care of you. Back at South High School's Acuity Fieldhouse. Justin Bingham calling his third timeout of the half, Chris. It's girls are really having a hard time. Yep, got to take care of the basketball. Keep shooting it up there. Get somebody in the middle there against that zone. That last PSA where the dad is walking around with the drill. That was me last night in Arizona. Drilling holes. Hopefully in the right place. They weren't in the right place. My wife had her eye on me. Made sure I was doing it right. Good job there. I'm breaking that double team. Good swing. Good shot. Well, just wouldn't go down. And we got a foul on North. And going to the line for the Lady Redwings will be Ashley Wyman. Well, Marty, last week you were gone. We had a game here against Southwest, a boys game. Coach Desatelle was here. Coach Christensen and his brother. Really? Coach Russovsky. We had Coach Schumann was here. Wally Ruckaligus and his wife, Grace. Were there any parents? It was a who's who. And of course, Leroy Hamilton, the coach at Sheboygan Falls and has a son on the team helped me out. It was a who's who of basketball. And I wasn't even here. Nope. Opie for three, no good. It was a cold day, Marty. I'll tell you that. So people came to the game. I wouldn't know. Came to the game instead. Has a good kick down pass by Dahlman to Opie. And she puts it in. Meredith Opie with eight points already, Chris. She's got a third in our scoring. There you go. Ball is tipped, but Wyman put it up and in. Ashley Wyman, a junior. Just four seniors on South Squad. Booting it up for three, but not hitting it, was Allison Shetter. Ball's tipped away. South will keep it. Lady Redwings come in tonight with a 1 in 10 record. 0 and 7 in League North is 8 and 4. 4 and 4 in conference. Doesn't look like they're going to be threatening, reviving for a conference title this year, Chris, with those four losses already. Yep. Well, the league is to peer. It's climbed back to the top after a year off. They're 9 and 1. Bayport is 8-1, Ashwaben on 5 and 2. And then you've got a host of teams. Notre Dame, Pulaski in North at 4 and 4. And talk about the peer in a little bit. I have a little whining to do, Marty. I'm good at that. I noticed. But you don't whine at tennis. Well, you don't, well, you don't do it out loud. That's true. They don't do it out loud. That's correct. They're trying to get in the paint and they do again. Wow. A lot of dribbling, but a good layup by Julia Scheringer. 8.50 left. Shoot it. North trying to double the ball whenever possible. Yeah, it was a good skip pass. They just can't buy a hoop. Ball goes off to Yara Dalman. South will keep it. Emily Bridges is going to toss it in for the Lady Redwings. Just two of 12, Marty. And another turnover on South Chris. Here. Giving up to individuals that would have been on. I had it. OK. There's a shot. And a miss. South, very aggressive on their blockouts after shots, Chris. You get a foul underneath. We'll have to see what all this plays out. I think they're going to get Katie Baney on that one. Yeah, Baney with two. Isabel Barrington with two. And Michaela Kircher with two for North. Kylie coming in at five points per game. Already got five, Marty. Two games already this season and canceled on Friday nights, Marty. That's, uh... Well, I remember the one. What was the other one? December and then Tuesday the other day, there was lots of ice. OK. So Tuesday nights games were all called off as well. You see, the football game was canceled, too. Or moved, I should say, the Kansas City game. No basket. They're calling the foul on the floor. What's that now? I didn't hear that. Kansas City and... Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is played after the Packer game tomorrow. Really? Yeah. I did not hear that. Bridges picks up her second. I went over the con floor just so I could see some green stuff, Marty.  It was green out by me. It was green inside that greenhouse. Shot no good and plots not able to control it goes all it off of her. I thought I'd get the smells and what it's like.  And it was really warm. I went in by the flowers and it was cold and I thought, you know, let's go outside. It's just as cold outside as it was by the flowers. Nice inbounds play there. Amy File with the basket for South. It's 27-7. We have another full-time all it will take a short break and be right back. All the swimming rules. You tell me to stay away from drugs to always buckle my suit down. So why do you keep a loaded gun in your door? How safe is that? You asked them to follow some safety rules. Now they're asking you. In fact, they're counting on you. Never let your gun get into the wrong hands. Remember, always lock it up. Visit ncpc.org. Our crew tonight, we have Scott Mailoff and Eric Weisman co-directing. Richard Bartzen is up by us running camera one. Greg Zablaki down on the floor running camera two. Student helpers are Corey Greer and Sergi Molliter. They're both juniors here at Salt High School. They take a class here, right, Marty? They take Mr. Mailoff's broadcasting class. Yes, they do. Don't interrupt me anymore. Just going to say it's a nice opportunity to expand on people with those interests, maybe. Yeah, exactly. Not just for us, but maybe they work some place, network TV some place. And I think back to my high school days, you know, there was a class that a couple guys took. It wasn't a real big thing at the time, but I wish I would have done it. It was take-home-ec, you know, learn about cooking and all that kind of thing. All I'm good at now is frozen pizza and TV dinners. South shooting just 21% from the floor. Trailing by 20. Currently, 7.5 minutes, Marty. 7.34 left in the first half. Pretty quick half a basketball. Yep, good idea. Just got to execute that little bounce pass. Right plan. Just need to get that pass in there a little better. You can tell there's a lot of inexperience from the South girls. They just don't look real comfortable making some of the plays that you would think varsity players should be able to make. Shot off the glass is no good by Deschard. Yep, she's one of my former students, Marty. Look at that, coast to coast. Oh, just can't finish. Kalman leading the break right down the middle. She takes it to the Hoopin scores. That was pretty sweet, Chris. Once again now that she had that wide open lane. Good drive. The block and she gets it back. Leads the confidence in blocks, Marty. Oh, helping herself out. Plots with a three point attempt is no good and then she's fouled on the block out. And she's going to get three free throws. Committing that foul was Isabella Barrington, her third. 17.13.2. She's fifth in the conference, Marty, in scoring. And fourth in rebounding. Looks good on that free throw attempt. She has eight points. Five points for Plots. They get six. Oh, she did it. The tri-theta. Got the roll there. Nars still coming out with that aggressive zone. That's a good pass indeed. Kalman I think is going to get the foul that time. Yeah. Lime and nice catch. What a basket. North with four team fouls. Salt has nine. Wyman's first free throw attempt is good. She gets the second. 32-9. 6-20 left. Oh, a nice feed inside. Plots couldn't get the layup. An easy one. Yeah, Wyman with the strong rebound. Three ball is no good. That shot attempt by Marver. She's averaging 12, a little over 12 a game. Chris, she doesn't have any points yet. Yeah, I don't remember even mentioning her name, Marty. She's got three shot attempts. No fouls, no points. There's a couple of shot attempts like Chris mentioned, but that's about it. There she goes. Marver's shot is no good. Good rebound though by a foul and then with a whistle. You've got a turnover possible traveling. Chris, there's a travel. Chris, if you're a coach like Justin with a team that hasn't been very successful, what do you do to keep the girls involved? I think you just said right from the opening that you've got to keep them motivated. You've got to make sure what we're doing is to improve. Obviously we're not always seeing the results, but you've got to try to motivate them to come to practice, do different things. Try to make practice fun. I like that idea. You can do a lot of basketball things that are fun too. There's games and things and skills you can work on. I think it's important that they got a victory this year, Marty. Right. I think I told you the story. One thing I will say, and I'll mention it at our next break, Marty, when there's free throws or something. The moralizing a little bit. Almost. Rolled around, rolled around. This one, come back in. This year, Depeer beat the South Girls 98 to 16. I feel that as so unsportsmanlike, it's not even funny. Another case, hey, you're leading the league. If you're going to 98, that means you're trying to get to 100. Can't you win at 70 to 16? You have to go to 100. That's just the WIA sometimes. They try to make these rules. We do have running clocks and things like that. That's the type of losses that are painful. But then there's coaches out there. There's no reason you can't pass them all around the outside or do something. I'm not trying to degrade the South Girls in their team, but I don't think that's very classy. When you're running scores like that. The team to score 100 points. When he was coaching, I remember there were some opportunities, but he told them, don't get 100. Hey, it's one thing if it's 100 to 92. Another thing when it's 98 to 16. That's just not necessary. The game is that way. I was going to relay an experience I had as a coach one of my years over at Chilton with baseball. We were 0-19 as a team. We won our second-last game of the season, but I guess my point is the kids always hung in there. I think to a certain extent, as much as you can make a winless season up to that point, fun, we tried to do that. Of course, when you're not under the gun for having to win, a lot of guys get to play and you play them more often. Maybe then you might if you were vying for a conference championship. I like the idea that you mentioned, keep it fun for the kids. Don't be yelling at them all the time. Improving and working on skills. By the way, that year, we won the second-last game of the year. Then we won our first tournament game. We had a buy in the first round of the tournament. We won our first sectional game. The state with one win on the regular season. You talk about being fun at the end of the year. I think it can happen. I said that in the opening two here. It's not so far in the way for the Lady Red Wings. They got off to a slow start. I think if they would have kept it close in the beginning, a quick start by North, they hit five of the first seven shots. South couldn't find the basket right away. The last couple of minutes, they've been hanging in there. They follow for South, too. Really? Just adding up to the problems. In the game, when we weren't looking, Chris, we've got to mention her. Cubanita Lopez Tagui, number 21 in the ballgame. Cuba, that's what she goes by. She's averaging seven and a half points a game. Oh, a nice pass. Wyman with a good layup. That was sweet. 3-4 to 13, three and a half left. Good pass. Hope he's had a nice half of basketball, scored some points. Some other good things. Cuba lost it on her way to the basket. I talked with Justin Bingham prior to the game just to make sure we're pronouncing her name right. She said she goes by Cuba to her friend. We'll call her that, too. We're a friendly group up here. Good job. Defense there, much better. Deep three, that time is no good. Wyman with the rebound. Baney bringing it up. I have seven rebounds already for Wyman. Wyman. Mentioned in the opening, she's third in the league in rebounds. Good cross, court pass. Shot attempt by Luma is no good. Cuba Lopez to Guy with a basket. South is starting to get their sea legs, Chris. Another bad turn over by North. They're getting a little sloppy. It was a 20-point lead. Down to 19. Marver's pass inside. Reversely up is no good by Luma. Janita Luma couldn't get it to go. Wyman's going to go back to the line. Good try in that reverse. By Luma, the junior. This is a third trip to the line for Ashley Wyman. No more knee bend. Ashley. Got to get a little more arch on it. She's made three out of five so far. See if she can make it four out of six. She does. 18-point lead for the Raiders and thrown out of bounds. Making that turn over was Makayla Kircher. Mary Schmidt steps out. Katie Vichard in the ball game. 13-1 it looks like. Looks like they're manning up. The pass inside. Lopez to Guy for two and she's fouled. Now those are the kind of shots South got at the beginning of the game. They just couldn't put in. The last couple of minutes they're starting to make them, Marty. It's a 7-point run. Cuba makes this one. It's an 8-point run. Nice jinx in there, Marty. I wasn't trying. Dolman. Little hook shot in the lane. It's no good. Good passing by North. Good patience. Nice reversal. One more pass should have been there. Kick out past the plots. Rainbow three is down. Nice pass there by Dolman though. Thought she got a little bit too deep. Under a minute left in the first half. And we get a follow. That one's going to go on Mary Schmidt. Little put South at the line. Just thinking Marty wasn't too long ago that Coach Bingham and Spielman and us were all playing basketball together. Justin said he doesn't play during the season, but he tries to get out there after the season and play. They're playing on Saturdays now. I talked to Hamilton about that. I missed playing a little bit. Got to make the free throws, though, girls. He always wanted to have Leroy on your team. Fall. I'm not sure what happened. Fiel gets her second foul, Marty, and Dolman's back to line. She's just got five points. Does Kiarah Dolman, but I have her for six rebounds so far. I had her on one for two trip early in the ball game, and if she can make this one, it'll be another one for two trips. It was a good shot at Kiarah. Nice prep profile of her the other day in the paper. The only thing I didn't like about it was her favorite class wasn't Jim. There's a nice shot. Oh, it rims in and out. Right string, wrong yoyo. Deep pass to Dolman with a good catch and a layup. Plots with the great pass and in. Dolman comes through with the hoop. Ball's tipped away with 11 seconds left, but Plots not able to gather it in. There's 9.1 seconds left in the first half. Schmidt coming back in. Marver's got it. Six seconds. Dolman with a step out, good D and taps it away. And we're at halftime north on top. 40 to 18. Traditional light bulbs actually generate nine times more heat than light. Switch to energy start light bulbs, and you'll realize just how much cash you were really burning through. Saving energy saves you money. Learn more at Energy Savers. We're having dinner soon. You don't have to be perfect to be a perfect parent. 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The neighbors think. Look what I have. Even still. You don't have to be perfect to be a perfect parent. There are thousands of teens in foster care who don't need perfection. Back at South High School, the Cutie Field House getting ready to start second half action. Norse started the game with a 22 to 2 run. From that point forward, it was pretty even. Chris Salt had a 7 point run near the end of the half before Salt bounced back to score 8 straight points. What do you get on the turnovers and rebounds and some of those things that you keep track of? I got north. 14 of 31 from the floor. Marty, 45%. 2 of 11 from 3 and they turned the ball over 7 times. Sheboygan South, unfortunately for them they had 15 turnovers and that kind of led to their shot differential between north and south a little bit different. They were 7 of 24, 29%. They didn't make a 3 in that first half. I like the way that South was at least doing what they were doing in the beginning, getting down deep and making some baskets at the end. They struggle with that little bit of that zone attack pressure. See if Norse is going to probably come out with that right away. Try to put this game out of reach early. South, they're going to have to counter and take care of the basketball and get the ball to the middle of the floor to one of the wings instead of going into that trap. Seemed like most of the turnovers by Salt had to do with passing and just not making good passes. They struggled from the floor early too and made some baskets late. When you think about it, north was 5 of 7 in their opening and since that time they've only hit 9 of 24 so they struggled from the floor as well as the Lady Raiders. Schmitt guarding Baney and a good feed inside but a tough time handling the ball. Marver with a shot just outside the free throw lane couldn't get it to go. She's had a tough night tonight, shooting-wise. Yeah, just she came into the game. We mentioned 12 points a game. So far she's got the goose egg up there. So I was going to need her to put some into the hole. Offensive. You mean that's on me? Any file with her third fall. And unfortunately that's going to be her third. Oh, that just can't happen wide open. Plots of shot is no good. Wyman comes away with the loose wall. Marver's rainbow shot from the wing is no good. Schmitt has it. Plots, it's fouled on the way to the basket. Just like the game started, Marty sells defense, struggling a little bit out of the gate.  Cut those driving lanes open. We mentioned it earlier today, way back when the game started. Norse had so many baskets and shot attempts right here in the paint like Thalman can do. Thalman drives it to the basket for two. Averaging 13 and a half. She's got 10 already. Had a nice game so far. Shot rims out. They're going to call a travel anyway on Emily Bridges. I was going to say just another thing that it's tough when you're not a very good team and then when you don't get any breaks, it makes it doubly bad. Plots open from three ball land. Shot off the rim is no good. Step through and a shot is up and in by Kylie Gurek. Good play there by Kylie. Oh, a right in and outer by Marver. Going to get a travel. Another timeout by South. Chris, a full timeout with the score. 44 to 18, 1609 left in the game. We're going to take a short break and be right back.  I promise the guys in the truck next time will go to a long break instead of always a short break. Close start for South out of the gates again. Mario for four. I thought it was a quick start for Northall. Yep, they're two for four. Still can't make their threes though. They're two of 13 now. Hey, did you see? I'm sure you watched the game last week when the Badgers lost to Purdue. Did you see what happened to them in their next game? They lost by five to Minnesota. Oh, yeah. Related to the three ball in that game, the Badgers couldn't make anything from three that. I think they were two for 14. Actually in the paint, had more points than Purdue who's just gigantic. Yeah, that Haas kid, holy cow. Swanigan, he could be player of the year. He's a stud. Oh, yeah, easily. Another turnover. But it just, playing on the road, Mario is so tough, just so tough to win on the road. Anytime he can get a win on the road. And I expected a little better ball game out of Ohio State the other night. They didn't look very good. No. Of course the Badgers looked very good that night. My son Tommy was there. He said it was a blow from the get-go. And it was a quick start by another turnover on North. They're up to nine. That's kind of stuff Coach Spielman wants. Probably the girls to finish out well You know, good. One of the things I don't like to see is when you can't pivot without traveling. That's what we had on that call. And Dolman's had a couple where she's had the ball and then wanted to dribble to the basket and couldn't get the ball down in time. Had taken a step first. Shot from the corner is no good. Nice rebound that time by Girac. The shot was missed by Beanie. I'll tell you something about that. Pivoting and stuff, Marty. Good pass by Dolman, couldn't finish it underneath the hoop. Little things, Chris, right? Yep, yep. I was just thinking, Marty, one of my was, there's another turnover. I'll mention it when we have a break. Sharing here gets it. When I was coaching basketball one year, we had a group of kids that came in after being in eighth grade as freshmen and things like that. And one thing, here's a replay in the shove. One thing that kids always mentioned, coached last year, we had all these great plays. We had 20, 30, 40 plays. We had all these plays, all these names. Then you watch the kids. They can't shoot. They can't dribble. They're not a great pass, but they had a lot of good plays. All you gotta do is be able to run them. If you ever want to watch a good movie, watch Coach Carter. They didn't let those kids shoot. They had one play. It was just, you know, probably a little exaggerated. Dolman with another basket. I was watching the Sheboygan-Norke basketball, the Tom Desateliers and Billy Free relates the story when he was on one of those early teams and he said, heck, the first two weeks of practice we didn't even touch a basketball. It was all conditioning. That might have been a little bit of an exaggeration, but you get the idea. There's that idea getting caught in the corner. Chris, you mentioned that. Coming out of the halftime. Get it in the middle where you can pass the ball. Curture in the ball game. I think you made a good point. If you can pass, you can dribble. You can play a little defense. Your coaches are going to get you on the floor. It's not all about the scores. Schmidt, no good. But she gets her own rebound and nice feet inside to Dolman who gets tripped and rolls out of bounds. I had a kid one year at Chilton. He could hardly walk and chew gum at the same time. He was a nice kid, don't get me wrong, but he wasn't a basketball player. But he had one halftime in one of our games. He caught every ball and when he passed it, it went to a teammate. I mean, he was awesome. I don't think he scored any points. He got some rebounds for us. He's a big kid, but... I know we got the boys' game coming up and kids like Jared Sputkerber for South and Ethan Senals for North are two of those kids who may not lead their teams in scoring. But they're the ones that take care of the ball. They can really defend. Good passers. If you look... talking about the Badgers, I think Showalter is that kind of kid for them. He does the little things. Yup. Walk on. I like what Gard said about him a while back. He said, you never have to worry about hustle when he's on the floor. South comes away with it. Bridges shot is up and in. Or filed, pardon me. Breaks a string, Marty. Went almost five minutes without a basket. Turn over. Coach Spielman not happy about that and he gets shatter in the game. From the end of the first half to that basket right there was a 14-point run for North. Spent a while. 46-20. It's all struggling. Dolman with another steal. And she gets whacked on the arm. That's dangerous. File picking up the foul. It's going to be her fourth. I'm sure... Coach Spielman is just saying that's... Maybe that should be intentional. He's... Don't need my best player to be... A round and down for Kira. Dolman. Kira with... What'd you say she's averaging? 12-something? Kira Dolman, 13-5. 13-5, she's at 13 right now. Fourth in the league in scoring. Lopez Taguy in the ballgame. She had a nice... Yeah, she had her... Spark there at the end of the first half. Four quick points. Those couple of minutes she played. They look pretty good right now. Catching the ball and dribbling it. That was not a good pass. They just dribbled and make that pass a little bit closer. Might call that a header. Another shot that just wouldn't go down for the Lady Red Wings. Step into the shot by... Luma and her shot rolls off. Getting tied up inside was Allison Shetter. She got kind of a bad spot there. Same situation also as the first half. Marty, if you look at the fouls. Five against South, zero against North. I think it was like 6-0 to start the first half. Yeah. It's not one thing, it's another. Nice pass. Got to catch that. Yeah, got to catch that one. There's a perfect example of what we've been talking about. Claire Binder. Had a chance for an easy two points and couldn't catch the ball. Over here at South was a very good basketball player. I saw Mom come in the building. Mom's in the house. Of course, Grandpa was a principle, long-time principle here. That was the dad. Nope. Tom Binder. That's Grandpa. Grandpa to Claire. Long plays at Wilson and Olin. Shot is no... Dalman with another board. What's that one? I defer to you. Opie for two. He's had a good game. Opie with 10. 12 points. Look at that replay. Nice. Ball control. Put it up off the glass and in. 30 second timeout. Timeout by South. Chris, I've got him for five timeouts. I think that might be it. I think he gets six. I think you told me it was six. I talked to one of the officials and... I think it's six now. I thought it was five too, but...  We were here to do the boys. I don't think you know what you're talking about. I think it's five. I don't know for sure. 26% shooting now for South. Is that up? No. Oh, it was 29. When are you going to start doing that figuring in your head? You're not allowed. You're supposed to know. Don't you know your math facts? I do sort of. 41% shooting for Norr, so they're down slightly as well. Baney with an offensive follow and that goes as another turnover. Chris is getting the abacus out trying to figure out how many turnovers South has. South and a man-to-man. Shedder had it stripped. She gets herself in situations where she can't do anything with the ball. Nobody moved, Marty. I was looking at what she's supposed to do. Shoot it. Shoot it if nobody's going to move. I'll show you. Somebody's got to move a little bit here. Marver again couldn't get it. Another rebound and she's leading the break and a great pass. Opie couldn't get it to go, however. Marver coming right back. It's away with a carry. And we get another layup attempt by North. No good. Opie hustling down for the easy two. Kertcher missed the first layup but Opie was right there to clean up. Shedder's going to pick up that fall. Come on, Allison. A better nap. Look at that nice layup. Good replay, guys. That looks like an Eric replay, not a Scott replay. Friendly balance for Marver. She gets her first point of the ball game. Hey. What a girl. They get two. Struggling from the floor. Got to keep shooting. That's your area of expertise. That and left-handed lips. A good bounce pass. There's a good skip. Opie to Shedder. Good passing, Marty. Yeah, very good. Shedder with the left-handed shot but she couldn't get it to go. Nice lead feed. But the shot is no good by Barrington. Marver. Four quick points for Mackenzie, Chris. First basket for her. She's just one of ten. You see the battle underneath. Put it up. Nandy it. Another good replay, guys. Our binder at the line for the Lady Raiders. Oh, Claire. Chance to get your name in the paper and you blew it. Opie down. And scores. And is fouled. File with her fifth foul. Look at this breakaway. Amin averaging nine points a game. Marty, she's at 16. That average is going up. Foul is on bridges, apparently. She has four. Opie with the completes the three-point play. Shard coming back in. Fifty-five. Twenty-four. What do you got to get to for a running clock? Forty. I think it's forty, Marty. Football is thirty-five. Football is thirty-five. I think it's forty. Eight forty left in the ballgame. You see the score. Fifty-one to twenty-four. Amanda Theobald coming in. Saw her. Mom and Dad, come on. Come on in the house here tonight. Mike Longtime, coach at Lutheran, assisting Todd Decker. Good guy, too. His son, Hurricane, he could play a little baseball, too. Yeah. He was a good player for us. Good fielding first baseman, if I remember correctly. He could hit. And a nice kid. And he can very musically incline, too. I didn't know. They got a band going. Speckled band? Not sure what their name is. They played at Summerfest, I know. Oh, really? Yeah. Whoopee. Whoops. Good idea. Bad pass. Like to have it back. There was a Sherlock Holmes novel for a story called the Speckled Band. It wasn't about music. It wasn't about music. When it's a 30-point lead by one of the squads, we get into some silly stories. We haven't had a story from the 60s. When I was in high school, back in the 60s, they didn't even have girls sports, per se. They had some activities after school. GAA, Girls Athletic Association. And I can think of two kids from my class that were outstanding athletes. Kathy Adamovich, a holy-namer, was a really good tennis player. And Barb Shuddy, I think, is in the Sheboygan Softball Hall of Fame. Good player. And I think both those girls would have been outstanding high school athletes had the opportunity. Now I'm trying to think here. Theobald with this point. Mary Delripple, pretty involved in starting stuff around here. She was part of it. I know she coached Girls Track for a long time. I don't know if she was one of them, but her and Delripple were two important names for girls sports in Sheboygan, for sure. So we got Amanda Theobalds going to get her name in the paper. Three ball by Beanie. All the way up to 27. They missed their first seven, but got that one. Watts would have drive down the lane. She has 12. Travel.  Nice three ball. It all looks pretty when they go in. Yeah, you could even tell on a release that would look good. Binder trying to get position inside almost stolen away, but keeping the ball for north was Nicole Lane. And it's a turn over now. 645 left in the ballgame. Bridges had it on top. Lot of reaching. Lot of reaching. Got the double screen. Oh, and they left her wide open and nail and another one was Beanie. Where was that? So coaches Bingham saying earlier. Eric Speelman saying, yeah, where was the defense is right? No basket. They're going to get file and that's going to be it. Yep. She's a little slow getting up, Marty. Look at that three. Bam! Nice arch. And you're right. It was on file and that is her fifth. Finished with six points tonight. Also had her for four rebounds, Marty. Cubanita Lopez Taguy in the ballgame. So you're not down at Cub's Fest this weekend, huh? In Chicago? Everybody and their neighbor except the horizons. They aren't down there. That's why I didn't go. Well, probably everybody and their brothers all of a sudden now going to this event now that they win it. All you loyal people who I got all my Cub t-shirts lined up ready to go for tennis, Chris. Every day of the week. Terry Brickovich is down there too. They're down there quite a bit, but I don't think that was years ago. I know. I'm just saying when you guys who are loyal fans should be rewarded. Right. Now they're winners.  Yep. 12 hitters. Yeah. John Jay maybe. Shwerber. He hadn't said he was thinking about he didn't think it'd be a bad idea to have Shwerber. By the way, with his four at bats last year, he's getting a card in Stratomatic. But he got the worst rating you can get for the outfield. He's a five and I think he's got a plus arm too so he's going to be pretty brutal in the outfield. Good dump. Oh, you got to catch it. It's a basket there. Finder had the basket before she had the ball. Yeah. Yeah, this is from Chicago Reader. They said that's the biggest concern who could lead off. They said with Shwerber and Bryant and Rizzle before you even got to your seats, they could have three runs on the board. Yeah, really? Isn't that the truth? Wait, those three guys can hit. Marber's shot is no good. Plots with a nice rebound. Whoa. She's cannot put the ball in the hoop tonight. For McKenzie. Seven rebounds now for Plots as well. Drive to the hoop in the shot. The scoop shot is up and no good by Emily Bridges, but she'll go to the line to shoot a pair. So who do you think should bat lead off? Me? Yeah. I don't mean you. I mean, who do you think should bat lead off for the Cubs? He likes to draw some walks. Shwerber and a four hole. It's a full time. Let's take a long break this time. It's a dream come true for many, except when there's flooding or hurricane. 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We haven't done many baseball games over the last couple of years. I'd like to get a couple in there. You guys have your schedule done already, right? Yep. Nice steal that time by Barrington. Layup is good and she's fouled. Nice layup. Izzy. That's the one thing at North that I'm sure of. Number five or Lindow's going to bat first and then the rest of them will... Still figured it out. After that. What's the kid? The lefty, the big guy. Oh yeah, Jackson Pond. Jackson. Is he going to be... He's healthy and ready to roll. I know you hurt most the last year, wasn't he? Or all of you? Yeah, like a growth thing, Marty, which was kind of a bummer. Not really an injury, but more of a... some growth spur thing kind of in it. Okay. Maybe all right. Good battles. Good battles. Got to finish, ladies. Got to do a couple misses, but she gets a chance at the free throw line. Here comes Claire again as well. Ashley Wyman. Ashley Wyman had eight rebounds in the first half, but I only got her for just one here in a second. I'm not perfect on that, but... You're pretty close to perfect. Well, I mean, you tell me that. Nine rebounds is still a pretty good night though. Cool, man. That's awesome. Kylie at the line, Girac made her first. She has eight points. Yeah, averaging five. Give her nine. Five minutes. Sixty-one to 35. Good defense. Look at those hands in that good positioning there. Katie, or Kylie, excuse me. Lopez Tegui were able to gather it in, but not able to do too much with it. Good passing by Salt. They got a nice shot, but again, they just can't get it to go in. Bender with the rebound. Another steal by Barrington. Right to the rack. And scores. She's fired up. That was a great play. There's the senior. Nice shot of her. Smile for the camera. That's right. That was a nice play. Make your free throw this time. Long. Distell, that was long, Marty. Yeah. Actually, you know what? You'd have made it if it had been a little longer. I don't know if I want to bring Dolman back in here. Yeah, what's the point? It's just injuries. What if you step on somebody's foot? That was one thing nice about that badger blow. It went a lot. The kids played a lot of minutes. When was the last time Brevin got up? Of course, a former Depeer player, player, player played in our league. Yeah, we covered him. He could make free throws. He could shoot. Wasn't always a big fan of his attitude, though, but I liked the way he shot. I talked to somebody from Depeer, and they heard about it too, and they weren't a basketball fan, but they just heard, you know, talk in the community. But some of that you grow out of, you know, good, smooth shooter. I hope he does well in Madison. Wasn't that at North? He had over 40 points that night. Yeah, it could have been. I think you're right. I think he did.   Oh, God, I think there were 33. Five for 15 the other night in the game for Liz Valdez in the game for the first time. Number 11, right? Number 11. She's just a junior for self. Janita Luma in the ballgame also. Barrington at the line again. Wow. Here comes Dahlman. Spot-up shot. No good. A try. Three-pointer was by Mula. Marlena Miller. Should get that right. Scott doesn't want any phone calls on Monday. Of course, you wouldn't mind him on Monday. I think it's Martin Luther King that he probably has off. Almond with their tenth rebound of the night. Hey, by the way, do you guys have school? We do not. What about the rest of the district? They're off, yep. So Monday's the day off. And Friday's just Teacher Day because of records. We have a Teacher Day, we have to go. On Friday. I'll do all my prep work for the Luther Christian game. And my grades. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no. I have 12 classes to do grades for Martin. So I'll be a little busy. You guys do it on a computer, right? Yep. We've got a program. There's a new grade system called Skyward. Everybody uses it. You guys use the attendance thing, too? Yep. Everybody's on that. The whole district now. Whenever I do my subbing, I always go to the room next door. If there's anyone absent. Do you enter this for me? Trying to get down to the paint. Trying to get closer to the basket. You're talking about those games to keep things interesting? That's what Barrington was doing. He was playing against the North Defenders. Stop me if you can. I've got a score. She's got five points. That's it? Seems like she should have more. Of course, if she was making her free throws. She had a couple of baskets and two of four shooting. I have her. One, two, three, four, five. This is her sixth free throw. That was in Marty. Good for her. Good job, Chris. I'm giving you all the credit for her making one. You talked to her that she couldn't. A nice pass inside. Shoot it up. Two balls, no good. Barrington's like, it's not me. Five fouls. Easy fouls. She had a nice knife. She did some really nice things. They're quick hands. Going to the hoop hard. Here's Claire Binder. Trying to get her first points on the board. Get there. Yes. Name in the book. Name in the press box. Let's make it two in a row, Claire. Show them where you live. Yes. That looked good. That was good form and everything on that one. Nothing wrong with that. 220 left in the ball game. Starting to drag a little bit now, Chris. How many free throws? Can't make that pass though. I'll get it right back. Shot by Val Des is no good, but she'll be at the line to shoot some free throws. Well, it's starting to fill in a little bit, Marty, but I'll tell you what. There's a lot of open seats yet here tonight. Northside a lot on the south side, Marty. Emma Clayson, the ball game. First action. There's a good one. The first action. There's a great shot of Liz. And she puts them both in. South with 40 points now. Problem is, North has 63. We'll be kicking it out the shatter. First shot is up and in. Allison Shatter looked pretty sweet on that move. And trying to fight through the crowd was Miller. She picks up the ball. It was something. There's a reason the ball went across or banged across there. Oh, really? Well, I think there's a reason. I thought there was a ball on North. No, over and back they called. Okay. Shatter. Get in. Half a hook. You know, that's the second shot she's taken with her left hand. The basket she made was with her right hand. But she's going left, Marty. You like that. Yeah, no, no, I understand. But, I mean, how many times do you see that kid shooting with either hand? Now there also seems to be a big flock of people coming in, Marty. If they're holding them back. Yeah, they didn't want them to get on the floor. There's Claire Binder on the line again. Yep, she looked smooth the last two. Not a good release that time. Why don't you just watch the game first? You do pretty good at that. And stop talking about Claire's form. That was a lot better. Except it didn't go in. Oh, Valdez around and out. That's not fair. 120. Shatter. Couldn't get it, but she is fouled. How did that ball not go in down here, Marty? Wow. It was more than halfway down. Wow, she has two points. Oh, right. Going to be shut out. A lot of free throws, Marty. Yep, way too many. Remember now you're doing interviews regardless. Yep, I'm ready. Good. A couple more free throws by Allison Shatter. Allison with four points tonight. Now there's a kid on the floor. I guess not now. Whoops. Yeah, there's number 23. We haven't named for that young lady. We apologize for that. Maybe I got it here. Horn. Caller Beverly, Bev Horn. I don't know if that's right or not. That's her last name, Horn. What do you want? Caroline? Chris is leaving me to dig my own hole. 48 seconds left. 67 to 40. Binder trying to get it inside but can't. And I think she's going to get tagged with a follow. Going to the line to shoot free throws is Miss Kiefer. Another Kelly Kiefer. Kelly, make a free throw. You're going to get your name in the paper. A lot of free throws here in this second half. That's part of the reason why it's taken a little longer. Stay tuned because after this ball game we'll have the boys be doing that game. I'm sure it's going to be closer. South has been playing quite well recently on the boys side. Ball is tipped away. 24 seconds left. Horn. Nice shot there. South cutting into that north lead. Shot is no good. It's going to go right back to South High. See if the Lady Red Wing can get a shot off. There's six seconds left. Hustle it up. Crank it. Yes, sir. Oh, wouldn't go. And that's our first ball game. Sheboygan North 67. Sheboygan South 43. Stay tuned because Chris will get some of the girls from the winning North Squad and do an interview with them. And then we'll do our opening for the second ball game. Problem solving skills. 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But it was only like five seconds and I'm a really, really fast texter, so it wasn't even a big deal. Actually, she texted me back yet. Wow, I get like no bars in this place. Ladies and gentlemen, this week, is that any different than any week? Now, you've done this for a few years and like that. Do you enjoy these games or stuff?  Yeah, definitely. Up and down season this year, you know, more ups and downs, which is good. You know, just trying to stay the course. Coach Peelman. I'm just going to say, you guys, just trying to stay the course and get better every week this year. Yeah, for sure. Every week, every practice. Firstly, for you, what is your experience for the last couple of years? I'm the focus for you guys when you got started tonight. I think it was 22 out of 2. You did create turnovers because of your defense. Yeah. Because of the team been this year.  What is your impressions or what is going to be some of your lasting things about these North-South games playing in front of these big houses and all this stuff like that? I'm going to miss it. You've worked very hard. You're having a really good season. I mean, it's all kind of worth it, isn't it? You've got time. You lead the league in rebounding. Chris, good job on the interviews. Good job, girls. The leading scorer for North was Meredith Opie off the bench. She had 16 points. Kiera Dahlman, you just saw her there with Chris. She had 14 points. And Mariah Platz finished third in scoring for North with 13 points. For South, they were led by Ashley Wyman. She had 8 points in the first half and finished with 8 points. Chipping in with 6 each was Isabel Barrington and Katie Banny. Banny 6 came on 2-3 pointers late in the second half. With the win, North moves to a 9-4 overall 5-4 in conference. South drops to 111 0-8 in conference. Again, Sheboygan North 30 Raiders a winner 67-43 We're going to take a break when we come back. Chris and I will do our opening for this second ball game.


Thank you. I'm happy to be here because I have a strange idea. The strange idea is that in 25 minutes you will be able to create your own personal assistant and five minutes later you can test it and you can do things like you know how to do it with Siri and you will be able to do this yourself. So let's start with this man, Douglas Engelbart. Douglas Engelbart is known for being the inventor of the computer mouse but his idea was to have an augmented human intellect.  But the important idea he invented is that it's important to have augmenting human intellect. So that's the main thing what personal assistants are all about. It's about augmenting the human intelligence and we can think what is possible as well. For example, performing tasks can offer services. That's what we know is also available in the personal assistant and do many more things that are beyond the ordinary power and reach of humans. So all the time when people had been thinking about a personal assistant in the past they thought the right communication interface with a machine is to talk to them. Like in this very old Star Trek movie where Scotty thought he can talk to computer in the 90s with a mouse. But all the commercial systems they also implemented this now. You can talk to Siri, Google Now, Cortana and Alexa. That's the thing where people have the impression that something intelligent. They are talking to a computer which is intelligent even if the answers are scripted and very simple. So they are called artificial intelligence system. I thought if we all want to learn how a personal assistant works then we should learn how artificial intelligence works. So let's have a look. There are many definitions and in this morning we already heard what the definitions of artificial intelligence are. And here are some more.  So what does that mean? We distinguish two different opinions which are called strong AI and big AI. The strong AI says that if we create a thinking machine then it actually has a mind and it's actually thinking. And the weak AI thesis says it's just acting like it has a mind and it's acting like it's thinking. It doesn't really have a mind. So these persons here wrote a standard work for artificial intelligence, Russell and Norvig and they say usually it works like this. We don't think about the strong AI hypothesis and we do weak AI. Weak AI consists of some simple methods, some simple strategies. They are not that simple, they are sophisticated in some way but it's not so difficult to explain which kind of algorithms they are. For example, constraint search is not the same thing as web search. This is more difficult if you have a galaxy of options. You have to steer around and find the right one. That's what you do with an heuristic learning. We already heard a lot of learning methods and what a learning method is. Breathing, this is working with knowledge and logic. A deduction system is working with this. Deep playing is a method where we can find the best solution in an uncertain field of options. Most of the algorithms are in one of these groups. These are the methods to create artificial intelligence. If we want to create a cognitive assistant, then we have some more things we should consider. For example, language processing. We are able to handle a large amount of data. We should know what a reasoning chain is, what a computer proof is, maybe what an expert system is, and we should be able to handle machine learning algorithms. But if you want to do this, if you want to handle a personal assistant yourself, then you should be able to work with open source software and have some components you should expect in an open source framework. There is a server, an AI server where you can put in things and get out things. It should provide a personalized agent. Maybe you have a mobile client and you have the same thing as Siri Cortana and you can speak to your artificial intelligence. You should be able to create user-defined skills. That's a very important thing. If everything else is provided already, then the only thing you have to do is create your own skills. The important message here is creating your own skills should be really easy. It should be as easy as creating a wiki article. That's the main idea. Creating AI should be as easy as writing a wiki article. I will show you how this works. We created, in the last Google Summer of Code, a log-luck project where we collected tweets, messages from Twitter. Out of this project came the idea that we need something to formulate search requests in a different way. What came out was the SUSE project. That's what I'm now talking about. I will explain what we did there. It's called Scientific User Support Intelligence. What we want to do is do an aggregation of world knowledge. Have some methods for problem solving integrated. Be user-centric so you can have accounts within the system. And machine learning for accumulated advantage. That's a technology where you can increase what you have all the time in each cycle of more information you get better and then you get better with acquisition of more knowledge. What we did was not... We didn't intend to create artificial intelligence. We didn't want to create a personal assistant. The only problem was to aggregate different search sources. I created the Yasi search engine a long time ago. It's a peer-to-peer web search engine. It's a source of web search results. The log-luck project was about collecting messages from social media. The idea was to integrate both sources in some way with an aggregation service. If you want to do this, you need a common data structure. You must do a kind of normalization of the information and post-ranking so it can bring different sources in some kind of order. Then you have something like a desktop search. After a while, we found out that it would be interesting to ask specific questions to the search database. What you usually do, and Google is also providing in the search interface, are search modifiers. You can ask to find something in a URL or in a title. You say, in title. We started to develop our search modifier language like who tweeted most about FOSS Asia and so on. Suddenly, we had to handle natural language in some way. We created conversation rules. It all was then suddenly about creating an AI assistant and going the same way as Siri and Cortana is doing. At this point, it was interesting to integrate more data sources, not only search engines but maybe data from Wikipedia. If we had a look at the data structures from the search results here and the search results we created in the search aggregations and they had been the same. The same data structure, it would be nice to feed it back to our own data source like what we retrieved so far. It's called reflection memory. The structure is the same. We can feed it back again into our aggregation service and these data structures was then called thought. We found out that with this construction, we can do everything which we would expect from Siri and Cortana and Alexa and so on. All our conversation rules had been appropriate for this. We said, let's go for a personal assistant and get rid of the web search interface and we called this construction the Susie Mind. We didn't create a chatbot. We didn't create a personal assistant. We created a search aggregation service but what came out was a personal assistant like software. A little more inside what happens if the user starts a query. We select some skills. These are conversation rules which are appropriate. Very important is the ranking to apply specific skills first. There's always the catch all skill at the end of the order where the system says, I don't know an answer. That's always one of the skills but it's the last one which should be considered. Then we do some first order logic type deduction here and we consider the skills as deduction rules and validation means we check if the output system is appropriate to show this kind of answer. What we need is a skill memory, what we need is a data memory. We can feedback information which had been created during deduction into the data memory and also create some abstraction out of it. We implemented reflection so that Susie is able to call itself within an answer generation. We have external data sources of course because this is mainly a data aggregation service from the web. It's called the console service and we have a skill source which can be applied from outside just for testing and testing new skills are called Susie dreams. Maybe we can much more with this. We consider our conversation rules as a very weak system. It's not natural language processing like technology but with plug-in technology you can plug in any system you want to. And finally we want that Susie is able to write its own skills. So this is our Susie mind construction and the question is what are user defined skills because we want that creation of a skill is as easy as creation a wiki article. So let's have a look how they look like. The most simple skill is just a fixed query and a fixed answer. This happens if you ask Siri a simple question like sing me a song or tell me a joke or all these fixed script requests and answers have a similar way. There are just many of them. So this is the first and it's the most easiest skill you can have just two lines of text. And skills are actually really simple like this. They are only text lines. There's no Js, no XML, no other set up. You just write these lines. The second example is about a random answer. It says add up potatoes, vegetables or fish. It just picks a random answer for this question. And you can have different questions which causes the same answer as created with this kind of line. Then of course you have patterns where you can put in anything or you can read out the patterns in a variable and repeat it again. You can use that variable, you can use many of these variables. You can feed that variable in another variable to store it permanently and you can use that variable in a second line so Susie was able to learn some topic. You can assign some status variables which had not be shown in an answer but then used afterwards. You can use with decision points if variables are set and have different answers depending on it. And you can have of course comparisons. You can define some kind of functions by just having any query line which a person wouldn't say but then you use it with the backward function here and then this is used as a reflection at this point. Susie is calling itself at this point and assigning the result of this color into a variable and using this if it's set so it's then fixed. You can do many things with this simple construction and I think it's not natural language processing. It's not sophisticated but it's sufficient to fulfill the most things and you can plug in JavaScript and evaluate what you have in the query in the JavaScript. You can calculate there and this is the most important thing where we started. We need all the other very simple conversations but what we need is to do search aggregation. You can have an access to an external API. For example here you get a JSON back from the lock-lock search service and within the JSON there's somewhere the answer hidden and you just say where the JSON path is. This is a naming of a JSON path. JSON path is a standard how to address where information in the JSON is and this is then used. It's an array where text is a property and then you can get back the text. This is a request line where you can get a tweet where a specific word appears in the tweet and you get back the tweet line. You might say this is not so complex. In the future we will do some more thinking with backtracking so several answers can be considered. This is partly implemented and it will create something like a first-order logic. We can also plug in pollock. The next thing is reflection. That skills are able to read other skills and say what's inside other skills and finally skills which create skills so self-learning effect is possible here. Here usually the effect that you think oh that's a chatbot, that's not artificial intelligence comes into your mind and that's a standard effect. It's called the AI effect. Every time you understand how something works and it's able to create something which a human is usually able to do and you understand the algorithm you say oh no this is not artificial intelligence. It's just a simple algorithm but that's usually what happens. So let's check what we already implemented here let's have a look back at the standard methods which are used in artificial intelligence algorithm. Reasoning, we implemented Susie thoughts which are sets of facts. These are structures which are required for backtracking so you have different options where you can choose from. Susie skills are deduction rules and they are implemented as such and empty thoughts are failed states which trigger backtracking. This is a standard method in first order logic. The ordering of skills is a constrained search method because you are ordering in such a way that the best result is achieved. We have some learning methods within of lock lock because there is a Bayesian filter which can do a sentiment analysis and in the future we will use game playing technology to create new skills automatically. So for cognitive assistance what do we have here? We have text-to-speech and speech-to-text in our Android client and pattern matching for natural language processing. Not the sophisticated method but one that's easy to implement and that you can use. We have 1.8 billion tweets which we use to create answers from our lock lock harvester. We have thoughts and backtracking which creates some kind of reasoning chains and we have sentiment analyzers for categories of tweets. We have the server implemented. It's running. You have accounts. You can download an Android client and we have user-defined skills and they are called through the dream in a test environment. I show you how easy it is to write a skill and it's very easy. You go to dreamasusie.com and there's an etherpad running. An etherpad is just an empty web page where you can put in any text and you can collaborate with other people. And then you write down some Susie skills. You open your chat client either the online test client or also the Android client you just say dream Susie test and then everything which you enter here is active here. So that's something you can try out right now and it's really easy to test this kind of technology. People warn about artificial intelligence like Marvin Minsky says we are lucky they might decide to keep us as pets. They are so strong. And Stephen Hawking says it will be the end of the human race. Elon Musk says it's our biggest existential threat. He is the founder of PayPal, Space X and Tesla and he also founded OpenAI. OpenAI is the answer on this threat. He says if we want to keep up with the technology that artificial intelligence is creating itself then we must create an augmented human intellect and to do this we must develop our search our artificial intelligence to be able that humanity can keep up. So this is the good point for all of us to start testing this kind of technology and I want to end with the wise words of a robot. So I hope you find this interesting and you want to come to our workshop tomorrow is the workshop and please have a look at us Susie.com. Thank you. All right. If you notice there are actually mics in front on the left and the right side we will have Q&A a little bit. Is there any questions please come down to the mics on the left and the right about Susie and are there any questions that you have? All right, while we wait for the questions why don't I have a question? What is the potential future of the Susie project? The idea is that people start to create their own skill set and with their own skill set we can increase the capabilities of Susie. So the best future of it is that it grows like the Wikipedia project started to grow because it's so easy to write an article for this purpose we made the Susie skill so easy that everybody can start and contribute to the skills. Any other questions from the audience? Yes. How do we make sure... How do you verify the statements that people enter in your system? How do we verify the statements that are input into Susie? You mean the questions or the skills? The correctness of the skills. How do we know it's correct? If you create a Susie dream it's just active in the session it's not active for all the users it's only active for your own session where you enter the Susie dream and if you think you have a really nice skill set you can send us a pull request and at this point someone looks at the skills you created so you see if it's correct or it's valid in some way. All right, great. Any other questions? Any other questions out there? Yes, come up to the mic there, yes. How do you monetize the Susie project? How would you monetize? How do you make money from Susie? This is not the point... It was not the point last year when we just created it during the Google Summer of Code project because it was necessary that we develop some kind of career language. Of course we can think about this. I think many companies have the requirement of creating a chatbot so at least some consulting is possible. All right, any other questions? Hello? Okay. Is this audible? All right, good. I have a question about the potential of a bubble since you can customize the answers to the person's login is it possible to turn it off to see what other people are seeing when they ask a question? What other people are seeing? If you start a Susie dream then it actually turns off all the other rule system which had been there and is only used if your own rule system is not able to answer the questions. So within a dream your skill set is always on top and creates it so other things are invisible. Of course you must test it if you put them in context with other ones and there the complexity starts. It's an open problem. All right. All right, we have time for one more question. One more question. Hello?  The Susie server has a free license. You can download and start it and it's not difficult and you can use it with your chat client. You create yourself or also the enterprise. You can host it yourself. But here it's hosted on astusie.com to be simple. Thank you. All right. With that let's give Michael a round of applause. Thank you so much for sharing.