We're at South High School's Acuity Field House where tonight the Red Wings host Green Bay Preble. Hello everybody alongside the coach Chris Wright. I'm Mike Martin. Thanks for watching. Chris, Preble comes in tonight. Not a very good record there. 1-6, 0-4 in conference. South on the flip side is not much better at 1-3 in conference and 2-7 overall. And I'll tell you that really surprises me, the South record. There's no question I think this year in the conference you got the basically the top four teams. You got Pulaski to Peer, Bayport and North. And then you got some really bad basketball teams on the bottom which I think you put Preble and West and East and maybe Southwest. South is probably one of those teams that's supposed to be maybe in the middle somewhere to the upper part. And right now they're not playing very well. You're right. They're just 1-3 in the league. Preble is 0-4 but they did come off a victory against Appleton's David the other day by 2. And the teams that Preble have played also are pretty tough. Their winning percentage is 43-20. They've played three ranked teams already. So they've played some good basketball teams, Preble that is. And I'm not so sure. I don't think they're a good basketball team but they have played good competition. Well apparently they try to slow it down because they're only averaging a little over 40 points a game and their leading scorer, Merrick Griffin, is only averaging 9.1 points a game. We're on Sal's squad. They have Taylor Ditter averaging just a touch under 15 and Michael Schrader just a touch under 10 points per game along with Thomas Murray who's averaging 9.7. So they have fairly good balance but it seems like Preble is really scoring challenged. Yeah they are. Like you said they're just averaging about 47 points a game. Sheboygan South went down and played Milwaukee Hamilton about two weeks ago and played them really, really well. And so is that the team that Coach Schultz thought he was going to have this year? Or the team that's lost some games this year and teams that they've been blown out by. They went and lost to West Dallas Central in their last game but we did see the North South game and they're down by 20 and there was no question that North was way better that night. Yeah, talking about Preble some more, it seems like they've been down a little bit over the last couple of years and their coach Robert Damrell has had a hard time trying to get the program going at a consistent basis anyway. Yeah, you're talking about the biggest school in the whole conference. Conference and they got 2100 so kids to choose from I believe something like that. And they just won two games a year ago. They are a JV struggle a year ago but their JVs beat the South guys tonight so maybe they're on the upswing but this is a very typical varsity team. This is basically seniors and juniors but just not very talented group and hopefully this is one that South can pick up a win and maybe start the new year off and get on a roll. They need to get on a roll to get a little bit of semblance of respectableness because they certainly haven't garnered that so far this year. One of the things talking about establishing programs and that I thought Tim Schultz really had the team going over the last couple of seasons and I know we've commented about the number of players he uses and he runs in a lot of guys which I think is a good thing but like you mentioned they just had a tough start so far this year. Yeah and I think you mentioned going back to what you said too I think we're a little surprised at what their record is and you know one thing about playing a lot of kids you would think that a lot of guys you know would want to play basketball because you know you're going to get opportunity I know I went down to watch Lutheran play a week ago against Cuba City and I watched the game before that man to walk around Cali and Racine St. Kate Racine St. Kate played six kids and they had like 1,500 teams so you know Coach Schultz plays a lot of kids so if you want to play basketball he does give you the opportunity you know he tries to you know figure out who's hot during the game and then hopefully at the end of the game he gets the best five out there. Well some other guys that score points for Preble are Austin Claremont he averages seven points a game Dan Vandenberg is the second leading scorer only at seven pardon me he's the third scorer 7.3 second on the team is in scoring is Junior Kade Bersol at nine point zero points per game and we had mentioned only 43 points a game they got to pick it up a little bit. We'll see what happens. We're suspecting that they're a slow down team and you know that's going to be part of the reason but even given that you're going to have to score a little more than that to win basketball games. We're going to step out when we come back we'll have the starting lineups and the tip off for tonight's game. 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number 31 Michael Kraft senior number 33 Merrick Griffin and senior number 55 Dan Vandenberg Preble Hornets head coach Rob Darrell and now for your starting lineups for your Sheboygan South High Red Wings 6-1 junior number 3 Matt Schrader 5-11 senior number 15 downtown Taylor Ditter 6-3 senior number 31 Thomas Murray 6-1 freshman number 41 Connor Harrison and 6-4 senior number 51 Michael Schrader head coach for the Red Wings Tim Schultz assistant Andrew Damm manager for the Red Wings Derek Wagner officials for the game is assigned by the FRCC Marian Ulnes and Chad Dupont our trainer this evening from Prevea Health Medicine Maggie Bauer Bauer Bauer with a B our game supervisor Todd Tunis what's this Chris we didn't even get to know it's me and also everybody in the whole gym except us Harry he said hi to me this is when I walked in though he did the same thing to me he didn't mean it he always entertaining Sims effort you ought to see him alone at lunchtime I look at Green Bay Preble I mean they are not very strong they look very weak like they haven't been in the weight room very much well left the lay-up short was Thomas Murray south in a man-to-man defense I mean Green Bay Preble just looks very small compared to the big teams in our league nice pass by Austin Claremont in Vandenberg with an easy two ball tip no it goes off of a south player out of bounds not able to handle it was Thomas Murray Preble with a good start Claremont doing most of the ball handling had that nice assist takes a 15 footer can't get it to go Connor Harrison the freshman with the rebound Michael Schrader shot is no good an end going over the back for the rebound was Murray back up his first fall 6.58 remaining in the first quarter two to nothing Preble you're right Chris arms look a little thin well they're just not very tall they don't look extremely athletic one of the key I didn't mention this in the opening but one of the keys I had for assault success was put a lot of pressure on the guards shot is no good and then I think they're going to get Vandenberg over the back for a fall that wasn't a the most prettiest three-point shot I've ever seen that's what if it would have went in it would have looked pretty good the form was a little awkward for a black and a varsity competition yeah Murray has it inside looking I thought he dragged the foot but maybe he was pushed they're going to call a fall on Merrick Griffin obviously Preble was very successful in football they're probably going to be pretty good in baseball and they're always good in track wasn't oh nice little feet inside and missing the bunny shot was Connor Harrison not going to get much easier than that not a long three-pointer but a good three-pointer by Gabe Bursow you wanted to save Bursow all day yeah that's going to be a tongue twister for you Marty I like his number though 25 Ditter taking it to the hole lays it up and in no stopping him there Ditter nice drive very athletic three-sport athlete nice spin move shot is blocked out of bounds Michael Kraft Mitchell Fox coming in for South Mitchell averaging three points a game Bursow well I thought we heard a whistle Chris didn't you I think it was a feet shuffling but you're you're right what you thought you heard three-point attempt is no good and then we get another whistle underneath the basket and that's going to go on South Connor Harrison picking up the fall four fouls in the first three minutes 519 of the first yeah that's not good Bursow three-point attempt was no good but Preble comes away with the rebound Merrick Griffin had it for a second Bursow looks like he can go pretty good Chris not afraid to shoot that's for sure all goes on number 31 Thomas Murray that's his second he's going to come out Jake Newton so you mentioned Preble's just one and six oh and four in the league they beat Appleton Xavier Appleton savers kind of in the middle of their league little shoots the good team in that league but even they they're 11 and old but that's not a very great conference or anything they like to dribble a lot though say that lean-in shot is no good by Griffin dinner has it on top for South Fox can't get it to go and crashing into the crowd was Michael Schrader it's like the third foul on a rebound I say I was just going to mention like the conference that Appleton Xavier is in little shoots 11 and oh they beat East by two and East is struggling struggling this year of course they lost one of their best players that doesn't help at all and Mike Fischer Preble up here two rolling down to the four minute mark with ball movement by the Hornets but having trouble making shots seems like the actions all been on this end of the floor Marty yes you're right oh boy reaching foul is going to be called on Jake Knuth and that's going to be the fifth team foul on South 23 is Brad Bookmire some of you may know that name from the football season he could run with the ball yeah he was a blood for sure hustling up to the table to check in is Connor Gint he's a little stronger player as Bookmire is but post those starters Kraft had it in the corner South in a man to man yet they're not good ballhandlers no Merrick Griffin for the leading score doesn't look like a good ballhandler at all but Claremont with a high arching shot got it in 7-2 South Ditter penetrated and pitched it right out of bounds tried to get it to his teammate Jake Knuth but Knuth was going to the hoop Sean Anderson in the ballgame South starting off just one of six three minutes in the first quarter down 7-2 Claremont penetrate and drills it short jump shot he's got four straight points you're not going to stop him that was a great shot good pass Robbie Schrader with the hoop and he got fouled good inside position there by Robbie went to the basket used his body shielded defender the defender reached in there got the foul got a chance for three point play the old fashioned way can't get it to go it's 9-4 just under three minutes left in the first quarter shuffling the feet before the shot on her craft you get in the ballgame you got a chance to throw up a shot and then you shuffle the feet first he is the lone sophomore on the squad I don't care I miss that when I was looking through the roster Chris I thought they only had juniors and seniors yeah so did I in the book or on the website he was down as a junior now he changed it to a sophomore because of the paper nice drive to the basket the shot put up by Tristan Schmidt 9-6 I think South played 10 players already here again you get a lot of guys in there Sean Anderson on the block knocked it out of bounds probably 4 of 11 shooting leading 9-6 it looks like Ditters got a little blood on the jersey trainer will score a little blood off it was like pretty very little back is coming in now looking at his last name Chris I'd pronounce that back house we'll go with Sim's pronunciation defense played there I think that's what you gotta do here South just turn up the wick a little bit these guys are gonna struggle taking care of the basketball as you saw there good help defense by Schrader and little fancy Dan pass made there by Schmidt right to a trouble player a little under a little out of control that time another player out of control that time it was Prebble's Brookmeyer Schrader had a wide open layup and couldn't make it and there's two missed layups by the South Siders Connor Kraft fall on a drive to the basket 6 team fall on South long first quarter Marty it's gonna be a longer second quarter when we start hitting the bonus Eric Leesman running camera being assisted by Richard Bartson tonight we're on a one camera operation again cables didn't get the town hopefully they'll be here tomorrow ditter another rebound foul it's gonna go against South that's bonus time Shawna Anderson is gonna pick that fall up it's like the fourth or fifth one of those Marty I remember Schrader got one of those Harrison got one and now Anderson has one so I believe that's three for them Vandenberg I think got a rebound fall for Prebble Prebble was once a power remember coach Wall Keith Wall he had his teams were machines probably a very proud tough place to play up there at that time too and then coach Destatell went at it of course there's not too many coaches and coach Destatell hasn't gone up against right to the hoop and again South with a layup that they can't put in the basket that time it was just in Smith pretty good defense South comes away with the ball Anderson got a nice pass from Backhouse but again South missing a layup they'll start to fall Marty Anderson with a nice steal and we're gonna get a charge no basket picking up the fall is gonna be Matt Schrader eight falls on South Mitchell Fox back in Schrader has two falls Murray has two falls we're not gonna allow any contact today under a minute left and we don't like it that way probably on top eleven to five like I said I saw Lutheran and making that layup Lutheran and Cuba City just Cuba City has pound Sam Decker down there and then I watched this and every bump's a foul one bad clock management you gotta let them know how much time is left but they didn't we're at the end of one quarter play and there you see it probably on top 13 to 6 local government local educational institutions and local community members all use cable access TV to communicate their message they depend upon it as an affordable means of outreach public educational and government access television empowers local government agencies individuals and groups to use the media to speak directly to their constituents in a direct and cost effective way make sure everyone has a voice support your local peg channels back at south high school the cutie field house getting ready to start second quarter action not much flow to the to the game so far Chris no there's 8 turnovers and 11 fouls kind of something interesting south is 3 for 11 but 9 different south players have attempted shots well I'll tell you what they aren't good on their laps I think they're about 1 for 4 they finish those they're just fine I remember when we did that east game over at north and east was just on fire you know throughout the entire first half basically and you were never concerned about the outcome I was just going to ask you that nice pass inside and putting it up and in was Vandenberg with an easy two another nice pass from his teammate Claremont yeah there's 6 of 14 shooting Marty south working the ball around Preble playing pretty good defense so far this possession yeah they've kind of picked it up you know making some baskets you want to play D if you feel a little confident shot on the inside is no good by Schrader another shot by Murray is no good Schrader comes away with another rebound lean in her can't get that one in and south gets another offensive board putting it up from 3 point land and nailing it is Connor Harrison that was huge slice that lead to 15 to 9 was 7 minutes in the first half there's a walk not a little too deep and wasn't able to control his feet was Austin Claremont and that's a senior that was a flurry of action down there that last trip Chris well south wanted it and you know they worked to get it and I'm glad they got rewarded because they you know Thomas Murray get banging banging banging Robbie Schrader banging in there finally Harrison got an offensive rebound and got it to go did her nice drive to the baseline and then jumped jump shot at that possession for two points he doesn't want the ball well did her crowding them a little bit making it uncomfortable and then south with a steal did her got away with a carry shot is blocked and coming away with it for the Hornets was Devonte Picney a pretty good strength by Claremont to get the shot off after it was blocked while it was in his hands but south playing the good D again Murray leans in can't get it in travel not called Schrader's shot is no good pardon me Harrison's shot is no good and then ball is thrown away by Preble and south is going to get it right back 15 to 11 south down four south just using their strength now getting deeper and deeper into that red paint hitting the boards Preble not doing a great job boxing out Preble ended the first quarter Chris on a six nothing run shot is up and in by Harrison he started to apply himself out there and he's two for four on night five points back on the arm not called and then we're going to forget a fall on Claremont no they're going to get a turnover they called double dribble on that really I miss that I did too because I thought that Preble either knocked it out of his hands or knocked it on his arm and they never stop you never pick the ball up to it up isn't that then a double dribble I thought he just kept dribbling Claremont good pass inside and misleap by Griffin but then he gets it right back and does put it up and in and that breaks a run by south what do we got here timeout by Preble 30 second timeout while they called it right after the basket 17 to 13 broke a 6.7 point run by south 30 you're right south is starting to get their sea legs starting to make a couple shots well they just turn up the wick on D a little bit Preble doesn't want struggles to take care of the basketball and then search yourself down in that paint there use those you guys are big and strong use that body and south like I said before Thomas Murray banging in there Harrison getting extra opportunities I was just going to say Wally and Grace Wreckalitis are here tonight they're sitting almost straight across from us Wally in the white sweater probably weren't that stupid all you Yankee had again Wally could play he was a leaper too better athlete's ever to be in Sheboygan south comes away with it another lay up attempt is no good south cannot buy a basket Jake Knuth just missed two on that last possession and then we get a south fall miss a couple lay ups what do you do next Chris hack somebody Griffin will be shooting one and one puts in a pair it's 19 to 13 Preble's lead back up to 6 the biggest lead was 6 South looking for cutters trying to get Murray inside but pretty good defense played underneath by Griffin Ditter's rainbow shot is no good and then Vandenberg with the strong rebound loading it up from three point land wow not a good looking shot there by Michael Kraft Ditter Preble kick out to Claremont lays it up and in Claremont's he has six points Chris and he hasn't looked that great out there good help defense by Preble on the miss deal attempt boy oh boy oh boy another shot is no good by Michael Schrader he missed a pair on that sequence this is unbelievable a nice driving shot that time by Cade Bersol 23 to 13 10 point lead largest of the game by either squad this is seven points Chris all is going to go on Kraft it's only the fourth fall on Preble south is sitting with nine south three of sixteen in the quarter marty six of twenty seven in the game wow that's the ten point deficit trying to remind you the badgers under a minute they're down by one not this game 218 remaining until halftime both with the ball they're down 10 23 to 13 almost look like a shuffle of the feet but no call there have been several times Chris I thought in the half where one or the other team had shuffled the feet and there was no call shot by Schrader is no good but coming away with the rebound and putting it up and in was Mitchell Fox that was a big basket Chris because it breaks in eight point run by the Hornets drive down the lane the shot attempt is no good by Bursal and south comes away with it got away with a got away with a carry ball 15 feet out and then he dribbled it on the line that one he didn't get away with hey they never call it on Ivan either people would have to play Friday basketball I know what we're talking about and the shot is up and in by Connor Ginton he's fouled Schrader picks up his first fall Robby Schrader we were calling by their first and last name on Chris well with three Schraders out there I guess you're going to have to 25 15 ditter from way outside rainbows it in that's the Taylor ditter we know and love hook shot is no good by Griffin and south comes away with it Tristan Schmidt has it on top minute left by 7 basket here south some pretty good shape Buchenmeyer on Schmidt working hard on defense ball tipped away by Claremont but south will keep it there's 45.6 seconds remaining until halftime Preble up 25 18 ditter working hard shot was blocked but he's fouled I think that fall is going to go on Griffin look at that it's going to go on Austin Claremont five personal fouls all on different guys huh you're exactly right you're looking at my sheet yep I was guessing ditter now with eight points in the half the basketball has been a little more entertaining in the second quarter falling has gone down a little bit Terry Scherchel looking down this way didn't like that comment I think south in the second half should do this the whole game good time out that right yep I had that down actually on my list of things to do pressure the guards I think press the entire second half second time out used by used by Preble that one was a defensive one 25 to 20 4 4 for 10 I think I have Preble and I count up the numbers a little quicker yeah hasn't been south me has stumbled on to something here Chris and other going to apply full court pressure the whole time trying to run a trap I don't think there Griffin hustles it across trouble trying to keep control we're down to 15 seconds left in the first half they're up by five points Griffin now he loses it south with a lot of time they're going to call a foul on not on Schmidt but he's going to be going to the line no he won't be going to the line it was before before Brazil picks up his first foul and you're right six different players all with one foul see if Schrader can get a tip here 3.3 Ditter backs up couldn't get the shot off Schmitz shot from outside the line is no good and we're at half time here at South High School's acuity field house with Preble on top surprisingly by a five count at 25 to 20 you can protect yourself from the flu by taking a few simple steps first cover your mouth and nose when sneezing or coughing and encourage those around you to do the same next wash your hands often with soap and water and most importantly get a flu shot if you want to do business with social security but don't want to visit an office you can go online to socialsecurity.gov take some precautions during this flu season go online you know that I'm late I know what time it is look if I'm putting you out I won't volunteer forget it if a chronic illness is driving you apart call 1-800-344-4867 because a healthy relationship matters cable access channels ensure you the ability to exercise your first amendment rights through the medium of television they create opportunities for mutual communication education and artistic expression public access makes community participation possible and gives you a voice in your community and your world make sure everyone has a voice support your local public access channel back here at salt high school's acuity field house where at half time where the prebble hornets lead at 25 to 20 let's go through the scoring for prebble first, austin claremont has 6 points, connor craft 1 kade bur soul 7 maryk griffin their high score has got only 4 points kade bur soul 2 and dan vandenberg their big center has 5, force south mitchell fox has 2 taylor ditter 9 leads all scores tristan smith 2 robby schrader 2 and connor harrison with 5 all coming in the second quarter chris your ideas about this first half well I think what we saw at the end of the first half is we got to get the same thing here I think a little pressure a little press against this thing considering that sell shot 8 for 31 in the quarter and they find themselves just down by 5 they should be pretty happy about where they are mary they finished the half on a 5 point run they were down by 10 starting third quarter action thomas murray good feed inside but stolen away by vandenberg that's turnover number 7 for south not a lot of turnovers in the ball game 9 for prebble 7 for south one thing prebble has done pretty well with chris I think has been their defense although south has really helped them out a nice drive to the basket and a shot by kade bursow and see why he's right up there and scoring and he's 4 for 6 on the night steal away by vandenberg did or not a good pass inside to michael schrader well it shows the squad comes out in half time and the first two things you do is turn it over to turnovers kade bursow they are not good ball handlers and they're high dribblers too so good team, good defending teams are going to pick a lot of those dribbles if you time it on the way down one thing that prebble does do is get it in the middle of the floor bursow with a 3 pointer and he starts off really hot with 5 quick points and prebble is up 10 again 30 to 20 feed him, feed him honor, feed him they've got the big guy in the middle you want to get him the ball shot is short by matt schrader prebble comes away with another rebound they've come out cooking on all cylinders chris to start off the second quarter, second half on ice feet inside to vandenberg and he puts it in and we see that penetration again playing off for the hornets as they've jumped out here for 7 straight points and have their biggest lead at 12 32 to 20 I said you got to press but you can't press if you don't get the baskets you're right there there you see coach schultz talking to the troops trying to get them fired up they can't have many shots either with those turnovers the first couple of possessions by robbie schrader which is almost a force you know you said get to michael schrader the ball inside he's big and strong, feed him the ball and let him go to work he's got a nice size advantage there he's got those long arms second leading score at 10 a game and tonight he's all for 4 one thing that we haven't had so far is a foul by either squad and we're already 2 minutes and 3 seconds in starting the game we had I think 3 fouls within the first 2 minutes ditter has it for salt prebble and a man-to-man defense they've been in that all night Claremont's on ditter that's a pretty good matchup connor harrison to the baseline he gets fouled before the shot goes up I believe that's going to go on kade bursow connor just a freshman went to cca on a pass over the top by michael fox goes out of bounds he was looking for schrader or pardon me for harrison but harrison had something else in mind no press here either oh you're right they could have set it up foul goes on claremont foul off the ball his second I wish I was looking down there to see what he did chris can't see everything second foul on claremont let's watch that mury fadeaway jump shot is in nice rotation on that shot 32 to 22 craft trying to work the middle bursow pull up jumper from 10 feet can't roll it in ditter with the rebound pushing the ball up could help defense by vandenberg it's going to go stay here that's staying here I think that's going to be on vandenberg if it is it's his second he drove schrader it's okay to have a little body but you can't up and under him michael schrader pops back up he's okay but he went down hard good ups there by schrader could help defense by craft get a foul underneath vandenberg picking up the foul him and schrader mixing it up underneath double foul not schrader and that's a good call I was watching those guys battle that goes to the jump ball that should be prebble ball should be prebble ball there should be no free throw shots that's for sure should be prebble ball on the alternating possession good call chris you're in a van but the key there is three fouls on vandenberg third leading score for them but he's a big fella that's been battling schrader connor ginton for him claremont gets himself in a tough predicament chris he's lucky to get out of it that time kick out claremont from just outside the line couldn't get it to go in michael schrader with the rebound oh did her lord the shoulder and ran right over claremont no call prebble comes away with it oh my ain't no way yeah that was way short that's not gonna happen you got a ten point lead and you're chucking up threes or you're not even close three point attempt that time is no good bursal comes away with it match raider on that shot craft stopped on the baseline 320 marik griffin has it out on top prebble up by 10 they've had it up to 12 four south turnovers in the quarter hurt them fadeaway jumper is no good michael schrader with the rebound while streaking down the sideline was connor harrison but schrader didn't see him and then we had a time out by salt anyway with 259 remaining in the third prebble up by 10 hi i'm david collins i'm the superintendent of the wisconsin state patrol packers fans are the best fans in 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could come back to haunt south are those four or five miss layups in the first half christ you know we didn't think it'd be be that bad but prebble is hung in one three one here probably going to get it across good patience played by those guys clearmont lost it good defense by knuth and schrader match raider left wide open got a guard to ball they didn't and it pays off for south thirty two twenty five we've mentioned it all game clearmont seems to get himself into predicaments that time it really paid off for the southsiders I shot by a match raider I just don't think they can handle the pressure here well I'm with you there christ the problem is south is not tossed on the press much put this little half court trap in that should help let's see how they handle it here is there going to be attacking prebble now the attack on them marik griffin eyed it up twice but didn't shoot it see they've picked up the intensity on d and that's going to help them in the long run you're right and 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support of public education and government access television back at south high school we're one forty nine remaining in the third quarter prebble has started to half with a five point lead scored twelve pardon me scored seven straight points to break open a twelve point lead and they're hanging in there but just barely south has turned up the pressure and it's paid off I don't agree with this stick in my one three one maybe just because they call timeout just for a change her soul gets knocked down look at them just no fall another fall no call and her soul takes it right down main street lays it up and in that was good D by south it's going to help you guys don't worry you're all right to keep the pressure out ditter tried to toss it inside and then he throws the save was by merrick griffin and it went off a ditter right off his chest it looked like and out of bounds prebble is going to get it back on the good hustle play by merrick griffin thirty four twenty five prebble up by nine now still not one three one prebble's got a flash somebody in the middle he walked the pressure played off that time the intensity you can just see the intensity of south's better too with this defense they feel hey let's attack a little bit and it speeds up prebble and they can't do they're not good enough ball handlers and no I'm sure north gave them a bunch of this when they match radar Barry's another three it's like that it's a six point game prebble's that guy's underneath the basket but you're not looking there and another turnover thank you very much ditter to the hoop puts it up with the left hand and scores south on a run gint is wide open but they're not feeding them and they throw it out of bounds again prebble fifth turn over the quarter now and above four of them in the last minute and there's still thirty two point five seconds remaining south making a strong run at them they've scored ten it's a ten to run for south twenty seconds give it off to ditter ten ten seconds you're right michael schrader two the block underneath by vandenberg and we're at the end of the third quarter prebble up but only by four now thirty four to thirty television is a powerful and influential medium that allows different groups the opportunity to produce programming that directly affects their own communities public educational and government access channels ensure that all people regardless of race age gender disability religion or economic status have access to local government information and the use of a public communication form make sure everyone has a voice support your local pep channels back at south high school's a cutie field house getting ready to start fourth quarter action and triggering the in bounds for the redwings will be a match Schrader south down only four now they were down as much as twelve well Matt Schrader's two three point baskets the difference there Marty I really brought them back they're only four of nine and a quarter to twelve or forty in the game now three of seven for him yeah ditter has eleven leads all up pardon me Bersoe has fourteen points to lead all scores Schrader down the lane off the glass and in he's been hot thirty four thirty two now deal with Thomas Murray up on the top nice step through that time Bersoe had a look but didn't take it now Connor Harrison all over him all good quick pass but hustling back on defense was Taylor ditter to knock it out of bounds nice defense first time that Preble actually had a little patience it looked a little scared but at least they got the ball where they wanted it but good hustle by ditter to take it away Darrell knew what he wanted his team to do and they did it better defense that time Bersoe eyes it up couldn't get it to go looked good for more we were standing but it was a little long and all of a sudden here to come down by just two nice cut by Connor Harrison but the ball tapped away south will keep it six fifty two remaining in the ballgame it's thirty four to thirty two Preble still on top they've let it all the way they've not trailed in this ballgame Preble started off with a five point run to begin the game and it's been all Preble ever since Robert Kraft Michael Kraft is going to get called for the fall and he's not shooting I thought he was going to try to shoot that fifteen foul on oh good hustle by Preble and putting it in was Claremont ditter pushes it down and fires up along three bangles ditter with another three thirty six thirty five five for nine shooting out for Taylor and another turn over maybe oh no way Eric Griffin got fouled after the shot no call and Michael Schrader comes off with the rebound south with an opportunity to take the lead Schrader from outside the line and he nails it oh baby first it's fifteen then it's fifty one and it's thirty eight thirty six south their first lead to the ballgame oh Preble just got it across nice pass inside to Bersow he kicks it out to Claremont not good shooters nope and a rebound over the back by Matt Schrader that'll be his third only the third fourth team fall on south Preble just two of eight from three point range tonight Austin Claremont triggering the inbounds and Bandenberg almost lost it I'll tell you they are very shaky with their defense Merrick Griffin easy shot couldn't get it in Connor Harrison with the rebound good pass to Michael Schrader fouled on the layup attempt but he got it to go anyhow and he's fouled he also picks up his third foul it's forty to thirty six south on top south made all four of their baskets so far in a quarter and had a free throw Michael forty one thirty six the big shots were Ditters three pointer to make a thirty five thirty six thirty five they were only down one and then Michael Schrader came right back with another three and now a three point play and a turnover Tristan Schmidt pushing it hard Jake Knuth's shot is no good Preble comes away with it Merrick Griffin driving hard to the hoop nice layup they were up Preble was up thirty two to twenty forty one thirty eight Schmidt got it oh man south is on fire from outside the line forty four thirty eight three for three and a quarter from three five for six shooting so far in a quarter short Andenburg got the roll oh boy and again Claremont gets himself into a position where didn't look like he could get out of but he did Preble continues in a man to man defense Connor Harrison looking to drive the lane Knuth not able to handle it Coach Schultz calls a timeout with three fifty nine remaining south on top by four well Chris what is he telling the team we're doing good I was a little surprised by the time Well I'm surprised by the timeout a little bit you know here everything's rolling right now why break the mojo you know they're making all their shots making their free throws you know why because they look like they're almost going to turn the ball over that's why because I think Preble is just struggling with everything they're doing right now why help them out at all and put the hammer down right here and now I just don't think they can handle any pressure whatsoever and like I said thinking back to the north score where it was like north one by like thirty six points or something against Preble going to something you mentioned very early in the game and I think rightfully so and that is the fact that the officiating seemed to be very tight very tight and it seems in the second half especially in the fourth quarter it's not nearly like that anymore I think they're letting them play much more yeah and south can use those little you know pokes at the ball and stuff like that and be a little more aggressive sometimes you have to adjust to the officials that's for sure and here comes a play out of bounds here is that kind of like adjusting to the umpires yep did her a good help defense by pink knee he's red hot couldn't get it to go get a late call on a foul pink knee is going to go to the line to shoot two Connor Harrison picks up the foul it's only a second you know for all the falls we had called have not been a lot of free throws there's only been ten in the second half when we're under four minutes this is going to be ten fouls this is going to be the ninth free throw attempt this is going to be a trouble 44-41 south on top south probing Matt Fox turn around jumper and Lane is no good pink knee with a rebound he's been a nice pickup off the bench so far Merrick Griffin stops and pops off the glass no good rebound shot is no good by Bookman and then Michael Schrader comes away with the rebound we get a late foul I think that's going to go on Thomas Murray pushing Vandenberg wow just kind of caught the tail end of that Chris it didn't look like much 309 left south up by only three the largest lead was six that's the receiver play there by Murray thought that was going to be automatic for him good idea but just didn't work there Merrick Griffin saw a man open underneath and fired the pass but the receiver ran okay big turnover by the Hornets south maybe looking to run some clock Matt Schrader reverse layup is no good so much for that Chris little clock and Claremont again getting himself into a tough spot and Bookmire not expecting that pass and another turnover by the Hornets you have a non-basketball player on the floor with 230 left and Bookmire twice he's not in a position to catch the ball a little more patient running down 210 left in the ballgame and another timeout by Tim Schultz 209 left in the ballgame south up by only three Preble is kind of hung in there but their turnovers have just really hurt him down here at the end they've had two chances down here and they didn't get anything out of them two passes to Bookmire one was way out of there and one was right to him I do hope south like you I'm sure south stays in that 131 cause it's caused problems they've adapted a little bit to it but they still they're always looking to get rid of the basketball in a nervous way as opposed to a confidence way and they're going to keep Bookmire out there Michael Kraft on the bench was a starter and played most of the ballgame and Bersoa their high-scorer high-scorer in the game is on the bench also got two minutes left you better have your people in there Ditter going hard to the hoop couldn't get it but Schrader or pardon me Knuth comes away with it had it tipped away he gets it out of trouble and Bookmire didn't get that rebound should have been his Ditter nice feet inside Schrader he's got it money in the bank 46 41 down to a minute and a half left in the game Claremont again in trouble Bookmire has to kick it out see other thing he's challenged vertically Chris he's not a real tall guy and he gets down underneath there's not a lot he's going to do and then another turnover by Preble Bersol and Kraft remain on the bench two of the starters for Preble Malpreble's going to try some kind of press here Sal's going to take care of this pretty easily and good decision by Michael Schrader to pull it out yeah Preble did a pretty nice shoot to three not a good shot there Chris not with a five point lead got to be a little more patient than that Claremont look like he got away with the walk a three point shot is no good match Schrader with the rebound gives it right up to Ditter and now he's in trouble looking for help and throws it out of bounds that's not necessarily his fault Chris I didn't think his teammates helped him out much Bersol is coming back in the ball game now with 36.2 seconds left and you're down by five too late I would have thought about another minute and a half he should have been Connor Kraft coming in that's maybe Michael's brother Connor only a sophomore Claremont misses everything well you can see why they only have one win Chris yep one thing they don't lack though is hustle I'll give them that they've played extremely hard tonight and skill level is not there judgment level a lot of times is not there but they do play hard 25 seconds left Claremont skip past to Bersol line drive three is in at a time out by Preble with 17.9 seconds left I agree with you Chris Bersol should have been in there a little bit sooner it's 46-44 Bersol leads all scores with 17 Ditter has 14 but now we're going to find out a Salt can handle the pressure but Schultz drawing up a play as we speak up here Eric Weisman running camera being assisted by Richard Bartzen Chris Wright the coach is the color man and I'm Mike Martin the play-by-play guy enjoying giving you tonight's game our next broadcast by the way is going to be Friday night when we're over at Cheboyton County Christian Lutheran is going to invade for the annual early war at the shore that's right semi-annual I guess because it played twice we look forward to bringing you that game but we've got this one going on and this has been a dandy just to reset it south is up 46-44 there's 17.9 seconds left Preble is only committed 16 falls the next fall put south in the bonus almost intercepted by Merrick Griffin Connor Harrison hangs on to it he wants to get fouled and he does time went off there yeah all the way down to 12.2 that was only the second fall on Merrick Griffin I remember Tom Grams used to do a drill in practice when they'd have a lead like this you know teams would want to they'd play a little game called hot potato and you kept passing the ball and let the defense try to catch you in that case Harrison wanted the ball because he wanted to shoot free throws but he might have been able to run off more clock had he passed the ball 47-44 can't get the second one Vandenberg with the rebound down under 10 they're just 3 at 12 from 3 point range tonight Marty that's better than Badgers the other day 6.3 seconds remaining as a coach what are you drawing up we know it's going to be a 3 point play but who are you going to go to I wish I knew I guess the one that made the last basket I don't think any of their guys are really good shooters so I'm not afraid if I'm south here as soon as they catch the ball take 2 dribbles and follow you've got to follow the give so don't be afraid to follow the give just don't follow the shooter but there is 6 seconds left they put it on the floor you try to go and steal it take it away or something and just time goes off remember south has the follow to give here I think the most important you think said right there Chris was the time runs down correct just by following you know you waste time by tipping it away just don't let them catch and shoot catch and shoot correct so I'm all over somebody and as soon as they're trying to pass it or something I mean I'm right in there and if I follow I follow it's no big deal I'm just trying to click off just a brief second and then you have a follow to give here we'll see if Coach Schultz uses that idea or it's just one of my ideas or if he does what's right or another thing if you're south let them go backwards like this that's perfect now go follow Thomas go follow Thomas head of boy there you go head of boy coach Schultz 3.7 seconds now left now that's probably doesn't sure what to do here we had this plan all set up and now they followed us now we gotta throw it in from the other side oh god now what do we do help that's why you follow there now let them catch it backwards let them catch it backwards that's perfect gonna take a tough shot oh no shot they're calling what we got here we got a fall I think one Murray with 0.4 seconds left good follow you better put your biggest guy Preble and on the second miss you gotta tap it in there's just no other choice and this is tough because of the new rules now this really is an advantage for the defensive team because you can have four shirts there they can only have two good time to use it not only freeze the shooter but you also go over what the defensive team has to do on a missed free throw there's 0.4 seconds left south is up three Merrick Griffin will be on the line shooting the one and one Chris just told you he wants to make the first but he's gotta miss the second and hope they can get a tip in here's my philosophy if I'm Preble I'm gonna roll around my guys and hope that the ball goes to the side because the guy's gonna want to box out towards you so if I'm a Preble guy I might want to try to go around the guy and then catch and you still have time to catch it you won't start till it's you know touched so that would be my kind of strategy wait till it hits and then kind of roll to the basket because you know that Knuth and Schrader have been taught box out and so they square into the guy so you step back and try to go around them all right we gotta make the first I should say Griffin's gotta make the first to make all this see what happened there Schrader was going right to the ball there you gotta go to interesting did or now moved on the inside the shorter guy Connor Harrison and he banks it in and he didn't want to do that he wanted to miss but he put it in that's 47-46 oh no it doesn't matter basket counts there's a line violation on South yeah it doesn't matter the pass is good right just best arm and a thing there you go Michael Schrader should have actually stayed away from him there almost could have been a foul called on that but in the end South pulls it out 70-47 to 46 and they were down by 12 in the second half and overcame that Chris was a great comeback by the Red Wings yeah it was and it was the 1-3-1 pressure D they just had it up they just could not handle the pressure whatsoever in the second half and then excuse me late in the third quarter and fourth quarter and a good shooting by South in the start of the fourth quarter they hit those 3-3's right away I think they were like five of six they ended up only six of 12 in the quarter but Preble ended up four of 13 so good fourth quarter and you got a one point victory I thought it was a good comeback like you had mentioned I thought Coach Schultz did a great job of coaching the team down the stretch not that he didn't do a good job the whole game but like you said going to the pressure defense made a big difference leading score for South was Taylor Ditter with 14 for the Preble Hornets was Chad Bursal with 17 our next basketball game is going to be on Friday when Lutheran invades Shiboy and Christian for the holy war on the shore for the crew and my partner Chris Wright I'm Mike Martin saying thanks for watching everybody and we'll see you down the road


Hi, I'm Alex Salamidis, I'm a neurosurgeon at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and my main interest is cerebral vascular neurosurgery which involves aneurysms and subrachnoid hemorrhage. And an aneurysm is essentially like a blister or a weakness on the blood vessel wall that can rupture at any given time. And there's probably one or two of us in this room which are an unraptured aneurysm that we don't recognize. Once subrachnoid hemorrhage occurs there is lots of blood on the surface of the brain that causes essentially aggravates blood vessels to constrict and that results in essentially ischemia to the brain which can result in stroke or death. Approximately 15% of patients would die at the time of their aneurysm rupture but the majority of our patients would suffer a stroke or die because of vasospasm which is this phenomenon of narrowing of the blood vessels. It happens about 7 or 10 days after the initial bleed. So the plan and our aim and with the help of the Brain Foundation is to identify biomarkers that can predict which patients will go on to develop vasospasms so we could target those patients and treat them prophylactically. We are using microRNAs which are small non-coding RNAs which modulate gene expression and protein transcription and our aim is to identify signatures of microRNAs on admission and thereby identify high risk patients of vasospasms and subsequently our second name is to actually identify therapeutic targets so that with recent techniques known as RNA interference and we are aiming to identify specific genes that can be switched off at will to prevent vasospasms from occurring. So hopefully in one year's time I'll be able to present some of that data. Thank you very much.


Okay, good afternoon everybody. You're very welcome to the Institute of International European Affairs this lunchtime We're very honored to have a great speaker very very interesting subject looking at the very important issues for the for development and trying to take a forward look at many of the issues and external analysis that is relevant to actors in this area So very much looking forward to hearing his comments just to remind all of you that the Dr. Karras's remarks will be on the record and that the Q&A thereafter will be under the Chatham House Rule and Invite you if you wouldn't mind also to put your phones on silent. There is a tweeting hash tag and all of that kind of thing but first of all, this is part of the Irish Age Development series and They have supported us in Establishing this forum for the exchange of ideas and bringing thought leaders into our country and helping us to frame our own thoughts and Advocacy and ideas at government and agency levels. So we thank Irish Aid very sincerely for that support And I would ask ahead of Irish Aid Rory de Burca to make some opening remarks and to introduce the keynote speaker. Thank you Thanks Barry It's a real pleasure to welcome Dr. Homie Karras of the Brookings Institute here Brookings Institute is a place where People normally make pilgrimage. In fact, I think the Taoiseach is going to make a pilgrimage there next month So it's actually great to get somebody from the Brookings Institute Out of their sanctuary and into the wilds of Dublin and north side Dublin at that Seed breeding generation But Brookings Institute probably isn't very little introduction It's one of the great thought-leading institutions in the world And it's a great place for setting agenda's development agendas amongst them And it's a great place for people with great CVs to come and share their knowledge and Dr. Karras You know is currently the interim vice president and director of the global economy and development program in the Institute And I think you know anybody who looks at their recent record of publications will see the great insight learning that he's brought you know looking at Policies and trends which influence developing countries and influence us as donors in our approach to them as well and And he asked some really really pertinent questions and we'll come back to that in a second You know, but he brings he brings to that some some fantastic, you know insights from other experiences had not least in the World Bank as executive secretary of the secretariat supporting the high-level panel on on the post 2015 development agenda that's and You know and his work on Poverty reduction economic management on all of that You probably read the CV so I won't go into any more detail on I think Dr. Karras probably knows is on CV So I won't bore him by by by giving any more And But I mean, I think it's really particular the timing of this visit is particularly I think important and important for a number of reasons and Tomorrow the iraq this joint committee and foreign affairs launched their review of Irish aid Which country to what might have been set in one particular newspaper this morning is actually quite positive And I think help set an agenda or help set set set a template for a discussion Which we need to have about a new international development policy of Ireland that gets us ready for the next decade That's in the context where the government has reiterated its commitment to hit zero point seven but actually, you know, I think we have to park a target and think about what is it we want to achieve and I think we have to do whatever we do Key right and particularly with with with Focus on quality And I think the kind of research and insights that dr. Karras has will be quite helpful to us in taking forward our thinking And the thinking of the people in this room who we want to engage with in developing that policy in Trying to decide what it is we can do to get that quality engagement going forward Today the title of the address is five lenses on the future of global development When I think dr. Karras's perspectives through each of those five lenses or prisms or whatever word we want to use We'll hopefully provide, you know some interesting illumination And a few colors in the light on the development frontiers and the pathways to diverse traverse those frontiers That we have to we have to walk down those pathways in the decade ahead is most recent research on seriously off-track countries I found really interesting. I like the phrase I think there's times in the last decade when we probably thought we were one of those off-track countries But thankfully I think we're back on track a little bit anyway And I think it shows it's a guide to where the needs which we must address are and what struck me was if you look at other Other indicators some of the countries that dr. Karras identifies as needing assistance actually do well another in another studies and other indicators So it's a reminder that we you know, we need to ask the right question That was really interesting and also having asked those questions about where I think the lot of strategic questions that donors such as us Need to ask it. How do we most effectively engage? Are we engaging in the right places within countries or with the right people within those countries? How can we most effectively anticipate those countries needs in three four or five ten years time and start in Investing today to make sure that those needs are addressed you know in that decade ahead and How do we organize ourselves best to do all of that and I think these are the kind of questions Which we're going to try and ask of ourselves as we get into our new policy development process And I think we need to reflect very carefully on dr. Karras's recommendations to donors on questions such as scaling up on local ownership and on results and I thought his insight that poverty is concentrated in large growing economies But we're moving to it moving from that to an era where poverty can be Increasingly addressed in smaller economies but deep structural challenges is quite interesting because then we might have to re-engineer ourselves around that that dichotomy and The other thing that I thought is really interesting particularly If the media that we import from other island is quite skeptical about development aid at the moment for reasons Which might not always be to do with development aid and maybe to do with other politics But I think your statement that development interventions in these new contexts can be successful and Profitable just as they have been in other developing countries is really important aid works But we have to make sure it continues to work and I think we also have to acknowledge there's an Increasing humanitarian context and political complications in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa and across Sahara You know make for increasing pressures. We have conflicts. We've got famines or near famine situations and Migration and we need to come up with a more imaginative responses and you know That at a time of increasing international complexity and we can see there's sort of new power geometries are beginning to emerge And I think dr. Carass has some interesting thoughts on things like the changing world of China in the world From which we can learn, but it's not just China. There's the changing role of the Gulf States Turkey You know along that whole Swahili coast The role of Russia is changing in the world, you know, it's it's it's more assertive in some ways How do we move around that? Evolving sense in the US of its place in the world is also a factor in the developing the development context And the EU itself is changing its approaches And so as are the so-called traditional donors and where do we as Ireland a small country on Europe's periphery? Put ourselves in that changing geometry is going to be an important question for us And then there's the question of business and private sector and how it wants to engage with development And how do we best harness that energy? in ways that Hit our our development objectives and the development objectives of the countries where we want to work and Just because of the week that's in it as well. We've seen a lot of people question some of how aid agencies and people involved in development aid work particularly the integrity of individuals within that and And that has raised important questions But in some senses has missed the big point which is that agencies are doing really important and effective work as our governments in meeting real human needs But the kind of popular discussion around that does raise questions about how do we ensure moving forward? That the development interventions that we want to do retain Popular support genuine popular support that's deep rooted in our societies and how can we make sure that what we do is? Authentic to our own experience and the experiences of the countries that we want where we want to where we want to be And then there's some real questions there for us to reflect on if not today I think into the future. It's a question for this week I think very definitely and the last thing I'll mention is the sustainable development goals Which provide a frame for where we how we move forward and I think you know There's real challenges to us in the development space moving forward think about how we fill in that frame, you know How do we make sure that we we believe you know, we we don't leave anyone behind But also we deal with the furthest behind first I think dr. Carras has some interesting ideas for us which I look forward to hearing on those as we listen Are we look through his five lenses the next one? Dr. Humber Carras Thank you. Thanks very much for those kind words. Thank you so much for the invitation to come here You know, it's a It's it's such a pleasure in part because a few years ago I did some work with a colleague where we tried to rank various development agencies bilateral donors a few multilaterals as well We called it the quality of official development assistance and the idea was that by sort of benchmarking Agencies against each other Maybe we would learn some lessons about what was working and what wasn't working and of course Irish aid came out as number one And so I've always wanted to come here and know, you know, figure out. What is that secret source? and in turn I Wanted to offer some thoughts This afternoon about the kinds of things that I suspect that people will look at in Five years time when they're looking back and asking the same questions again about what has, you know, really made for an effective Development agency, I think it's going to be how they addressed some of the issues that I'm going to talk about So what I'm going to talk about is perhaps a little general but I Hope to bring it down to some specifics about how I think the big important issues for Development agencies will look like So we started a few A few years ago we I Did a paper called Horizon 2025 with a colleague Andrew Rogison from ODI where we tried to look at, you know, how the development landscape was changing and we thought we would Do an update about, you know, five years later or so last year and I have to say that one of the things that really surprised me as we were doing that paper was just How much had changed in the five years? I mean the development landscape is actually changing very very rapidly and That in and of itself poses some real challenges for for agencies It might continue to change in which case we'd be talking about some very different things again, but we talked about In the in the paper we talked about meteors, which were things that we had completely blindsided us that we really had no idea Were we're going to be such big powerful forces and those meteors were Essentially the the the the whole rise in populism That has seized politics in many of the most important donor countries. I mean five years ago that just wasn't seen as being a Major driver now. I think it's something that really has to be reckoned with we didn't have a gender 20 30 Five years ago and many people were skeptical that we would actually ever get a global consensus on a new way forward So that's a massive new development and we didn't have all of this Link between the humanitarian the migration the resettlement the this huge influx into Europe in particular, but also in the United States and you know a very different approach to Migrants and then there were some other changes which You know we call snowballs meaning We'd sort of seen them, but they had grown bigger and bigger over time and I think the the ones I want to emphasize are that Just at the time when the world started to realize that actually we'd had a massive success And bring down global poverty reduction little the speed with which Poverty reduction is happening in the world has started to go down Essentially most of the poor people in Asia have already Come out of near extreme poverty into near poverty and Then you've got a whole continent of Africa where poverty is still actually rising so the global figures are no longer moving in the same way as they were before and Whereas you know we keep with this narrative of oh, we brought you know helped a billion people Escape from extreme poverty Etc. Yes, but that's history. That's not actually where we are where we're headed Obviously climate finance and the links with you know between climate and development have become bigger and bigger over time And then I think none of us really saw the speed With which China was going to move in the international development space You know, I have to I I think you have to think that the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Was first mooted as an idea in 2014. It's already doing projects. That's an extraordinary pace for any new institution The you know the The scale of the Belt and Road Initiative today is Huge and aggregate terms and for specific countries. It's absolutely enormous and You know, we have to reckon with that as well so what I'm going to argue is that as We look forward there are going to be five things that will really Determine whether or not aid agencies do well and it's on how they address these five issues The first is the issue of fragility. I Actually hate the term fragility because I think it encompasses so many different types of fragility But I'm using it as a shorthand for a range of contexts in which Governments seem to be unable to deliver the basic functions of a government including Helping its populations escape from extreme poverty and achieve some modicum of prosperity and development I think we we know what some of these places are Those are the hard places Where we have to now make progress And if we're going to make any headway towards the achievement of the SDGs We cannot afford to have 30 40 50 countries Where the speed of poverty reduction is just nowhere close to what would be required to end poverty So I think we have to really think about very hard about what what we can do in order to break these cycles of repeated development Frustrations that seems to happen in these countries second We're now at a stage where the The overall poverty gap in the world the amount of money it would take to bring everybody above the poverty line It's actually shrinking. It's you know, we're no longer a And and and that I think means that specific safety net programs are going to become a really important instrument in The elimination of poverty we can no longer say, oh, we can't have universal safety net programs because it's simply unaffordable and you know So let's work on other things I Think now these programs can be affordable. They can be funded. They will be a really important tool Third there's a lot of discussion about what to do in middle-income countries and I Have to say I am slightly perplexed That in the amongst the development community There is so much emphasis that one should only work in places which have a very high proportion of extremely poor people You know, even in these other middle-income countries, we're not talking about places that are exactly rich And Have a few words to say on why I think it is so important to have an explicit middle-income country strategy And not to just walk away from some of these places. I've already said I think we need to have a very clear-eyed Response about how to engage with China and part of it is competitive and part of it is cooperative and We've got to figure out exactly, you know, where we compete and where we cooperate and then finally I'm going to say something about the way in which aid agencies need to work with the private sector So these are the sort of the five big lenses if we get all of those five right, I think we'll make tremendous strides in Development cooperation if we get them wrong. I think that We will be Judged as having failed on some really in some really important area. So fragility is the new frontier We did some work that looked at under current pathways and trajectories What is happening country by country and we looked at 145 countries and essentially used an arbitrary threshold and said how many countries by 2030 won't even have got to a 20% Rate of poverty remember the target is to get to zero. We're using 20% 31 countries those 31 countries will have 80% of the remaining poverty in the world by By 2030 which under current trajectories still looks as if it's going to be somewhere around 450 million people That means that in the next 15 years. We're only going to bring about 200 million people out of poverty not the you know Billions that we the bit one billion figure that we talked about during the MDG period This is really Primarily not not not entirely but primarily an issue of Africa and It's primarily an issue of some of the very large African countries. So Nigeria Nigeria has the distinction Probably today of having the largest number Absolute number of extremely poor people in the world More than India more than China Just think about that for a second. I mean it it has that has not been true. I I suspect in my lifetime and It's a you know, it's it's it's a remarkable tribute to what's happened in India China and other Population countries, but it's also a real condemnation of what's happening in in Nigeria So this is Nigeria, it's DRC. It's Madagascar These are large populace countries where the rate of poverty reduction really is not done is not falling And so we should really focus on these places We should be absolutely, you know Have a laser like focus on what is happening in these three countries Nigeria DRC and Madagascar They will Account for half of the world's poverty in 2030 if we don't do something about it And we hear very little actually about these countries in the development discourse Certainly in Washington, you don't you don't read about specific strategies for these places something new I Would be surprised if many people in the United States could find Madagascar on a map Actually that probably goes from Nigeria and you know DRC as well. So maybe it's not a very good example The bigger point is that funnily in my mind when you look at the way in which aid allocations have moved over time They haven't actually moved towards the changing location of poverty and So the question is why why why is there so much inertia in aid that it just keeps going to the same places and Is not saying what we're really trying to do is accelerate the rate of reduction of poverty in very specific places So if the poverty is there, that's where the money should be that's where our engagement should be and When you engage in some of these places, then I think we also probably need some you know new ways of approaching Development and I would just give a small plug here to real basics Let's have civil registration vital statistic. We don't know how many people are born. How many people die? What if they die of at what age? I mean, this is not real rocket science Development It could be digital IDs You know, if you think about it in India with the other program They now have digital IDs for 1.2 billion people that they've rolled out over three years well Africa has Just over a billion people so they can do it in India or in three years. Why can't we also do it in Africa? Why can't we have digital IDs so that we actually know something? about many of these people and have a Technological base that would permit us to then innovate in the way in which we deliver a whole range of Poverty reduction services to those people including things like like health and education Now, let's talk about the overall poverty gap so whoops, I mean We've computed the overall poverty gap the amount of money it would take to bring everybody in the world with perfect targeting up to the $1.90 a day poverty line. It's about 45 billion US dollars per year 0.1% of DAC countries GDP This idea that you know Aid is just a drop in the bucket Not so true any longer. Aid could actually do this Now we all understand that you can't have perfect targeting and there are going to be leakages and things like that So I'm not literally saying take 45 billion you solve the world's you know poverty Problems, but it's it gives you a little bit of a sense of the orders of magnitude and what I'm really driving up There this these are just the graphs that show you how it's how sharply it's come down since the year 2000 But what I think the implication of this is is that we're now in a position to start to develop Effective scalable social safety nets in many more countries including in low-income countries and You know, I am personally a big fan of cash transfers I'm actually a big fan of unconditional cash transfers I think when we impose conditions, even if they are Supposedly, you know sensible conditions what we find is that You then get some 40% of people who just opt out They may not understand they may not agree They may find it too difficult to it whenever you have conditionality it adds enormously to the paperwork that you need to do the the Procratic cost of administering these kinds of programs and there's very little research that actually says That from a development point of view conditional cash transfers work better than unconditional cash transfers Anyway, that's a personal kind of thing. I think the big picture is cash transfers Cash transfers seem to work much better than many other Delivery mechanisms that we have especially in humanitarian Situations and so, you know, I think that having a big push on the development of safety nets is likely to be something which is which will prove to be a really important tool in In the arsenal of all aid agencies Let's talk a bit about middle-income countries. I Want to be more specific and talk about upper middle-income countries because that's where the red lines seem to be emerging There are several donors today that in international discussions have essentially said you know, if a Multilateral institution is going to still engage in upper middle-income countries, they will be defunded by those donors I find that Slightly Slightly bizarre and It's bizarre because these upper middle-income countries are now really important parts of the neighborhood of All of the countries around them we we We live in such a connected world that the idea that you can just simply say You know, there are no spillovers between a large regional economy and its whole neighborhood I Think is it's it's daft and so many of the solutions Sometimes they're direct and immediate the case of you know, Jordan and Lebanon with Syrian refugees is an obvious example But sometimes it's much more Much more indirect. It's happening through trade flows. It's happening through a range of other things. Sometimes it's happening actually directly through Development cooperation from these regional Powers I should say The point I'm really making is that excluding them From the if you want to bring them into the discussion of how to develop the rest of the neighborhood You also have to bring them in have a discussion and engagement with them about their own domestic problems and issues Which they have The other part is that these are also the places where many of the innovations that we're now trying out Are actually happening if you're not engaged Directly you're not gonna learn and you're not gonna spread as rapidly as one could These kinds of Innovations and I'll talk later because many of them are specifically about the ways in which the private sector can be brought into the Development enterprise so I'll talk a little bit later about some of those We have This is a phrase that Francisco Sagasti Actually coined so I don't want to take Credit but the the core idea Is that one should think about upper middle-income countries really as Gradation rather than graduation meaning that there are going to be some sectors and some institutions Which are more advanced where they can graduate and others way which are less advanced and where they still need some help and So rather than just thinking about a country as a monolithic sort of you know Thing where once its income level crosses a certain threshold you say okay now you can deal with your own problems you think of it as Actually a multi-tiered with you know a whole range of different institutions and with a strong likelihood that Not all of those institutions are going to be progressing at the same rate And some are going to be much further behind than others and that I think is much closer to the the real world Than the idea of instant graduation So our view is don't don't talk about Graduating countries if you have to talk about graduation talk about graduating country sectors or country themes or something like that But there will always be places where There can be really productive conversations and engagements with external With external donors and we would encourage the donor community to engage in those areas where There is some regional influence and impact I mean you know think about education and think about the ways in which some of these places are Encouraging flows of people to come to their institutes of higher learning how they're spreading their own educate curricular when you benchmark on You know education achievements and learning metrics Most developing countries are not that keen to be benchmarked against OECD countries with you know PISA They'd much rather you know look at regional comparators, etc These are the kinds of things that a large emerging Economy an upper middle-income country could could really do And then as I said Really be there where the Potential for innovation and learning is quite substantial China Let's talk about China So I mentioned the Belt and Road initiative I'll give you an example I'm up born in Karachi The Belt and Road initiative in Pakistan Has a number of projects that will probably amount to something between 45 to 50 billion US dollars Total aid to Pakistan may be One billion something like that net disbursements so order of magnitude difference in the Belt and Road initiative they're talking about Road projects rail projects. There's a new port. There are six power plants You know it goes on and on. There's capacity building institutional strengthening. It's a large package Signed at the highest level of government and then drill down into a Whole range of specific projects Think of the way which a donor agency usually works They do a lot of technical work in building up a specific project and Then try to get political agreement that that's meeting the priorities of the government It's just it's it's it's different and it's on a completely different scale China Development Bank and China Rexim Bank Probably have something like 680 700 billion US dollars in assets in Developing countries now That's as much as all of the multilateral development banks put together China some of these you know the AIB for example is Operating very differently Different motivations for aid. Sorry that what motivates should be what motivates aid. It's not really aid It's development cooperation You know the Chinese always have this mutual benefit kind of kind of approach The if you look at the efficiency in terms of the speed with which an AIB project is approved or some of these other projects are approved and implemented They are quite rapid There was a one of the projects in Pakistan was a solar power plant six months for implementation hundred megawatts in the Punjab Effectiveness still a question mark. I think it's very early. We've got there are lots of anecdotes about You know the infrastructure projects not being maintained The Chinese usually think that their responsibility ends when they've Constructed an asset they hand it over to the country and then it's up to the country to do something With it. Well, that doesn't always work so well. So I think there are still some issues on that that said It's quite different and I think there does need to be some kind of a strategy and engagement with with China I think it's inevitable that there are going to be geopolitical rivalries and I think it's inevitable that the The bilateral aid programs will reflect those kinds of rivalries the big question is actually in multilateral institutions and whether China has drawn into multilateral institutions and encouraged to view multilateral institutions as a bedrock of rules-based Cooperation in the world or whether the multilateral institutions in turn are going to become places where the geopolitical rivalries are played out Which in my view would seriously weaken those agencies and institutions But which I believe is actually what is happening right now and has been happening for some time and The decision by the United States not to join AIB was one of those shots across the The bow, but it goes back much earlier. It goes back to the Asian Monetary Fund idea and many other kinds of ideas and the continued gridlock on the the Governance of the IMF the governance of the World Bank the shift in shares and chairs, etc finally private sector So I think we all know that the you know the the big question with the private sector is how one actually starts to unlock the large amounts of capital and To some extent technology that exists in the private sector and use that for development purposes a couple of Just statistics Right now When you see when you ask how much private money has been mobilized into development projects by Guarantees first-loss instruments this that and the other the OECD survey said I think 27 billion US dollars in the latest year Set that against the hundred and 30 odd of net ODA 160 of gross ODA It's very very small Usually when people talk about how do we bring the private sector in they're talking about multiples So you want the private sector to be Leveraging official resources by five to one or something like that We're far from that If you look at the private provision of infrastructure without official engagement You'll get a number that has been hovering around a hundred and twenty billion dollars per year It's mostly energy and telecoms Last year it fell to about 7075 and It fell because of idiosyncratic reasons in Turkey Brazil and the Philippines Which are the three largest countries for a private provision of infrastructure But it also fell because we've got new regulations of Basel 3 on the way in which banks Have to set aside capital when they invest in let's say let's say you want to invest in infrastructure in a developing country Infrastructure set aside capital developing countries set aside more capital long-term investment set aside more capital. It's very expensive So project financing from European banks in particular has really crashed Same as true with solvency to and the regulations on insurance companies and other institutional investors So we've actually got a real battle that just at the time when we're hoping to get Institutional private money into development projects the regulators are actually saying this is really risky stuff please don't do it and the question is can aid agencies actually do something to unlock that and The answer I think is probably yes But they've got to be very smart about the way in which they do it and obviously they have to avoid Situations where they're essentially giving corporations more of a handout and Corruption I Think that there's quite a lot of scope. There's a very interesting grouping of Development agencies Called source. It's a nonprofit established in Switzerland What it's trying to do is to harmonize bidding documents on other documents on Infrastructure projects as well as having discussions about the way in which one can put together Essentially blended finance packages where you have a combination of some truly concessional money to take care of Institutional reforms capacity building project identification and preparation some of the costs that are difficult to to cover under purely commercial terms and first loss and Then very simply one thing that we should do is actually, you know set targets and track So-called mobilized private finance Right now the development community isn't even saying this is going to be our objective We have to hit pick a number a hundred billion dollars by you know in two or three years There are no systems For actually looking at how much of this private money is coming in so right now. It's it's literally all talk The whole blended finance thing I mean there's paper after paper and establishing principles and this and that but it is still all talk and One or two anecdotal examples, which everyone trots out about how it could be done But no systematic efforts to really talk about how to scale that up So I've tried to say big changes in the development landscape. So aid agencies should change as well and Basically, I think that when we look back People will say What did you do in fragile states and were you effective or not? What did you do in trying to help countries develop these new instruments for domestic Social safety nets at scale How effective were you in engaging with middle-income countries and bringing them into the conversations about development in their neighborhood What was your China strategy and How did you do with mobilizing private finance and using aid to unlock private finance both by de-risking as well as by Financing and subsidizing some of the fixed costs and regulatory reforms that need to go along with That kind of private sector development. Thank you very much


Despite Americans' reputation for being cock-eyed optimists, we've always been suckers for declension narratives, or stories about how the golden age ended sometime in the past, and we have the rotten luck to live in a world that is no longer what it once was. Donald Trump built a successful presidential campaign on making America great again, and his successor Joe Biden's Build Back Better slogan similarly harkens back to a more wholesome and idyllic past. We often hear of falling fertility rates, rising income inequality, and declining economic mobility. But these stories are either misleading or flat out wrong. It's a one-year cut that reduces your taxes by $3,000 a year for each child you have under the age of 18. Both Democrats and Republicans are pushing for new subsidies for parents, attributing our historically low fertility rates to the cost of raising kids. Joe Biden's American Rescue Plan gives parents of toddlers as much as $3,600 annually for each child, and Josh Hawley wants to up that to 12 grand, though only for married couples. But the reason we're having fewer kids isn't because they cost too much. It's because we don't want as many as we used to. To look at the trend in fertility, which is dramatically down across the industrialized world, and to understand it, is it a problem because people actually would like to have more kids but can't afford to? Scott Winship is a sociologist and the director of poverty studies at the American Enterprise Institute, or AEI. He argues that if it's a lack of money that's swaying Americans to procreate less, then we'll find that a growing number of women will have had to scale back the number of kids they planned on having in their early 20s. And that's not the case. Winship points to a Bureau of Labor Statistics survey, which found that 44% of millennial women ended up having fewer children than they had expected as young adults. 29% had more and 27% hit their targets exactly. But the same survey conducted on baby boomers born a generation earlier found that today's women are actually slightly more likely to reach or exceed their parental dreams, indicating that declining birth rates mostly reflect a cultural shift. As a society, we've chosen more stuff and fewer kids. Turns out women have been better able to achieve their fertility targets even though a lot of them haven't even started having kids yet. Winship says that simple morality tells about a massive and growing gap between the wealthiest and the poorest Americans missed more important truths. Inequality has increased over the past half century, but low-income Americans have made massive gains, especially when you take into account their after-tax income and transfers. The Gini coefficient, a measure of income inequality, has basically been the same since 1989, and overall poverty, child poverty and poverty among the kids of single mothers are at all-time lows. As important, he notes, middle-class Americans have seen their income rise dramatically. When you're talking about the median household, you're looking at an income of around $70,000. That's up something like $25,000 since 1979, for instance. That's taking into account the fact that prices have gone up for all the things we buy, not working harder than we used to. We just have $25,000 more at the middle than our counterparts did. But what about the ability to move up the income ladder from where do you start it? Which for many people defines the American dream. It's common to read headlines announcing that millennials are the first generation will be poorer than their parents, and they comprise a new lost generation. These claims are flatly wrong, says Winship. I've sort of looked at the data and found that's probably closer to 70% of kind of 30-year-olds today are better off than their parents were. Winship believes that part of the problem is that people spreading these narratives of generational decline come from a narrow slice of contemporary society. I have a theory about, in addition to just kind of this declensionism that sort of runs through all this stuff. I think that you hear more about this because a lot of people in media are upper middle-class, but they were also raised pretty upper middle-class themselves. So there is downward mobility and that is a thing. There are people who do worse than their parents. It's more likely if your parents were rich that you're going to do worse than them. Winship stresses that anything we do that slows down risk-taking in innovation is not only likely to hurt our long-term economic growth, but also increased demand for government policies that will save us, leaving us with the worst of two possible outcomes, a smaller economy and a bigger government.