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Migrants are a crucial component of the EU social and economic workforce. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the reliance on formal and even informal working practices.
Many of those making it possible for all of us to get through the crisis are immigrants. Health and care assistants, supermarket staff, agricultural workers and many more were born outside the EU.
These essential workers will also be part of the recovery phase. Post-crisis, their contribution to the rebuilding of our economy will also strengthen the cohesion of our communities.
Social and economic partners will be key partners for the Commission in this endeavour.
Therefore, we will renew the partnership the Commission has built with social and economic partners in the field of integration of refugees.
We will make it an instrument for dialogue and joint actions, and develop our efforts in the recovery phase to attract economic migrants in line with Europe's changing needs.
The Commission stands ready to support the partners in their efforts and we will be discussing the form of our reinforced cooperation in the coming weeks.
We have a long road ahead but we will eventually move beyond crisis. It is essential that we match European recovery needs on the labour market with the skills and talents from abroad and foster successful integration policies. These will be some of the key objectives of the upcoming Pact on migration and asylum.
Only together can we achieve a recovery that builds on the skills and potential of migrants while taking their needs fully into account.


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About the Book
Nik felt the mistake in his bones. The man in the snakeskin suit reached down towards him and pulled Nik upright by the collar of his coat. Nik didn't see what happened next but he felt the wall. He cried out and then someone hit him and he closed his eyes and waited for it to be over.
London, 1967. Nik Christou has been a rent boy since he was 15. He knows the ins and outs of Piccadilly Circus, how to spot a pretty policeman and to interpret a fleeting glance. One summer night his life is turned upside down, first by violence and then by an accusation of murder.
Anna Treadway, fleeing the ghosts of her past, works as a dresser in Soho's Galaxy theatre. She has learned never to place too much trust in the long arm of the law and, convinced Nik is innocent, she determines to find him an alibi.
Merrian Wallis, devoted wife to an MP with a tarnished reputation, just wants proof that her husband couldn't have been involved.
But how do you recognise the truth when everyone around you is playing a role – and when any spark of scandal is quickly snuffed out by those with power? As Anna searches for clues amongst a cast of MPs, actors, members of gentlemen's clubs and a hundred different nightly clients, will anyone be willing to come forward and save Nik from his fate?
Format: Hardcover (288 pages) Publisher: 4th Estate
Publication date: 20th August 2020 Genre: Historical Fiction, crime
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My Review
I really enjoyed Miranda Emmerson's debut novel, Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars. In fact, it was one of the first books I reviewed on this blog. Many of the characters from that book make a return in A Little London Scandal, although it works perfectly well as a standalone. There's Ottmar, owner of the Alabora cafe, and the actors and backstage staff at the Galaxy Theatre where Anna works as a dresser. Sergeant Barnaby Hayes, whose partnership with Anna enabled them to solve the mystery at the heart of the first book, also returns although his involvement in that earlier case has not been without its consequences.
Anna's boyfriend, Louis (or Aloysius if you're being formal) has less of a starring role in this book, having returned to Jamaica on family business. Theirs is a long-distance relationship for the time being, conducted by means of the exchange of touching postcards and letters.
Anna's innate sense of justice means she cannot stand by when Nik, whom she knows from the Alabora cafe, is arrested and charged with a murder she is convinced he did not commit. She enlists Barnaby's help again and, alternating with the progress of their investigation, we learn the story of Nik's troubled teenage years and adolescence. It takes the reader to some dark places inhabited by seedy individuals – about as much fun as the prospect of a colonoscopy.
Given Anna's occupation, I liked how the theme of performance or playing a part is woven into the book. With homosexuality yet to be decriminalized, many are forced to hide their sexuality and to pretend to be something they are not for fear of arrest or blackmail. (It made me think of the film Victim starring Dirk Bogarde, who in reality led a somewhat double life.)
Merrian, wife of MP Richard Wallis, knows all about playing a part – the part of perfect wife and mother. She's a really sympathetic, believable character who has sacrificed a lot in order to advance her husband's career and present the outside world with the picture of a traditional family. What she knows, or suspects, about her husband's secrets she keeps to herself until, she too, is drawn into Anna's search for justice and shows unexpected mettle.
I loved the way Anna's natural empathy, drawing on what we learn about her own troubled past, enabled her to gain Nik's confidence and trust. And I admired her bold, if slightly reckless, willingness to take action.
The book perfectly captures the atmosphere of 1960s London – Carnaby Street, miniskirts, late night jazz clubs and coffee bars. (There's even a scene in a Wimpy bar. Remember those?) The story takes the reader on a journey from exclusive gentlemen's clubs, via Wormwood Scrubs and the nightlife haunts of down and outs and rent boys, to illicit music events on Eel Pie Island. (Incidentally, this is the second book I've read featuring Eel Pie Island as a location. The first was The Secret Life of Alfred Nightingale by Rebecca Stonehill.)
The book has lovely little touches like the quirky chapter headings, my favourite being "Very Expensive Penguins". (Sorry, Miranda, there was no way I could get Jerry's third word into my review.)
A Little London Scandal combines an intriguing mystery with a vivid portrait of London at a time of change. I received an advance review copy courtesy of 4th Estate via NetGalley.
In three words: Spirited, stylish, colourful
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About the Author
Miranda Emmerson is a playwright and author living in Wales. She has written numerous drama adaptations for BBC Radio 4 as well as some highly-acclaimed original drama. Her debut novel, Miss Treadway and The Field of Stars, was published by 4th Estate in 2017.
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New research by the ONS is a reminder of the pressing challenges cities will face in the era of automation, but it is not too late to turn these challenges into opportunities
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Technological change is revolutionising the way we work, but the 'rise of the robots' is strengthening – not undermining – the role cities play as drivers of economic growth
Acquiring skills goes beyond the classroom, but take-up of extra-curricular activities is much lower outside the Greater South East
The Chancellor's Budget had something for everyone, but its overriding message for cities was 'see what 2019 brings'
While National Government is preoccupied with Brexit, the Chancellor should seize the opportunity to help cities prepare for the future
There is no easy solution to improving education outcomes, but cities can act now to help young and adult residents, using the tools they already have.
The boom in logistics has created jobs, but will leave some cities more vulnerable to automation
Northern cities have been hit hard by the loss of jobs in exporting firms in the past century. Ensuring this doesn't happen again should be a priority for local industrial strategies.
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From the Gates of Vienna:
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi called for the deportation of 600,000 migrants from Italy, describing them as a "social bomb". Mr. Berlusconi's ally Matteo Salvini is being blamed for inspiring the shooting attack on migrants in Macerata by a skinhead affiliated with the Lega Nord.
In other Italian news, two people were arrested and another injured during a clash in Rome between police and demonstrators who were protesting a visit by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the Vatican.
Italian Confesses to Shooting Rampage After African Immigrant Dismembers 18-Year-Old Woman
Power to the vigilante!
An Italian man confessed Tuesday to going a 90-minute shooting spree on Saturday morning, wounding six persons in an act of vengeance against migrants following the gruesome murder of a young Italian woman last week.
On Wednesday, police discovered the dismembered remains of 18-year-old Pamela Mastropietro in two suitcases left by the side of the road outside the central Italian town of Macerata. Not long afterward, they arrested Innocent Oseghale, a 29-year-old Nigerian immigrant, charging him with her murder. (More below the fold)
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UK: Here we go again.
@SurreyPolice celebrate International Day of Zero Arrests for #FGM by tweeting empty platitudes and threatening people who want them to do their job. Great community engagement, dickheads.
Mrs Phipps, who receives occasional emails from her son, is at a loss to explain how he went from a bright, normal teenager to a Muslim fanatic.
At Vatican, Erdogan asks Pope to help lead "concerted and continuous international effort to fight Islamophobia"
Netanyahu Says George Soros Is Funding Protests, Demands African Migrants Leave—If Not He Will Deport All 38,000 of Them.
Meanwhile the UN Opposes Netanyahu's Plan.. But of course.
Netanyahu on Sunday accused US Jewish billionaire George Soros of being behind the campaign against the forced deportations, Haaretz also reported.
"George Soros is also funding the protests. Obama deported two million infiltrators and they didn't say anything," he said at the weekly Cabinet meeting.
A taxi driver who drove Oseghale and his two suitcases to the spot where they were later found reported the incident to police, who were able to track him down. They later searched the man's apartment and discovered blood-stained clothes, large kitchen knives, a small cleaver, and other items belonging to the murdered woman.
On taking inventory of the woman's mutilated corpse, police further found that certain parts were missing, including the victim's neck and a portion of the genital organs. They are now looking for a second Nigerian accomplice believed to have participated in the macabre murder.
"I was in the car, I wanted to go to the gym, I turned on the radio and I heard for the umpteenth time the story of Pamela. I felt an irresistible impulse: I returned home, opened the safe and took out my gun. Then I went out to hit them all," he said.
According to law enforcement officials, Traini fired some 30 shots out the window of his black Alfa Romeo as he drove about the city. The man is unemployed, having failed in a run for local office, and had been kicked out of his gym last year, reportedly for his "fascist views."
Anti-immigrant sentiment is running quite high in Italy in the lead-up to March 4 national elections, following on years of virtually unchecked immigration, mostly from northern Africa. Over 620,000 migrants have entered Italy since 2013 and the majority are still in the country, ever since France, Switzerland and Austria shut down their borders with Italy to prevent migrants from streaming north.
A 2016 study found a direct correlation between the number of migrants entering Italy and the rise in the crime rate, with an increase of 0.4 percent in the crime rate for each increase of 1 percent in the number of immigrants in a given area.
The statistical analysis conducted by the Confcommercio group revealed that among Italian citizens there are 4.3 convicted criminals per 1000, while among legal immigrants the rate is nearly double, at 8.5 criminals per 1000. More striking still, among illegalimmigrants the crime rate soars to more than 50 percent (148 criminals out of every 247 persons).
One of the more troubling discoveries of the study was that for the first time, the crime rate in the north of Italy, which has the highest concentration of immigrants and asylum seekers, was surpassing that of the south.
Macerata, in the east central Italian region of Le Marche, is one of many areas attracting immigrants, and some ten percent of the city's population of 43,000 is foreign-born. Government-run migrant welcome centers currently house more than 350 recent arrivals.
Recent voter polls place the newly formed center-right coalition in the leading position for Italy's March elections, followed by the populist Five-Star Movement, with the center-left Democratic Party (PD) trailing a fair distance behind. The center-right coalition came from a fusion of the conservative, anti-immigrant League (formerly the Northern League), Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italy and the right-wing Fratelli d'Italia.
League leader Matteo Salvini was outraged after last Wednesday's shooting, noting that the killer "wasn't fleeing war, he brought war to Italy." He has promised to seal Italy's borders for a year if elected, as well as deporting 150,000 immigrants.
Among his promises, Salvini has insisted that during his first year in office, Italy would take in no new migrants. "We have to dispose of a backlog of half a million illegal immigrants," said the aspiring prime minister. "The first task is to seal the borders, from the Alps to Sicily. Enough, do not pass, stop."


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The Marvel's latest entry to the Marvel Cinematic Universe – Ant-Man has been well-received upon its debut in theatres! In this exciting film, our new hero, Scott Lang, has donned the Ant-Man suit and learned how ants can be his greatest allies. The carpenter ant which Scott has affectionately named Antony has become his trusted steed for flying to destinations.
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Malegaon: A month before the Maharashtra assembly polls were announced, it was said for sure that there was no one to challenge Dada Bhuse, the two-time Shiv Sena MLA from the Malegaon (Outer) assembly constituency, and he was most likely to retain the seat for the third time in a row.
[Sunil Gaikwad addressing a rally in a village in Malegaon Outer.]
In the last fifteen days however the situation has taken such a dramatic turn that a day before the voting it appears that Dada Bhuse - the strong Sena man in the area, will lose and it is Sunil Gaikwad who has actually got the edge in the election.
Sunil Gaikwad, a sitting corporator in the Malegaon Municipal Corporation (MMC), is contesting the election on the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) ticket, the party he had joined barely a month before the October 15, 2014 election.
Sunil Gaikwad, a sitting corporator in the Malegaon Municipal Corporation (MMC), is contesting the election on the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) ticket, the party he had joined barely a month before the October 15, 2014 election.
Dada Bhuse came into limelight in 2001 when he was accused of rioting and participating in the murder of a Muslim former councilor during the infamous October 26, 2001 Malegaon riot. Even as a criminal case was pending against him, he won the assembly election held in 2004, and also retained the seat for the second term in 2009. In February 2011, the Bombay High Court had declared his election as void due to non-disclosure of complete record of the criminal cases pending against him.
Though he is known for maintaining excellent contact with the people belonging to his constituency, and also has some important work and projects to his credit, the voters especially in the rural areas are said to be angry with him. It is said the voters in rural areas are unhappy because many promises Dada Bhuse had made to them remained unfulfilled. The anger against Dada Bhuse in rural areas is at such a level that in some of the areas he was not allowed to enter into the village.
It is hence a good number of people in the Malegaon (Outer) constituency are lobbying against him and are supporting Sunil Aba Gaikwad. It is exactly the same thing which people had done in the 2004 state election when they had lobbied in favour of Dada Bhuse to defeat the then strong leader of the constituency Prashant Hirey.
Gaikwad was earlier in the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS). He won the civic elections on the MNS ticket, and also led the newly established party to win three corporators besides him in the 2008 Malegaon civic polls.
In the 2013 civic elections however he deserted the MNS, formed his own Malegaon Vikas Aghadi and won 05 seats. Finally, he joined with his colleagues the NCP a month before the assembly election. His clean image and excellent reputation with the people had helped him earlier when he gave stiff challenge to Shiv-Sena candidates and also won seats in the civic elections. Tomorrow's vote will test if his reputation is also useful for him in the assembly polls.
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The Wonder and Merriment of a Morning Walk
Tempting though that snooze button may be, fitting in a morning walk can be much more than simply a good form of exercise; they allow us to see our neighborhood and nature from a whole new perspective. From dog walkers to hummingbirds to occasional lurking moonsets, there are many compelling reasons to set that alarm clock a half hour early.
You might already know that there are plenty of physical and mental health reasons to enjoy a daily walk. The American Heart Association encourages people to get at least 150 minutes of exercise such as walking weekly. Even just a quick, daily 20-minute walk could lower your risk of heart disease by 30 percent. Studies have also found that movement such as walking helps to combat depression and improves overall mental health. The National Cancer Institute indicates that walking, among other activities, appears to reduce the risk of several types of cancer, including breast, colon, and esophageal. Walking also appears to diminish the incidence of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Suffice it to say, that there is significant evidence that walking is a worthwhile endeavor for supporting our overall well-being.
Where do wonder and merriment come into things, though? Are there reasons beyond physical health to squeeze a walk into your already-busy morning?
Encounter the wonderful world of nature
For many of us, a good portion of our day is spent in an office environment with little if any touches of nature. Our main physical interactions are with a keyboard and a plastic mouse. Going outside in the morning, we enter into fresh air, the musical chorus of birds, and an array of things to delight our senses.
Most of the year, my morning walk takes place shortly after dawn and can include the sunrise. Sometimes the moon lingers in the sky for a while after the dawn amidst blue skies and the occasional puffball of clouds. Seeing those orbs in the sky offers a reminder that my day is part of a global experience.
Being outside most mornings has also made me keenly aware of the amazing variety of birds and their fascinating interactions. We are likely to see (and hear) more birds in the morning since that's a popular mealtime for many species. I've seen hummingbirds spar, ravens interact so carefully it looks as though they might consult Robert's Rules of Order, and a squad of squawking parrots fly with zero semblance of a V formation. It's made me more attuned to how many different kinds of birds there are. In fact, the American Museum of Natural History estimates there are about 18,000 different species of birds in the world.
Birds aren't the only type of animal to see, of course. In my Southern California neighborhood, I've observed butterflies, colorful garden spiders, squirrels, and a few coyotes traipsing across the road before it gets too busy. Mornings appeal to wild rabbits, deer, and other prey creatures who are crepuscular, meaning most active at dawn and dusk. Much of the year, by the time we return home from work at night, those animals would be done with their evening meals and out of sight.
Walking outside, I also have a chance to see the trees and flowers go through their seasonal changes or—due to the warm climate where I live—sometimes their general confusion about which season it is. Those trees and flowers are not only stunning in their beauty, but also often splendidly fragrant.
Build your community
In addition to sparking our senses through the sky, flora, and fauna around us, a morning walk helps us to connect more with other humans.
If you haven't heard the bit of advice that if you want to meet people, get a dog, then you've heard it now. A dog is certainly one reliable icebreaker in talking to passersby as you walk around your area. But the dog doesn't have to be yours—many dog owners are happy to chat for a bit and let you pet their canine companions (but don't forget to ask permission before approaching and especially before touching anyone's animal!).
Really, you don't even need a pet as an excuse to say "hello" and ask how someone's doing, particularly when you've seen them repeatedly week after week. Walking around the same time in the same area means seeing the "regulars." That provides its own sense of comfort and familiarity. Meeting your neighbors engages you in your community.
Neighbors becoming more neighborly also means you can give or receive a helping hand. In my community, some people with fruit trees even leave out baskets of their excess "crop" for the taking. If there are any concerns in the neighborhood, talking with your fellow walkers can keep you better informed about things that may not be on the news but are still worthy of your time and attention. They could even be the serendipitous source of your next favorite restaurant, a little shop you didn't know existed, or inspiration for a new adventure!
Awaken your imagination
The news, social media platforms, emails, and more inundate us with information throughout our days. Ideally, a morning walk gives you time to focus on movement and experiencing the living world around you. (Though people do try it, walking while staring at a device can lead to some awkward collisions!)
Morning walks allow us to engage our curiosity and imagination by letting our brains meet the day before being overloaded by information. Plus, walking boosts our creativity, even if we do our walking inside rather than outdoors. If we start the day with a walk, our minds have a chance to process and create ideas rather than becoming bogged down by what other people and the media want to tell us.
Start the day off with a sense of accomplishment
Making time for a morning walk requires intentionality in getting up early enough and designating a time for it. My goal most mornings is to walk about 30 minutes. I give myself a lot of grace on this though. I may end up with only 15 or 20 minutes some days. This isn't about perfection. Simply trying to be consistent in taking those literal steps can make it a natural part of a morning routine. Plus, once we finish, we can begin the day knowing we've already accomplished something good for ourselves.
Finding walking buddies can make walks more fun and easier to maintain as part of a scheduled commitment. For families with young children, the idea of a family walk in the morning may make some laugh out loud. Perhaps you think this morning walk ritual is a luxury of life outside of the world of parenthood. However, many families in my area walk their kids to school. So that's one way they get in a regular brisk walk. People can also park several blocks away and walk the rest. (You gain the luxury of avoiding the drop-off line of cars this way!) Plus, the imagination boost mentioned above—and the opportunity to burn off some energy—provide a compelling reason for families with younger kids to try morning walks together as well. Whatever your state in life, a morning walk can both improve your health and bring some genuine merriment and fun into your day.


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Until Samsung has submitted the device for FCC certification for the Verizon Wireless network, it will not be available and no announcement regarding availability will be made. Samsung announced it was coming to Verizon Wireless. Samsung is the one who has to cancel it if it isn't going to be sold anymore.
I'm most definitely NOT a VZW employee. If a post answered your question, please mark it as the answer.
Originally you couldn't even get Samsung pay off the Google store. Verizon was promoting a different pay system and didn't want to compete with Samsung pay. Then after some weeks they allowed it to be downloaded. The other three carriers from the start allowed Samsung phones to come preloaded with Samsung pay. Just like Verizon was the only carrier to remove Samsung cloud from the Note 7 because they want us to use Verizon cloud
And why would Samsung cancel only with Verizon, the biggest in the US. Probably because verizon has conditions Samsung didn't agree with
Wow, I didn't know this. I have to agree with Samsung, especially since Verizon is allowing Apple to do the same thing. Apple has it own pay app, its own cloud and music so why not Samsung. I have both the android pay and Samsung pay apps on my phone, however I only use the Samsung app. I tried to use my Samsung Pay app in Walmart, I was told by the cashier I could not use it since Walmart has their own pay app.
Eventually, if this leads to Verizon banning all Samsung devices, I will be departing as well.
You can use Samsung Pay at any location, especially Walmart....I use it
there almost daily. Cashiers are uneducated when other comes to methods of
I'm pretty much done with Verizon. I have the LG V20 coming from the Note 7 disaster, and realized Verizon and only Verizon removed some features from this phone. The real shady feature they removed was something called smart wifi. What is for is of you forget to turn wifi on and you're at home, the phone will realize this and turn on wifi without me having to do anything. Verizon removed this because they hope people forget to turn there wifi on, in hopes for the user to burn up there data. Time for T mobile. Three phones in a row losing features the other carriers leave alone
Tired of waiting on Verizon and the lack of respect they have for their customers. Went to T-Mobile and bought the watch and will be moving our 4 lines to them soon as well.
It gives one pause to think what other applications are they short-changing us of in their desire to make an extra buck at the expense of their customers...
I gave up waiting for the LTE version. Mostly because it's been too long
and Amazon had same day shipping on the Bluetooth version. And I can't
really think of times I don't have my phone on me unless I'm walking the
dogs or on a short run and I don't see myself needing to make a call. So
the extra cost of the phone and the cost of adding a watch line monthly
isn't justified. It's a great watch so far. But I think the phone will last
less than 2 days of usage with always on, GPS, and moderate usage. I took
it off charger at 5am. It's 6pm (13 hrs) and it's at 50% already. However
this is the first charge down from 100 so I will need maybe a week to
really tell.
I would leave Verizon too - if ATT or T-Mobile offered anything but [Removed]
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Brock Lesnar will face Bill Goldberg on Nov. 20 at the 30th annual Survivor Series in Toronto, WWE announced Tuesday.
Godlberg will return to the ring for the first time since he beat Lesnar at Wrestlemania XX in 2004 in his final appearance with WWE. The possibility of a return grew from Goldberg's work promoting the WWE 2K17 video game over the summer.
Goldberg, 49, has said he wanted to return so his wife and son could see him wrestle and also because he wanted to be a role model for kids.
"The biggest thing I miss other than kicking ass is being a super hero for the kids all around the world. In this day and age, there aren't enough of us," he said during an appearance on RAW last week. "Going around the world promoting the video game gave me that opportunity. … I could see in their eyes that I was Goldberg. It gave me the opportunity to be that superhero along the way."
It's not clear when he will actually return.
The expectation is that this will be only one match. Goldberg alluded to that when he closed his RAW appearance with, "Brock Lesnar, not only does that mean that you're next, but most importantly, it means, Brock Lesnar, you're last."
Some have speculated that Lesnar wins at Survivor Series to set up a rubber match at Wrestlemania in Orlando next year, but that appears unlikely.
Goldberg is scheduled to appear on RAW on Monday to continue the buildup for the match.
The Survivor Series card is also expected to have three five-on-five elimination matches – RAW vs. Smackdown — one match for men, one match for women and one match for tag teams.


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Semi hits stopped car on I-94 at I-69; one person dead
MARSHALL - One person was killed in an early morning crash Friday on I-94 at the I-69 interchange.
Calhoun County Sheriff Department deputies reported the crash at 2:14 a.m. in the eastbound lanes of I-94 involving a car and a semi truck. The driver of the car, 59, from Vancouver, Wash. was killed in the crash just east of the exit ramp from I-94 to I-69.
The driver of the semi involved was not hurt.
The truck driver told deputies he was eastbound when he saw a car just ahead that was stopped in the highway. The truck was unable to stop and drove over the top of the car, dragging the wreckage into the median where both vehicles stopped.
The driver of the car was pronounced dead at the scene.
Names of drivers were not immediately released and the crash is being investigated by the department's Accident Reconstruction Division. Alcohol use is a suspected factor in the crash, deputies said.
I-94 at the interchange was closed in both directions but traffic each was was diverted onto the exit and entrance ramps and continued moving past the scene. The freeway reopened shortly before 7 a.m., the Michigan Department of Transportation reported.
The Marshall Township Fire Department assisted at the scene.
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The village of Capel Celyn and the Tryweryn valley near Bala were flooded in 1965 in order to supply water for the City of Liverpool. Eight hundred acres of land was flooded and the school, the post office, the chapel and the cemetery lost. This was to create the Llyn Celyn (Celyn lake) reservoir to supply Liverpools residents with water.
The Tryweryn Bill was passed by Parliament on 1 August 1957. it was a private measure, sponsored by Liverpool City Council and passed by Harold Macmillan's Conservative government, with the support of Henry Brooke, the Minister for Welsh Affairs. Compulsory purchase orders were made on land in order for the reservoir to be built. Although opposed by most of the Welsh Members of Parliament, they were powerless to stop the development because the government was determined to push the Bill through Parliament.
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I remember turning sixteen back in the early 1980s.
Sixteen. Wow. That was probably bigger than twenty-one or even thirty. Sixteen was, for us at the time the age of Independence. It was the age when we could start working, and start driving. Back then there were no "conditional" licenses or permits. On your sixteenth birthday you could go to DMV, take the test and walk out with your full license. I already had a car waiting for me – a 1974 Ford Pinto. It was so long ago the CT plates were still all numbers, no letters. My first plate was 686-696.
Yes, it was a Pinto, and it was ten years old when I got it but it was the first slice of real freedom I had. We lived far from town in a place where there was no public transportation. Once I got my license, on my birthday, I was off and running. I got my first job immediately.
I will never understand this thing where kids are turning eighteen and twenty years old and don't have a license and don't care about driving and definitely don't want jobs. I don't get this thing happening in our country now where people are like 40 years old and living in their parents basement, waiting for them to just die so they can get the house. At sixteen we wanted our licenses because it was Step One in the Great GET OUT Plan! It was a plan in which our parents participated, by the way. My parents had a saying, "Locks on the doors are to keep people out, not in!" License, car, job, OUT!
I went to Stop and Shop first. In Ridgefield, CT. They had JUST installed the first scanners at the registers. It was an exciting time. We had like three days of classes on how to bag groceries. They were paper bags. No plastic. You were supposed to build the foundation of the bag first, like with canned goods, but not too many because you didn't want the bag to rip. Then you were supposed to make walls, like with boxes of cereal or something. And then in the middle would go maybe a loaf of bread or something else that was squishable. I got through that and was put on a register. I was fast. Thanks to the scanner technology we could be timed on how fast we were processing items per order. I lasted about three months there and they fired my best friend so in some stupid show of solidarity I quit. I went across town to one of the other two grocery stores in town and got a job there.
The name of the store I went to next was Gran Central Market. It was a little smaller than Stop and Shop and didn't have scanners. There was were maybe four, maybe five registers. It also wasn't as…. how shall I say this…. clean as the first place. I'm not saying straight up that it was dirty or anything, just that one of the managers used to run around with a BB gun during the hours before opening and after closing and shoot at rats in the bread aisle. Once in a while. Not every day. But still.
There were several friends of mine who were working there, too; Meggie, Cathy, Chris, Linda, Diane… and I made friends quickly with Rob and Jeff specifically. OMG, Jeff. He was so cute. He was in college already and only worked on summer breaks but he melted my heart and gave me a case of the teenage screaming thigh sweats. We all got up to every sort of shenanigans possible – stealing smokes, writing in the peanutbutter (and then putting the lid back on), eating marachino cherries out of the jars and then putting them back on the shelf, and the managers let us buy beer as long as it was after hours. And boy did we take them up on that. I remember my pay was $1.63/hour. And that was pretty good for the time. At that age we weren't allowed to work 40 hours, but I usually got 30-35 hours a week.
There was one cashier who'd been there since the store was under its previous ownership. She was ancient as far as we were concerned and she was brutal. She used to yell at us non-stop. No matter what we did, she had a comment or a rebuke. She even got mad that we took breaks to go to the bathroom. She never left her register. One day she made a comment to us about Depends and we then realized that at any given moment she might be standing at the register, checking out an order and peeing at the same time.
Robert Vaughn lived in town. Everyone in town has a Robert Vaughn story. He used to come into the store on Sunday mornings in his shiny silver jogging suit. He'd get a newspaper and one or two other small items, and then linger around the front area of the store by the registers until someone – anyone recognized him. Sometimes when it was slow in the store Cathy and I would take turns saying, "Oh, wow, you're Robert Vaughn!" just so he'd check out and leave.
It seems like the world made more sense back then. We were independent kids with lots of energy and drive. We wanted things and we went out and got them. We pulled our pants up. We didn't wear pajamas to the store. We didn't have so much childhood obesity and juvenile diabetes just wasn't a thing. What happened? Is it really that generation that's raising kids who will never leave home?
I miss my Pinto.
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The Ramayana is an ancient Sanskrit tale considered one of the major texts of the Hindu religion. It is believed to have been written between 500 and 100 BCE, and is attributed to a revered Hindu sage, Valmiki. The Ramayana is the story of Prince Rama, whose wife, Sita, is kidnapped by a ten-headed evil king, Ravana.The main plot of the Ramayana involves the life of Prince Rama and his attempts to retrieve his kidnapped wife. Rama is the favored son of a king, but is the victim of an evil plot by one of the king's wives and is forced to go into exile for fourteen years. His wife, Sita, and brother, Lakshmana, go into exile with him.
Sita is kidnapped through the deceptions of Ravana, a king who wishes to have her as his wife. Ravana tempts Rama away from their home by having a demon disguise himself as a beautiful golden deer. Rama becomes spellbound and hunts the deer, leaving Lakshmana to tend to Sita. Ravana convinces Lakshmana with an illusion that Rama is in dire trouble. Despite the additional protection of Jatayu, an enormous vulture loyal to Rama, Ravana steals Sita away and returns to his kingdom of Lanka.


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It never got easier
The way obedience usually does,
It gets heavier each year.
I was here in the beginning:
The territory is changeless.
Wasn't I submissive
When the pastor said my mom
Got beaten because she wasn't?
If she weren't a contentious woman
He wouldn't have to raise his hand.
Didn't I understand?
When my pastor wouldn't talk to me
Because my gender forced sexuality
Just like my abusers proclaimed
I didn't complain.
When I discovered he'd known, for years,
What they did to me in the dark,
But fearing speaking to me
He just let it be.
Then, when I finally took his advice
Found a nice boy; surrendered to yoke
He broke the plan; he broke my heart
He wouldn't even witness the vow.
I was never really included then;
Nothing's different now.
I submit to the pastor
My husband picked out
He preached Jezebel was hiding
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The ESPN Sunday Night Baseball team, featuring analyst and World Series Champion Alex Rodriguez and play-by-play commentator Matt Vasgersian, along with Mark Gross, ESPN senior vice president of production and remote events, answered questions Thursday ahead of the 2020 Major League Baseball season.
Rodriguez, Vasgersian and ESPN Senior MLB Insider Buster Olney will provide commentary for three national MLB games in four days to start the season:
- MLB Opening Night presented by John Deere: New York Yankees at defending World Series Champion Washington Nationals on Thursday, July 23, at 7 p.m. ET;
- MLB Opening Day presented by John Deere: Milwaukee Brewers at Chicago Cubs on Friday, July 24, at 7 p.m. ET;
- Sunday Night Baseball presented by Taco Bell: San Francisco Giants at Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday, July 26, at 10 p.m. ET.
For the full ESPN season-opening and Sunday Night Baseball schedules, visit ESPN Press Room.
An audio replay of the call is available here.
MARK GROSS: Thanks everybody for calling in, and I think off the top, we're excited. We're excited to get the season started.
We've had Major League Baseball on ESPN, as you heard Ben say, for a long time and we are just excited to get going and we feel really good about kind of the system we have in place, the plan we have in place, and also feel great about the schedule coming out of the gate with seven games over the course of next Thursday through next Sunday.
The basics of how this is going to work for Sunday night is Matt and Alex will both call the games from our studio in Bristol, so you will see them on camera periodically like you would see them periodically on camera from a booth. For Sunday Night Baseball, we will be taking multiple camera feeds from the stadium.
So, for Thursday night's case, from Washington, and then from Los Angeles, we will bring all of those cameras into a control room in Bristol on campus, and we will produce and direct the game, Jeff Dufine will produce and Jeff Evers will direct the game utilizing those cameras coming into the control room in Bristol. All of the graphics will come from Bristol. K-Zone will come from Bristol. Replays will come from Bristol, and obviously like I said, Matt and Alex will be in Bristol.
At this point, it looks like Buster will be at the game in Washington. He will drive to the game, and we are still kind of sorting out what that means and kind of what that looks like.
Since these are national names on July 23, Dodgers/Giants follows Yankees/Nationals, we will repeat that with Karl Ravech, Eduardo Perez and I believe Tim Kurkjian will do that same thing for the Dodgers/Giants game.
The next day, July 24, we have three non-exclusive games, so they co-exist in the local markets, and the way they work, on weeknights and those games, those three games on July 24, the home team RSN will essentially produce a clean feed. We will augment it with a couple cameras, K-Zone, etc., and the bells and whistles, and we will call those games from Bristol. So, Karl will be in Bristol or Jon Sciambi would be in Bristol and the analysts would be at home.
So, it's a little bit of a variation on how we do KBO, the Korean baseball games, where everybody is home. The play-by-play people this season in Bristol; analysts during the week at home; and on Sundays, Matt in Bristol, Alex in Bristol, Buster either at the game, Bristol, home — still working through what that's going to look like. But those are the basics.
The other area that I'll touch on and then I'll get out of the way, audio, which is seemingly a popular topic. Right now, it looks like all of the stadiums will have crowd noise, will have their organists, potentially their PA announcer, etc.
So, we welcome that honestly, and what we've learned in KBO is a little bit of crowd noise certainly goes a long way when it comes to Major League Baseball, or when it comes to KBO, and I think when it comes to Major League Baseball games.
So, we are not looking to fool anybody. We realize there's no fans there, but by having a little crowd nat sound below the announcers just seems to make it work and doesn't sound quite so hollow when we are doing the games.
So, we look forward to it. We think it's the right call for Major League Baseball and the teams, and we certainly will take part in it when you hear what is taking place at the stadium just like you normally would if there were fans there.
That's what I have, and I'll get out of the way and take questions if there are any.
Q: How strange will this be broadcasting games from Bristol rather than being — talking to managers and players before the games at the cage and missing that interaction?
ALEX RODRIGUEZ: I think there will be some cons and some good pros from a preparation point of view being in Bristol, being in the same building with Jeff, kind of having home-field advantage — I never thought I would call Bristol home-field advantage, but here we go, 2020.
As far as the thing I'm going to miss the most is just kind of chitchatting with the players. Having kind of have some of the off-the-record conversations about what's going on with their health, what's going on with — in their lives, and all that have is kind of a kinetic issue to perform and what's going on. Some things, 90 percent of that stuff you don't use on the air, but it kind of gives you color and it helps you round out the telecast as you are well informed.
MATT VASGERSIAN: I agree with everything Alex said. I would also add this — I'm not sure if on this day, what would be weirder: Calling a game from the studio or calling a game from a completely empty ballpark. Because I know a lot of regional guys who have been calling the intrasquad scrimmages for their rights-holders and each of them has said the same thing; that it's just so strange to call a game with nobody there, and I think the impulse, you'd have to fight that impulse that it doesn't matter as much if you were at the ballpark.
We are in a studio. We are removed from the strangeness of the atmosphere. We have our own strangeness to deal with being in a completely different location. But for any of us who have worked off of a world feed before, you just have to adapt and to echo what Mark said earlier, I'm looking forward to seeing how this goes. I can't wait to get going next week.
Q: What intrigues you about trying to purchase the Mets, and would it be viable without a share of SNY and is there any worry that club revenues are going to be unreasonably depressed because of the pandemic for the next few years?
ALEX RODRIGUEZ: Thanks for the question. I have limitations on what I can talk about the Mets. I could answer the last part of your question, which I think the challenges in baseball I think will be universal, right, not only with baseball, with all of sport and a lot of businesses being disrupted all over the place.
But I do think that with a crisis comes an opportunity, and I think the opportunity for us and the game of baseball is to lean into the forward-thinking that other leagues have adapted quicker than us. I think this gives us an opportunity in 60 games with a sprint, not a marathon, that everything counts, I guess around 2.5.
And with that, full access to more clubhouses, making sure that everyone is healthy, batting cages, full access to batting practice and in games, if someone, we were watching MLB Network, we were watching Matty yesterday with Harold and Ripken, that's where my life has gone to now, I watch Major League Baseball nine hours a day, and you had Christian Yelich on, and had a few strikeouts or whatever, but my daughters were sitting kind of watching and said, oh, my God, that guy is really cool, and now they both follow him on social media.
Again, I heard Ripken say, "Well, he struck out; he won't do it again." I think we're missing the point. Entertainment, there's the business of entertainment, it's not just baseball or sports, and I think the more we broaden our breadth, the more we are going to take this game in revenues from ten to 15 to 20 billion and we are going to do it by collaborating and by everybody being on the same page and thinking big picture.
Q: Are you worried about the prospect of a lockout and a lengthy work stoppage in 2022, that if you get involved in the management side? There is a lot of downside risk.
ALEX RODRIGUEZ: Downside protection is always the most important part of investing in anything.
What I will tell you is that I was there for 1994 when we walked away, I believe it was August 12, we were in Oakland. I was a young lad, 18 years old or so, Griffey I think hit his 40th home run that day. But understanding that the leverage of the players in 1994 was totally different than today.
Today — then, we had a strangle hold on professional sports, baseball was one. Today, the NBA has become an international conglomerate. NFL is a juggernaut. Back then there was no Netflix. There was no SnapChat. There was though Disney+, ESPN+ and everything in between to attract your attention.
So today, we have to really work collaborative with the players and the owners to say, how do we compete together to become No. 1? The only way it going to happen is they get to the table and say the number one goal is let's get from 10 to 15 billion dollars and maybe we split the economics evenly.
So that's the type of the conversation, instead of fighting and fighting against each other because there's too much competition out there right now.
Q: Mark, I wanted to know if you had conversations with Alex or other ESPN executives about Alex calling Mets games, and was there any discussion to not assign Alex any Mets games, given that he is at the moment interested in being part of the ownership of that team.
MARK GROSS: Yes, we have talked about it, and right now we are getting out of the gate — July 26, the first Sunday Night game we have Braves/Mets. Chipper Jones will do the Braves/Mets game and Alex and Matt will do the Dodgers/Giants game.
Q: As a quick follow, would it be your plan or intention to not have Alex joining that game this season?
MARK GROSS: Yeah, I think we'll do it case-by-case. The way we are getting out of the gate, right now, honestly that's the only Mets game on the Sunday Night schedule as it stands now unless something were to change.
Right now, I think we would certainly shy away from having Alex do a Mets game just so we don't put him in a bad position, put the Mets in a bad position. Certainly, don't want to put Alex or Matt in a difficult position given what's going on.
Q: Can you elaborate on the crowd noise and what's appropriate — what you think fans do want and to what level — what are boundaries of what you should and shouldn't put on during this kind of situation?
MARK GROSS: I think it has to do with the level of the audio. So, it won't be overpowering in the stadiums with the natural crowd noise but I think it will be just enough — you know, when they are clicking around to different games or different shows on TV, it doesn't sound like a hollow, big 40,000, 50,000 seat baseball stadium. It just rounds out the coverage and is part of the overall mix between the announcers; if the stadium has the organist, the stadium has PA announcer, they have some of the different audio chimes, charge and whatever else it might have. I think it just rounds it out instead of it being hollow, and that's what we've learned with KBO. When we haven't had feed issues or crowd audio, it sounds hollow. You sneak in just enough crowd audio for the baseball games, it's much less hollow. It's more authentic than I thought it would be, and I think the initial fear is it would not be authentic. But it's worked out well and I think again, it makes for a better viewing experience.
MATT VASGERSIAN: I've expressed this on a number of different platforms. What my fear was is that whatever crowd noise was going to be supplied either by the broadcast or by the host facility was going to obscure the opportunity we have to get some really transparent authentic sound off the field, the likes of which we have never before gotten because it's going to be crystal clear.
We're going to be able to hear middle infielders talking to each other and we're going to be able to hear guys on the bench as that extra coach, if you will, when a guy about to break on a stolen base attempt.
In my conversations with Mark and with Phil Orlins, our coordinating producer and with Jeff Dufine, our producer, the audio sweet spot that they found in their KBO experiments sounds like it's the perfect balance to still allow us to capture some of that and still make the viewing experience feel right at home.
The audio part of this and Mark touched on it earlier is getting a lot of conversation, and that's one of the things that I just absolutely can't wait for. I can't wait to hear what we hear. Nobody involved in broadcasting baseball wants for compromised strategy.
We are not looking to pry into the playbook so to speak, but we do want to hear things that maybe we wouldn't have heard ordinarily, and I'm looking for the positives in this weird year of ours and that for me is one of them.
Q: What has Major League Baseball told you about specifically what kinds of sounds they are supplying? Are there going to be individual and chants for each team and stadium? What's your understanding there?
MARK GROSS: The understanding now is that the individual stadiums would have at least, call it the crowd noise. Beyond that, I don't know specifics, but I know one team that I've spoken to, they are going to have the organist, they are going to have PA announcer, so on and so forth, but I don't know about if that's every team. I think it's going to be a good audio experience from everything we are being told.
MATT VASGERSIAN: I was just going to add, it's my understanding, as well, that clubs do have a bit of license on this, and I know that the Brewers a couple nights ago in their experimentation, and they were running a full pallet of audio effects over their scoreboard system during one of intrasquad scrimmages, they were treating players to boo sounds, as well. They were experimenting with — it's not just going to be win-one-for-the-gipper type stuff. They are experimenting with a lot of different things.
Q: Will the Tomahawk Chop chant be heard on these broadcasts?
MATT VASGERSIAN: I don't know. I don't have a sense for that. I know the last thing the Braves said was that they are kind of reviewing that part of their fan experience. So, I'm not sure if that means it's going to appear or not.
Q: It sounds like it's up to individual clubs; is that correct?
MATT VASGERSIAN: That's my understanding, yeah.
Q: As far as the crowd noise and everything that the teams are using, if you were a player, would you welcome that for a little bit of buzz noise in the background instead of it being completely quiet so — I mean, I know Joe Maddon said that his fear was they hear from the dugout the announcers calling the games or strategy and stuff being picked up by mics during games.
ALEX RODRIGUEZ: I'll have conflicting answers here because as a player I would want some type of sound, just kind of the white noise that as a player, playing for almost 25 years, just get used to.
As a fan, I'm going to echo what Matt said. I think the sounds of the game of baseball are so unique, are so cool, have never really been heard. I've always thought that, you know, Major League Baseball Hard Knocks would be so enticing because they are so reflective of what happens in our everyday life. It's not just once a week. It's seven days a week.
From a fan perspective, I would love to hear the great sounds of — remember Nolan Ryan — Justin Verlander, Gerrit Cole, the popping of the mitt. We are going to have an opening day with both guys going to be rushing it up there about 100 miles an hour, and you only hear that sound in Arizona or in Florida in February, March, in the early morning on the backfield. You know, the crack of the wood. There's so much trash-talking that goes in those dugouts. If you actually lower the volume and hear the players, I mean, there could be fights every day, but we can't fight because of social distancing.
All of it in between, even coaches telling you, get off, get off, or play-by-plays, I think this could be a really big opportunity to hear the players. Again, the more we can reveal of the players and what kind of people they are and you hear the voice, you may get intrigued to learn more about them.
Q: For a 60-game season, do you treat it like it is August 1 in a pennant race and every game means something?
ALEX RODRIGUEZ: Yeah, I think you treat it as a regular season, 60 games left and you're tied for first place and you're ready to go and every game is important.
If you think about it, if you're off to a 6-10 start in a long season, it may not mean anything, but in a short season, you've got to be careful not to, you know, dig too much of a hole.
Q: This is a time of increased tension between ownership and the Players Union after what we've been through with negotiations in the last couple months. Do you feel like you can comment genuinely on that dynamic as you are trying to join one of those groups as an owner?
ALEX RODRIGUEZ: Yeah, I think I can because my goal as a fan first is to grow the game and make it more popular. One thing that people forget is we have 13 million young kids and girls play baseball and softball just four years ago, today that's up to 16 million and that's better than football and basketball. It's still America's sport. We just have to be able to capture teenagers and keep them captive.
My goal is the same as Mark or Ben or Matt or Buster. We want to grow the game and be spokesmen for the game of baseball and again the conversation should be more about growing the pie, not which percentage of a smaller pie am I going to take; I think is the wrong fight and we'll put our energy in the wrong places.
Q: Most analysts project the Rockies will finish in the bottom half of their division but in a 60-game season, do you see Colorado as one of the teams now with a better opportunity for a surprise run at the playoffs and what must happen for the Rockies to do it?
MATT VASGERSIAN: I am about as big a Buddy Black fan as there is among anybody on the planet, and I have the utmost faith in his kind of style and leadership.
I also think, the crux of your question, yes. The Rockies are a live dog, as they would say on a poker table, and, in fact, every team that maybe found themselves in the gray entering spring training part one, and I put the Rockies in that category, they are not a complete rebuild the way say the Marlins or the Tigers would be classified. But they were not viewed as a slam dunk for post-season, either. Certainly not contending with the seven-time champs, the Dodgers.
So, teams like Colorado, San Diego, Cincinnati, the Indians in the American League, we could probably identify a good handful of them with the Rockies at the top of the list. With a 60-game schedule as Alex said perfectly a moment ago, you are tied for first place on August 1 with 60 to go.
What needs to happen there, I think it's pretty clear for a lot of people that watch a lot of baseball; that the pitching component is what's failed the Rockies the past couple years, which a lot of people thought that they had taken a step forward in that department, and then there were some rather mysterious regressions on the roster.
I think if they pitch; getting in and out of Denver, the climate adjustment, the altitude adjustment, their biggest challenge always. If they can pitch and they can catch fire, maybe the way they did the end of 2007 season, I don't know if they will win 20 out of 22 again, but yeah, why not? The Rockies are a live dog for me.
ALEX RODRIGUEZ: I agree with everything Matt said. The other part is that the Rockies went 31-29 the first 60 games last year. They still have Arenado, Blackmon and Trevor Story, and the thing to think about as a player, I always found it incredibly challenging, especially in the middle of the hot summer, to go there as a visitor.
So, starting the time we are starting now, I think they have the unique opportunity to even improve on their record from last year. So, they could be very dangerous.
Q: I'm not sure if this is a stadium-by-stadium call or if this is ESPN's call, but I was curious if you'll go forward with the idea of putting virtual advertising in some of the empty seats in the outfield?
MARK GROSS: As we sit here today, there is plans to have some virtual advertising, not necessarily in the seats, but I would say at this point, it's comparable to what we've done regularly on a Sunday Night game.
Q: Can you give a little more guidance about that? That's a little vague.
MARK GROSS: Still working through the mechanics of how it would work.
Q: Let me throw in a bonus one then. Are you going to expand satellite delays just in case Alex was saying, you might get some trash talk, etc., etc., is there going to be more of a delay with the feed to make sure the audio is clean?
MARK GROSS: The honest answer is, don't know yet. Again on that one, still working through it. Again, a lot of these things are all new and fluid, so what we decide one day seemingly changes the next.
So, I'm not trying to avoid the answer, but it's a good question, which we just don't have a firm answer yet. So, I don't want to tell you something and then something else happens on Thursday.
Q: Are you saying whatever crowd noise is in the broadcast will be generated by the home ballpark and their sound system, not manufactures by Bristol or ESPN or your crew?
MARK GROSS: Exactly. So, the audio you'll hear on your game, if we're doing a Nationals/Yankees game, the audio you'll hear as far as the crowd noise you will hear out in the stadium, and thus you would hear that at home just like you normally would.
We, ESPN, are not padding or sweetening anything from Bristol. We are just taking everything in from the stadium.
Q: You mentioned the KBO broadcast and learning to adjust for the crowd noise and stuff, but I was curious, what else have you learned from hearing those remote broadcasts and are there any logistic things you took away from that that you are maybe anticipating could be a potential challenge in pulling off these remote broadcasts?
MARK GROSS: What we have learned is technology is your best friend. If somebody had said we with were going to have a play-by-play announcer in Connecticut; an analyst in Florida, and a guest from another country and a game coming from Korea, I would be — I had no idea what this is going to look or sound like. But it worked out really well.
So, we have never done games from people's homes until a few months ago. So, I would say we've learned the technology is out there and we have learned that things are changing, and will continue to change as far as when it comes to TV production. I think everybody is realizing that just because you did it one way for X number of years, doesn't mean you have to do it the same way.
And for us, the goal is always to make sure there's no negative impact on the product for people watching at home. People, I don't think viewers at home, they are not interested in what's taking place behind the scenes. They are interested in who is winning the game, why are they winning the game, what game is coming up next, etc.
Technology has been our best friend, and keeping an open mind to everything across the board has also been our best friend. If somebody told me that Matt and Alex would come see me every Sunday night for Sunday Night Baseball, and I wouldn't have to go see them, I would sign up for that. That's what's going on.
Q: Is there anything that you've learned as you've prepped from talking to people who have been on those broadcasts regularly in terms of do's and don't's or helpful tips or anything you're preparing for?
MATT VASGERSIAN: Yeah, I've spoken with Boog Sciambi about it and he has said — try to rally for the biggest possible monitors they will give you; that's a work-in-progress. I'm looking for jumbo screens, and always be ready for last-minute changes because when you're not there, physically at the ballpark, the chain of command is completely different, and if there's a lineup substitution, you don't have the usual resources that you would ordinarily have at your disposal to sniff that out. We won't be able to run next door to the home radio booth to ask a guy who was much more familiar with each roster than we would be as national presenters, what that lineup change is; or to run to the official scorer or to send somebody downstairs to the clubhouse. We don't have that.
We are subject to whatever sound and images are being shown to us in the studio. So, to stay kind of — stay glib, I guess. Stay agile, would be the suggestion that I have.
Q: Just overall, sport is often used as sort of a distraction from people's lives, which is kind of — how do you view that this year, especially in broadcast, it's going to be weird. People are going to see a lot of empty seats and cardboard cut-outs of fans and a lot of people wearing face masks?
ALEX RODRIGUEZ: To answer your question, the abnormal has become the normal. I think in many ways, bringing baseball and being kind of the first sport to move is an incredible advantage. I think the 23rd presents an incredible job opportunity to reintroduce the game of baseball, and it will be a period of adjustment. I said to a few of my friends that they should make up an award for the trainers, doctors and medical staff, the MVPs, because whoever keeps the players healthiest can win the championship.
But it's a year of adjustments, and I think baseball becomes the comfort food that Americans and people in this country want right now, and I think will provide good entertainment and bring great value to people through the sport of baseball.
MATT VASGERSIAN: I would also add that baseball viewership as escapism isn't such that we are going to try to take fans into Never Never Land and make believe that none of this existed. The pictures people see of empty ballparks and people wearing masks beg for explanation. Unfortunately, we are not going to be able to transform them into their happy place of viewership and make them forget about what's happening in the world.
I plan on embracing it, because my optimism borders on considering me a Pollyanna because I don't think we are going to have to deal with this in multiple seasons. At least I hope not.
So, let's embrace the uniqueness of it and give an accurate presentation of the experience for the players and with the hopes that it never has to go this way again.
Q: Curious if you can expand about ESPN's role in determining, fine-tuning implementing the fan noise, and during the game will you have communication with those teams' stadium operators about how it's coming out?
MARK GROSS: Again, work-in-progress and I think everybody realizes that. So, we have a great relationship obviously with Major League Baseball and the teams, so we will be in contact with the teams. Easy enough for us to do that from Bristol.
And you know, how is it sounding? I think we'll know pretty quick after a couple innings how this is all working. If it's not working or if it's too hot, then obviously we can be communicating that to the stadium.
But I don't think it's going to be a problem. I think — I think it's going to sound like a baseball game, and I think when you're clicking around, watching a game, it's going to sound like a game, but enhanced — in some cases like Matt said earlier, by some of the things taking place that you may hear that you don't normally hear.
Again, going in with the positive, optimistic route that this will be really good and we will learn from this as we go through it.
Q: Some of the players have opted out of the season, big names, Buster Posey specifically. What were some of your thoughts when you heard some players making this decision?
ALEX RODRIGUEZ: I 100 percent support them. I do as a fan of baseball and a broadcaster of ESPN, also, and if they were my teammates; I think health and family is most important here and I think we should all be supportive to those kinds of decisions.
Q: Curious what the experience was calling games remotely, and for Mark, did you make these guys practice for it?
MATT VASGERSIAN: Yes, I've had some experience calling games remotely when I was working in San Diego as a Padres play-by-play guy for their TV package, they did an exhibition series in Beijing, China and they didn't send the broadcasters. We called that off too from the studio. I've been a part of a number of Olympics years with NBC Sports and did a lot of that work off-tube remotely, as well.
As I said earlier, you have to embrace it. You have to understand that you don't have the usual channels that you're used to for getting your information. You are kind of on the monitor. And when sports TV is working at a high level, there's this kind of triangle of creative thought that's all working in simpatico, producer, director, booth; meaning, play-by-play and analysts.
And when somebody goes someplace, the other part of the triangle supports it. The other part of the triangle might lead the other two corners into a direction, but everybody is kind of going in the same way.
You don't necessarily have that when you're working off-tube. We are fortunate with Sunday Night Baseball that we will have our own group working together. We are not limited from a pure world-feed standpoint. From that end, it should be easy for us, and my experiences have been positive in the past working this way.
Even though Alex and I haven't rehearsed this way, he's comfortable enough in the studio to where I think we can hit the ground running on Thursday night.
ALEX RODRIGUEZ: For me, having Buster on location, the possibility of having him there, we'll have some type of connection to the building, the weather, how people are feeling, kind of the temperature in the building. That's one thing.
I think one of the things you're always cognizant of, people always say, don't forget how hard the game is once you get to the booth. I think that becomes even more of a challenge for Matt and I the further we remove ourselves from this great game, the easier it looks — because the talent is so supreme on the field, it's important for us to remember how difficult the game is, and that's an important thing.
MARK GROSS: We will not be — there are no scheduled rehearsals like Matt had said. Matt and Alex being in the studio, sitting next to each other, we've got some big monitors for Matt, hundred-inch monitors — just kidding — they will be fine.
In some cases, again, going the optimistic route, there's going to be less distractions. You're in a studio with four walls, comfortable chairs, perfectly air-conditioned. We don't anticipate any problems with these guys calling a game from Bristol, Connecticut.
Q: This is a work-in-progress, but has there been any discussions about fan integration whether virtual or via video conferencing? And because it's such a unique time, do you have some leeway in asking the RSNs and networks for camera shots or do you just have to deal with what you're given?
MARK GROSS: To answer your second question, we are simply utilizing the crew's camera people, and the cases you're talking about, we are utilizing the camera folks who work for the home team RSN. I don't know specifically who they are. I am going to assume they are local hires, but it is not our standard Sunday Night crew on the road. Like Matt just alluded to – Jeff Dufine is Bristol-based and he's the Sunday Night Baseball producer, he will be producing Sunday Night Baseball just from Bristol.
Q: Any discussion about integrating fans with Zoom or video conferencing?
MARK GROSS: The only conversations we've had is watching what the teams do right now as far as the cardboard cutouts with the fans; right now, we don't have plans today, anything can change, to have multiple fans from one team the watching the game with us.
But again, anything can change, and anything can change, certainly, between now and next Thursday, and anything can change week-to-week.


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Novell debuted a public test of the wireless version of GroupWise today using AT&T PocketNet service, which lets people obtain information from corporate databases and email from the screen of their wireless phones.
The new venture will deliver GroupWise messaging, calendaring and workflow information through AT&T's PocketNet service, the company said.
The new product is being demonstrated this week at Novell's BrainShare user conference.
The move is the latest effort by Novell to add some flash to its GroupWise product line. Novell has been waging a losing battle against Lotus and Microsoft in the groupware market and hopes such partnerships will help boost its position.
Existing GroupWise 5.5 Enhancement Pack customers can get wireless access to GroupWise through AT&T PocketNet service by going to Novell's Web site and downloading the free public beta of GroupWise Wireless Access, which will be available after April 3.
AT&T PocketNet service provides users with flat-rate pricing using the AT&T Wireless IP (Internet Protocol) network and the new Mitsubishi MobileAccess T250 wireless Internet phone for a monthly rate of $14.99.
Separately, Novell said it plans to soon launch versions of GroupWise for Sun Microsystems' Solaris operating system and Linux.


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