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West African economies are largely dominated by informal commerce and agriculture. Migrant workers on the continent are often found in settings characterized by low incomes and wages; a lack of social protection; precarious jobs and workplaces; abysmal working conditions; and low-skill portfolios.
While youth employment policies, rural development and the improvement of economies in countries of origin are needed, in the short term they are not sufficient to reduce young West Africans' desire to migrate in search of opportunities beyond the region.
Although an estimated 52.6 per cent of African migrants relocate within the continent itself, more must be done to harness the potential benefits of labour mobility and to regulate it, ensuring better protection for migrant workers. Large numbers of migrants from West Africa, including Niger, move to North Africa seasonally for work purposes and this trend has been quite consistent over the years. Nigeriens move there because they know there are jobs to be filled and they have no intention of going to Europe. However, in the absence of organized labour migration schemes, many of these migrants can face challenges including exploitation and suffering, linked to the absence of legal status at destination.
The response is often to assist them when they decide to return to their countries of origin, but just returning migrants to their homeplaces does not represent a viable option for countries of destination — which need these workers to grow their economies — or for the economies in countries of origin.
Each migration-prone area has its own specificities and deserves a unique and tailored response rather than broad solutions. Countries could gain a lot today by designing schemes, bilaterally or regionally, for youth to legally take on jobs in foreign countries to fill labour market needs while enjoying protection and access to basic services, is a much more viable option. In doing so, these countries would also give young people the chance to expand their opportunities, economically, socially and culturally, as living and working abroad will expose them to new challenges, and new ways of "doing" and "learning".
Bilateral labour agreements (BLAs) can also be great tools for ensuring that migratory flows remain orderly, within specific sectors where labour needs have been identified. BLAs can include specific provisions for the protection of migrant workers at destination. However, recent research (Joint Labour Migration Programme, 2017) shows that BLAs on the African continent and international standards are not aligned, especially with respect to the adequacy of social protection available to migrant workers. Strengthening the governments ability to effectively negotiate BLAs would go a long way to address this gaps.
The establishment of more legal channels for migration, including labour migration programmes, would probably reduce irregular migration flows in the long-term. Equally, legal and orderly migration channels would also ensure a safe and legal return process for those who are choose to come back home.
In December 2016 the European Union, several African Member States and IOM, the UN Migration Agency, launched the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration. It helps returning migrants restart their lives in their countries of origin through an integrated approach that supports both migrants and their communities, contributes to local development and mitigates some of the drivers of irregular migration.
IOM, in collaboration with the African Union and the International Labour Organization, is also implementing a Joint Labour Migration Programme to promote safe and orderly labour migration within and from Africa. Specifically, the programme focuses on building the capacity of East and West African governments to develop and implement bilateral, multilateral labour mobility and social security arrangements — in order to provide promote legal migration channels while allowing adequate protection to migrant workers. It is important to remind us all that migration is not a problem to be eradicated but an opportunity to be well managed. Opening up legal migration channels, along with other protection and security measures, contribute to seize that opportunity.
The article was written by Claudia Natali, Labour mobility and Human development, Regional thematic Specialist, RO Dakar.


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Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Association of Bankers, John Awuah has stated that his outfit is in discussions with other stakeholders that will lead to the implementation of a parallel system that will see banks accept the new National ID cards in addition to a number of other ID cards for financial transactions.
"The National Identification card is coming on stream and in the background, we are working with the National Identification Authority and the third party provider of that system to ensure that we can have a parallel system where over the coming weeks, you will hear that you can go to a bank with your National ID card, and you can be positively identified".
"Once that comes on stream and the parallel phase runs out, by the law that set up the National Identification System, that becomes the primary form of identifying customers for banking transactions and then as banks, you will have no choice but to comply".
John Awuah further reiterated that discussions are still ongoing to ensure that the new voter's ID card becomes part of the ID cards accepted by banks for financial transactions even as government works towards implementing the use of the national ID cards.
"The point is that, the voter's ID cards is one of the many cards accepted by banks for financial transactions. Unfortunately, since we came up with new cards, the third party that has a relationship with the Electoral Commission to have that database refreshed or updated so that banks could positively identify customers who produce voters ID cards for banking transmissions, that kind of discussion has not been concluded".
"It is sad that as banks we do not have a say in that discussion because we are not a party to that deliberation. The message I want customers to know is that, if you go to a bank and your voter's ID card is not accepted, it is not because the bank doesn't want to accept it but because the bank has no mechanism for authenticating the new voter's ID cards. Can you imagine if somebody presents a card to conduct a transaction and then on the flip side you find that the card is a duplicate or something else, we don't want to be in such a situation? We do these things to protect our customers, and we hope that they will bear with us during this time where we are going through the process of integrating the new voter's ID card into our operations for identifying customers".
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DR Congo prisoners in mass jailbreak
DR Congo's prisons are often overcrowded and living conditions for inmates are poor
At least 250 prisoners in the Democratic Republic of Congo have escaped in a mass jailbreak at dawn in Bukavu, an official has told the BBC.
Three people died, including a guard who was overpowered as the prisoners made their escape, the official in the South Kivu governor's office said.
Police are patrolling Bukavu, which is built on the shores of Lake Kivu in eastern DR Congo, looking for them.
A resident told the BBC that people were hiding in their homes terrified.
The BBC's DR Congo correspondent Maud Jullien says jailbreaks are fairly common in DR Congo – at least 240 prisoners escaped in another eastern town less than a year ago.
A police officer told the AFP news agency that prison wardens were overcome by the inmates who "took weapons and managed to open the prison door".
Residents say gunfire rang out in the early morning across the city.
Civil society activists say the number of escapees could be higher as more than 1,500 inmates were inside at the time and officials estimate 80% of the prisoners escaped.
DR Congo's prisons are often overcrowded and living conditions for inmates are poor.
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The word Ides comes from the Latin word "Idus" and means "half division" especially in relation to a month. It is a word that was used widely in the Roman calendar indicating the approximate day that was the middle of the month. In the months of March, May, July and October it falls on the fifteenth, and it falls on the thirteenth for the rest of the months of the year.
The most notorious of all Ides is the Ides of March which marked the day Julius Caesar was assassinated. Before then the Romans considered Ides as just another day in the middle of the month but in 44 B.C. the assassination of Julius Caesar changed its simple meaning for the Romans.
St. Ides is also the name of a malt liquor and as an acronym IDES stands for either Integrated Data Environments or Internet Demonstration and Evaluation System.
In the Roman calendar: The 15th of March or May or July or October or the 13th of any other month. Familiarity information: IDES used as a noun is very rare.
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Transhuman intelligences have deployed icebreakers to accelerate your enslavement.
$1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Toyko latency by 60ms
Starting this summer, a convoy of ice breakers and specially-adapted polar ice-rated cable laying ships will begin to lay the first ever trans-Arctic Ocean submarine fiber optic cables. [...] All three cables will connect the United Kingdom to Japan. The completed cables are estimated to cost between $600 million and $1.5 billion each.
All three cables are being laid for the same reasons: Redundancy and speed. As it stands, it takes roughly 230 milliseconds for a packet to go from London to Tokyo; the new cables will reduce this by 30% to 170ms.
And this is what we call "burying the lead":
The massive drop in latency is expected to supercharge algorithmic stock market trading, where a difference of a few milliseconds can gain (or lose) millions of dollars. It is for this reason that a new cable is currently being laid between the UK and US ----" it will cost $300 million and shave "just" six milliseconds off the fastest link currently available.
And this is what we call "some bullshit the PR flack could barely say with a straight face":
The lower latency will also be a boon to other technologies that hinge heavily on the internet, such as telemedicine (and teleconferencing) and education.
Because, you know, in some fantasy world, "telemedicine" is something that exists, and "education" is something that could mobilize a billion dollars.
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jhw says:
10 years ago at 10:33 pm
Always look on the bright side of life.
We now have a proof that the efficient market hypothesis is true if and only if P = NP. We also know that high frequency trading strategies grow increasingly inefficient with longer time horizons and more frequent data samples of past price information. We may therefore conclude that the world economy will eventually be controlled by a distributed computing system bent on brute-forcing the world's least valuable NP-complete problems.
In shorter terms, these transhumance intelligences are virtually guaranteed not to resemble Wintermute from Neuromancer. In our bright shiny future, we're going to get Friend Computer from Paranoia instead.
Cobbal says:
10 years ago at 12:31 am
And then the real trick will be embedding interesting NP-complete problems into financial data, so that high frequency traders will brute force them for us.
pavel_lishin says:
10 years ago at 8:18 am
It's like reCaptcha, but for robots!™
DFB says:
On the contrary, we know the efficient market hypothesis is strictly false except in the very rare situations where full information is symmetric.
some jackoff says:
If you were trading and cared about 60ms latency, you'd have rackspace in the local country. Preferably inside the exchange. If you can't afford that, you can't afford to be trading in the first place.
jwz says:
I think the idea is that they want to game the Tokyo and London exchanges against each other.
Arbitrage is not a game! It's serious money, almost always taken without any violation of laws from institutional investors who trade securities in multiple large blocks such as the mutual funds to which most people's retirement account are limited. It has to come from somewhere, why not the "financially responsible" schmucks?
Anonymous Coward says:
It's a turn of phrase.
I love that video so much.
John Bloom says:
I'm all for low latency links, more redundancy and greater independence from interfering governments. And "telemedicine," while not all that commonplace today could become more common in future (read: remote operated surgical robots). Also, 60ms is a respectable reduction for International VoIP calls. Yeah, I'd like to believe any of those reasons had anything to do with it, but I find it much more plausible (as with a lot of recent advances in high speed, low latency networking) that the HFT guys footed the bill.
Is anyone else reminded of the part in Stross' Accelerando (and/or pick your favorite dystopian scifi) where instead of superhuman intelligences we just end up expert systems designed to buy, sell and trade humans as collateral?
I never really followed that particular plot point, the one dealing with Economics 2.0. I enjoyed the short novella/first chapter much more than the full work. :/
Nicolai says:
The time to repair on that cable is going to be a lot higher in winter when you need serious icebreakers to get access for the cable ship.
On the other hand without fishermen near it, it might not get broken as often as other cables!
Jeremy Leader says:
Patience, Nicolai, soon enough that won't be a problem.
205guy says:
Neither will be problem, sadly.
LafinJack says:
What sleeps so deep which has the opportunity to break a cable is no mere fisherman.
j-b.livejournal.com/ says:
I want to imagine the signal repeaters every few hundred kilometers along this cable, and the routers at the endpoints that run to shore along Siberia, are powered by little nuclear reactors, in unmanned stations, perhaps filled with precious, precious copper.
It's odd that the global view shows the cable running mostly along the ocean floor close to Canada, yet the cable drops along the way seem to be targeted largely at Russia ... I wonder what the motivation to not just run the cable along the Russian side is...
Hadlock says:
I think what you're seeing is the distortion created by the map projection they used. The rhumb line that your map shows is actually a straight shot across the north pole. Here, I've demonstrated this using google earth. You can see that the map you provided, it actually runs inside of several island groups, making it curve much closer to russia.
Also, the exact same rhumb line as the above example, viewed from a similar angle as the projection you used:
That's awesome, thank you!
I guess now is the time when I link again to Cartographers for Social Equality.
chris t says:
I have a simpler explanation: there are two routes, and the illustrations in the article show both.
Two of these cables, called Artic Fibre and Arctic Link, will cross the Northwest Passage which runs through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. A third cable, the Russian Optical Trans-Arctic Submarine Cable System (ROTACS), will skirt the north coast of Scandinavia and Russia.
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Richard Perrin says:
I'm somewhat disappointed that technology hasn't advanced to the point that cable-laying submarines are feasible. It would be so much more elegant to just cruise under the ice than bashing a passage through it.
vacri says:
Telemedice does exist, but it doesn't need -60ms latency. it's quite common to have a recording done on a patient at one site piped over to another site for reporting. Bandwidth is far more important than latency, for obvious reasons.


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Calcite Quarry, Michigan
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While the Great Lakes region of North America is well known for its importance to shipping between the United States, Canada, and the Atlantic Ocean, it is also the location of an impressive structure in the continent's bedrock: the Michigan Basin. Formed during the Paleozoic Era (approximately 540-250 million years ago) the Basin looks much like a large bullseye defined by the arrangement of exposed rock layers that all tilt inwards, forming a huge bowl-shaped structure. While this "bowl" is not readily apparent from the ground, detailed mapping of the rock units on a regional scale revealed the structure to geologists. The outer layers of the Basin include thick deposits of carbonates—rocks containing carbon and oxygen, such as limestone—deposited over millions of years when a shallow sea covered the region.
These carbonate rocks are mined throughout the Great Lakes region using large open-pit mines. The largest carbonate mine in the world, Calcite Quarry, appears in this astronaut photograph. The mine has been active for over 85 years. The worked area (grey region in image center) measures approximately 7 kilometers long by 4 kilometers wide, and it is crossed by several access roads (white). The rocks are processed to create crushed aggregate, building stone, soil enhancers, lime, additives to steel, and a host of other products. Calcite Quarry ships between 7 and 10.5 million tons of material each year, thanks to the quarry's location on the shores of Lake Huron. Nearby Rogers City was once a typical mining company town, but over time it has expanded its economic base as a summer retreat for sailing and tourism.
Astronaut photograph ISS013-E-14843 was acquired May 6, 2006, with a Kodak 760C digital camera using an 800 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and the Image Science & Analysis Group, Johnson Space Center. The image in this article has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth.
While the Great Lakes region of North America is well known for its importance to shipping between the United States, Canada, and the Atlantic Ocean, it is also the location of an impressive structure in the continent's bedrock: the Michigan Basin. Formed during the Paleozoic Era (approximately 540–250 million years ago) the Basin looks much like a large bullseye defined by the arrangement of exposed rock layers that all tilt inwards, forming a huge bowl-shaped structure. The outer layers of the Basin include thick deposits of carbonates—rocks containing carbon and oxygen, such as limestone—deposited over millions of years when a shallow sea covered the region. These carbonate rocks are mined throughout the Great Lakes region using large open-pit mines. The largest carbonate mine in the world, Calcite Quarry, appears in this astronaut photograph.
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Bechar Basin, Algeria
The Béchar Basin of northwest Algeria formed as layers of sedimentary rocks from the Paleozoic Era (250-540 million years ago) folded and cracked during collisions of Africa and Europe during the Tertiary Period (2-65 million years ago). In this photograph of part of the basin captured by astronauts, dark brown to tan folded ridges of these Paleozoic sedimentary layers extend across the image from top to bottom.
Glarus Overthrust, Switzerland
Richat Structure
This geologic feature has captured the attention of astronauts for about as long as NASA has sent humans into orbit around Earth.
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REVIEW: A Series of Unfortunate Events, S2 Eps 3&4 – The Ersatz Elevator
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A Series of Unfortunate Events continues as the three Baudelaire orphans are brought to their latest guardians, Jerome and Esme Squalor, who reside at the penthouse of 667 Dark Avenue.
The children are still anxious about the fates of their friends the Quagmires, but at first their lot seems to be improving as Jerome (played by Tony Hale, again a master at being in the thrall of a domineering woman like his characters in Arrested Development and Veep) seems genuinely concerned for their welfare. Esme is something else, being ridiculously wealthy as the city's 6th most important financial adviser, is obsessed with everything fashionable. She only agreed to take the children in because orphans were "in."
Whatever is "in" is all that matters to Esme and Jerome does not protest. The children are forced to wear pinstripe suits and to drink aqueous martinis and to take the stairs to the penthouse when there is a perfectly serviceable elevator. But they waste no time and Violet thoroughly investigates every room in the penthouse, trying to find a clue about the Quagmires.
Because this is A Series of Unfortunate Events, Count Olaf is still around, this time disguised as Gunther, a foreign auctioneer Esme has hired. As usual, no one believes the Baudelaires when they insist that this is Olaf because there is a city-wide manhunt for him.
In a fun sequence at an "in" restaurant called "Cafe Salmonella," where all the food is salmon-based, Olaf and his henchmen are delayed as the volunteers try to find the Quagmires. Larry the waiter and Jacquelyn are there too, and Count Olaf launches into a musical number just like he did at the beginning of season one.
Later, the orphans find the Quagmires in a cage at the bottom of an ersatz elevator and try to hatch a plan to rescue them. But as usual, luck is not on their side. Jerome Squalor falls asleep and when they try to ask Esme for help, they find out that she is actually in league with Olaf.
Meanwhile, enterprising librarian Olivia has become a new recruit in the secret organization of noble volunteers. She takes a taxi ride with Jacques Snicket who lets her in on the story of the Baudelaires. At this point, she knows more than the children. But they discover that there is a secret tunnel that connects 667 Dark Avenue to their old house. The audience also discovers that Jacques Snicket also has a tattoo of an eye on his foot.
The episodes culminate with Esme and Gunther's auction of "in" items where the orphans believe the Quagmires are about to be sold. They escape the tunnel and show up in time to bid on an item where they believe their friends are being kept. Larry the Waiter, Jacquelyn, Jacques, and Olivia also show up. But alas, this is A Series of Unfortunate Events, and the package turns out to be a lot of Very Fancy Doilies. It was a big red herring after all.
Olaf and Esme escape, Jerome proves too cowardly to be a proper guardian, and Mr. Poe cheerfully assures the Baudelaires that a new arrangement for their guardianship has been made.
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It is Father's Day, 2013. Three of my children are sleeping in other rooms in the house and my oldest is in Phoenix. It's nice to have them here and I miss the oldest… A LOT!
I noted on Facebook, that generally, I do not celebrate Fathers Day. My response has always been that every day is Father's Day. But I was reprimanded by someone (a few someones) that this is selfish. It robs those who love me of their chance to have a day to celebrate me. So I admitted that I would give in. Yay Me! (and other Fathers too).
To that end, some thoughts and reflections on being a father, our peaceful home, and the pain of apologies.
I've told this story before but it is worth repeating today.
I responded, "I'm not babysitting them. I'm parenting them." I didn't respond to her in anger or even much annoyance but I want that message out there because I heard similar things all the time.
But I've heard such things from fathers… It's bizarre to me. STOP IT!
This caused my youngest and I to burst out laughing. Peaceful is NOT how we, who view it from the inside, picture our home. This may be the same for your family; for many families. Families live with themselves and have to balance both the dirt and shine that others might see. Families of divorce might be working to balance that even more so.
Interestingly enough ("interesting" is my euphemistic term for almost anything – here it could mean sad), a disagreement between my kids right as we dropped off this friend, resulted in a heated exchange and some hurt. The friend didn't really see this but it was an ironic demonstration of why her perception of peace was funny to us.
The end result was an apology, a hug, a promise to try to do better… love is a sometimes forced action but that is okay!
Earlier in the day, one of my children responded to me "pushing niceness" with some annoyance. I responded, annoyed and then angry. I went to the store, and came home; then I apologized. They did too – and all was well.
I'm being intentionally vague about the who's involved because the who matters far less than the what.
Apologies are hard! I mean true apologies. It is a bit dramatic to say that apologies are like being nailed to a cross; but for the sake of discussion let's just say that they are. Apologies hurt our egos and require us to become nothing – even if for a moment.
The bible passage above is very intense. Your "rightness" or your position is meaningless. Boo hoo on you. You DO NOT get to consider yourself. The passage continues to explain that the result was that Christ was exalted. Our apologies and our willingness to make them, has a similar result.
For some reason, people (by people, I mean ME) love carefully qualifying their apology. We are careful to create a clear demarcation of what it is we are apologizing for. Heaven forbid we apologize and accidentally give any ground or room that our apology is broader than this small slice of ground!
The second is an explanation of why you are apologizing. You are really saying, "I apologize that I responded to your jerk behavior with anger but please make note of your jerk behavior because that is why I responded in this way and therefore, you caused my need to apologize." You are pointing out why THE OTHER PERSON NEEDS to apologize.
Hint: Your apology is not/should not be contingent. Whether the other person should or should not; does or does not; apologize is meaningless. That is for them to work out.
In fact, "I'm sorry for hurting you." Or "I'm sorry for being a jerk." – might be better than "I'm sorry for getting angry." The latter seems to leave too much open – ie: why was I angry?
In the end, apologies are a big thing though; one of the biggest things.
Back to someone referring to our family as peaceful… Jess and I talked about it a bit. Our family is NOT peaceful… partially because everyone is passionate and opinionated. Discussions can and do escalate! But the love is fierce too! It needs to be! It had better be or else we are sunk!
When I think about my child's friend who considers us peaceful, I am left thinking a couple things.
One: She would discover different if she lived with us.
Two: Safe may be a better explanation of what she sees/saw.
Our family is safe. Not safe in some barricaded, no danger sort of way. Life isn't like that. Safe is more representative of our fierce love and desire to love. It is, hopefully, represented by our willingness to forgive each other.
We are all jerks in our time. We need grace and in our family we seem intent upon proving this point often. In the end, and up to this point, we have been willing to give it.
If your family doesn't need grace – and if apologies are not needed or given frequently – than your family is doing great.. except for the lying.
For Father's Day, I want peaceful with a passion. I want to apologize more quickly and completely. I want our home to be safe because we need and we give grace.
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900 Apply for NY's First Licenses to Sell Recreational Pot
Marijuana products are displayed at the Good Leaf Dispensary, on the reservation Mohawks call Akwesasne, Monday, March 14, 2022, in St. Regis, N.Y. (Source:AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
More than 900 would-be pot shop operators have applied for a chance to open New York state's first legal dispensaries for recreational marijuana, regulators said Wednesday.
The state has said it plans to issue about 150 licenses in this first round, which was open only to people with past pot convictions or their relatives. Some 903 applications came in before the deadline passed Monday, the state Office of Cannabis Management tweeted.
A message was sent to the agency asking when the licenses will be awarded.
There's no exact date yet for sales to begin in New York, which is expected to become one of the country's biggest legal cannabis markets.
Officials aim to ensure it creates opportunities for people who were most affected by pot policing, which resulted in disproportionate arrests of Black and Latino people.
"We look forward to building the nation's most equitable and diverse cannabis market," the cannabis office tweeted Wednesday.
That's why the first licenses are reserved for businesses and nonprofit groups with a leader who was convicted of a marijuana offense or has a close relation who was. There are other requirements, including experience running a business that was profitable for at least two years.
Other people will be able to apply later. The state wants to award half its recreational pot licenses to applicants who are people of color, women, struggling farmers, disabled veterans or residents of communities that endured heavy pot policing.
The state also has pledged to establish a $200 million fund for startup grants, loans and other assistance for those licensees.
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Home Breaking ZDF offers new audio track "Clear Language".
ZDF offers new audio track "Clear Language".
Criticism of the acoustic intelligibility in TV films is felt to be directed particularly often at the ARD "Tatort" series – which may also have something to do with the fact that the Sunday detective stories of the first are particularly often honored with reviews, under which angry viewers can put their comments. Nevertheless, comments such as "Genuschel, which no one understands anymore" are by no means limited to the Franconian "crime scene", this criticism was particularly often leveled at the episodes with Til Schweiger as Hamburg Chief Inspector Nick Tschiller. But now it is ZDF that first reacts to the repeated disapproval of difficult-to-understand dialogues. However, ZDF films such as the Austrian "Landkrimi" episode "Vier" are also affected.
The Mainz broadcaster sent out a press release on Tuesday. In it, ZDF announces an acoustically improved soundtrack called "Clear Language". According to the broadcaster, the new sound offer has been available since June 1st. It is intended to emphasize the language more clearly and thus improve speech intelligibility. "The offer is now available for the ZDF main program, the programs ZDFneo, 3sat and ZDFinfo will follow gradually," ZDF further announced.
According to the broadcaster, the new soundtrack will be integrated into the existing sound options (stereo, Dolby Digital, audio description, original sound) as an additional option. This is available via satellite, cable, DVB-T2 HD and in the program live streams in the ZDFmediathek app. The new service will also be offered shortly in the program live streams on the ZDF website. The "Clear Language" audio track must be selected on the end device or on the video player.
At the same time, the broadcaster tries to explain why programs are sometimes perceived as difficult to understand. According to ZDF, this not only depends on the mixing ratio of the contribution, but also on the reception conditions or individual hearing ability.
The broadcaster emphasizes that television films and documentaries are often produced at great expense and that the mixture of speech and accompanying sounds (noise and music) is part of the dramaturgy of the contribution. This could be perceived as insufficiently intelligible. "The additionally selectable sound track 'Klare Sprach' uses artificial intelligence algorithms to generate a broadcast sound that makes the spoken word much more present.
Technical solutions to improve voice quality already existed before. Some soundbars, which are used as a supplement to the television and allow a fuller sound, offer options for emphasizing the frequency spectrum of the human voice more. There is a section on the Soundbarfindr.com website that is specifically dedicated to this topic and provides an overview of the relevant devices.
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Eight months since our little bouncing baby boy came into the world. Those two little girls love him to pieces. I often find them arguing about whose boy he is. They are two little mommies and are already looking out for their brother.
Keith is just now beginning to crawl, he will pull himself forward with his arms then try to get his legs to catch up. He isn't coordinated, but he is finally getting there. He still does roll everywhere too.
He is also getting two top teeth. One in the middle and the one beside it. They seem to be taking their good old time too.
Keith is such a happy little guy!
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\section{Introduction}
Our goal is to define a set of operators that allow us to write object-oriented programs in the Haskell language. Object orientation can be
used in conjunction with various paradigms, such as (these are by no means the only possible fields of application):
\begin{itemize}
\item mutable programs where the state inside each object can be transparently mutated by method calls and other kinds of manipulations
\item concurrent programs where the inner state of each object does not belong to the same thread, process or even machine
\item reactive programs where each stateful operation is recomputed whenever the values it depends from change
\item transactional programs where each stateful operation is recorded and blocks of stateful operations can be undone
\end{itemize}

We definitely wish to define our operators so that we can use anyone of these paradigms for running our object-oriented programs. For this
reason we define the object oriented operators abstractly, that is inside type classes; we then proceed to give the concrete implementations
that will allow us to actually run our code.

We also wish to make it simple to use our objects. One of the best ways to make some abstraction simpler to code in the Haskell language is to
take advantage of monads and their syntactic sugar: we will try to make use of monads whenever possible, and we will even require so at the
level of our typeclasses.

To make a working object oriented system in a type-safe and purely functional language such as Haskell we are forced to define many
type-level functions and predicates. A relevant side effect of this is that all our entities are first class entities in the host language;
this allows us to freely manipulate labels, method applications, and so on, and even to design a type safe reflection system.

\section{Stack}
We start by defining a stack typeclass, which will define the basic environment of our computations. We choose to use a stack for simplicity,
and also because the state monad is much harder to make work with a heap. The stack predicate is defined as follows:

\begin{verbatim}
class Stack s where
  type Push s :: * -> *
  push :: s -> a -> Push s a
  pop  :: Push s a -> s
\end{verbatim}

the stack is characterized by three operators:
\begin{itemize}
\item a type function that takes our stack and another type as input and returns the new stack obtained by pushing the second parameter
on top of the input stack
\item a $push$ function which works exactly as the $Push$ type function but operating on values rather than types
\item a $pop$ function which does the opposite of what the $push$ function does
\end{itemize}

\section{References and Statements}
We will never work directly with values, since what we are trying to accomplish requires that values are packed inside "smart" containers
that are capable of doing more complex operations such as mutating a shared state, sending messages to other processes or tracking dependencies
from other smart values to implement reactive updates. For this reason we will represent values in two different ways:
\begin{itemize}
\item as references whenever we wish to represent a pointer to some value inside the current stack
\item as statements whenever we wish to represent the result of arbitrary computations
\end{itemize}

References and statements are defined respectively with one single predicate:

\begin{verbatim}
class (Stack s,Monad (st s)) => RefSt ref st s where
  eval :: ref s a -> st s a
  (:=) :: ref s a -> a -> st s ()
  (*=) :: ref s a -> (a->a) -> st s ()
  new :: s'~New s a => a -> (ref s' a -> st s' b) -> st s b
\end{verbatim}

The $st$ functor applied to the stack $s$ is required by this definition to be a monad; thanks to this we can use our operators on references
taking advantage of the syntactic sugar that Haskell offers, obtaining code that is much more intuitive to a programmer used to traditional
object oriented languages.

The $eval$ function takes as input a reference to a value of type $a$ inside a stack of type $s$ and returns a statement that will evaluate
to a value of type $a$ inside a state of type $s$. The $:=$ and $*=$ operators respectively assign and in-place modify a reference and return
a statement that will evaluate to a value of type unit inside a state of type $s$. The $new$ function allocates a value of type $a$ on the
stack $s$, obtaining the stack $s'$, performs some operation on this stack inside a function that takes as input the reference to the
freshly allocated value of type $a$ and returns a statement that will evaluate to a $b$ in an $s'$, and then returns a statement that will
evaluate to the same $b$ in an $s$. The $new$ function is essentially a scoping function, which will:
\begin{itemize}
\item allocate a new value on the stack
\item create a reference to this new value in the new stack
\item do some work with this reference and obtain a result through the input function
\item deallocate the value from the stack
\item return a result that represent the result returned by the work done in the input function
\end{itemize}

An alternative definition (possibly even better) of the new operation could have been:
\begin{verbatim}
new :: s'~New s a => a -> (ref s' a -> st s' b) -> st s' b
\end{verbatim}

which does not automatically destroy the allocated value and which instead maintains the larger stack when it returns its value. This would
have worked well with a heap rather than a stack, since we could have given a heap capable of deallocating its references with a type function
such as:

\begin{verbatim}
class (Heap h, Monad (st h)) => RefSt ref st h where
  Delete h -> ref h a :: *
  delete h -> ref h a -> Delete h (ref h a)
  ...
\end{verbatim}

Sadly this approach has a major shortcoming. In fact this would make it much harder to work with monads, since at every allocation and
deallocation the type of the monadic constructor would change: $(st\ h)\ \ne\ (st\ (New\ h\ a))$, and we would have been forced to define
an explicit binding operator that is capable of taking care of changes in the first parameter of the statement functor:

\begin{verbatim}
explicit_bind :: st h a -> (a -> st (New h b) a') -> st (New h b) a'
\end{verbatim}

but this would, interesting as it may be, would somewhat defeat the point of using a monad for simplicity and readability in the first place.

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On Wednesday, "06880" introduced a new feature: "This Old House." Every Wednesday we'll post a new photo of an old house. We hope to identify 12 of them prior to a Westport Historical Society exhibit on the preservation and change.
"06880" readers placed it (literally) all over the map. Guesses included Kings Highway, Cross Highway, Long Lots Road, Baker Avenue, Hillspoint Road, South Compo Road, Avery Place, Canal Street, Riverside Avenue, Myrtle Avenue, Partrick Road, Woodside Avenue and Wilton Road.
All were wrong. As Morley Boyd, Maureen Aron, Wendy Crowther and Kevin Martin noted, it's on Main Street. Today we know it as Tavern on Main.
According to the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism's Historic Resources Inventory, the building was constructed in 1813 for grocer Levi Downes. A former wing on the east elevation was occupied by the Downes School for Ladies, run by Levi's daughter Esther.
The Historic Resources Inventory says that by the early 1940s, the building contained several apartments. By 1948 they had been converted to offices. The 1954 town directory lists a gift shop, clothing store and 2 real estate offices at the address.
By 1965, part of the building became Chez Pierre. That famed restaurant remained in the space through the 1980s. Since 1996, it is the equally renowned Tavern on Main.
There you have it: Everything you ever wanted to know about 146 Main Street.
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Back in 1977 I worked for the Wickert family at Foreign Intrigue which was downstairs in that building. It was my summer job which was lots of fun and I got my introduction into the world of retail sales there. I also met my future husband Louis there while he was browsing through the native American jewelry. He worked for Martin Pinto who had a hair salon on the top floor next door, which Louis eventually bought and ran. Chou Chou Raum's Dad, Jason had his jewelry store next door on the 2nd floor at one time also.
WOW. One of your best yet! Love this. Thank you.
Chez Pierre…where Mom and Dad, Ruth and Warren Wilson ate dinner after house hunting…the big blackout in winter 1965…someone's car's headlights were aimed onto the dining room for diners to be able to see.
Before Chez Pierre moved into that space wasn't it the original Ice Cream Parlor? I seem to remember going there in elementary school on Saturday afternoons after the matinee at Fine Arts; where hundreds of kids in town were dropped off to see, I seem to remember, lots of space invader kind of movies or silly comedies. Then it moved to a spot where a Cohen's optical store now lives and then to the Post Road spot many of your readers remember with great fondness.
I thought it was next door, in the building where Jewels by Jason was located.
Jane, I'm pretty certain your recollection is correct. It opened there around 1954 or 1955.
Wasn't the Ice Cream Parlor located on the second floor here in the 50s?
One more thing re the history of 146 Main: the exterior is the setting for the final scene of the film, "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit." Gregory Peck and, I believe, Jennifer Jones can be seen walking down the steps leaving the building (which is where Lee J. Cobb's law office is supposedly housed). And, for good measure, you can then see the building that became the Remarkable Bookshop when the camera angle changes.
Where was it located in the older photo? Apparently, it was given a lower level at some point, but it looks as if it was in a more rural setting. Although maybe Main Street was more rural then.
It was on Main Street back in the 1930s — though obviously in a slightly different spot.
Great story. Love these and the bad parking stories.
Wow! So interesting. Love this post, Dan.
Interestingly, the house shows as "L.T. Downs" on an 1856 map of Westport I have, and then again as "L.T. Downes" on the Westport center map in the 1867 F.W. Beers Atlas. The Grocer Levi Downes who had the house built in 1813 (per Dan's story) married his wife Esther in 1816, had a farm in Greens Farms and died in 1868 – he's buried in Willowbrook Cemetery with his wife Esther, who died in 1861. Their daughter Esther Downes is shown living at the house on Main St. in the 1880 census (she's 54 and a schoolteacher, living with her sister Sophia Downes) after which another sister – Caroline – marries one of the Lees, THEY then live in the house (along with Esther, who seems to have never left the house) at the turn of the century until we then find just Esther living in the house (#66 at that point) in the 1920 census; she's 93 (!) at that time.
I didn't know Robert Lawson lived there at some point; he definitely lived on Weston Road in the 1940s and 1950s in the area near (what is now) the aptly named Rabbit Hill Rd – but I just checked some sources, and sure enough, he shows up in the 1929 Westport Directory as an "artist" living with his wife Marie at 66 Main St. (likely what is now 146, as they renumbered Main St at some point) and in the same spot in the 1930 census. By the time of the 1937 Westport Directory, Lawson and his wife had moved to a house at Taylor Place.
As I recall, Deadman's Brook shows up in Lawson's Rabbit Hill. I wonder if those early years spent living in downtown Westport (through which said brook runs) might have influenced him.
I was just going to post that the building is the one from which Gregory Peck exits at the end of Man in the Gray Flannel Suit which is available on Youtube, but Fred Cantor beat me to it. However, eagle-eyed Westporters will recognize exterior scenes of the Inn at Longshore just before the end of the film when Jennifer Jones jumps in the family car to leave Gregory Peck.