Dr. Christina Greer of Fordham University joined the show to discuss how President Barack Obama did, or didn't, live up to expectations, and how his presidency fits into the larger dynamics of race and politics.
Barack Obama may have given his farewell address, but he still has work to do. In his speech, the president rightly celebrated America's history of welcoming immigrants and their contributions to our country. But Mr. Obama's legacy on immigration is mixed. He has both deported more people than any prior president and acted in America's best traditions by letting the Dreamers - undocumented youth brought to the United States as children – emerge from the shadows. There is one final step that President Obama can, and should, take to cement his legacy on the side of history we know is in his heart.
Most immigrant families in the United States are mixed status, meaning most have children who are citizens and immigrant parents, including Legal Permanent Residents (LPRs). The incoming administration's promise to deport 2-3 million people with legal infractions threatens to rip these American families apart, because the threshold for deporting legal permanent residents is so low. Experts argue that this 2-3 million number cannot be reached without deporting people for minor offenses, such as traffic tickets. This is why I recently joined 60 local elected officials from across the country in asking President Obama to grant a blanket pardon to legal immigrants who have minor infractions and pose no threat to the country. He can prevent the breakup of these American families.
Pardoning this group of immigrants fits with the president's recent actions on criminal justice and immigration. His clemency initiative and Deferred Arrival for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program seek to fix the broken criminal justice and immigrant systems that harm American families.
Having already designated Legal Permanent Residents with minor convictions as low priorities for deportation, President Obama could protect these American families further with a presidential pardon.
Some will object, arguing that America is a country of law and order. We agree, and support the deportation of those posing a risk to our community. We also support the American belief that punishment should fit the crime. Someone who had a minor infraction such as shoplifting or excessive traffic violations as a teenager could be eligible for deportation 20 years later as a responsible adult with children who are citizens. These deportations make no sense, and hurt families and children without enhancing the wellbeing of the country.
The group making this request, Local Progress, is composed of local elected officials that know, work with, live in, represent, and are part immigrant communities. We know that deportations cripple families and harm neighborhoods and the economy. We also know that the American Dream lives in our communities and that the country benefits from these newcomers and their children. Pardoning this group would prevent the unnecessary breakup of our American families, and allow parents to stay where they belong, raising their children in the communities they have helped build.
Watching President Obama's farewell speech, I could not help but think about the many families in my Brooklyn district that have lost a family member to deportation. The effects are harsh. When a father gets deported, the family loses income and can lose their apartment. The education of children can be disrupted, and those remaining long to be with their missing family member. For the children – citizens, immigrants, or both – it is a hurt that does not go away. It is a step the U.S. government should not take lightly, or for symbolic political reasons.
I stand with my fellow elected officials to ask President Obama to grant these pardons. I also call on my fellow New Yorkers to call the president's office and tell him to grant clemency to the hundreds of thousands of immigrants who stand to lose under President Trump. Before he leaves office, President Obama can help cement his legacy with such a pardon. He has the power, and should use it, as other presidents have done in the past. There is still time.
Carlos Menchaca is a New York City Council Member and Chair of the Council's Immigration Committee. On Twitter @cmenchaca.
President-elect Donald Trump visited The White House Thursday to discuss transition planning with President Barack Obama. While the election was just decided and it was Trump's first public move in shifting from the campaign toward governing, the transition process has been underway for months -- both in the Trump campaign and the Obama administration. The period from Election Day to Inauguration Day, January 20, is brief -- just 73 days this year -- and the next President must be able to move quickly during the transition period in order to smoothly take the reigns of the country's vast government and military apparatuses.
Unlike the ideological and, to some extent, personnel continuity that a Hillary Clinton win may have afforded, the Obama to Trump transition will be drastic. But, there are protocols and practices in place, mandated by law and not, meant to make for a successful presidential transition. On both Wednesday and Thursday, President Obama sought to assure the country that his administration is doing everything it can to ensure a smooth transition of power, despite the differences between the president and his successor, whom Obama has called uniquely unfit for the position.
Obama reiterated the point on Thursday when he and Trump sat in the Oval Office, with the president saying that his team must do its best to make Trump successful, because if the president is successful, so is the country.
The task for Trump and his top advisors, including post-election transition chair and Vice President-elect Mike Pence, is immense -- many thousands of positions to fill, a daunting amount of information to absorb, and important policy and protocol decisions to make. President-elect Trump is under the microscope perhaps to a greater extent than others in his position might be because he heads to the presidency as the first in United States history with no prior government or military experience. Trump immediately set off alarm bells when his first two appointments included Steve Bannon, who has a history of anti-Semitic, white nationalist, and misogynistic behavior, as his top strategic advisor.
While all of Trump's top cabinet posts will be deeply scrutinized, as they would with any president-elect, there is also the vast bureaucracy of both the White House and, to a larger degree, the federal government, that must be filled and managed. A sound presidential transition relies on the preparation and attitude of the outgoing administration, the organization and execution of the incoming administration, and the laws in place to aid in the effort.
Prior to September 11, 2001, a few laws were already in place to govern the transition process, and others have been added since. In 1963, recognizing the need for a formalized transition process in the face of a more technologically advanced and rapidly moving world, Congress enacted The Presidential Transitions Act of 1963, which set the precedent for transition funding, allocating $900,000 of federal funds per team. The 1988 Presidential Transitions Effectiveness Act increased funding, capped outside contributions to transition teams, and required that major donations be disclosed. Similar legislation, passed in 1998 and 2000, shortened Senate confirmation periods and addressed the digitalization of government records, but other than that, the scale and schedule of a transition was up to the two administrations.
"The national interest requires that such transitions in the office of President be accomplished so as to assure continuity in the faithful execution of the laws and in the conduct of the affairs of the Federal Government, both domestic and foreign," reads the Presidential Transition Act of 1963. "Any disruption occasioned by the transfer of the executive power could produce results detrimental to the safety and well-being of the United States and its people."
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the transition period was identified as one of national vulnerability. This led to the 2004 Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act. Comprehensive security briefings for incoming high-level personnel became mandated, as was extensive contingency planning, crisis management training, and background checks.
Under Obama, further attention was paid to transitions. In March of this year, he signed into law the 2015 Presidential Transitions Improvement Act, which requires the executive branch to establish two transition panels, one for the White House operation and one to oversee the process throughout federal agencies. The panels must be formed six months before the general election. Prior to that, the 2010 Pre-Election Presidential Act required the General Services Administration to provide each major party candidate's transition team with office space, desks, computers, and phones within three business days of the candidate's nomination for president.
With these laws in place, the Trump transition team has a lot of resources, but also a lot of work to do.
According to the president-elect's transition website, the team is setting up Agency Review Teams for each federal agency, and has begun the vetting and hiring process for the approximately 4,100 presidential appointees. As reported by Politico in October, the Chris Christie-led pre-election transition team had compiled a list of 400 appointees to push through Senate confirmation after the election. Though few other details were made available by the Christie team, Politico also reported that the Trump operation was holding private explanatory meetings for big donors and financial services leaders. One such "look inside" charged $5,000 per person.
Shortly after winning the election, Trump announced that Vice President-elect Pence would replace Gov. Christie as the chair of the transition, and also named a larger transition committee. Top cabinet positions are expected to be filled soon, and other high-profile positions will also have to be determined. The policy focus, political orientation, government experience, and demographic diversity -- racial, gender, religious, and more -- of top-level appointments to key administration posts will give an indication of what type of presidency is being planned.
The team that will be overseeing this work, Trump's Presidential Transition Executive Committee, has just been announced. Under Pence's leadership, committee vice chairs are Rudy Giuliani, Newt Gingrich, Dr. Ben Carson, Christie, Senator Jeff Sessions, and retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn.
The committee will also include Rep. Marsha Blackburn, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, Rep. Chris Collins, Tom Marino, Lou Barletta, and Devin Nunes, Rebekah Mercer, Steven Mnuchin, Anthony Scaramucci, Peter Thiel, Trump's children Donald Jr., Eric, and Ivanka, Ivanka's husband, Jared Kushner, Reince Priebus, who was RNC chair and has been named Trump's White House chief of staff, and Bannon, who was the campaign CEO for the home stretch after having led Breitbart News.
Rumors have started to fly about possible appointments for different cabinet positions, including some of the names from the transition team.
Along with the Bannon hire, there are other red flags being raised about the Trump transition, including the effects of the shift from the Christie-led team to the Pence-led team. On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that "President-elect Donald J. Trump's transition operation plunged into disarray," citing the resignation of key transition figures from the Christie team who had been integral to the process and a hold-up around Pence signing essential transition paperwork.
Smart, proactive transitions are the first step toward an effective presidency and begin long before the formal transition process that takes place between Election Day and Inauguration Day. Prepared candidates will often begin transition planning before the conclusion of their primary race, will have transition staffs in the hundreds, and can be expected to provide lists of presidential appointees as soon as they can be called president-elect. In 2008, the Obama transition operation consisted of 679 staffers and volunteers, and began before Obama had defeated Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary.
Well-run transitions are important for several reasons. First, national security concerns necessitate a smooth handoff, a process that requires vetting and apprising new defense and high-level personnel well before they succeed their predecessors. The next-in-line officials must be brought up to speed on a wide variety of threats and operations. The President-elect is immediately briefed on the same information as the President.
Transitions are seen as a weak point in national security regardless of the quality of the transition, so it is expected that incoming and outgoing administrations will be as diligent and cooperative as possible. Ever since Harry Truman learned of the Manhattan Project a month into his presidency (which was not even by election, but by Franklin D. Roosevelt's death while in office), national security has been a foremost transition priority. Still, the events of September 11, 2001 dramatically increased the level of attention paid to national security generally and in transitioning. In the 2004 Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, comprehensive security briefings for incoming high-level personnel were mandated, as well as extensive contingency planning.
Second, it is in the political interests of both incoming and outgoing administrations to oversee a smooth transition. From the outgoing perspective, it is politically expedient for a president's reputation to include a well-executed departure from office. From the incoming perspective, a president's early success hinges on his or her preparedness to take office.
"President Bush was very gracious to us during the transition," President Obama's former advisor David Axelrod recently told the New York Times, echoing a point Axelrod has stressed publicly in a variety of forums over the years.
Preparedness includes having appointees for all high-level positions ready for Senate confirmation, a working policy agenda ready to implement, and a set of priorities to follow. If appointees are not ready, then the confirmation process cannot commence, and agencies take longer to fully assemble. While the 2008-09 transition is heralded as the most successful in U.S. history, there were still hiccups, especially given the surrounding circumstances: a global financial crisis.
Because it was such a success, the Bush-Obama transition essentially serves as a template for the successful modern transition -- and it's one that Obama has said his administration is working to repeat. Two hallmarks stand out when analyzing that transition: early and proactive planning from both sides; and dedication to conquering partisan concerns for the greater good of the country's security.
In "The 2008-2009 Presidential Transitions Through the Voices of Its Participants," Martha Joynt Kumar, a professor of political science at Towson University, provides a retelling of the transition based on interviews with several important players.
Recognizing the biggest obstacle to a fast and seamless transition to be the Senate confirmation process, the Bush administration set about reducing the length of FBI investigations into presidential appointees from 60 to 30 days. It also tasked the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) with performing investigations, so as to have more hands on deck. Though successful in making these reforms, the administration's attempt to eliminate Senate confirmations for non-policymaking positions failed, Kumar explains. Regardless, it succeeded in streamlining the Senate confirmation process for the Obama administration.
Kumar outlines how the Bush Administration focused further still on personnel turnover, requiring that the transition teams from each federal agency collaborate to create a list of 150 crucial positions that needed to be filled as soon as possible. The list was then handed over to the Obama team after the election.
As mandated by the 2004 Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, the Bush administration began holding one-on-one meetings with the incoming Obama team as early as Election Day, Kumar explains. Incoming cabinet officers and agency heads sat down with their predecessors to go over contingency planning for each sector of government. By December 4, 2008, the core national security teams from the president and the president-elect had met several times, discussed the administration's operations in Afghanistan and the Middle East, and had handed over most contingency and crisis planning.
The Bush team, Kumar writes, also made it a priority to leave behind a record of their work and experience to help guide their successors. Led by Steve Hadley, the National Security Advisor, the Bush White House compiled a total of 40 memoranda, divided into two sets; one addressing national security and foreign policy, and the other domestic policy. The memoranda contained difficulties that the Bush administration had faced, advice for avoiding such issues, information about particular countries of interest, and an account of all the interactions that had taken place between the U.S. and countries of interest.
To ensure that "midnight regulations" -- legislation passed in the last months of a presidency and which, intentionally or not, often burdens the incoming administration with tougher regulations and policy changes they oppose -- did not waylay the new Obama administration, Joshua Bolten, the Bush Chief of Staff at the time, declared that proposed regulations had to be submitted no later than June 1, 2008, and that regulations could not be issued after November 1, 2008.
Obama's team has placed a similar level of emphasis on transition planning, something that the president has cited in the immediate aftermath of Trump's victory, and at the meeting the two had at the White House on Thursday, November 10.
Taking advantage of the 2004 Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, which states that presidential nominees may begin submitting names of personnel for national security clearance before election results have been determined, the Obama team, in the summer of 2008, began submitting names. Republican nominee Senator John McCain's team submitted zero names, Kumar reports.
Around the same time, in August of 2008, Rahm Emanuel was informally appointed as Chief of Staff. Working with John Podesta, Obama's transition director, Emanuel established several agency review teams to evaluate the state of each agency, gather information, and recommend appointees. Emanuel also cooperated with the Bush transition team on the personnel process to expedite the hiring process for the White House staff. Podesta, as the founder of the Center for American Progress, was able to draw from a wealth of experts for transition help and resources. They formed a core part of the transition policy team that identified executive orders that would be less complicated to prepare and sign, such as removing restrictions around abortion and stem cell research.
One of the pressing matters for Trump's team is which Obama executive orders he wants to immediately undo, and which others of his own he may want to issue.
Though Trump himself is unpredictable and there is little clarity about how he will approach the job, the country is in many ways in a more stable place today than it was eight years ago when Obama was succeeding George W. Bush. At the time, the U.S. was in the midst of two wars and a financial crisis -- coordination between the incoming and outgoing administrations was paramount. Obama is often commended for having met repeatedly with then Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Henry Paulson, Bush's secretary of the Treasury. On issues such as the auto bailout and The Recovery Act, policy teams from both administration were influential in shaping the resulting stimulus package of 2009.
Obama did not provide specifics, but he did reference the 2008 transition, saying he has instructed his team to emulate the "professional and gracious" approach taken by the Bush administration eight years ago.
Fiscal conservatives warn of ballooning costs for existing social guarantees. But a thornier question confronts Democrats: Might they inadvertently worsen inequality, rather than close disparities between poor and well-heeled families?
Take Mayor Bill de Blasio – poster boy for novel entitlements – and his well-meaning spread of free pre-K for all families, no matter how rich or poor.
His original yarn was a tale of two disparate cities. "The best and the brightest are born in every neighborhood," he declared after winning election, seeking to narrow early gaps in children's learning. A half-century of research findings does show that quality preschool can lift impoverished children.
But Mr. de Blasio pushed for a universal benefit, crawling out on a thin policy limb, ignoring three national studies, including my own with Stanford economist Susanna Loeb, that discern just minuscule and fading effects of pre-K for children from better-off families.
Why? Because most middle-class parents – two-thirds of whom nationwide already enjoy access to pre-K – offer important nurturance at home as well. And if the mayor's pre-K proves to elevate all kids, how would this narrow gaps in children's early growth?
The mayor's fuzzy logic reveals a deeper dilemma for Mrs. Clinton and Democratic candidates: How to rekindle opportunity for the middle class, while delivering on their perennial promise to lift the poor.
White Americans have seen their earnings slip by 3 percent since the late 1990s, falling to $60,300 in mean wages last year. But total income ticked upward, thanks to middle-class tax cuts and rising aid for health care, says the Congressional Budget Office. In stark contrast, nearly 24 million children under age six live below or near the poverty line. Affordable pre-K remains out of reach for half these families.
More than 103,000 four-year-olds populate New York City and are eligible for preschool. Mr. de Blasio has added more than 38,000 full-day pre-K seats citywide, totaling more than 68,500, many in depressed parts of the city. But over 30,000 potential preschoolers remain outside any public program, two-fifths being raised in the city's poorest neighborhoods.
Entitlement hawks also teach us that one size can't fit all, especially when serving the nation's kaleidoscopic variety of families. At first Mr. de Blasio aimed to mainly enlarge the count of preschool seats in city schools, pleasing the teachers union but stirring protests from the city's 1,900 private, mostly nonprofit pre-K's, which have resisted cookie-cutter programs for over a century.
Take parents who prefer half-day pre-K, allowing quality time at home for parent and child, but who now lose their subsidy, given the mayor's insistence on full days inside classrooms. Jewish educators seek more instructional time to advance religious teaching. Charter schools last month appealed Albany's siding with the mayor that he, not charter authorizers, can regulate independent pre-K programs.
New York's experiment also reveals the risk of obsessing on what's new and shiny when regimented entitlements arrive. The mayor largely ignored existing supply, incenting middle-class parents to migrate into tuition-free preschools. This emptied up to 14,900 children from older programs, rather than widening access - what economists dub a substitution effect. "We lost two full classrooms of 4-year-olds," said Don Williams, manager of a Midtown pre-K.
President Obama and Republican governors, like Michigan's Rick Snyder, dodge the risks of unbridled entitlements, opting to expand pre-K access for poor youngsters, while easing middle-class costs via tax credits. A rising count of companies, from Netflix to Goldman Sachs, help shoulder the burden of essential human supports: from paid leave for parents nurturing a newborn to insuring security in old age.
Instead, untethered entitlements go awry when benefits tilt toward better-heeled players, say how price supports for farmers became welfare for the well-off, or when taxpayers underwrite pre-K or high-priced universities for parents who can afford to pay.
The campaign season may prompt serious debate over the future of entitlements, along with how to bolster working families. But as Mrs. Clinton and leading Democrats embrace new social guarantees, pursuing middle-class voters, they should be honest about who they aim to buoy and who they would leave behind.
Bruce Fuller, professor of education and public policy at Berkeley, is author of Organizing Locally (University of Chicago Press).
1. De Blasio Education Announcement: The mayor gave an "Equity and Excellence" education speech Wednesday, outlining a wide-ranging education policy plan that will commit about $186 million per year to enhance the performance and readiness of the city's students. Key elements include expanding computer science and advanced placement courses and adding reading specialists. The pieces will work in conjunction with previously announced de Blasio education initiatives including pre-kindergarten and community schools.
2. Cuomo Commits $ to Hudson Rail Tunnel: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie sent a letter to President Obama offering to fund half of the Hudson River rail tunnel project if the federal government pledges to pay for the other half. The project could cost up to $20 billion and has been the source of tension between federal and local officials.
3. Crackdown on K2: On Wednesday, authorities announced that they had dismantled an international ring responsible for manufacturing and distributing synthetic marijuana, known as K2 or spice, which drug officials say has caused a public-health crisis. The mayor has designed a multi-agency strategy to combat the proliferation of K2 and several bills have been introduced into the City Council.
4. Papal Visit, UN General Assembly Create Security Challenge: Pope Francis' visit next week coincides with the annual U.N. General Assembly, which will bring 170 world leaders to the city, creating what Police Commissioner William Bratton called "the largest security challenge the department and this city have ever faced." Federal and city agencies are preparing for the security and transit logistics.
5. Bharara Investigates Cuomo's Buffalo Billion: U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is reportedly investigating Gov. Cuomo's controversial Buffalo Billion revitalization project, according to The New York Post. The investigation focuses on the multimillion-dollar contracts awarded to build facilities for high-tech, drug-development, and clean-energy businesses.
$60 billion was spent on education in the 2013-14 school year in New York State, averaging $21,812 for each of the state's 3 million students.
Up to $20 million in federal funds will be given to New York City as part of a pilot program to decrease traffic injuries. As many as 10,000 vehicles will be fitted with smart devices designed to reduce traffic injuries, congestion, and pollution by 2017, and traffic lights will also be set up to beam information.
20.9% is New York City's poverty rate, according data released by the Census Bureau on Wednesday, meaning that the poverty rate has not lowered at all since last year.
It was a good week for Columbia Law School Professor Tim Wu, who joined Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office while he is on sabbatical. Wu, who coined the phrase "net neutrality," will serve as a senior lawyer and special adviser to Schneiderman focusing on technology and the law. Wu was a candidate for Lieutenant Governor in 2014.
It was a bad week for former Assemblymember Bill Scarborough, a Democrat, who was sentenced to 13 months in prison and two years of supervised release after he pleaded guilty to state and federal corruption charges.
Around this time 95 years ago, on September 16, 1920, Wall Street was hit by a bomb blast outside the headquarters of J.P. Morgan. The blast killed several dozen people and injured hundreds more. Authorities believed it was the work of anarchists, but the bombers were never found.
Around this time 23 years ago, on September 16, 1992, thousands of off-duty police officers stormed City Hall to protest Mayor David Dinkins' support for an all-civilian police complaint review board.
Around this time 4 years ago, on September 17, 2011, a demonstration calling itself "Occupy Wall Street" began in New York.
Gotham Gazette's David King appeared on The Capitol Connection to discuss the latest with Governor Cuomo and more.
The Economist looks at how Mayor de Blasio is "doin'."
New Quinnipiace poll results show how New Yorkers are feeling about their elected officials and more.
NEW YORK - The 2013 New York City mayoral election's record low 24 percent voter turnout rate is largely reflective of and dragged down by 11 percent youth voter participation. This especially paltry turnout among voters 18- to 29-years-old has spurred advocates and policy-makers to act. Friday saw the city's first Student Voter Registration Day (SVRD), during which programming occurred in 25 schools across the five boroughs.
City Council members; representatives from NYC Votes, the voter engagement arm of the city's Campaign Finance Board; and advocates led workshops at the schools during which they sought to connect students to local government and encourage them to register to vote.
Rosenthal and those with her at Frank McCourt, which is one school located in the Brandeis High School Campus building, spoke to about 40 juniors during one class period and then about 100 seniors in another. She also spoke with students from two of the other schools in the Brandeis complex.
When Rosenthal learned that 80,000 voter registration cards go out to high schools each year and very few get sent back, she says she started thinking about how more could be done to ensure that 18-year-olds know their rights and the value of voting.
Rosenthal said that the Department of Education (DOE) would be the entity to really make SVRD a successful annual event in all high schools, but she is happy to lead the initiative and implement the pilot program. For the first SVRD, participants utilized a curriculum created by NYC Votes, which already leads other civic engagement workshops in city schools. If SVRD is to expand from the initial 25 schools to all of the hundreds of city high schools, NYC Votes will likely be integrally involved along with the DOE.
It is not immediately clear how many registration forms were collected at Friday's workshops, but Rosenthal said that she cannot wait to find out.
Kaylah Bilal, a junior at one of the schools in Brandeis, had naturally never heard of the new SVRD, and she did not see a banner or poster in her school. Her enthusiasm was limited when she learned about it. "I'm just not into politics, the whole system," said Bilal, who lives in Bronx.
SVRD is aimed at helping students like Bilal connect their everyday lives to issues and to voting. During a 45-minute workshop, volunteer facilitators at each school gave presentations and asked questions following the standard curriculum specifically designed for SVRD. The brain behind the programming is Chyann Sapp of NYC Votes and the Campaign Finance Board. Her full-time job for the past four years has been increasing youth voter engagement and turnout in New York City, a post that exists in few other cities in the country.
Sapp says that lack of education probably ranks higher than apathy as the top reason young voters are particularly inactive voters. Statistics show that eligible voters who do not cast ballots are mostly not registered to vote at all, and that being registered makes potential voters much more likely to go to the polls.
There are, of course, other barriers people point to in explaining low voter turnout, and efforts are underway to improve access to absentee ballots, among other changes.
The seminar style of SVRD is especially effective to educate students in comparison to simply handing out fliers and forms because students ask real-life questions face-to-face, Sapp says. She added that students "need to know why" voting matters, not just be given a piece of paper that allows them to register.
Beth Newcomer from Rosenthal's office assisted Murad Awawdeh and Betsy Plum from the New York Immigration Coalition in facilitating the two workshops with McCourt students. Awawdeh and Plum started by asking students to rate how much power they perceive having in their circles of family, friends, school, community, and government. Students largely explained that they perceived themselves to have much more power in their family and friends circles than in their government circle, in which some cited zero percent influence.
Almost none of the students had heard of DACA, President Barack Obama's immigration program that gives students who came to the U.S. as children protection from deportation and permission to work, though not the right to vote. Promoting awareness of DACA was a secondary aspect of the SVRD initiative. "If you have friends who are immigrants please spread the word and let them know" about DACA and access to the right to work, Plum told the students.
Near the end of the presentation voter registration forms were passed out to students, along with stickers, bracelets, and candies. One student told her friend, "I'm a voter" after turning in her completed registration form.
Micah Dicker, Drilona Bajrami, and Chelsea Solis, all graduating seniors at Frank McCourt High School, were among the few students in the workshop who knew of Rosenthal, the local city council member. The three teens were involved with participatory budgeting in the council district; Dicker and Bajrami interned for Rosenthal.
Dicker and Solis mentioned that their families' financial situations make them want to do more to change the political system. "I think a lot of people don't vote because they just think of what happens now rather than what would happen in the future if you can't pay for something or you can't find a job," said Solis.


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Sport: Track & Field
Height: 6'6" / 1.98m
Weight: 269 lbs / 122.0 kg
Born: 7/27/1990
Career Highlights: Storl's athletics career began in the decathlon, but he turned to the shot put in 2006 at age 16. The switch couldn't have worked out much better, as Storl won gold at the 2007 World Youth Championships and continued to excel from there. He repeated that title in 2008 and won gold at the European Juniors in 2009, but his biggest accomplishments to date came in 2011. Storl won his first major senior medal - a silver - in the European Athletics Indoors, then took gold in the European U23 and world championships. He followed that with a silver in the 2012 world indoors. Despite not having any previous Olympic experience, Storl should be a serious contender this summer in London to give Germany its first medal in the shot put since Ulf Timmermann won gold for East Germany at the 1988 Seoul Games.
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127 is a prime number. Like all primes greater than two, it is odd and has no factors apart from itself and one.
What does the number 127 look like?
As a prime, it is not composed of any other numbers and has no internal structure.
127 is a prime number. Like all primes (except two), it is an odd number.
Prime factorization of 127:
See below for interesting mathematical facts about the number 127 from the Numbermatics database.
Names of 127
Cardinal: 127 can be written as One hundred twenty-seven.
Scientific notation: 1.27 × 102
Factors of 127
Divisors of 127
Number of divisors d(n): 2
Sum of all divisors σ(n): 128
Sum of proper divisors (its aliquot sum) s(n): 1
127 is a deficient number, because the sum of its proper divisors (1) is less than itself. Its deficiency is 126
Bases of 127
Binary: 11111112
Hexadecimal: 0x7F
Base-36: 3J
Squares and roots of 127
127 squared (1272) is 16129
127 cubed (1273) is 2048383
The square root of 127 is 11.2694276695
The cube root of 127 is 5.0265256953
How big is 127?
127 seconds is equal to 2 minutes, 7 seconds.
To count from 1 to 127 would take you about three seconds.
A cube with a volume of 127 cubic inches would be around 0.4 feet tall.
Recreational maths with 127
127 backwards is 721
The sum of 127's digits is 10
Number 127 - Facts about the integer
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NRDC, NAL to set up incubation centre for startups in aerospace technologies
NEW DELHI: The National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) and the National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) will establish an innovation-cum-incubation centre with external private funding to promote startups in the emerging area of aerospace technologies, a statement said on Wednesday.
Under this programme startups in the area of aerospace engineering would be incubated, mentored and supported for product and prototype development and their validation.
The NRDC is a PSU under the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research while the NAL is an institute under the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
"It is a historical day as NRDC and CSIR-NAL forged an innovative partnership to promote startups in the niche high tech area of aerospace engineering and this partnership may pave a way for establishing Innovation cum Incubation Centres in other CSIR laboratories which are working in different thematic areas" said H Purushotham, Chief Managing Director, NRDC.
He also said this partnership will help to create employment opportunities in the country.
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József Molnár, Group CEO of Hungarian energy company Mol, has announced he has exercised a cash-settled call option related to Mol ordinary shares under the framework of the long-term management stock option incentive program on 11 January 2019.
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Q: How to use custom directives graphql-modules with apollo I need help with custom directives when using graphql-modules library. Have no idea where to place my custom directives so it is combined with overall schema

A: I would like to post answer from Discord community, from user Maapteh.
here it the quote from him

in our app with old version we had everything in common module. We
kept that approach partly when using the latest version of modules.
See some parts of our codebase:
import { ApolloServer, SchemaDirectiveVisitor } from
'apollo-server-express';
const schema = AppModule.createSchemaForApollo();
SchemaDirectiveVisitor.visitSchemaDirectives(schema, {
isMember: IsMemberDirective,
deprecated: isDeprecated,
...SNIP... });
as you can see we create the schema we pass eventually to the apollo
server (example using apollo). We add our generic directives like so.
The schema for them is in our common module. Read further...
For common scalars we added a common module. With their schema (so in
schema directory we also have the directives schemas) and their
resolver.
const typeDefsArray = loadFilesSync(${__dirname}/schema/*.graphql, {
useRequire: true, }); const typeDefs = mergeTypeDefs(typeDefsArray, { useSchemaDefinition: false });
const resolverFunctions = {
ImageUrl: ImageUrlType,
PageSize: PageSizeType,
Date: DateResolver,
...SNIP... };
export const CommonModule = createModule({
id: 'common',
typeDefs: typeDefs,
resolvers: resolverFunctions, });
hope it helps you

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Q: ¿Para qué sirven los archivos tty? En la documentación de Python me topé con este método para los objetos como:
archivo = open('archivo', 'r');
archivo.isatty()

que retorna True/False si el archivo es un tty o no. Y me preguntaba

*

*¿Qué es un archivo tty?

*¿Para qué se usa un archivo tty?

file.isatty()
Return True if the file is connected to a tty(-like) device, else False.
Note: If a file-like object is not associated with a real file, this method should not be implemented.

https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html?highlight=file%20flush#file.isatty

A: La función file.isatty (TTY viene de TeleTYpewriter que son teleimpresoras electromecánicas usadas antiguamente para conectarse a las terminales), te dice si el archivo está conectado a un dispositivo (device) de tipo TTY.
En Linux, puedes saber el nombre del archivo conectado a tu STDIN (Standard Input) usando el comando tty:
$ tty
/dev/pts/24

El archivo /dev/pts/24 debería de estar conectado a un dispositivo virtual:
>>>  archivo = open('/dev/pts/24')
>>>  archivo.isatty()
True

En realidad los archivos /dev/pts/N son pseudo-terminales, es decir, aquellas que se crean cuando tienes una sesión desde una interfaz gráfica (por ejemplo, usando gnome-terminal). Si te conectas a una terminal virtual (las que usas en pantalla completa) usando Ctrl +  Alt + F1, puedes ver que el commando tty te muestra otro archivo distinto:
$ tty
/dev/tty1

El archivo /dev/tty1 también debería estar conectado a un dispositivo TTY:
>>>  archivo = open('/dev/tty1')
>>>  archivo.isatty()
True

¿Qué es un archivo TTY?
En general, el sistema operativo crea unos archivos que te permiten comunicarte con dispositivos físicos, normalmente estos archivos se encuentran en la carpeta /dev y son tratados de forma especial ya que se les permite tener acceso a los drivers. Los archivos TTY son los responsables de mostrar la entrada y salida de información en la terminal (mediante el teclado y el monitor). Puedes ver una lista de ellos usando:
$ ls -l /dev/tty*
crw-rw-rw- 1 root  tty     5,  0 ene  6 15:36 /dev/tty
crw--w---- 1 root  tty     4,  0 ene  4 06:55 /dev/tty0
crw------- 1 cesar tty     4,  1 ene  7 08:04 /dev/tty1
crw--w---- 1 root  tty     4, 10 ene  4 06:55 /dev/tty10
crw--w---- 1 root  tty     4, 11 ene  4 06:55 /dev/tty11
crw--w---- 1 root  tty     4, 12 ene  4 06:55 /dev/tty12
crw--w---- 1 root  tty     4, 13 ene  4 06:55 /dev/tty13
crw--w---- 1 root  tty     4, 14 ene  4 06:55 /dev/tty14
crw--w---- 1 root  tty     4, 15 ene  4 06:55 /dev/tty15
crw--w---- 1 root  tty     4, 16 ene  4 06:55 /dev/tty16
crw--w---- 1 root  tty     4, 17 ene  4 06:55 /dev/tty17
crw--w---- 1 root  tty     4, 18 ene  4 06:55 /dev/tty18
crw--w---- 1 root  tty     4, 19 ene  4 06:55 /dev/tty19
crw------- 1 cesar tty     4,  2 ene  7 07:54 /dev/tty2
...

¿Para qué se usa un archivo TTY?
Pues, como mencioné en la primera pregunta, son usados por el sistema operativo para permitirte "conversar" con dispositivos físicos como el teclado y el monitor. Tal vez esta imagen ayude un poco:

Referencias

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*The TTY demystified

*What does "TTY" stand for?

*What is special about /dev/tty? [closed]

*Understanding /dev

A: tty es un terminal físico, con teclado y pantalla, o virtual como XTerm. A diferencia de un fichero normal, cada tty tiene unas "propiedades" como tamaño (las dimensiones, anchura y altura), la posibilidad de cambiar los colores, y otras.
En Unix y sistemas análogos como Linux cada terminal (físico o virtual) se conecta al fichero virtual, su propio tty. Se pueden encontrar en /dev/: /dev/tty<N> son para consolas de texto, y /dev/pts/<N> para emuladores de terminal como XTerm o Gnome Terminal.
Un programa puede averiguar que sus stdout y stderr corresponden a un tty y activar un modo especial, para p. ej. crear una interfaz interactiva con "ventanas" cómo Midnight Commander en Linux/Unix o FAR Commander en Windows.
En Python se puede usar así:
import sys
if sys.stdout.isatty():
    # escribir en rojo
    esc="\x1B["
    rojo=esc + "0;31m"
    normal=esc + "0m"
    print(rojo + "Hello World!" + normal)
else:
    # escribir normal
    print("Hello World!")

Este código escribe el texto "Hello World!" en rojo usando secuencias de escape ANSI (en inglés) si se ejecuta simplemente en bash, pero con stdout redirigido a un fichero, escribe el texto sin caracteres especiales.
Además es posible enviar algo a un tty y este tty lo recibirá. write y otros programas usan esta característica para enviar mensajes a los usuarios.

A: tty es un comando de Unix (también en similares como GNU/Linux) que muestra (escribe a la salida estándar) el nombre de fichero de la terminal de la entrada estándar. Para ejecutarlo, desde un emulador de terminal, se escribe tty y se pulsa Enter.


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good positions, having warrants of appointment signed by the king, and paid like princes at five shillings a day ! Doubtless they were good musicians at the price, but from a glance at their names in the official records, they do not all appear to have been cradled in Albion. On all occasions of state, the trumpets and kettledrums of the Life Guards were in attendance, and when their services were in demand for dismounted purposes, we meet with the extra�ordinary spectacle of the kettledrums carried on the back of a man, and the drummer walking behind him. It is believed to have been one of these trumpeter bands of the Life Guards, which Cambert, the great French composer, became bandmaster of, when he took refuge in England in 1672. These musicians of the Guards played on handsome silver trumpets, and were clothed in the royal livery, of velvet coats, trimmed with silk and silver lace, embroidered with the royal cypher on the breast and back. The drums and trumpets were also gaily decked with elaborate banners, in fact the whole was much the same as the state dress of the Household Cavalry bands to-day.


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作者 : Wells, H. G.
分類 : Fiction.
The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It first appeared in serialized form in 1897, published simultaneously in Pearson's Magazine in the UK and Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. The first appearance in book form was published by William Heinemann of London in 1898. It is the first-person narrative of an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and that of his younger brother in London as Earth is invaded by Martians. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is one of the most commented-on works in the science fiction canon. The War of the Worlds has two parts, Book One: The Coming of the Martians and Book Two: The Earth under the Martians. The narrator, a philosophically inclined author, struggles to return to his wife while seeing the Martians lay waste to the southern country outside London. Book One also imparts the experience of his brother, also unnamed, who describes events as they deteriorate in the capital, forcing him to escape the Martian onslaught by boarding a paddle steamer near Tillingham, on the Essex coast.
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Matt puts seal on sensational season with success at Saunton
Beedles Lake pro Cort claims hard-fought PGA Playoffs victory to deny Coles, Hutcheon & McGrane
By ECG Newsdesk
Matt Cort made it third time lucky as he pulled off a sensational PGA Play-Offs victory to cap an emphatic season of success.
The Beedles Lake pro held off Robert Coles, as well as Greig Hutcheon and Damien McGrane, to win the season-ending championship at Saunton Golf Club and, afterwards, declared himself 'thrilled' with his week's work.
"I have had a couple of seconds in this event so it's fantastic to finally win it," said the Midland Region Order of Merit winner. "This caps off a great season. It is great to finish it number one."
Cort began the final round with a three-shot lead but soon saw that come under attack from the chasing pack.
McGrane and Coles produced sparkling first nines to tighten the screw, McGrane going out in five-under 31 and Maylands pro Coles in 32.
McGrane's putter cooled after the turn but Coles was relentless and, in fact, held a three-shot lead over Cort as he stood on the 16th tee after reeling off seven birdies and just one bogey in his first 15 holes.
Cort, meanwhile, had slipped down the leaderboard after dropping successive shots at the 11th and 12th. The event hinged on three holes – 15 through 17 – when Cort tightened his grip on the trophy and Coles saw his challenge slip away.
Cort fired in a sensational eagle at 15 to pull himself back to -7 as Coles hit trouble with bogies at 16 and 17.
The eagle at 15 meant Cort could par the last three for a level-par 71 and a one-shot victory.
He later revealed how losing his lead actually helped him discover his best golf over the closing holes.
"When I bogied 11 and 12 and saw that Rob and Damien were having good days, that probably put me in a good position because then I was playing catch up a little bit," he said.
"You have to change the way you play. You cannot play defensive anymore because you haven't got the lead. After 12, I played really good."
The pendulum swung in Cort's favour on the par-5 15th which, due to the wind direction, was reachable in two.
"That was key for me," he added. "I hit a 4-iron to the back of a two-tier green and got it to between 12 and 15 feet and holed it.
"By the time I got to the 17th, I knew it was between me and Colsey. It was pretty tight over the last few holes."
As well as the £2,000 winner's cheque, Cort has secured places in next season's BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth and the British Masters. He will also play in the PGA Cup side along with Coles and Hutcheon.
Victory at Saunton capped a stand-out season which also saw him top the PGA EuroPro Tour Order of Merit, guaranteeing him his Challenge Tour card.
"Scoring and ball striking-wise – this has been one of the most consistent years of my career," he added. "That gives me confidence to go on for next year."
Paul Lawrie Golf Centre pro Hutcheon followed up his final round 67 by snatching the last PGA Cup place from McGrane with a birdie on the first play-off hole decider.
Hutcheon said: "I was pleased to have a good score at the finish because I have squandered a lot of shots out there this week.
"It hasn't been a great scoring week but I have battled hard."
Jaggard excited by club's 'new era'
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Nurgül Yeşilçay Biography, Facts & Life Story
Known ForTurkish stage and Film Actress
Nickname:Nurgül
Full Name:Nurgul Esily
Profession:Theater and Film Actress
Nationality:Turkish
Date of Birth:March 26, 1976
Birthplace:Afyon Garahisar, Turkey
Zodiac Sign: Aries
Hair Color:Dark brown
Eye Color:Green
Nurgül Yeşilçay was born on 26 March 1976. Nurgul is a Turkish stage and film performing actress. Nurgül Yeşilçay was born in Afyonkarahisar, Turkey. She finished his secondary and high school education in Izmir. In 2001, Nurgul studied drama at the State Conservatoire of Anadolu University in Eskişehir. Since her graduation, Nurgul has performed numerous noteworthy roles for the stage, including Ophelia in Hamlet and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire. Theatre aside, she shot to prestige as the lead in, among others, three record-breaking Turkish television dramas.
Nurgul Yesilcay became famous with her role as "Gülsüm" in The Second Spring series amid her university education. In 2002, she was acclaimed for her job as "Bahar Karadağ" in Asmalı Konak series directed by Çağan Irmak. That year, she featured in The Mummy Escape with Teoman. In 2003, she imparted the lead role to Asst. Konak-Hayat in the sequel of Asmali Konak, directed by Abdullah Oguz, with Ozcan Deniz. She got the award of Best Actress in 2005 Adana Golden Boll Film Festival with her role as Kostak Emine in Eğreti Gelin directed by Atıf Yılmaz. Around the same time, she additionally showed up in the TV series Melissa Island with Hande Ataizi.
In 2004, Nurgul went about as the character of "Saliha" in the story of Tell Istanbul directed by five directors. In the 2005-2006 season, she imparted the lead role with Berna Laçin and Kenan Işık in The Belalı Baldız series which was published at ATV. In 2006, Nurgul appeared in the theater play Cem Özer ' You Were Without You. Nurgul began shooting the movie, titled Life On the Coast, in which she composed, directed and produced the screenplay of Fatih Akın in September 2006. In 2007, she appeared as "Ezo Gelin" in "Ezo Gelin" series.
In February 2011, Nurgul separated from Cem Özer. In January 2010, Nurgul published in the series called Love and Punishment, Murat Yıldırım contributed the lead role. In 2011 the series finished. In the same year, Nurgul showed up ahead of the pack job of Sensiz Olmaz, which started broadcasting on Show TV. In 2012, Nurgul participated in the series Sultan and in the 20th episode she completed the screens by making a last. In 2013, she played in Aşk Kırmızı. Nurgul has gone about as a guest actor in Galip Derviş and İşler Güçler. Around the same year, she played the character of "Candan" in Bebek İşi TV series. In 2014, Nurgul acted in the series adı The Murder. In 2015, Yeşilçay, who turned into the proprietor of the summit with her character "Gülseren" in the shattered television series Paramparça, left the series in 2016 because of the script.
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Nurgul Yesilcay is particularly known for her major roles during the 2000s.
She was one of the main jury members of the acclaimed British director Nicolas Roeg.
Nurgul Yesilcay movie, Edge of Heaven won the prize for best screenplay at the 60th Cannes Film Festival in 2007.
She won the "Best Actress" award at the 45th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival with Vicdan movie.
She has been in three record-breaking Turkish television shows.
She made her screen debut in 2001 in Semir Arslanyürek's feature Şellale, (The Waterfall).
Before making her screen debut in 2001 in Sellale, Nurgul performed on stage in productions of Hamlet and A Streetcar Named Desire.
Nurgul reported "big projects were offered to me by well-known producers in Cannes. But my son is a baby. I need to begin a new life. I can't."
Nurgul Yesilcay is a Golden Boll Award winner for her 2004 role as Kostak Emine in Eğreti Gelin
She is a Golden Orange Award winner for her 2008 role as Aydanur in Vicdan.
Nurgul married to Cem Ozer on 26 October 2004. In the most recent month of her pregnancy, she left the series Angels Island. On May 22nd, 2005 she gave birth to her son Osman Nejat.
Nurgul Yesilcay plays the lesbian Turkish girl named "Ayten Öztürk" and the film, which competed for the Palme d' Or at the 60th Cannes Film Festival in 2007, won the "Best Screenplay" award.
Nurgül Yeşilçay Education
Qualification: Anadolu University State Conservatoire in Eskisehir
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Nurgül Yeşilçay Career
Profession: Theater and Film Actress
Known For: Turkish stage and Film Actress
Debut TV Series/Movie:
Hersey Çok Güzel Olacak (1998)
Semir Arslanyürek's in 2001 (as Şellale) → (The Waterfall)
TV Series: Ikinci Bahar (1998)
Net Worth: $10 million
Father: Sükrü Yesilçay
Mother: Nazli Yesilçay
Husband/Boyfriend: Cem Özer (2004 - 2010)
Son(s): Osman Nejat Özer
Cem Özer (2004 – 2010) also married to him
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Tolga Karaçelik (2011 – 2013)
Mithatcan Özer (2011)
Selim Kemahli (2002 – 2003)
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Favorite Color: Orange
Nurgül Yeşilçay is pretty active on Instagram
Sana da iyi pazarlar kocaayak🤪 Hamileler bakmasın çocuğunun ayağı böööle olur fln aman diyim😂kapat kapat
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Yine güneş güzel batıyo Kuşlar uçuyo Bahar almış başını gidiyo fln;))biri de poz kesiyo 🤣🤣🤣 #spring
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February 18 4 min
Why understanding AI matters
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more prominent in our lives, we are increasingly reliant on its decision-making. Understanding AI and its reasoning is becoming more crucial to how we trust such a potentially powerful technology. But, as AI grows in sophistication, the complexity and abstraction behind its decisions takes us further away from that understanding. This is why many governing bodies, including the EU and British government, are pushing for greater AI explainability.
In this blog, we look at why understanding AI matters, exploring the concept of "the black box of AI" and why AI explainability is so important.
The black box of AI
The function of AI is defined by its ability to find patterns in enormous data sets, and to solve problems faster and more accurately than humans can.
Conclusions made from these patterns are often too complex for us to understand. This is referred to as "the black box of AI". The more complex problems that AI can solve, the more difficult it becomes for us to comprehend how it has solved them. A dilemma arises: as AI becomes more accurate for complex, and more interesting, problems, it also becomes more difficult to explain.
Modeled on the mystery of the brain
Neural networks are the key to the success of technologies like machine learning and deep learning. It is what allows AI to 'learn', as it were. All you have to do is supply the data as learning material. Modeled on how the human brain works, neural networks process information by passing it through numerous layers. Mathematical rules are used to score each input at each layer. As it passes through multiple layers, a structured set of relationships is created, until it produces an output or prediction.
These connections between the layers are hard to decipher: that's the "black box". The black box of AI is the complexity or the lack of clarity of this multi-layered learning-to-output process.
AI explainability
AI explainability, then, is the concept of how we make AI more transparent, how we "open the black box" so we can understand why an outcome has been arrived at.
The importance of building user trust
The more results-driven of you out there might ask: "Why is it so important to know how AI has come to a decision? Surely, it's the results that matter." Here are some examples which illustrate why AI explainability is so important.
Diagnosing decisions
AI is increasingly being used successfully in healthcare, with AI models demonstrating incredible accuracy at predicting diagnoses at an earlier stage than previously possible. The potential for this technology to transform people's lives is vast. But what happens when we can't explain why a diagnosis has been made?
Yes, it might not seem to matter when the goal is saving lives, if lives are saved. But what happens when the AI model gets it wrong, and the diagnosis is incorrect; what are the legal, medical, and insurance implications of scenarios like this? How can this mistake be explained to governing bodies, healthcare professionals, and, most importantly, the patients? Another good example is autonomous cars. If an accident occurs and the car manufacturer cannot explain why its vehicle made the decision that it did, how do we proceed?
AI safeguarding
Situations like this have the potential to lead to people losing trust in AI models. It's crucial to understand AI decisions, so that you can build user trust. You must be able to understand why AI has made a prediction if you want to safeguard against the scenarios above and to prevent your AI models developing undesirable results or biases.
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Trust and transparency are essential, if we are going to achieve what's possible with AI — a world where AI is a driving force for improving human lives. At Element AI, we have developed a solution to the problem of the AI "black box".
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Our explainability API is designed to remove any reliance on "black-box" models by providing clear explanations tailored to users with different technical and business knowledge.
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Thirty years ago, when the then-young cartoonist Matt joined the Daily Telegraph, one of his first jobs was to produce little cartoons to illustrate the paper's satirical Way of the World column, which Booker was then contributing. Once, he asked him to draw Cassandra standing amid the smoking ruins of Troy, holding a placard reading, "Remember folks, you read it here first".
But, writes Booker in today's column, since Cassandra's curse was that no one should believe her, over the past two years, ever since Theresa May announced her decision to leave the EU's integrated internal market, one or two of us have sympathised with Cassandra.
We immediately began explaining the more obvious problems this fateful decision would face us with, since it would severely damage much of that export trade to the EU which earns one pound in every eight of our national income.
Our manufacturing of cars, medicines and chemicals would all be seriously at risk, as would our Dover/Channel Tunnel link with the continent, much of our agricultural export trade and even the participation of Irish horses in Cheltenham and the Grand National. While on no rock was May's plan eventually more likely to founder than the inevitability of a "hard Irish border".
But much more significant than the failure of anyone to heed our own predictions was Britain's inability to listen to what we were being repeatedly told by the EU itself. Recalling that joke Thirties headline "Fog In Channel: Continent Cut Off", our politicians seemed incapable of understanding the EU's endless explanations of the legal position in which our choosing to become a "third country" outside its market would leave us.
No matter that the EU set all this out in sober technical detail in its 84 "Notices to Stakeholders". The seeming failure of our politicians even to read these made it ever more likely that we would end up with the ultimate catastrophe, whereby we crashed out of the EU without a deal.
In that sense, Booker concludes, the real Cassandras in this story have been those technocrats in Brussels. They tried to warn us of the realities we were facing. But that fog in the Channel rendered us incapable of listening.
And in writing this commentary, Booker really has put his finger on an interesting (and important) phenomenon. There, free for anyone to read on the Commission's website are the technical evaluations of the consequences of the UK leaving without a deal, referenced back to the legislation and other sources which guide readers to the original source material.
Apart from a few technical journals, though, the coverage of these Notices has been sparse. They have rarely featured in Westminster debates, politicians rarely (if ever) mention them in interviews and, as far as the legacy media goes, they might just as well not exist.
We are in the midst of a persistent global information war. We live our lives on technologies that sow distrust and fakery, that admit little room for nuance and complication, that slice us up into ignorant and bleating tribes. It is an era that should be ripe for journalists and for the business of journalism - a profession that, though it errs often, is the best way we know of inoculating ourselves against the suffocating deluge of rumour and mendacity.
Accessible to UK readers, BuzzFeed contributes to the media narrative on Brexit but even a deep search of its website will fail to detect any reference to the Commission's Notices, despite self-important pieces from the likes of its news reporter, Matthew Champion, telling us "what you need to know" about Brexit. However, the man finds space to relay the information that: "The man who plays the bagpipes outside Parliament is playing the Game of Thrones theme song".
That, essentially, is the media's curse – without even the intervention from the Greek gods. The "business of journalism" – so vital to the functioning of a democracy – has degenerated into the business of retailing endless trivia, for want of real news and analysis. If more journalism means more trivia, and fewer journalists mean less, the BuzzFeed redundancies are a blessing.
As for the politicians, I tend to see them as the other half of the same coin, what I call the "politico-media nexus". It is interesting, therefore, to find journalists writing critical pieces about the failures of the political process when, to a very great extent, their trade shares responsibility for those failures.
One of the more recent offerings in the genre comes from Steve Richards writing in the Financial Times, under the headline: "Parliament is ill-equipped to deal with Brexit". His thesis is summed up in the sub-heading which asserts: "Too many MPs are cowed by their constituents and in thrall to local parties".
Both those things may be true, but they are only part of the story. Arguing that, "at this moment of epic significance", the Commons "fails spectacularly to rise to the occasion", Richards tells of watching MPs debate Brexit.
"Each time", he says, "I hope to listen to a game-changing speech or to observe the emergence of big figures around whom MPs can coalesce. Each time the debates go around in tedious circles as if repetition is a way of avoiding the historic challenges".
The reason for this, he adduces, is that the UK has the weakest House of Commons of modern times. With some admirable exceptions, he says, there are few big figures framing arguments and candidly telling their constituents that Brexit has hardly begun. As a result, they are prey to the whims of their constituents and too fearful or weak to make the case in the face of their demands.
Personally, I don't buy this argument. It seems muddled and inconsistent, especially where many MPs seem at odds with their own constituents – and even with their own parties. But what Richards is sensing is not inconsistent with the view that we are in the thrall of a parliament where members simply have no grip of the issues, and are taking their leads from the media.
Some time ago I recall reading an article which reported that, despite the wealth of technical material available to them, the way most GPs acquainted themselves with developments in their own profession was from reading about them in the popular media. So it is, I believe, with MPs who are almost totally reliant on the legacy media for their political information.
Obviously, with the diversity of viewpoints expressed, they can pick and choose their sources but, once selected, these provide them with what they need, each grouping believing that the media is conveying the view of the wider public. Where there are gaps, some MPs seem to make it up as they go along.
Curiously, though, there is feedback, where the politicians talk to the media, who then report what they say, which is then absorbed by their respective peer groups, reinforcing views already held. Thus the politico-media nexus becomes a closed loop, where the public are actually passive spectators – if indeed they are even engaged, which increasingly they are not.
Here, the core of the problem is that neither the journalists nor the politicians have any serious knowledge about the way the EU works. When they are also obsessively London-centric, immersed in what I call the "court gossip", there are times when one feels that, from their perspective, Brussels doesn't even exist. It is in a parallel universe.
For this Sunday, therefore, we are entertained by plans to evacuate the royal family from London in the event of riots triggered by a no-deal Brexit, something which has the Mail on Sunday squeaking with indignation at the Queen being "dragged into an extraordinary 'Project Fear' row".
On top of the almost obligatory speculation about a general election, we see this village parochialism go all the way to the top with an authored piece by Theresa May in The Sunday Telegraph, in which she glibly asserts: "I will battle for Britain in Brussels".
"When the House of Commons refused to support the withdrawal agreement", the prime minister tells us, "I listened – I pledged to think again, and go back to Brussels to secure a plan that Parliament can stand behind".
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This is not someone who, at first sight, is even on the same planet as the rest of us. She seems trapped in the Westminster bubble, sustained by the belief that Brexit can be delivered by MPs alone, standing up for what they alone agree should be the content of the withdrawal agreement.
But whatever view any MPs might hold – from a distressingly limited range – they can always find something in the legacy media which will support their stance, allowing a trade in ignorance which provides mutual support in the battle against the real world.
Thus, in the "Battle for Brexit", we have the politicians and media huddled together in their clumps of self-belief, entirely resistant to external pressures and thought. They are reminiscent more and more of the extraordinary groups of Emperor Penguins who huddle together for support against the Antarctic winter, as they incubate their young.
But it is ideas, not offspring, that emerge, totally sterile and bereft of any vitality. Created without reference to the real world, they can only leave us standing in awe as we struggle to cope with the idea that the process we are witnessing can exist at all. Meanwhile, Cassandra goes on unheard.