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Tahukah Anda Asal Usul Nama Google dan Fakta Unik Lainnya

Saco-Indonesia.com — Ada banyak cerita dan pemberitaan media yang menarik seputar Google. Namun ternyata, masih ada fakta-fakta unik yang belum diketahui oleh banyak orang tentang perusahaan tersebut. Fakta-fakta tersebut ditampilkan dalam situs tanya jawab Quora. Berikut beberapa fakta unik yang menarik.

Nama Google lahir karena "kecelakaan". Sejarah Google dimulai dari proyek yang dikerjakan oleh Larry Page dan Sergey Brin pada 1996. Saat itu, kedua mahasiswa pascasarjana di Stanford University itu berkolaborasi mengembangkan mesin pencari bernama BackRub, yang dioperasikan menggunakan server di kampus mereka.

Pada 1997, Larry dan Sergey mengganti nama BackRub menjadi Googol. "Googol" merupakan istilah matematika untuk angka 1 yang diikuti oleh 100 angka nol. Nama ini diambil untuk menjelaskan misi Google sebagai gudang informasi tak terbatas di internet.

Akan tetapi, para investor rupanya salah mengeja nama Googol menjadi Google, dan telanjur menuliskannya dalam cek. Hal itu membuat Brin dan Page akhirnya "mentok" menggunakan nama Google untuk mesin pencari mereka.

Google merupakan salah satu perusahaan digital yang gencar mengakuisisi startup yang berpotensi. Di antaranya, YouTube, Android, Motorola Mobility, Pyra Labs yang mengembangkan Blogger, serta Keyhole Inc yang melahirkan layanan Google Maps dan Google Earth.

Hingga kini, sudah ada ratusan startup (perusahaan rintisan) yang diakuisisi oleh Google. Sejak 2010, jika dirata-rata, maka Google telah mengakuisisi lebih dari satu perusahaan setiap minggu.

Halaman muka Google tampil bersih sejak kali pertama beroperasi karena dulu kedua pendirinya tidak menguasai HTML. Page dan Brin juga menginginkan mesin pencari dengan antarmuka yang ringkas. Karena itu, pencarian melalui Google dibuat sederhana. Pengguna cukup menekan tombol Enter setelah memasukkan kata kunci pencariannya.

Hingga kini, tampilan homepage Google yang bersih, hanya menampilkan logo dan kotak pencarian, tetap dipertahankan.

Masih ada fakta-fakta menarik lainnya. Indeks pencarian Google memiliki ukuran raksasa, yakni lebih dari 100 juta gigabyte. Dengan kata lain, butuh lebih dari 100.000 hard disk personal berukuran 1 terabyte untuk menyimpan indeks pencarian itu.

Untuk menampilkan informasi pada aplikasi Street View yang merupakan bagian dari Google Maps, jika ditotal, maka Google telah memotret jalan sepanjang 5 juta mil atau 8,046 juta km.

Pada tahun 2012, Google telah menemukan lebih dari 30 triliun URL unik di web. Coba bandingkan dengan jumlah URL unik pada tahun 2008, yang hanya berjumlah 1 triliun!

Satu lagi fakta unik tentang Google. Perusahaan ini dikenal sebagai perusahaan digital paling besar dan paling penting di dunia. Namun ternyata, masih ada kesalahan kode di halaman muka Google. Kalau tidak percaya, sila cek tautan ini.

Wakil Gubernur DKI Basuki Dapat Karangan Bunga Ucapan Imlek dari PDI-P

JAKARTA, Saco-Indonesia.com —  Basuki Tjahaja Purnama menerima karangan bunga dari DPD PDI Perjuangan Provinsi DKI Jakarta. Karangan bunga yang didominasi warna merah dan putih lengkap dengan logo banteng moncong putih itu bertuliskan "Selamat Hari Raya Imlek Gong Xi Fat Chai Bapak Ir Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, MM Wakil Gubernur Provinsi DKI Jakarta".

Salah seorang staf pengamanan dalam (pamdal) Balaikota Jakarta sempat kebingungan saat menerima karangan bunga ini. Kemudian, staf pamdal itu langsung menghubungi pengawal pribadi Basuki.

"Tadi sempat dikonfirmasi dulu sama ajudan soal mau diterima atau tidak. Kalau enggak diterima, ya dibawa balik," kata pamdal yang enggan disebutkan namanya, di Balaikota Jakarta, Kamis (30/1/2014).

Kini, karangan bunga itu bersandar di tembok sebelum pintu masuk Balaikota sisi samping. Karangan bunga itu menarik perhatian para pegawai negeri sipil (PNS) DKI dan para pejabat DKI lainnya.

Sementara ini, baru partai yang diketuai Megawati Soekarnoputri yang mengirimkan karangan bunga kepada pemilik nama Tionghoa Zhong Wan Xie ini. Partai tempat Basuki bernaung, yakni Partai Gerindra, belum mengirimkan karangan bunga.

Pada hari raya Natal (25/12/2013) lalu, PDI-P juga mengirimkan karangan bunga ke Basuki. Karangan bunga itu ditaruh tepat di depan teras kediaman Basuki, di Pantai Mutiara, Pluit, Jakarta Utara. Saat itu, yang mengirimkan karangan bunga ialah dari DPP PDI Perjuangan, lengkap dengan nama Ketua Umum Megawati Soekarnoputri dan Sekjen DPP PDI-P Tjahjo Kumolo.

Saat Natal, juga tidak tampak karangan bunga dari Partai Gerindra. Bahkan, pada malam Natal, Megawati, Gubernur DKI Jakarta Joko Widodo, bersama kader PDI-P lainnya secara khusus menyambangi kediaman Basuki. Pria yang akrab disapa Ahok itu bersama istri Veronica Tan langsung menjamu tamu-tamu spesialnya dengan berbagai makanan khas Belitung.

Sumber:kompas.com

Editor : Maulana Lee

RENTAL MOBIL JAKARTA

UNICAR Rental Mobil Jakarta hadir di tengah-tengah masyarakat Jakarta yang telah membutuhkan jasa transportasi yang aman dan nyaman. CV Unicorn Trinindya juga merupakan perusahaan jasa rental mobil yang berada di Jatinegara Indah, Jakarta Timur. Kami juga telah melayani jasa sewa mobil di wilayah Jakarta Pusat, Jakarta Timur, Jakarta Barat, Jakarta  Utara, Jakarta Selatan, Bekasi, Tangerang, Depok dan Bogor.  Kami siap melayani kebutuhan Anda akan jasa rental mobil yang murah dan berkualitas bagi Anda, baik untuk sewa mobil di dalam kota maupun sewa mobil sampai ke luar kota.

Dengan di dukung armada kendaraan mobil terbaru dan dalam kondisi yang prima maka akan menjamin keamanan dan kenyamanan Anda di saat menggunakan jasa layanan rental mobil dari kami. Dengan menjaga perawatan secara berkala, dan menjaga kebersihan mobil, perjalanan Anda akan semakin menyenangkan bersama kami.

Kami juga memiliki sopir / driver berpengalaman, yang menguasai cara mengemudi yang baik dan benar, yang akan menjamin keselamatan dan kenyamanan Anda saat menggunakan jasa layanan kami. Dengan pengalaman menguasai jalan-jalan di ibukota Jakarta maupun di luar kota, maka Anda bisa menikmati perjalanan Anda bersama kami, tanpa perlu dipusingkan dengan keruwetan jalan ibukota maupun di luar kota. Bagi Anda yang membutuhkan jasa sewa mobil tanpa sopir / lepas kunci, kami juga menyediakan layanan sewa tanpa sopir / lepas kunci asalkan syarat dan ketentuannya terpenuhi.

UNICAR Rental Mobil Jakarta melayani jasa sewa mobil baik bagi pribadi / personal maupun untuk keperluan perusahaan / corporate. Baik untuk keperluan wisata, rekreasi, keperluan keluarga, ataupun untuk perjalanan dinas pekerjaan atau bisnis Anda.

Apapun kebutuhan Anda akan jasa rental mobil Jakarta, segera hubungi kami untuk mendapatkan info dan penawaran harga terbaik. Kepuasan Anda adalah kebanggaan kami.

EMIR MOEIS DITUNTUT 4,5 TAHUN BUI & DENDA RP200 JUTA

Jaksa Penuntut Umum Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK) menuntut terdakwa dalam kasus dugaan suap pembangunan Pembangkit Listrik Tenaga Uap (PLTU) 1.000 megawatt di Tarahan, Lampung, pada tahun 2004 lalu , Izedrik Emir Moeis, dengan pidana penjara selama empat tahun enam bulan. Menurut Jaksa Supardi, politikus PDI Perjuangan itu dianggap terbukti telah menerima suap USD423.985 dalam pembangunan enam bagian PLTU Tarahan. "Menuntut, supaya majelis hakim telah menjatuhkan pidana penjara kepada terdakwa Izedrik Emir Moeis selama empat tahun enam bulan dikurangi masa tahanan," jelas Jaksa Supardi saat membacakan tuntutan Emir, di Pengadilan Tindak Pidana Korupsi (Tipikor), Jakarta, Senin (10/3/2014). Jaksa Supardi juga telah menuntut Emir dengan pidana denda sebesar Rp200 juta. Apabila tidak dibayar, maka mantan Ketua KomiI XI DPR itu harus menjalani pidana kurungan selama lima bulan. Sebelumnya, Emir didakwa telah menerima suap lebih dari USD423.985 berikut bunga dari Alstom Power Incorporated (Amerika Serikat) dan memenangkan konsorsium Alstom Inc., Marubeni Corporation (Jepang), dan PT Alstom Energy System (Indonesia) dalam pembangunan enam bagian PLTU Tarahan melalui Presiden Direktur Pacific Resources Inc., Pirooz Muhammad Sharafih. Atas tindakannya, Emir diduga bertentangan dengan kewajiban sebagai anggota DPR yang membidangi energi,sumber daya mineral, riset dan teknologi serta lingkungan hidup.> EMIR MOEIS DITUNTUT 4,5 TAHUN BUI & DENDA RP200 JUTA

SPAREPART AC / AC AGAR TAHAN LAMA PERLU PERAWATAN BERKALA

Sparepart AC / AC agar tahan lama perlu perawatan berkala

Memiliki AC di rumah / kantor maka perawatan baik itu AC / Sparepart AC nya juga perlu dilakukan secara berkala agar dapat menghindari keausan yang terlalu cepat dan menghindari penyebaran penyakit via udara misalnya batuk / pilek dll. AC dengan sparepart ac nya bisa menyimpang virus / bakteri dan menyebarkannya via udara ke para penghuni ruangan. Cara untuk perawatan AC dengan sparepart AC nya bisa dilakukan dengan hal seperti ini:

1. Jangan lupa matikan AC untuk dapat mencegah keausan sparepart ac nya

Bila bepergian atau ruangan tidak digunakan, jangan lupa untuk mematika AC. Meski pengoperasiannya cukup mudah, karena juga sudah disediakan remote control, tapi perawatan yang satu ini kerap diabaikan.

Bila udara tidak terlalu panas, usahakan untuk dapat mematikan sekitar satu atau dua jam dalam sehari. Bila perlu gunakan reminder atau timer yang terdapat dalam fasilitas AC. Ketika AC sudah dimatikan, buka lebar-lebar jendela dan pintu agar terjadi pertukaran udara.

2. Rawat kebersihan AC terutama bagian dalam ac / bagian dalam sparepart ac

Periksalah komponen saringan (filter) udara pada AC, minimal sebulan sekali. Penyaring udara yang kotor akan dapat menghambat proses sirkulasi udara dan menjadi tempat yang nyaman bagi kuman, bakteri maupun jamur.

Bakteri inilah yang akan dapat mengalir ke bagian evaporator coil (gulungan penguap) kemudian menyebar kembali ke seluruh ruangan. Komponen AC yang kotor dapat mempengaruhi kinerja sistem pendingin menjadi lebih berat, sehingga tidak menghasilkan dingin yang maksimal dan boros.

3. Selektif dalam penggunaan

Minimalkan potensi gangguan kesehatan dengan seselektif mungkin penggunaan AC, sebab bila di ruangan yang sama terdapat anggota keluarga yang sakit, virus dan kumannya dapat terbantu penyebarannya melalui AC.

Jadi bila ada anggota keluarga yang sakit flu, misalnya, usahakan seminimal mungkin menggunakan AC. Saran ini juga berlaku bila ada salah satu anggota keluarga yang merokok di dalam ruangan atau bila ruangan dan perabotannya tengah dibersihkan.

4. Periksa kondensor AC dan juga sparepart ac dalamnya

Pastikan kondensor yang terletak di luar rumah bersih dari debu, semak belukar dan dedaunan. Bila ingin membersihkan, matikan dulu AC dan bersihkan debu yang telah menempel dengan menggunakan vacuum cleaner.

Pastikan alat kondensor yang terletak di luar rumah bersih dari debu, semak-semak atau dedaunan. Tentu saja, sebelum Anda melakukannya, matikan pendingin ruangan terlebih dahulu. Anda dapat membersihkan debu dari kondensor tersebut dengan menggunakan vacuum cleaner.

5. Lakukan perawatan rutin AC & Sparepart AC nya juga

Agar lebih aman, rawatlah AC dengan memanggil teknisi pembersih AC yang dipercaya minimal enam bulan sekali. Perawatan ini juga tak hanya demi kesehatan keluarga, tapi juga untuk dapat memastikan AC menjadi lebih panjang umur dan hemat biaya bulanan listrik.

Finding Scandal in New York and New Jersey, but No Shame

From sea to shining sea, or at least from one side of the Hudson to the other, politicians you have barely heard of are being accused of wrongdoing. There were so many court proceedings involving public officials on Monday that it was hard to keep up.

In Newark, two underlings of Gov. Chris Christie were arraigned on charges that they were in on the truly deranged plot to block traffic leading onto the George Washington Bridge.

Ten miles away, in Lower Manhattan, Dean G. Skelos, the leader of the New York State Senate, and his son, Adam B. Skelos, were arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on accusations of far more conventional political larceny, involving a job with a sewer company for the son and commissions on title insurance and bond work.

The younger man managed to receive a 150 percent pay increase from the sewer company even though, as he said on tape, he “literally knew nothing about water or, you know, any of that stuff,” according to a criminal complaint the United States attorney’s office filed.

The success of Adam Skelos, 32, was attributed by prosecutors to his father’s influence as the leader of the Senate and as a potentate among state Republicans. The indictment can also be read as one of those unfailingly sad tales of a father who cannot stop indulging a grown son. The senator himself is not alleged to have profited from the schemes, except by being relieved of the burden of underwriting Adam.

The bridge traffic caper is its own species of crazy; what distinguishes the charges against the two Skeloses is the apparent absence of a survival instinct. It is one thing not to know anything about water or that stuff. More remarkable, if true, is the fact that the sewer machinations continued even after the former New York Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, was charged in January with taking bribes disguised as fees.

It was by then common gossip in political and news media circles that Senator Skelos, a Republican, the counterpart in the Senate to Mr. Silver, a Democrat, in the Assembly, could be next in line for the criminal dock. “Stay tuned,” the United States attorney, Preet Bharara said, leaving not much to the imagination.

Even though the cat had been unmistakably belled, Skelos father and son continued to talk about how to advance the interests of the sewer company, though the son did begin to use a burner cellphone, the kind people pay for in cash, with no traceable contracts.

That was indeed prudent, as prosecutors had been wiretapping the cellphones of both men. But it would seem that the burner was of limited value, because by then the prosecutors had managed to secure the help of a business executive who agreed to record calls with the Skeloses. It would further seem that the business executive was more attentive to the perils of pending investigations than the politician.

Through the end of the New York State budget negotiations in March, the hopes of the younger Skelos rested on his father’s ability to devise legislation that would benefit the sewer company. That did not pan out. But Senator Skelos did boast that he had haggled with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, in a successful effort to raise a $150 million allocation for Long Island to $550 million, for what the budget called “transformative economic development projects.” It included money for the kind of work done by the sewer company.

The lawyer for Adam Skelos said he was not guilty and would win in court. Senator Skelos issued a ringing declaration that he was unequivocally innocent.

THIS was also the approach taken in New Jersey by Bill Baroni, a man of great presence and eloquence who stopped outside the federal courthouse to note that he had taken risks as a Republican by bucking his party to support paid family leave, medical marijuana and marriage equality. “I would never risk my career, my job, my reputation for something like this,” Mr. Baroni said. “I am an innocent man.”

The lawyer for his co-defendant, Bridget Anne Kelly, the former deputy chief of staff to Mr. Christie, a Republican, said that she would strongly rebut the charges.

Perhaps they had nothing to do with the lane closings. But neither Mr. Baroni nor Ms. Kelly addressed the question of why they did not return repeated calls from the mayor of Fort Lee, N.J., begging them to stop the traffic tie-ups, over three days.

That silence was a low moment. But perhaps New York hit bottom faster. Senator Skelos, the prosecutors charged, arranged to meet Long Island politicians at the wake of Wenjian Liu, a New York City police officer shot dead in December, to press for payments to the company employing his son.

Sometimes it seems as though for some people, the only thing to be ashamed of is shame itself.

Obama Finds a Bolder Voice on Race Issues

As he reflected on the festering wounds deepened by race and grievance that have been on painful display in America’s cities lately, President Obama on Monday found himself thinking about a young man he had just met named Malachi.

A few minutes before, in a closed-door round-table discussion at Lehman College in the Bronx, Mr. Obama had asked a group of black and Hispanic students from disadvantaged backgrounds what could be done to help them reach their goals. Several talked about counseling and guidance programs.

“Malachi, he just talked about — we should talk about love,” Mr. Obama told a crowd afterward, drifting away from his prepared remarks. “Because Malachi and I shared the fact that our dad wasn’t around and that sometimes we wondered why he wasn’t around and what had happened. But really, that’s what this comes down to is: Do we love these kids?”

Many presidents have governed during times of racial tension, but Mr. Obama is the first to see in the mirror a face that looks like those on the other side of history’s ledger. While his first term was consumed with the economy, war and health care, his second keeps coming back to the societal divide that was not bridged by his election. A president who eschewed focusing on race now seems to have found his voice again as he thinks about how to use his remaining time in office and beyond.

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Obama Speaks of a ‘Sense of Unfairness’

In the aftermath of racially charged unrest in places like Baltimore, Ferguson, Mo., and New York, Mr. Obama came to the Bronx on Monday for the announcement of a new nonprofit organization that is being spun off from his White House initiative called My Brother’s Keeper. Staked by more than $80 million in commitments from corporations and other donors, the new group, My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, will in effect provide the nucleus for Mr. Obama’s post-presidency, which will begin in January 2017.

“This will remain a mission for me and for Michelle not just for the rest of my presidency but for the rest of my life,” Mr. Obama said. “And the reason is simple,” he added. Referring to some of the youths he had just met, he said: “We see ourselves in these young men. I grew up without a dad. I grew up lost sometimes and adrift, not having a sense of a clear path. The only difference between me and a lot of other young men in this neighborhood and all across the country is that I grew up in an environment that was a little more forgiving.”

Organizers said the new alliance already had financial pledges from companies like American Express, Deloitte, Discovery Communications and News Corporation. The money will be used to help companies address obstacles facing young black and Hispanic men, provide grants to programs for disadvantaged youths, and help communities aid their populations.

Joe Echevarria, a former chief executive of Deloitte, the accounting and consulting firm, will lead the alliance, and among those on its leadership team or advisory group are executives at PepsiCo, News Corporation, Sprint, BET and Prudential Group Insurance; former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell; Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey; former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.; the music star John Legend; the retired athletes Alonzo Mourning, Jerome Bettis and Shaquille O’Neal; and the mayors of Indianapolis, Sacramento and Philadelphia.

The alliance, while nominally independent of the White House, may face some of the same questions confronting former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as she begins another presidential campaign. Some of those donating to the alliance may have interests in government action, and skeptics may wonder whether they are trying to curry favor with the president by contributing.

“The Obama administration will have no role in deciding how donations are screened and what criteria they’ll set at the alliance for donor policies, because it’s an entirely separate entity,” Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, told reporters on Air Force One en route to New York. But he added, “I’m confident that the members of the board are well aware of the president’s commitment to transparency.”

The alliance was in the works before the disturbances last week after the death of Freddie Gray, the black man who suffered fatal injuries while in police custody in Baltimore, but it reflected the evolution of Mr. Obama’s presidency. For him, in a way, it is coming back to issues that animated him as a young community organizer and politician. It was his own struggle with race and identity, captured in his youthful memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” that stood him apart from other presidential aspirants.

But that was a side of him that he kept largely to himself through the first years of his presidency while he focused on other priorities like turning the economy around, expanding government-subsidized health care and avoiding electoral land mines en route to re-election.

After securing a second term, Mr. Obama appeared more emboldened. Just a month after his 2013 inauguration, he talked passionately about opportunity and race with a group of teenage boys in Chicago, a moment aides point to as perhaps the first time he had spoken about these issues in such a personal, powerful way as president. A few months later, he publicly lamented the death of Trayvon Martin, a black Florida teenager, saying that “could have been me 35 years ago.”

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That case, along with public ruptures of anger over police shootings in Ferguson and elsewhere, have pushed the issue of race and law enforcement onto the public agenda. Aides said they imagined that with his presidency in its final stages, Mr. Obama might be thinking more about what comes next and causes he can advance as a private citizen.

That is not to say that his public discussion of these issues has been universally welcomed. Some conservatives said he had made matters worse by seeming in their view to blame police officers in some of the disputed cases.

“President Obama, when he was elected, could have been a unifying leader,” Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a Republican candidate for president, said at a forum last week. “He has made decisions that I think have inflamed racial tensions.”

On the other side of the ideological spectrum, some liberal African-American activists have complained that Mr. Obama has not done enough to help downtrodden communities. While he is speaking out more, these critics argue, he has hardly used the power of the presidency to make the sort of radical change they say is necessary.

The line Mr. Obama has tried to straddle has been a serrated one. He condemns police brutality as he defends most officers as honorable. He condemns “criminals and thugs” who looted in Baltimore while expressing empathy with those trapped in a cycle of poverty and hopelessness.

In the Bronx on Monday, Mr. Obama bemoaned the death of Brian Moore, a plainclothes New York police officer who had died earlier in the day after being shot in the head Saturday on a Queens street. Most police officers are “good and honest and fair and care deeply about their communities,” even as they put their lives on the line, Mr. Obama said.

“Which is why in addressing the issues in Baltimore or Ferguson or New York, the point I made was that if we’re just looking at policing, we’re looking at it too narrowly,” he added. “If we ask the police to simply contain and control problems that we ourselves have been unwilling to invest and solve, that’s not fair to the communities, it’s not fair to the police.”

Moreover, if society writes off some people, he said, “that’s not the kind of country I want to live in; that’s not what America is about.”

His message to young men like Malachi Hernandez, who attends Boston Latin Academy in Massachusetts, is not to give up.

“I want you to know you matter,” he said. “You matter to us.”

Sid Tepper Dies at 96; Delivered ‘Red Roses for a Blue Lady’ and Other Songs

Mr. Tepper was not a musical child and had no formal training, but he grew up to write both lyrics and tunes, trading off duties with the other member of the team, Roy C. Bennett.

G.O.P. Hopefuls Now Aiming to Woo the Middle Class

WASHINGTON — The last three men to win the Republican nomination have been the prosperous son of a president (George W. Bush), a senator who could not recall how many homes his family owned (John McCain of Arizona; it was seven) and a private equity executive worth an estimated $200 million (Mitt Romney).

The candidates hoping to be the party’s nominee in 2016 are trying to create a very different set of associations. On Sunday, Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, joined the presidential field.

Senator Marco Rubio of Florida praises his parents, a bartender and a Kmart stock clerk, as he urges audiences not to forget “the workers in our hotel kitchens, the landscaping crews in our neighborhoods, the late-night janitorial staff that clean our offices.”

Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, a preacher’s son, posts on Twitter about his ham-and-cheese sandwiches and boasts of his coupon-clipping frugality. His $1 Kohl’s sweater has become a campaign celebrity in its own right.

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky laments the existence of “two Americas,” borrowing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s phrase to describe economically and racially troubled communities like Ferguson, Mo., and Detroit.

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“Some say, ‘But Democrats care more about the poor,’ ” Mr. Paul likes to say. “If that’s true, why is black unemployment still twice white unemployment? Why has household income declined by $3,500 over the past six years?”

We are in the midst of the Empathy Primary — the rhetorical battleground shaping the Republican presidential field of 2016.

Harmed by the perception that they favor the wealthy at the expense of middle-of-the-road Americans, the party’s contenders are each trying their hardest to get across what the elder George Bush once inelegantly told recession-battered voters in 1992: “Message: I care.”

Their ability to do so — less bluntly, more sincerely — could prove decisive in an election year when power, privilege and family connections will loom large for both parties.

Questions of understanding and compassion cost Republicans in the last election. Mr. Romney, who memorably dismissed the “47 percent” of Americans as freeloaders, lost to President Obama by 63 percentage points among voters who cast their ballots for the candidate who “cares about people like me,” according to exit polls.

And a Pew poll from February showed that people still believe Republicans are indifferent to working Americans: 54 percent said the Republican Party does not care about the middle class.

That taint of callousness explains why Senator Ted Cruz of Texas declared last week that Republicans “are and should be the party of the 47 percent” — and why another son of a president, Jeb Bush, has made economic opportunity the centerpiece of his message.

With his pedigree and considerable wealth — since he left the Florida governor’s office almost a decade ago he has earned millions of dollars sitting on corporate boards and advising banks — Mr. Bush probably has the most complicated task making the argument to voters that he understands their concerns.

On a visit last week to Puerto Rico, Mr. Bush sounded every bit the populist, railing against “elites” who have stifled economic growth and innovation. In the kind of economy he envisions leading, he said: “We wouldn’t have the middle being squeezed. People in poverty would have a chance to rise up. And the social strains that exist — because the haves and have-nots is the big debate in our country today — would subside.”

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Who Is Running for President (and Who’s Not)?

Republicans’ emphasis on poorer and working-class Americans now represents a shift from the party’s longstanding focus on business owners and “job creators” as the drivers of economic opportunity.

This is intentional, Republican operatives said.

In the last presidential election, Republicans rushed to defend business owners against what they saw as hostility by Democrats to successful, wealthy entrepreneurs.

“Part of what you had was a reaction to the Democrats’ dehumanization of business owners: ‘Oh, you think you started your plumbing company? No you didn’t,’ ” said Grover Norquist, the conservative activist and president of Americans for Tax Reform.

But now, Mr. Norquist said, Republicans should move past that. “Focus on the people in the room who know someone who couldn’t get a job, or a promotion, or a raise because taxes are too high or regulations eat up companies’ time,” he said. “The rich guy can take care of himself.”

Democrats argue that the public will ultimately see through such an approach because Republican positions like opposing a minimum-wage increase and giving private banks a larger role in student loans would hurt working Americans.

“If Republican candidates are just repeating the same tired policies, I’m not sure that smiling while saying it is going to be enough,” said Guy Cecil, a Democratic strategist who is joining a “super PAC” working on behalf of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Republicans have already attacked Mrs. Clinton over the wealth and power she and her husband have accumulated, caricaturing her as an out-of-touch multimillionaire who earns hundreds of thousands of dollars per speech and has not driven a car since 1996.

Mr. Walker hit this theme recently on Fox News, pointing to Mrs. Clinton’s lucrative book deals and her multiple residences. “This is not someone who is connected with everyday Americans,” he said. His own net worth, according to The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, is less than a half-million dollars; Mr. Walker also owes tens of thousands of dollars on his credit cards.

But showing off a cheap sweater or boasting of a bootstraps family background not only helps draw a contrast with Mrs. Clinton’s latter-day affluence, it is also an implicit argument against Mr. Bush.

Mr. Walker, who featured a 1998 Saturn with more than 100,000 miles on the odometer in a 2010 campaign ad during his first run for governor, likes to talk about flipping burgers at McDonald’s as a young person. His mother, he has said, grew up on a farm with no indoor plumbing until she was in high school.

Mr. Rubio, among the least wealthy members of the Senate, with an estimated net worth of around a half-million dollars, uses his working-class upbringing as evidence of the “exceptionalism” of America, “where even the son of a bartender and a maid can have the same dreams and the same future as those who come from power and privilege.”

Mr. Cruz alludes to his family’s dysfunction — his parents, he says, were heavy drinkers — and recounts his father’s tale of fleeing Cuba with $100 sewn into his underwear.

Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey notes that his father paid his way through college working nights at an ice cream plant.

But sometimes the attempts at projecting authenticity can seem forced. Mr. Christie recently found himself on the defensive after telling a New Hampshire audience, “I don’t consider myself a wealthy man.” Tax returns showed that he and his wife, a longtime Wall Street executive, earned nearly $700,000 in 2013.

The story of success against the odds is a political classic, even if it is one the Republican Party has not been able to tell for a long time. Ronald Reagan liked to say that while he had not been born on the wrong side of the tracks, he could always hear the whistle. Richard Nixon was fond of reminding voters how he was born in a house his father had built.

“Probably the idea that is most attractive to an average voter, and an idea that both Republicans and Democrats try to craft into their messages, is this idea that you can rise from nothing,” said Charles C. W. Cooke, a writer for National Review.

There is a certain delight Republicans take in turning that message to their advantage now.

“That’s what Obama did with Hillary,” Mr. Cooke said. “He acknowledged it openly: ‘This is ridiculous. Look at me, this one-term senator with dark skin and all of America’s unsolved racial problems, running against the wife of the last Democratic president.”

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As he reflected on the festering wounds deepened by race and grievance that have been on painful display in America’s cities lately, President Obama on Monday found himself thinking about a young man he had just met named Malachi.

A few minutes before, in a closed-door round-table discussion at Lehman College in the Bronx, Mr. Obama had asked a group of black and Hispanic students from disadvantaged backgrounds what could be done to help them reach their goals. Several talked about counseling and guidance programs.

“Malachi, he just talked about — we should talk about love,” Mr. Obama told a crowd afterward, drifting away from his prepared remarks. “Because Malachi and I shared the fact that our dad wasn’t around and that sometimes we wondered why he wasn’t around and what had happened. But really, that’s what this comes down to is: Do we love these kids?”

Many presidents have governed during times of racial tension, but Mr. Obama is the first to see in the mirror a face that looks like those on the other side of history’s ledger. While his first term was consumed with the economy, war and health care, his second keeps coming back to the societal divide that was not bridged by his election. A president who eschewed focusing on race now seems to have found his voice again as he thinks about how to use his remaining time in office and beyond.

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In the aftermath of racially charged unrest in places like Baltimore, Ferguson, Mo., and New York, Mr. Obama came to the Bronx on Monday for the announcement of a new nonprofit organization that is being spun off from his White House initiative called My Brother’s Keeper. Staked by more than $80 million in commitments from corporations and other donors, the new group, My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, will in effect provide the nucleus for Mr. Obama’s post-presidency, which will begin in January 2017.

“This will remain a mission for me and for Michelle not just for the rest of my presidency but for the rest of my life,” Mr. Obama said. “And the reason is simple,” he added. Referring to some of the youths he had just met, he said: “We see ourselves in these young men. I grew up without a dad. I grew up lost sometimes and adrift, not having a sense of a clear path. The only difference between me and a lot of other young men in this neighborhood and all across the country is that I grew up in an environment that was a little more forgiving.”

Organizers said the new alliance already had financial pledges from companies like American Express, Deloitte, Discovery Communications and News Corporation. The money will be used to help companies address obstacles facing young black and Hispanic men, provide grants to programs for disadvantaged youths, and help communities aid their populations.

Joe Echevarria, a former chief executive of Deloitte, the accounting and consulting firm, will lead the alliance, and among those on its leadership team or advisory group are executives at PepsiCo, News Corporation, Sprint, BET and Prudential Group Insurance; former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell; Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey; former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.; the music star John Legend; the retired athletes Alonzo Mourning, Jerome Bettis and Shaquille O’Neal; and the mayors of Indianapolis, Sacramento and Philadelphia.

The alliance, while nominally independent of the White House, may face some of the same questions confronting former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as she begins another presidential campaign. Some of those donating to the alliance may have interests in government action, and skeptics may wonder whether they are trying to curry favor with the president by contributing.

“The Obama administration will have no role in deciding how donations are screened and what criteria they’ll set at the alliance for donor policies, because it’s an entirely separate entity,” Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, told reporters on Air Force One en route to New York. But he added, “I’m confident that the members of the board are well aware of the president’s commitment to transparency.”

The alliance was in the works before the disturbances last week after the death of Freddie Gray, the black man who suffered fatal injuries while in police custody in Baltimore, but it reflected the evolution of Mr. Obama’s presidency. For him, in a way, it is coming back to issues that animated him as a young community organizer and politician. It was his own struggle with race and identity, captured in his youthful memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” that stood him apart from other presidential aspirants.

But that was a side of him that he kept largely to himself through the first years of his presidency while he focused on other priorities like turning the economy around, expanding government-subsidized health care and avoiding electoral land mines en route to re-election.

After securing a second term, Mr. Obama appeared more emboldened. Just a month after his 2013 inauguration, he talked passionately about opportunity and race with a group of teenage boys in Chicago, a moment aides point to as perhaps the first time he had spoken about these issues in such a personal, powerful way as president. A few months later, he publicly lamented the death of Trayvon Martin, a black Florida teenager, saying that “could have been me 35 years ago.”

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That case, along with public ruptures of anger over police shootings in Ferguson and elsewhere, have pushed the issue of race and law enforcement onto the public agenda. Aides said they imagined that with his presidency in its final stages, Mr. Obama might be thinking more about what comes next and causes he can advance as a private citizen.

That is not to say that his public discussion of these issues has been universally welcomed. Some conservatives said he had made matters worse by seeming in their view to blame police officers in some of the disputed cases.

“President Obama, when he was elected, could have been a unifying leader,” Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a Republican candidate for president, said at a forum last week. “He has made decisions that I think have inflamed racial tensions.”

On the other side of the ideological spectrum, some liberal African-American activists have complained that Mr. Obama has not done enough to help downtrodden communities. While he is speaking out more, these critics argue, he has hardly used the power of the presidency to make the sort of radical change they say is necessary.

The line Mr. Obama has tried to straddle has been a serrated one. He condemns police brutality as he defends most officers as honorable. He condemns “criminals and thugs” who looted in Baltimore while expressing empathy with those trapped in a cycle of poverty and hopelessness.

In the Bronx on Monday, Mr. Obama bemoaned the death of Brian Moore, a plainclothes New York police officer who had died earlier in the day after being shot in the head Saturday on a Queens street. Most police officers are “good and honest and fair and care deeply about their communities,” even as they put their lives on the line, Mr. Obama said.

“Which is why in addressing the issues in Baltimore or Ferguson or New York, the point I made was that if we’re just looking at policing, we’re looking at it too narrowly,” he added. “If we ask the police to simply contain and control problems that we ourselves have been unwilling to invest and solve, that’s not fair to the communities, it’s not fair to the police.”

Moreover, if society writes off some people, he said, “that’s not the kind of country I want to live in; that’s not what America is about.”

His message to young men like Malachi Hernandez, who attends Boston Latin Academy in Massachusetts, is not to give up.

“I want you to know you matter,” he said. “You matter to us.”

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