European vector of foreign policy of the Barack Obama administration

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M. Yu. Lymar

2014-07-01

Full Text Available The article researches the basic principles and conceptual approaches to shaping the foreign policy of the   Barack Obama. It is noted that: the foreign policy of the United States should strengthen U.S. global leadership; the special role in determining the directions of U.S. foreign policy is given to the principle of «smart power»; it is important to cooperate with international organizations; the dialogue with Europe should be based on the axis of NATO­EU. This study examines the main areas of cooperation with the European Union, including: overcoming the global crisis and reforming the international financial system; settling the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan; ensuring energy security; finding the ways to prevent new climate changes; defusing the situation which is related to the deployment of U.S. strategic plans in Eastern Europe. It is analyzed the beginning of Obama administration activity on inetnational area, discussed its achievements and shortcomings. The article marks that the USA focuses its attention more on the «Asian vector» and it causes some concern of the European Community. Attention is drawn to the main priorities of «National Security Strategy 2010». The author concludes that despite the absence of significant changes in U.S.­European relations during the first term of Barack Obama as the president, the current era of transatlantic relations has witnessed a process of constant functional cooperation with varying success.

An Open Letter to President Barack Obama from C. Frederick Risinger

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Risinger, C. Frederick

2010-01-01

This article presents an open letter to President Barack Obama written by the author to express his concerns about the increasing emphasis on mathematics and science education along with the continued emphasis on reading/language arts while a fourth major curriculum area--social studies--is being marginalized by lack of funding and reduced…

An Interview with Barack Obama: "The Most Important Skill Is Knowledge"

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Hebel, Sara

2007-01-01

Barack Obama agreed to answer a series of questions submitted via e-mail to his campaign. This article presents excerpts of "The Chronicle"'s exchange with the senator and candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, in which he discussed his policy suggestions for student aid and college access; the appropriate role of the federal…

Barack Obama Blindness (BOB: Absence of visual awareness to a single object

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Marjan ePersuh

2016-03-01

Full Text Available In two experiments we evaluated whether a perceiver’s prior expectations could alone obliterate his or her awareness of a salient visual stimulus. To establish expectancy, observers first made a demanding visual discrimination on each of three baseline trials. Then, on a fourth, critical trial, a single, salient and highly visible object appeared in full view at the center of the visual field and in the absence of any competing visual input. Surprisingly, fully half of the participants were unaware of the solitary object in front of their eyes. Dramatically, observers were blind even when the only stimulus on display was the face of U.S. President Barack Obama. We term this novel, counterintuitive phenomenon, Barack Obama Blindness (BOB. Employing a method that rules out putative memory effects by probing awareness immediately after presentation of the critical stimulus, we demonstrate that the BOB effect is a true failure of conscious vision.

Obama Emphasizes Science and Innovation in State of the Union Address

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Tretkoff, Ernie

2011-02-01

U.S. president Barack Obama emphasized innovation and competitiveness in his State of the Union address on 25 January. He also raised science and technology early in the hour-long speech, noting that nations like China and India are focusing on math and science education and investing in research and technology. To be competitive with those countries, “we need to out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world,” Obama said. “The first step in winning the future is encouraging American innovation.”

Standing in the shadows of Niebuhr : U.S. president Barack Obama and Reinhold Niebuhr’s Christian realism

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Kamminga, M.R.

2011-01-01

U.S. president Barack Obama has called renowned Christian moral and political theologian Reinhold Niebuhr a major intellectual influence. Although Obama’s acknowledgement has been widely noted and discussed, a more systematic analysis and evaluation of the extent to which Obama has actually taken

Barack Obama: apoios recebidos na campanha presidencial na visão do New York Times

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Maria Inez Mateus Dota

2010-01-01

Este estudio tiene por objetivo discutir como son presentados y contextualizados los apoyos dados a Barack Obama, manifiestos en el diario The New York Times, en el periodo de la campaña presidencial del 2008.

The Relationship between Racial Identity and Perceived Significance of the Election of President Barack Obama among African American Mothers.

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Franco, Marisa; Smith-Bynum, Mia

2016-01-01

African American women's racial identity is a major determinant for how they interpret the world around them, yet there is little research examining how specific aspects of racial identity are linked with attitudes about an event that has been highly significant for African-Americans: the election of President Barack Obama. The current study examined the relationship between African American mothers' racial identity and their perceived significance of the election of President Barack Obama as an indicator of reduced systemic and actual racism for African Americans, using a sample of 110 African American mothers residing in a Northeastern metropolitan area. Results revealed that racial centrality and assimilation positively predicted perceived significance of President Obama's election for diminishing racism. Implications and future directions are discussed.

Barack Obama: apoios recebidos na campanha presidencial na visão do New York Times

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Maria Inez Mateus Dota

2010-12-01

Full Text Available Este estudio tiene por objetivo discutir como son presentados y contextualizados los apoyos dados a Barack Obama, manifiestos en el diario The New York Times, en el periodo de la campaña presidencial del 2008.

Beyond Post-Racial Narratives: Barack Obama and the (Re)shaping of Racial Memory in US Schools and Society

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Smith, William L.; Brown, Anthony L.

2014-01-01

Drawing from the work of "cultural memory" and "racial formation theory" (Omi and Winant 1994) we explore the ascension of Barack Obama as an illustration of how "race" is understood and remembered. This article focuses on the public media discourse of the 2012 Obama re-election to illustrate how the narrative morphed…

Making a Difference? Evaluating the Impact of President Barack Obama

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James Goldgeier

2010-01-01

Full Text Available Barack Obama prometió durante su campaña electoral poner fin a la guerra en Irak y al mismo tiempo poner a disposición los recursos necesarios para combatir a los Talibán en Afganistán. En marzo, anunció una estrategia para Afganistán y Pakistán centrada en la derrota de Al Qaeda. En agosto, definía la guerra en Afganistán claramente como "una guerra de necesidad". Pero tras recibir del General Stanley McChristal la evaluación de las tropas necesarias para cumplir con la nueva estrategia, Obama empezó una extensa revisión para determinar si se seguía el curso correcto. En West Point en diciembre, el presidente declaró que se enviarían 30.000 nuevas tropas americanas al conflicto, pero prometió acometer la retirada pasados 18 meses.

Gobierno de Barack Obama: una explicación desde el institucionalismo

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Javier Garay

2010-11-01

Full Text Available Este artículo trata de explicar, desde el institucionalismo, los problemas domésticos que ha tenido el gobierno de Barack Obama en los Estados Unidos. Se parte del hecho que este gobierno ha tenido una buena imagen en el ámbito internacional, pero ha tenido dificultades para generar consensos en el ámbito doméstico. Para esto, en el artículo se afirma que este gobierno demócrata se aleja de los valores, cultura y sociedad estadounidenses.

Has the Dream Been Fulfilled? Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. & President Barack Hussein Obama

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Robinson, Nichelle Boyd; Moore, Virginia J.; Williams-Black, Thea H.

2015-01-01

Equality for all was the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and he knowingly laid the foundation for and inspired the first African-American President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama, who also had the dream of "Change" for America. These men exhibited how working together can make dreams become reality. For the…

The Obama Books Boom

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Roach, Ronald

2009-01-01

As Barack Obama's rise to power inspires a flood of books, scholars hope the publishing trend will yield serious analysis. Barack Obama's rise from Illinois politics to the U.S. presidency has inspired authors to produce a flood of books chronicling the 44th commander in chief's life story and political career. Obama's political odyssey invites…

Barack Obama and His-Story : Paradox of Hybridity and Masculinity in His Autoandrography

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瀬名波, 栄潤

2008-01-01

This essay, a revision of an oral presentation at NASSS, examines Barack Hussein Obama's 1995 autobiography Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance from literary perspectives as the text introduces not only a postmodern bildungsroman hero of hybridity but the author's paradoxical obsession to paternal heritage. As a result, his autoandrography, a life writing of a man about himself and by himself, represents a familiar story of a man who is trapped by the myth of masculinity. T...

Assessing the Debt: George W. Bush's Legacy and the Future of Public Education under Barack Obama

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Means, Alex; Taylor, Kendall

2010-01-01

This article utilizes Gloria Ladson-Billings' notion of educational debt in order to explore the historical, economic, and cultural politics of education reform under George W. Bush and Barack Obama. It tracks the No Child Left Behind Act across a number of fields in order to claim that Bush's expansion of the educational debt should be understood…

Continuing Inequity through Neoliberalism: The Conveyance of White Dominance in the Educational Policy Speeches of President Barack Obama

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Hairston, Thomas W.

2013-01-01

The purpose of this critical discourse analysis is to examine how the political speeches and statements of President Barack Obama knowingly or unknowingly continue practices and policies of White privilege within educational policy and practice by constructing education in a neoliberal frame. With presidents having the ability to communicate…

Retorika Barack Hussein Obama Dan Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Dalam Menanggapi Isu Isis Di Dunia

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Livia

2015-07-01

Full Text Available This research discuss about the rhetoric performed by Barack Hussein Obama as President of the United States and Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as President of the Republic of Indonesia in delivering feedback over the ISIS issue that circulating around the world. ISIS is an organization who commit acts of terrorism in the name of Islam. The United States is known as ‘anti-Islam’ country’s, while Indonesia has the largest Muslim population in the world. Therefore, author used Roland Barthes semiotic to reveal differences in this two figures seen from their rhetoric of verbal and non-verbal language. Thus, we can reveal how this two figures performed their rhetoric over the ISIS issue that conveyed to the international community. Penelitian ini membahas mengenai retorika yang dilakukan oleh Barack Hussein Obama selaku Presiden Amerika Serikat dan Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono selaku Presiden Republik Indonesia dalam memberikan tanggapan mengenai isu ISIS yang beredar di dunia. ISIS merupakan sebuah organisasi yang melakukan tindakan terorisme dengan mengatasnamakan Islam. Amerika Serikat merupakan negara yang dikenal sebagai negara ‘anti Islam’, sedangkan Indonesia merupakan negara dengan penduduk muslim terbanyak di dunia. Oleh karena itu, penulis menggunakan semiotik Roland Barthes untuk mengungkapkan perbedaan retorika kedua tokoh dilihat dari bahasa verbal dan non verbalnya. Dengan demikian, dapat terlihat seperti apa retorika yang dilakukan oleh kedua tokoh yang ingin disampaikan kepada masyarakat internasional terkait isu ISIS.

Diplomatic Mission: President Obama's Path to Performance Pay

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Smarick, Andy

2011-01-01

In his first major education speech as a presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama affirmed his support of teachers unions. Less than two years later, in his first major education address as president, delivered to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in March 2009, Obama explicitly backed paying teachers for performance, a reform the unions…

"Politics 2.0": a campanha online de Barack Obama em 2008

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Wilson Gomes

2009-10-01

Full Text Available O artigo examina o estágio mais recente do padrão das campanhas políticas on-line em eleições presidenciais do ponto de vista dos recursos e instrumentos empregados como parte das operações de comunicação política em redes digitais. Como as eleições americanas de 2008, em geral, e a campanha on-line de Barack Obama, em particular, representam a face mais recente e, até o momento, mais exitosa desse tipo de operação política, os recursos e instrumentos empregados na campanha de Obama serão tomados como um estudo de caso. Trata-se, portanto, de uma prospecção sobre uma experiência de emprego de recursos digitais e on-line em campanhas políticas com o objetivo de reconhecer o patamar a que foram levadas as campanhas on-line e de estabelecer generalizações sobre tendências e possibilidades desse tipo de campanha política. Concluímos que, embora o uso dos recursos de comunicação digital não seja a causa do sucesso da campanha de Obama ou mesmo da mobilização gerada e da popularidade que teve entre o eleitorado jovem, eles certamente fazem parte do ambiente social e político que determinou esses fenômenos.

Obama's Foreign Policy: Is there such a thing?

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Pata, Martin

2010-01-01

This thesis examines the foreign policy of the 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Obama. A significant theme of Barack Obama's candidacy for presidency was "change"; more specifically change in policy from previous administration. Therefore, the thesis looks at the changes brought about by President Obama once he was elected. First, we look at foreign policy of the United States under President George W. Bush, then we look at foreign policy-related assertions of Barack Oba...

Presidendikandidaat Obama tegi algust Euroopa-turneega / Kaivo Kopli

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Kopli, Kaivo

2008-01-01

USA demokraatide presidendikandidaadi Barack Obama visiidist Euroopasse, kohtumisest Saksamaa kantsleri Angela Merkeliga. Barack Obama ei saanud kõnet pidada Brandenburgi värava juures, nagu ta oli soovinud. Lisa: Seni usub rahvas pigem McCaini

Let Obama be Obama! / Toomas Alatalu

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Alatalu, Toomas, 1942-

2010-01-01

USA politoloogi ja julgeolekueksperdi Zbigniew Brzezinski artiklist "Lootusest julguseni" ajakirjas Foreign Affairs, milles autor lahkab president Barack Obama välispoliitikat. USA Lähis-Ida poliitikast ja USA- Iisraeli suhetest

Weltanschauung und Politik in den heutigen USA. Barack Obama und der „neue Kulturkampf“ um die Führung der anglo-amerikanischen Weltmacht

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Roland Benedikter

2010-06-01

Full Text Available The relationship between Worldviews and Politics in the USA today. Barack Obama and the “new cultural battle” for political supremacy in the US English Summary: This article provides an analysis of the current relationship between Politics, Culture and Worldviews in the USA under Barack Obama. The present “great Obama divide” of US domestic politics consists in the division between institutional and contextual (cultural and worldview politics. Obama has induced their current opposition when he ran for the US Presidency by profiling himself as a “cultural” candidate “against the system”. One result is that by becoming part of the system after being elected, Obama has lost some of his initial “revolutionary” appeal; a second effect is that the opposition is now trying to turn the tables by mobilizing the contextual political sphere against Obama’s control of the institutional power. In fact, the Republicans, rather than concentrating on traditional ways of regaining power focus on launching a new “worldview” battle against Obama in the hope to use the pre-political sphere to eventually regain the institutional political majority. The overall result is a general climate of “worldview mobilization” in the USA, and an increased influence of cultural and worldview philosophies onto the institutionalized mechanisms of politics. Pre-political movements like the conservative “inverting the myth – inverting the paradigm” movement or the “tea party” movement are the expression of attempts towards a new “cultural battle” for “the soul of the USA,” which has to be understood in its basic mechanisms, if the “Obama constellation” shall be understood. This article sketches some core elements of Obama’s worldview that are in play in this game, and it argues that many actions of Obama on the field of foreign politics are (and will be to a noticeable extent co-oriented toward influencing the domestic �

Barack Obama – the new charismatic political actor - a discourse analysis

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Ada-Maria Țîrlea

2016-09-01

Full Text Available The American president, Barack Obama, is considered to be one of the most charismatic figures of the 21st century. His speeches are the best asset through which he emphasizes this quality. Although, he hasn’t always been considered to be a successful politician, he made his entrance on the political arena in 2004, when he delivered one of his best speeches. The aim of this paper is to reveal the most important elements of a political discourse that can contribute to creating a good image of a political actor. Using the critical discourse analysis method, we are trying to see if there is a connection between a good, coherent discourse strategy and the charisma of the American leader. The sample will include his 2004 speech, delivered at the Democrats’ Convention, the speech that put him in the eyes of the media as a future American leader.

The effects of name and religious priming on ratings of a well-known political figure, President Barack Obama.

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Williams, Gary A; Guichard, AnaMarie C; An, JungHa

2017-01-01

Priming with race-typed names and religious concepts have been shown to activate stereotypes and increase prejudice towards out-groups. We examined the effects of name and religious word priming on views of a specific and well-known person, President Barack Obama. We predicted that politically conservative participants primed with President Obama's middle name (Hussein) would rate him more negatively and be more likely to view him as a Muslim than those not shown his middle name. We also examined whether conservatives primed with concrete religious words would rate President Obama more negatively and be more likely to view him as Muslim than those primed with other word types. Furthermore, we predicted that those who mis-identify President Obama as Muslim would rate him more negatively than would those who view him as Christian. The results provided mixed support for these hypotheses. Conservatives primed with President Obama's middle name rated him significantly more negatively than did those in the control condition. This effect was not found for politically liberal or moderate participants. Name priming did not significantly affect views of President Obama's religious affiliation. Although not statistically significant, conservatives primed with abstract religious words tended to rate President Obama more negatively than did those primed with other word types. Religious word priming significantly influenced views of President Obama's religious affiliation; interestingly, participants primed with abstract religious words were more likely to think President Obama is Muslim than were those primed with religious agent or non-religious words. As predicted, participants who thought president Obama was Muslim rated him significantly more negatively than did those who thought he was Christian. Overall, our results provide some evidence that ethnic name and religious word priming can significantly influence opinions, even with a well-known and specific person.

Mitos y símbolos en la campaña de Barack Obama

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AracelI Soní-Soto

2011-01-01

Full Text Available El uso de las redes sociales en Internet desempeñó un papel fundamental en el triunfo electoral de Barack Obama en las últimas elecciones norteamericanas. El análisis de este fenómeno proporciona la pauta para visualizar su incidencia en la transformación cultural y política de la sociedad en la medida que propició una amplia participación ciudadana, coherente con los ideales democráticos. Sin embargo, el éxito de la contienda no se puede atribuir exclusivamente al uso de los medios, sino a la confluencia entre estos y la significación de los mensajes, cuyo arraigo se encuentra en los mitos de origen y en sus representaciones simbólicas.

Grybauskaite rejects Obama's invitation / Rokas M. Tracevskis

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Tracevskis, Rokas M.

2010-01-01

8. aprillil kirjutavad Ameerika Ühendriikide president Barack Obama ja Venemaa president Dmitri Medvedev Prahas uuele strateegilise tuumarelvastuse piiramise leppele alla. Samaks päevaks on Barack Obama Prahasse kutsunud Eesti, Läti, Leedu ja Rumeenia presidendid ning Poola, Tšehhi, Bulgaaria, Horvaatia, Ungari, Slovakkia ja Sloveenia peaministrid. Leedu president Dalia Grybauske loobus kutsest. Tema asemel sõidab kohtumisele peaminister Andrius Kubilius

Obama Pressing Boost for Pre-K

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Klein, Alyson

2013-01-01

President Barack Obama used his first State of the Union address since winning re-election to put education at the center of his broader strategy to bolster the nation's economic prospects. He is proposing to dramatically expand preschool access for low- and middle-income children and to create a new competitive program aimed at helping high…

Obama's "Postmodernism," Humanism and History

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Peters, Michael A.

2009-01-01

The term "postmodernism" has recently been used to describe President Barack Obama, and not by just one commentator. Jonah Goldberg in a recent USA Today column, the author of "Liberal Fascism," advanced the notion that Obama is a postmodernist. Webster Griffin Tarpley, Bruce Marshall & Jonathon Mowat (2008) have written a book entitled "Obama:…

Black Orpheus, Barack Obama’s Governmentality

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Donald Pease

2011-09-01

Full Text Available This essay constitutes a preliminary effort to explain the state fantasy with which Barack Obama hegemonized an alternative to the biopolitical settlement normalizing George W. Bush’s Global War on Terror (Pease 2009. In what follows, I intend to argue that Obama has not utterly displaced Bush’s Homeland State of Exception but that Obama’s governmentality presupposes it as the structuring logic through which he transformed the US state’s relationship with domestic and planetary peoples. I will be interested in particular in the role that Obama’s complex negotiation with the congeries of racial fantasies that he found condensed in the figure and the film Black Orpheus played in Barack Obama’s governmentality.

Barack Obama, John Lewis, and the Legacy of the Civil Rights Struggle

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Glenn T. Eskew

2012-01-01

Full Text Available The watershed election in 2008 of Barack Obama as the first President of the United States to have African ancestry resulted from the life work of such civil rights activists as U.S. Congressman John Lewis. Born on a sharecropper’s farm in 1940, the African American Lewis grew up in segregated Alabama. As a college student in Nashville, he joined the sit-in protests and volunteered for the original Freedom Ride in 1961. He was elected chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, becoming the youngest speaker at the March on Washington in 1963. The radical shift to Black ultimately forced Lewis out of SNCC. Consequently Lewis capitalized on the Voting Rights Act of 1965, turned his attentions to voter registration campaigns, and continued working within the system. In 1986 he won election to the U.S. House of Representatives to represent Atlanta’s Fifth Congressional District, a seat he continues to hold today.

Obama reassured Kubilius about U.S. security guarantees / Rokas M. Tracevskis

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Tracevskis, Rokas M.

2010-01-01

Ameerika Ühendriikide president Barack Obama ja Venemaa riigipea kohtusid 8. aprillil Prahas ning allkirjastasid uue tuumarelvastuse piiramise leppe. Barack Obama oli Prahasse lõunale kutsunud Eesti, Läti, Leedu ja Rumeenia presidendid ning Poola, Tšehhi, Bulgaaria, Horvaatia, Ungari, Slovakkia ja Sloveenia peaministrid. Leedu president Dalia Grybauskaite loobus kutsest, teda asendas peaminister Andrius Kubilius

Obama ja McCaini lugu Ameerika presidendivalimistel : kes võidab? / Jonatan Vseviov

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Vseviov, Jonatan

2008-01-01

Autor analüüsib USA presidendikandidaatide Barack Obama ja John McCaini valimiskampaaniat, sellel ajal esitatavat lugu minevikust ja tulevikust, kus keskseks tegelaseks on kandidaat ise ning asepresidendikandidaatide valikut. Obamal on muutuste narratiiv - soov muuta senist poliitikat, McCainil aga narratiiv kogemustest ja sõltumatusest. Vt. samas: Barack Obama; John McCain; Hendrik Vosman. Obama valmistub koostama staaride kabinetti; Evelyn Kaldoja. Michelle Obamat võrreldakse Jackie Kennedyga; Missioonitundega õlleprintsess Cindy Hensley McCain

Barack Obama’s pauses and gestures in humorous speeches

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Navarretta, Costanza

2017-01-01

The main aim of this paper is to investigate speech pauses and gestures as means to engage the audience and present the humorous message in an effective way. The data consist of two speeches by the USA president Barack Obama at the 2011 and 2016 Annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner...... produced significantly more hand gestures in 2016 than in 2011. An analysis of the hand gestures produced by Barack Obama in two political speeches held at the United Nations in 2011 and 2016 confirms that the president produced significantly less communicative co-speech hand gestures during his speeches...... and they emphasise the speech segment which they follow or precede. We also found a highly significant correlation between Obama’s speech pauses and audience response. Obama produces numerous head movements, facial expressions and hand gestures and their functions are related to both discourse content and structure...

Obama kavatseb samal ajal kulutada ja kokku hoida / Heiki Suurkask

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Suurkask, Heiki, 1972-

2008-01-01

USA tulevase presidendi Barack Obama meeskond koostab abipaketti, et luua 2010. aastaks juurde 3,5 mln. töökohta, selleks kuluks 500 mld. dollarit. Hiiglaslikust eelarvedefitsiidist. B. Obama majandusmeeskonnast

Obama pistab vabariiklastega rinda / Hendrik Vosman

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Vosman, Hendrik

2011-01-01

USA president Barack Obama tutvustas riigi uut säästukava, mille keskne soov on ulatuslikult parandada maksusüsteemi ja teenida nii riigikassasse 10 aasta jooksul juurde 1,5 triljonit dollarit. Seoses vabariiklaste vastuseisuga ei ole Obamal lootust pälvida Kongressis kava heakskiitu. Diagramm: Obama kava eelarvepuudujäägi vähendamiseks.

Obama states obligation to act on climate change

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Showstack, Randy

2012-11-01

Obama states obligation to act on climate change Noting increased global temperatures, Arctic ice melt, and severe weather events, President Barack Obama said that climate change is real and called for a conversation across the country to determine what can be done about it.

Häkkerid levitasid libauudist Obama surmast / Heiki Suurkask

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Suurkask, Heiki, 1972-

2011-01-01

Häkkerid asetasid 4. juulil USA telekanalile Fox News kuuluvale Twitteri-leheküljele välksõnumi, et USA president Barack Obama olevat surnud. 2. mail Osama bin Ladeni tapmisest teatades oskas telekanal ekraanil edastada trükiveaga teadet "Obama bin Laden on surnud"

USA valimiste võitja võib selguda varakult - kui Obama võtab Indiana / Kaivo Kopli

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Kopli, Kaivo

2008-01-01

USA presidendivalimistel suletakse valimisjaoskonnad esimesena Indianas. Demokraatide kampaania konsultandi Doug Schoeni hinnangul viitab isegi tasavägine tulemus Indianas ilmselt Barack Obama suurele üleriigilisele võidule. Reutersi vaatlejate hinnanguid. Vt. samas: Kas populaarsusküsitlused ikka ennustavad valimistulemuse õigesti? Kaart, tabelid, graafikud: Barack Obama läheb võitma

Obama ja terroristid / Gwynne Dyer

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Dyer, Gwynne

2009-01-01

Barack Obama USA presidendiks saamise järel on autori arvates oluliselt suurenenud oht, et terroristid võivad peagi ette võtta ulatusliku rünnaku Ameerika vastu, tekitamaks hirmutunnet USA avalikkuses

The Obama Administration

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Ashbee, Edward

2012-01-01

Barack Obama's election as US president gave rise to hopes of radical reform. Indeed, comparisons were drawn with 1932 and there were references to ‘realignment’. Many on the left were quickly disappointed by the limited character of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the abandonment of ...

Is Montessori Ready for the Obama Generation?

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Powell, Mark

2009-01-01

When Barack Obama announced his run for the presidency, he seemed an unlikely candidate. Against all odds, he was able to defeat an apparently overwhelming opposition by relating to the electorate in a more horizontal, collaborative manner. What Obama did differently was to empower the new, digitally active, younger political class by involving…

USA politoloogid : Obama võit oleks ka Eesti oma / Laura Vetik

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Vetik, Laura

2008-01-01

USA politoloogide sõnul oleks pingestunud Venemaa ja USA suhete taustal Eestile kasulikum, kui 56. USA presidendivalimised võidaks demokraat Barack Obama. Erinevate politoloogide hinnanguid. Vt. samas: Obama ja McCain loovad kabinette

President Ilves kohtus Ameerika Ühendriikide presidendi Barack Obamaga

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2009-01-01

President Toomas Hendrik Ilves kohtus 15. juunil 2009 Washingtonis USA presidendi Barack Obama ja tema julgeolekunõuniku James Jonesiga. Vabariigi President töövisiidil Ameerika Ühendriikides 9.-16.06.2009

Weltanschauung und Politik in den heutigen USA. Barack Obama und der „neue Kulturkampf“ um die Führung der anglo-amerikanischen Weltmacht

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Roland Benedikter

2010-06-01

Full Text Available This article provides an analysis of the current relationship between Politics, Culture and Worldviews in the USA under Barack Obama. The present "great Obama divide" of US domestic politics consists in the division between institutional and contextual (cultural and worldview politics. Obama has induced their current opposition when he ran for the US Presidency by profiling himself as a "cultural" candidate "against the system". One result is that by becoming part of the system after being elected, Obama has lost some of his initial "revolutionary" appeal; a second effect is that the opposition is now trying to turn the tables by mobilizing the contextual political sphere against Obama’s control of the institutional power. In fact, the Republicans, rather than concentrating on traditional ways of regaining power focus on launching a new "worldview" battle against Obama in the hope to use the pre-political sphere to eventually regain the institutional political majority. The overall result is a general climate of "worldview mobilization" in the USA, and an increased influence of cultural and worldview philosophies onto the institutionalized mechanisms of politics. Pre-political movements like the conservative "inverting the myth - inverting the paradigm" movement or the "tea party" movement are the expression of attempts towards a new "cultural battle" for "the soul of the USA," which has to be understood in its basic mechanisms, if the "Obama constellation" shall be understood. This article sketches some core elements of Obama’s worldview that are in play in this game, and it argues that many actions of Obama on the field of foreign politics are (and will be to a noticeable extent co-oriented toward influencing the domestic "worldview battle."

Glorious Burdens: Teaching Obama's History and the Long Civil Rights Movement

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Slate, Nico

2011-01-01

As a young child, Barack Obama learned about the civil rights movement from his mother. Obama's mother strove to instill in her multiracial son pride in being more than just literally African American. There is much to learn from Obama's history, understood both as the story of his life and as what Obama himself has said about his past and the…

Barack Obama’s infrastructure policies for the United States

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Auger, J.F.

2008-01-01

The new president of the United States, Barack Obama, has set his policies on infrastructures. To carry them out, he will resort mostly to economics incentives and, to a lesser extent, regulatory constraints.

Energy and climate policies of the USA during the two Barack Obama's terms

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Meritet, Sophie; Monjon, Stephanie

2016-02-01

As Barack Obama, from its first presidential campaign to its second term, supported the development of low carbon energies, the protection of climate and of the environment, the development of renewable energies, but also the development of non conventional fossil resources (during his second term), the authors first propose an analysis of the situation of the USA in terms of energy and of greenhouse gas emissions. They highlight the good situation of energy: USA are the first world producer, natural gas is being developed, coal is still present, and electric power is a centre of attention. The evolution of greenhouse gas emissions is discussed for the electricity sector and for the transport sector. In the next part, the authors discuss the content of the different policies implemented during both terms. These policies can be characterized by a strong support to renewable energies at the federal as well as state level, contrasted choices among states in terms of climate policy, federal initiatives for climate (reduction of CO_2 emissions in electric power plants, reduction of methane emissions, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in other sectors), and actions on the international scene

Destination memory and deception: when I lie to Barack Obama about the moon.

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Haj, Mohamad El; Saloppé, Xavier; Nandrino, Jean Louis

2018-05-01

This study investigates whether deceivers demonstrate high memory of the person to whom lies have been told (i.e., high destination memory). Participants were asked to tell true information (e.g., the heart is a vital organ) and false information (e.g., the moon is bigger than the sun) to pictures of famous people (e.g., Barack Obama) and, in a subsequent recognition test, they had to remember to whom each type of information had previously been told. Participants were also assessed on a deception scale to divide them into two populations (i.e., those with high vs. those with low deception). Participants with high tendency to deceive demonstrated similar destination memory for both false and true information, whereas those with low deception demonstrated higher destination memory for lies than for true information. Individuals with a high tendency to deceive seem to keep track of the destination of both true information and lies to be consistent in their future social interactions, and thus to avoid discovery of their deception. However, the inconsistency between deceiving and the moral standard of individuals with a low tendency to deceive may result in high destination memory in these individuals.

Obama rahustab murelikku Ida-Euroopat / Jürgen Tamme

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Tamme, Jürgen

2014-01-01

USA president Barack Obama puudutas kohtumistel Brüsselis, lisaks olukorrale Krimmis, Euroopa energiajulgeoleku ja Euroopa riikide kaitsekulutuste teemadele, ka NATO kohaloleku suurendamist Ida- ja Kesk-Euroopas

Obama, where Art Thou? Hoping for Change in U.S. Education Policy

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Au, Wayne

2009-01-01

In this essay, Wayne Au carefully considers the educational stance of Barack Obama by exploring the president's speeches and his personnel and policy choices. Au considers the election of Obama as a moment of possibility for change in American education, but also questions whether Obama's hopeful message about education will be fully realized,…

Obama võidud on tekitamas doominoefekti / Kaivo Kopli

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Kopli, Kaivo

2008-01-01

USA eelvalimistel on Barack Obama olnud Hillary Clintonist edukam juba kaheksas osariigis järjest, Clinton on välja vahetanud oma kampaania juhi ja asejuhi. Mõningatel hinnangutel otsustavad võitja lõpuks nn. superdelegaadid, kes pole seotud eelvalimiste ega lubadusega üht või teist kandidaati toetada. Diagrammid, kaardid: McCain ja Obama edukad. Lisa: Delegaatide arv on kõigi puhul segane

Kan Obama speechen? Yes he can! (Brabants Dagblad 7 nov. 2008)

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Bas Jongenelen

2008-01-01

Snel nadat duidelijk werd dat Barack Obama de Amerikaanse presidentsverkiezingen gewonnen had, hield hij in Chicago zijn overwinningstoespraak. Was dit de historische toespraak waar Amerika op zat te wachten? Hoe goed was de speech eigenlijk? Ik zal hier een korte analyse presenteren van Obama's

Pivot to the Pacific? The Obama Administration’s Rebalancing Toward Asia

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2012-03-28

office/2011/11/17/remarks- president-obama-australian-parliament. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Gillard of Australia, “Remarks by...President Obama and Prime Minister Gillard of Australia in Joint Press Conference,” November 16, 2011, at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011...11/16/remarks-president-obama-and-prime- minister- gillard -australia-joint-press. U.S. Department of Defense, Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership

Üks täht on langenud: aasta Obama võidust / Kaivo Kopli

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Kopli, Kaivo

2009-01-01

Autor analüüsib USA presidendi Barack Obama populaarsuse langust ning märgib, et ootused, millega kuulati B. Obama võidukõnet, on asendunud rahutuks muutunud suhtumisega tema ametis hakkama saamisesse. Lisa: 6 murtud lubadust

McCainiga hakkab rinda pistma Obama / Hendrik Vosman

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Vosman, Hendrik

2008-01-01

USA demokraatide presidendikandidaat Hillary Clinton ei söandanud oma allajäämist Barack Obamale tunnistada. Lisa: Obama ja McCaini seisukohad. Vt. samas: Hillary Clinton võib saada asepresidendi kandidaadiks

African Identity, Self and Other, in Obama's "Dreams from My Father"

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Heikal, Azza Ahmed; Aziz, Heba Mohamed Abdel

2016-01-01

This paper is a close examination of postcolonial and postmodern 20th century discourse with reference to Obama's "Dreams from My Father" (1995). Barack Hussein Obama (1961-present) has a colonial experience and double cultural background which formulate his views of racial discrimination, make him accept racial differences and dream of…

Obama suunab kahuritule teadmata kadunud Osamale / Heiki Suurkask

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Suurkask, Heiki, 1972-

2009-01-01

Autori sõnul on USA tähelepanu hajumine võimaldanud al-Qaidal peituda ja neid varjaval Talibanil uuesti tugevneda. Esimene muutus, mille Barack Obama USA presidendina tegi, oli katse islamimaailma terroristidest eemale meelitada

Obama kriisitiimi juhib tugev kolmik / Sirje Rank

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Rank, Sirje, 1966-

2008-01-01

USA presidendiks valitud Barack Obama kuulutab ametlikult välja oma meeskonna liikmed. Tulevane rahandusminister Timothy Geithner ning Valge Maja koordinatsiooni nõukogu tulevane juht Lawrence Summers seisavad vastamisi finantskriisi ületamise ning finantssüsteemi stabiliseerimise ülesandega

Obama sai rahupreemia liiga vara / Kaivo Kopli

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Kopli, Kaivo

2009-01-01

Norra Nobeli komitee meelest väärib USA president Barack Obama rahupreemiat selle eest, et ta on andnud maailmale "parema tuleviku lootuse" oma tööga rahu nimel ja üleskutsetega vähendada tuumarelvastust kogu maailmas

Obama: me keeldume elamast hirmus / Neeme Raud

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Raud, Neeme, 1969-

2011-01-01

USA president Barack Obama ja välisminister Hillary Clinton rõhutasid 11. septembri terrorirünnaku aastapäeval, et Ameerika Ühendriigid ei tohi oma valvsust kaotada, sest terrorioht ei kao kuhugi. New Yorgis toimunud mälestustseremooniast

Segurança nacional e liberdades civis nos Estados Unidos: Obama e a opção pela segurança

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Cláudio Júnior Damin

2013-10-01

Full Text Available O artigo analisa, à luz da experiência histórica dos EUA, as recentes denúncias de vigilância do Estado em relação aos indivíduos no governo de Barack Obama. Aborda-se a tensão entre segurança nacional e liberdades civis e como o democrata faz uma opção pela segurança, repetindo o padrão de presidentes anteriores.   The article examines, in the light of the historical experience of the U.S., recent reportsof state surveillance in relation to individuals in the government of Barack Obama. Addresses the tension between national security and civil liberties and how the Democrat did an option for safety, repeating the pattern of previous presidents.

Universities Look to Obama to Expand Their Role in Development Abroad

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McMurtrie, Beth

2009-01-01

As the Obama administration takes office, educators involved in development work abroad look to the future with hope. Although the economic downturn may constrain the new president's ability to make financial commitments abroad, Barack Obama has said he wants to double the amount of foreign assistance provided by the United States to fight poverty…

Obama's 2012 Plan Shelters Education

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Klein, Alyson

2011-01-01

The author reports on the federal budget proposal for fiscal year 2012 in which President Barack Obama singled out education as an area crucial to the country's economic future. He called for bolstering programs he deems critical to his vision for a renewed Elementary and Secondary Education Act and proposed new ones in research, early-childhood…

Obama Plays Cheerleader for STEM

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Robelen, Erik W.

2010-01-01

Amid a struggling economy, a raft of foreign-policy headaches, and the tail end of a heated campaign season, President Barack Obama carved out time in his schedule last month to watch students in the State Dining Room demonstrate a solar-powered model car, a water-purification system, and a soccer-playing robot. The science fair was the fifth…

Obama and US policy towards Africa

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Olsen, Gorm Rye

2017-01-01

When Barack Obama came into office in January 2009, there were high expectations that he would change the policy towards Africa. It has not happened. Critics maintain that the current policy is not only a continuation of the policy of George W. Bush but has also become increasingly ‘militarized...

The Obama health care plan: what it means for mental health care of older adults.

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Sorrell, Jeanne M

2009-01-01

Health care was an important issue for both the Obama and McCain election campaigns. Now that Barack Obama is poised to serve as the 44th President of the United States, many health care providers are focused on what Obama's administration will mean for new health care initiatives. This article focuses specifically on aspects of the Obama and Biden health care plan that affects mental health care for older adults.

Results of President Obama's Race to the Top

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Howell, William G.

2015-01-01

Caught between extraordinary public expectations and relatively modest constitutional authority, U.S. presidents historically have fashioned all sorts of mechanisms--executive orders, proclamations, memoranda--by which to move their objectives forward. William Howell asserts that under President Barack Obama's administration, presidential…

Using group consciousness theories to understand political activism: case studies of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Ingo Hasselbach.

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Duncan, Lauren E

2010-12-01

I describe and integrate several theories of group consciousness and collective action, along with 3 case studies of political activists. I have 2 goals: (1) to use the theories to help us understand something puzzling about each life and (2) to use the cases to complicate and expand the theories. Barack Obama's case raises the question of how someone with a politicized Black identity evolved into a politician working for all oppressed people and complicates racial identity development theory. Hillary Clinton's case raises the question of how a middle-class White girl raised in a conservative family became a prominent Democratic Party politician and complicates group consciousness theories by demonstrating the importance of generation and personality. Ingo Hasselbach's (a former German neo-Nazi leader) case illustrates relative deprivation theory and raises the question of whether theories developed to explain subordinate group consciousness can be applied to movements of dominant group consciousness. © 2010 The Author. Journal of Personality © 2010, Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Obama, in the mirror of the America Latina Press / Obama, en la Prensa Latinoamericana

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Dr. Rogelio Rivera Fernández; rogelioriverafernandez@msn.com

2009-01-01

Full Text Available In this written, was done a description and analysis over the mediatic covering directed to Barack Obama as elected president of the United States of America in the main national journals from Latin America. In particular between November 2008 and January 2009, were checked the journals: Clarín from Argentina, El Mercurio from Chile, Ultimas Noticias de Venezuela, and Excélsior, Reforma and Milenio from Mexico In this article were explained causes that have generated Obama as has been converted in mediatic phenomenon around the world with characteristics of political celebrity in Latin America. As conclusion Latin American press has been covered only the actions and movements related to Obama and his family and many of this very close to trivial and anecdotal, transforming in certain way critical sense maintained for journal lines press over the last presidents of United States. En el escrito se hace una descripción y análisis, a la luz de la teoría de media setting, sobre la cobertura mediática que tuvo Barack Obama como presidente electo de los Estados Unidos en los principales diarios nacionales de América Latina. En lo particular, se revisaron los diarios Clarín, de Argentina; El Mercurio, de Chile; Últimas Noticias, de Venezuela, y los diarios Excélsior, Reforma y Milenio, de México, entre noviembre de 2008 y enero de 2009. Se explican, también, las causas que han generado que Obama se haya convertido en un fenómeno mediático mundial y las características que ha tomado la cobertura informativa sobre esta celebridad de la política en América Latina. Se concluye que la cobertura mediática sobre los movimientos y acciones de Obama y su familia fue muy amplia y complaciente, generando miles de historias y notas periodísticas, muchas de ellas rayando en cuestiones triviales y anecdóticas, trasformando, de cierta forma, el sentido crítico que tradicionalmente había prevalecido en la prensa latina sobre los mandatarios de los

Obama jääb eestlastele võõraks / Jaanus Betlem

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Betlem, Jaanus, 1961-

2010-01-01

Barack Obama näol on enamiku eestlaste jaoks tegemist järjekordse meediastaariga. Ta on nagu filminäitleja, kelle naeratus ehib seltskonnaajakirjade kaasi, kuid tegelik elu jääb lugejate eest varjatuks

Obama alustab külaskäiku Venemaale keerulisel ajal / Liisi Poll

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Poll, Liisi, 1980-

2009-01-01

USA president Barack Obama alustab 6. juulil oma Moskva visiiti, mille käigus on tal kavas lisaks Kremli juhtidele kohtuda ka opositioonitegelaste ning Nõukogude Liidu viimase juhi Mihhali Gorbatšoviga

Proua Obama on murdnud nii ilusate kui ka mõjukate nimekirja / Evelyn Kaldoja

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Kaldoja, Evelyn, 1980-

2009-01-01

Hiljutise Gallupi küsitluse andmetel toetab USA presidenti Barack Obamat 69 protsenti ja tema abikaasat Michelle Obamat 72 protsenti küsitlusele vastanuist. Michelle Obama populaarsusest esileedi rollis

The Obama Era: A Post-Racial Society?

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Lum, Lydia

2009-01-01

With Barack Obama ensconced as the nation's first Black president, plenty of voices in the national conversation are trumpeting America as a post-racial society--that race matters much less than it used to, that the boundaries of race have been overcome, that racism is no longer a big problem. In this article, longtime scholars whose life's work…

Obama Pushes Pre-K, Competitive Grants in Budget

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Klein, Alyson

2013-01-01

President Barack Obama's latest budget proposal envisions a sweeping, multi-billion-dollar expansion of prekindergarten programs and doubles down on the administration's strategy of using competitive grants to drive big change in states and districts--all as school districts try to cope with the largest cuts to federal education spending in recent…

Communication dated 2 April 2009 received from the Permanent Missions of the Russian Federation and the United States of America regarding a joint statement by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and U.S. President Barack Obama

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2009-01-01

The Secretariat has received a communication dated 2 April 2009 from the Permanent Missions of the Russian Federation and the United States of America, transmitting to the attention of all Member States of the IAEA a joint statement by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and U.S. President Barack Obama issued on 1 April 2009. As requested in that communication, the attached statement is herewith circulated for the information of all Member States

Remembering President Barack Obama's inauguration and the landing of US Airways Flight 1549: A comparison of the predictors of autobiographical and event memory

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Koppel, Jonathan Mark; Brown, Adam D.; Stone, Charles B.

2013-01-01

regressions we found that the psychological variables of recalled emotional intensity and personal importance/centrality predicted AM consistency and event memory accuracy for the inauguration. Conversely, the rehearsal variables of covert rehearsal and media attention predicted, respectively, AM consistency......We examined and compared the predictors of autobiographical memory (AM) consistency and event memory accuracy across two publicly documented yet disparate public events: the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States on January 20th 2009, and the emergency landing of US...... Airways Flight 1549, off the coast of Manhattan, on January 15th 2009. We tracked autobiographical and event memories for both events, with assessments taking place within 2½ weeks of both events (Survey 1), and again between 3½ and 4 months after both events (Survey 2). In a series of stepwise...

Obama hirmutamistaktika võib mõjuda tagasilöögina / Kaivo Kopli

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Kopli, Kaivo

2009-01-01

USA president Barack Obama kasutas majanduse päästeplaani läbisurumisel sõnu "kriis", "katastroof" ja "häving". Vaatlejate hinnangul võib sellisel taktikal olla ka tagasilöök - hirmunud inimesed ei hakka raha kulutama ja retsessioon pikeneb

U. S. Central Asian policy under president Barack Obama

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Laumulin, Murat

2010-01-01

There can be no doubt that during the eighteen months it has been in power, the Obama Administration has in due course defined the main vectors and priorities of U.S. foreign policy, determined the country's key geopolitical interests, drawn up and adopted a National Security Strategy, and compiled a Nuclear Policy Review. The following factors are having an impact on U.S. policy in the post-Soviet expanse, which includes Central Asia (CA): relations with Russia, the PRC, the Islamic Republic...

From biodefence to biosecurity: the Obama administration's strategy for countering biological threats.

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Koblentz, Gregory D

2012-01-01

The Seventh Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), the first international treaty to outlaw an entire class of weapons, was held in Geneva in December 2011. On 7 December, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton became the highest-ranking US government official to address a BWC meeting. Secretary Clinton told the assembled delegation that ‘we view the risk of bioweapons attack as both a serious national security challenge and a foreign policy priority’. At the same time, she warned that a large-scale disease outbreak ‘could cripple an already fragile global economy’. Secretary Clinton's speech reflected a new understanding that the range of biological threats to international security has expanded from state-sponsored biological warfare programmes to include biological terrorism, dual-use research and naturally occurring infectious diseases such as pandemics. Recognizing these changes, President Barack Obama released a new national strategy for countering biological threats in 2009. This strategy represents a shift in thinking away from the George W. Bush administration's focus on biodefence, which emphasized preparing for and responding to biological weapon attacks, to the concept of biosecurity, which includes measures to prevent, prepare for and respond to naturally occurring and man-made biological threats. The Obama administration's biosecurity strategy seeks to reduce the global risk of naturally occurring and deliberate disease outbreaks through prevention, international cooperation, and maximizing synergies between health and security. The biosecurity strategy is closely aligned with the Obama administration's broader approach to foreign policy, which emphasizes the pragmatic use of smart power, multilateralism and engagement to further the national interest. This article describes the Obama administration's biosecurity strategy; highlights elements of continuity and change from the policies of the Bush administration; discusses

Kes on Eesti Obama? Lihtne küsimus / Raimo Ülavere

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Ülavere, Raimo, 1970-

2009-01-01

USA president Barack Obama on oma esimese 11 töönädalaga "rääkinud" üles inimeste usu tulevikku. Autor arutleb, kas mõni Eesti ühiskonna liidritest, sealhulgas president, oleks selleks võimeline. Autor näeb lahendust pigem kodanikualgatuses ning soovitab osaleda "Minu Eesti" mõttetalgutel

Participatory and social media to engage youth: from the Obama campaign to public health practice.

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Goodman, Jordi; Wennerstrom, Ashley; Springgate, Benjamin F

2011-01-01

Barack Obama's successful campaign for the presidency has been widely attributed to the use of social networking sites, mobile devices, and interactive websites to engage previously hard-to-reach populations in political activity. Campaign communication strategies may be applicable for youth health promotion efforts, particularly for the highly stigmatized issue of mental health. In this article, we examine elements of the 2008 Obama presidential campaign's use of social media technologies and content designed to foster effective political participation among youth. We outline how the same social media technologies may be applied to public health efforts focused on reaching and providing services to the 20% of young people who have a diagnosable mental disorder. We discuss the strengths and limitations of the application of these media to date, and raise questions about the future use of these media for engaging hard-to-reach populations in addressing stigmatized public health issues.

The climate protection policy of the USA under president Obama; Die Klimaschutzpolitik der USA unter Praesident Obama

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2009-01-15

Barack Obama's slogan 'Are you ready for a Change?' may become the motto fo the future climate protection policy of the USA. While the USA is slowly beginning to play a more active role in this area, there are many political and institutional obstacles to overcome before the USA can become one of the big global players here. The authors analyse the status quo of the US climate protection policy in an attempt to indicate national and international perspectives of climate protection. (orig.)

[Barack Obama et le « rêve américain »

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Dumont , Gérard-François

2009-01-01

International audience; The “American dream” : an old concept which incorporates a strong demographic component; indeed it is inseparable from the migratory flows involving the United States. Barack Obama’s election also integrated this aspect, with the new president declaring during his campaign that he wanted to keep the American dream alive.; Notion ancienne, le « rêve américain » compte une forte dimension démographique, car il est indissociable des courants migratoires liés aux États-Uni...

Summary and Analysis of President Obama's Education Budget Request, Fiscal Year 2012: Issue Brief

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New America Foundation, 2011

2011-01-01

President Barack Obama submitted his third budget request to Congress on February 14th, 2011. The detailed budget request includes proposed funding levels for federal programs and agencies in aggregate for the upcoming 10 fiscal years, and specific fiscal year 2012 funding levels for individual programs subject to appropriations. Congress will use…

Failure to Launch: Obama's New Teen Initiative Can Be Fixed, and Here's How

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Smith, William; Wagoner, James

2009-01-01

President Barack Obama has proposed an end to abstinence-only-until-marriage funding as Americans have known it for the better part of the last decade. This marks a significant change in direction, one that finally brings science and evidence back into government policy. His leadership on this new direction will be essential in the coming…

When journalists say what a candidate doesn't: race, nation and the 2008 Obama presidential campaign

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Sheets, P.; Rowling, C.M.

2015-01-01

Research indicates that U.S. news coverage of non-White political candidates tends to be race-focused and often prompts White voters to bring racial considerations to the polls. Indeed, racial considerations likely cost Barack Obama a significant percentage of White voters in the 2008 presidential

Re-Seeing Race in a Post-Obama Age: Asian American Studies, Comparative Ethnic Studies, and Intersectional Pedagogies

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Schlund-Vials, Cathy J.

2011-01-01

Focused on comparative ethnic studies and intersectionality, the author commences with a discussion about Barack Obama's historic inauguration and the Asian American literature classroom. This essay argues that courses, programs, and departments focused on ethnicity, race, gender, class, and sexuality remain important precisely because they…

Knowing Obama: How High School Students of Color Learn about the 44th President

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Smith, William

2016-01-01

Drawing from a theory of racial literacy and literature on the post-racial phenomenon after the 2008 election, this case study examines how high school students of color have learned about Barack Obama as a racial and political figure. Findings suggest that schools can be unfriendly spaces for learning about these topics, with history and social…

La base electoral de Obama, redes sociales virtuales y reales: los casos de generation engage y moms for Obama The electoral support of Obama, real and social virtual networks: the case of ‘Generation Engage’ and ‘Moms for Obama’

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José Luis González

Full Text Available ResumenDespués de un año de la victoria electoral de Barack Obama, el actual presidente de los Estados Unidos mantiene unas cotas de popularidad muy elevadas, máxime si tenemos en cuenta la actual coyuntura de crisis que afecta de manera frontal a los Estados Unidos. El presente artículo, a partir del estudio de un estado concreto: Carolina del Norte, explica cuáles son las bases sobre las que se sustenta dicho apoyo, bases que tienen que ver con un trabajo realizado desde las elecciones primarias del Partido Demócrata y que se sustentan en un adecuado uso de las redes sociales, tanto virtuales como reales. Para demostrar esta hipótesis, se muestran los resultados de un vasto trabajo de campo realizado, fundamentalmente con dos redes que han centrado sus esfuerzos en afianzar el voto joven y el voto femenino: ‘Generation Engage’ y ‘Mom for Obama’.AbstractAfter one year of the election victory of Barack Obama, the current president of the United Status, has a very high level of popularity, especially bearing in mind the current crisis that affects the United States. This article, from the study of a particular state: North Carolina, explains the keys of support, keys that are related to work done since the primaries and the Democratic Party behind in an appropriate use of social networks, both virtual and real. To prove this hypothesis, we show the results of an extensive field work carried out mainly with two networks that have focused their efforts on strengthening the youth vote and women voters: Generation Engage and 'Moms for Obama.

Attitudes toward blacks in the Obama era changing distributions and impacts on job approval and electoral choice, 2008-2012

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Pasek, Josh; Stark, Tobias; Krosnick, Jon A.; Tompson, Trevor; Payne, B. Keith

2014-01-01

Much published research indicates that voting behavior in the 2008 presidential election and evaluations of Barack Obama were importantly influenced by anti-Black sentiment. Various psychological theories made opposing predictions as to whether exposure to the first Black president during his first

Remembering President Barack Obama's inauguration and the landing of US Airways Flight 1549: a comparison of the predictors of autobiographical and event memory.

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Koppel, Jonathan; Brown, Adam D; Stone, Charles B; Coman, Alin; Hirst, William

2013-01-01

We examined and compared the predictors of autobiographical memory (AM) consistency and event memory accuracy across two publicly documented yet disparate public events: the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States on January 20th 2009, and the emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549, off the coast of Manhattan, on January 15th 2009. We tracked autobiographical and event memories for both events, with assessments taking place within 2½ weeks of both events (Survey 1), and again between 3½ and 4 months after both events (Survey 2). In a series of stepwise regressions we found that the psychological variables of recalled emotional intensity and personal importance/centrality predicted AM consistency and event memory accuracy for the inauguration. Conversely, the rehearsal variables of covert rehearsal and media attention predicted, respectively, AM consistency and event memory accuracy for the plane landing. We conclude from these findings that different factors may underlie autobiographical and event memory for personally and culturally significant events (e.g., the inauguration), relative to noteworthy, yet less culturally significant, events (e.g., the plane landing).

Key Questions on the Obama Administration's 2013 Education Budget Request: Federal Education Budget Project. Issue Brief

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New America Foundation, 2012

2012-01-01

President Barack Obama submitted his third budget request to Congress on February 13th, 2012. The budget request includes proposed funding levels for all federal programs and agencies in aggregate for the upcoming 10 fiscal years, and specific fiscal year 2013 funding levels for programs subject to the annual appropriations process. It is…

Os doze trabalhos de Obama

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Henrique Rattner

2010-02-01

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A alegoria com o semideus da mitologia latina, filho de Júpiter e de Alcmena, dotado de poderes sobre humanos e chamado a executar doze tarefas impossíveis para um mortal comum não parece um exagero ao analisar os desafios políticos e econômicos enfrentados pelo atual presidente dos Estados Unidos, Barack Obama. Eleito por maioria expressiva de votos da população profundamente decepcionada pelo governo Bush e passados 300 dias desde sua posse, é possível fazer um primeiro balanço de seu governo. Obama herdou o país no meio da pior recessão das últimas décadas e deve enfrentar graves problemas na política interna e externa, sem falar da tremenda responsabilidade de recuperar o prestígio e o respeito pelo país que continua sendo a maior potência econômica e militar do mundo.

Beyond Political Rhetoric and Discourse: What Type of Educational, Socio-Economic, and Political Change Should Educators Expect of President Barack Obama?

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Orelus, Pierre W.

2009-01-01

This article critically analyzes Obama's singular political victory. The author begins by laying out current racial, socio-economic, educational and political challenges that await President-elect Obama. He goes on to analyze Obama's political discourse and then questions whether or not Obama would be able to meet these challenges. The author…

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ElBaradei, M.

2009-01-01

Full text: I am absolutely delighted to learn that President Barack Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. I cannot think of anyone today more deserving of this honour. In less than a year in office, he has transformed the way we look at ourselves and the world we live in and rekindled hope for a world at peace with itself. President Obama has provided outstanding leadership on moving towards a world free of nuclear weapons. He has shown an unshakeable commitment to diplomacy, mutual respect and dialogue as the best means of resolving conflicts. He has reached out across divides and made clear that he sees the world as one human family, regardless of religion, race or ethnicity. President Obama has brought a new vision of a world based on human decency, fairness and freedom which is an inspiration to us all. (IAEA)

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Gale, J. [IEA Greenhouse Gas R & D Programme, Cheltenham (United Kingdom)

2009-03-15

The new bill before the Senate, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, allows for an additional amount for 'Fossil Energy Research and Development' of $4.6 billion, to be available until 30 September 2010 and that $2 billion of that is available for one or more near zero emissions power plant(s). Two further provisions allow for an additional $1 billion for the Department's Clean Coal Power Initiative Round III and a further $1.5 billion for a competitive solicitations for projects that demonstrate carbon capture from industrial sources. Awards for such projects may include plant efficiency improvements for integration with carbon capture technology. The press seems to be divided whether this money will help revive the FutureGen project. The financial commitment should help the G8 achieve its objective of seeing 20 CCS demonstration projects around the world by 2020. An economic stimulus package proposed by the incoming Barack Obama administration include $150 billion to be spent over 10 years to spur next generation biofuels, plug in hybrid vehicles, a new digital electrical grid and new low emission coal plants. The proposal is intended to create jobs and address critical infrastructure in the US.

Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father and African American Literature

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2011-09-01

Full Text Available This article provides a series of close readings of Barack Obama’s autobiography Dreams from My Father. It places the narrative within the history of African American literature and rhetoric and argues that Obama uses the text to create a life story that resonates with central concepts of African American selfhood and black male identity, including double consciousness, invisibility, and black nationalism. The article reads Dreams from My Father as an attempt to arrive at a state of “functional Blackness,” which moves away from questions of racial authenticity and identity politics but recognizes the narrative powers of African American literature to shape a convincing and appealing black self.

Participatory and Social Media to Engage Youth: From the Obama Campaign to Public Health Practice

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Goodman, Jordi; Wennerstrom, Ashley; Springgate, Benjamin F.

2011-01-01

Barack Obama’s successful campaign for the presidency has been widely attributed to the use of social networking sites, mobile devices, and interactive websites to engage previously hard-to-reach populations in political activity. Campaign communication strategies may be applicable for youth health promotion efforts, particularly for the highly stigmatized issue of mental health. In this article, we examine elements of the 2008 Obama presidential campaign’s use of social media technologies an...

Obama, McCain e as “Não-Questões”: o Doméstico e o Internacional

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Cristina Soreanu Pecequilo

2008-07-01

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The Obama Doctrine - U.S. Strategic Retrenchment and its Consequences

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Micha Woźniak

2015-12-01

Full Text Available In this article the author writes about the features of a strategy of retrenchment and how it can be applied to the analysis of the foreign policy of the United States during the presidency of Barack Obama. Many of the decisions made by the United States in the international arena resulted from a desire to limit involvement in world affairs, to reduce military spending, and to persuade allies to take a greater responsibility for their own security. Such a policy was motivated by strengthening the weakened position of the USA, but it also contributed to the growth of chaos in the world.

The power of rhetoric and the rhetoric of power: Exploring a tension within the Obama presidency

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Rob Kroes

2012-03-01

Full Text Available When Barack Obama acceded to the Presidency of the United States he held out the promise of a new beginning. As a master of political rhetoric he had spoken of a new start following the dismal years of the Bush administration. He would take America back to its inspirational creed of freedom and democracy. He augured a break with policies infringing on civil liberties and government under the law. Once in office, though, the power of rhetoric that had carried him into the White House ran into the hard reality of political rule under conditions of ongoing wars in far-away countries and the threat of terrorism, lurking at home and abroad. This chapter will explore how well President Obama managed to preserve democratic freedoms at home while fighting terrorism.

President Obama visiidi eduka kommunikatsiooni tagas põhjalik ettevalmistus / Mariann Sudakov, Tiina Ansip, Ainar Ruussaar ...[jt.] ; intervjueerinud Kertu Kärk

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2014-01-01

Eestit 3. septembril 2014 külastanud USA president Barack Obama visiidi kommunikatsioonist ja planeerimisest räägivad välisministeeriumi pressiosakonna nimel pressispetsialist Mariann Sudakov, valitsuse kommunikatsioonibüroo esindaja, valitsuse meedianõunik valitsuskommunikatsiooni direktori ülesannetes Tiina Ansip, ERR-i juhatuse liige ja ajakirjanik Ainar Ruussaar, Vabariigi Presidendi avalike suhete nõunik Toomas Sildam ning USA saatkonna pressi- ja kultuuriatašee Bradley Hurst

Change or Continuity in US-Latin American Policy: the Obama Record

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Stephen J. Randall

2013-11-01

Full Text Available The article explores the ambitions, challenges, successes and perceived failures and disappointments of the policies pursued by the Democratic administrations of President Barack Obama, with particular focus on Honduras, Mexico and Colombia. The article notes the eloquent and optimistic rhetoric of Obama, in his first presidential campaign and in the early days of his first administration, commitments to significant change in U.S. policy toward Latin America. In contrast the record of the first five years of his administrations have witnessed the continuation of policies which are difficult to distinguish from those of his predecessor. The article also notes the general decline in U.S. influence in the region. There has been insignificant change in Cuban policy, save for a liberalization of family travel to Cuba. His administration implemented the controversial Free Trade Agreement with Colombia which his own party leaders had long opposed. He has maintained the funding levels of the equally controversial Plan Colombia which began under Bill Clinton, and he has continued to adhere to a largely Republican agenda on border security with Mexico.

Obama Announces Science Education Goal at White House Science Fair

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Showstack, Randy

2012-02-01

With student participants in the second annual White House Science Fair as a backdrop, President Barack Obama announced on 7 February programs to help prepare new math and science teachers and to meet a new goal of having 1 million more U.S. college graduates in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) over the next decade than there would be at the current graduation rate. That goal is outlined in a report entitled “Engage to excel,” by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), released the same day. Obama also announced several other initiatives, including a $22 million private-sector investment, led by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, to invest in STEM teacher training. After he toured the science fair projects, Obama said the science fair students “inspire” him. “What impresses me so much is not just how smart you are, but it's the fact that you recognize you've got a responsibility to use your talents in service of something bigger than yourselves,” he said. What these young people are doing is “going to make a bigger difference in the life of our country over the long term than just about anything,” adding, “We've got to emphasize how important this is and recognize these incredible young people who are doing that that I couldn't even imagine thinking about at fifth grade or eighth grade or in high school.”

USC/School Performance Dashboard 2011. A Report from the Center on Educational Governance/University of Southern California

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2011-01-01

In his 2011 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama declared that charter schools are a way to out-innovate and out-educate our competitors worldwide. The President believes that investment in education must be accompanied by reform, including the expansion of high-quality charter schools. President Obama has challenged states to lift…

Review 08--A Year in

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2008

2008-01-01

Barack Obama's monumental presidential campaign took the nation by storm, a history-making and future-defining feat sure to keep academicians busy for many years to come. How America addresses race as a result of Obama's sweeping victory remains to be seen, but his election came in the same year New York state installed its first Black governor,…

Spin masters how the media ignored the real news and helped reelect Barack Obama

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2013-01-01

The biggest story of the election was how the media ignored the biggest story of the election.Amid all the breathless coverage of a non-existent War on Women, there was little or no coverage of Obama's war on the economy?how, for instance, part-time work is replacing full-time work; how low-wage jobs are replacing high-wage ones; how for Americans between the ages of 25 and 54 there are fewer jobs today than there were when the recession officially ended in 2009, and fewer, in fact, than at any time since mid-1997.The downsizing of the American economy wasn't the only stor

Fake News and Indifference to Truth : Dissecting Tweets and State of the Union Addresses by Presidents Obama and Trump

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D.E. Allen (David); M.J. McAleer (Michael); D. McHardy Reid (David)

2018-01-01

textabstractState of the Union Addresses (SOUA) by two recent US Presidents, President Obama (2016) and President Trump (2018), and a series of recent of tweets by President Trump, are analysed by means of the data mining technique, sentiment analysis. The intention is to explore the contents and

3 CFR 8383 - Proclamation 8383 of May 20, 2009. Emergency Medical Services Week, 2009

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2010-01-01

..., we express our appreciation for their critical work. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of... Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-third.BARACK OBAMA ...

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... week. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim... Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-fourth.BARACK OBAMA ...

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... www.organdonor.gov. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by... Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-third.BARACK OBAMA ...

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2010-01-01

... dedicated to the principles of government under law. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the... Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-third.BARACK OBAMA ...

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2010-01-01

... its service. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of... Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-fourth.BARACK OBAMA ...

3 CFR 8433 - Proclamation 8433 of October 2, 2009. Child Health Day, 2009

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.... NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority..., and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-fourth.BARACK OBAMA ...

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2010-01-01

..., BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim May 16 through May 22, 2009..., and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-third.BARACK OBAMA ...

3 CFR 8418 - Proclamation 8418 of September 16, 2009. Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, Constitution Week...

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2010-01-01

... as “Constitution Week.” NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America... beacon of hope for Americans and those who seek new lives in the United States. Every day, we welcome new....BARACK OBAMA ...

Contemporary America

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Duncan, Russell; Goddard, Joseph

Fokuserer på den første administration af Barack Obama og på amerikanske institutioner og folk i USA.......Fokuserer på den første administration af Barack Obama og på amerikanske institutioner og folk i USA....

Prediction of Audience Response from Spoken Sequences, Speech Pauses and Co-speech Gestures in Humorous Discourse by Barack Obama

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Navarretta, Costanza

2017-01-01

president mocks himself, his collaborators, political adversary and the press corps making the audience react with cheers, laughter and/or applause. The results of the prediction experiment demonstrate that information about spoken sequences, pauses and co-speech gestures by Obama can be used to predict...

Os acordes de Yes we can do vídeo da campanha presidencial de Barak Obama The Yes we can chords

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Philip Tagg

2010-12-01

Full Text Available Estudo sobre o loop de quatro acordes ║: Sol Maior - Si Maior - Mi Menor - Dó Maior :║ na canção Yes we can [Sim, nós podemos] do vídeo de Will.i.am (ADAMS, 2008 lançado durante a campanha presidencial de Barack Obama nos Estados Unidos. A partir da identificação de IOCMs (Materiais Interobjetivos de Comparação e PMFCs (Campos Paramusicais Conotativos da análise musemática (TAGG, 2009, compara-se Yes we can com materiais harmônicos, melódicos, rítmicos, de instrumentação e de letras de canções populares da tradição afro-britânico-americana, levando-se também em consideração as atitudes de relevantes compositores e intérpretes populares social e politicamente engajados.Study of the four-chord loop ║: G - B - Em - C :║ in the song Yes We Can from the video by Will.i.am (ADAMS, 2008 released during the 2008 US presidential campaign of Barack Obama. Departing from IOCM and PMFC identification of the musematic analysis (TAGG, 2009, Yes We Can is compared to harmony, melody, rhythm, instrumentation and lyrics found in iconic popular songs of the Afro-Bristish-American tradition, also taking into consideration the attitudes of relevant composers and performers engaged in social and political issues.

3 CFR 8375 - Proclamation 8375 of May 8, 2009. Military Spouse Day, 2009

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2010-01-01

... families. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the... States of America the two hundred and thirty-third.BARACK OBAMA ... spouses work to maintain careers and a sense of community while moving to new duty stations around the...

Warren, McCain, and Obama Needed Fuzzy Sets at Presidential Forum

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Ashu M. G. Solo

2012-01-01

Full Text Available During a presidential forum in the 2008 US presidential campaign, the moderator, Pastor Rick Warren, wanted Senator John McCain and then-Senator Barack Obama to define rich with a specific number. Warren wanted to know at what specific income level a person goes from being not rich to rich. The problem with this question is that there is no specific income at which a person makes the leap from being not rich to being rich. This is because rich is a fuzzy set, not a crisp set, with different incomes having different degrees of membership in the rich fuzzy set. Fuzzy logic is needed to properly ask and answer Warren's question about quantitatively defining rich. An imprecise natural language word like rich should be considered to have qualitative definitions, crisp quantitative definitions, and fuzzy quantitative definitions.

3 CFR 8469 - Proclamation 8469 of December 31, 2009. 40th Anniversary of the National Environmental Policy Act...

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2010-01-01

... enjoy the beauty and utility of a clean, healthy planet. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of... of America the two hundred and thirty-fourth.BARACK OBAMA Title 3—The President Executive Orders... in a new era of environmental awareness and citizen participation in government. NEPA elevated the...

The Dragon and the Eagle

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Duncan, Russell

Fokuserer på komparative og kontrasterende forståelser af kinesisk-amerikanske forbindelser i det 21. århundrede under Xi Jinping og Barack Obama.......Fokuserer på komparative og kontrasterende forståelser af kinesisk-amerikanske forbindelser i det 21. århundrede under Xi Jinping og Barack Obama....

Contemporary America

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Duncan, Russell; Goddard, Joseph

This edition analyzes and synthesizes the first administration of Barack Obama and the liberal international and multilateral cosmopolitan approaches to both domestic and foreign policy developments.......This edition analyzes and synthesizes the first administration of Barack Obama and the liberal international and multilateral cosmopolitan approaches to both domestic and foreign policy developments....

Majanduskriis, vabadussammas, Barack Obama...

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2008-01-01

Ettevõtja Indrek Neivelt, TLÜ rektor Rein Raud, filmitegija Andres Maimik, peaminister Andrus Ansip, ajakirja Vikerkaar peatoimetaja Märt Väljataga, filmitegija Ilmar Raag avaldavad arvamust, millega läheb 2008. aasta ajalukku

Executive Orders-Barack Obama

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National Archives and Records Administration — Executive orders are official documents, numbered consecutively, through which the President of the United States manages the operations of the Federal Government....

The New Leader of the Free World

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Williamson, Kevin D.

2012-01-01

On January 20, 2009, Dr. Manmohan Singh, the prime minister of India, became the leader of the free world. The free world's attention was focused elsewhere: Senator Barack Obama, who on that day became President Barack Obama, quietly abdicated the role now taken up by Dr. Singh, having run an election campaign premised upon the ever-present but…

"To big to fail"-doktrinen står for fald?

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Grosen, Anders

2010-01-01

Hvis præsident Barack Obama får sin vilje, skal den klassiske "too big to fail"-bankdoktrin afløses af en "small enough to fail"-doktrin. Det fremgår af præsidentens planer om at opdele storbankerne i mindre enheder og forbyde bankernes handelsaktiviteter for egen regning. Hvis Barack Obama får...

México-Estados Unidos: problemas y retos en seguridad fronteriza en la Administración Obama

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José María Ramos García

2012-01-01

Full Text Available En este artículo se examinarán los principales problemas y retos en materia de seguridad fronteriza entre México y Estados Unidos, en la Administración del presidente Barack Obama, así como la coyuntura de inseguridad en las fronteras con México y su dilación, también se cuestionará la legitimidad gubernamental local, institucional. La premisa central es que las relaciones entre los dos países se han caracterizado por tensiones y conflictos, que reflejan la falta de impulso de procesos de gestión y planeación estratégica orientados a fortalecer la seguridad y la calidad de vida de las comunidades fronterizas mexicanas.

Ideology and the Fall of Empires: The Decline of the Spanish Empire and its Comparison to Current American Strategy

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2013-06-14

Estrategia de Seguridad Nacional de Barack Obama Establece que EE UU Debe ser Líder del Mundo. Political Analysis, Perspectiva Internacional: Revista...Spanish Army 5d. PROJECT NUMBER 5e. TASK NUMBER 5f. WORK UNIT NUMBER 7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS( ES ) U.S. Army Command and...

The Importance of Preschool and Child Care for Working Mothers

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Glynn, Sarah Jane; Farrell, Jane; Wu, Nancy

2013-01-01

In his 2013 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama made a historic pledge to provide universal, high-quality pre-K education to the nation's children. Early childhood education has myriad benefits, including better, more equitable long-term outcomes for children of divergent economic backgrounds Moreover, investments in these programs…

A positive psychology to cope with radicalisation and terrorism? A case study of the speech by Barack Obama at Cairo

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Manuel Moyano

2016-12-01

Full Text Available Since the September 11 terrorist attacks, coping with radicalisation and jihadist terrorism has been at the forefront of the domestic and foreign policy agendas in Western societies. During this time, the influence that political leaders can exert in their interaction with institutions, citizens, and terrorist organizations has been demonstrated. We present a case study of the speech by Barak Obama on June 4, 2009 at the University of Cairo (“A New Beginning”. Its content and internal structure is analysed using the classification of virtues and strengths defined by Peterson and Seligman (2004 as a theoretical and conceptual reference within the framework of positive psychology. This speech marked a turning point in the relationship between the USA and the Arab-Muslim world and could be considered to be a genuine exercise in positive communication. Its implications are yet to be determined, because it continues to exert an influence on the Obama administration’s domestic and foreign policy. In a globalized and networking world in which risks and adversities require innovative responses, more than ever we suggest that social communication capable of promoting virtues and strengths associated with optimism, hope, confidence, strength, or vitality is needed more than ever.

Outbreak or Epidemic? How Obama's Language Choice Transformed the Ebola Outbreak Into an Epidemic.

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Gesser-Edelsburg, Anat; Shir-Raz, Yaffa; Bar-Lev, Oshrat Sassoni; James, James J; Green, Manfred S

2016-08-01

Our aim was to examine in what terms leading newspapers' online sites described the current Ebola crisis. We employed a quantitative content analysis of terms attributed to Ebola. We found and analyzed 582 articles published between March 23 and September 30, 2014, on the online websites of 3 newspapers: The New York Times, Daily Mail, and Ynet. Our theoretical framework drew from the fields of health communication and emerging infectious disease communication, including such concepts as framing media literacy, risk signatures, and mental models. We found that outbreak and epidemic were used interchangeably in the articles. From September 16, 2014, onward, epidemic predominated, corresponding to when President Barack Obama explicitly referred to Ebola as an epidemic. Prior to Obama's speech, 86.8% of the articles (323) used the term outbreak and only 8.6% (32) used the term epidemic. Subsequently, both terms were used almost the same amount: 53.8% of the articles (113) used the term outbreak and 53.3% (112) used the term epidemic. Effective communication is crucial during public health emergencies such as Ebola, because language framing affects the decision-making process of social judgments and actions. The choice of one term (outbreak) over another (epidemic) can create different conceptualizations of the disease, thereby influencing the risk signature. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2016;10:669-673).

High School Redesign Gets Presidential Lift

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Adams, Caralee J.

2013-01-01

President Barack Obama applauded high school redesign efforts in his State of the Union address and encouraged districts to look to successful models for inspiration. Last week, he followed up with a request in his fiscal 2014 budget proposal for a new, $300 million competitive-grant program. Recognition is widespread that high schools need to…

Extended School Year. Information Capsule. Volume 0910

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Blazer, Christie

2010-01-01

Extended school years are being considered by districts around the country as educators search for new ways to raise student achievement. The addition of time to the school calendar is also supported by President Barack Obama, who recently stated that American students do not spend enough time in school. This Information Capsule addresses research…

Solving the Equation: The Variables for Women's Success in Engineering and Computing

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Corbett, Christianne; Hill, Catherine

2015-01-01

During the 2014 White House Science Fair, President Barack Obama used a sports metaphor to explain why we must address the shortage of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), particularly in the engineering and computing fields: "Half our team, we're not even putting on the field. We've got to change those…

Solving the Equation: The Variables for Women's Success in Engineering and Computing. Executive Summary

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Corbett, Christianne; Hill, Catherine

2015-01-01

During the 2014 White House Science Fair, President Barack Obama used a sports metaphor to explain why we must address the shortage of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), particularly in the engineering and computing fields: "Half our team, we're not even putting on the field. We've got to change those…

Prezidentské volby v USA: předvolební kampaň Baracka Obamy

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Hronová, Lada

2011-01-01

Barack Obama's theme of candidature for President of United States of America, campaigning and then succesfuly won presidential election have became milestone in american history, when the afroamerican president has been elected for the first time. When candidate in primaries with Democratic Party or in final fase of presidental election against his republican competitor John McCain Barack Obama became well admired by american and also world public. Unmistakably important role had common unpo...

Diverse Charter Schools

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Russo, Alexander

2013-01-01

In February 2009, newly elected President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama visited Capital City Public Charter School in northwest Washington, D.C. This was the First Family's first official public-school visit, just a few short weeks after President Obama was sworn into office. Obama's enthusiastic support for charter schools was one of…

78 FR 70189 - National Child's Day, 2013

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2013-11-25

... their energy and creativity demand. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of... Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! initiative, my Administration is helping children develop habits that...

78 FR 33955 - Great Outdoors Month, 2013

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2013-06-06

... come. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the... Michelle Obama's Let's Move Outside! initiative encourages families to get out and enjoy our beautiful...

THE GLOBAL ZERO MOVEMENT: A ROAD TO NOWHERE

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2016-02-08

persistence.”1 The underlying foundations of the Global Zero movement date back to the 1980s under the Reagan era as noted on the Global Zero website...and his colleagues.7 Presidential Candidate, Barack Obama Supports Global Zero One of those leaders was then Presidential candidate, Barack Obama...movement. In their eyes, this could be chalked up as one of the first major “wins” for the Global Zero movement. 6 As the motivations for Iran

Policy of George W. Bush administration and Barak Obama first administration towards the Russian Federation and other states of the CIS (2001-2012: a comparative analysis

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F. D. Solovey

2017-01-01

Full Text Available The article is devoted to the analysis of policies of the two latest American presidents George W. Bush (2001-2008 and Barack Obama (his fi rst administration, 2009-2012 towards Russian Federation and its neighbors – states of the CIS. The author in detail considers main milestones of this policy, its aims, ways, methods and results. The author highlights and analyzes main reasons of degradation of bilateral relations during George W. Bush presidency and considers positive results of “Reset” policy of fi rst Barack Obama’s administration, at the same time noting their limitation and maintenance of disagreements in a few important problems. Policy of the USA towards Russia and other states of the CIS is considered in broader context of fundamental attitudes in foreign policy of neoconservative Republican George W. Bush’ administration and Democratic Barack Obama’s administration. The author makes the main conclusion that as a whole policy of the Democrats towards the Russian Federation and its neighbors was more reasonable, fl exible and effective and let the United States because of softening of rhetoric and a few small compromises return relations with Russia to constructive cooperation and get from this country assistance in all key areas. But by the end of the fi rst Barack Obama’s term a few negative trends became obvious, and these trends developed during the second term of Obama’s presidency. Post-Soviet area has remained potential “battlefi eld” in relations between the two countries, and later this fact has led to the crisis in Crimea and Ukraine, which continues nowadays.

Framing Obama’s Re-election. A Comparative Analysis of German, French and Romanian Media Coverage

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Delia Cristina Balaban

2016-04-01

Full Text Available The US presidential election is not only a politically relevant issue but also a media relevant issue in every part of the world. Therefore, the present paper aims to analyze the way print media from Germany, France and Romania comparatively covered the re-election moment of Barack Obama. The research intends to analyze to what degree there are differences between the ways in which print media from the abovementioned countries represented the re-election moment of Barack Obama from the point of view of the framing theory and of the political affiliation of the analyzed newspaper. Moreover, the paper aims to present the way the image of Barack Obama is represented within the pictures used in the media. We expect to find relevant differences both between the analyzed newspapers within a country and between the general perspectives of the selected countries.

USA valik : kas uus peatükk või retro? / Neeme Raud

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Raud, Neeme, 1969-

2008-01-01

USA presidendikandidaatide demokraat Barack Obama ja vabariiklase John McCaini debattidel pakutud erinevatest kurssidest. President George W. Bushi kriitikast tõenäolise demokraatide kandidaadi B. Obama seisukohtade suhtes. Lisa: Välispoliitilised seisukohad

Tra storia e mito. Politiche e usi politici di Abraham Lincoln

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Marco Sioli

2010-03-01

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Barack Obama's election brought to the forefront one of the key figures of the nineteenth century, Abraham Lincoln, considered to be a founder of the nation by the new American President. Like Lincoln, Obama put the accent on unity and national goodwill. Like Lincoln, Obama nourished the roots that connected to the common man. The deep desire for change in American politics that Obama espouses also occurred during Lincoln's presidency.

This essay dwells on Lincoln's words that are impressive in many respects, especially in the way they are able to communicate the passion of political involvement, as well as are impressive the images which represent the Great Emancipator in the different period of American history. Words and images reinterpreted Lincoln's myth in a contemporary mood, showing the how Lincoln became a continuously changing icon, down to the current presidency of Barack Obama.

Tra storia e mito. Politiche e usi politici di Abraham Lincoln

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Marco Sioli

2010-03-01

Full Text Available Barack Obama's election brought to the forefront one of the key figures of the nineteenth century, Abraham Lincoln, considered to be a founder of the nation by the new American President. Like Lincoln, Obama put the accent on unity and national goodwill. Like Lincoln, Obama nourished the roots that connected to the common man. The deep desire for change in American politics that Obama espouses also occurred during Lincoln's presidency. This essay dwells on Lincoln's words that are impressive in many respects, especially in the way they are able to communicate the passion of political involvement, as well as are impressive the images which represent the Great Emancipator in the different period of American history. Words and images reinterpreted Lincoln's myth in a contemporary mood, showing the how Lincoln became a continuously changing icon, down to the current presidency of Barack Obama.

O primeiro ano de governo de Barack Obama: tempestades à toda volta

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Eva Paulino Bueno

2010-02-01

Full Text Available O primeiro ano de Barak Obama à frente do governo americano foi um ano de grandes dificuldades, não só para ele, mas também para o seu partido democrata. Não só para os democratas, mas também para o povo americano. Não só para o povo americano, mas também para o povo iraquiano, e o povo do Afeganistão. E, por extensão, para todas as pessoas do mundo que ouviram seu discurso de aceitação do cargo, no dia 20 de janeiro de 2009. Os únicos que não sofreram, pelo que pude averiguar ouvindo rádio, lendo jornais e assistindo as notícias, foram os comentaristas republicanos, especialmente os ligados à tropa da cadeia de televisão Fox. Para eles, foi um ano de exultação.  Só não foi melhor porque o país não sofreu um ataque terrorista de

Pikk mees ja lühike mees kohtuvad Kremlis / Enn Soosaar

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Soosaar, Enn, 1937-2010

2009-01-01

USA presidendi Barack Obama eelseisvast kohtumisest Venemaa presidendi Dmitri Medvedeviga. Juttu on ka 15. juunil 2009 Washingtonis toimunud USA presidendi B. Obama ja Eesti presidendi Toomas Hendrik Ilvese plaanivälisest kohtumisest, viidates artiklile: Summertime blues. The Economist, 18. juuni 2009

From David Walker to President Obama: Tropes of the Founding Fathers in African American Discourses of Democracy, or The Legacy of Ishmael

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Elizabeth J. West

2012-01-01

Full Text Available More than a century after the Emancipation Proclamation, in a society that still others blackness, we continue to hold to the mythical humanizing power of literacy. In our own time this has been poignantly evinced in the public reception of the current President of the United States, Barack Obama. He has been internationally hailed for his written and oral eloquence, and many Americans expected that Obama’s evident intellectual prowess would reverse prevailing stereotypes of black inferiority. Obama’s rhetorical success is rooted in the longstanding literary practice of invoking the mythical founding fathers to validate text and subject. In this regard, David Walker’s Appeal (1829 represents the emergence of a long tradition of black voices invoking America’s most sacred patriarchs and their rhetoric of Americanness.

Adorno, Obama, and Empire: Reflections on the U.S. Presidential Election and the Next President

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Lukas Kaelin

2008-12-01

Full Text Available As tempting as it might be, politics is a difficult field for philosophers.Well known are Plato’s and Heidegger’s attempt to influence the political developments of their time, which went badly wrong. Much safer is it to provide an interpretation of current political events, which is the aim of this paper. The paper attempts to philosophically assess the recent U.S. presidential race and to look at some aspects of the underlying beliefs of Barack Obama that aided him in his campaign. The philosophical framework used in order to interpret the political events are mainly from the Critical Theory of Theodor W. Adorno and the neo-Marxist approach of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Further observations will concentrate on the logic and attraction of the electoral process and the dialectical logic of Sarah Palin’s statements. The first part will discuss the form of U.S. electoral politics, especially the perpetual campaign, whereas the second part will put the policiesof the next U.S. president into a philosophical context.

Web 2.0 - Lær dog af Obama!

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Ivang, Reimer

2009-01-01

At Obama vandt 2008 præsidentvalget ved at anvende web 2.0 teknologier, er ingen hemmelighed. Men hvordan gjorde han det? Og hvorfor var det så effektfuldt? Dette blogindlæg ser Obama efter i kortene, og kortlægger den læring, som danske virksomheder kan høste af den fantastiske strategi, Obama-k...

Dissuasão, redução de armas nucleares e defesas antimísseis nos governos Bush e Obama

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Diego Santos Vieira de Jesus

2013-12-01

Full Text Available O objetivo é analisar as perspectivas das administrações de George W. Bush e Barack Obama com relação à dissuasão, à redução de armas nucleares e às defesas antimísseis. Sustenta-se que ambas as administrações reafirmaram o papel fundamental das armas nucleares para a dissuasão, comprometeram-se com a redução de armas nucleares acompanhada de iniciativas para modernização e reconheceram a importância de defesas antimísseis na proteção dos EUA e de aliados. Tais perspectivas estão relacionadas à necessidade contínua de ampliar a flexibilidade para lidar com ameaças contemporâneas e à manutenção de opções diversificadas para o enfrentamento desses desafios.

Getting personal? The impact of social media on preferential voting

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Spierings, C.H.B.M.; Jacobs, K.T.E.

2014-01-01

Ever since the successful presidential campaign of Barack Obama in 2008, attention has been drawn to the political impact of social media. However, it remains to be seen whether the successful Obama campaign is the exception or the rule. Our research focuses specifically on the impact of social

Muutunud, kuid lootuseta / Edward McBride

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McBride, Edward

2011-01-01

USA presidendivalimiste kampaaniast. President Barack Obama võimalusest saada tagasivalituks, vabariiklaste kandidaatidest Rick Perryst ja Mitt Romneyst. Demokraatide tervishoiureformist ja tervishoiuseadusest

Defense.gov Special Report: 2016 Fiscal Budget

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Department of Defense Submit Search DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: FY 2016 Budget Proposal Army Reserve Chief Calls for Budget Flexibility The chief of the Army Reserve understands that the U.S. deficit is a threat to effectively. Story Obama Says He Won't Accept Budget That Shortchanges Readiness President Barack Obama

Pragmatic Liberalism and President Obama

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Haroon A. Khan

2014-06-01

Full Text Available This research seeks to examine the foreign policy of President Obama with special reference to Bangladesh from the point of pragmatic liberalism. Pragmatism means understanding the realities of the situation and making decisions based on thorough research of these realities. Pragmatism opposes strict adherence to ideological beliefs in pursuing foreign policy. President Obama came into power amid one of the most volatile and dangerous times in the history of the United States occupied with two foreign wars, and inherited an economy on the brink of collapse. The key features of Obama’s pragmatic liberalism in foreign policy are to promote liberal ideas as long as it does not threaten the national security interests, emphasize diplomacy in solving the conflicts, foster humanitarian issues, develop alliances and multilateral agreements, uphold the major national interests, and strengthen national security defined in terms of economic well-being. The article will analyze U.S. foreign policy toward Bangladesh based on pragmatic liberalism of President Obama.

The Need for Career and Technical Education (CTE) Partnerships

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Pawlowski, Brett

2012-01-01

There is an interesting contrast to be found between President Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan: Whereas Obama regularly refers to the current economic situation as the "Great Recession," Duncan instead labels it as "The New Normal." Only one of these can be correct--and the implications for educators are profound. The author…

What's so Bad about Being "Professorial"?

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Vaidhyanathan, Siva

2008-01-01

CNN commentator Bill Bennett's invocation of "professorial" was the latest among a string of comments about Barack Obama, who used to teach constitutional law at the University of Chicago. On September 13, the "New York Times" columnist Thomas L. Friedman wrote, "Obama may be a bit professorial, but at least he is trying to unite the country to…

Move Over Mr. Warhol, You're History!

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Hinshaw, Craig

2010-01-01

Shepard Fairey's famous poster of Barack Obama with the word "HOPE" surely contributed to Obama's public persona. In this article, the author presents a lesson inspired by the contemporary relevance of the poster. In this lesson, students will learn that photographs can be altered to create a work of art and that art can be used to create a…

Dressing the Black Body. Mode, Hairstyle und Schwarzsein in den USA – von den 1970er-Jahren bis zu Barack Obama

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Philipp Dorestal

2017-08-01

Full Text Available Conventional forms of African American activism and organization in the second half of the twentieth century have been the subject of academic research for quite some time, but less attention has been devoted to symbolic and body political forms of intervention. Looking at the Afro hairstyle and hip hop culture, this article explores how African American identity has been reflected through Style Politics. It outlines the history of African American hairstyles from the 1970s until the 2000s and identifies elements of popular culture such as Blaxploitation movies and rap music as constitutive of African American fashion. The question of ›respectability‹ that surfaced in the context of racist discourses about black women will be examined through the example of First Lady Michelle Obama, who rose to fame as a fashion icon. In conclusion, the article discusses the case of Trayvon Martin, an African American teenager who was killed in 2012 while wearing a hoodie, making the garment once again an object of contention and a symbol of protest. * * * Klassische Formen des Aktivismus und der Organisierung von African Americans in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts sind schon seit geraumer Zeit Gegenstand wissenschaftlicher Studien. In der bisherigen Forschung weniger gewürdigt wurden jedoch symbolische und körperpolitische Interventionsformen. Dieser Aufsatz geht anhand der Afro-Frisur und der durch die Hip-Hop-Kultur inspirierten Mode der Frage nach, wie afroamerikanische Identität über Style Politics verhandelt wurde. Skizziert wird die Geschichte afroamerikanischer Hairstyles von den 1970er- bis zu den 2000er-Jahren. Weiterhin werden Elemente der Populärkultur wie das Blaxploitation-Kino oder die seit den 1980er-Jahren verbreitete Rap-Musik als stilbildend für afroamerikanische Modephänomene identifiziert. Die Frage der »Respektabilität«, die im Kontext rassistischer Diskurse über schwarze Frauen auftauchte, wird anhand von Michelle

Brasil – Estados Unidos: grandes expectativas, pequenos atritos

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Virgílio Caixeta Arraes

2016-12-01

Full Text Available O princípio da administração de Barack Obama, do Partido Democrata, gerou expectativa positiva na América Latina, região desdenhada pelo antecessor, George Bush, do Partido Republicano. Valorizar o continente seria prestigiar o Brasil. Todavia, o relacionamento não foi o esperado, embora sem grandes decepções também. The beginning of Barack Obama´s term produced positive expectations on Latin America, a continent which was ignored by his predecessor, George Bush. To give attention to Latin America implies giving prestige to Brazil.  Nonetheless the real relationship could not meet the expectations, although without causing great deceptions.

Estados Unidos, poder cibernético e a “guerra cibernética: Do Worm Stuxnet ao Malware Flame/Skywiper – e além

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Bernardo Wahl Gonçalves de Araújo Jorge

2012-06-01

Full Text Available Inserido no contexto de um tema emergente nas relações internacionais, os conflitos cibernéticos, este artigo objetiva mostrar como os Estados Unidos, nos governos Bush (filho e Barack Obama, têm usado o poder cibernético, mais especificamente a “guerra cibernética” e a espionagem cibernética, para alcançar alguns objetivos de sua política externa. Inserted in the context of an emerging theme in international relations, cyber conflicts, this article aims to show how the United States, in the Bush (son and Barack Obama governments, have used the cyberpower, specifically "cyberwar" and cyber espionage, to achieve some goals of its foreign policy.

Strategii de reducere a deficitelor şi datoriei publice a Statelor Unite ale Americii adoptate de Administraţia Obama

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Rodica Velciu

2011-10-01

Full Text Available At the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century, the sovereign debts of one of the largest economies of the world were “blown up” because of the ageing population and the costs determined by the financial crisis. According to an analysis by Standard & Poor’s rating agency, if governments maintain current fiscal policies, for 49 states representing 2/3 of the world population, the average debt as percentage of GDP will reach 245% by 2050. "The pressure of increasing expenses will determine profound changes in the economical perspectives of these countries. The erosion will start in 2015, when the quota of many states with high rating will start being under pressure", declare the Agency’s analysis. In mid April 2011, Barack Obama announced the elaboration of an ambitious plan for the reduction of the federal budget deficit, in total amount of USD 4,000 billion, over a period of 12 years. Democrat and Republican leaders of the Congress reached an agreement in respect to the raise of the debt limits, after months of intense closed-doors negotiations and only two days before the due date set by the Ministry of Finance. In order to avoid payment default, democrats and republicans reached an agreement to increase the leveraging to USD 14,300 billion, by USD 2,100 billion. Moreover, this agreement establishes a reduction of governmental expenses for the next 10 years with up to USD 3,000 billion and enough loans in order to avoid another increase in the leveraging limits in 2013. In turn, FED announced they will maintain stimulating policies for another two years, although in June the economic stimulation program should have ended. The monetary policy interest rate is at the lowest level in the history of the Central Bank, between 0% and 0.25% since 2008. At the beginning of September, President Barack Obama presented a new plan of economic revival and labor market support for a period of six years, rounded at USD 447 billion, in the

Ballistic Missile Defense in Europe

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Sarihan, Ali; Bush, Amy; Summers, Lawrence; Thompson, Brent; Tomasszewski, Steven

2009-01-01

This paper will build on ballistic missile defense in Europe. In the first part, a brief historical overview will place the current public management issue into light. This is followed by a discussion of the main actors in the international debate, the problems that arise and the available options and recommendations to address missile defense. In the second part, differences between George W. Bush and Barack H. Obama will analyze under the title “Ballistic Missile Defense in Europe: Evolving...

A SWOT Analysis of the Updated National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the U.S., 2015-2020.

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Holtgrave, David R; Greenwald, Robert

2016-01-01

In July 2015, President Barack Obama released an updated National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) for the United States to guide HIV efforts through the year 2020. A federal action plan to accompany the updated NHAS will be released in December 2015. In this editorial, we offer a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats analysis with the aim of increasing discussion of ways to truly fulfill the promise of the updated NHAS and to address barriers that may thwart it from achieving its full potential.

Global Zero and Deterrence Credibility : A Critical Analysis of Obama`s Nuclear Policy and Extended Nuclear Deterrence Credibility on the Korean Peninsula

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Ganss, Mathias

2012-01-01

This thesis is a qualitative case study analysis of the whether the nuclear policies of President Obama has weakened the U.S. extended nuclear deterrence credibility on the Korean Peninsula. To answer this, the thesis employs two strategies: First, two variables are discussed; a nuclear capabilities-variable; and a nuclear policy-variable. The purpose is to assess the impact the New START treaty has on U.S. nuclear capabilities, and to assess the implications of Obama`s nuclear policy, expres...

"Obamacare" vor dem Supreme Court / Guy Beaucamp

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Beaucamp, Guy

2016-01-01

USA tervishoiureformi ajaloost, 2010. a. ravikindlustusreformist ja USA ülemkohtu otsusest jätta jõusse oluline osa president Barack Obama tervishoiureformist (PPACA), hinnang kohtuotsusele ja võrdlused Saksamaaga

Eesti tervishoid on tõesti hea. Aitäh, USA! / Scott Abel

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Abel, Scott

2010-01-01

Ameeriklane Scott Abel kirjutab, et president Barack Obama tervishoiureform mõjutab arstiabi ka Eestis. Vastukaja artiklile: Turay, Abdul. Kindla individualismi traditsioon // Postimees (2010) 30. märts, lk. 12

LA PERTINCENCE DE L'EXEMPLE HISTORIQUE POUR LA DÉLIBÉRATION

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Victor FERRY

2011-11-01

Full Text Available In this article I discuss the aristotelian idea according to which examples are particularily relevant arguments for deliberation. In the first part, I try to identify, on a theoretical level, some characteristics of examples that make them suitable tools for deliberation. The second part is an analysis of examples used as arguments by Barack Obama in his State of the Union Address of january 25, 2011. The aim is to see how it is possible to identify a “type” of argumentative example.

A guerra como instrumento do poder presidencial nos EUA: o caso da intervenção na Líbia

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Cláudio Júnior Damin

2012-08-01

Full Text Available Analisa-se a decisão da participação dos EUA na intervenção militar na Líbia em 2011. O objetivo central é posicionar a decisão de Barack Obama de utilizar as forças armadas como um exercício dos poderes de guerra do presidente enquanto comandante-em-chefe e como executor de deliberações de órgãos multilaterais internacionais.   We analyze the decision of U.S. participation in military intervention in Libya (2011. The main objective is to position Barack Obama's decision to use the military as an exercise of war powers of the president as commander in chief and as a doer of the deliberations of international multilateral agencies.

Hillary Clinton sai kolmes osariigis valusalt lüüa / Heiki Suurkask

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Suurkask, Heiki, 1972-

2008-01-01

USA presidendi eelvalimistel võitis Barack Obama oma pearivaali Hillary Clintonit nii Louisianas, Nebraskas kui Washingtonis ja sisuliselt viigistas üleriigilise parteidelegaatide arvestuse. Vt. samas: Huckabee ei anna ikka veel alla

78 FR 54735 - National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month, 2013

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2013-09-06

... on Pathways to Wellness'' encourages all Americans to walk alongside family, friends, and neighbors... moving along the life-saving path to recovery. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United...

Deterrence and disarmament

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Gärtner, Heinz

2012-01-01

In his April 2009 speech in Prague US President Barack Obama spoke of a world free of nuclear weapons. Obama stated that the United States would maintain nuclear deterrence during the disarmament process. This paper discusses the limitations and deficiencies of the traditional mutual nuclear deterrence and assesses why progress in nuclear disarmament since the end of the Cold War has fallen short of expectations.

How green will the US become?

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Kolstad, Elisabeth H.

2009-07-01

Energy efficiency was one of the top priorities when President Barack Obama launched a new energy policy that aims to reduce the US' dependency on oil. If Obama reaches his goal, the country will cut its oil demand by four million barrels a day. The US petrol consumption is currently 20,7 million barrels a day according to the Energy Information Administration. (Author)

Continued Drift, but without the Acrimony

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Nielsen, Kristian L.

2013-01-01

If the measure of Barack Obama's success in mending US–European relations is whether the tone has improved, his presidency has been a great success. If the measure of success, however, is halting the drifting apart of policy preferences, the picture looks a lot less rosy. This article argues....... The Obama administration realises that, and by this more limited measure, it has succeeded brilliantly....

Tugevad naised on tagasi / Naomi Wolf ; tõlk. Liisa Past

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Wolf, Naomi

2008-01-01

Autor arutleb, miks valis Barack Obama riigisekretäriks Hillary Clintoni. Autor nimetab H. Clintoni üheks vaieldamatuks saavutuseks tema maailmas tehtud rännakuid, kus ta on keskendunud naistele olulistele teemadele

BP erioperatsioon naftalekke peatamiseks nurjus / Jürgen Tamme

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Tamme, Jürgen

2010-01-01

Naftakompanii BP katse peatada Mehhiko lahe naftaleke ebaõnnestus, nüüd püütakse reostust peatada uue toru paigaldamise abil. USA president Barack Obama avaldas taas rahulolematust naftakompaniiga. Kaart

Vanadium research recharged

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Luntz, Stephen

2011-01-01

US President Barack Obama has described Maria Skyllas-Kazacos’ research as “one of the coolest things I’ve ever said out loud”. Vanadium redox batteries could be electricity’s ultimate storage mechanism.

Kohtumine, mida Kreml igatseb / Heiki Suurkask

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Suurkask, Heiki, 1972-

2009-01-01

Eelseisvast USA presidendi Barack Obama ja Venemaa presidendi Dmitri Medvedevi kohtumisest Londonis G20 tippkohtumise eel, kus tõenäoliselt arutatakse võimalusi kahe suurriigi omavaheliste suhete parandamiseks ning majanduskriisi ületamiseks

Sõltumatud kodanikud otsustavad superriigi juhi saatuse / Christopher Kukk ; interv. Priit Pullerits

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Kukk, Christopher

2008-01-01

Eesti päritolu Lääne-Connecticuti politoloogiaprofessor vastab küsimustele, mis puudutavad USA presidendivalimisi ja presidendikandidaatide Barack Obama ja John McCaini võimalusi. Vt. samas: Kes on Christopher Kukk?

Skandaal USAs : Obamat kujutati islamiterroristina / Aadu Hiietamm

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Hiietamm, Aadu, 1954-

2008-01-01

The New Yorkeri esiküljel ilmus karikatuur, kus USA demokraatide presidendikandidaati Barack Obamat ja tema abikaasat Michelle'i kujutati islamiterroristidena, karikaturisti väitel joonistas ta selle Obama laimajate naeruvääristamiseks

Déjà vu: supermän draakoni hammaste vahel / Neeme Raud

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Raud, Neeme, 1969-

2009-01-01

Autor analüüsib USA prsidendi Barack Obama visiiti Hiinasse ning kohtumist presidendi Hu Jintaoga, mis sarnanes suuresti president John F. Kennedy esimese kohtumisega NSV Liidu liidri Nikita Hruštšoviga

78 FR 28461 - Military Spouse Appreciation Day, 2013

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2013-05-14

... Forces initiative, we have partnered with the private sector to expand hiring for military spouses and..., let us pledge once more to serve them as well as they serve us. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA...

Transportation challenges for the new administration : perspectives of past DOT secretaries

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2009-01-01

On January 29, 2009, the RAND Corporation hosted a panel discussion with three former U.S. secretaries of transportation. This wide-ranging discussion, held the week after President : Barack Obamas inauguration and during the congressional debate ...

A Semantic-Cognitive Analysis of the Concept of Ukraine in the Speeches of B. Obama (2014

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Anatoliy Oleksiyovych Khudoliy

2016-12-01

Full Text Available A Semantic-Cognitive Analysis of the Concept of Ukraine in the Speeches of B. Obama (2014 This article presents a semantic-cognitive analysis of the concept of Ukraine, verbally represented in the speeches of the American President, Barack Obama. The peculiarities of the President’s worldview are highlighted. The objective of the article is as follows. Firstly, it aims to demonstrate that the concept of Ukraine is verbally represented in the speeches of Obama. This means that Ukraine as a country, moving towards democracy despite the war with Russia, is an object of focus for American leaders. Secondly, the article suggests that there is a connection between the concept described, its pragmatic orientation and its cognitive processes. Thirdly, it describes the semantic peculiarities of the concept of Ukraine in the political speeches of the American leader, which are due to the role Ukraine plays in the local and regional context. Our research is based on the content-analysis of political speeches delivered by American President. The functional, communicative and pragmatic orientation of the speeches is highlighted. In line with the approaches of cognitive scholars, the article concludes that the concept of Ukraine is a complex semantic-cognitive structure that consists of core, transition zone and periphery. During the research for this article, fifteen speeches made by Obama in 2014 were analysed. This research presupposes the application of content analysis. It is relevant in the analysis of international relations with respect to the notions used by President Obama in his speeches delivered during 2014 in the relations between: the USA - Ukraine, Ukraine - Russia, the USA - Russia, and Europe - Ukraine.   Semantyczno-kognitywna analiza konceptu „Ukraina” w przemówieniach B. Obamy (2014 Artykuł przedstawia semantyczno-kognitywną analizę konceptu „Ukraina”, werbalnie zaprezentowanego w przemówieniach amerykańskiego prezydenta

Recasting the American Dream and American Politics: Barack Obama's Keynote Address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention

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Rowland, Robert C.; Jones, John M.

2007-01-01

This essay draws upon the work of Northrop Frye to show that stories enacting the American Dream contain elements associated with romance, and briefly traces how Ronald Reagan and conservatives utilized the romance of the American Dream to the point that many Americans associated it exclusively with conservatism. The essay then details how Barack…

Africa Development - Vol 38, No 1&2 (2013)

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US Foreign Policy under President Barack Obama and the Promotion of Multilateralism and the Rule of Law · EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT · DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT. AMB Mangu, 171-190 ...

Dr. Francis Collins Is New NIH Director

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... Ph.D., a physician and geneticist, is the new Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. President Barack Obama nominated Dr. Collins, who served as Director of ...

Karzai nõuab USA-lt võitu, ähvardades muidu rahu teha / Heiki Suurkask

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2008-01-01

Afganistani president Hamid Karzai nõuab USA-lt ajakava selle kohta, millal NATO kavatseb Talibani üle võidu saavutada. Afganistanis visiidil viibinud USA president George W. Bush avaldas toetust Barack Obama kavale keskenduda veelgi enam Afganistanis sõdimisele

3 CFR 8343 - Proclamation 8343 of January 20, 2009. National Day of Renewal and Reconciliation, 2009

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2010-01-01

... land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by the...

Yes we can?: A política externa de Obama para a América Latina: da decepção à autonomização da região Yes we can?: Obama's foreign policy towards Latin America: from disappointment to the autonomization of the region

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Sandra Colombo

2012-06-01

Full Text Available Este artigo busca investigar, descrever e refletir sobre o estado atual da política externa dos Estados Unidos para a América Latina, por meio de uma análise descritiva dos itens da agenda e do conteúdo da política externa, considerando a sua implementação em dois níveis de projeção: regional e bilateral (com base nos casos da Venezuela, do Brasil e da Argentina. Os objetivos específicos são entender: primeiro, as razões e a natureza da decepção regional em relação à política hemisférica da administração Obama; e, segundo, como se manifesta e como se reforça o distanciamento político estratégico entre os Estados Unidos e os três países selecionados, em função de fatores como a inércia na política externa, a ausência de uma nova e ativa estratégia diplomática e a autonomia crescente da região.This article seeks to investigate, describe and reflect on the current state of United States foreign policy towards Latin America, through a descriptive analysis of agenda items in two levels: regional and bilateral (based on the cases of Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina. Specifically we seek to account for the reasons and nature of regional disappointment regarding President Barack Obama's hemispheric policy. Second, the article analyzes how the strategic political rift between the United States and the three selected countries manifests itself, in the context of factors such as foreign policy inertia, the absence of an active new diplomatic engagement, and the growing autonomy of the region.

Mudança e Possibilidade: sobre o resultado das eleições nos Estados Unidos

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Cristina Soreanu Pecequilo

2008-11-01

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Ex-diplomacy captain slags off the government / Povilas Gylys ; interviewed by Linas Jegelevicius

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Gylys, Povilas

2011-01-01

Leedu endine välisminister ei taha poliitikasse tagasi tulla, räägib Leedu majandusest ja ei ole rahul sellega, et USA presidendi Barack Obama käest kutse saanud Leedu riigipea Dalia Grybauskaite ei sõitnud Praha kohtumisele

77 FR 8809 - United States Travel and Tourism Advisory Board; Teleconference Meeting

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2012-02-15

... DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE International Trade Administration United States Travel and Tourism... Commerce. ACTION: Notice of an open teleconference meeting. SUMMARY: The United States Travel and Tourism... National Travel and Tourism Strategy (Strategy). The Executive Order was issued by President Barack Obama...

В Нью-Йорке поминали жертв 11 сентября / Неэме Рауд

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Рауд, Неэме, 1969-

2011-01-01

USA president Barack Obama ja välisminister Hillary Clinton rõhutasid 11. septembri terrorirünnaku aastapäeval, et Ameerika Ühendriigid ei tohi oma valvsust kaotada, sest terrorioht ei kao kuhugi. New Yorgis toimunud mälestustseremooniast

Obamad kui Kennedyte taastulek 21. sajandil / Barbi Pilvre

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2008-01-01

USA demokraatide presidendikandidaadile Barack Obamale ja tema abikaasale Michelle'ile on loodud kennedylik imago, selle imago taga on demokraat Ted Sorensen, kes aitas kunagi võimule tulla John F. Kennedyl. Ka Kennedyd ise on üles astunud B. Obama toetajana

End of Obamacare.

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Price, Jacqueline

2016-12-07

I write this with the results of the recent US presidential election fresh in my mind. In January 2017, Republican candidate Donald Trump will stand next to outgoing President Barack Obama at the White House and will be inaugurated president.

Estonia President, Obama Discuss Cybersecurity / Eric Chabrow

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Chabrow, Eric

2009-01-01

President Toomas Hendrik Ilves kohtus 15. juunil 2009 Washingtonis USA presidendi Barack Obamaga. Riigipead arutasid küberkaitse küsimusi. Eesti president avaldas Ühendriikidele tänu abi eest küberkaitsekeskuse loomisel Tallinnasse. Vabariigi President töövisiidil Ameerika Ühendriikides 9.-16.06.2009

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would be the first woman candidate, and Barack Obama, who would be the first person of ... giving women the right to vote in 1920, or the black civil rights movement of the 1960's. ... people of India, irrespective of race, gender, or religion.

From Frozen Ties to Strategic Engagement: U.S.-Iranian Relationship in 2030

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2015-05-01

proverb .1 NEW ADMINISTRATIONS AND THE POTENTIAL FOR CHANGE When Barack Obama assumed the U.S. presidency in 2009, he emphasized engagement with...Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. Chinese proverb (apocryphally attributed to Sun Tzu).1 STEERING RELATIONSHIPS WITH KEY

What motivates a conspiracy theory? Birther beliefs, partisanship, liberal-conservative ideology, and anti-Black attitudes

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Pasek, Josh; Stark, Tobias H.|info:eu-repo/dai/nl/335996701; Krosnick, Jon A.; Tompson, Trevor

2015-01-01

Despite the release of his birth certificate, some Americans express continued skepticism over whether Barack Obama was born in the United States. This study examined two possible causes of birther beliefs: that Republicans and conservatives, whose ideological beliefs and policy preferences led to

Narrator-in-Chief

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Herron, Mark A.

. The use of narratives of and by presidents in the White House can be seen as an essential part of the ceremonial role of the presidency. This use of narratives in epideictic speech has increased with modern day interests in the domestic life of the president, and the use of visual mass media......The dissertation Narrator-in-Chief: The Narrative Rhetoric of Barack Obama seeks to show how the concept of “narrative” can be used in rhetorical criticism of presidential speeches, particularly when considering the speeches and the biographical text, Dreams from My Father (1995), of Barack Obama...... as a communication platform for the president. While this has been described as a negative development (Stuckey, 1991; Salmon, 2010) this dissertation argues that narrative rhetoric should not be seen only as a negative part of political rhetoric, but also as a possibly vital way to educate the audience on issues...

Comments from physicsworld.com

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2009-02-01

US President Barack Obama's decision to include several scientists in his cabinet-including two physicists, John Holdren and Steven Chu, who will serve as science advisor and energy secretary, respectively - is discussed in this month's news section (see pp8-9). Two articles posted on physicsworld.com when the announcements were first made ("Nobel laureate goes to Washington?" 11 December 2008 and "Obama nominates physicist as science advisor" 22 December 2008) sparked a number of comments, both sceptical and supportive, from readers.

The LHC on Google

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2009-01-01

Where in the world could the LHC outdo Barack Obama in the popularity stakes? On Google, of course! The famous search engine has just published its Top Ten "most popular" and "fastest rising" searches for 2008 in each of 34 countries. Surprise, surprise, the term "Large Hadron Collider" was the 6th fastest rising topic in the United Kingdom and the 10th fastest in New Zealand. In the UK, "Large Hadron Collider" even beat "Obama" into 7th place!

77 FR 15022 - Presidential Memorandum of February 21, 2012; Driving Innovation and Creating Jobs in Rural...

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2012-03-14

... procurement throughout the Federal Government by adding elements related to acquisition planning, evaluation..., including measuring the annual number of procurements that include direct purchase of biobased products, the... Sustainable Product Procurement On February 21, 2012, President Barack Obama issued a memorandum to the Heads...

3 CFR 8455 - Proclamation 8455 of November 20, 2009. National Farm-City Week, 2009

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2010-01-01

... our valuable natural resources and diverse ecosystems. Their connections with urban and suburban... deliver agricultural goods to feed our country and grow our economy. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA... the accomplishments of all who dedicate their lives to promoting our Nation’s agricultural abundance...

Väljavaade 2009. aastaks / George Soros ; tõlkinud Janek Salme

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2009-01-01

Hea rahvusvahelise koostöö korral võib maailmamajandus hakata sügavast august välja ronima 2010. aasta lõpus, maailmamajanduse tulevik sõltub suuresti sellest, kas USA president Barack Obama algatab ulatusliku abinõude paketi ning kui edukalt see ellu viiakse

Representing Lithuania's strongest ally / Anne E. Derse ; interviewed by Rokas M. Tracevskis

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2011-01-01

USA suursaadik Leedus räägib, et USA kavatseb kontrollida Mihhail Golovatovi juhtumiga tegeleva komisjoni tööd, rõhutab, et president Barack Obama tahab investeerida haridusse ja et USA-Leedu suhetes on julgeolekul tähtis osa. Leedu kogukonnast Ameerika Ühendriikides

Obamas opgør med Bush låser ham i dronekrig

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Ulrich, Philip Christian

2013-01-01

En helt central del af Obamas valgkamp i 2008 var et opgør med dele af Bush administrationens krig mod terror. Obama er dog blevet fanget i en kontroversiel dronepolitik på grund af hans manglende succes med de indenrigspolitiske aspekter af opgøret...

Botsende wereldbeelden: Amerika en Europa

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von der Dunk, T.

2009-01-01

Thomas von der Dunk argues that the world views of Americans and Europeans are fundamentally different. Now that Barack Obama has been elected the new President of the United States hopes are high that the transatlantic relations, which have strongly deteriorated during the two Bush Administrations

Florida ja Michigani demokraadid said hääleõiguse poolikult tagasi / Heiki Suurkask

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2008-01-01

USA eelvalimistest. USA Florida ja Michigani osariik saavad augustis demokraatliku partei kongressil siiski osaleda, kuid nende esindajate hääl läheb arvesse vaid poole eest. Barack Obama võib saada võiduks vajaliku enamuse 48 tundi pärast viimaste eelvalimiste lõppu

78 FR 57463 - National Farm Safety and Health Week, 2013

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2013-09-18

... agricultural producers and their families and communities to participate in comprehensive farm safety and... respect farming and ranching families by driving rural roadways with care, and I ask communities to... and ranches safer places to live, work, and raise families. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President...

75 FR 58283 - National Hispanic-Serving Institutions Week, 2010

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2010-09-23

... National Hispanic-Serving Institutions Week, 2010 By the President of the United States of America A... compete and thrive. Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) are key members of our higher education system... prosperous tomorrow for our Nation. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of...

TILMA: The Impact of Domestic Trade Pacts on Learning Environments

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Frampton, Caelie

2008-01-01

When U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama suggested he would reopen the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) for negotiation, the ensuing debate demonstrated that international trade agreements are controversial. A new interprovincial trade agreement between British Columbia and Alberta, the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement…

Anker Jørgensen

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Thurah, Thomas

Fra omslaget: Søster Irma, onkel Oscar, Frits Clausen, PH, John F. Kennedy, månelandingen, Ingrid og børnene, Mogens Glistrup, bilfrie søndage, Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbatjov, formandsopgøret i Socialdemokratiet og Barack Obama. Forhenværende svajer, tillidsmand, forbundsformand og...

Obamas Fortsatte Krig mod Terror

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Ulrich, Philip Christian

2013-01-01

Kronikken argumenterer for at den type overvågningsskandaler som er fulgt i kølvandet på Edward Snowdens afsløringer blot er et symptom på den nye fase af krigen mod terror som Obama administrationen har ønsket at føre USA ind i. Den nye fase vil være præget af mere efterretningsvirksomhed snarere...

Teaching Black History after Obama

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Sotiropoulos, Karen

2017-01-01

This article is a reflection on the teaching of black history after the Obama presidency and at the dawn of the Trump era. It is both an analysis of the state of the academic field and a primer on how to integrate the past few decades of scholarship in black history broadly across standard K-12 curriculum. It demonstrates the importance of…

Schmittian Politics in the Age of Drones: An Analysis of Obama's War on Terror

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Fairhead, Edward

2016-01-01

This thesis evaluates the Obama administration's use of drone strikes in the 'war on terror' in relation to what Carl Schmitt called the 'concept of the political'. After arguing that the Schmittian distinction between friend and enemy underlined Bush's war on terror, as did many scholars, I interrogate whether this is still true for Obama's war on terror. Obama's rhetorical legitimising strategy creates the appearance of difference to Bush, and is also far less overtly Schmittian; focusing i...

78 FR 55089 - National Maritime Security Advisory Committee; Meeting

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2013-09-09

... early if all business is finished. All written material and requests to make oral presentations should... February 12, 2013, President Barack Obama signed an Executive Order \\1\\ to strengthen the cybersecurity of... framework of cybersecurity practices with our industry partners. This is a continuation of a discussion held...

A Case Study of Perceptions and Experiences among African-American Males Regarding College Dropout Rates in a Community College

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Branch, James

2017-01-01

Community colleges enroll nearly half of the students in public undergraduate programs and a disproportionate number of first-generation, low-income, underprepared, and minority students. The new national completion agenda initiated by President Barack Obama had brought both visibility and pressure to community colleges, which had completion rates…

75 FR 24367 - National Charter Schools Week, 2010

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2010-05-05

... American spirit of limitless possibility to the next generation. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President... of a new age. My Administration is committed to helping schools prepare the next generation of... Charter Schools Week, 2010 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Our Nation's...

Yes, We Did? Educational Equity in a New "Post-Racial" Society

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Dixson, Adrienne

2015-01-01

This chapter provides a critique of the post-racial discourse that emerged after the election of President Barack Obama as the first African American president of the United States. Using personal narrative, I extend this critique of the post-racial within the context of a multicultural education graduate program.

3 CFR 8416 - Proclamation 8416 of September 14, 2009. Fifteenth Anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act

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2010-01-01

... Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-fourth.BARACK OBAMA ... new Federal domestic violence crimes. The law also authorized hundreds of millions of dollars to... new era of responsibility in the fight to end violence against women. In the 15 years since VAWA...

76 FR 33788 - Homeless Veterans' Reintegration Into Employment

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2011-06-09

... Opportunity Description On October 13, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Veterans' Benefits Act of 2010... Type: New Notice of Availability of Funds and Solicitation for Grant Applications. The full announcement is posted on http://www.grants.gov . Funding Opportunity Number: SGA 11-01. Key Dates: The closing...

The ambiguity of US foreign policy towards Africa

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Olsen, Gorm Rye

2017-01-01

appear incoherent and ambiguous if judged narrowly on the expectation that it only aims to take care of US national security concerns and economic self-interests. The paper concludes that Africa was important to the United States during the presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama because...

Engle og dæmoner

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Jensen, Kim Ebensgaard

2008-01-01

Diskussion af positiv stereotypificerings rolle i Barack Obama og John McCains opbygning af deres respektive images set i lyset af George Lakoffs teori om, at moral og verdenssyn i amerikansk politik i høj grad styres af idealiserede kognitive modeller omkring den ideelle familie: de progressives...

Fundamentals of Creativity

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Beghetto, Ronald A.; Kaufman, James C.

2013-01-01

Creativity has become a hot topic in education. From President Barack Obama to Amazon's Jeff Bezos to "Newsweek" magazine, business leaders, major media outlets, government officials, and education policy makers are increasingly advocating including student creativity in the curriculum. But without a clear understanding of the nature of creativity…

A sociologia pública em tempos de Barack Obama

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Michael Burawoy

Full Text Available O presente artigo, baseado em discurso dirigido à Sociedade Japonesa de Sociologia, na Universidade de Tohoku, recoloca as formulações centrais da sociologia pública, identificando os quatro estilos do fazer sociológico. Isso é feito à luz do cenário aberto com a profunda crise por que passa o sistema capitalista mundial. Mesmo ciente das diferentes tradições nacionais e da desigualdade internacional, e apesar delas, acreditamos que, como sociólogos, compartilhamos uma ambição e uma missão comum, que seria o combate ao paradigma baseado no fundamentalismo do mercado, que atualmente demonstra gravíssimos sinais de crise e de exaustão. Nesse sentido, resulta como tarefa primordial que os sociólogos canalizem as reações à crise em direção à criação de uma sociedade civil mais fortalecida e democrática, e de uma esfera pública mais robusta e inclusiva.

Corporate scramble for Africa?

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Haakonsson, Stine; Gammelgaard, Johanna; Just, Sine N.

2017-01-01

On May 18, 2012 leaders of the G8 and three African countries jointly launched the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (NA). The collaboration was announced by the US president at the time, Barack Obama, who declared that “…food security is a moral imperative, but it’s also an economic imperative. History teaches us that one of the most effective ways to pull people and entire nations out of poverty is to invest in their agriculture” (Obama, 2012). NA aims to do just that: enhance Fo...

Obama skal ikke nyde noget af Syrien

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Ulrich, Philip Christian

2013-01-01

Mange har i lang tid undret sig over at konflikten i Syrien har kunnet få lov at stå på i så lang tid, uden at USA har vist lederskab og grebet ind. Det er jo den rolle vi er vant til at se USA i. Men Obama skal ikke nyde noget af at engagere sig i Syrien. Det har USA ikke råd til......Mange har i lang tid undret sig over at konflikten i Syrien har kunnet få lov at stå på i så lang tid, uden at USA har vist lederskab og grebet ind. Det er jo den rolle vi er vant til at se USA i. Men Obama skal ikke nyde noget af at engagere sig i Syrien. Det har USA ikke råd til...

The Obama - Xi Accord: A Need for Further Action

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Tribett, W. R.; Hope, A. P.; Canty, T. P.; Salawitch, R. J.

2015-12-01

Presidents Barrack Obama of the United States and Jinping Xi of China recently announced a bilateral framework to reduce the total carbon emissions of their respective countries. The U.S. agreed to reduce annual carbon emissions such that by 2025, emissions would be 27% below 2005 levels. China agreed to achieve peak carbon emissions around 2030 coupled with a best effort to peak early. Here we analyze the implications of the Obama-Xi accord for total global carbon emissions (GCE) out to year 2060, using projections of population, economic growth, and carbon intensity for the rest of the world as well as various assumptions regarding how emissions from the U.S. and China will evolve after the timeframe of the Obama-Xi accord. Our GCE projections will be compared to those of the four Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) emission scenarios used in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). The Obama-Xi accord is shown to be a meaningful first step: if followed, the actual GCE will likely fall below RCP 8.5 between now and 2060. The U.S., China, and rest of the world presently emit 4.5, 2.0, and 1.1 tonne of carbon per person per year (tpy), respectively. We show that if the world's nations adopt a strategy of "Contraction and Convergence", such that per capita emission for each country reaches 1.0 tpy by 2060, actual GCE will approach that of RCP 4.5 by year 2060. Such action may be needed to reduce the risk of the most dire global warming forecasts within IPCC AR5.

76 FR 17327 - 100th Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

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2011-03-29

... responsibility to provide a safe environment for all American workers. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President... since the Triangle factory fire, we are still fighting to provide adequate working conditions for all... collective bargaining as a tool to give workers a seat at the tables of power. Working Americans are the...

75 FR 63037 - General Pulaski Memorial Day, 2010

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2010-10-13

... independence during the Revolutionary War. Each year, on October 11, Americans pause to remember this champion... defending freedom across two continents. Today, the people of the United States and Poland are bound by our... a safer, freer, and more prosperous world. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United...

77 FR 62139 - Authorizing the Implementation of Certain Sanctions Set Forth in the Iran Threat Reduction and...

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2012-10-12

... President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International..., I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, hereby order: Section 1. (a) When the... or at the recommendation of the Secretary of State: (i) to have engaged in censorship or other...

A New Deal for Higher Education?

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Roach, Ronald

2009-01-01

Almost a year after assuming leadership, the administration of Barack Obama has taken on enormous tasks in confronting the recession that has gripped the U.S. economy. Americans have watched tentatively as the president has extended federal powers into handling corporate bailouts, overseeing the rehabilitation of banks and General Motors, laying…

75 FR 81083 - National Mentoring Month, 2011

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2010-12-27

... future. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the... reach for new heights and guided them along the path to achievement. The contributions of these engaged... National Mentoring Month, 2011 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Across our...

75 FR 10993 - Save Your Vision Week, 2010

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2010-03-10

... proclaim the first week in March of each year as ``Save Your Vision Week.'' NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA... Your Vision Week, 2010 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation While many... identified risk factors, early detection methods, and new treatments for many eye conditions, but individuals...

A Decade of Suspicion

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Rytter, Mikkel; Pedersen, Marianne Holm

2014-01-01

In 2011, al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden, was killed in Pakistan and the US president, Barack Obama, concluded a decade of global ‘war against terror’. In light of this, it seems only sensible to explore what implications the post-9/11 international developments have had on a local basis...

U.S. Aid Urged for Education's Entrepreneurs

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Robelen, Erik W.

2008-01-01

With the presidential candidates both underscoring their support for entrepreneurial initiatives in education, policy experts are advancing ideas for helping such efforts flourish. In their October 15 debate at Hofstra University, both Senators John McCain of Arizona and Barack Obama of Illinois used questions on education to talk about school…

Nation, Districts Step up Safety

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Shah, Nirvi

2013-01-01

President Barack Obama's announcement last week of a wide-ranging anti-violence plan in response to the Newtown, Connecticut, school shootings comes as many districts are adopting new and sometimes dramatic measures--including arming teachers and volunteers--intended to prevent similar tragedies in their own schools. School safety experts warn…

Chasing the Dream

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Gardezi, Aleena

2012-01-01

Community colleges are gearing up to play a greater role in providing open access and affordable education to undocumented immigrants since President Barack Obama's re-election, which ensured the continuance of his June 15th executive order offering deferred deportation to eligible young immigrants. That order provided an opportunity for children…

The Specter of Communism and the Ghost of Jim Crow : The Contemporary Origins of American Conservative Discourse

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Zwiers, Maarten

2013-01-01

On January 11, 2013, Catholic League president Bill Donahue issued a news release in which he proposed that Barack Obama should swear in on Das Kapital instead of the Bible. Although Donahue’s statement was a direct response to Obama’s advocacy of gay rights, his declaration fits within a wider

3 CFR 8372 - Proclamation 8372 of May 4, 2009. National Charter Schools Week, 2009

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2010-01-01

... selection and review process to ensure that autonomy is coupled with greater accountability. The growth of effective public charter schools benefits our children, and States have an important role to play in their... interests of our children, our economy, and our Nation as a whole. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA...

A Double Dose of Algebra

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Cortes, Kalena; Nomi, Takako; Goodman, Joshua

2013-01-01

In 2008, president-elect Barack Obama declared that preparing the nation for the "21st-century economy" required making "math and science education a national priority." Encouraging more students to take advanced classes seems laudable, but concerns have arisen about the ability of many students to complete such course work…

Obama: La comunicación del cambio

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Alfredo Dávalos López

2008-12-01

Full Text Available La campaña de Obama estuvo enfocada en la explotación de los medios de Comunicación más utilizados por los jóvenes votantes: teléfonos celulares, redes sociales, correo electrónico.

"A campaign won as a public issue will stay won": using cartoons and comics to fight national health care reform, 1940s and beyond.

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Knoblauch, Heidi Katherine

2014-02-01

On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law. As it went through Congress, the legislation faced forceful resistance. Individuals and organizations opposing the ACA circulated propaganda that varied from photographs of fresh graves or coffins with the caption "Result of ObamaCare" to portrayals of President Obama as the Joker from the Batman movies, captioned with the single word "socialism." The arguments embedded in these images have striking parallels to cartoons circulated by physicians to their patients in earlier fights against national health care. Examining cartoons used in the formative health care reform debates of the 1940s provides a means for tracing the lineage of emotional arguments employed against health care reform.

Interests and Values in Obama's foreign Policy: Leading from Behind?

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MARIA HELENA DE CASTRO SANTOS

2015-12-01

Full Text Available Abstract This study will exam the relative importance of values and interests in Obama's foreign policy, focusing on crucial cases: the military actions related to Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Non-Syria, Al-Qaeda and ISIL. We will argue that his "leading from behind" strategy is not very distant from the foreign and defense strategies of his post-Cold War predecessors, by which democracy is seen as an assurance to security. According to Obama's strategy, Americans will only provide support for the building of democracy in the target countries, while this task should be performed by the locals themselves. Americans will provide military training to the new governments as well so they can be responsible for their own security, including preventing regrouping of terrorists in their soil. If Obama opposes the imposing of democracy by the use of force, empirical data shows that his administration is "not prepared to accept" any option that threats US security or American liberal-democratic values, bringing in this way values and interests very close to each other.

Cybersecurity Implications for Industry, Academia, and Parents: A Qualitative Case Study in NSF STEM Education

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Stevenson, Gregory V.

2017-01-01

Rationale: Former President Barack Obama's $3.9 trillion for the 2015 fiscal year budget request included a $2.9 billion investment in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education. Research then showed that the national spending for cybersecurity has exceeded $10.7 billion in the 2015 fiscal year. Nonetheless, the number of…

Summertime blues

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2009-01-01

USA presidendi Barack Obama plaaniväline kohtumine president Toomas Hendrik Ilvesega 15. juunil 2009 Washingtonis oli kodeeritud sõnum Moskvale, et Ameerika toetus NATO idapiiril olevatele riikidele on vankumatu. Eesti riigipead nimetatakse artiklis Ameerika lemmikuks Ida-Euroopa poliitikute seas. Vabariigi President töövisiidil Ameerika Ühendriikides 9.-16.06.2009

An Earned Insurgency: Quality Education as a Constitutional Right

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Moses, Robert P.

2009-01-01

In the following pages, Robert Moses tells the history of the early civil rights movement in Mississippi, focusing on the individuals, alliances, and strategies that brought about fundamental change in the United States and ultimately made possible the election of Barack Obama to the presidency. Moses describes how the efforts of Justice…

Underserved: A Case Study of ROTC in New York City. A Report of the AEI Program on American Citizenship

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Miller, Cheryl

2011-01-01

The military-civilian disconnect has been a source of increasing concern over the last few decades. National security leaders--including the commander in chief, President Barack Obama--have warned that many Americans are unaware of the military's sacrifices and its growing sense of isolation from wider society. In remarks at Duke University in…

Americans Split on Government Control of Tuition

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Selingo, Jeffrey

2008-01-01

Nearly seven months before the November election, a plurality of Americans favor Barack Obama to tackle what they consider the most pressing issue in higher education: the runaway cost of a bachelor's degree. According to a new nationwide survey conducted through The Chronicle/Gallup Panel, 42 percent of Americans think that controlling college…

Going Green Online: Distance Learning Prepares Students for Success in Green-Collar Job Markets

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Githens, Rod; Sauer, Timothy

2010-01-01

President Barack Obama has touted the development of a new green economy as a tool to rebuild the American economy while creating new jobs. This new economy requires entrepreneurs and innovators to create new businesses and invent new technologies. It also requires technicians with specialized skills to build wind farms, operate renewable fuels…

It's a Mad, Mad Wordle: For a New Take on Text, Try This Fun Word Cloud Generator

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Foote, Carolyn

2009-01-01

Nation. New. Common. Generation. These are among the most frequently used words spoken by President Barack Obama in his January 2009 inauguration speech as seen in a fascinating visual display called a Wordle. Educators, too, can harness the power of Wordle to enhance learning. Imagine providing students with a whole new perspective on…

75 FR 67899 - National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month, 2010

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2010-11-04

... a full-time, non-stop job, and this month, we also honor the compassionate caregivers and medical... caregivers and victims of this devastating disease. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United... people of the United States to learn more about Alzheimer's disease and what they can do to support their...

Demography as Destiny?

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Ladner, Matthew; Lips, Dan

2009-01-01

A major debate among education reformers over how best to reduce the achievement gap broke out during the 2008 presidential campaign. Most advocates on both sides backed Barack Obama, but they urged him to pursue different policies. The Education Equality Project (EEP) supported a continuation of accountability and other school-focused reforms.…

75 FR 63033 - Leif Erikson Day, 2010

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2010-10-13

... States of America A Proclamation Over 1,000 years ago, the lure of discovery led Leif Erikson--a son of... life as neighbors and leaders in communities across America. Guided by the strength and resolve of Leif....'' NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim October...

The Interplay between Prejudice against Latinos and Policy: A Social Psychological Perspective

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Trujillo, Matthew D.

2012-01-01

During the past century, American society has made enormous strides in promoting equality and diminishing prejudice among different racial and ethnic groups (Dovidio et al. 2002). Indeed, many believe the election of the first Black president, Barack Obama, marked the beginning of a post-racial America. While progress is undeniable, America is by…

77 FR 66521 - National Diabetes Month, 2012

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2012-11-06

... has focused on giving children and parents the tools they need to make healthy choices and put their..., and people living with the disease are at higher risk of high blood pressure, heart disease, and... every man, woman, and child. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America...

Obama cares about visuo-spatial attention: perception of political figures moves attention and determines gaze direction.

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Mills, Mark; Smith, Kevin B; Hibbing, John R; Dodd, Michael D

2015-02-01

Processing an abstract concept such as political ideology by itself is difficult but becomes easier when a background situation contextualizes it. Political ideology within American politics, for example, is commonly processed using space metaphorically, i.e., the political "left" and "right" (referring to Democrat and Republican views, respectively), presumably to provide a common metric to which abstract features of ideology can be grounded and understood. Commonplace use of space as metaphor raises the question of whether an inherently non-spatial stimulus (e.g., picture of the political "left" leader, Barack Obama) can trigger a spatially-specific response (e.g., attentional bias toward "left" regions of the visual field). Accordingly, pictures of well-known Democrats and Republicans were presented as central cues in peripheral target detection (Experiment 1) and saccadic free-choice (Experiment 2) tasks to determine whether perception of stimuli lacking a direct association with physical space nonetheless induce attentional and oculomotor biases in the direction compatible with the ideological category of the cue (i.e., Democrat/left and Republican/right). In Experiment 1, target detection following presentation of a Democrat (Republican) was facilitated for targets appearing to the left (right). In Experiment 2, participants were more likely to look left (right) following presentation of a Democrat (Republican). Thus, activating an internal representation of political ideology induced a shift of attention and biased choice of gaze direction in a spatially-specific manner. These findings demonstrate that the link between conceptual processing and spatial attention can be totally arbitrary, with no reference to physical or symbolic spatial information. Published by Elsevier B.V.

Large-Group Contest Ratings and Music Teacher Evaluation: Issues and Recommendations

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Hash, Phillip M.

2013-01-01

The Race to the Top program, initiated in 2009 by U.S. president Barack Obama, has resulted in new laws governing teacher evaluation, retention, and compensation. In many states, teachers' contributions to students' academic growth will account for up to 50 percent of their evaluations and serve as a basis for decisions regarding retention and…

Keeping the Promise

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Whissemore, Tabitha

2016-01-01

Since its launch in September 2015, Heads Up America has collected information on nearly 125 promise programs across the country, many of which were instituted long before President Barack Obama announced the America's College Promise (ACP) plan in 2015. At least 27 new free community college programs have launched in states, communities, and at…

Privatization and Access: The Chilean Higher Education Experiment and Its Discontents. Research and Occasional Paper Series: CSHE.11.15

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González, Cristina; Pedraja, Liliana

2015-01-01

President Barack Obama recently announced a proposal to eliminate tuition charges at community colleges so that everyone can easily complete the first two years of a university education. At the same time, the administration is creating new regulations to curb the worst abuses of for-profit universities. This suggests that the country has reached…

An Intercultural Project Exploring the Relationship among DNA Ancestry Profiles, Family Narrative, and the Social Construction of Race

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Foeman, Anita K.

2012-01-01

While important goals of the Civil Rights Movement were fulfilled with the election of Barack Obama, ongoing demands to build a just and inclusive multiracial society require that one constantly looks for new ways to extend the discussion of difference. The goal of this article is to present a project designed for students in intercultural…

Work starts after regimes fall

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2011-01-01

27. mail Varssavis toimunud Kesk-Euroopa riigipeade kohtumisel räägiti, kuidas võiks Euroopa naabruses elavaid rahvaid stabiilse ja demokraatliku poliitilise süsteemi loomisel aidata. Eesti president Toomas Hendrik Ilves rõhutas oma kõnes, et iga revolutsiooni tulemus ei ole alati demokraatia. Õhtul saabus Varssavi ka USA president Barack Obama

Farvel, Bush: Bush & Co blev ramt af virkeligheden

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Ashbee, Edward

2009-01-01

For fire år siden troede alle, at demokraternes dage var talte i USA. Og at de neokonservative republikaneres greb om magten ville fortsætte i mange år. Men udviklingen overhalede prognoserne, for på tirsdag bliver Barack Obama - der var Senatets mest progressive medlem - USA's næste præsident...

Understanding DACA and the Implications for Higher Education

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Venegas, Kristan; Cadena, Michelle; Galan, Carlos; Park, Elizabeth; Astudillo, Samantha; Avilez, Arely Acuña; Ward, James D.; Lanford, Michael; Tierney, William G.

2017-01-01

Recent federal immigration policy has focused on individuals who were brought to the U.S. by their guardians. In June 2012, former President Barack Obama signed an executive order to implement Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, widely known as DACA. DACA is organized to allow individuals who came to this country as children with an…

The Evolution of Women's Roles within the University and the Workplace

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Webb, Joyce G.

2010-01-01

On April 20, 2010, United States President Barack Obama issued a proclamation declaring National Equal Pay Day. In the proclamation it was recognized that despite years of progress in the workforce, women are still not paid as much as men. The proclamation states: Throughout our Nation's history, extraordinary women have broken barriers to achieve…

Taganttorkimine võib aktsiaturule hästi mõjuda. Ehk paneb reitingukärbe jänkisid võlga vähendama / Raivo Sormunen

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2011-01-01

Reitinguagentuur Standard & Poor's vähendas USA pikaajalise riigivõla väljavaadet stabiilselt negatiivsele ning jättis USA võlakoorma reitingu AAA-le. USA riiklik koguvõlg on 14,3 triljonit dollarit, eelarvedefitsiit ulatus 10. oktoobrist kuni 11. märtsini 829 miljardi dollarini. President Barack Obama lubas defitsiidi vähendamist

3 CFR 8443 - Proclamation 8443 of October 23, 2009. Declaration of a National Emergency With Respect to the...

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2010-01-01

... vaccine, we have taken proactive steps to reduce the impact of the pandemic and protect the health of our..., we are taking additional steps to facilitate our response. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President... have hereunto set my hand this twenty-third day of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand nine...

Colleges Weigh "Yes We Can" Approach to Fund Raising

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Parry, Marc

2009-01-01

Blue State Digital, the company that helped catapult Barack Obama into the White House, is courting colleges. Some are welcoming the political rainmaker inside their wrought-iron gates. But some skeptics question whether what works in the digital war room of a political campaign can translate into the academic arena. The world of college fund…

Upping the "Anti-": The Value of an Anti-Racist Theoretical Framework in Music Education

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Hess, Juliet

2015-01-01

In a time that some have argued is "postracial" following the election and reelection of Barack Obama (see Wise 2010, for discussion), this paper argues that antiracism is a crucial theoretical framework for music education. I explore three areas of music education, in which such a framework can push toward change. The first area speaks…

Endoscopic surgery in children and neonates: to be or not to be

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van der Zee, D.C.

2010-01-01

August 28th 1963 Martin Luther King spoke the legendary words: “I have a dream”. January 20th 2009, almost 46 years later, Barack Obama was inaugurated as the first colored president of the United States. Today another dream has come true. With the opening of the completely renewed OR complex in the

Pressing reset on Moscow is worth a little Nato anxiety / Jonathan Steele

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Steele, Jonathan

2009-01-01

USA president Barack Obama on avaldanud soovi vajutada USA-Vene suhetes reset-nuppu. Eesti president Toomas Hendrik Ilves ütles NATO tippkohtumise eelõhtul kuivalt, et arvutil reset-nuppu vajutades ei kustu mällu salvestatud failid siiski ära. President T. H. Ilvese teravast sõnavõtust president Lennart Meri konverentsi avamisel Tallinnas

Dynamic remodeling of in-group bias during the 2008 presidential election.

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Rand, David G; Pfeiffer, Thomas; Dreber, Anna; Sheketoff, Rachel W; Wernerfelt, Nils C; Benkler, Yochai

2009-04-14

People often favor members of their own group, while discriminating against members of other groups. Such in-group favoritism has been shown to play an important role in human cooperation. However, in the face of changing conflicts and shifting alliances, it is essential for group identities to be flexible. Using the dictator game from behavioral economics, we demonstrate the remodeling of group identities among supporters of Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. After Clinton's concession in June 2008, Democrats were more generous toward supporters of their own preferred candidate than to supporters of the other Democratic candidate. The bias observed in June persisted into August, and disappeared only in early September after the Democratic National Convention. We also observe a strong gender effect, with bias both appearing and subsiding among men only. This experimental study illustrates a dynamic change in bias, tracking the realignment of real world conflict lines and public efforts to reconstitute group identity. The change in salient group identity we describe here likely contributed to the victory of Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election.

Obama administration's National Drought Resilience Partnership to help

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RESEARCH COASTS CAREERS National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Department of Administration today announced an interagency National Drought Resilience Partnership to help communities better across the nation, and the Obama Administration took every possible measure to help," said

Web of power. Information and technology are changing the face of healthcare and its leadership, according to this year's 7th annual 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare ranking.

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Lubell, Jennifer

2008-08-25

The Internet and technology helped catapult this year's No. 1 to the top of the Most Powerful People in Healthcare roster, along with the No. 2 and No. 3 picks. But politicians also had a good showing in the top 10, including presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain, and ailing Democratic lion, Sen. Edward Kennedy, left.

78 FR 56125 - National Days of Prayer and Remembrance, 2013

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2013-09-11

.... That selflessness shows the best of who we are as a people. And for more than a decade, that same... American beliefs. Years from now, these acts will reveal the true legacy of that day--of a safer world, a stronger Nation, and a country more united than ever before. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of...

ONDERHOUD MET EDWIN ARRISON1

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So ons het daardie week gehad, en in daardie week het daar 'n hele klompie goed gebeur waarvan ek heeltemal onbewus was. Byvoorbeeld, ek het skielik daardie week besef iemand soos Jeremiah. Wright kom na die konferensie toe. Ek weet nie of jy vir Jeremiah Wright ken nie, maar hy was Barack Obama se pastoor ...

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Mangu, AMB. Vol 38, No 1&2 (2013) - Articles US Foreign Policy under President Barack Obama and the Promotion of Multilateralism and the Rule of Law Abstract PDF. ISSN: 0850-3907. AJOL African Journals Online. HOW TO USE AJOL... for Researchers · for Librarians · for Authors · FAQ's · More about AJOL · AJOL's ...

A Ticking Time Bomb: Counterterrorism Lessons From the U.S. Government’s Failure to Prevent the Fort Hood Attack

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2011-02-03

tested against the requirements imposed by the rapidly mounting complexity of national security problems." President Barack Obama himself...Committee (September 22, 2010); Michael Leiter, Director, National Counterterrorism Center, Statement before the Senate Homeland Securily and Governmental...particularly given the growing complexity and diversity of the homegrown terrorist threat. The challenges involve not just reforming or creating new

The Trauma of Racism: America's Original Sin

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Ponds, Kenneth T.

2013-01-01

With the election of Barack Obama as President, many believed that this nation was entering into a post-racial America, a color-blind society where racism could begin to be healed if not totally dismissed. However, a recent Associated Press poll has shown that this is not the case (AP, 2012). In fact, racial prejudice has increased slightly since…

New Leeway on Horizon under NCLB

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McNeil, Michele

2011-01-01

As the clock ticks toward President Barack Obama's back-to-school deadline for rewriting the No Child Left Behind Act, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is preparing to grant states relief from key provisions of the federal school accountability law in exchange for what he calls "commitments to key reforms." The move comes as…

Communities for and with Black Male Students

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Jett, Christopher C.; Stinson, David W.; Williams, Brian A.

2015-01-01

The social and educational status of black male youth in the United States has been receiving increasing attention. In February 2014, President Barack Obama announced a new national initiative--My Brother's Keeper--for helping black boys and male youth or, to speak more generally, boys and young men of color, to "stay on track; providing the…

Inside School Turnarounds: Urgent Hopes, Unfolding Stories

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Pappano, Laura

2010-01-01

The quest for school improvement is old. The demand for dramatic, immediate school improvement is new. Even as President Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan commit $4.3 billion to making 5,000 of the nation's worst-performing schools better now, few people know what that really looks like--or how it actually works. How do school…

The End of Race as We Know It

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Early, Gerald L.

2008-01-01

In this article, the author shares his thoughts when he saw the controversial "New Yorker" cover of July 21, 2008 showing the Democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama, as a Muslim jihadist and his wife, Michelle, as a gun-toting, Afro-wearing black militant. The cover told the story of a rite of African-American passage that occurred at a…

Jobs Plan Highlights Education

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Klein, Alyson

2011-01-01

President Barack Obama is putting new money to save educators' jobs and help states refurbish aging school facilities at the center of a nearly $450 billion plan to jump-start the sluggish economy. The author talks about the president's plan which is sure to face hurdles in a politically polarized Washington where one house of Congress is…

For Many Students, Electoral Enthusiasm Runs up against Barriers to Voting

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Lipka, Sara

2008-01-01

Stories of transient students missing deadlines or being misled about their voting rights are nothing new. But this year, the role younger voters played in Barack Obama's win in Iowa's Democratic presidential primary seems to have motivated a wave of college students in other states. Some of those students--and the campaigns courting them--are out…

Historic Opportunity for Action

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Duncan, Arne

2009-01-01

When President Barack Obama took office, he pledged to revitalize an economy in the midst of the deepest recession in a generation. Working with Congress, he acted quickly to enact an $878 billion package to stimulate the economy in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). More than $100 billion of that will be for education, spanning…

School Reform We Can't Believe In

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Karp, Stan

2010-01-01

While running for president, Barack Obama called No Child Left Behind (NCLB) "one of the emptiest slogans in the history of American politics." By the time he gets a new version of the law through Congress, his own campaign theme--"change you can believe in"--may be a contender for the same title. In fact, if the healthcare…

Медведев и Обама подпишут новый договор START / Хендрик Восман

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Восман, Хендрик

2010-01-01

USA president Barack Obama ja Venemaa president Dmitri Medvedev kavatsevad Prahas allkirjastada USA ja Venemaa vahelise tuumarelvalepingu, mille eesmärgiks on kahandada mõlema riigi tuumaarsenali. Pärast uue strateegilise relvastuse piiramise ehk STARTleppe allkirjastamist sööb USA president Prahas õhtust 11 Kesk- ja Ida-Euroopa riigipeaga, nende seas ka president Toomas Hendrik Ilvesega

Looking at Citizenship through a Literary Lens

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Tavares, Laura

2017-01-01

President Barack Obama once said he believes that he learned how to be a good citizen by reading novels. In this article, Laura Tavares looks at the ways that ELA teachers can use fiction to illustrate social and ethical awareness, humility, and a tolerance for difference--all traits that are necessary to be a good citizen. By putting themselves…

"Brokenhagen": elementer til en forståelse af COP-15

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Andersen, Mikael Skou

2010-01-01

selvom både Barack Obama og Wen Jiabao er reform-politikere med sympati for klimaspørgsmålet, så var de bundet af forestillingerne og mandaterne fra deres respektive baglande. Med finanskrisen indtrådte en ny økonomisk verdensorden, som vendte op og ned på de fastlagte forestillinger om hvem der kunne...

Facebookrati?

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Pedersen, Rasmus Tue

2010-01-01

I løbet af de sidste uger fik en ansat i Venstres pressetjeneste betydelig opmærksomhed i medierne - grundet Facebook. Barack Obama vandt præsidentposten i 2008 - blandt andet med hjælp fra sociale medier, såsom Facebook. De sociale medier bliver i stigende grad brugt politisk i Danmark; man skal...

Journalistik om et bebudet historisk øjeblik

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Jørndrup, Hanne

2012-01-01

samtidens interesse som ’historiske’, hvordan behandler journalistikken disse begivenheder, og hvad kan påberåbelsen af historien bruges til? Barack Obamas indsættelse som USA’s 44. præsident i januar 2009 blev om noget udråbt til et historisk øjeblik. Nærværende artikel analyser den journalistiske praksis...

“A Campaign Won as a Public Issue Will Stay Won”: Using Cartoons and Comics to Fight National Health Care Reform, 1940s and Beyond

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Knoblauch, Heidi Katherine

2014-01-01

On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law. As it went through Congress, the legislation faced forceful resistance. Individuals and organizations opposing the ACA circulated propaganda that varied from photographs of fresh graves or coffins with the caption “Result of ObamaCare” to portrayals of President Obama as the Joker from the Batman movies, captioned with the single word “socialism.” The arguments embedded in these images have striking parallels to cartoons circulated by physicians to their patients in earlier fights against national health care. Examining cartoons used in the formative health care reform debates of the 1940s provides a means for tracing the lineage of emotional arguments employed against health care reform. PMID:24328659

Obama and the Middle East, Round Two

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Dan Tschirgi

2013-10-01

Full Text Available Tras años de inercia diplomática, el aparentemente interminable "proceso de paz" Palestino-Israelí recibió un nuevo empujón por parte de la Administración Obama en el verano del 2013. A pesar del deseo expresado por Washington durante el primer mandato de Obama de girar la política exterior de los EEUU hacia Asia, el proceso de paz reavivado, junto con la crisis Siria, Irán y la "primavera árabe" se han conjurado para que los EEUU mantengan su interés en las tradicionales preocupaciones ligadas al Medio Oriente. En contraste con periodos anteriores empero, la opinión pública estadounidense hoy en día puede estar dispuesta a apoyar a un presidente que persiga lograr el objetivo de un acuerdo de paz basado en una solución en dos estados desafiando directamente la política exterior de Israel de promover la construcción de asentamientos en las tierras árabes ocupadas.

Obama's 2013 Education Budget and Blueprint: A Costly Expansion of Federal Control. Backgrounder, No. 2677

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Burke, Lindsey M.; Sheffield, Rachel

2012-01-01

President Obama's FY 2013 budget request includes another major spending increase for the Department of Education--2.5 percent more than last year--to nearly $70 billion. American taxpayers are calling for spending restraint in Washington, yet President Obama's proposals would exacerbate the existing bureaucratic maze of federal programs and…

Why Barack Obama is black: a cognitive account of hypodescent.

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Halberstadt, Jamin; Sherman, Steven J; Sherman, Jeffrey W

2011-01-01

We propose that hypodescent-the assignment of mixed-race individuals to a minority group-is an emergent feature of basic cognitive processes of learning and categorization. According to attention theory, minority groups are learned by attending to the features that distinguish them from previously learned majority groups. Selective attention creates a strong association between minority groups and their distinctive features, producing a tendency to see individuals who possess a mixture of majority- and minority-group traits as minority-group members. Two experiments on face categorization, using both naturally occurring and manipulated minority groups, support this view, suggesting that hypodescent need not be the product of racist or political motivations, but can be sufficiently explained by an individual's learning history.

A Pragmatic Study of Barak Obama's Political Propaganda

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Al-Ameedi, Riyadh Tariq Kadhim; Khudhier, Zina Abdul Hussein

2015-01-01

This study investigates, pragmatically, the language of five electoral political propaganda texts delivered by Barak Obama. It attempts to achieve the following aims: (1) identifying the speech acts used in political propaganda, (2) showing how politicians utilize Grice's maxims and the politeness principle in issuing their propaganda, (3)…

Insights into the Ukrainian Crisis

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Costel Daniel Arfire

2014-05-01

Full Text Available Political crises are increasingly frequent and devastating not only for the population of a state, but also for the international diplomacy. Such an example is the ongoing Ukrainian crisis. Starting from S. Fink‘s life cycle of a crisis and T.W. Coombs‘s crisis response strategies, I will analyse the evolution of the Ukrainian crisis and the crisis response strategies of three major international actors: Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama and Angela Merkel. The findings of my study will prove that the denial strategy prevails in Putin‘s statement, whereas Obama uses the diminish strategy and Merkel focuses on the bolstering strategy.

Before and After: The 2008 Election and the Second “Solid South”

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James B. Cobb

2012-01-01

Full Text Available When the general election campaign began in the fall of 2008, few expected Barack Obama to make much of a showing in the overwhelmingly republican South. Yet as the first African American to head a major party ticket, Obama did strikingly well in a region not particularly known for its recent sympathies for white Democrats, much less black ones. The South’s somewhat surprising role in the 2008 presidential election can best be appreciated in the context of a regional political tradition which, since the end of Reconstruction, has been marked less by true two-party competition than sustained periods of domination by each.

O mundo diante do “Dia O”

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José Flávio Sombra Saraiva

2009-01-01

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o artigo trata de comparar a política externa

norte-americana do período do Presidente Franklin

Roosevelt com a do Presidente Barack Obama. Nesse

sentido, a política externa de Obama deveria ater-se

a Cuba, ao fechamento do presídio de Guantánamo

e à criação do Estado da Palestina.

Francis Fukuyama : demokraadid oleksid pidanud juba ammu võitma / Francis Fukuyama

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Fukuyama, Francis

2008-01-01

Politoloog usub, et George W. Bushi valitsuse unilateraalsus oli lihtsalt tema valitsusaja fenomen, president Barack Obama valitsus pühenduks põhimõtteliselt multilateraalsusele. Autori hinnangul on Gruusia ja Ukraina NATO-liikmesuse tagant torkimine vastutustundetu, sest nende osas on 5. artikli kohustusi võimatu täita. NATO ainuke õige vastus Venemaa tegevusele Gruusias oleks kaasata Soome. Terrorismivastasest sõjast

Venemaa on meie enda loodud oht / Noam Chomsky ; interv. Dirk Hoyer

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Chomsky, Noam, 1928-

2008-01-01

Ühendriikide tuntud arvamusliider sõna- ja ajakirjandusvabadusest USA-s, suhtumisest Iraagi sõtta, avalikkussuhete tööstuse ja parteide juhtkondade toodete müügist presidendivalimiste kampaania käigus, tervishoiusüsteemi katastroofilisest olukorrast USA-s, valikust presidendikandidaatide Barack Obama ja John McCaini vahel, kosmose militariseerimisest, suhtumisest 11. septembrisse, Venemaast Balti julgeoleku ohuna, NATOst julgeoleku garanteerijana, energiaressurssidest kui hirmutamisvahenditest

The Peril of Hasty Triumphalism and Osama bin Laden’s Death

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Eugenio Lilli

2011-05-01

Full Text Available On May 1, 2011 the headlines of a large number of newspapers and TV channels around the world were saying “justice has been done”. Those were the words used by the US President Barack Obama to announce to the world the killing of Osama bin Laden, the number one terrorist on the US most-wanted list.

Shootings Revive Debates on Security

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Shah, Nirvi

2013-01-01

By nearly all accounts, the staff and students at Sandy Hook Elementary School did everything right on Dec. 14--and with the security measures they took before that day--when a young man armed with powerful weapons blasted his way into the school. But the deadliest K-12 school shooting in American history, a day that President Barack Obama has…

Waivering as Governance: Federalism during the Obama Administration

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Saultz, Andrew; McEachin, Andrew; Fusarelli, Lance D.

2016-01-01

This article analyzes how the Obama administration used executive power to grant waivers from federal education policies and assesses whether they used this power differently than previous administrations and in other sectors (e.g., health or welfare). The executive use of waivers to shape state policy is not a new trend. However, we find that…

From Rosalind Franklin to Barack Obama: Data Sharing Challenges and Solutions in Genomics and Personalised Medicine.

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Lawler, Mark; Maughan, Tim

2017-04-01

The collection, storage and use of genomic and clinical data from patients and healthy individuals is a key component of personalised medicine enterprises such as the Precision Medicine Initiative, the Cancer Moonshot and the 100,000 Genomes Project. In order to maximise the value of this data, it is important to embed a culture within the scientific, medical and patient communities that supports the appropriate sharing of genomic and clinical information. However, this aspiration raises a number of ethical, legal and regulatory challenges that need to be addressed. The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health, a worldwide coalition of researchers, healthcare professionals, patients and industry partners, is developing innovative solutions to support the responsible and effective sharing of genomic and clinical data. This article identifies the challenges that a data sharing culture poses and highlights a series of practical solutions that will benefit patients, researchers and society.

Off to the States.

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Epp, Baerbel

2009-07-01

The extension of the federal tax credits by eight years and the election of Barack Obama have suddenly made the US market for solar thermal energy far more attractive. The first large-scale commercial systems are being commissioned. SRCC quality mark testing bottlenecks could be relieved in 2009. However, the news is not all good from the supposed solar dream land across the ocean. (orig.)

'The Change is On'. The USA on the way to higher energy efficiency; 'The Change is On'. Die USA auf dem Weg zur Energieeffizienz

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Baumann, Oliver [Ebert and Baumann Consulting Engineers, Inc., Washington, DC (United States)

2009-07-01

On 17 February 2009, President Barack Obama signed the biggest ever economic stimulus package in the history of the USA. With a volume of 787 billion US dollars, it is to stimulate and strengthen the US economy. Part of the funds will be for energy efficiency measures in the building sector. Trends that showed up during the past few years now become more concrete. (orig.)

Trumps karriere et alarmerende varsel

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Thomsen, Steen

2016-01-01

Det kom som et chok for mange, at amerikanerne valgte Donald Trump som præsident. De havde håbet, at vælgerne i sidste øjeblik ville besinde sig og ikke vælge en præsident, der af den nuværende præsident Barack Obama og mange republikanere betragtes som uværdig til embedet. Nu er han her, og...

A política comercial dos Estados Unidos no primeiro governo Obama: heranças, estratégias e desafios

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Filipe Almeida do Prado Mendonça

2013-10-01

Full Text Available Este artigo tem por objetivo sistematizar alguns dos principais pontos da agenda comercial dos Estados Unidos durante os quatro primeiros anos da gestão Obama. Identifica-se uma postura “mais discreta” do presidente Obama se comparado com governos anterior em questões de política comercial, o que não significa uma postura “pouco ativa”.  This article aims to systematize some of the main aspects of the US trade agenda during the first four years of Obama administration. It identifies a "more discreet" attitude of the President Obama on trade policy compared to previous governments. However, this posture does not mean that the US government has been inactive.

Fiscal year 2013 energy department budget: Proposed investments in clean energy research

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Balcerak, Ernie

2012-03-01

Energy and environmental research programs generally fared well in President Barack Obama's proposed budget for the Department of Energy (DOE) for fiscal year (FY) 2013. In his State of the Union address, Obama called for the United States to pursue an "all of the above" energy strategy that includes fossil fuels, as well as a variety of renewable sources of energy. The DOE budget request supports that strategy, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said in a 13 February press briefing announcing the budget proposal. The proposed budget gives DOE 27.2 billion overall, a 3.2% increase from the FY 2012 enacted budget (see Table 1). This budget "reflects some tough choices," Chu said. The proposed budget would cut 4 billion in subsidies for oil and gas companies; many Republican members of Congress have already indicated that they oppose such cuts, suggesting that congressional approval of this budget may run into stumbling blocks. The budget would also cut funding for research and development projects that are already attracting private-sector investment or that are not working, and would reduce some of the department's operational costs.

Obama vu de ma banlieue.

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Olga Stanislawska

2008-12-01

Full Text Available Une petite brocante est organisée tous les jeudis sur une place proche de la Basilique de Saint-Denis. On y vend des livres, des bibelots, des bijoux fantaisies et des masques africains. L’un des vendeurs a visiblement décidé de bénéficier de l’effet Obama. J’ai pris la photo de ma fenêtre, située au dessus de ce marché. J’ai adoré ce stand, mais ce n’est qu’une fois sur l’écran de mon ordinateur que j’ai vu les petites images Banania... ! Si j’avais su, je serais ...

The Affordable Care Act: the ethical call for value-based leadership to transform quality.

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Piper, Llewellyn E

2013-01-01

Hospitals in America face a daunting and historical challenge starting in 2013 as leadership navigates their organizations toward a new port of call-the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law in March 2010 and held in abeyance waiting on 2 pivotal points-the Supreme Court's June 2012 ruling upholding the constitutionality of the ACA and the 2012 presidential election of Barack Obama bringing to reality to health care organizations that leadership now must implement the mandates of health care delivery under the ACA. This article addresses the need for value-based leadership to transform the culture of health care organizations in order to be successful in navigating uncharted waters under the unprecedented challenges for change in the delivery of quality health care.

Hawking receives top US award at White House

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Banks, Michael

2009-09-01

The Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking has been awarded the highest US civilian honour - the presidential medal of freedom. At a ceremony at the White House last month, Hawking, together with 15 other recipients, received the 2009 award from President Barack Obama. The medal is given to individuals who make a contribution "to the security or national interests of the US, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavours".

Climate Change and the Department of Defense: An Introduction

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2016-10-24

thus an increased chance of wildfires, flooding, and drought. In addition to compro- mising food production in Latin America , these natural disasters...Department of Defense (DOD) fully embraces the idea that global climate change is an actual risk to national security that must be taken into consider- Dr...Barack H. Obama in 2008 introduced seismic shifts in American foreign and domestic policies, which included a 180 degrees reversal of foreign and

Využívání nových médií v předvolebních kampaních na příkladu prezidentské kampaně Baracka Obamy

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Ondráková, Simona

2012-01-01

The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to cover the use of new media in political election campaign. The project is focused on the campaign of Barack Obama, it is to describe and analyse the utilization of websites, online social networks and other subjects. A part of this bachelor thesis is to compare methods of Czech and American campaigns with the elections to the House of Represantatives in May of 2010.

Communication dated 23 June 2009 received from the Permanent Mission of the United States of America with regard to Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism Plenary Meeting

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2009-01-01

The Secretariat has received a communication dated 23 June 2009 from the Permanent Mission of the United States of America transmitting the 16 June 2009 message from President Barack Obama to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) Plenary Meeting held in the Hague on 16-17 June 2009. As requested in that communication, the abovementioned message is herewith circulated for the information of all Member States

The economic value of groundwater in Obama

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Burnett, Kimberly; Wada, Christopher; Endo, Aiko; Taniguchi, Makoto

2015-01-01

Study region: Obama City has a population of 33,000 and is located in the central Wakasa district, in southwest Fukui Prefecture, Japan. Obama’s groundwater resources are supported by the Kitagawa (38 km2) and Miniamigawa (17 km2) river basins. Groundwater is used aboveground year round for commercial and domestic purposes and during winter months to melt snow. Submarine groundwater discharge along the coast supports a nearshore fishery in the region. Study focus: Results from a choice-bas...

Bridging the Gap: Linking Simulation and Testing

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Krajewski, Paul E.; Carsley, John; Stoudt, Mark R.; Hovanski, Yuri

2012-09-01

The Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) which is a key enabler for the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, announced in 2011 by U.S. President Barack Obama, was established to accelerate the development and deployment of advanced materials. The MGI is driven by the need to "bridge the gap" between (I) experimental results and computational analysis to enable the rapid development and validation of new mateirals, and (II) the processes required to convert these materials into useable goods.

Envisioning Workforce Training Differently: The Obama "Free" Community College Initiative

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Holland, Brian

2015-01-01

Education, particularly at the post-secondary level, does not come cheaply in the USA, with the increase in annual tuition costs far outpacing the inflation rate during the same time period. A core tenet of US President Obama's domestic policy agenda is the belief that increased educational attainment can potentially lead to better economic…

Guantanamo-Lejren

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Jørgensen, Xenia Juliane Langeskov; Kjelstrup, Cathrine Brøndum; Ninnis, Maria; Poulsen, Mads Alexander Hviid; Sørensen, Julie Lyngvold; Bækmark, Rebecca Dresler

2014-01-01

This study investigates the ethical dilemma of the existence of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp. Speeches, books and articles by USA’s current president Barack Obama, former president George W. Bush, author Thomas Joscelyn and the organization Amnesty International are analysed with the use of discourse analysis, which eventually leads to a discussion about the opinions of the above, and a reason for them doing as they did or are doing. Therefore the differences are being accounted for and ...

A study of identity construction in political discourse

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Qaiwer, Shatha Naiyf

2016-01-01

This thesis interrogates the construction of identity and self-presentation strategies in the discourse of the current President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama. The study seeks to answer questions about how the President constructs the various identities evident in his discourse, what kinds of resources are drawn upon, and how the resulting identities contribute to gain the support of the audience and the progression of political discourse in general. The present s...

The Killing of Anwar al Awlaki: How the United States Lost a Crucial Battle in the War of Ideas

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2016-03-01

enforcement first discovered and arrested al-Awlaki in San Diego as a regular solicitor of prostitution , a fact that would come back to haunt him...Al-Awlaki’s rising influence in San Diego as a lecturer, preacher and Islamic activist, as well as his penchant for prostitution , set the stage for...against us.൦ After a legal review and recommendation provided by the Department of Justice, President Barack Obama assigned al-Awlaki to the US’s

Democratas na Presidência: qual a política externa inicial?

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Virgílio Caixeta Arraes

2009-01-01

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o artigo trata da política externa do Presidente

Barack Obama na Ásia. Desta forma, aborda se ela

representará uma mudança ou continuidade com

relação ao governo anterior.

Globalisation, Inequality and Populism

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Nolan, Brian

2017-01-01

read before the Society, 20 April 2017; Symposium 2016-2017: Globalisation, Inequality and the Rise of Populism Inequality in the distribution of income and wealth among individuals has now come to the fore as a core concern across the industrialised world. In 2013 then President of the United States Barack Obama identified rising income inequality as ?the defining challenge of our times?. The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde has stated that ?reducing ...

ObamaNet: Photo-realistic lip-sync from text

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Kumar, Rithesh; Sotelo, Jose; Kumar, Kundan; de Brebisson, Alexandre; Bengio, Yoshua

2017-01-01

We present ObamaNet, the first architecture that generates both audio and synchronized photo-realistic lip-sync videos from any new text. Contrary to other published lip-sync approaches, ours is only composed of fully trainable neural modules and does not rely on any traditional computer graphics methods. More precisely, we use three main modules: a text-to-speech network based on Char2Wav, a time-delayed LSTM to generate mouth-keypoints synced to the audio, and a network based on Pix2Pix to ...

FCJ-165 Obama Trolling: Memes, Salutes and an Agonistic Politics in the 2012 Presidential Election

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Benjamin Burroughs

2013-12-01

Full Text Available During the 2012 presidential campaign an explosion of photo-shopped images circulated that depicted President Obama as unpatriotic. The ‘crotch salute’, ‘left-hand salute’, and ‘Veterans Day non-salute’ serve as case studies for understanding the role of trolling in the public sphere and Internet politics in an era of social networks and circulation. This paper tracks the cultural practices and logics of ‘sharing’ political memes and conceptualises memes as part of an agonistic public sphere and media ecology. Obama trolling is facilitated through the techno-cultural affordances of memes, which can only become public because of their mimetic form and sterilised partial anonymity. The paper seeks to conceptualise trolling as a broader cultural practice, which can be considered political. Normative assumptions about these memes would portray this trafficking as destructive to deliberative democracy but when understood as a generative cultural practice, trolling becomes central to articulating political emotions in social networks. Photo-shopped Obama salutes, in addition to Big Bird, binder, and bayonet memes, express not only political identities but also larger cultural values within networked popular culture.

From Lafayette to Barack Obama: Past and Future in a Quilt Exhibit

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Patricia A. Turner

2009-09-01

Full Text Available From January 7-21st of 2009, the City Hall of the Paris 5th arrondissement was the venue for the “A Patchwork of Cultures: A Traveling Exhibit from Louisiana to France” quilt exhibit currently making its way through several major cities in France (Mulhouse, Lille, Marseille, Toulouse. The eye-opening exhibit was the brainchild of Cultural Affairs Officer Lora Berg and Cultural Affairs Specialist Sophie Nadeau. While working in Louisiana, Nadeau was enthralled by a quilt exhibit commemorating...

Thematic Structure in Barack Obama's Press Conference: A Systemic Functional Grammar Study

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Kuswoyo, Heri

2016-01-01

This article looks into the theme--rheme pattern of presidential press conference that can be employed by speakers to organize the text in order to have a texture. Since a message should be conveyed in clause contextually and co-textually. Therefore, the objectives of this study are to analyze and describe the theme-rheme pattern employed in…

Richard Nixon, Barack Obama, and the Road to American Climate Change Policy

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2016-10-24

Progressive Era but the realization that modern life threatened world ecology.7 Air and water pollution, overpopulation , pesticides, and a myriad of other is...Nixon era set the template. With environmentalism growing around the world early in the 1970s, the United Nations planned for the Conference on the...cooperation. The meeting at Stockholm, Nixon’s CEQ Chairman Russell E. Train argued, was a “major opportunity for positive U.S. leadership in world affairs

Gendered Hate Speech and Political Discourse in Recent U.S. Elections and in Postsocialist Hungary

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Vasvári, Louise O.

2013-01-01

In her article "Gendered Hate Speech and Political Discourse in Recent U.S. Elections and in Postsocialist Hungary" Louise O. Vasvári illustrates gendered political discourse in the U.S. through a case study of the 2008 presidential campaign. While the campaign turned into a plebiscite on gender and sexual politics with Hillary Clinton and other female political figures depicted in the most traditionally misogynist terms, Barack Obama has in some leftist circles been seen as an empathetic fig...

The Influence of Explicit Racial Cues on Candidate Evaluation

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Green, Joshua Aaron

2013-01-01

Since Barack Obama's presidential campaign of 2008, media outlets have changed how race is covered and framed during political campaigns. In the so-called "post-racial" era of American politics when race is supposed to matter less, we are still very much attuned to stories that are framed by racial conflict. When the media wraps a "racial mode of interpretation" around a conflict between two candidates, there are potential electoral penalties involved for either a white or black candidate who...

The origins and evolution of leadership

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King, A.; Johnson, D.; van Vugt, M.

2009-01-01

How groups of individuals achieve coordination and collective action is an important topic in the natural sciences, but until recently the role of leadership in this process has been largely overlooked. In contrast, leadership is arguably one of the most important themes in the social sciences, permeating all aspects of human social affairs: the election of Barack Obama, the war in Iraq, and the collapse of the banks are all high-profile events that draw our attention to the fundamental role ...

Introduction

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Alfred Hornung

2012-01-01

Full Text Available Forty years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the charismatic leader of the civil rights movement, Barack H. Obama was elected the first African American president of the United States of America in 2008. Although U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy had predicted in 1961 that a black person could be president like his brother “in the next thirty or forty years,” nobody really expected this kind of victory to come true.

“Monitoreo de editoriales y artículos de opinión y la imagen que proyectan del Presidente Rafael Correa. Estudio de caso: diario el comercio abril 2009”

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Rivadeneira Moreno, Katerine Elisa

2013-01-01

The objective of this work is to show that the conflict between political power and media power have always existed, since the earliest ways of journalism in Greece and Rome, during the Middle Age, with the invention of printing press, during the French Revolution, with the Industrial Revolution until our times. Conflicts between political power and media power have place all over the world in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America where even neoliberal governments like Barack Obama have p...

Non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament: speech of the president Obama at Prague

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Hautecouverture, B.

2009-01-01

Introduced by the Prague speech of april 7 2009, the Obama President program towards the non proliferation and the nuclear disarmament was pointed out by its optimism ambition and determination. But a more detailed lecture shows concurrent positions. The author analyzes the political aspects of the President speech. (A.L.B.)

Use of retractors and explainers in charismatic rhetoric: the case of four American presidents

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Iaroslav Kovalchuk

2013-05-01

Full Text Available This study examines the use of retractors and explainers in prepared political speeches of American charismatic presidents. It is based upon the results of psychological analysis of 24 speeches of John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, and Gerald Ford. The research shows that certain differences may be found in the use of explainers and retractors not along the axis “Charismatic versus Non-Charismatic Presidents”, but with regard to their party affiliation. Rhetoric of Democratic presidents (Kennedy, Obama is characterized by a more explanatory communication style than of Republican ones (Reagan, Ford, which results in respective differences in the use of explainers. As for the retractors, all the four presidents under study tend to use the category moderately, which reveals them as emotionally controlled individuals, able to reconsider their decisions if necessary.

Nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament: the President Obama's Prague speech; Non-proliferation et desarmement nucleaires: discours de Prague du president Obama

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Hautecouverture, B. [Centre d' Etudes de Securite Internationale et de Maitrise des Armements (CESIM), 75 - Paris (France)

2010-07-15

The author comments the content and the consequences of President Obama's speech on the future of nuclear weapons in the 21. century. After a recall of the political context, the author shows how this declaration sounded with a real new tone, defined a new direction and introduced a new method, but may reach its objectives only on a long term. Then, he comments how these objectives are challenged by the present context and events, and outlines how the US Nuclear Posture Review will be important

Precision Medicine and the Changing Landscape of Research Ethics.

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Hammer, Marilyn J

2016-03-01

President Barack Obama announced the launch of the National Institutes of Health Precision Medicine Initiative® (PMI) in January 2015. Precision medicine includes the concept of individualized or personalized medicine at a more exact level through advances in science and technology, such as genetics and genomics sequencing. Although many disease processes will be investigated through the precision medicine lens for greater understanding and improved treatment responses, oncology research and translation to practice is leading the initiative's debut, referred to as the near-term focus.

Využití internetových sociálních sítí v politické kampani na příkladu kampaně Baracka Obamy

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Beseda, Dan

2012-01-01

This thesis deals with the role of social media in the U.S. presidential campaign. Media plays an important role in the U.S. presidential campaign. Therefore every new medium comes with a huge expectation on its impact on the political campaign. Thus, we examine the question: What role do social media play in U.S. presidential campaigns? The role of social media is examined in the case study of the Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. The first chapter defines social media and the platf...

Americko-saúdská protiteroristická spolupráce po 11. září

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Pánek, Robin

2017-01-01

This diploma thesis deals with the influence of changing nature of the terrorist threat on the foreign policy of the United States during the presidency of Barack Obama in the region of Middle East, together with the impact of changes in this foreign policy on the cooperation and relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia. The changing nature of the terrorist threat is analyzed primarily on the example of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and analyzed are also the circumstances o...

African Identity, Self and Other, in Obama’s Dreams from My Father

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Azza Ahmed Heikal

2016-02-01

Full Text Available This paper is a close examination of postcolonial and postmodern 20th century discourse with reference to Obama’s Dreams from My Father(1995.  Barack Hussein Obama (1961-present has a colonial experience and double cultural background which formulate his views of racial discrimination, make him accept racial differences and dream of uniting the divided colors one day. The study focuses on his autobiographical narrative within the framework of post-colonialism and postmodernism. Keywords: post modernism, post colonialism, identity construction

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy of the Obama Administration

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Baek, Jin Hyun; Hwang, Ji Hwan

2009-12-01

The objective of this study is to analyze and foresee trends of international nuclear non-proliferation regimes focused on the nuclear non-proliferation policy of the Obama administration, and suggest national policy directions which promote utilization and development of nuclear energy in Korea. For the effective and efficient implementation of the national nuclear use and development program in current international nuclear environment, many efforts should be made: to actively and positively participate in the international nuclear non-proliferation regime; to strengthen nuclear diplomacy in a more systematic manner; and to strengthen the international nuclear cooperation

From Compassionate Conservatism to Obamacare: Funding for the Ryan White Program During the Obama Administration.

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Hatcher, William; Pund, Britten; Khatiashvili, Giorgi

2016-11-01

To examine President Obama's fiscal commitment to the Ryan White Program (formerly Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resource Emergency Act), which provides funding for economically disadvantaged people and families affected by HIV. We analyzed budgetary request and congressional appropriation data from 2009 to 2016. The data are available from the Health Resources and Services Administration and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Increased coverage for people living with HIV/AIDS provided by the Affordable Care Act most likely led the Obama administration to request small increases and at times decreases in funding for the Ryan White Program. Congress passed either small increases or decreases in appropriations for the Ryan White Program. Decreases or small increases in the Ryan White Program funding risk progress made in treating HIV among economically disadvantaged patients.

EDITORIAL: Dialog on Science and Policy to Address the Climate Crisis to conclude the International Association of Research Universities Climate Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark Dialog on Science and Policy to Address the Climate Crisis to conclude the International Association of Research Universities Climate Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Baer, Paul; Kammen, Daniel M.

2009-06-01

This is not the usual Editor-in-Chief letter, namely one that focuses on the accomplishments of the journal—and for ERL they have been numerous this year—but a recognition of the critical time that we are now in when it comes to addressing not only global climate change, but also the dialog between science and politics. In recognition of the many 'tipping points' that we now confront—ideally some of them positive social moments—as well as the clear scientific conclusion that environmental tipping points are points of long-lasting disruption, this paper takes a different form than I might have otherwise written. While the scientific body of knowledge around global environmental change mounts, so too, do the hopeful signs that change can happen. The election of Barack Obama is unquestionably one such sign, witnessed by the exceptional interest that his story has brought not only to US politics, but also to global views of the potential of the United States, as well as to the potential role of science and investigation in addressing pressing issues. In light of these inter-related issues, reproduced here—largely due to the efforts of Paul Baer to transcribe a remarkable conversation—is a dialog not only on the science of global warming and the potential set of means to address this issue, but also on the interaction between research, science and the political process. The dialog itself is sufficiently important that I will dispense with the usual discussion of the exciting recognition that ERL has received with an ISI rating (a factor rapidly increasing), the high levels of downloads of our papers (for some articles over 5000 and counting), and the many news and scientific publications picking up ERL articles (in recent days alone Science, Environmental Science and Technology, and The Economist). This conversation was the concluding plenary session of the 10-12 March International Association of Research Universities (IARU) Conference on Climate Change

Open Data and the Free Access to Law Movement in the United States

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Finnell, Joshua Eugene [Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

2016-06-22

US President Barack Obama issued Executive Order 13642-Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government - on May, 9 2013, mandating, wherever legally permissible and possible, that US Government information be made open to the public.[1] This edict accelerated the construction of and framework for data repositories, and data citation principles and practices, such as data.gov. As a corollary, researchers across the country's national laboratories found themselves creating data management plans, applying data set metadata standards, and ensuring the long-term access of data for federally funded scientific research.

La Reforma Energética: a 20 años del TLCAN

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Vargas, Rosío

2015-01-01

La visita del presidente estadounidense Barack Obama a México, en mayo de 2013, fue la ocasión para buscar el acceso al petróleo y gas mexicano, amparado en el argumento de los 20 años del TLCAN, bajo "la necesidad" de su relanzamiento. Cabilderos nacionales y extranjeros se dieron a la tarea de elaborar la estrategia para la apertura total del sector energético mexicano bajo la propuesta de la Reforma Energética mexicana, aprobada el 20 de diciembre de 2013. En las modificaciones constitucio...

Průběh a důsledky vyjednávání Polska se Spojenými státy americkými o protiraketové obraně

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Vendula Vespalcová

2012-08-01

Full Text Available The Development and Implications of Polish-U.S. Missile Defense Negotiations. During the G. W. Bush administrations Poland was supposed to become a host country for a part of the American missile defense system. This article analyses the course of the bilateral U.S.-Polish negotiations, identifies the initial Polish motives for cooperating, and analyses the Polish negotiating strategy. The article also follows Polish reaction to the reconsideration of the project by Barack Obama and assesses the impact of the issue on Polish relations with the USA

Novas possibilidades para o consenso sobre a Segurança Hemisférica?

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PATRÍCIA MARA CABRAL DE VASCONCELLOS

2009-05-01

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O artigo discute as novas possibilidades para

alcançar o consenso sobre a Segurança Hemisférica,

enfatizando o novo governo de Barack Obama, os

60 anos da OEA e os 5 anos da “Declaração sobre

Segurança nas Américas”.

Dictionary of dissuasion; Dictionnaire de la dissuasion

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Wodka-Gallien, P.

2011-09-15

With more than 300 head words, this dictionary covers, at the worldwide scale, the history of men (from Curie and Einstein to Barack Obama), the issues (secrecy and information, weapons rush, proliferation and counter-proliferation..), the strategies (massive or gradual counter-attacks), the organisations (IAEA, CEA, Greenpeace etc.) and the equipments in relation with nuclear dissuasion. If the main part of the book is devoted to military equipments and topics, some other aspects of the nuclear domain are also presented, like radioactivity, civil nuclear accidents, thermonuclear fusion, laboratory equipments, disarmament and others. (J.S.)

Future of US Energy

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Cragg, C.; Nicola, S.; Kemfert, C.

2009-01-15

Barack Obama has promised to boost renewable energy sources and energy efficiency and to join the global effort to curb climate change. But he also looks upon domestic energy in terms of national security. These two priorities clash in important ways. One thing is certain: US energy policy is about to change drastically - and global energy relations along with them. In this section of the magazine two articles are dedicated to the future of energy in the USA. In between the articles is a column on the question if climate protection creates jobs.

NEMESIS: Keeping Russia an Enemy through Cold War Pathologies

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Matthew Crosston

2015-01-01

Full Text Available This article examines the openly adversarial neoconservative foundation under George Bush to the supposedly more ‘engaged’diplomatic interaction under Barack Obama. What will be exposed is a fairly uninspired and non-innovative American policy that not only fails to consider Russian initiatives from Russia’s own national security perspectives, but aims to contain it within a continued Cold War box that not only sours opportunities for collaboration but guarantees the absence of partnership in areas of global security. This piece examines the consequences of imagining Russia only as nemesis. 

Future of US Energy

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Cragg, C.; Nicola, S.; Kemfert, C.

2009-01-01

Barack Obama has promised to boost renewable energy sources and energy efficiency and to join the global effort to curb climate change. But he also looks upon domestic energy in terms of national security. These two priorities clash in important ways. One thing is certain: US energy policy is about to change drastically - and global energy relations along with them. In this section of the magazine two articles are dedicated to the future of energy in the USA. In between the articles is a column on the question if climate protection creates jobs

Banho-maria ou mudança? Eleição presidencial e a formação da política comercial dos EUA

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Mark S. Langevin

2010-10-01

Full Text Available Com a definição de Barack Obama como candidato oficial do partido democrata para as eleições presidenciais dos EUA as diferenças entre os partidos, e os próprios adversários na corrida pela casa branca, ficam cada vez mais em evidência. Qual será o papela que a Camâra e o Senado terão nessa disputa? Quais são as principais divergências no que tange às ideologias e propostas de ambos os cadidato?

Dictionary of dissuasion

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Wodka-Gallien, P.

2011-09-01

With more than 300 head words, this dictionary covers, at the worldwide scale, the history of men (from Curie and Einstein to Barack Obama), the issues (secrecy and information, weapons rush, proliferation and counter-proliferation..), the strategies (massive or gradual counter-attacks), the organisations (IAEA, CEA, Greenpeace etc.) and the equipments in relation with nuclear dissuasion. If the main part of the book is devoted to military equipments and topics, some other aspects of the nuclear domain are also presented, like radioactivity, civil nuclear accidents, thermonuclear fusion, laboratory equipments, disarmament and others. (J.S.)

Privacidade como ameaça à segurança pública: uma história de empreendedorismo moral

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Bezerra, Arthur Coelho

2016-01-01

O artigo trata da relação entre privacidade e segurança pública, tendo como base o discurso de autoridades norte-americanas (como o presidente Barack Obama e seu diretor de inteligência nacional) e brasileiras (como os deputados que assinam a recémaprovada CPI dos Crimes Cibernéticos) sobre a importância do monitoramento e do acesso a dados pessoais como forma de combate a uma série de atividades criminosas. A hipótese é a de que a privacidade como “ameaça”...

旅籠 Tabard の主人の「誓言」 : Chaucer 時代のロンドン市民 Herry Bailly の場合(林 陸雄教授退任記念号)

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野原, 康弘; Yasuhiro, Nohara; 桃山学院大学経営学部

2010-01-01

Modern films and television dramas give us many occasions to hear a wide range of ` oaths', from formal to casual, and from graceful to obscene. Sometimes a mere oath can play a very dignified part. For example, it was not until Mr Barack Obama finished the ceremony of `The Oath of Office of the President of the United States" that he was legally approved as the new President. This oath is a superbly formal one. On the other hand, we are not shocked to hear something like " Damn it", which is...

Responsive partisanship: public support for the clinton and obama health care plans.

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Kriner, Douglas L; Reeves, Andrew

2014-08-01

We examine the contours of support for the Clinton and Obama health care plans during the 1990s and 2000s based on our own compilation of 120,000 individual-level survey responses from throughout the debates. Despite the rise of the Tea Party, and the racialization of health care politics, opinion dynamics are remarkably similar in both periods. Party ID is the single most powerful predictor of support for reform and the president's handling of it. Contrary to prominent claims, after controlling for partisanship, demographic characteristics are at best weak predictors of support for reform. We also show that Clinton and Obama did not "lose" blacks, seniors, or wealthy voters over the course of the debate. The small and often nonexistent relationship between these characteristics and support for the plan are constant over time. Instead, the modest fluctuations in support for reform appear to follow the ebb and flow of elite rhetoric. Both mean levels of support and its volatility over time covary with elite partisan discourse. These findings suggest that presidents courting public opinion should seek consensus among their own party's elites before appealing to other narrower interests. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press.

Nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament: the President Obama's Prague speech

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Hautecouverture, B.

2010-01-01

The author comments the content and the consequences of President Obama's speech on the future of nuclear weapons in the 21. century. After a recall of the political context, the author shows how this declaration sounded with a real new tone, defined a new direction and introduced a new method, but may reach its objectives only on a long term. Then, he comments how these objectives are challenged by the present context and events, and outlines how the US Nuclear Posture Review will be important

Sea Change: US Climate Policy Prospects under the Obama Administration

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Roman, Mikael [Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm (Sweden); Carson, Marcus [Dept. of Sociology, Stockholm Univ., Stockholm (Sweden)

2009-03-15

This report has been produced for the Swedish Government's Sustainability Commission in preparation for the Swedish EU Presidency during the second half of 2009, and consequent Swedish leadership of the EU delegation in the COP-15 negotiations in Copenhagen. The central task of the report is to provide an overview of the key factors that will condition the near-term development of United States climate policy, with a view to the eventual likelihood of the US signing and ratifying a new global agreement in the upcoming negotiations on climate change. While we take note of the importance of factors external to US politics, such as potential developments in bilateral discussions with China and other major greenhouse gas emitters, our analysis focuses primarily on factors that influence US domestic policy dynamics. To accomplish that task, the subsequent pages address three main questions. First, what are the stated goals and contours of the Obama Administration's policies regarding climate change? Second, what are the opportunities and obstacles connected with realizing this agenda - from negotiating and deciding, then effectively implementing it - and via which pathways of action are we likely to see important initiatives being moved? Finally, what are the implications for the negotiations in Copenhagen and beyond? We conclude by identifying a number of important considerations that should be taken into account in preparations for the Swedish EU Presidency and the climate negotiations in Copenhagen

Sea Change: US Climate Policy Prospects under the Obama Administration

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Roman, Mikael (Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm (Sweden)); Carson, Marcus (Dept. of Sociology, Stockholm Univ., Stockholm (Sweden)). e-mail: mikael.roman@sei.se

2009-03-15

This report has been produced for the Swedish Government's Sustainability Commission in preparation for the Swedish EU Presidency during the second half of 2009, and consequent Swedish leadership of the EU delegation in the COP-15 negotiations in Copenhagen. The central task of the report is to provide an overview of the key factors that will condition the near-term development of United States climate policy, with a view to the eventual likelihood of the US signing and ratifying a new global agreement in the upcoming negotiations on climate change. While we take note of the importance of factors external to US politics, such as potential developments in bilateral discussions with China and other major greenhouse gas emitters, our analysis focuses primarily on factors that influence US domestic policy dynamics. To accomplish that task, the subsequent pages address three main questions. First, what are the stated goals and contours of the Obama Administration's policies regarding climate change? Second, what are the opportunities and obstacles connected with realizing this agenda - from negotiating and deciding, then effectively implementing it - and via which pathways of action are we likely to see important initiatives being moved? Finally, what are the implications for the negotiations in Copenhagen and beyond? We conclude by identifying a number of important considerations that should be taken into account in preparations for the Swedish EU Presidency and the climate negotiations in Copenhagen

Voting Present

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James Lo

2013-12-01

Full Text Available During his time as a state senator in Illinois, Barack Obama voted “Present” 129 times, a deliberate act of nonvoting that subsequently became an important campaign issue during the 2008 presidential elections. In this article, I examine the use of Present votes in the Illinois state senate. I find evidence that Present votes can largely be characterized as protest votes used as a legislative tool by the minority party. Incorporating information from Present votes into a Bayesian polytomous item-response model, I find that this information increases the efficiency of ideal point estimates by approximately 35%. There is little evidence of significant moderation by Obama when Present votes are accounted for, though my results suggest that Obama’s voting record may have moderated significantly before his subsequent election to the U.S. Senate. My results also suggest that because legislative nonvoting may occur for a variety of reasons, naive inclusion of nonvoting behavior into vote choice models may lead to biased results.

NCI Scientists Awarded National Medal of Technology and Innovation by President Obama | Poster

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Two NCI scientists received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the nation’s highest honor for technological achievement. The award was announced by President Obama in October. The honorees, John Schiller, Ph.D., Laboratory of Cellular Oncology (LCO), Center for Cancer Research, NCI, and Douglas Lowy, M.D., also from LCO and NCI deputy director, received their medals at a White House ceremony on Nov. 20.

On the eve of Copenhagen: Obama and the environment

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Pereon, Y.M.

2009-01-01

The author proposes a rather detailed overview of the United States posture with respect to climate change challenges on the eve of the Copenhagen conference. First, he shows how the public opinion in the United States is ambivalent and changing. Then, he outlines that the arrival of President Obama resulted in an important change for the United States environmental policy: a new team was set up and the environment protection became a priority. The author then reports the Congressional process for this policy, first through the House of Representatives, and then the Senate. He highlights the differences between agendas of firms and of environment protection organisations, and between that of the Copenhagen conference and that of the US government

Mapping the Obama administration's response to the Arab Spring

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Maria do Céu de Pinho Ferreira Pinto

2012-12-01

Full Text Available When the Arab Spring broke out, the United States was in a quandary over how to handle the crisis in its attempt to balance its moral obligations and ideals without undercutting its strategic interests and those of its close allies. Flaws in US diplomatic approach have contributed to one of the most serious foreign policy crisis for a US administration to date with consequential upheaval and erosion of the US-built balance of power. The reactions and policy responses of the Obama administration highlight the difficulties in grasping with the new reality in the Middle East and in enunciating a policy platform that could combine American interests and values.

From “Strategic Partnership” to “Model Partnership”: AKP, Turkish-US Relation and the Prospects under Obama

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Ahmet K. Han

2010-05-01

Full Text Available Este artículo analiza las relaciones Turquía-EEUU desde una perspectiva estratégica. Destaca primero, los elementos de continuidad en la política exterior de los EEUU bajo los presidentes Clinton, Bush hijo y Obama. A continuación considera el "cambio" en la política exterior turca bajo el AKP desde el 2002. Ve la guerra de Irak como un punto de inflexión en el fin de la asociación estratégica, mientras que los desarrollos ulteriores representarían la vía hacia la formación de lo que Obama denominaría como una "Asociación Modelo". Se sostiene que los factores más determinantes de la relación proceden por parte de los EEUU de una preocupación por asuntos de seguridad, mientras que para el AKP, sirven a su política de "equilibrio múltiple". El artículo cuestiona el contenido de la "Asociación Modelo", así como los riesgos a que se enfrentan la sostenibilidad y el contexto de las relaciones Turquía-EEUU, que han sido tradicionalmente una pieza básica de la política exterior turca, en medio de los debates domésticos de Turquía, las dinámicas regionales y los desafíos a la Administración Obama.

YouTube and Facebook

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Robertson, Scott P.; Vatrapu, Ravi; Medina, Richard

This paper examines the links to YouTube from the Facebook “walls” of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain over two years prior to the 2008 U.S. Presidential election. User-generated linkage patterns show how participants in these politically-related social networking dialogues used...... online video to make their points. We show a strong integration of the Web 2.0 and new media technologies of social networking and online video. We argue that political discussion in social networking environments can no longer be viewed as primarily textual, and that neither Facebook nor YouTube can...

Today's Yucca mountain project and a new concept of multi-barrier system

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Xu Guoqing

2008-01-01

This paper mainly deals with the current status of Yucca Mountain project and the progress in study on engineering barrier in Belgium and introduces the future plan for Yucca Mountain project, two reports on draft supplemental environmental impact statement, and the view of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama during the 2008 president elections related to the building a nuclear waste repository in Nevada. In order to enhance the security of geological disposal of high-level radioactive waste, a new concept about multi-barrier system is given by Belgium and is concisely described here. (authors)

Unsolved Problems of Iran's Nuclear Program And Prospects in the light of Role of Parties to an Entente

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Kim, Min Soo; Kim, Jae San

2009-01-01

From past to present, Iran have been focused by international society and still have continued their enrichment activity despite of many sanctions. It is barely easy to solve this situation and to negotiate between related countries. Because there are many factors to influence this. New president of U.S. Barack Obama could be a great deal of factor for solving Iran's nuclear issue as well. From this point of view, following Iran's unsolved problems of nuclear program could be helpful to understand the situation and what the key point to solve it, and forecast the future with surrounding political and regional factors

Antichrist as (AntiCharisma: Reflections on Weber and the ‘Son of Perdition’

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Brett Edward Whalen

2013-02-01

Full Text Available The figure of Antichrist, linked in recent US apocalyptic thought to President Barack Obama, forms a central component of Christian end-times scenarios, both medieval and modern. Envisioned as a false-messiah, deceptive miracle-worker, and prophet of evil, Antichrist inversely embodies many of the qualities and characteristics associated with Max Weber’s concept of charisma. This essay explores early Christian, medieval, and contemporary depictions of Antichrist and the imagined political circumstances of his reign as manifesting the notion of (anticharisma, compelling but misleading charismatic political and religious leadership oriented toward damnation rather than redemption.

The Social Life of Social Networks

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Robertson, Scott P.; Vatrapu, Ravi; Medina, Richard

2009-01-01

dialogues wished to send other participants. We show a strong integration of the Web 2.0 and new media technologies of social networking, online video, and blogs. Outside of video content, users tended to direct others to groups and applications within the Facebook community, but this homophilous behavior......This paper examines the linkage patterns of people who posted links on the Facebook “walls” of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain over two years prior to the 2008 U.S. Presidential election. Linkage patterns indicate the destinations to which participants in these social networking...

Privacidade como ameaça à segurança pública: uma história de empreendedorismo moral | Privacy as a threat to public security: A story of moral entrepreneurship

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Arthur Coelho Bezerra

2016-01-01

RESUMO O artigo trata da relação entre privacidade e segurança pública, tendo como base o discurso de autoridades norte-americanas (como o presidente Barack Obama e seu diretor de inteligência nacional) e brasileiras (como os deputados que assinam a recém-aprovada CPI dos Crimes Cibernéticos) sobre a importância do monitoramento e do acesso a dados pessoais como forma de combate a uma série de atividades criminosas. A hipótese é a de que a privacidade como “ameaça” é resultado de uma “cruzada...

A New Approach to Health Services and Pharmacy in Cuba.

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Sánchez, Alina M

2015-12-01

In December 17, 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama surprised the world by announcing his intention to enter into negotiations aimed at reestablishing diplomatic relations with Cuba. Since then, expectations and interest regarding the health system of that country have increased. This report focuses on the Cuban health and pharmacy systems from a practical and educational standpoint. Pharmaceutical services, strengths, opportunities, and challenges are described. Cuba's new trends toward patient-centered care are analyzed to provide insights for developing pharmaceutical care practice and implementing policies suitable for practice in all health care settings. © 2015 Pharmacotherapy Publications, Inc.

Facebook and Twitter in Election Campaigns in Spain

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Abejón Mendoza, Paloma; Sastre Asensio, Ana; Linares Rodríguez, Virginia

2012-01-01

El presidente Barack Obama ha lanzado su campaña de reelección con un vídeo digital enviado por Internet a 13 millones de partidarios que ayudaron a impulsar su histórica campaña en 2008. En EE.UU. las redes sociales son las protagonistas de las campañas electorales, pero en España, de momento, no se puede decir lo mismo. Esta investigación tiene por objeto analizar el uso que han hecho los líderes de los principales partidos políticos de las redes sociales en las últimas elecciones municipal...

Bias in the Flesh: Skin Complexion and Stereotype Consistency in Political Campaigns.

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Messing, Solomon; Jabon, Maria; Plaut, Ethan

2016-01-01

There is strong evidence linking skin complexion to negative stereotypes and adverse real-world outcomes. We extend these findings to political ad campaigns, in which skin complexion can be easily manipulated in ways that are difficult to detect. Devising a method to measure how dark a candidate appears in an image, this paper examines how complexion varied with ad content during the 2008 presidential election campaign (study 1). Findings show that darker images were more frequent in negative ads-especially those linking Obama to crime-which aired more frequently as Election Day approached. We then conduct an experiment to document how these darker images can activate stereotypes, and show that a subtle darkness manipulation is sufficient to activate the most negative stereotypes about Blacks-even when the candidate is a famous counter-stereotypical exemplar-Barack Obama (study 2). Further evidence of an evaluative penalty for darker skin comes from an observational study measuring affective responses to depictions of Obama with varying skin complexion, presented via the Affect Misattribution Procedure in the 2008 American National Election Study (study 3). This study demonstrates that darker images are used in a way that complements ad content, and shows that doing so can negatively affect how individuals evaluate candidates and think about politics.

Bias in the Flesh

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Messing, Solomon; Jabon, Maria; Plaut, Ethan

2016-01-01

There is strong evidence linking skin complexion to negative stereotypes and adverse real-world outcomes. We extend these findings to political ad campaigns, in which skin complexion can be easily manipulated in ways that are difficult to detect. Devising a method to measure how dark a candidate appears in an image, this paper examines how complexion varied with ad content during the 2008 presidential election campaign (study 1). Findings show that darker images were more frequent in negative ads—especially those linking Obama to crime—which aired more frequently as Election Day approached. We then conduct an experiment to document how these darker images can activate stereotypes, and show that a subtle darkness manipulation is sufficient to activate the most negative stereotypes about Blacks—even when the candidate is a famous counter-stereotypical exemplar—Barack Obama (study 2). Further evidence of an evaluative penalty for darker skin comes from an observational study measuring affective responses to depictions of Obama with varying skin complexion, presented via the Affect Misattribution Procedure in the 2008 American National Election Study (study 3). This study demonstrates that darker images are used in a way that complements ad content, and shows that doing so can negatively affect how individuals evaluate candidates and think about politics. PMID:27257306

Mapping the Obama administration's response to the Arab Spring A evolução da resposta da Administração Obama à Primavera Árabe

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Maria do Céu de Pinho Ferreira Pinto

2012-12-01

Full Text Available When the Arab Spring broke out, the United States was in a quandary over how to handle the crisis in its attempt to balance its moral obligations and ideals without undercutting its strategic interests and those of its close allies. Flaws in US diplomatic approach have contributed to one of the most serious foreign policy crisis for a US administration to date with consequential upheaval and erosion of the US-built balance of power. The reactions and policy responses of the Obama administration highlight the difficulties in grasping with the new reality in the Middle East and in enunciating a policy platform that could combine American interests and values.Quando a Primavera Árabe eclodiu, os Estados Unidos ficaram num dilema sobre como lidar com a crise tentando equilibrar as suas obrigações morais e os ideais sem fragilizar os seus interesses estratégicos e aqueles dos seus aliados mais próximos. A indecisão e as contradições na abordagem diplomática dos EUA contribuíram para avolumar uma das mais graves crises de política externa dos EUA, pondo em perigo a balança de poder que os EUA criaram na região. A reação e a resposta política da administração Obama põe em destaque a dificuldade de Washington em lidar com a nova realidade no Oriente Médio e em enunciar uma plataforma política que possa conciliar os interesses e os valores americanos.

Citizen Diplomacy-New US Public Diplomacy Strategy in the Middle East under the Obama Administration

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YU Zhaohui

2015-01-01

In the information and digital era,the international situation is becoming increasingly complicated.The construction of international relations and national image depends more on people-to-people diplomacy.During the Obama Administration,the Administration recognized the central role of public diplomacy as a tool and an essential element of the 21st century statecraft.US public diplomacy and public affairs faces the five strategic tasks:to pro-actively shape global narratives,expand and strengthen people-to-peoplerelationships,counter violent extremism and better inform policy-making as well as redeploy resources in strategic alignment with shifting priorities.It presents new features under the guidance of the perfect mechanism,such as using digital methods and social media as the core to communicate,adjusting information transmission and message control,emphasizing the inter-departmental coordination,attaching great importance to the youth and women's groups and optimizing the evaluation mechanism.This article summarizes and analyzes the striking features of public diplomacy under Obama's administration,focusing on citizen diplomacy operations in the Middle East,thus putting forth a worthy reference for the further study of China's public diplomacy.

The Evolution of Missile Defense Plan from Bush to Obama. Implications for the National Security of Romania

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Ruxandra-Laura BOSILCA

2012-06-01

Full Text Available In 2011 Romania officially became part of the Obama administration’s missile defense system in Europe which has significantly changed the strategic military relations both in Europe and worldwide. The Bush approach has been revised and progress in several sections has been achieved, both strategically and technically. For Romania, the participation in the missile defence plan, ensures more solid security guarantees, especially in an unpredictable and risk-prone international environment where the U.S. reconsiders its presence in Europe under the pressure of the economic crisis and of a relative decline in power; it has also become a more visible actor – alongside Bulgaria – which were initially excluded by the Bush missile defence plan. This paper’s purpose is to review the main evolutions of the missile defense plan from the Bush to the Obama administration and to outline its implications on the national security of Romania.

Elliott Erwitt : "Personal Best"

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Guillemette Minisclou

2010-10-01

Full Text Available Le photographe américain Elliott Erwitt expose à la MEP une sélection de ses travaux intitulée « Personal Best » ou « le meilleur de ses photographies personnelles ».Si les cartels ne précisent ni le format ni le type de tirages, l’exposition réunit un ensemble éclectique de photographies exclusivement noir et blanc (à l’exception de la dernière image représentant la cérémonie d’investiture du président Barack Obama en janvier 2009. Cette rétrospective oscille entre différents genres photogr...

Unsolved Problems of Iran's Nuclear Program And Prospects in the light of Role of Parties to an Entente

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Kim, Min Soo; Kim, Jae San [Korea Institute of Nuclear Nonproliferation and Control, Daejeon (Korea, Republic of)

2009-05-15

From past to present, Iran have been focused by international society and still have continued their enrichment activity despite of many sanctions. It is barely easy to solve this situation and to negotiate between related countries. Because there are many factors to influence this. New president of U.S. Barack Obama could be a great deal of factor for solving Iran's nuclear issue as well. From this point of view, following Iran's unsolved problems of nuclear program could be helpful to understand the situation and what the key point to solve it, and forecast the future with surrounding political and regional factors.

The NPR, NPT and the prospects for disarmament

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Pilat, Joseph F.

2010-01-01

In Prague's Hradcany Square on April 5, 2009, President Barack Obama offered a bold vision of the nuclear future that encompasses both reducing nuclear dangers and pursuing the goal of a world without nuclear weapons while maintaining, as long as nuclear weapons remain, a safe secure, and effective arsenal, to deter potential adversaries and to assure U.S. allies and other security partners that they can count on America's security commitments. The agenda put forward in Prague involves the full range of issues from deterrence to nonproliferation and disarmament. The 2010 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) report, reflecting the twin objectives of the Prague speech, for the first time places the United States effort to lead expanded international efforts to rebuild and strengthen the global nuclear nonproliferation regime at the top the U.S. nuclear agenda. This attention underscores the fact that the top priority of the United States is to discourage additional states from acquiring nuclear weapon capabilities and to stop terrorist groups from acquiring weapon-usable nuclear materials. It also reinforced the view that positively influencing the 2010 Review Conference (RevCon) of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) was a key objective of the Obama Administration. The NPR developed both the vision and the policy, but details of implementation will need to be developed and better understood. This paper will address the Nuclear Posture Review and its implementation, as well as it's relation to, and impact on, the NPT RevCon and the long term prospects for nonproliferation and disarmament.

Evaluating the One-in-Five Statistic: Women's Risk of Sexual Assault While in College.

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Muehlenhard, Charlene L; Peterson, Zoë D; Humphreys, Terry P; Jozkowski, Kristen N

In 2014, U.S. president Barack Obama announced a White House Task Force to Protect Students From Sexual Assault, noting that "1 in 5 women on college campuses has been sexually assaulted during their time there." Since then, this one-in-five statistic has permeated public discourse. It is frequently reported, but some commentators have criticized it as exaggerated. Here, we address the question, "What percentage of women are sexually assaulted while in college?" After discussing definitions of sexual assault, we systematically review available data, focusing on studies that used large, representative samples of female undergraduates and multiple behaviorally specific questions. We conclude that one in five is a reasonably accurate average across women and campuses. We also review studies that are inappropriately cited as either supporting or debunking the one-in-five statistic; we explain why they do not adequately address this question. We identify and evaluate several assumptions implicit in the public discourse (e.g., the assumption that college students are at greater risk than nonstudents). Given the empirical support for the one-in-five statistic, we suggest that the controversy occurs because of misunderstandings about studies' methods and results and because this topic has implications for gender relations, power, and sexuality; this controversy is ultimately about values.

Changes in racial identity among African American college students following the election of Barack Obama.

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Fuller-Rowell, Thomas E; Burrow, Anthony L; Ong, Anthony D

2011-11-01

The current study considered the influence of the 2008 presidential election on the racial identity of African American college students (M(age) = 19.3 years; 26.3% male). The design of the study consisted of 2 components: longitudinal and daily. The longitudinal component assessed 3 dimensions of racial identity (centrality, private regard, and public regard) 2 weeks before and 5 months after the election, and the daily diary component assessed racial identity and identity exploration on the days immediately before and after the election. Daily items measuring identity exploration focused on how much individuals thought about issues relating to their race. Analyses considered the immediate effects of the election on identity exploration and the extent to which changes in exploration were shaped by racial identity measured prior to the election. We also considered immediate and longer term changes in racial identity following the election and the extent to which longer term changes were conditioned by identity exploration. Findings suggest that the election served as an "encounter" experience (Cross, 1991, 1995, pp. 60-61), which led to increases in identity exploration. Moreover, analyses confirmed that changes in identity exploration were most pronounced among those with higher levels of racial centrality. Results also suggest that the election had both an immediate and a longer term influence on racial identity, which in some instances was conditioned by identity exploration.

Obama and the "Arab Spring": Desire, Hope and the Manufacture of Disappointment. Implications for a Transformative Pedagogy

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Roberts, Lorna; Schostak, John

2012-01-01

For a period, in the run up to the election (2007-2008) and the months after the election, the name "Obama" signified hope for millions, not just in America but across the world. As the hope turned to disappointment, the financial crisis deepened and the Arab Spring renewed a call for a "humanity" that could transcend the differences of nations…

Potential Beneficiaries of the Obama Administration’s Executive Action Programs Deeply Embedded in US Society

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Donald Kerwin; Robert Warren

2016-01-01

The Obama administration has developed two broad programs to defer immigration enforcement actions against undocumented persons living in the United States: (1) Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA); and (2) Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The DACA program, which began in August 2012, was expanded on November 20, 2014. DAPA and the DACA expansion (hereinafter referred to as “DACA-plus”) are currently under review by the US Supreme Court ...

The Decline in For-Profit Higher Education during the Obama Administration and Its Prospects in the Trump Presidency

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Castagnera, James Ottavio

2017-01-01

The fortunes of the for-profit higher education industry rise and fall with the political tides in the United States. During the 8 years of the George W Bush Administration (Republican), the for-profit sector of US higher education prospered. The following two terms of the Obama Administration (Democrat) resulted in the loss of all the ground…

Making Travel to Cuba Work for Health and Sustainable Development.

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Gorry, Conner

2017-01-01

In 2015, a record-breaking 3.5 million visitors-1 million from Canada alone-traveled to Cuba to explore its history, culture, natural splendor, and visit family. That same year, US President Barack Obama relaxed travel restrictions, giving general authorization for a dozen categories of legal travel by US citizens and residents. As a result, US visitors to the island ballooned by 80% between January 2015 and June 2016. And the numbers keep growing: the latest data show that foreign arrivals reached 4 million in 2016.[1] The surge in visitors highlights the potential negative impact of tourism on a developing country's infrastructure, environment, cultural patrimony and local economy-all considered important social determinants of health.

Achieving a deeper understanding of the implemented provisions of the Affordable Care Act.

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Zhang, Shuang Qin; Polite, Blase N

2014-01-01

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. Since that time, numerous regulations have been promulgated, legal battles continue to be fought and the major provisions of the law are being implemented. In the following article, we outline components of the ACA that are relevant to cancer health care, review current implementation of the new health care reform law, and identify challenges that may lie ahead in the post-ACA era. Specifically, among the things we explore are Medicaid expansion, health insurance exchanges, essential health benefits and preventive services, subsidies, access to clinical trials, the Medicare Part D donut hole, and physician quality payment reform.

Rezension von: Gabriele Dietze: Weiße Frauen in Bewegung. Genealogien und Konkurrenzen von Race- und Genderpolitiken. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2013.

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Philipp Dorestal

2014-03-01

Full Text Available Gabriele Dietze zeichnet das Verhältnis der Kategorien Race und Gender innerhalb der US-amerikanischen Geschichte von der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Präsidentschaftswahl von Barack Obama nach. Dabei demonstriert sie anhand von zentralen Figuren der weißen Frauenbewegung deren ambivalente Positionen, die oftmals für progressive Inhalte wie das Eintreten für Frauenrechte stehen, gleichzeitig aber dann Anliegen von African Americans nicht artikulieren oder gar zum Schweigen bringen. Ebenso zeigt Dietze mithilfe von Texten einiger schwarzer Autor_innen sowie anhand berühmter Gerichtsprozesse, dass schwarze Emanzipation nicht notwendigerweise mit feministischen Positionen einhergehen musste, sondern sich vielmehr eine Konkurrenzsituation zwischen Race und Gender entspann.

La 44e élection présidentielle américaineLe regard des Américains dans un contexte mondial difficile

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Cynthia Ghorra-Gobin

2008-11-01

Full Text Available La 44e élection présidentielle américaine qui a commencé début janvier dans l’Etat de l’Iowa vient de se traduire par la victoire de Barack H. Obama, un candidat démocrate au parcours atypique.  Ce dernier a remporté 364 Grands Electeurs contre 174 pour son adversaire, le candidat républicain John McCain, soit une avance de 190 points. Aux Etats-Unis, le vote des Grands Electeurs (dont le nombre au sein de chacun des 50 Etats varie en fonction du poids démographique est en effet décisif pour...

La balle et la plume

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Peter Marquis

2012-06-01

Full Text Available Fin octobre 2008, la nouvelle fit l’effet d’une bombe : Barack Obama, alors candidat à la présidence américaine, demanda à la chaîne câblée Fox News de retarder le début du sixième match de la World Series de base-ball afin de diffuser un spot de campagne. Son adversaire, John McCain, soutenu par le camp républicain et une partie de la population, monta aussitôt au créneau pour dénoncer l’hérésie : s’arroger le droit de perturber cette grande finale du championnat au déroulement immuable reve...

Coal-to-liquids bill introduced in the Senate

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Buchsbaum, L.

2006-06-15

Of immense importance to the coal industry is the announcement, on 7 June 2006 by US Senators Barack Obama (D-IL) and Jim Bunning (R-KY) of S.3325, the 'Coal-to-Liquid Fund Promotion Act of 2006'. This legislation creates tax incentives for coal-to-liquids (CTL) technologies and construction of CTL plants. If passed, this will create the infrastructure needed to make CTL a viable energy resource throughout America. The article gives comment and background to this proposed legislation. Illinois Basin coal is well suited for CTL because of its high Btu content. If Sasol constructs a proposed plant in Illinois it would increase coal production in the state by 10 mt. 1 fig.

White House nominates nuclear commissioner

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Showstack, Randy

2012-06-01

Just 3 days after U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission chairman Gregory Jaczko announced his intention to resign (Eos, 93(22), 211, doi:10.1029/2012EO220005, 2012), President Barack Obama nominated Allison Macfarlane to serve out the remainder of Jaczko's term, through June 2013. The White House announced that upon her appointment, Macfarlane would be designated as chair of the commission. Macfarlane is an associate professor of environmental science and policy at George Mason University. A member of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future from March 2010 to January 2012, she is also the author of the 2006 book Uncertainty Underground: Yucca Mountain and the Nation's High-Level Nuclear Waste and is an AGU member.

¿Lo aprecias o lo odias? Tus gestos al hablar pueden delatarte

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Miriam Sicre Márquez

2017-06-01

Full Text Available Los diestros tienden a valorar positivamente la derecha y los zurdos la izquierda. En un estudio reciente se analizaron los gestos que acompañaban los discursos de los candidatos a presidente de EE.UU. John Kerry y George Bush (ambos diestros en las elecciones de 2004, y de John McCain y Barack Obama (ambos zurdos en las de 2008. Los candidatos diestros usaron más la mano derecha cuando hablaban de cosas positivas y la mano izquierda para cosas negativas, en tanto que los zurdos hicieron lo contrario. Esto revela un vínculo hasta ahora desconocido entre la lateralidad manual, los gestos expresivos y la emoción.

Social Class and Party Identification During the Clinton, Bush, and Obama Presidencies

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Stephen L. Morgan

2017-08-01

Full Text Available Through an analysis of the 1994 through 2016 General Social Surveys, this article demonstrates that a substantial proportion of eligible voters within the working class turned away from solid identification with either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party during the Obama presidency. Even before the 2016 election cycle commenced, conditions were uncharacteristically propitious for a Republican candidate who could appeal to prospective voters in the working class, especially those who had not voted in recent presidential elections but could be mobilized to vote. These findings support the contested position that variation in party identification is a genuine leading indicator of electoral outcomes and perhaps also, in this case, of party realignment.

A Comparison of Obama’s 2007 and Hillary Clinton’s 2015 Bids for Presidency Speeches

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Samuel Gunawan

2016-01-01

Full Text Available The article sought to study Barack Obama’s 2007 bid for the presidency in his Announcement Speech and Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2015 bid for the presidency  in her Campaign Launch Speech. It focused on how both candidates used the central ideas and their development into the main ideas of the speeches to declare their bids for President of the U.S.A. The research raised some questions regarding whether the two speeches had similarities, as both politicians were running in the presidential race on the Democratic Party’s path. The research method employed qualitative content analysis to study the core meaning of the speeches based on new analytical narratives viewed in terms of specific rhetorical strategies. Subsequently, the study interpreted the underlying thought behind the speeches by focusing on the central ideas and their elaboration into the main ideas. The article showed that Obama and Clinton shared some similarities as they attempted to earn the support of Americans of all backgrounds. They defended the cause of the middle-class economy. Obama focused more on a coalition of Americans of diverse background and change, whereas Clinton focused more on furthering the middle-class economy.

Marked Silence, Neo-Feudalistic Reactions and the Stabilized Moral Regime – The Current De- and Reformation of „the Social“

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Kessl, Fabian

2009-07-01

Full Text Available The German chancellor and leader of the German conservative party, Angela Merkel, said in an interview a few weeks ago: “Nobody could have imagined a few months ago to what extent we would be pushed into state intervention programs. Of course, Merkel spoke on, this intervention is not easy for anybody. Therefore, she recommended turning back to the former course as soon as possible” (tagesschau.de, 11. März 2008, zit. nach Bildzeitungsinterview mit Angela Merkel, own translation. The worldwide celebrated new president of the United States, Barack Obama, said in an interview on CBS-News a few weeks before Merkel: “(... there's no doubt that we have not been able yet to reset the confidence in the financial markets and in the consumer markets and among businesses that allow the economy to move forward in a strong way. And my job as president is gonna be to make sure that we restore that confidence“ (CBS News, 16. November 2008, Obama On Economic Crisis, Transition; http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/16/60minutes/main4607893.shtml; Stand: 16. April 2009.

Mitigation devices in spoken English: President Obama’s speech

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Vanessa Hagemeyer Burgo

2013-03-01

Full Text Available The aim of this work is to analyze the mitigation devices that President Barack Obama employs while speaking, and how they are used for the construction of his positive public image. The theoretical framework of this research is based on the principles of Conversation Analysis, and the transcription of data was carried out according to the conventions suggested by Preti (2003. The corpus is composed of two interviews in which President Obama expresses different points of view about a polemical issue: homosexual marriage. Television interviews make up a significant form of social interaction, since through them one intends to obtain answers, exchange information, experiences and value judgments of the interactants. In this dynamic, dialogues are conducted, in general, between interviewer and interviewee, interviewee and audience, and interviewer and audience. Results show that these resources influence the interviewee’s linguistic attitude, especially when he or she is directly exposed to a wide audience. These are sociointeractional strategies that are drawn up to reduce potential threats to the image that the speaker wants to preserve, to get approval from the listeners, and to ensure the defense of what he or she does not want to see exhibited.

McNutt to Be Nominated to Lead U.S. Geological Survey

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Showstack, Randy

2009-07-01

U.S. President Barack Obama announced on 9 July his intention to nominate Marcia McNutt as director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and science advisor to the Secretary of the Interior. McNutt, who served as AGU president from 2000 to 2002, currently is president and chief executive officer of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, in Moss Landing, Calif. “Scientific information from the U.S. Geological Survey is crucial to solving the most important problems facing society—finding sufficient supplies of fresh water and clean energy and providing accurate information that allows citizens to prepare intelligently for climate change. I look forward to leading such a respected institution at this critical time,” McNutt said.

Network Analysis on Attitudes: A Brief Tutorial.

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Dalege, Jonas; Borsboom, Denny; van Harreveld, Frenk; van der Maas, Han L J

2017-07-01

In this article, we provide a brief tutorial on the estimation, analysis, and simulation on attitude networks using the programming language R. We first discuss what a network is and subsequently show how one can estimate a regularized network on typical attitude data. For this, we use open-access data on the attitudes toward Barack Obama during the 2012 American presidential election. Second, we show how one can calculate standard network measures such as community structure, centrality, and connectivity on this estimated attitude network. Third, we show how one can simulate from an estimated attitude network to derive predictions from attitude networks. By this, we highlight that network theory provides a framework for both testing and developing formalized hypotheses on attitudes and related core social psychological constructs.

The Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy Scripts: Precision Medicine Through the Use of Pharmacogenomics: Current Status and Barriers to Implementation.

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Ciarleglio, Anita E; Ma, Carolyn

2017-09-01

The precision medicine initiative brought forth by President Barack Obama in 2015 is an important step on the journey to truly personalized medicine. A broad knowledge and understanding of the implications of the pharmacogenomic literature will be critical to the achievement of this goal. While a great amount of data has been published in the areas of pharmacogenomics and pharmacogenetics, there are still relatively few instances in which the need for clinical intervention can be stated without doubt, and which are widely accepted and practiced by the medical community. As our knowledge base rapidly expands, issues such as insurance reimbursement for genetic testing and education of the health care workforce will be paramount to achieving the goal of precision medicine for all patients.

President-elect Obama and nuclear disarmament between elimination and restraint

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Walker, W.

2009-01-01

In the now famous articles of January 2007 and 2008 in the Wall Street Journal, the 'Gang of Four' former US statesmen called on governments to rid the world of nuclear weapons. Their intervention has been followed in the United States by a flurry of conferences and publications on nuclear disarmament, with esteemed organizations such as the Federation of American Scientists, Stanford and Princeton Universities, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Stimson Center and the Arms Control Association entering the fray. The force of their ideas became evident when presidential candidates from both the Democratic and Republican Parties felt obliged to issue statements lending at least some support to the Gang of Four and its aspirations. The calls on the next administration to lead the way towards a 'world free of nuclear weapons' mark the emergence of a significant political movement in the United States. Achieving such a world is not just the fancy of groups of idealists that have marginal influence in US politics. Nor is the attention that nuclear disarmament is now receiving primarily a response to longstanding international pressures on the US and other nuclear weapon states to engage with the issue. It is coming from within - from the judgements of an increasingly influential elite on where US and international interests now lie. Although this elite has its critics, it is currently in the ascendant. The pursuit of nuclear disarmament by the US government has been given a blessing of sorts in President-elect Obama's statement that: 'As long as nuclear weapons exist, we will retain a strong deterrent. But we'll make the goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons a central element in our nuclear policy'. There is obvious caution in these words. They imply that the US is unlikely to take radical, unilateral steps to disarm, and that any embrace of nuclear disarmament will have to be collective. They also seem designed to appeal to a broad range of opinion

The evil that men do-an open letter to President Obama

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Robbins RA

2016-05-01

Full Text Available No abstract available. Article truncated after 150 words. "The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones". William Shakespeare. Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2. Dear President Obama: Late in a second term, a President's attention often turns to framing their legacy. I suspect you are no exception and have given this considerable thought. You might wish to be remembered for the Affordable Care Act, even called Obamacare, which brought the US closer to universal healthcare coverage. However, I recall the end of President Clinton's second term a short 16 years ago. During that administration the Federal coffers were full; an unprecedented business boom occurred; and foreign entanglements that might have led to war were avoided. However, most of us do not remember those positives, but recall a White House intern and a certain blue dress. As pointed out by Shakespeare over 400 years ago powerful men are remembered not so ...

Changing foreign policy: the Obama Administration’s decision to oust Mubarak

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Maria do Céu Pinto Arena

2017-11-01

Full Text Available Abstract This paper analyses the decision of the Obama administration to redirect its foreign policy towards Egypt in the wake of the Arab Spring. It attempts to highlight the issue of how governments deal with decision-making at times of crisis, and under which circumstances they take critical decisions that lead to major shifts in their foreign policy track record. It focuses on the process that led to a reassessment of US (United States foreign policy, shifting from decades of support to the autocratic regime of Hosni Mubarak, towards backing his ouster. Specifically, the paper attempts to assess to what extent the decision to withdraw US support from a longstanding state-leader and ally in the Middle East can be seen as a foreign policy change (FPC. A relevant research question this paper pursues is: how can the withdrawal of US support to a regime considered as an ally be considered, in itself, as a radical FPC?

Re-launching the production of green electricity in the United States: Prometheus meets Keynes

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Magaud, M.; Ochoa, D.

2009-01-01

During his campaign, Barack Obama insisted on the close tie between the recession, climate change and national security in matters of energy, given the country's excessive dependence on oil imports. He outlined the development of a low-carbon economy that would, in 2050, emit only 20% as much greenhouse gas as in 1990. He pledged to devote, over a ten-year period, 150 billion dollars to research and development on renewable energy, either through direct funding (grants, loan guarantees, purchases by the federal government, etc.) or tax incentives. He also spoke about the potential creation of five million jobs in environmental-friendly technology. Given his first official declarations on climate change and the importance of the theme of energy in the first measures taken by his administration, the new president has reflected the same level of concern as the candidate. Since his election, Obama has pursued the same policy line by orienting his massive economic stimulus plan (787 billion dollars) toward creating 'green jobs', especially in energy (85 billion dollars). In the stimulus package, research and development for new sources of low-carbon energy - stocking CO 2 underground, solar and geothermal energy, wind power, second-generation bio-fuels, etc. - are among the top priorities. (authors)

Re-launching the production of green electricity in the United States: Prometheus meets Keynes;la relance de la production d'electricite verte aux Etats-Unis: une rencontre entre Promethee... et Keynes

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Magaud, M. [Ambassade de France aux Etats-Unis, Mission pour la Science et la Technologie (United States); Ochoa, D. [Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines, Dir. de l' Innovation et du Developpement 42 - Saint-Etienne (France)

2009-11-15

During his campaign, Barack Obama insisted on the close tie between the recession, climate change and national security in matters of energy, given the country's excessive dependence on oil imports. He outlined the development of a low-carbon economy that would, in 2050, emit only 20% as much greenhouse gas as in 1990. He pledged to devote, over a ten-year period, 150 billion dollars to research and development on renewable energy, either through direct funding (grants, loan guarantees, purchases by the federal government, etc.) or tax incentives. He also spoke about the potential creation of five million jobs in environmental-friendly technology. Given his first official declarations on climate change and the importance of the theme of energy in the first measures taken by his administration, the new president has reflected the same level of concern as the candidate. Since his election, Obama has pursued the same policy line by orienting his massive economic stimulus plan (787 billion dollars) toward creating 'green jobs', especially in energy (85 billion dollars). In the stimulus package, research and development for new sources of low-carbon energy - stocking CO{sub 2} underground, solar and geothermal energy, wind power, second-generation bio-fuels, etc. - are among the top priorities. (authors)

Los Estados Unidos de Obama: entre el idealismo y el regreso al containment sin enemigo global

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Ricardo García Duarte

2009-11-01

Full Text Available El ascenso de Obama al poder representaba, sin duda, un cambio radical en relación con la política internacional desplegada por el presidente George W. Bush y su doctrina sobre la guerra preventiva. En una perspectiva de más largo plazo podría, además, significar un giro hacia el idealismo después de un largo período de predominio del realismo, muy intensamente desarrollado durante la guerra fría, mediante la doctrina del containment. La prevalencia de la diplomacia y la restitución del

President-elect Obama and nuclear disarmament between elimination and restraint

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Walker, W.

2009-07-01

In the now famous articles of January 2007 and 2008 in the Wall Street Journal, the 'Gang of Four' former US statesmen called on governments to rid the world of nuclear weapons. Their intervention has been followed in the United States by a flurry of conferences and publications on nuclear disarmament, with esteemed organizations such as the Federation of American Scientists, Stanford and Princeton Universities, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Stimson Center and the Arms Control Association entering the fray. The force of their ideas became evident when presidential candidates from both the Democratic and Republican Parties felt obliged to issue statements lending at least some support to the Gang of Four and its aspirations. The calls on the next administration to lead the way towards a 'world free of nuclear weapons' mark the emergence of a significant political movement in the United States. Achieving such a world is not just the fancy of groups of idealists that have marginal influence in US politics. Nor is the attention that nuclear disarmament is now receiving primarily a response to longstanding international pressures on the US and other nuclear weapon states to engage with the issue. It is coming from within - from the judgements of an increasingly influential elite on where US and international interests now lie. Although this elite has its critics, it is currently in the ascendant. The pursuit of nuclear disarmament by the US government has been given a blessing of sorts in President-elect Obama's statement that: 'As long as nuclear weapons exist, we will retain a strong deterrent. But we'll make the goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons a central element in our nuclear policy'. There is obvious caution in these words. They imply that the US is unlikely to take radical, unilateral steps to disarm, and that any embrace of nuclear disarmament will have to be collective. They also seem designed

Graphic tobacco warning labels – an improper solution?

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Salvi JD

2014-07-01

Full Text Available Joshua D SalviWeill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USAIn June 2009, President Barack Obama signed into law the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (HR 1256. This legislation required that all tobacco products and advertising must have a graphic warning covering 50 percent of the front and back of the package. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA has proposed a number of graphic designs, and the final designs were submitted in June, 2011. The proposed designs include grotesque imagery in an attempt to dissuade smoking in the USA. However, these graphic labels were invalidated in court due to violation of freedom-of-speech rights. Independent from that point, these labels, if appealed, would do more harm than good from a public health perspective. 

Federalism and Health Care

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G. Alan Tarr

2011-10-01

Full Text Available President Barack Obama proposed a major overhaul of the American healthsystem, and in 2010 the U.S. Congress enacted his proposal, the PatientProtection and Affordable Care Act. Opponents of the Act challenged itsconstitutionality in federal court, claiming that it exceeds the powers grantedto the federal government under the Commerce Clause and the NecessaryProper Clause of the federal Constitution. Some courts have upheldthe law, but others have agreed with the critics, in particular ruling thatthe provision requiring citizens to buy health insurance is unconstitutional.Eventually the U.S. Supreme Court will rule on the issue. This article tracesthe controversy, surveys the interpretation of pertinent constitutional provisionsin past cases, analyzes the constitutional arguments presented byproponents and opponents of the Act, and concludes that the Act is constitutional.

Politica come intrattenimento. Un’analisi della “messa in scena” politica di Fernando Collor de Mello

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Paula Diehl

2014-07-01

Full Text Available  Dopo gli anni 1980, la comunicazione politica delle e dei politici è diventata sempre più ibrida, mescolando intrattenimento e rappresentazione politica. Politici come Silvio Berlusconi, Beppe Grillo, ma anche Barack Obama pongono il proprio corpo al centro della rappresentazione mediatica, utilizzandolo non solo come canale di comunicazione, ma anche come fonte di intrattenimento. Prima ancora della “discesa in campo” di Silvio Berlusconi, il caso dell’ex presidente brasiliano Fernando Alfonso Collor de Mello mostra già nel 1989, in modo emblematico, come la fusione di politica e intrattenimento è diventata una delle principale tendenze della comunicazione politica. L’analisi della sua messa in scena da chiarezza a questa tendenza e rivela un fenomeno nuovo della messa in scena mediatica: l’apparizione del terzo corpo del politico.

Jóvenes y política 2.0: ¿del desencanto real al oportunismo virtual?

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Julio César Mateus

2010-03-01

Full Text Available Luego de la elección de Barack Obama y su estrategia de campaña basada en redes sociales y web 2.0, el escenario electoral peruano empieza a ser invadido por las nuevas tecnologías. Su participación, sin embargo, corre el riesgo de limitarse al uso instrumental de las he rramientas. Este artículo propone algunos retos y posibilidades para el uso eficiente de internet como medio que potencia la democracia, tomando en consideración la formulación de una agenda digital que acorte las enormes brechas de acceso y anote la urgente necesidad de alfabetiza ción digital para fomentar el diálogo con una ciudadanía, sobre todo juvenil, cualificada para el pleno ejercicio de sus derechos.

Seguridad y control geopolítico: Crónica de la Iniciativa para la Prosperidad del Triángulo Norte de Centroamérica

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Daniel Villafuerte Solís

2018-01-01

Full Text Available El propósito de este artículo es presentar la concepción general del Plan Alianza para la Prosperidad del Triángulo Norte, uno de varios programas impulsados por el presidente Barack Obama para frenar la migración de niñas, niños y adolescentes centroamericanos que viajan sin acompañamiento de familiares, en el marco de una estrategia global de seguridad regional, que incluye la frontera sur de México como territorio de tránsito de migrantes y paso de drogas. También analiza el giro que se produce en la administración del presidente Donald Trump en materia migratoria cuyo énfasis es la seguridad y la militarización de las fronteras.

Brief history of the nuclear weapon - Between proliferation and disarmament

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Chagnollaud, Jean-Paul

2011-01-01

During the hardest times of the Cold War, like in October 1962 with the Cuba crisis, the World lived in the fear of a nuclear confrontation between the USA and the USSR. If this time seems far away now, the risks of a nuclear conflict are probably greater today because no serious progress has bee done during the last ten years and because, from now on, nine, and maybe ten states possess nuclear weapons. In April 2009, US President Barack Obama, gave a talk in Prague (Czech Republic) in which he stressed again on the enormous risks that this situation was running on humanity and urged the world to get rid of nuclear weapons. The aim of this book is to present the main steps of this process, which started in the 1960's, and the arguments which justify its necessity. (J.S.)

The Analisis Sentimen Sosial Media Twitter Dengan Algoritma Machine Learning Menggunakan Software R

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Jaka Aulia Pratama

2017-10-01

Full Text Available Media sosial adalah wadah untuk mengungkapkan opini terhadap suatu topik tertentu. Ketersediaan informasi dan opini dari para pengguna media sosial merupakan kumpulan dokumen data berupa teks yang amat sangat besar dan berguna untuk kepentingan penelitian maupun membuat suatu keputusan bagi pihak – pihak tertentu. Text Mining bisa didefinisikan sebagai proses penggalian informasi di mana pengguna berinteraksi dengan kumpulan dokumen dari waktu ke waktu dengan menggunakan suatu alat analisis. Analisis sentimen atau Opinion Mining adalah salah satu studi di bidang komputasi yang berhubungan dengan kasus publik mengenai opini, penilaian, sikap, dan emosi. Penelitian ini akan menggunakan metode Machine Learning pada analisis sentimen pengguna layanan jejaring sosial Twitter terhadap Donald Trump dan Barack Obama dalam 20000 tweets. Nilai akurasi metode Machine Learning yang diperoleh cukup tinggi yaitu 87.52% untuk Data Training dan 87.4% untuk Data Testing.

[Precision medicine: new opportunities and challenges for molecular epidemiology].

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Song, Jing; Hu, Yonghua

2016-04-01

Since the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 and the announcement of the Precision Medicine Initiative by U.S. President Barack Obama in January 2015, human beings have initially completed the " three steps" of " genomics to biology, genomics to health as well as genomics to society". As a new inter-discipline, the emergence and development of precision medicine have relied on the support and promotion from biological science, basic medicine, clinical medicine, epidemiology, statistics, sociology and information science, etc. Meanwhile, molecular epidemiology is considered to be the core power to promote precision medical as a cross discipline of epidemiology and molecular biology. This article is based on the characteristics and research progress of medicine and molecular epidemiology respectively, focusing on the contribution and significance of molecular epidemiology to precision medicine, and exploring the possible opportunities and challenges in the future.

Barack Obama or Barry Dunham? The appearance of multiracial faces is affected by the names assigned to them.

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Hilliar, Kirin F; Kemp, Richard I

2008-01-01

Does semantic information in the form of stereotypical names influence participants' perceptions of the appearance of multiracial faces? Asian-Australian and European-Australian participants were asked to rate the appearance of Asian-Australian faces given typically Asian names, European-Australian faces given typically European names, multiracial faces given Asian names, and multiracial faces given European names. Participants rated the multiracial faces given European names as looking significantly 'more European' than the same multiracial faces given Asian names. This study demonstrates how socially derived expectations and stereotypes can influence face perception.

Normalization of US-Cuban Relations: Obama Doctrine and International Security in the Western Hemisphere

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Piotr Łaciński

2015-12-01

Full Text Available Strained relations between the US and Cuba after the victory of the Cuban revolution were a permanent element of the destabilization of international security in the Western Hemisphere. During the Cold War, this destabilization was a function of the East-West confrontation. Since the end of Cold War the importance of Cuba as a Western Hemisphere entity hostile to the United States has diminished radically. Definite steps to normalize relations with Cuba have been taken only in 2014. The media named the change of policies of the US towards Cuba (and Iran as the Obama Doctrine. This article will try to prove that the continuation of the confron-tational and hostile US-Cuban relations after the collapse of the Eastern bloc was an exceptional and "unnatural" phenomenon from the perspective of realistic school of international relations, both for Washington and Havana.

¿Una estrategia coherente para una región en cambio? La política exterior de la administración Obama y la Primavera Árabe

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Juan Tovar

2014-10-01

Full Text Available La política exterior de la Administración Obama se vio claramente marcada por los procesos de cambios producidos en el Próximo Oriente como consecuencia de la denominada Primavera Árabe. A la discusión previa existente sobre la existencia o no de una doctrina Obama se ha añadido el debate sobre cual puede ser su estrategia hacia una región que se ha convertido en el principal campo de batalla de los grupos ideológicos de la política exterior estadounidense: realistas, neoconservadores y liberales intervencionistas. La necesidad de equilibrar los intereses estratégicos y de seguridad estadounidenses con la promoción de valores como la democracia y los derechos humanos parece haber dado paso a un regreso a una estrategia realista, de intervención limitada, fundamentada en intereses estratégicos clave y en soluciones diferenciadas para diferentes contextos. La situación actual en escenarios como Siria o Irak, con todo, marcan importantes incertidumbres que deberán ser afrontadas a corto plazo.

Washington Crossing the Media: American Presidential Rhetoric and Cultural Iconography

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Jutta Ernst

2012-04-01

Full Text Available The Revolutionary War has been of prime importance to American self-perceptions and to the formation of its national identity. As a foundational moment with a strong mythical dimension it has become a cherished point of reference for the nation’s leaders, who, in their speeches and written communications, rely on the most widely accepted cultural iconography to recall this event. A time-honored, traditional discourse might, however, go together with the use of contemporary media technology as a means of distribution, as in the case of Barack Obama. Framing Obama’s rhetorical strategies within 19th- and 20th-century artistic representations of one specific historical moment from the Revolutionary War, Washington’s crossing of the Delaware river, this paper seeks to contribute to an enlarged understanding of the intricate relations between politics, the arts, and media development and of the ways they appropriate the past

Brief history of the nuclear weapon - Between proliferation and disarmament; Breve histoire de l'arme nucleaire - Entre proliferation et desarmament

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Chagnollaud, Jean-Paul

2011-05-24

During the hardest times of the Cold War, like in October 1962 with the Cuba crisis, the World lived in the fear of a nuclear confrontation between the USA and the USSR. If this time seems far away now, the risks of a nuclear conflict are probably greater today because no serious progress has bee done during the last ten years and because, from now on, nine, and maybe ten states possess nuclear weapons. In April 2009, US President Barack Obama, gave a talk in Prague (Czech Republic) in which he stressed again on the enormous risks that this situation was running on humanity and urged the world to get rid of nuclear weapons. The aim of this book is to present the main steps of this process, which started in the 1960's, and the arguments which justify its necessity. (J.S.)

The “Surgical” Legitimacy of Drone Strikes? Issues of Sovereignty and Human Rights in the Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems in Pakistan

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Alcides Eduardo dos Reis Peron

2014-12-01

Full Text Available The Revolution in Military Affairs had an important role in providing the United States Armed Forces the technical instruments necessary to conduct high-risky operations in the context of Irregular Warfare. The development of these instruments, such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV, allowed the emergence of a discourse of surgical and lean wars by the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations, whose legitimacy of the interventions were related to the accuracy and technical superiority of the UAVs. Focusing in the case of the U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, this article seeks to debate the legal limits of the employment of these instruments. Despite the supposed accuracy and visual capacity of the UAVs, we argue that there are several information on the deaths of civilians, and legal limitations in the International Humanitarian Law, that constrain the employment of this instrument, and illegitimate the argument of surgical war.

La Gran Estrategia de Estados Unidos: en busca de las fuentes doctrinales de las políticas de seguridad internacional de los gobiernos estadounidenses

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Federmán Rodríguez Morales

2015-04-01

Full Text Available The purpose of this article is to explain the history, sources and variations relating to the grand strategy of United States with regard to international security. In particular, it argues that there is a strategy which defines the interests and values that the US governments must defend, regardless of their ideological positions, which can be principally understood in terms of their beliefs on defensive and offensive realism, as well as exemplary liberalism and crusade liberalism. Rather than being conceived as theoretical or analytical stances, these variations of American realism and liberalism are seen as doctrines which have been developing historically since independence. Given that this grand strategy constitutes an institutional framework which is difficult to avoid, the paper explains, through the use of examples, the way in which the governments under George W. Bush Jr. and Barack H. Obama appropriated this strategy.

The changing face of American compassion: ethnicity, religion, and worldview conflicts

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J. Hexham

2010-07-01

Full Text Available When Barack Obama announced his support for “Faith Based Initiatives” in August 2008 many people were shocked. Others saw it as a political ploy because they regarded the policy as one of the Bush Administration’s more unpopular programmes. In fact, the idea of “Faith Based Initiatives” was first proposed during the Clinton Presidency with support from such liberals as Senator Joe Liebermann. In this article popular misunderstandings of the role of religion in the USA will be discussed to show that the issue is far more complex than the media and a host of critical authors want us to believe and that the attack on “Faith Based Initiatives” has far-reaching implications for the relationship between Christianity and politics in both America and the rest of the world. It also raises issues about ethnicity, religion and the conflict of worldviews.

U.S. trade dispute with China over rare earth elements

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Showstack, Randy

2012-03-01

The U.S. government has brought a new trade case against China over rare earth elements (REE) as well as tungsten and molybdenum, President Barack Obama announced on 13 March. Japan and the European Union also have taken similar actions against China about REEs, which are a group of 17 chemically similar metallic elements that are used in a variety of electronic, optical, magnetic, and catalytic applications. REEs are plentiful in the Earth's crust, although China currently has about 37% of the world's reserves and accounts for more than 95% of the world's production of the elements, according to the British Geological Survey. The United States has requested consultations with China at the World Trade Organization (WTO) concerning "China's unfair export restraints on rare earths, as well as tungsten and molybdenum," the Office of the United States Trade Representative announced in a 13 March statement.

The most influential people in healthcare

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Robbins RA

2016-09-01

Full Text Available No abstract available. Article truncated at 150 words. Recently Modern Healthcare released the 2016 listing of their annual most influential people in Healthcare (1. Leading the list is President Barack Obama for his Affordable Care Act. The list consists of a monotonous list of bureaucrats, politicians, large healthcare chain CEOs , insurance company CEOs, health interest organizations (American Hospital Association, America's Health Insurance Plans Healthcare, etc., professional organizations (American Medical Association, American Nurses Association, etc., nongovernmental healthcare interest organizations (Joint Commission, National Quality Forum, etc. and vendors (Epic, McKesson, etc.. From the Southwest the list includes at least 11 hospital chain CEOs including 1 from Arizona, 3 from Colorado and 7 from California. Striking is the lack of influential healthcare professionals who made the list. Only two are leading academicians-Atul Gawande, a surgeon and author at Harvard, and Robert Wachter, an internist and pioneer in the hosptialist movement at University of California San Francisco. John Noseworthy (Mayo Clinic ...

How far can developing country commitments go in an immediate post-2012 climate regime?

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Zhang, ZhongXiang [Research Program, East-West Center, 1601 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96848-1601 (United States); Center for Energy Economics and Strategy Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai (China); China Centre for Regional Economic Research, Peking University, Beijing (China); Institute of Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China)

2009-05-15

To point out the direction and focus of future international climate negotiations, this paper discusses how far developing country commitments can go in an immediate post-2012 climate regime. The paper argues that developing country commitments are most unlikely to go beyond the defined polices and measures in this timeframe. On this basis, the paper suggests that, rather than attempting the unrealistic goal, international climate negotiations may instead need to initially frame the post-2012 developing country participation in terms of certain policies and policies that I envisioned a decade ago. This conclusion does not change, as Barack Obama becomes the US President and the Democrats have regained control over both US House of Representatives and Senate. However, it should be emphasized that his stance on climate issues and how ambitious US commitments would be under his administration are going to be critical for developing countries to take bold steps themselves and to even agree to reflect those national commitments in a global deal. (author)

Black out - The post-petroleum era has started

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Enderlin, S.

2009-01-01

The predictable shortage of petroleum resources raises up some worrying questions: how can we get rid of petroleum? What will be our life without petroleum? Will we have enough energy tomorrow to keep the same way of life as today? With what new energy sources tomorrow's world will turn? The author has travelled the world from the Americas to Asia and from Europe to the Persian Gulf to find the leads of the after-petroleum era. From the Chinese coal to the US ethanol, from the nuclear comeback to the Scandinavian innovations, this inquiry makes the world tour of projects, ideas and solutions. First world energy consumer and squanderer, the US hold a prominent place in the energy revolution that Barack Obama election will speed up. In Europe, Germany, Spain and Denmark have taken a serious lead in the green energies race, while China has become recently the first world power of greenhouse gas emissions. (J.S.)

How far can developing country commitments go in an immediate post-2012 climate regime?

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Zhang, ZhongXiang

2009-01-01

To point out the direction and focus of future international climate negotiations, this paper discusses how far developing country commitments can go in an immediate post-2012 climate regime. The paper argues that developing country commitments are most unlikely to go beyond the defined polices and measures in this timeframe. On this basis, the paper suggests that, rather than attempting the unrealistic goal, international climate negotiations may instead need to initially frame the post-2012 developing country participation in terms of certain policies and policies that I envisioned a decade ago. This conclusion does not change, as Barack Obama becomes the US President and the Democrats have regained control over both US House of Representatives and Senate. However, it should be emphasized that his stance on climate issues and how ambitious US commitments would be under his administration are going to be critical for developing countries to take bold steps themselves and to even agree to reflect those national commitments in a global deal. (author)

How far can developing country commitments go in an immediate post-2012 climate regime?

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Zhang Zhongxiang [Research Program, East-West Center, 1601 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96848-1601 (United States); Center for Energy Economics and Strategy Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai (China); China Centre for Regional Economic Research, Peking University, Beijing (China); Institute of Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China)], E-mail: ZhangZ@EastWestCenter.org

2009-05-15

To point out the direction and focus of future international climate negotiations, this paper discusses how far developing country commitments can go in an immediate post-2012 climate regime. The paper argues that developing country commitments are most unlikely to go beyond the defined polices and measures in this timeframe. On this basis, the paper suggests that, rather than attempting the unrealistic goal, international climate negotiations may instead need to initially frame the post-2012 developing country participation in terms of certain policies and policies that I envisioned a decade ago. This conclusion does not change, as Barack Obama becomes the US President and the Democrats have regained control over both US House of Representatives and Senate. However, it should be emphasized that his stance on climate issues and how ambitious US commitments would be under his administration are going to be critical for developing countries to take bold steps themselves and to even agree to reflect those national commitments in a global deal.

Para americano e brasileiro ver: uma memória das relações bilaterais por meio da rede social Flickr

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João Gilberto Neves Saraiva

2014-09-01

Full Text Available Este trabalho investiga a memória das relações bilaterais produzida pela Embaixada dos Estados Unidos no Brasil na rede social Flickr nos primeiros meses de governo do presidente democrata Barack Obama.  Analisa-se aqui o conjunto de imagens e textos de 19 postagens realizadas pela embaixada na rede no primeiro semestre de 2009. São estabelecidos elos entre a produção da memória, a conjuntura política norte-americana e mitos políticos estadunidenses, como Abraham Lincoln e John Kennedy. Também problematiza as formas lembrar e esquecer diversos eventos das relações bilaterais ao longo do século XX e XXI, além dos posicionamentos publicados na rede social em relação à política e à história do Brasil. Palavras-chave: Redes sociais online; Flickr; Presidentes – Estados Unidos.

Have Postwar Fiscal Stimulus Policies Met the “Timely, Targeted, and Temporary” Principle?

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Jason E. Taylor

2017-06-01

Full Text Available President Barack Obama noted that fiscal stimulus polices should follow three T’s—timely, targeted, and temporary. This paper examines the government’s fiscal response to eleven postwar recessions in light of the three T’s. We find that the record is mixed at best. On average it took 10.9 months before a recession’s start and the first major countercyclical fiscal policy action. Additionally, in half of the eight recessions in which fiscal policy was attempted, the level of real per capita government spending was nearly three times its trend level four years after the recession was over—i.e. the stimulus was not temporary. Finally, with respect to targeted, while some countercyclical policies have been designed to help sectors that were particularly harmed during a recession, we find many cases whereby recessions provided politicians an avenue in which to implement policies that were part of their long-run reform agenda rather than being carefully targeted countercyclical fiscal policy.

HIPAA-protecting patient confidentiality or covering something else?

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Robbins RA

2013-10-01

Full Text Available No abstract available. Article truncated at 150 words. A case of a physician fired from the Veterans Administration (VA for violation of the Health Care Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA illustrates a problem with both the law and the VA. Anil Parikh, a VA physician at the Jesse Brown VA in Chicago, was dismissed on a charge of making unauthorized disclosures of confidential patient information on October 19, 2007. On January 3, 2011 the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB reversed Dr. Parikh’s removal. Dr. Parikh's initially made disclosures to the VA Office of Inspector General and to Senator Barack Obama and Congressman Luis Gutierrez, in whose district the Jesse Brown VA lies. Dr. Parikh alleged that there were systematic problems within the Jesse Brown VA that resulted in untimely and inadequate patient care. The confidential patient information Parikh disclosed included examples of the misdiagnoses and misdirection of patients within the hospital. Specifically, Dr. Parikh alleged that …

Destination memory in traumatic brain injuries.

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Wili Wilu, Amina; Coello, Yann; El Haj, Mohamad

2018-06-01

Destination memory, which is socially driven, refers to the ability to remember to whom one has sent information. Our study investigated destination memory in patients with traumatic brain injuries (TBIs). Patients and control participants were invited to tell proverbs (e.g., "the pen is mightier than the sword") to pictures of celebrities (e.g., Barack Obama). Then they were asked to indicate to which celebrity they had previously told the proverbs. Besides the assessment of destination memory, participants performed a binding task in which they were required to associate letters with their corresponding location. Analysis demonstrated less destination memory and binding in patients with TBIs than in controls. In both populations, significant correlations were observed between destination memory and performances on the binding task. These findings demonstrate difficulty in the ability to attribute information to its appropriate destination in TBI patients, perhaps owing to difficulties in binding separate information together to form a coherent representation of an event in memory.

Black out - The post-petroleum era has started; Black out - L'apres-petrole a commence

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Enderlin, S.

2009-07-01

The predictable shortage of petroleum resources raises up some worrying questions: how can we get rid of petroleum? What will be our life without petroleum? Will we have enough energy tomorrow to keep the same way of life as today? With what new energy sources tomorrow's world will turn? The author has travelled the world from the Americas to Asia and from Europe to the Persian Gulf to find the leads of the after-petroleum era. From the Chinese coal to the US ethanol, from the nuclear comeback to the Scandinavian innovations, this inquiry makes the world tour of projects, ideas and solutions. First world energy consumer and squanderer, the US hold a prominent place in the energy revolution that Barack Obama election will speed up. In Europe, Germany, Spain and Denmark have taken a serious lead in the green energies race, while China has become recently the first world power of greenhouse gas emissions. (J.S.)

The fluctuating female vote: politics, religion, and the ovulatory cycle.

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Durante, Kristina M; Rae, Ashley; Griskevicius, Vladas

2013-06-01

Each month, many women experience an ovulatory cycle that regulates fertility. Although research has found that this cycle influences women's mating preferences, we proposed that it might also change women's political and religious views. Building on theory suggesting that political and religious orientation are linked to reproductive goals, we tested how fertility influenced women's politics, religiosity, and voting in the 2012 U.S. presidential election. In two studies with large and diverse samples, ovulation had drastically different effects on single women and women in committed relationships. Ovulation led single women to become more liberal, less religious, and more likely to vote for Barack Obama. In contrast, ovulation led women in committed relationships to become more conservative, more religious, and more likely to vote for Mitt Romney. In addition, ovulation-induced changes in political orientation mediated women's voting behavior. Overall, the ovulatory cycle not only influences women's politics but also appears to do so differently for single women than for women in relationships.

Democratic candidates call for change in the health care system: wider use of home and community-based care, chronic disease management, universal coverage, and greater use of telehealth.

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Marsh, Aaron G

2008-10-01

Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic candidate for president, and Senator Joe Biden, the party's candidate for vice president, have made health care reform a central pillar of their campaign. The Democrats want to target the 12 percent of Americans who are responsible for 69 percent of health care costs. Such individuals generally have multiple and complex health care problems, which if left untreated, require them to seek care in hospital emergency rooms which are vastly overcrowded. In order to solve the problem, they believe first that universal coverage along the lines of the Federal Government Employees' health plan is necessary, followed by a shift away from institutionally-based care, making home and community-based care, which integrates telehealth and other technologies, the norm. The party's platform includes this committment to help solve the problem of long-term care, which affects not only the nation's 35 million elderly, but increasingly will affect the 78 million baby boomers who are entering their retirement years.

Energy- and climate policy of the USA. Goals of the new government

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Schiffer, Hans-Wilhelm

2009-01-01

US president Barack Obama and vice president Joe Biden announced a detailed new political agenda on 20 January 2009 when they took over from the Bush government. The internet pages of the White House list 24 items, including an action plan for energy and environment. This ''New Energy for America Plan'' comprises the following goals: Creation of 5 million new jobs by supporting private efforts for clean energy supply with strategic investments of 150 thousand million US dollars for the next decade; Savings of petroleum that are higher than the volume currently imported from the Middle East and Venezuela within the next decade; Ensuring that about 1 million US-made plug-in hybrid cars are on the roads by 2015; Achieving a share of 10 percent by 2012 and 25 percent by 2025 for renewable energy sources; Implementation of a ''cap-and-trade system'' for the whole US economy in order to reduce climate-relevant gaseous emissions by 80 percent until 2050. (orig.)

Trump And Obama’s “Cuban Legacy”

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Kh. Sh. Ulugova

2017-01-01

Full Text Available After the triumph of revolution in Cuba in 1959 Washington and Havana have been hostile to each other for more than half a century. Even the end of the Cold War and disintegration of the bipolar international system left intact the antagonism between the two. Only after Barack Obama came to power did normalization become possible. He admitted the failure of the policy of sanctions and declared a “new beginning” in US-Cuba relations. There is a risk now that under the new administration of Donald Trump the efforts made before can be neutralized if the US president keeps his recent pre-election promise and cancels all the previous agreements on normalization. The question remains open – whether Obama’s achievements in this regard will be preserved or Trump will manage to reverse the normalization policy of his predecessor. There will be either pragmatic Trump the businessman who understands the benefits of continuing Obama’s policy, or Trump the politician who will stand firm on his pre-election pledge to roll back on once promising initiative. The article analyzes the process of normalization initiated by Obama and Castro in 2014, explains its background motivations and builds various scenarios of further development of Cuban-American relations, as well as Trump’s policy towards Cuba. It is unlikely that the Trump administration will abandon what has already been achieved. It may entail significant political and economic costs, which is unacceptable for Trump the businessman. However, any new progressive steps towards the normalization should not be expected in the short term.

US POLICY IN CENTRAL ASIA: TWO APPROACHES ADMINISTRATION OF GEORGE. BUSH (2005-2009 GG. AND BARACK OBAMA (2009-2010 BIENNIUM

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E. F. Troitsky

2011-01-01

Full Text Available Abstract: Evolution of the U.S. strategy towards Central Asia in the second half of the 2000s was defined greatly by the development of the war in Afghanistan. However, since the middle of the decade the course of its implementation depended on the necessity to compensate or overcome consequences of the deterioration of the U.S. relations with Uzbekistan.

16. Analisis Kebijakan Pemerintah Amerika Serikat Era Presiden Barack Obama Terhadap Praktik Forced Labour Di Industri Perikanan Thailand 2009-2014

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Fitriasari, Fransiska Alfiana; Putranti, Ika Riswanti; Puspapertiwi, Sheiffi

2016-01-01

Tobacco issue has become world's attention in 1990. The issues that arise due to tobaccoconsumption become the background of International tobacco control regimes establishment,called Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, in 2005. In 2001, a tobacco controlalliance also established in Southeast Asia, it is called Southeast Asia Tobacco ControlAlliance. Malaysia is a country that faces high illegal cigarette trade, they are kreteksmuggling and illicit white. Illegal cigarette trade has harm...

Mortality Salience, System Justification, and Candidate Evaluations in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election.

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Joanna Sterling

Full Text Available Experiments conducted during the 2004 and 2008 U.S. presidential elections suggested that mortality salience primes increased support for President George W. Bush and Senator John McCain, respectively. Some interpreted these results as reflecting "conservative shift" following exposure to threat, whereas others emphasized preferences for "charismatic" leadership following exposure to death primes. To assess both hypotheses in the context of a new election cycle featuring a liberal incumbent who was considered to be charismatic, we conducted four experiments shortly before the 2012 election involving President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney. Contrary to earlier studies, there was little evidence that mortality salience, either by itself or in interaction with political orientation, affected overall candidate ratings or voting intentions. However, a significant interaction between mortality salience and system justification in some studies indicated a more circumscribed effect. The failure to "replicate" previous results in the context of this election may be attributable to disagreement among participants as to which of the candidates better represented the societal status quo.

Opportunities for the Cardiovascular Community in the Precision Medicine Initiative.

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Shah, Svati H; Arnett, Donna; Houser, Steven R; Ginsburg, Geoffrey S; MacRae, Calum; Mital, Seema; Loscalzo, Joseph; Hall, Jennifer L

2016-01-12

The Precision Medicine Initiative recently announced by President Barack Obama seeks to move the field of precision medicine more rapidly into clinical care. Precision medicine revolves around the concept of integrating individual-level data including genomics, biomarkers, lifestyle and other environmental factors, wearable device physiological data, and information from electronic health records to ultimately provide better clinical care to individual patients. The Precision Medicine Initiative as currently structured will primarily fund efforts in cancer genomics with longer-term goals of advancing precision medicine to all areas of health, and will be supported through creation of a 1 million person cohort study across the United States. This focused effort on precision medicine provides scientists, clinicians, and patients within the cardiovascular community an opportunity to work together boldly to advance clinical care; the community needs to be aware and engaged in the process as it progresses. This article provides a framework for potential involvement of the cardiovascular community in the Precision Medicine Initiative, while highlighting significant challenges for its successful implementation. © 2016 American Heart Association, Inc.

‘In the City of Blinding Lights’: Indigeneity, Cultural Studies and the Errants of Colonial Nostalgia

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Jodi A. Byrd

2011-04-01

Full Text Available US-based cultural studies often prioritises issues of race, class, and gender within popular representations of the ‘other’ at the expense of undertheorising, especially within its own settler colonial history, issues of indigeneity, colonialism, and imperialism. This essay takes as a case study the US 2008 Democratic presidential primary cycle in which Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama ran for their party’s nomination by claiming that their success would fulfil either the promises of the civil rights movement or second-wave feminism. Through the course of the primary season, each of these movements was framed within the larger US national myth of Manifest Destiny with its nostalgic struggles against an ‘unforgiving wilderness’. Indigenous critical theory, as it engages US cultural studies and theories of resistance, recentres issues of colonialism within the historical and material cultural productions of the nation and challenges the political discourse of liberatory inclusion and freedom to acknowledge the colonisation of indigenous peoples upon which ‘inclusion’ and ‘freedom’ are built.

Analysis: climate policy in the United States: what economic instrument for a carbon price signal?

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2009-03-01

At the time of his election as President of the United States, Barack Obama declared that 'We will make it clear to the world that America is ready to lead to protect our environment'. The 2050 objective of cutting CO 2 emissions by 80% compared to the 1990 level, as affirmed in the election campaign, will involve directing the market in accordance with a carbon price signal that includes the true cost of greenhouse gas emissions so as to establish a policy that is both effective and credible, i.e. likely to lead developing countries into the global effort. An emission allowance market, rather than a carbon tax, should therefore come into being. However, those who advocate the tax - more numerous in academic circles than among political decision-makers - are sharpening up their arguments. In particular, they identify the measures to be taken if we wish to attain an environmental objective and curb social inequalities. Similar arguments could serve as the basis for an international agreement that would strongly incite emerging countries to reduce their emissions while remaining equitable towards them. (author)

Internet agorą wyborczą XXI wieku

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Jarosław Kinal

2012-01-01

Full Text Available The transfer of the activity of electoral candidates to the Internet was one significant change in the way of the creating of the image of the candidates in the local elections in 2010. Politicians have begun to notice the possibilities offered by the network before. In this paper, an analysis was provided of the two recent electoral campaigns in Poland. In the introduction, a few figures were related to the campaign of Barack Obama and the marketing potential hidden in applications was outlined, generally referred to as Web 2.0. In the initial chapter, paradigms were presented needed to establish the planning stage in the electoral campaign in the Internet. Deformations of communication were also presented in relation to the traditional H. Lasswell’s communication model. An analysis was provided of selected political marketing tools used in the Internet. The analysis indicates a poor use of the Internet in the electoral campaign for the candidates in Subcarpathia even though there are one candidate in this region who created virtual avatars to build her political image.

The origins and evolution of leadership.

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King, Andrew J; Johnson, Dominic D P; Van Vugt, Mark

2009-10-13

How groups of individuals achieve coordination and collective action is an important topic in the natural sciences, but until recently the role of leadership in this process has been largely overlooked. In contrast, leadership is arguably one of the most important themes in the social sciences, permeating all aspects of human social affairs: the election of Barack Obama, the war in Iraq, and the collapse of the banks are all high-profile events that draw our attention to the fundamental role of leadership and followership. Converging ideas and developments in both the natural and social sciences suggest that leadership and followership share common properties across humans and other animals, pointing to ancient roots and evolutionary origins. Here, we draw upon key insights from the animal and human literature to lay the foundation for a new science of leadership inspired by an evolutionary perspective. Identifying the origins of human leadership and followership, as well as which aspects are shared with other animals and which are unique, offers ways of understanding, predicting, and improving leadership today.

PERSON DEIXIS IN USA PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SPEECHES

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Nanda Anggarani Putri

2015-06-01

Full Text Available This study investigates the use of person deixis in presidential campaign speeches. This study is important because the use of person deixis in political speeches has been proved by many studies to give significant effects to the audience. The study largely employs a descriptive qualitative method. However, it also employs a simple quantitative method in calculating the number of personal pronouns used in the speeches and their percentages. The data for the study were collected from the transcriptions of six presidential campaign speeches of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney during the campaign rally in various places across the United States of America in July, September, and November 2012. The results of this study show that the presidential candidates make the best use of pronouns as a way to promote themselves and to attack their opponents. The results also suggest that the use of pronouns in the speeches enables the candidates to construct positive identity and reality, which are favorable to them and make them appear more eligible for the position.

As relações Brasil-Estados Unidos: do pan-americanismo ao pós-americanismo

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Thiago Gehre Galvão

2008-12-01

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Com o novo governo de Barack Obama

a política externa dos Estados Unidos passará por

readequações. Nesse sentido, busca-se visualizar

a ação de forças profundas que interfiram na

composição dos cálculos estratégicos dos tomadores

de decisão norte-americanos. Em conseqüência,

apresenta-se um novo momento nas relações

bilaterais Brasil-Estados Unidos que apontam para a

volta a uma ilusão americana. Por fim, insere-se no

debate a emergência do pós-americanismo como um

possível guia da política externa brasileira.

Energy- and climate policy of the USA. Goals of the new government; Energie- und Klimapolitik der USA. Zielsetzungen der neuen Regierung

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Schiffer, Hans-Wilhelm [RWE AG, Essen (Germany). Abt. Allgemeine Wirtschaftspolitik/Wissenschaft

2009-04-06

US president Barack Obama and vice president Joe Biden announced a detailed new political agenda on 20 January 2009 when they took over from the Bush government. The internet pages of the White House list 24 items, including an action plan for energy and environment. This ''New Energy for America Plan'' comprises the following goals: Creation of 5 million new jobs by supporting private efforts for clean energy supply with strategic investments of 150 thousand million US dollars for the next decade; Savings of petroleum that are higher than the volume currently imported from the Middle East and Venezuela within the next decade; Ensuring that about 1 million US-made plug-in hybrid cars are on the roads by 2015; Achieving a share of 10 percent by 2012 and 25 percent by 2025 for renewable energy sources; Implementation of a ''cap-and-trade system'' for the whole US economy in order to reduce climate-relevant gaseous emissions by 80 percent until 2050. (orig.)

Race, ideology, and the tea party: a longitudinal study.

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Eric D Knowles

Full Text Available The Tea Party movement, which rose to prominence in the United States after the election of President Barack Obama, provides an ideal context in which to examine the roles of racial concerns and ideology in politics. A three-wave longitudinal study tracked changes in White Americans' self-identification with the Tea Party, racial concerns (prejudice and racial identification, and ideologies (libertarianism and social conservatism over nine months. Latent Growth Modeling (LGM was used to evaluate potential causal relationships between Tea Party identification and these factors. Across time points, racial prejudice was indirectly associated with movement identification through Whites' assertions of national decline. Although initial levels of White identity did not predict change in Tea Party identification, initial levels of Tea Party identification predicted increases in White identity over the study period. Across the three assessments, support for the Tea Party fell among libertarians, but rose among social conservatives. Results are discussed in terms of legitimation theories of prejudice, the "racializing" power of political judgments, and the ideological dynamics of the Tea Party.

Race, Ideology, and the Tea Party: A Longitudinal Study

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Knowles, Eric D.; Lowery, Brian S.; Shulman, Elizabeth P.; Schaumberg, Rebecca L.

2013-01-01

The Tea Party movement, which rose to prominence in the United States after the election of President Barack Obama, provides an ideal context in which to examine the roles of racial concerns and ideology in politics. A three-wave longitudinal study tracked changes in White Americans’ self-identification with the Tea Party, racial concerns (prejudice and racial identification), and ideologies (libertarianism and social conservatism) over nine months. Latent Growth Modeling (LGM) was used to evaluate potential causal relationships between Tea Party identification and these factors. Across time points, racial prejudice was indirectly associated with movement identification through Whites’ assertions of national decline. Although initial levels of White identity did not predict change in Tea Party identification, initial levels of Tea Party identification predicted increases in White identity over the study period. Across the three assessments, support for the Tea Party fell among libertarians, but rose among social conservatives. Results are discussed in terms of legitimation theories of prejudice, the “racializing” power of political judgments, and the ideological dynamics of the Tea Party. PMID:23825630

La política relatada: el Storytelling de Barack Obama en el marco de la Operación Gerónimo

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Alberto Pedro López-Hermida-Russo

2013-01-01

Full Text Available El caudal de información en el que nos movemos actualmente exige que el político, como otros líderes que quieran transmitir un mensaje, deba competir con innumerables pantallas y datos. El storytelling surge en los últimos años como técnica efectiva para que el mensaje proveniente del líder social logre conquistar el bien más preciado en el mundo de la comunicación actual: el tiempo del ciudadano. En estas líneas se introduce esta herramienta discursiva, sus condiciones y elementos y, por medio de un análisis cualitativo, se expone su presencia en la galería de imágenes que la Casa Blanca publicó luego de matar a Osama bin Laden.

The Issues of Human Rights in the India-U.S. Relations

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Zakharov Aleksey I.

2016-10-01

Full Text Available The article presents a brief overview of India-U.S. relations during the period of Narendra Modi’s government and Barack Obama’s administration. The author analyzes the dynamics of cooperation development after the victory of Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2014 Parliamentary elections in India and studies the key directions of bilateral agenda. The current condition of India-U.S. strategic dialogue and the influence of human rights issues on the countries’ cooperation are characterized. Since 2014 the states’ cooperation has been growing rapidly. The bilateral investment, trade and economic interdependence have significantly increased. Some experts and mass media note that Barack Obama and Narendra Modi are having friendly relations. From a different angle, a number of agreements between countries still remain unaccomplished. For instance, the U.S. support for India’s permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council, its accession to APEC and the implementation of nuclear deal have yet to be turned into achievement. Together with strengthening the bilateral strategic dialogue, the U.S. has intensified the criticism of India’s human rights record. The main part of it includes the cases of religious intolerance, which are observed in the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom reports and the remarks given by U.S. lawmakers and official representatives, including the Ambassador to India. Washington’s careful attention to the human rights issues and religious violence in particular is one of the major irritants in the U.S.-India relations. The engagement of Indian Americans in the local U.S. politics and their lobbying efforts in the context of U.S.-India relations are revealed. The author outlines the near-terms perspectives of bilateral cooperation.

Meeting Complex Challenges Through National Security Reform

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Gockel, Kathy

2008-01-01

.... The Obama administration will have no shortage of advice pouring in from myriad sources on how to address the dynamic nature of security given the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the global financial turmoil...

1989, un caso de historia inmediata 20 años después. Hacia una reconstrucción del cuádruple efecto perverso producido por Jaruzelski, Gorbachov, Kohl y Obama

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Carlos Ortiz de Landázuri

2011-04-01

Full Text Available Se analizan cuatro interpretaciones actuales de la caída del muro de Berlín en 1989, en las que se reflexiona sobre el doble uso que Francis Fukuyama y Erik J. Hobsbawm hicieron de esta fecha de corte, según la concibieran como el fin de la historia en sentido liberal o el término de un siglo corto donde tuvo lugar la autodisolución del comunismo. Pero simultáneamente también se reconstruye el cuádruple efecto perverso que incluso hoy día siguen teniendo las distintas estrategias seguidas entonces por Jaruzelski, Gorbachov, Kohl y Obama para tratar de encauzar el conflicto generado por los sucesos de 1989.Palabras clave: fin de la historia, siglo corto, efecto perverso, comunismo, liberalismo.___________________________Abstract: They analyse four current interpretations of the fall of the wall of Berlin in 1989, in which it considers the double use that Francis Fukuyama and Erik J. Hobsbawm did of this date of cut, as they conceived it like the end of the history in liberal sense or the term of a short century where took place the dissolution of the communism. But simultaneously also it reconstructs the four perverse effect that even today day follow having the distinct strategies entered then by Jaruzelski, Gorbachov, Kohl and Obama to treat to pipe the conflict generated by the events of 1989.Keywords: end of history, short century, perverse effect, communism, liberalism.

International Education and Training Centre (Nuclear security and Nonproliferation) and Ideas for Educational Test Facilities in the centre

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Seo, Hyung Min [Korea Institute of Nuclear Non-proliferation and Control, Daejeon (Korea, Republic of)

2010-10-15

With respect to the nuclear security-related multilateral agreements, many states and international societies recognize the importance of evaluating and improving their physical protection systems to ensure that they are capable of achieving the objectives set out in relevant IAEA Nuclear Security Series documents. Under this circumstance, finally, on April 12-13, 2010, US President Obama hosted a Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, DC, to enhance international cooperation to prevent nuclear terrorism, an issue which he has identified as the most immediate and extreme threat to global security. The goals of the Nuclear Security Summit were to come to a common understanding of the threat posed by nuclear terrorism, to agree to effective measures to secure nuclear material, and to prevent nuclear smuggling and terrorism. The Summit focused on the security of nuclear materials, nonproliferation, disarmament, and peaceful nuclear energy. At the summit, the Republic of Korea was chosen as the host of the next Summit in 2012. After President Barack Obama declared the opening of the Summit and explained the purpose of the meeting, he designated Korea as the host of the Second Nuclear Security Summit, which was unanimously approved by the participating leaders. During the Summit, President Lee introduced Korea's measures for the physical protection of nuclear materials and laid out what contributions Korea would make to the international community. He also stated that the North Korean leader would be welcomed at the next summit only if his country made substantial pledges toward nuclear disarmament during the Six-Party Talks and announced that Seoul would host the general assembly of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism in 2011 and would share its expertise and support the Summit's mission by setting up an education and training center on nuclear security in 2014

International Education and Training Centre (Nuclear security and Nonproliferation) and Ideas for Educational Test Facilities in the centre

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Seo, Hyung Min

2010-01-01

With respect to the nuclear security-related multilateral agreements, many states and international societies recognize the importance of evaluating and improving their physical protection systems to ensure that they are capable of achieving the objectives set out in relevant IAEA Nuclear Security Series documents. Under this circumstance, finally, on April 12-13, 2010, US President Obama hosted a Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, DC, to enhance international cooperation to prevent nuclear terrorism, an issue which he has identified as the most immediate and extreme threat to global security. The goals of the Nuclear Security Summit were to come to a common understanding of the threat posed by nuclear terrorism, to agree to effective measures to secure nuclear material, and to prevent nuclear smuggling and terrorism. The Summit focused on the security of nuclear materials, nonproliferation, disarmament, and peaceful nuclear energy. At the summit, the Republic of Korea was chosen as the host of the next Summit in 2012. After President Barack Obama declared the opening of the Summit and explained the purpose of the meeting, he designated Korea as the host of the Second Nuclear Security Summit, which was unanimously approved by the participating leaders. During the Summit, President Lee introduced Korea's measures for the physical protection of nuclear materials and laid out what contributions Korea would make to the international community. He also stated that the North Korean leader would be welcomed at the next summit only if his country made substantial pledges toward nuclear disarmament during the Six-Party Talks and announced that Seoul would host the general assembly of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism in 2011 and would share its expertise and support the Summit's mission by setting up an education and training center on nuclear security in 2014

Mutual Perception of USA and China based on Content-Analysis of Media

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Farida Halmuratovna Autova

2015-12-01

Full Text Available The article evaluates mutual perception of the United States and China in the XXI century, based on content analysis of American and Chinese media. The research methodology includes both content and event analysis. To conduct content analysis we used leading weekly news magazines of US and China - “Newsweek” and “Beijing Review”. The events, limiting the time frame of analysis are Barack Obama's re-election to the second term in 2012, and the entry of Xi Jinping as the chairman of China in 2013. As a result, we have analyzed the issues of each magazine one year before and after the events respectively. Thematic areas covered by articles (politics, economy, culture, as well as stylistic coloring titles of articles are examined. Following the results of the analysis China confidently perceives itself in the international arena. In turn, the US are committed by emphasizing speed and power of the Chinese point out the negative consequences of such a jump (“growing pains”, on the challenges facing China in domestic and foreign policy, in order to create a negative image of China in the minds of American citizens.

Analysis: climate policy in the United States: what economic instrument for a carbon price signal?; Politique climatique des Etats-Unis: quel instrument economique pour un signal-prix carbone?

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2009-03-15

At the time of his election as President of the United States, Barack Obama declared that 'We will make it clear to the world that America is ready to lead to protect our environment'. The 2050 objective of cutting CO{sub 2} emissions by 80% compared to the 1990 level, as affirmed in the election campaign, will involve directing the market in accordance with a carbon price signal that includes the true cost of greenhouse gas emissions so as to establish a policy that is both effective and credible, i.e. likely to lead developing countries into the global effort. An emission allowance market, rather than a carbon tax, should therefore come into being. However, those who advocate the tax - more numerous in academic circles than among political decision-makers - are sharpening up their arguments. In particular, they identify the measures to be taken if we wish to attain an environmental objective and curb social inequalities. Similar arguments could serve as the basis for an international agreement that would strongly incite emerging countries to reduce their emissions while remaining equitable towards them. (author)

FEDERAL SUPPORT OF SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY IN THE UNITED STATES: CURRENT EVOLUTION UNDER THE POLITICAL STRUGGLE

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I. A. Istomin

2016-01-01

Full Text Available 2000’s and 2010’s witnessed diminishing margin of the United States in science and technology. Meanwhile, the U.S. remains a clear leader in this fi eld. Major driving force of the country’s success in the second half of the ХХ century remained assertive federal science policy. The article seeks to identify major trends in evolution of the U.S. science policy and the reasons behind relative decline of the level of budget support of the scientifi c research. The author studies evolution of the policies of George Bush and Barack Obama, as well as the views of Democrats and Republicans in the House of Representatives and the Senate. The article also examines the input into the federal policy of the governmental bodies, which are directly responsible for its implementation, as well as non-governmental organizations, which seek to advocate interests of scientists; it studies rising competition between the executive authorities and legislators for the recognition as a major champion of the academic community as well as American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

America's energy policy in a state of change. An analysis from a national and international viewpoint; Amerikas Energiepolitik im Wandel. Eine Analyse aus nationaler und internationaler Sicht

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Liedtke, Stephan

2011-07-01

It is shown how maintaining a secure and inexpensive energy supply has since long been a declared goal of U.S. American policy, but one that has not met with success up until now. Are there nevertheless signs of a rethinking of energy policy? Why has it been so difficult to date to implement a fundamental change? The present book examines the guidelines of U.S. energy policy at the national level as well as the strategies pursued by the United States to secure its energy supply at the level of foreign policy. The focus of inquiry is on the question as to the means by which the United States are striving to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels and make use of non-fossil resources in their place. The book analyses U.S. energy policy up to the failure in June 2010 of the climate protection and energy law championed by President Barack Obama. It shows with a high degree of topicality to what extent the United States have taken action towards an energy turnaround and what difficulties lie in the way of further reform.

Asia-Pacific from the perspective of the United States: an agenda where commercial and security priorities coexist

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Alfredo Crespo Alcázar

2017-07-01

Full Text Available The Barack Obama cabinets (2008-2012; 2012-2016 entailed a significant shift regarding the issues considered as priorities during the former Republican administration (2000-2008. The priority of fighting against jihadist terrorism was coupled with an approach that gave more importance to diplomacy and international institutions. We should not interpret this phenomenon as the United States giving up the development of its role as a global leader. When it comes to the regional level, the main transformation constituted the new geostrategic and geopolitical importance conferred upon the Asia-Pacific region in detriment of the European Union, for instance. This was due to a variety of factors, some of which arise from the recent past (issues related to security and defense or the present (the economic crisis that the EU could not fight effectively. The new US agenda towards the Asia-Pacific generated reactions of different nature, since some international actors reacted cautiously (China, Russia or the European Union, each of them for different motives. Nevertheless, it was positively regarded by the traditional US allies in the region (Australia, Japan and South Korea.

Reliability of the Core Items in the General Social Survey: Estimates from the Three-Wave Panels, 2006–2014

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Michael Hout

2016-11-01

Full Text Available We used standard and multilevel models to assess the reliability of core items in the General Social Survey panel studies spanning 2006 to 2014. Most of the 293 core items scored well on the measure of reliability: 62 items (21 percent had reliability measures greater than 0.85; another 71 (24 percent had reliability measures between 0.70 and 0.85. Objective items, especially facts about demography and religion, were generally more reliable than subjective items. The economic recession of 2007–2009, the slow recovery afterward, and the election of Barack Obama in 2008 altered the social context in ways that may look like unreliability of items. For example, unemployment status, hours worked, and weeks worked have lower reliability than most work-related items, reflecting the consequences of the recession on the facts of peoples lives. Items regarding racial and gender discrimination and racial stereotypes scored as particularly unreliable, accounting for most of the 15 items with reliability coefficients less than 0.40. Our results allow scholars to more easily take measurement reliability into consideration in their own research, while also highlighting the limitations of these approaches.

Counting addressing method: Command addressable element and extinguishing module

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Ristić Jovan D.

2009-01-01

Full Text Available The specific requirements that appear in addressable fire detection and alarm systems and the shortcomings of the existing addressing methods were discussed. A new method of addressing of detectors was proposed. The basic principles of addressing and responding of a called element are stated. Extinguishing module is specific subsystem in classic fire detection and alarm systems. Appearing of addressable fire detection and alarm systems didn't caused essential change in the concept of extinguishing module because of long calling period of such systems. Addressable fire security system based on counting addressing method reaches high calling rates and enables integrating of the extinguishing module in addressable system. Solutions for command addressable element and integrated extinguishing module are given in this paper. The counting addressing method was developed for specific requirements in fire detection and alarm systems, yet its speed and reliability justifies its use in the acquisition of data on slowly variable parameters under industrial conditions. .

Campanhas Online: o percurso de formação das questões, problemas e configurações a partir da literatura produzida entre 1992 e 2009

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Camilo Aggio

2010-11-01

Full Text Available A utilização de recursos e ferramentas digitais associados à Internet por parte de campanhas eleitorais empreendidas por candidatos e partidos tem ganhado uma importância crescente nos últimos anos, produzindo casos emblemáticos como a eleição de Barack Obama nos Estados Unidos em 2008. O presente artigo tem o propósito de realizar um exercício de organizaçãoda literatura formada em torno das campanhas online, mostrando como as questões, problemas e discussões acerca do tema se modificaram ou se reconfiguraram ao longo dos anos. Ainda que poucos trabalhos tenham sido produzidos no Brasil até agora, o conjunto de questões levantadas para abordar o fenômeno das campanhas online em outros contextos culturais e políticos é essencial para a reflexão sobre os potenciais e obstáculos dessa comunicação política digital no contexto brasileiro. A metodologia consistiu no levantamento de bibliografia e em uma classificação desses trabalhos de acordo com o ano do corpus de análise. Nossos resultados indicam que, à medida da passagem dos anos, o discurso, as preocupações e as experiências empíricas relacionadas às campanhas online direcionaram seu foco para os potenciais de mobilização, engajamento e ativismo relacionados às características da web 2.0, reconfigurando os potenciais de provimento de informações não mediadas pelos media noticiosos e interatividade no plano dialógico característicos da fase dedicada aos web sites de campanha.The growing importance of the uses of digital tools and devices related to the internet by candidates, parties and political campaign's crews in almost twenty years of the online campaign's existence produced emblematic cases like the election of Barack Obama in 2008. This paper organizes the major questions, discussions and contributions of the online campaign's literature. The whole work here is designed to organize, in a chronological manner, the advances of the preoccupations

77 FR 25775 - Small Business Investment Companies-Early Stage SBICs

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2012-05-01

... expand entrepreneurs' access to capital and encourage innovation as part of President Obama's Start-Up... research, and addressing barriers to success for entrepreneurs and small businesses. II. Management... single year could substantially increase program risk. Therefore, SBA reserves the right, when licensing...

A Comparative Analysis of the Influence of China and the United States in the Southeast Asia Region under the Obama Administration

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Wu Xue

2015-12-01

Full Text Available With China’s rapid rise and the implementation of the Obama Administration’s ”Return to the Asia Pacific” strategy, both China and the United States have significantly changed their relations with Southeast Asia in recent years. Also, the influence of China and the United States in this region has changed too. Both China and the United States have strengthened relations with the Southeast Asia region in terms of political, economic, military, cultural and other aspects, and their influence has also risen in varying degrees. In comparison, China has a greater impact on the economy of Southeast Asia, while the US has more influence on its military and security. China vigorously implements the neighborhood diplomacy featuring amity, sincerity, mutual benefit and inclusiveness. The United States actively promotes the Asia-Pacific rebalancing strategy. The Southeast Asian countries continue to choose the balance of power strategy, relying on China regarding the economy, relying on the United States regarding the security. This has resulted in the continuous game between China and the United States in the Southeast Asian region.

The War on Drugs: A New Strategy

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2010-03-01

the use of psychoactive substances .24 In what public health advocates call a positive move in the right direction, President Obama recently signed a...Strategic Studies Degree. The views expressed in this student academic research paper are those of the author and do not reflect the official... PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) Department of Military Strategy, Planning, and Operations 8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT

77 FR 25042 - Small Business Investment Companies-Early Stage SBICs

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2012-04-27

... entrepreneurs' access to capital and encourage innovation as part of President Obama's Start-Up America... startups and small firms, accelerate research, and address barriers to success for entrepreneurs and small... and limit the initiative's impact on leverage fees, although fee increases will still be necessary. On...

La continuidad del discurso neoconservador frente a la política exterior de la administración Obama

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Manuel Iglesias

2015-05-01

Full Text Available A lo largo del pasado sexenio, la doctrina neoconservadora se ha convertido en la voz más beligerante contra la política exterior de la Administración Obama. Este artículo se propone analizar el contenido de la crítica neoconservadora, una crítica radical, pues no se limita a un disenso menor en torno a determinadas áreas temáticas o regionales de la política exterior estadounidense, sino que se presenta como un rechazo frontal tanto a sus fundamentos teóricos como a su implementación práctica. De este modo, se verá que el neoconservadurismo continúa firmemente apegado a sus principios, con un discurso que mantiene como eje su particular concepción del excepcionalismo americano. El neoconservadurismo sigue defendiendo la validez de sus ideas centrales y se reivindica como la mejor doctrina de política exterior posible para los EE.UU., la única adecuada para evitar su declive internacional y mantener el "orden mundial americano" en las próximas décadas. Ello nos permitirá observar cómo, pese a su actual falta de influencia política, el mismo sigue gozando de una vitalidad que contradice las recurrentes afirmaciones sobre su desaparición.

Defense.gov Special Report: Fort Hood Shooting

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identify possible insider threats, Army Secretary John M. McHugh told lawmakers. Story Obama: Soldiers ," Army Secretary John M. McHugh told lawmakers. Story President Praises Swift Response to Fort Hood Remarks on Fort Hood Shooting at White House McHugh, Odierno Address Fort Hood Shooting Before Congress

76 FR 8754 - DHS Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee

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2011-02-15

... meeting may end early if the Committee has completed its business. ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in... presentations on the Obama Administration's cybersecurity efforts, on United States Citizenship and Immigration... http://www.dhs.gov/privacy . Please note that the meeting may end early if all business is completed...