PAKET UMROH BULAN FEBRUARI MARET APRIL MEI 2018

Mari Lakukan Move On ala Rosululloh

Ooo .. jadi kamu galau karena semua masalah masalah kamu ...???

OK, deh Guys ... Asal kamu tahu aja, ketika masalah menggalaukanmu ... Langit bumi dan benda benda langit gak peduli tuh, mereka tugasnya berotasi .. yah muter-muter terus tuh ... Gak ada istilah "langit ikut menangis karena kalian galau". Udah lah bro .... Let's MOVE ON!

Nih dengar ya ... Kalau kalian Sedih ...

Bumi tetap berrotasi selama 23-24jam sehari dan berrevolusi 365-366 hari dalam setahun ...

Surga Neraka masih beroperasi

Alam kubur juga gak tutup

Malaikat Rokib Atid juga gak liburan mencatat amal kalian, Guys :)

Yang masih Galau Move On yuk .. :)

BTW, kalo ngomongin masalah Move on. Ternyata istilah Move on sudah ada lho dari zaman Nabi Muhammad SAW.

Mau Tau Move on Ala Rosululloh SAW ?

Jadi ceritanya gini sodarah, Nabi kita Muhammad SAW ketika menerima wahyu pertama, gak ada yang percaya selain Sang Istri tercinta Bunda Khadijah R.A dan Abah Abu Bakar Ash-Shidiq A.S bahkan dari sanak family beliau banyak yang meremehkan bahkan merintangi. Tapi, nabi Muhammad gak serta merta galau begitu saja, rintangan itu justru membuat Beliau semakin bersemangat untuk memperjuangkan kebenaran ini, Gan.

Makin lama pengikut Nabi Muhammad SAW semakin banyak, walau kebanyakan adalah dari kalangan miskin dan budak. Melihat fenomena ini, paman nabi Muhammad yang benci sekali dengan Islam melancarkan serangan serangan yang membahayakan. Bahkan, memerintahkan agar Nabi ditangkap dalam keadaan hidup atau mati.

Nah, akhirnya inilah saatnya Nabi Muhammad ber-Move on Alias Hijrah dari Mekkah ke Madinah

Dan Allahpun berfirman, " Dan orang-orang yang berhijrah karena Allah sesudah mereka dianiaya, pasti Kami akan memberikan tempat yang bagus kepada mereka di dunia. Dan sesungguhnya pahala di akhirat adalah lebih besar, kalau mereka mengetahui," ( 16 : 41 )

Nabi Muhammad SAW dan awalul mukminin Muhajirinpun berhijrah dengan niat karena Allah, seperti yang difirmankan Allah :

"(Juga) bagi orang fakir yang berhijrah yang diusir dari kampung halaman dan dari harta benda mereka (karena) mencari karunia dari Allah dan keridhaan-Nya dan mereka menolong Allah dan Rasul-Nya. Mereka itulah orang-orang yang benar" ( 59 : 9 )

Dan, apakah setelah Nabi besar kita move on menjadi tambah hina? Ohh, tentu tidak ... Bahkan pada tahun 8 H Nabi Muhammad SAW berhasil melakukan pendobrakan yang luar biasa besar pada kampung halamannya , Makkah, tanpa pertumpahan darah yang sering kita kenang dengan peristiwa "FATHUL MAKKAH" Yang mana .... :

Bangsa Quraish ketakutan menyaksikan ribuan pasukan

berbusana cinta dan akhlaq mulia

Dipimpin rosulillah Sollaullohu Alaihi wasallam

Menaklukkan Tuhan Tuhan kebatilan

Dengan membaca Al-Qur'an .... ( Firman Tuhan )

Masjidil Harom penuh manusia takut baginda

Karena telah berdosa

Namun Baginda menabur cinta

rahmat dan ampunannya ...

( H. Shobirun - Pengasuh Ponpes Mulya Abadi )

Selain itu hikmah dari Hijroh alias Move on itu adalah bersaudaranya kaum Muhajirin dan Anshor ( Hmm too tuit tekali yah ).

Buat kita ... Move on berarti berhijrah dari dosa menuju pahala, move on dari yang batal menuju yang benar, move on dari yang awalnya buruk menjadi baik daaan seterusnyaaa ....

Tapi jangan lupa ... Hijroh atau Move on harus karena Allah yaa ... seperti yang diriwayatkan Bukhori

" Dari Muhammad bin Ibrahim At Taimi, bahwa dia pernah mendengar [Alqamah bin Waqash Al Laitsi] berkata; saya pernah mendengar [Umar bin Al Khaththab] diatas mimbar berkata; saya mendengar Rasulullah shallallahu 'alaihi wasallam bersabda: "Semua perbuatan tergantung niatnya, dan (balasan) bagi tiap-tiap orang (tergantung) apa yang diniatkan; Barangsiapa niat hijrahnya karena dunia yang ingin digapainya atau karena seorang perempuan yang ingin dinikahinya, maka hijrahnya adalah kepada apa dia diniatkan"

Nah, Rosululloh kita udah cukup jadi uswatun hasanah kan buat kita ... So, whatta ya waitin' fo ? Move On forward ala Rosululloh yuk ... ( bukaaan, maksudnya bukan disuruh pindah kewarganegaraan lho ya .. )

Move on ala Rosululloh yang menghadapi cobaan, rintangan dan kegalauan hidup dengan semangat, sabar, dan pantang menyerah ^^.

Itu lhoo ... macam Abah yang punya cantolan "Barongan barongan mundur ... Anget anget maju"

( Rojo Gandul ) itu lhoo hoho ...

Kalo kalian punya rencana A dan gak berhasil .... tenang abjad kan ada 26, masih ada rencana A, B, C, D ...dst. sampe Z. hehe :P

Sumber: Dika Syahida/LDII

Editor:Liwon Maulana(galipat)

Hati-hati, kurang vitamin D sebabkan kerusakan pada otak!

Saco-Indonesia.com - Vitamin D tak hanya baik untuk jantung dan tulang , tetapi juga penting untuk kesehatan organ dan jaringan dalam tubuh, terutama untuk kesehatan otak. Sebuah penelitian terbaru mengungkap bahwa kekurangan vitamin D bisa menyebabkan kerusakan pada otak.

Penelitian yang dilakukan oleh University of Kentucky menunjukkan bahwa tikus yang diberikan makanan rendah vitamin D secara berkala akan mengalami kerusakan pada oraknya. Tikus-tikus eksperimen itu juga mengalami penurunan kemampuan kognitif, ingatan, serta kemampuan untuk belajar.

"Biasanya kekurangan vitamin D terjadi pada manula atau pada orang berusia pertengahan. Vitamin D penting untuk mencegah kerusakan akibat radikal bebas pada otak," ungkap ketua peneliti Allan Butterfield, seperti dilansir oleh Science Daily (02/12).

Sebelumnya, penelitian lain juga menemukan bahwa kurang vitamin D bisa menyebabkan penyakit Alzheimer serta berkaitan dengan penyakit jantung dan beberapa jenis kanker. Butterfield merekomendasikan agar manula atau orang dewasa mengetahui tingkat vitamin D pada tubuh mereka.

Jika tingkat vitamin D tergolong rendah, mereka harus mulai mengonsumsi makanan yang kaya vitamin D atau mengonsumsi suplemen vitamin D. Tak hanya itu, berjemur selama 10 - 15 menit di bawah matahari juga bisa membantu menambah asupan vitamin D dan menjaga kesehatan otak.

Editor : Liwon Maulana

4 KEMENTERIAN JANJI TAK KORUPSI

saco-indonesia.com, Empat kementerian telah menandatangi Surat Keputusan Bersama (SKB) untuk dapat menjalankan kampanye antikorupsi. Keempat kemeterian itu adalah Kementerian Komunikasi dan Informatika, Kementerian BUMN, Kementerian Dalam Negeri dan Kementerian PAN-RB.

Empat kementerian itu sepakat untuk dapat melaksanakan kampanye antikorupsi sesuai dengan perundang-undangan serta menetapkan aksi kampaye antikorupsi sebagaimana yang telah tercantum dalam lampiran SKB.

"Memasuki periode ke-2 pemerintahan Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, pemerintah semakin intensif dalam menjalankan aksi-aksi antikorupsi. Hal itu telah tercermin sejak keluarnya Inpres Nomor 9 tahun 2011 tentang Rencana Aksi Pencegahan dan Pemberantasan Korupsi," kata  Menkominfo, Tifatul Sembiring, di Gedung Kementerian Kominfo, Jakarta Pusat, Senin (23/12/2013).

Dijelaskannya, program kerjasama tersebut sudah dimulai hari ini dan tak mengenal batas akhir. "Meski ganti menteri dan presiden, kerjasama ini akan tetap berjalan," terangnya.

Menurut dia, Kemenkominfo setidaknya juga sudah menjalankan dua aksi kampanye antikorupsi. Pertama, sosialisasi pendidikan budaya antikorupsi untuk tingkat pemerintah daerah dan kedua, pelatihan untuk kampanye antikorupsi.

Hadir dalam kesempatan itu Ketua Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK) Abraham Samad. "Kami juga ingin memastikan agar tiap lembaga bisa memperbaiki sistem. Karena sistem manajemen yang sedang berlangsung itu terkadang memproduksi kegiatan korupsi," kata Samad.

Dengan penandatanganan itu, Samad juga berharap bisa membuat suatu sistem yang mencegah produksi korupsi. "Ada beberapa item-item yang akan kita laksanakan ke depan, seperti yang dijelaskan tadi," tukasnya.

Editor : Dian Sukmawati

TANAH SUCI YNG DAMAI

Memasuki kota Makkah dan mengerjakan ibadah di Masjidil Haram sama halnya dengan memasuki alam kedamaian yang penuh ketentraman. Di tempat itu Allah SWT mencurahkan segala rahmat dan kasih sayang kepada hamba-hamba-Nya yang taat. Tidak salah kemudian jika para jamaah haji yang sudah pulang ke kampung halamannya merindukan kembali kota Makkah pada tahun-tahun berikutnya.

Bisa dibayangkan, tidak ada satu tempat pun di dunia ini yang menjadi lokasi berkumpulnya umat sedunia. Mereka datang dari berbagai penjuru dunia dengan membawa satu keimanan yang sama dan melakukan ritual- ritual yang sama.

Jutaan umat muslim di Makkah dan Madinah merasa bersaudara. Persaudaraan mereka diikat oleh kesamaan keyakinan bahwa Allah SWT adalah satu-satunya Tuhan yang layak disembah dan Muhammad SAW adalah Utusan-Nya.

Sebagai saudara, tidak ada sikap yang paling patut untuk ditunjukkan selain sikap saling menyayangi. Bagaimana mereka tidak saling menyayangi jika Allah SWT melarang perkataan kotor dan perbuatan keji selama mereka melaksanakan ibadah haji atau umrah? Kebencian sebagai lawan dari cinta kasih sama sekali dilarang di tanah yang diberkati ini.

Sumber : Republika.co.id

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JENAZAH KAKEK YANG DIBUANG DARI AMBULANS DIMAKAMKAN

saco-indonesia.com, Jenazah Edi, kakek yang dibuang ambulans di Lampung akhirnya telah dimakamkan. Sudah lima hari jenazah Edi disimpan di lemari pendingin gedung instalasi forensik dan kamar mayat RSUD Abdul Muluk Lampung. Edi telah meninggal dunia pada Rabu (22/1) lalu.

Jenazah Edi telah dimakamkan di TPU milik rumah sakit setempat di Jagabaya II, Kecamatan Way Halim, Bandar Lampung pagi tadi, Senin (27/1).

Dalam prosesi pemakaman tersebut, nampak beberapa orang yang telah mengenal almarhum semasa hidup dan sejumlah pegawai rumah sakit yang telah mengantar jenazah dari rumah rumah sakit menuju tempat peristirahatannya terakhir.

Hadi, salah satu staf bagian instalasi forensik dan kamar mayat RSUD Abdul Muluk Bandar Lampung telah mengungkapkan, pemakaman ini juga sudah sesuai protap dari rumah sakit.

Sebelum dimakamkan, almarhum telah mendapatkan pengurusan jenazah yang sesuai syariat Islam, sebagaimana agama yang telah dianut oleh kakek malang tersebut.

"Pemakaman ini juga sesuai protap rumah sakit. Semua biaya pemakaman ditanggung oleh pihak rumah sakit," ungkapnya, Senin (27/1).

Almarhum Edi juga merupakan korban penelantaran sebuah ambulans yang telah membuangnya di sebuah gardu di Sukadanaham, Tanjung Karang Barat, Lampung, Senin (20/1). Sehari kemudian, Selasa (21/1), almarhum yang saat itu masih hidup dengan infus yang terpasang di lengannya, telah dilarikan ke RSUD A Dadi Tjokorodipo Bandar Lampung.

Kondisinya makin parah, almarhum kemudian telah dirujuk ke RSUD Abdul Muluk. Namun, nyawanya tak tertolong sehingga meninggal dunia di rumah sakit tersebut setelah sehari mendapat perawatan.

Editor : Dian Sukmawati

Maya Plisetskaya, Ballerina Who Embodied Bolshoi, Dies at 89

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With Iran Talks, a Tangled Path to Ending Syria’s War

UNITED NATIONS — Wearing pinstripes and a pince-nez, Staffan de Mistura, the United Nations envoy for Syria, arrived at the Security Council one Tuesday afternoon in February and announced that President Bashar al-Assad had agreed to halt airstrikes over Aleppo. Would the rebels, Mr. de Mistura suggested, agree to halt their shelling?

What he did not announce, but everyone knew by then, was that the Assad government had begun a military offensive to encircle opposition-held enclaves in Aleppo and that fierce fighting was underway. It would take only a few days for rebel leaders, having pushed back Syrian government forces, to outright reject Mr. de Mistura’s proposed freeze in the fighting, dooming the latest diplomatic overture on Syria.

Diplomacy is often about appearing to be doing something until the time is ripe for a deal to be done.

Now, with Mr. Assad’s forces having suffered a string of losses on the battlefield and the United States reaching at least a partial rapprochement with Mr. Assad’s main backer, Iran, Mr. de Mistura is changing course. Starting Monday, he is set to hold a series of closed talks in Geneva with the warring sides and their main supporters. Iran will be among them.

In an interview at United Nations headquarters last week, Mr. de Mistura hinted that the changing circumstances, both military and diplomatic, may have prompted various backers of the war to question how much longer the bloodshed could go on.

“Will that have an impact in accelerating the willingness for a political solution? We need to test it,” he said. “The Geneva consultations may be a good umbrella for testing that. It’s an occasion for asking everyone, including the government, if there is any new way that they are looking at a political solution, as they too claim they want.”

He said he would have a better assessment at the end of June, when he expects to wrap up his consultations. That coincides with the deadline for a final agreement in the Iran nuclear talks.

Whether a nuclear deal with Iran will pave the way for a new opening on peace talks in Syria remains to be seen. Increasingly, though, world leaders are explicitly linking the two, with the European Union’s top diplomat, Federica Mogherini, suggesting last week that a nuclear agreement could spur Tehran to play “a major but positive role in Syria.”

It could hardly come soon enough. Now in its fifth year, the Syrian war has claimed 220,000 lives, prompted an exodus of more than three million refugees and unleashed jihadist groups across the region. “This conflict is producing a question mark in many — where is it leading and whether this can be sustained,” Mr. de Mistura said.

Part Italian, part Swedish, Mr. de Mistura has worked with the United Nations for more than 40 years, but he is more widely known for his dapper style than for any diplomatic coups. Syria is by far the toughest assignment of his career — indeed, two of the organization’s most seasoned diplomats, Lakhdar Brahimi and Kofi Annan, tried to do the job and gave up — and critics have wondered aloud whether Mr. de Mistura is up to the task.

He served as a United Nations envoy in Afghanistan and Iraq, and before that in Lebanon, where a former minister recalled, with some scorn, that he spent many hours sunbathing at a private club in the hills above Beirut. Those who know him say he has a taste for fine suits and can sometimes speak too soon and too much, just as they point to his diplomatic missteps and hyperbole.

They cite, for instance, a news conference in October, when he raised the specter of Srebrenica, where thousands of Muslims were massacred in 1995 during the Balkans war, in warning that the Syrian border town of Kobani could fall to the Islamic State. In February, he was photographed at a party in Damascus, the Syrian capital, celebrating the anniversary of the Iranian revolution just as Syrian forces, aided by Iran, were pummeling rebel-held suburbs of Damascus; critics seized on that as evidence of his coziness with the government.

Mouin Rabbani, who served briefly as the head of Mr. de Mistura’s political affairs unit and has since emerged as one of his most outspoken critics, said Mr. de Mistura did not have the background necessary for the job. “This isn’t someone well known for his political vision or political imagination, and his closest confidants lack the requisite knowledge and experience,” Mr. Rabbani said.

As a deputy foreign minister in the Italian government, Mr. de Mistura was tasked in 2012 with freeing two Italian marines detained in India for shooting at Indian fishermen. He made 19 trips to India, to little effect. One marine was allowed to return to Italy for medical reasons; the other remains in India.

He said he initially turned down the Syria job when the United Nations secretary general approached him last August, only to change his mind the next day, after a sleepless, guilt-ridden night.

Mr. de Mistura compared his role in Syria to that of a doctor faced with a terminally ill patient. His goal in brokering a freeze in the fighting, he said, was to alleviate suffering. He settled on Aleppo as the location for its “fame,” he said, a decision that some questioned, considering that Aleppo was far trickier than the many other lesser-known towns where activists had negotiated temporary local cease-fires.

“Everybody, at least in Europe, are very familiar with the value of Aleppo,” Mr. de Mistura said. “So I was using that as an icebreaker.”

The cease-fire negotiations, to which he had devoted six months, fell apart quickly because of the government’s military offensive in Aleppo the very day of his announcement at the Security Council. Privately, United Nations diplomats said Mr. de Mistura had been manipulated. To this, Mr. de Mistura said only that he was “disappointed and concerned.”

Tarek Fares, a former rebel fighter, said after a recent visit to Aleppo that no Syrian would admit publicly to supporting Mr. de Mistura’s cease-fire proposal. “If anyone said they went to a de Mistura meeting in Gaziantep, they would be arrested,” is how he put it, referring to the Turkish city where negotiations between the two sides were held.

Secretary General Ban Ki-moon remains staunchly behind Mr. de Mistura’s efforts. His defenders point out that he is at the center of one of the world’s toughest diplomatic problems, charged with mediating a conflict in which two of the world’s most powerful nations — Russia, which supports Mr. Assad, and the United States, which has called for his ouster — remain deadlocked.

R. Nicholas Burns, a former State Department official who now teaches at Harvard, credited Mr. de Mistura for trying to negotiate a cease-fire even when the chances of success were exceedingly small — and the chances of a political deal even smaller. For his efforts to work, Professor Burns argued, the world powers will first have to come to an agreement of their own.

“He needs the help of outside powers,” he said. “It starts with backers of Assad. That’s Russia and Iran. De Mistura is there, waiting.”

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Ghostly Voices From Thomas Edison’s Dolls Can Now Be Heard

Though Robin and Joan Rolfs owned two rare talking dolls manufactured by Thomas Edison’s phonograph company in 1890, they did not dare play the wax cylinder records tucked inside each one.

The Rolfses, longtime collectors of Edison phonographs, knew that if they turned the cranks on the dolls’ backs, the steel phonograph needle might damage or destroy the grooves of the hollow, ring-shaped cylinder. And so for years, the dolls sat side by side inside a display cabinet, bearers of a message from the dawn of sound recording that nobody could hear.

In 1890, Edison’s dolls were a flop; production lasted only six weeks. Children found them difficult to operate and more scary than cuddly. The recordings inside, which featured snippets of nursery rhymes, wore out quickly.

Yet sound historians say the cylinders were the first entertainment records ever made, and the young girls hired to recite the rhymes were the world’s first recording artists.

Year after year, the Rolfses asked experts if there might be a safe way to play the recordings. Then a government laboratory developed a method to play fragile records without touching them.

The technique relies on a microscope to create images of the grooves in exquisite detail. A computer approximates — with great accuracy — the sounds that would have been created by a needle moving through those grooves.

In 2014, the technology was made available for the first time outside the laboratory.

“The fear all along is that we don’t want to damage these records. We don’t want to put a stylus on them,” said Jerry Fabris, the curator of the Thomas Edison Historical Park in West Orange, N.J. “Now we have the technology to play them safely.”

Last month, the Historical Park posted online three never-before-heard Edison doll recordings, including the two from the Rolfses’ collection. “There are probably more out there, and we’re hoping people will now get them digitized,” Mr. Fabris said.

The technology, which is known as Irene (Image, Reconstruct, Erase Noise, Etc.), was developed by the particle physicist Carl Haber and the engineer Earl Cornell at Lawrence Berkeley. Irene extracts sound from cylinder and disk records. It can also reconstruct audio from recordings so badly damaged they were deemed unplayable.

“We are now hearing sounds from history that I did not expect to hear in my lifetime,” Mr. Fabris said.

The Rolfses said they were not sure what to expect in August when they carefully packed their two Edison doll cylinders, still attached to their motors, and drove from their home in Hortonville, Wis., to the National Document Conservation Center in Andover, Mass. The center had recently acquired Irene technology.

Cylinders carry sound in a spiral groove cut by a phonograph recording needle that vibrates up and down, creating a surface made of tiny hills and valleys. In the Irene set-up, a microscope perched above the shaft takes thousands of high-resolution images of small sections of the grooves.

Stitched together, the images provide a topographic map of the cylinder’s surface, charting changes in depth as small as one five-hundredth the thickness of a human hair. Pitch, volume and timbre are all encoded in the hills and valleys and the speed at which the record is played.

At the conservation center, the preservation specialist Mason Vander Lugt attached one of the cylinders to the end of a rotating shaft. Huddled around a computer screen, the Rolfses first saw the wiggly waveform generated by Irene. Then came the digital audio. The words were at first indistinct, but as Mr. Lugt filtered out more of the noise, the rhyme became clearer.

“That was the Eureka moment,” Mr. Rolfs said.

In 1890, a girl in Edison’s laboratory had recited:

There was a little girl,

And she had a little curl

Right in the middle of her forehead.

When she was good,

She was very, very good.

But when she was bad, she was horrid.

Recently, the conservation center turned up another surprise.

In 2010, the Woody Guthrie Foundation received 18 oversize phonograph disks from an anonymous donor. No one knew if any of the dirt-stained recordings featured Guthrie, but Tiffany Colannino, then the foundation’s archivist, had stored them unplayed until she heard about Irene.

Last fall, the center extracted audio from one of the records, labeled “Jam Session 9” and emailed the digital file to Ms. Colannino.

“I was just sitting in my dining room, and the next thing I know, I’m hearing Woody,” she said. In between solo performances of “Ladies Auxiliary,” “Jesus Christ,” and “Dead or Alive,” Guthrie tells jokes, offers some back story, and makes the audience laugh. “It is quintessential Guthrie,” Ms. Colannino said.

The Rolfses’ dolls are back in the display cabinet in Wisconsin. But with audio stored on several computers, they now have a permanent voice.

Top News China’s Intents Are Questioned as It Builds in Antarctica

HOBART, Tasmania — Few places seem out of reach for China’s leader, Xi Jinping, who has traveled from European capitals to obscure Pacific and Caribbean islands in pursuit of his nation’s strategic interests.

So perhaps it was not surprising when he turned up last fall in this city on the edge of the Southern Ocean to put down a long-distance marker in another faraway region, Antarctica, 2,000 miles south of this Australian port.

Standing on the deck of an icebreaker that ferries Chinese scientists from this last stop before the frozen continent, Mr. Xi pledged that China would continue to expand in one of the few places on earth that remain unexploited by humans.

He signed a five-year accord with the Australian government that allows Chinese vessels and, in the future, aircraft to resupply for fuel and food before heading south. That will help secure easier access to a region that is believed to have vast oil and mineral resources; huge quantities of high-protein sea life; and for times of possible future dire need, fresh water contained in icebergs.

It was not until 1985, about seven decades after Robert Scott and Roald Amundsen raced to the South Pole, that a team representing Beijing hoisted the Chinese flag over the nation’s first Antarctic research base, the Great Wall Station on King George Island.

But now China seems determined to catch up. As it has bolstered spending on Antarctic research, and as the early explorers, especially the United States and Australia, confront stagnant budgets, there is growing concern about its intentions.

China’s operations on the continent — it opened its fourth research station last year, chose a site for a fifth, and is investing in a second icebreaker and new ice-capable planes and helicopters — are already the fastest growing of the 52 signatories to the Antarctic Treaty. That gentlemen’s agreement reached in 1959 bans military activity on the continent and aims to preserve it as one of the world’s last wildernesses; a related pact prohibits mining.

But Mr. Xi’s visit was another sign that China is positioning itself to take advantage of the continent’s resource potential when the treaty expires in 2048 — or in the event that it is ripped up before, Chinese and Australian experts say.

“So far, our research is natural-science based, but we know there is more and more concern about resource security,” said Yang Huigen, director general of the Polar Research Institute of China, who accompanied Mr. Xi last November on his visit to Hobart and stood with him on the icebreaker, Xue Long, or Snow Dragon.

With that in mind, the polar institute recently opened a new division devoted to the study of resources, law, geopolitics and governance in Antarctica and the Arctic, Mr. Yang said.

Australia, a strategic ally of the United States that has strong economic relations with China, is watching China’s buildup in the Antarctic with a mix of gratitude — China’s presence offers support for Australia’s Antarctic science program, which is short of cash — and wariness.

“We should have no illusions about the deeper agenda — one that has not even been agreed to by Chinese scientists but is driven by Xi, and most likely his successors,” said Peter Jennings, executive director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and a former senior official in the Australian Department of Defense.

“This is part of a broader pattern of a mercantilist approach all around the world,” Mr. Jennings added. “A big driver of Chinese policy is to secure long-term energy supply and food supply.”

That approach was evident last month when a large Chinese agriculture enterprise announced an expansion of its fishing operations around Antarctica to catch more krill — small, protein-rich crustaceans that are abundant in Antarctic waters.

“The Antarctic is a treasure house for all human beings, and China should go there and share,” Liu Shenli, the chairman of the China National Agricultural Development Group, told China Daily, a state-owned newspaper. China would aim to fish up to two million tons of krill a year, he said, a substantial increase from what it currently harvests.

Because sovereignty over Antarctica is unclear, nations have sought to strengthen their claims over the ice-covered land by building research bases and naming geographic features. China’s fifth station will put it within reach of the six American facilities, and ahead of Australia’s three.

Chinese mappers have also given Chinese names to more than 300 sites, compared with the thousands of locations on the continent with English names.

In the unspoken competition for Antarctica’s future, scientific achievement can also translate into influence. Chinese scientists are driving to be the first to drill and recover an ice core containing tiny air bubbles that provide a record of climate change stretching as far back as 1.5 million years. It is an expensive and delicate effort at which others, including the European Union and Australia, have failed.

In a breakthrough a decade ago, European scientists extracted an ice core nearly two miles long that revealed 800,000 years of climate history. But finding an ice core going back further would allow scientists to examine a change in the earth’s climate cycles believed to have occurred 900,000 to 1.2 million years ago.

China is betting it has found the best location to drill, at an area called Dome A, or Dome Argus, the highest point on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Though it is considered one of the coldest places on the planet, with temperatures of 130 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, a Chinese expedition explored the area in 2005 and established a research station in 2009.

“The international community has drilled in lots of places, but no luck so far,” said Xiao Cunde, a member of the first party to reach the site and the deputy director of the Institute for Climate Change at the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences. “We think at Dome A we will have a straight shot at the one-million-year ice core.”

Mr. Xiao said China had already begun drilling and hoped to find what scientists are looking for in four to five years.

To support its Antarctic aspirations, China is building a sophisticated $300 million icebreaker that is expected to be ready in a few years, said Xia Limin, deputy director of the Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration in Beijing. It has also bought a high-tech fixed-wing aircraft, outfitted in the United States, for taking sensitive scientific soundings from the ice.

China has chosen the site for its fifth research station at Inexpressible Island, named by a group of British explorers who were stranded at the desolate site in 1912 and survived the winter by excavating a small ice cave.

Mr. Xia said the inhospitable spot was ideal because China did not have a presence in that part of Antarctica, and because the rocky site did not have much snow, making it relatively cheap to build there.

Anne-Marie Brady, a professor of political science at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and the author of a soon-to-be-released book, “China as a Polar Great Power,” said Chinese scientists also believed they had a good chance of finding mineral and energy resources near the site.

“China is playing a long game in Antarctica and keeping other states guessing about its true intentions and interests are part of its poker hand,” she said. But she noted that China’s interest in finding minerals was presented “loud and clear to domestic audiences” as the main reason it was investing in Antarctica.

Because commercial drilling is banned, estimates of energy and mineral resources in Antarctica rely on remote sensing data and comparisons with similar geological environments elsewhere, said Millard F. Coffin, executive director of the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies in Hobart.

But the difficulty of extraction in such severe conditions and uncertainty about future commodity prices make it unlikely that China or any country would defy the ban on mining anytime soon.

Tourism, however, is already booming. Travelers from China are still a relatively small contingent in the Antarctic compared with the more than 13,000 Americans who visited in 2013, and as yet there are no licensed Chinese tour operators.

But that is about to change, said Anthony Bergin, deputy director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. “I understand very soon there will be Chinese tourists on Chinese vessels with all-Chinese crew in the Antarctic,” he said.

Mike Phillips, Half of Kentucky’s ‘Twin Towers’ of Basketball, Dies at 59

The 6-foot-10 Phillips played alongside the 6-11 Rick Robey on the Wildcats team that won the 1978 N.C.A.A. men’s basketball title.

Rolf Smedvig, Trumpeter in the Empire Brass, Dies at 62

A former member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Smedvig helped found the wide-ranging Empire Brass quintet.

Dave Goldberg Was Lifelong Women’s Advocate

Even as a high school student, Dave Goldberg was urging female classmates to speak up. As a young dot-com executive, he had one girlfriend after another, but fell hard for a driven friend named Sheryl Sandberg, pining after her for years. After they wed, Mr. Goldberg pushed her to negotiate hard for high compensation and arranged his schedule so that he could be home with their children when she was traveling for work.

Mr. Goldberg, who died unexpectedly on Friday, was a genial, 47-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur who built his latest company, SurveyMonkey, from a modest enterprise to one recently valued by investors at $2 billion. But he was also perhaps the signature male feminist of his era: the first major chief executive in memory to spur his wife to become as successful in business as he was, and an essential figure in “Lean In,” Ms. Sandberg’s blockbuster guide to female achievement.

Over the weekend, even strangers were shocked at his death, both because of his relatively young age and because they knew of him as the living, breathing, car-pooling center of a new philosophy of two-career marriage.

“They were very much the role models for what this next generation wants to grapple with,” said Debora L. Spar, the president of Barnard College. In a 2011 commencement speech there, Ms. Sandberg told the graduates that whom they married would be their most important career decision.

In the play “The Heidi Chronicles,” revived on Broadway this spring, a male character who is the founder of a media company says that “I don’t want to come home to an A-plus,” explaining that his ambitions require him to marry an unthreatening helpmeet. Mr. Goldberg grew up to hold the opposite view, starting with his upbringing in progressive Minneapolis circles where “there was woman power in every aspect of our lives,” Jeffrey Dachis, a childhood friend, said in an interview.

The Goldberg parents read “The Feminine Mystique” together — in fact, Mr. Goldberg’s father introduced it to his wife, according to Ms. Sandberg’s book. In 1976, Paula Goldberg helped found a nonprofit to aid children with disabilities. Her husband, Mel, a law professor who taught at night, made the family breakfast at home.

Later, when Dave Goldberg was in high school and his prom date, Jill Chessen, stayed silent in a politics class, he chastised her afterward. He said, “You need to speak up,” Ms. Chessen recalled in an interview. “They need to hear your voice.”

Years later, when Karin Gilford, an early employee at Launch Media, Mr. Goldberg’s digital music company, became a mother, he knew exactly what to do. He kept giving her challenging assignments, she recalled, but also let her work from home one day a week. After Yahoo acquired Launch, Mr. Goldberg became known for distributing roses to all the women in the office on Valentine’s Day.

Ms. Sandberg, who often describes herself as bossy-in-a-good-way, enchanted him when they became friendly in the mid-1990s. He “was smitten with her,” Ms. Chessen remembered. Ms. Sandberg was dating someone else, but Mr. Goldberg still hung around, even helping her and her then-boyfriend move, recalled Bob Roback, a friend and co-founder of Launch. When they finally married in 2004, friends remember thinking how similar the two were, and that the qualities that might have made Ms. Sandberg intimidating to some men drew Mr. Goldberg to her even more.

Over the next decade, Mr. Goldberg and Ms. Sandberg pioneered new ways of capturing information online, had a son and then a daughter, became immensely wealthy, and hashed out their who-does-what-in-this-marriage issues. Mr. Goldberg’s commute from the Bay Area to Los Angeles became a strain, so he relocated, later joking that he “lost the coin flip” of where they would live. He paid the bills, she planned the birthday parties, and both often left their offices at 5:30 so they could eat dinner with their children before resuming work afterward.

Friends in Silicon Valley say they were careful to conduct their careers separately, politely refusing when outsiders would ask one about the other’s work: Ms. Sandberg’s role building Facebook into an information and advertising powerhouse, and Mr. Goldberg at SurveyMonkey, which made polling faster and cheaper. But privately, their work was intertwined. He often began statements to his team with the phrase “Well, Sheryl said” sharing her business advice. He counseled her, too, starting with her salary negotiations with Mark Zuckerberg.

“I wanted Mark to really feel he stretched to get Sheryl, because she was worth it,” Mr. Goldberg explained in a 2013 “60 Minutes” interview, his Minnesota accent and his smile intact as he offered a rare peek of the intersection of marriage and money at the top of corporate life.

While his wife grew increasingly outspoken about women’s advancement, Mr. Goldberg quietly advised the men in the office on family and partnership matters, an associate said. Six out of 16 members of SurveyMonkey’s management team are female, an almost unheard-of ratio among Silicon Valley “unicorns,” or companies valued at over $1 billion.

When Mellody Hobson, a friend and finance executive, wrote a chapter of “Lean In” about women of color for the college edition of the book, Mr. Goldberg gave her feedback on the draft, a clue to his deep involvement. He joked with Ms. Hobson that she was too long-winded, like Ms. Sandberg, but aside from that, he said he loved the chapter, she said in an interview.

By then, Mr. Goldberg was a figure of fascination who inspired a “where can I get one of those?” reaction among many of the women who had read the best seller “Lean In.” Some lamented that Ms. Sandberg’s advice hinged too much on marrying a Dave Goldberg, who was humble enough to plan around his wife, attentive enough to worry about which shoes his young daughter would wear, and rich enough to help pay for the help that made the family’s balancing act manageable.

Now that he is gone, and Ms. Sandberg goes from being half of a celebrated partnership to perhaps the business world’s most prominent single mother, the pages of “Lean In” carry a new sting of loss.

“We are never at 50-50 at any given moment — perfect equality is hard to define or sustain — but we allow the pendulum to swing back and forth between us,” she wrote in 2013, adding that they were looking forward to raising teenagers together.

“Fortunately, I have Dave to figure it out with me,” she wrote.

Police Rethink Long Tradition on Using Force

WASHINGTON — During a training course on defending against knife attacks, a young Salt Lake City police officer asked a question: “How close can somebody get to me before I’m justified in using deadly force?”

Dennis Tueller, the instructor in that class more than three decades ago, decided to find out. In the fall of 1982, he performed a rudimentary series of tests and concluded that an armed attacker who bolted toward an officer could clear 21 feet in the time it took most officers to draw, aim and fire their weapon.

The next spring, Mr. Tueller published his findings in SWAT magazine and transformed police training in the United States. The “21-foot rule” became dogma. It has been taught in police academies around the country, accepted by courts and cited by officers to justify countless shootings, including recent episodes involving a homeless woodcarver in Seattle and a schizophrenic woman in San Francisco.

Marcel Pronovost, 84, Dies; Hall of Famer Shared in Five N.H.L. Titles

Pronovost, who played for the Red Wings, was not a prolific scorer, but he was a consummate team player with bruising checks and fearless bursts up the ice that could puncture a defense.

As Vice Moves More to TV, It Tries to Keep Brash Voice

The live music at the Vice Media party on Friday shook the room. Shane Smith, Vice’s chief executive, was standing near the stage — with a drink in his hand, pants sagging, tattoos showing — watching the rapper-cum-chef Action Bronson make pizzas.

The event was an after-party, a happy-hour bacchanal for the hundreds of guests who had come for Vice’s annual presentation to advertisers and agencies that afternoon, part of the annual frenzy for ad dollars called the Digital Content NewFronts. Mr. Smith had spoken there for all of five minutes before running a slam-bang highlight reel of the company’s shows that had titles like “Weediquette” and “Gaycation.”

In the last year, Vice has secured $500 million in financing and signed deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars with established media companies like HBO that are eager to engage the young viewers Vice attracts. Vice said it was now worth at least $4 billion, with nearly $1 billion in projected revenue for 2015. It is a long way from Vice’s humble start as a free magazine in 1994.

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But even as cash flows freely in Vice’s direction, the company is trying to keep its brash, insurgent image. At the party on Friday, it plied guests with beers and cocktails. Its apparently unrehearsed presentation to advertisers was peppered with expletives. At one point, the director Spike Jonze, a longtime Vice collaborator, asked on stage if Mr. Smith had been drinking.

“My assistant tried to cut me off,” Mr. Smith replied. “I’m on buzz control.”

Now, Vice is on the verge of getting its own cable channel, which would give the company a traditional outlet for its slate of non-news programming. If all goes as planned, A&E Networks, the television group owned by Hearst and Disney, will turn over its History Channel spinoff, H2, to Vice.

The deal’s announcement was expected last week, but not all of A&E’s distribution partners — the cable and satellite TV companies that carry the network’s channels — have signed off on the change, according to a person familiar with the negotiations who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the talks were private.

A cable channel would be a further step in a transformation for Vice, from bad-boy digital upstart to mainstream media company.

Keen for the core audience of young men who come to Vice, media giants like 21st Century Fox, Time Warner and Disney all showed interest in the company last year. Vice ultimately secured $500 million in financing from A&E Networks and Technology Crossover Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that has invested in Facebook and Netflix.

Those investments valued Vice at more than $2.5 billion. (In 2013, Fox bought a 5 percent stake for $70 million.)

Then in March, HBO announced that it had signed a multiyear deal to broadcast a daily half-hour Vice newscast. Vice already produces a weekly newsmagazine show, called “Vice,” for the network. That show will extend its run through 2018, with an increase to 35 episodes a year, from 14.

Michael Lombardo, HBO’s president for programming, said when the deal was announced that it was “certainly one of our biggest investments with hours on the air.”

Vice, based in Brooklyn, also recently signed a multiyear $100 million deal with Rogers Communications, a Canadian media conglomerate, to produce original content for TV, smartphone and desktop viewers.

Vice’s finances are private, but according to an internal document reviewed by The New York Times and verified by a person familiar with the company’s financials, the company is on track to make about $915 million in revenue this year.

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It brought in $545 million in a strong first quarter, which included portions of the new HBO deal and the Rogers deal, according to the document. More of its revenue now comes from these types of content partnerships, compared with the branded content deals that made up much of its revenue a year ago, the company said.

Mr. Smith said the company was worth at least $4 billion. If the valuation gets much higher, he said he would consider taking the company public.

“I don’t care about money; we have plenty of money,” Mr. Smith, who is Vice’s biggest shareholder, said in an interview after the presentation on Friday. “I care about strategic deals.”

In the United States, Vice Media had 35.2 million unique visitors across its sites in March, according to comScore.

The third season of Vice’s weekly HBO show has averaged 1.8 million viewers per episode, including reruns, through April 12, according to Brad Adgate, the director of research at Horizon Media. (Vice said the show attracted three million weekly viewers when repeat broadcasts, online and on-demand viewings were included.)

For years, Mr. Smith has criticized traditional TV, calling it slow and unable to draw younger viewers. But if all the deals Vice has struck are to work out, Mr. Smith may have to play more by the rules of traditional media. James Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch’s son and a member of Vice’s board, was at the company’s presentation on Friday, as were other top media executives.

“They know they need people like me to help them, but they can’t get out of their own way,” Mr. Smith said in the interview Friday. “My only real frustration is we’re used to being incredibly dynamic, and they’re not incredibly dynamic.”

With its own television channel in the United States, Vice would have something it has long coveted even as traditional media companies are looking beyond TV. Last year, Vice’s deal with Time Warner failed in part because the two companies could not agree on how much control Vice would have over a 24-hour television network.

Vice said it intended to fill its new channel with non-news programming. The company plans to have sports shows, fashion shows, food shows and the “Gaycation” travel show with the actress Ellen Page. It is also in talks with Kanye West about a show.

It remains to be seen whether Vice’s audience will watch a traditional cable channel. Still, Vice has effectively presold all of the ad spots to two of the biggest advertising agencies for the first three years, Mr. Smith said.

In the meantime, Mr. Smith is enjoying Vice’s newfound role as a potential savior of traditional media companies.

“I’m a C.E.O. of a content company,” Mr. Smith said before he caught a flight to Las Vegas for the boxing match on Saturday between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao. “If it stops being fun, then why are you doing it?”