PAKET UMROH BULAN FEBRUARI MARET APRIL MEI 2018

Perlu Anda Ketahui penyakit yang berpotensi menjadi kanker rahim ini!

Saco-Indonesia.com - Penyakit bernama kista ovarium atau biasa disebut dengan kista ini menjadi salah satu sumber ketakutan wanita selain kanker rahim dan kanker payudara.

Seperti dilansir dari magforwomen.com, kista ovarium adalah kantung berisi cairan yang menetap di dalam atau pada permukaan ovarium. Jika folikel di dalam ovarium membesar lebih dari 2 cm maka akan menjadi kista. Sebagian besar kista ovarium tidak berbahaya dan akan menghilang dengan sendirinya. Namun kista ini akan menjadi hal yang parah dan dapat berkembang menjadi sel kanker apabila dipicu dengan pola hidup yang tidak sehat.

Gejala yang terjadi apabila terdapat kista di rahim Anda adalah menstruasi yang tidak teratur, nyeri pinggul, mual, perut membesar, dan nyeri di payudara. Apabila Anda mengalami hal tersebut maka jangan ragu untuk berkonsultasi dengan dokter. Jika kista yang Anda miliki belum terlalu berbahaya maka dapat dihilangkan dengan obat penghilang rasa sakit dan pil KB yang tentu saja telah disarankan dokter. Namun apabila telah parah dan mengganggu aktivitas Anda, maka dapat dioperasi.

Kista yang terlambat untuk dideteksi dapat berkembang menjadi kanker yang berbahaya. Oleh karena itu rajin-rajinlah untuk berkonsultasi dengan dokter dan memeriksakan kesehatan reproduksi Anda.

Editor : Maulana Lee

Sumber : Merdeka.com

MOURINHO SANJUNG PERFORMA CECH

saco-indonesia.com, Jelang menjamu Chelsea di Etihad Stadium semalam (01/02), Manchester City telah menyandang sejumlah rekor impresif di laga kandang. Mereka juga selalu mencetak gol dalam 61 laga kandang terakhir dan belum pernah kehilangan poin saat bermain di Etihad musim ini. Namun kedua rekor mentereng tersebut patah saat The Citizens dibekuk The Blues dengan skor 0-1.

Manajer Chelsea, Jose Mourinho juga mengaku senang bisa mencatatkan cleansheet untuk melawan tim paling produktif di Premier League. Secara khusus, ia telah memuji performa para pemain bertahan dan juga kiper Petr Cech.

"Kami telah bertahan dengan sangat baik dan disiplin. Kemenangan ini akan bisa terwujud karena Petr telah melakukan sejumlah penyelamatan fantastis. Begitu pula lini belakang kami yang tampil sangat baik," kata pria berusia 51 tahun ini.

"Namun secara keseluruhan, barisan gelandang kami juga bekerja sangat keras. Kemenangan ini juga telah terjadi karena striker kami menunjukkan kontribusi. Seluruh pemain melakukan yang terbaik untuk tim."

Kemenangan tersebut telah membuat Chelsea menyamai poin 53 yang diukir City. Keduanya bersanding di posisi kedua dan ketiga, tertinggal dua angka dari Arsenal yang memuncaki klasemen.

Editor : Dian Sukmawati

Diburu, Pelaku Pembunuh Wanita Bertato di Kos-kosan

Pria berkulit putih diduga pelaku pembunuh kekasih di kosan Jalan Pos Utara No.3D RT 04/1 Kelurahan Pasar Baru, Sawah Besar, Jakarta Pusat, masih diburu polisi.

“Kami juga masih mengalami kesulitan karena jenazah belum dapat dikenali,” ujar Kasat Reskrim Polres Jakpus AKBP Tatan Dirsan Atmaja.

Hingga saat itu, petugas gabungan dari Polsek Sawah Besar dan Polres Jakpus, juga masih menguber pelaku yang disenyalir masih berada di Jakarta.

Dari keterangan 6 saksi, pelaku diperkirakan orang Sumatera.

Wanita berusia sekitar 20 tahun, dengan tato bertulis ‘Shelly’ dipundak ditemukan penjaga kos Nurkholis, sudah mulai membusuk dengan luka jeratan tali tas terlentang di balik pintu kamar.

Oleh petugas Polsek Sawah Besar, jenazah wanita berambut panjang itu dikirim ke RSCM.

Selain ciri-ciri diatas, korban saat ditemui dengan mengenakan kutek hijau di jari kaki, memakai celana pendek ketat dan baju kaos putih motif manik-manik, bertulis Made in England. Kini jenazah wanita malang itu masih berada di kamar pendingin rumah sakit.

Kapolsek Sawah Besar Kompol Shinto Silitonga, juga telah membenarkan kalau jenazah sudah diotopsi Rabu (12/3) malam.”Otopsi sengaja dipercepat tanpa menunggu persetujuan orangtua, ini dikarenakan guna untuk kepetingan penyidikan apakah korban diperkosa, tapi hasil visum wanita itu tidak ada tanda pemerkosaan,” tegas petugas di Mapolsek Sawah Besar.

Karena korban belum dikenali, petugas sedikit mengalami kesulitan untuk dapat mengejar pelaku namun dari para saksi polisi terus menguber kekasihnya yang melakukan pembunuhan.

“Kami yakin pelaku akan bisa tertangkap, mudah-mudah dalam waktu singkat pria berhidung mancung dan bermata agak sipit bisa tertangkap,”ujar salah satu petugas.

Hingga saat ini ke enam saksi itu telah dimintai keterangan secara intensip, dan saksi juga menuturkan kalau pria kekasih wanita itu kadang ngomongnya seperti logat Palembang dan Lampung. Kini puluhan sanggota serse telah menyebar menguber pelaku yang diperkirakan masih berada di kawasan Jakarta

Budi Mulya Ngaku Enggak Berwenang Putuskan FPJP Century

Terdakwa mantan Deputi Bidang IV Pengelolaan Aset dan Moneter Bank Indonesia (BI), Budi Mulya telah membantah sebagai pihak yang memutuskan pemberian Fasilitas Pinjaman Jangka Pendek (FPJP) kepada Bank Century.

Sebagaimana, yang telah didakwaan oleh jaksa penuntut umum KPK. Dalam eksepsi yang telah dibacakan oleh penasehat hukumnya, Luhut Pangaribuan telah menyatakan dalam dakwaan disebutkan kalau Budi selaku Deputi Gubernur BI telah menyalahgunakan wewenang dalam jabatannya secara bersama-sama dengan Boediono selaku Gubernur BI.

"Siti Fadjriah selaku Deputi Gubernur Bidang VI, mantan Deputi Bidang VII, Budi Rochadi,Robert Tantular, dan Harmanus H Muslim telah memberikan FPJP kepada Bank Century Rp689 miliar," ujarnya saat membacakan eksepsi di Pengadilan Tipikor Jakarta, Kamis (13/3/2014).

Sekaligus telah menetapkan bank tersebut sebagai bank gagal berdampak sistemik. Padahal, bank itu tidak memenuhi persyaratan untuk mendapatkan FPJP. Tetapi, tetap diusahakan dengan merubah aturan.

Bedasarkan dakwaan diatas, menurut Luhut, dakwaan itu adalah menyetujui pemberian FPJP dengan merubah aturan.

"Padahal terdakwa tidak memiliki kewenangan itu. Dakwaan itu juga tidak dapat menguraikan secara detil apa yang dilakukan terdakwa," tandasnya.

Dalam hal ini, menurut Luhut, dakwaan yang dilayangkan kepada Budi adalah sumir.

Poskamling sekitar Candi Borobudur disulap jadi posko PDIP

Berbagai cara untuk dapat meraup banyak suara telah dilakukan oleh para calon anggota legislatif (caleg) menjelang pemilihan legislatif (pileg) 2014 mendatang. Salah satunya dengan cara menyulap sebanyak 2 pos keamanan lingkungan (Poskamling) yang ada di dua desa, di sekitar Kawasan Obyek Wisata Candi Borobudur menjadi posko pemenangan Caleg Nomor 1 di Kabupaten Magelang, Sariyan dari PDI Perjuangan.

Kedua poskamling di Kecamatan Borobudur yang telah disulap oleh caleg PDI P itu adalah poskamling yang ada di Dusun Tanjungsari, Desa Tanjugsari dan poskamling yang ada Dusun Beder, Desa Ngadiharjo.

di kedua poskamling yang sudah warnanya berubah menjadi merah itu telah terpasang baliho besar berukuran sekitar 1 meter x 5 meter berwarna merah. Di situ kedua poskamling terdapat tulisan "Posko Pasukan Banteng Berdikari" dengan dibubuhkan masing-masing nama dusun setempat.

Kemudian terpampang beberapa nama dan foto tokoh PDI P yaitu; foto Presiden Soekarno, Megawati Soekarnoputri, Puan Maharani, Jokowi dan Ganjar Pranowo. Foto dan tokoh yang paling besar adalah foto Sariyan, caleg dari PDI P Kabupaten Magelang yang berada disebelah paling kiri baliho.

Petugas Panitia Pengawas Kecamatan (Panwascam) Borobudur M. Aziz telah menjelaskan temuan adanya poskamling yang disulap menjadi pos pencalegan adalah terjadi sepekan lalu. Dirinya telah mendapatkan laporan dari dua orang tokoh partai pesaingnya yaitu dari PPP dan PKB.

Kemudian, dirinya juga memanggil kedua aparat desa di dua wilayah yang terdapat poskamling yang disulap jadi pos caleg itu. Di Desa Tanjungsari, panwascam memanggil dan mengklarifikasi M. Arifin yang juga merupakan kepala desa setempat.

"Dari hasil keterangan kadesnya telah didapati info bahwa poskamling yang ada di Dusun Tanjungsari juga merupakan poskamling milik desa yang berdiri di atas tanah bengkok desa," ungkapnya.

Aziz juga menambahkan, langkah pemanggilan dan klarifikasi itu dilakukan karena sesuai dengan aturan alih fungsi dari poskamling menjadi posko caleg ini telah melanggar tiga aturan KPU. Ketiga aturan itu adalah Peraturan KPU No. 1 Tahun 2013 tentang Alat Peraga Kampanye (APK) Peraturan KPU 15 Tahun 2013 tentang larangan fasilitas umum digunakan untuk kampanye dan Keputusan KPU Nomor 7 Tahun 2013 tentang APK dan zona kampanye.

"Besok rencana kita surati KPU Kabupaten Magelang dan Panwas Kabupaten Magelang. Kemudian membuat rekomendasi ke KPU melalui Panwas Kabupaten Magelang dan akan direkomondasikan ke Satpol PP untuk dilakukan penertiban," ungkapnya.

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.

Verne Gagne, Wrestler Who Grappled Through Two Eras, Dies at 89

Gagne wrestled professionally from the late 1940s until the 1980s and was a transitional figure between the early 20th century barnstormers and the steroidal sideshows of today

Jack Ely, Who Sang the Kingsmen’s ‘Louie Louie’, Dies at 71

A 2-minute-42-second demo recording captured in one take turned out to be a one-hit wonder for Mr. Ely, who was 19 when he sang the garage-band classic.

Dean Skelos, Albany Senate Leader, Aided Son at All Costs, U.S. Says

Over the last five years or so, it seemed there was little that Dean G. Skelos, the majority leader of the New York Senate, would not do for his son.

He pressed a powerful real estate executive to provide commissions to his son, a 32-year-old title insurance salesman, according to a federal criminal complaint. He helped get him a job at an environmental company and employed his influence to help the company get government work. He used his office to push natural gas drilling regulations that would have increased his son’s commissions.

He even tried to direct part of a $5.4 billion state budget windfall to fund government contracts that the company was seeking. And when the company was close to securing a storm-water contract from Nassau County, the senator, through an intermediary, pressured the company to pay his son more — or risk having the senator subvert the bid.

The criminal complaint, unsealed on Monday, lays out corruption charges against Senator Skelos and his son, Adam B. Skelos, the latest scandal to seize Albany, and potentially alter its power structure.

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The repeated and diverse efforts by Senator Skelos, a Long Island Republican, to use what prosecutors said was his political influence to find work, or at least income, for his son could send both men to federal prison. If they are convicted of all six charges against them, they face up to 20 years in prison for each of four of the six counts and up to 10 years for the remaining two.

Senator Kenneth P. LaValle, of Long Island, who serves as chairman of the Republican conference, emerged from a closed-door meeting Monday night to say that conference members agreed that Mr. Skelos should be benefited the “presumption of innocence,” and would stay in his leadership role.

“The leader has indicated he would like to remain as leader,” said Mr. LaValle, “and he has the support of the conference.” The case against Mr. Skelos and his son grew out of a broader inquiry into political corruption by the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, that has already changed the face of the state capital. It is based in part, according to the six-count complaint, on conversations secretly recorded by one of two cooperating witnesses, and wiretaps on the cellphones of the senator and his son. Those recordings revealed that both men were concerned about electronic surveillance, and illustrated the son’s unsuccessful efforts to thwart it.

Adam Skelos took to using a “burner” phone, the complaint says, and told his father he wanted them to speak through a FaceTime video call in an apparent effort to avoid detection. They also used coded language at times.

At one point, Adam Skelos was recorded telling a Senate staff member of his frustration in not being able to speak openly to his father on the phone, noting that he could not “just send smoke signals or a little pigeon” carrying a message.

The 43-page complaint, sworn out by Paul M. Takla, a special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, outlines a five-year scheme to “monetize” the senator’s official position; it also lays bare the extent to which a father sought to use his position to help his son.

The charges accuse the two men of extorting payments through a real estate developer, Glenwood Management, based on Long Island, and the environmental company, AbTech Industries, in Scottsdale, Ariz., with the expectation that the money paid to Adam Skelos — nearly $220,000 in total — would influence his father’s actions.

Glenwood, one of the state’s most prolific campaign donors, had ties to AbTech through investments in the environmental firm’s parent company by Glenwood’s founding family and a senior executive.

The accusations in the complaint portray Senator Skelos as a man who, when it came to his son, was not shy about twisting arms, even in situations that might give other arm-twisters pause.

Seeking to help his son, Senator Skelos turned to the executive at Glenwood, which develops rental apartments in New York City and has much at stake when it comes to real estate legislation in Albany. The senator urged him to direct business to his son, who sold title insurance.

After much prodding, the executive, Charles C. Dorego, engineered a $20,000 payment to Adam Skelos from a title insurance company even though he did no work for the money. But far more lucrative was a consultant position that Mr. Dorego arranged for Adam Skelos at AbTech, which seeks government contracts to treat storm water. (Mr. Dorego is not identified by name in the complaint, but referred to only as CW-1, for Cooperating Witness 1.)

Senator Skelos appeared to take an active interest in his son’s new line of work. Adam Skelos sent him several drafts of his consulting agreement with AbTech, the complaint says, as well as the final deal that was struck.

“Mazel tov,” his father replied.

Senator Skelos sent relevant news articles to his son, including one about a sewage leak near Albany. When AbTech wanted to seek government contracts after Hurricane Sandy, the senator got on a conference call with his son and an AbTech executive, Bjornulf White, and offered advice. (Like Mr. Dorego, Mr. White is not named in the complaint, but referred to as CW-2.)

The assistance paid off: With the senator’s help, AbTech secured a contract worth up to $12 million from Nassau County, a big break for a struggling small business.

But the money was slow to materialize. The senator expressed impatience with county officials.

Adam Skelos, in a phone call with Mr. White in late December, suggested that his father would seek to punish the county. “I tell you this, the state is not going to do a [expletive] thing for the county,” he said.

Three days later, Senator Skelos pressed his case with the Nassau County executive, Edward P. Mangano, a fellow Republican. “Somebody feels like they’re just getting jerked around the last two years,” the senator said, referring to his son in what the complaint described as “coded language.”

The next day, the senator pursued the matter, as he and Mr. Mangano attended a wake for a slain New York City police officer. Senator Skelos then reassured his son, who called him while he was still at the wake. “All claims that are in will be taken care of,” the senator said.

AbTech’s fortunes appeared to weigh on his son. At one point in January, Adam Skelos told his father that if the company did not succeed, he would “lose the ability to pay for things.”

Making matters worse, in recent months, Senator Skelos and his son appeared to grow wary about who was watching them. In addition to making calls on the burner phone, Adam Skelos said he used the FaceTime video calling “because that doesn’t show up on the phone bill,” as he told Mr. White.

In late February, Adam Skelos arranged a pair of meetings between Mr. White and state senators; AbTech needed to win state legislation that would allow its contract to move beyond its initial stages. But Senator Skelos deemed the plan too risky and caused one of the meetings to be canceled.

In another recorded call, Adam Skelos, promising to be “very, very vague” on the phone, urged his father to allow the meeting. The senator offered a warning. “Right now we are in dangerous times, Adam,” he told him.

A month later, in another phone call that was recorded by the authorities, Adam Skelos complained that his father could not give him “real advice” about AbTech while the two men were speaking over the telephone.

“You can’t talk normally,” he told his father, “because it’s like [expletive] Preet Bharara is listening to every [expletive] phone call. It’s just [expletive] frustrating.”

“It is,” his father agreed.

Dan Walker, 92, Dies; Illinois Governor and Later a U.S. Prisoner

As governor, Mr. Walker alienated Republicans and his fellow Democrats, particularly the Democratic powerhouse Richard J. Daley, the mayor of Chicago.

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.

Negative View of U.S. Race Relations Grows, Poll Finds

Public perceptions of race relations in America have grown substantially more negative in the aftermath of the death of a young black man who was injured while in police custody in Baltimore and the subsequent unrest, far eclipsing the sentiment recorded in the wake of turmoil in Ferguson, Mo., last summer.

Americans are also increasingly likely to say that the police are more apt to use deadly force against a black person, the latest New York Times/CBS News poll finds.

The poll findings highlight the challenges for local leaders and police officials in trying to maintain order while sustaining faith in the criminal justice system in a racially polarized nation.

Sixty-one percent of Americans now say race relations in this country are generally bad. That figure is up sharply from 44 percent after the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown and the unrest that followed in Ferguson in August, and 43 percent in December. In a CBS News poll just two months ago, 38 percent said race relations were generally bad. Current views are by far the worst of Barack Obama’s presidency.

The negative sentiment is echoed by broad majorities of blacks and whites alike, a stark change from earlier this year, when 58 percent of blacks thought race relations were bad, but just 35 percent of whites agreed. In August, 48 percent of blacks and 41 percent of whites said they felt that way.

Looking ahead, 44 percent of Americans think race relations are worsening, up from 36 percent in December. Forty-one percent of blacks and 46 percent of whites think so. Pessimism among whites has increased 10 points since December.

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Do you think race relations in the United States are generally good or generally bad?

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Do you think race relations in the United States are getting better, getting worse or staying about the same?

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The poll finds that profound racial divisions in views of how the police use deadly force remain. Blacks are more than twice as likely to say police in most communities are more apt to use deadly force against a black person — 79 percent of blacks say so compared with 37 percent of whites. A slim majority of whites say race is not a factor in a police officer’s decision to use deadly force.

Overall, 44 percent of Americans say deadly force is more likely to be used against a black person, up from 37 percent in August and 40 percent in December.

Blacks also remain far more likely than whites to say they feel mostly anxious about the police in their community. Forty-two percent say so, while 51 percent feel mostly safe. Among whites, 8 in 10 feel mostly safe.

One proposal to address the matter — having on-duty police officers wear body cameras — receives overwhelming support. More than 9 in 10 whites and blacks alike favor it.

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How would you describe your feelings about the police in your community? Would you say they make you feel mostly safe or mostly anxious?

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In general, do you think the police in most communities are more likely to use deadly force against a black person, or more likely to use it against a white person, or don’t you think race affects police use of deadly force?

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Do you favor or oppose on-duty police officers wearing video cameras that would record events and actions as they occur?

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Asked specifically about the situation in Baltimore, most Americans expressed at least some confidence that the investigation by local authorities would be conducted fairly. But while nearly two-thirds of whites think so, fewer than half of blacks agree. Still, more blacks are confident now than were in August regarding the investigation in Ferguson. On Friday, six members of the police force involved in the arrest of Mr. Gray were charged with serious offenses, including manslaughter. The poll was conducted Thursday through Sunday; results from before charges were announced are similar to those from after.

Reaction to the recent turmoil in Baltimore, however, is similar among blacks and whites. Most Americans, 61 percent, say the unrest after Mr. Gray’s death was not justified. That includes 64 percent of whites and 57 percent of blacks.

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As you may know, a Baltimore man, Freddie Gray, recently died after being in the custody of the Baltimore police. How much confidence do you have that the investigation by local authorities into this matter will be conducted fairly?

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Review: ‘Frontline’ Looks at Missteps During the Ebola Outbreak

y NEIL GENZLINGER

Frontline

Frontline An installment of this PBS program looks at the effects of Ebola on Liberia and other countries, as well as the origins of the outbreak.

The program traces the outbreak to its origin, thought to be a tree full of bats in Guinea.

William Sokolin, Wine Seller Who Broke Famed Bottle, Dies at 85

The bottle Mr. Sokolin famously broke was a 1787 Château Margaux, which was said to have belonged to Thomas Jefferson. Mr. Sokolin had been hoping to sell it for $519,750.

Gilbert Haroche, Builder of an Economy Travel Empire, Dies at 87

Mr. Haroche was a founder of Liberty Travel, which grew from a two-man operation to the largest leisure travel operation in the United States.

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Baltimore Residents Away From Turmoil Consider Their Role

BALTIMORE — In the afternoons, the streets of Locust Point are clean and nearly silent. In front of the rowhouses, potted plants rest next to steps of brick or concrete. There is a shopping center nearby with restaurants, and a grocery store filled with fresh foods.

And the National Guard and the police are largely absent. So, too, residents say, are worries about what happened a few miles away on April 27 when, in a space of hours, parts of this city became riot zones.

“They’re not our reality,” Ashley Fowler, 30, said on Monday at the restaurant where she works. “They’re not what we’re living right now. We live in, not to be racist, white America.”

As Baltimore considers its way forward after the violent unrest brought by the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who died of injuries he suffered while in police custody, residents in its predominantly white neighborhoods acknowledge that they are sometimes struggling to understand what beyond Mr. Gray’s death spurred the turmoil here. For many, the poverty and troubled schools of gritty West Baltimore are distant troubles, glimpsed only when they pass through the area on their way somewhere else.

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And so neighborhoods of Baltimore are facing altogether different reckonings after Mr. Gray’s death. In mostly black communities like Sandtown-Winchester, where some of the most destructive rioting played out last week, residents are hoping businesses will reopen and that the police will change their strategies. But in mostly white areas like Canton and Locust Point, some residents wonder what role, if any, they should play in reimagining stretches of Baltimore where they do not live.

“Most of the people are kind of at a loss as to what they’re supposed to do,” said Dr. Richard Lamb, a dentist who has practiced in the same Locust Point office for nearly 39 years. “I listen to the news reports. I listen to the clergymen. I listen to the facts of the rampant unemployment and the lack of opportunities in the area. Listen, I pay my taxes. Exactly what can I do?”

And in Canton, where the restaurants have clever names like Nacho Mama’s and Holy Crepe Bakery and Café, Sara Bahr said solutions seemed out of reach for a proudly liberal city.

“I can only imagine how frustrated they must be,” said Ms. Bahr, 36, a nurse who was out with her 3-year-old daughter, Sally. “I just wish I knew how to solve poverty. I don’t know what to do to make it better.”

The day of unrest and the overwhelmingly peaceful demonstrations that followed led to hundreds of arrests, often for violations of the curfew imposed on the city for five consecutive nights while National Guard soldiers patrolled the streets. Although there were isolated instances of trouble in Canton, the neighborhood association said on its website, many parts of southeast Baltimore were physically untouched by the tumult.

Tensions in the city bubbled anew on Monday after reports that the police had wounded a black man in Northwest Baltimore. The authorities denied those reports and sent officers to talk with the crowds that gathered while other officers clutching shields blocked traffic at Pennsylvania and West North Avenues.

Lt. Col. Melvin Russell, a community police officer, said officers had stopped a man suspected of carrying a handgun and that “one of those rounds was spent.”

Colonel Russell said officers had not opened fire, “so we couldn’t have shot him.”

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The colonel said the man had not been injured but was taken to a hospital as a precaution. Nearby, many people stood in disbelief, despite the efforts by the authorities to quash reports they described as “unfounded.”

Monday’s episode was a brief moment in a larger drama that has yielded anger and confusion. Although many people said they were familiar with accounts of the police harassing or intimidating residents, many in Canton and Locust Point said they had never experienced it themselves. When they watched the unrest, which many protesters said was fueled by feelings that they lived only on Baltimore’s margins, even those like Ms. Bahr who were pained by what they saw said they could scarcely comprehend the emotions associated with it.

But others, like Lambi Vasilakopoulos, who runs a casual restaurant in Canton, said they were incensed by what unfolded last week.

“What happened wasn’t called for. Protests are one thing; looting is another thing,” he said, adding, “We’re very frustrated because we’re the ones who are going to pay for this.”

There were pockets of optimism, though, that Baltimore would enter a period of reconciliation.

“I’m just hoping for peace,” Natalie Boies, 53, said in front of the Locust Point home where she has lived for 50 years. “Learn to love each other; be patient with each other; find justice; and care.”

A skeptical Mr. Vasilakopoulos predicted tensions would worsen.

“It cannot be fixed,” he said. “It’s going to get worse. Why? Because people don’t obey the laws. They don’t want to obey them.”

But there were few fears that the violence that plagued West Baltimore last week would play out on these relaxed streets. The authorities, Ms. Fowler said, would make sure of that.

“They kept us safe here,” she said. “I didn’t feel uncomfortable when I was in my house three blocks away from here. I knew I was going to be O.K. because I knew they weren’t going to let anyone come and loot our properties or our businesses or burn our cars.”