PAKET UMROH BULAN FEBRUARI MARET APRIL MEI 2018

GARAP VIDEO KLIP BARU, SITI LIZA TAMPIL PENUH WARNA

saco-indonesia.com, Penyanyi Siti Liza telah kembali menggarap video klip singlenya yang berjudul Jangan Oh Jangan yang diciptakan oleh Arnold. Berbeda dengan video klip sebelumnya, Siti kini tampil beda. Dari segi fashion, Siti kini juga lebih terlihat ceria dengan pakaian yang penuh warna.

"Memang lebih beda untuk video klip ini. Kalau yang sebelumnya Aku lebih sering pakai dress panjang satu warna, sekarang lebih colourful dan ceria, dengan pakaian yang warna warni. Akan ada dancer-dancernya juga," ungkap Siti saat ditemui disela syuting video klip di Rumah Joe, Kebagusan Dalam 1, Jakarta Selatan, Senin (3/3) kemarin.

Tidak hanya soal pakaian saja , Siti juga tampil lebih fresh dengan warna rambut yang lebih cerah dari sebelumnya."Memang ada perubahan juga sih ya, dulu rambut cokelat tua sekarang lebih terang," kata Siti.

Untuk video klipnya sendiri, Siti telah menjelaskan bahwa konsepnya juga tidak jauh dari cerita lagu Jangan Oh Jangan itu sendiri. Siti juga menggandeng komedian, Bedu.

"Konsep semua dari sutradara ada tambahan dikit sih biar aku lebih masuk di cerita video klipnya. Ceritanya aku ga mau lagi sama pasangan aku. Aku milih pelawak, Bedu, biar lebih seru," terangnya.

Editor : Dian Sukmawati

PEMBANTU TELAH BERHASIL GASAK HARTA MAJIKAN

saco-indonesia.com, Baru bekerja satu hari, seorang Pembantu Rumah Tangga (PRT) telah berhasil gasak harta majikan senilai Puluhan juta rupiah di Komplek Gudang Peluru Blok N, Kel. Kebon Baru, Kec. Tebet, Jakarta Selatan.

Pelaku yang mengaku bernama Siti yang berusia 20 tahun , yang baru saja bekerja di rumah milik Rita yang berusia 41 tahun , Ibu Rumah Tangga ini juga telah berhasil menguras harta seluruh harta korban.

Kasie Humas Polsek Tebet, Aiptu Recky Kansil, juga mengatakan peristiwa tersebut telah terjadi saat majikannya meninggalkan ke rumah untuk keluar, sang pelaku mulai beraksi dan berhasil membawa kabur harta isi rumah.

“Setelah kembali ke rumah ternyata pembantunya kabur melarikan diri dan hartanya pun telah berhasil dibawa kabur,” kata Kasie Humas. Peristiwa tersebut telah terjadi sekira pk. 19:15 malam.

Menurut keterangan korban, kondisi rumah yang dalam berantakan pelaku mennggondol harta benda majikannya yang baru bekerja sehari ini, dua buah Kamera SLR merk Canon, 5 buah Arloji Asli bermerk, perhiasan sekira 30 gram, 1 Smartphone Galaxy S3 dan uang tunai Rp. 20 juta. “Saya kehilangannya seluruhnya Rp. 60 juta,” kata korban saat melaporkan ke Mapolsek Tebet.

Kapolsek Tebet, Kompol, I Ketut Sudarma, masih harus menyelidiki kasus tersebut. “Kami juga masih mintai keterangan saksi-saksi, untuk para rumah tangga yang ingin menggunakan jasa pembantu agar berhati-hati lagi dan mintalah identitasnya sebagai jaminan bekerja,” kata Kapolsek.

Editor : Dian Sukmawati

Rebutan lahan minyak, dua keluarga saling bacok

Dua keluarga telah terlibat perkelahian lantaran merebutkan sebuah lahan minyak milik Pertamina Depo Banuayu di Terminal Bahan Bakar Minyak (TBBM) Kecamatan Lubuk Batang Kabupaten Ogan Komering Ulu (OKU), Sumsel.

dalam insiden berdarah itu, tiga orang telah dibawa ke rumah sakit karena mengalami luka bacokan. Sementara satu orang menjadi korban dalam peristiwa rebutan lahan tersebut.

Korban yang diketahui bernama Nasarudin (50), ia tewas di tangan Mer (30) yang tak lain merupakan tetangga korban. Nasarudin telah diketahui tewas karena mendapat tikaman dari Mer yang lebih muda 20 tahun darinya.

Kasus penusukan ini lantas masuk ke pengadilan Baturaja. Sidang dipimpin Hakim Ketua Jimi Maruli, dengan didampingi oleh dua hakim anggota Hartati dan Madela N Sai Reeve .

Dalam dakwaan yang telah dibacakan oleh Jaksa Penuntut Umum (JPU) Depati, karena pengakuan terdakwa dalam persidangan terkesan yang tidak mengakui perbuatannya padahal tindakan terdakwa menghilangkan nyawa orang lain dinilai sangat tidak manusiawi. "Kami telah menjerat terdakwa dengan pasal 338 KUHP tentang penganiayaan yang menyebabkan orang lain meninggal dunia dengan ancaman hukuman maksimal 20 tahun penjara," kata Depati.

Meski begitu, selama persidangan sikap terdakwa yang selalu kooperatif dan berkelakuan baik selama di tahan. Serta pertimbangan lain seperti terdakwa yang juga merupakan tulang punggung keluarga, JPU akhirnya memutuskan menuntut terdakwa 10 tahun penjara.

"Kami juga telah memberikan kesempatan kepada terdakwa untuk dapat menyiapkan pembelaan dalam tempo sepekan," kata salah satu majelis hakim.

4 PENJAHAT SATRONI MINIMARKET, GASAK UANG RP13 JUTA

saco-indonesia.com, Empat pemuda bersenjata tajam merampok sebuah minimarket 24 jam di Jalan Abdul Rachman Saleh, Semarang, Senin (3/2) dinihari. Setelah berhasil melumpuhkan tiga karyawan, perampok kabur membawa uang tunai Rp13 juta dan 50 slop rokok berbagai merek.

Menurut keterangan, empat perampok tersebut juga menggunakan topeng dan mengendarai dua sepeda motor. Para pelaku juga sempat melakukan penganiayaan terhadap seorang karyawan hingga telah mengalami luka-luka dan harus dirawat di Rumah Sakit Dr Kariadi.

Perampokan bermula ketika tiga karyawan setempat masing-masing Hardiyansyah,21, Faud,20, dan Khoirul Muhlisin,21 telah mendapat giliran tugas malam. Sekitar pukul 01.00 dinihari WIB datang empat pemuda yang tak dikenal berpura-pura akan membeli sesuatu. Setelah sejenak mengamati situasi, keempat penjahat itu langsung beraksi .

Mereka telah langsung mengancam ketiga karyawan minimarket tersebut dengan menggunakan senjata tajam . Hardiyansyah nekad berupaya melawan ,akibatnya pundak karyawan Indomart ini telah terluka akibat dibacok clurit. Dalam keadaan terluka , Hardiyansyah diseret dan dibanting di lantai sambil diancam akan dibunuh bila melawan.

Setelah berhasil melumpuhkan tiga orang penjaga dan kasir, para pelaku langsung memasukkan puluhan slop rokok ke dalam karung yang sudah disiapkan. Setelah itu, mereka memaksa kasir untuk membuka laci penyimpanan uang. Di tempat ini cuma ada uang sekitar Rp500 ribu. Para pelaku dengan beringas sambil menodongkan senjata tajam minta kasir membuka brankas.

Karena jiwanya terancam, kasir Khoirul Mukhlisin cuma bisa menuruti kemauan pelaku. Para penjahat ini setelah mendapatkan uang sedikitnya Rp13 juta dari brankas langsung kabur. Hingga berita ini diturunkan , kasus perampokan tersebut kini tengah diusut pihak berwajib.

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OBAT SARIAWAN TRADISISONAL

saco-indonesia.com, Ramuan Tradisional » Sariawan » Obat Sariawan Tradisional yang Ampuh dan Alami
Obat Sariawan Tradisional Ampuh dan Alami
Sariawan
Apa itu sariawan? Dalam ilmu kedokteran, sariawan lebih dikenal dengan nama Stomatitis, yaitu terjadinya pembengkakan atau peradangan yang telah terjadi di daerah sekitar mulut dan lidah. Sariawan juga memang bukan penyakit yang mematikan seperti kanker atau jantung. Tapi rasanya sangat menyiksa karena terasa perih saat mengunyah makanan yang telah mengakibatkan penderitanya menjadi tidak enak makan, bahkan makanan favoritnya sekalipun.

Sariawan juga tidak terjadi secara kebetulan, namun ada beberapa faktor yang dapat menjadi penyebab timbulnya penyakit ini.

    Mulut tergigit. Ini adalah hal yang umum. Biasanya mulut tergigit karena makan terlalu cepat atau pada saat mengobrol.
    Kekurangan nutrisi seperti zat besi, Vitamin B 12 dan Vitamin C juga bisa menyebabkan sariawan.
    Tanda dari kelainan pencernaan
    Kebersihan mulut yang tidak terjaga
    Daya tahan tubuh melemah
    Produk pasta gigi yang tidak cocok dengan mulut
    Makan makanan yang terlalu pedas atau asam

Sariawan juga bisa diobati dengan ramuan tradisional ataupun dengan membeli obat-obatan kimia di apotek. Anda tinggal memilih mana yang menurut Anda lebih mudah dan manjur.

Obat Sariawan Tradisional

Untuk dapat mengobati sariawan, kita juga bisa menggunakan bahan-bahan sebagai berikut:

1. Air kelapa

Air kelapa telah memberikan efek yang menenangkan pada sistem pencernaan. Air kelapa juga dikenal karena sifat pendinginannya. Selain menghidrasi tubuh dan ini juga baik untuk dapat menyembuhkan sariawan.

2. Daun jambu biji

Ini adalah salah satu pengobatan rumah yang dapat membantu untuk mengobati sariawan secara alami. Kunyah beberapa lembar daun jambu biji lalu berkumurlah.

3. Pisang dan madu

Makan pisang dan madu untuk dapat menyembuhkan sariawan. Anda bahkan juga dapat menerapkan pasta ini pada ulkus untuk dapat mengurangi peradangannya.

4. Bawang putih dan pepaya

Mengoleskan obat langsung pada luka sariawan untuk dapat mempercepat proses penyembuhan. Tempelkan bawang mentah, pepaya atau kantong teh langsung pada luka sariawan.

5. Minyak kelapa

Minyak kelapa telah memiliki sifat anti-bakteri. Anda juga bisa mencampurkan minyak kelapa dengan madu. Oleskan ramuan tersebut pada mulut yang sariawan tiga kali sehari.

6. Tomat

Buah-buahan yang mengandung vitamin C seperti tomat mampu untuk menyembuhkan sariawan. Konsumsi tomat mentah atau jus tomat karena kandungan vitamin C di dalamnya tinggi.

7. Kunyit

Jangan dikira kunyit hanya berfungsi sebagai bumbu masak saja . Kunyit juga mampu untuk mengobati sariawan. Ambil kunyit secukupnya, cuci bersih kemudian ditumbuk hingga halus. Oleskan pasta yang terbuat dari tumbukan kunyit yang telah dicampur dengan satu sendok teh gliserin.

Cara Mengobati Sariawan Lainnya

Selain mengobati sariawan dengan ramuan tradisional, kita juga bisa mengatasinya dengan beberapa makanan dan minuman seperti berikut:

8. Garam dan baking soda

Ini adalah salah satu solusi untuk dapat mengobati sariawan dengan mudah. Buatlah pasta dari garam dan baking soda dengan cara menambahkan sedikit air. Oleskan pasta pada ulkus (luka sariawan) dan biarkan selama 10 menit. Bilas dengan air dingin.

9. Makanan kaya zat besi

Makanan kaya zat besi seperti sereal, kalkun, ham, biji wijen, brokoli, gandum dan telur juga dapat mengurangi sariawan serta meningkatkan sistem kekebalan tubuh.

10. Minum vitamin

Perbanyak konsumsi vitamin B, vitamin C, zat besi dan asam folat yang juga berperan dalam mencegah dan menyembuhkan luka sariawan.

11. Minum yogurt

Yogurt juga mengontrol keseimbangan bakteri di mulut dan tubuh. Dengan ini, Anda juga bisa meningkatkan kecepatan penyembuhan dan membantu mencegah luka sariawan.

Nah, itulah ramuan tradisional untuk dapat mengobati sariawan. Jika sariawan tidak kunjung sembuh dalam waktu tiga minggu, segera hubungi Dokter.

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Maya Plisetskaya, Ballerina Who Embodied Bolshoi, Dies at 89

Ms. Plisetskaya, renowned for her fluidity of movement, expressive acting and willful personality, danced on the Bolshoi stage well into her 60s, but her life was shadowed by Stalinism.

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.”

Take the Money and Run

The career criminals in genre novels don’t have money problems. If they need some, they just go out and steal it. But such financial transactions can backfire, which is what happened back in 2004 when the Texas gang in Michael

Nepal’s Young Men, Lost to Migration, Then a Quake

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KATHMANDU, Nepal — When the dense pillar of smoke from cremations by the Bagmati River was thinning late last week, the bodies were all coming from Gongabu, a common stopover for Nepali migrant workers headed overseas, and they were all of young men.

Hindu custom dictates that funeral pyres should be lighted by the oldest son of the deceased, but these men were too young to have sons, so they were burned by their brothers or fathers. Sukla Lal, a maize farmer, made a 14-hour journey by bus to retrieve the body of his 19-year-old son, who had been on his way to the Persian Gulf to work as a laborer.

“He wanted to live in the countryside, but he was compelled to leave by poverty,” Mr. Lal said, gazing ahead steadily as his son’s remains smoldered. “He told me, ‘You can live on your land, and I will come up with money, and we will have a happy family.’ ”

Weeks will pass before the authorities can give a complete accounting of who died in the April 25 earthquake, but it is already clear that Nepal cannot afford the losses. The countryside was largely stripped of its healthy young men even before the quake, as they migrated in great waves — 1,500 a day by some estimates — to work as laborers in India, Malaysia or one of the gulf nations, leaving many small communities populated only by elderly parents, women and children. Economists say that at some times of the year, one-quarter of Nepal’s population is working outside the country.

Betsy von Furstenberg, Baroness and Versatile Actress, Dies at 83

Ms. von Furstenberg made her debut in the movies and on the Broadway stage in the early 1950s as a teenager and later reinvented herself as a television actress, writer and philanthropist.

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.

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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Dave Goldberg, Head of Web Survey Company and Half of a Silicon Valley Power Couple, Dies at 47

By VINDU GOEL and QUENTIN HARDY

Mr. Goldberg was a serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur and venture capitalist who was married to Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook.

Dave Goldberg Was Lifelong Women’s Advocate

Don Mankiewicz, Screenwriter in a Family Film Tradition, Dies at 93

Mr. Mankiewicz, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter for “I Want to Live!,” also wrote episodes of television shows such as “Star Trek” and “Marcus Welby, M.D.”

Robert Patterson Jr., Lawyer and Judge Who Fought for the Accused, Dies at 91

Judge Patterson helped to protect the rights of Attica inmates after the prison riot in 1971 and later served on the Federal District Court in Manhattan.

Hard but Hopeful Home to ‘Lot of Freddies’

Todd Heisler/The New York Times

Children playing last week in Sandtown-Winchester, the Baltimore neighborhood where Freddie Gray was raised. One young resident called it “a tough community.”

Hard but Hopeful Home to ‘Lot of Freddies’

The neighborhood where Freddie Gray came of age has survived harrowing rates of unemployment, poor health, violent crime and incarceration.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is intentional, Republican operatives said.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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