PAKET UMROH BULAN FEBRUARI MARET APRIL MEI 2018

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SUZUKI ERTIGA, Suzuki Indomobil Sales telah meluncurkan salah satu produk MPV (Multi Passenger Vehicle); yaitu kendaraan yang dapat mengangkut penumpang dalam jumlah relatif banyak, setelah sebelumnya Suzuki telah mengeluarkan produk MPV lainnya, yaitu Suzuki APV. Pada tanggal 22 April 2012, Suzuki Ertiga sebagai produk MPV Suzuki terbaru telah diluncurkan, dan pada saat launching tersebut juga disiarkan secara langsung oleh salah satu stasiun TV swasta nasional.

Dan pada saat ini, khusus untuk Suzuki Ertiga, pihak Suzuki Indomobil Sales yang telah meramalkan bahwa produk terbarunya ini, Suzuki Ertiga, akan sukses di pasar, maka pihak Suzuki Indomobil Sales mempersiapkan diri dengan merancang suatu sistem pemantauan pemesanan Suzuki Ertiga (Ertiga Customer Indent Tracking).

Adapun fungsi dari adanya pemantauan antrian / banyaknya pemesan yang rela inden adalah supaya masing-masing customer yang telah menginden dapat melihat bahwa tidak adanya sistem tumpang tindih yang memungkinkan dealer / sales memainkan harga dengan menaikkan harga Suzuki Ertiga tersebut (upping harga Suzuki Ertiga).

Untuk harga / pricelist Suzuki Ertiga waktu pertama kali launching hingga tanggal tulisan ini dibuat adalah sebagai berikut:

Ertiga GA --- Rp 143.000.000

Ertiga GL --- Rp 153.000.000

Ertiga GX --- Rp 165.000.000

SPESIFIKASI SUZUKI ERTIGA

* Eksterior *

Desain bodi Suzuki Ertiga sangat aerodinamis, sehingga mobil berjalan seperti tanpa hambatan (tidak tertahan oleh angin) Grille depan Suzuki Ertiga seperti membentuk huruf V, memberikan kesan sporty dan juga tegas Terdapat Fog Lamp pada Suzuki Ertiga (pada tipe GL dan tipe GX) Velg Racing / Alloy Wheel (pada Suzuki Ertiga GL dan Suzuki Ertiga GX) Terdapat Door Mirror Cover With Turn Signal (Kaca spion dilengkapi lampu sign) pada Suzuki Ertiga tipe GL dan Suzuki Ertiga GX.

*Interior*

Interior Suzuki Ertiga sangat mewah, dengan dashboar berwarna coklat muda yang sangat modern, selain itu dilengkapi Head Unit yang sangat canggih, dan juga untuk menunjang kenyamanan berkendara tersebut maka Suzuki Ertiga menyediakan slot USB, sehingga sensasi berkendara jadi lebih menyenangkan Tilt Steering pada Suzuki Ertiga membuat pengemudi dapat menyesuaikan kenyamanannya dengan dapat disesuaikannya posisi stir dengan postur tubuh pengemudi

Dashboard kendaraan MPV selama ini menampilkan informasi hanya Trip Meter, Odo Meter, dan Jam Digital saja. Namun, pada Suzuki Ertiga informasi-informasi tersebut ditambahkan lagi dengan adanya Fuel Consumption Average (pengukur pemakaian bahan bakar rata-rata, dan pengukur pemakaian bahan bakar pada saat berjalan) -Khusus pada Suzuki Ertiga tipe GX ada penambahan Termometer (pengukur suhu luar kendaraan) Kursi pada baris kedua, bisa digeser sejauh 240mm, sehingga menyediakan ruang yang leluasa untuk penumpang pada baris ketiga Fitur One Touch Walk In pada bangku pada baris kedua; hanya dengan mengangkat tuas keatas maka memudahkan akses bagi penumpang di baris ketiga.

Steering Switch, memudahkan pengemudi Suzuki Ertiga untuk mengganti channel audio tanpa harus memindahkan tangan dari setir.

*Security / Keamanan*

Pada setiap pintu Suzuki Ertiga (baik depan maupun belakang) sudah dilengkapi oleh Side Beam, fitur ini tidaklah digunakan oleh produk kompetitor. Adapun fungsi dari Side Beam adalah memperkecil efek benturan dari samping, sehingga penumpang akan lebih aman terhadap efek-efek yang berakibat fatal.

Seat Belt pada masing-masing penumpang Suzuki Ertiga akan membuat keseluruhan penumpang menjadi lebih aman ABS & EBD yang tersedia hanya pada Suzuki Ertiga GX Pada Suzuki Ertiga GX tersedia Air Bag

*Kenyamanan*

Bila pada kompetitor-kompetitor menggunakan roda belakang sebagai penggerak, maka pada Suzuki Ertiga penggeraknya adalah roda depan. Oleh karena itu maka tenaga yang dihasilkan Suzuki Ertiga adalah lebih maksimal dan karena digerakkan oleh roda depan juga menghasilkan konsumsi bensin yang lebih irit Jarak roda antara ban depan dengan ban belakang Suzuki Ertiga adalah lebih jauh bila dibandingkan dengan kompetitor sehingga menghasilkan kestabilan kendaraan yang jauh lebih baik dibandingkan dengan kompetitor-komptetitornya.

Demikian adalah spesifikiasi dan keunggulan dari Suzuki Ertiga dibandingkan pesaing, namun itu semua belumlah lengkap apabila anda belum mencoba Test Drive secara langsung Suzuki Ertiga ini dan merasakan sensasinya secara langsung bersama keluarga anda.

Selain itu pihak Suzuki Indomobil Sales mengadakan Test Drive berhadiah 5 Mobil Suzuki Ertiga dan 50 Motor Suzuki Nex bagi anda yang beruntung, masing-masing setiap bulannya akan diambil 1 pemenang Suzuki Ertiga dan juga 10 pemenang motor Suzuki Nex, kesempatan ini bisa anda dapatkan hanya dengan Test Drive Suzuki Ertiga saja.

Demo Buruh Besar-besaran di Jakarta, Presiden ke Surabaya

JAKARTA,  - Unjuk rasa besar- besaran di Jakarta sudah jauh hari digaungkan para buruh akan digelar untuk memperingati Hari Buruh, Rabu (1/5/2013). Istana Negara rencananya akan menjadi salah satu tujuan aksi. Tapi, ternyata Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono bertolak ke Surabaya, Jawa Timur, Rabu pagi, untuk kegiatan kunjungan kerja.

Agenda Presiden ke Jawa Timur, tak sepenuhnya tak terkait dengan peringatan Hari Buruh. Dijadwalkan Presiden akan berdialog dengan buruh PT Maspion dan PT Unilever di Surabaya. "Adalah menjadi tradisi yang kami lakukan, tujuh tahun terakhir ini setiap peringatan Hari Buruh 1 Mei kami selalu ada forum dialog dan komunikasi dengan para pimpinan konfederasi dan federasi," kata SBY ketika menerima para pimpinan beberapa serikat buruh di Istana Negara Jakarta, Senin (29/4/2013).

Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) mengaku terus memantau dinamika yang berkembang di kalangan buruh menjelang peringatan Hari Buruh Internasional atau May Day. Termasuk rencana buruh melakukan aksi unjuk rasa besar-besaran. "Saya memantau dinamika dan perkembangan teman-teman di perburuhan termasuk unjuk rasa  tetapi yang jelas saya kira semua sepakat unjuk rasa buruh itu tertib dan tidak merusak," kata SBY.

SBY mengaku senang kalau demo buruh berjalan tertib dan tidak merusak karena itulah yang namanya  demokrasi. "Boleh ada ekspresi ada sesuatu yang ingin dikritikkan pada pemerintah, pada yang lain, termasuk pikiran seperti apa, tapi tertib. Kalau tidak tertib apalagi anarkis membawa masalah bagi semua, bagi negara, perekonomian, industri dan pekerja sendiri," kata SBY.

Oleh karena itu, SBY meminta buruh dalam berunjuk rasa nanti harus menjaga situasi itu. "Manakala harus menyampaikan protes dan aspirasinya jaga ketertiban, sehingga pesannya sampai pada saya, pada pemrirntah dan ada solusi," kata SBY.

Sebelumnya, para buruh yang tergabung dalam Majelis Pekerja Buruh Indonesia (MPBI) menyatakan, sudah ada 150.000 buruh yang mengonfirmasikan keikutsertaannya dalam May Day. Tak hanya datang dari seputar Jabodetabek, buruh yang mengikuti aksi hari ini datang dari Karawang, Purwakarta, dan daerah lain.

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KHAWATIR GUNUNG KELUD MELETUS

saco-indonesia.com, Pasca kenaikan status Gunung Kelud, ratusan warga yang berada di wilayah Desa Sugihwaras Kecamatan Ngancar Kabupaten Kediri berjaga-jaga di jalanan dengan membuat api unggun, Selasa (11/2) dini hari. Aksi 'melekan' itu dilakukan untuk dapat mengantisipasi jika sewaktu-waktu gunung yang hanya berjarak 8 kilometer dari desa mereka tersebut meletus.

Sapari yang berusia (48) tahun salah seorang warga setempat, juga mengaku sempat was-was dengan kenaikan status Gunung Kelud ke siaga. Warga juga telah menilai, perubahan status gunungdari waspada ke siaga sangat begitu cepat.

"Kami warga di sini juga sempat was-was, sebab takutnya gunung meletus lebih cepat. Kekhawatiran kami lagi adalah anak gunung Kelud jika terjadi letusan akan dapat menimbulkan bahaya yang lebih besar. Oleh karena itu warga di Desa Sugihwaras terutama yang laki-laki siaga di jalanan sambil membuat api unggun," kata Sapari.

Masih menurut Sapari, ia juga telah membawa turun anak-anaknya ke tempat lebih aman agar jika sewaktu-waktu terjadi bencana sudah tidak begitu merisaukan bagaimana membawa keluarga. "Saya hanya bersama istri saya siaga di rumah, anak-anak dan juga surat-surat penting sudah kami bawa turun ke rumah mertua di Desa Ngreco Kecamatan Kandat yang berjarak kurang lebih 25 kilometer," tambahnya.

Selain Sapari, Prapto tetangga Sapari juga menuturkan ia telah mengemasi barang-barang berharga dan beberapa kebutuhan selama pengungsian nanti. "Intinya warga di sini sudah siap jika sewaktu-waktu diinstruksikan untuk pindah ke pengungsian," ujarnya.

Editor : Dian Sukmawati

ADA TSUNAMI KECIL YANG BERBAHAYA MELANDA ACEH

saco-indonesia.com, Sembilan tahun yang lalu, Aceh telah diterjang gelombang tsunami. Infrastruktur di kota serambi Mekkah itu telah hancur dan warga menderita.

Kini setelah sembilan tahun sudah berlalu, masih ada 'tsunami kecil'. Akibat dari 'tsunami kecil'itu yang dapat merusak generasi muda.

"Narkoba yang merupakan 'tsunami kecil' yang sedang terjadi di Aceh, ini juga sangat memprihatinkan, karena dengan narkoba bisa menghancurkan generasi bangsa," kata Wakil Gubernur Aceh, Muzakir Manaf, di Banda Aceh.

Pria yang akrab disapa Muallem itu juga mengatakan bahaya tsunami narkoba lebih parah dari tsunami air laut naik ke darat.

"Ini bahaya, imbas dari tsunami narkoba, orang akan mati pelan-pelan," imbuhnya.

Oleh karena itu, Muallem telah mengajak kepada seluruh orang tua di Aceh untuk tidak lupa menjaga dan mendidik anaknya. Jika semua pihak ikut berpartisipasi maka generasi muda Aceh yang terlibat narkoba akan berkurang.

"Orang tua itu juga harus bertanggungjawab dalam menjaga anaknya agar tidak terlibat narkoba," tangkasnya.

Editor : Dian Sukmawati

JASA PEMBUATRAN WEBSITE DAN SEO

Jasa Pembuatran Website Dan SEO

Semakin tinggi peringkat sebuah situs web pada hasil pencarian search engine, semakin tinggi jumlah pengunjung yang datang dan itu berarti semakin besar peluang untuk terjadinya penjualan pada situs web tersebut. 85% pengguna search engine mengklik dari hasil hasil pencarian organic. Untuk itu situs web Anda harus berada pada posisi 20 teratas, dan sebaiknya di posisi 10 teratas pada hasil pencarian search engine. Perlu diketahui bahwa sekitar 90% dari pengguna tidak melanjutkan lebih dari halaman ke-2 pada hasil pencarian search engine.
 

1. OPTIMIZATION AUDIT

Untuk memulai, kami melakukan audit pada situs web Anda untuk mengidentifikasi hal-hal yang membutuhkan perbaikan dalam optimasi situs web anda. Hal ini untuk memfokuskan pada strategi yang sesuai, dan memastikan situs web Anda teroptimasi secara maksimal dari strategi jasa SEO kami.

2. COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS

Sejalan dengan audit optimasi, jasa SEO kami juga melakukan analisa kompetisi untuk mengevaluasi peringkat situs web Anda yang berkaitan secara langsung dengan pesaing Anda, dan perencanaan perbaikan untuk mendapatkan peringkat lebih baik dari pesaing Anda.

3. KEYWORD ANALYSIS

Selanjutnya, kami menggunakan sejumlah alat analisa untuk mengidentifikasi target kata kunci yang akan digunakan untuk mendatangkan kunjungan oleh pengunjung yang ditargetkan ke situs web Anda. Kami mencari target kata kunci dengan jumlah pencarian yang tinggi dengan tingkat persaingan yang rendah.

4. SITE OPTIMIZATION

Kami memeriksa struktur dan kode situs web anda, dan merevisi jika diperlukan untuk memperbaiki adanya kesalahan yang menghambat mesin pencari mengindeks situs web anda. Kami akan mengoptimalkan struktur situs web anda, struktur link, dan struktur sitemap untuk meningkatkan 'deep linking' yang akan menghasilkan pengindeksan konten yang lebih teratur oleh spider mesin pencari.

5. USABILITY IMPROVEMENTS

Sebuah situs web yang dioptimalkan untuk mesin pencari hanya berharga apabila Anda dapat mengkonversi kunjungan menjadi pelanggan atau pengunjung melakukan sesuatu sesuai dengan tujuan dari situs web anda. Ini sebabnya kami mengevaluasi keseluruhan fungsi dan kegunaan situs web, dan memperbaikinya agar memudahkan pengguna dalam bernavigasi pada situs web Anda.

6. CONTENT STRATEGY

Dengan menggunakan data dari analisa kata kunci (keyword), kami mengoptimalkan konten secara on-page pada halaman situs sehingga target kata kunci terletak di daerah konten yang paling efektif. Kami bekerja sama dengan Anda untuk mengembangkan strategi pembuatan konten karena faktor utama optimasi adalah konten yang friendly bagi mesin pencari sekaligus mampu menarik perhatian pengunjung situs.

7. BLOG CREATION

Mesin pencari akan melakukan pengindeksan secara lebih teratur apabila sebuah situs web secara aktif melakukan pembaruan dalam konten.
Mesin pencari dapat meningkatkan posisi situs web pada peringkat yang lebih tinggi secara berkala. Ini sebabnya kami merekomendasikan bahwa semua klien kami memiliki sebuah blog pada situs mereka.
Kami dapat membantu anda membuat, mengelola, dan secara berkala mengupdate blog perusahaan secara profesional dengan konten yang menarik.

8. LINK BUILDING

Link Building adalah bagian terpenting dari optimasi mesin pencari.
Mesin pencari seperti Google menganggap incoming link yang mengarah ke situs web Anda sebagai bentuk 'referensi' oleh situs lain. Semakin banyak situs web Anda mendapatkan 'referensi' dari situs lain, search engine menganggap situs Anda penting dan mempunyai otoritas. Jasa SEO kami memfokuskan pada incoming link dari situs-situs yang berkualitas, relevan, dan mempunyai otoritas pada industri yang berkaitan.

9. REAL-TIME MONITORING

Jasa SEO kami menggunakan Google Analytics untuk mengevaluasi efektivitas proses optimasi, dan untuk menganalisa hasil konversi dari sasaran yang ditetapkan.

Kami menganalisa dan memperbaiki bagaimana situs web Anda dapat mengkonversi kunjungan oleh pengunjung menjadi pelanggan Anda.

 

Calvin Peete, 71, a Racial Pioneer on the PGA Tour, Is Dead

With 12 tournament victories in his career, Mr. Peete was the most successful black professional golfer before Tiger Woods.

Ex-C.I.A. Official Rebuts Republican Claims on Benghazi Attack in ‘The Great War of Our Time’

WASHINGTON — The former deputy director of the C.I.A. asserts in a forthcoming book that Republicans, in their eagerness to politicize the killing of the American ambassador to Libya, repeatedly distorted the agency’s analysis of events. But he also argues that the C.I.A. should get out of the business of providing “talking points” for administration officials in national security events that quickly become partisan, as happened after the Benghazi attack in 2012.

The official, Michael J. Morell, dismisses the allegation that the United States military and C.I.A. officers “were ordered to stand down and not come to the rescue of their comrades,” and he says there is “no evidence” to support the charge that “there was a conspiracy between C.I.A. and the White House to spin the Benghazi story in a way that would protect the political interests of the president and Secretary Clinton,” referring to the secretary of state at the time, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

But he also concludes that the White House itself embellished some of the talking points provided by the Central Intelligence Agency and had blocked him from sending an internal study of agency conclusions to Congress.

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“I finally did so without asking,” just before leaving government, he writes, and after the White House released internal emails to a committee investigating the State Department’s handling of the issue.

A lengthy congressional investigation remains underway, one that many Republicans hope to use against Mrs. Clinton in the 2016 election cycle.

In parts of the book, “The Great War of Our Time” (Twelve), Mr. Morell praises his C.I.A. colleagues for many successes in stopping terrorist attacks, but he is surprisingly critical of other C.I.A. failings — and those of the National Security Agency.

Soon after Mr. Morell retired in 2013 after 33 years in the agency, President Obama appointed him to a commission reviewing the actions of the National Security Agency after the disclosures of Edward J. Snowden, a former intelligence contractor who released classified documents about the government’s eavesdropping abilities. Mr. Morell writes that he was surprised by what he found.

“You would have thought that of all the government entities on the planet, the one least vulnerable to such grand theft would have been the N.S.A.,” he writes. “But it turned out that the N.S.A. had left itself vulnerable.”

He concludes that most Wall Street firms had better cybersecurity than the N.S.A. had when Mr. Snowden swept information from its systems in 2013. While he said he found himself “chagrined by how well the N.S.A. was doing” compared with the C.I.A. in stepping up its collection of data on intelligence targets, he also sensed that the N.S.A., which specializes in electronic spying, was operating without considering the implications of its methods.

“The N.S.A. had largely been collecting information because it could, not necessarily in all cases because it should,” he says.

The book is to be released next week.

Mr. Morell was a career analyst who rose through the ranks of the agency, and he ended up in the No. 2 post. He served as President George W. Bush’s personal intelligence briefer in the first months of his presidency — in those days, he could often be spotted at the Starbucks in Waco, Tex., catching up on his reading — and was with him in the schoolhouse in Florida on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, when the Bush presidency changed in an instant.

Mr. Morell twice took over as acting C.I.A. director, first when Leon E. Panetta was appointed secretary of defense and then when retired Gen. David H. Petraeus resigned over an extramarital affair with his biographer, a relationship that included his handing her classified notes of his time as America’s best-known military commander.

Mr. Morell says he first learned of the affair from Mr. Petraeus only the night before he resigned, and just as the Benghazi events were turning into a political firestorm. While praising Mr. Petraeus, who had told his deputy “I am very lucky” to run the C.I.A., Mr. Morell writes that “the organization did not feel the same way about him.” The former general “created the impression through the tone of his voice and his body language that he did not want people to disagree with him (which was not true in my own interaction with him),” he says.

But it is his account of the Benghazi attacks — and how the C.I.A. was drawn into the debate over whether the Obama White House deliberately distorted its account of the death of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens — that is bound to attract attention, at least partly because of its relevance to the coming presidential election. The initial assessments that the C.I.A. gave to the White House said demonstrations had preceded the attack. By the time analysts reversed their opinion, Susan E. Rice, now the national security adviser, had made a series of statements on Sunday talk shows describing the initial assessment. The controversy and other comments Ms. Rice made derailed Mr. Obama’s plan to appoint her as secretary of state.

The experience prompted Mr. Morell to write that the C.I.A. should stay out of the business of preparing talking points — especially on issues that are being seized upon for “political purposes.” He is critical of the State Department for not beefing up security in Libya for its diplomats, as the C.I.A., he said, did for its employees.

But he concludes that the assault in which the ambassador was killed took place “with little or no advance planning” and “was not well organized.” He says the attackers “did not appear to be looking for Americans to harm. They appeared intent on looting and conducting some vandalism,” setting fires that killed Mr. Stevens and a security official, Sean Smith.

Mr. Morell paints a picture of an agency that was struggling, largely unsuccessfully, to understand dynamics in the Middle East and North Africa when the Arab Spring broke out in late 2011 in Tunisia. The agency’s analysts failed to see the forces of revolution coming — and then failed again, he writes, when they told Mr. Obama that the uprisings would undercut Al Qaeda by showing there was a democratic pathway to change.

“There is no good explanation for our not being able to see the pressures growing to dangerous levels across the region,” he writes. The agency had again relied too heavily “on a handful of strong leaders in the countries of concern to help us understand what was going on in the Arab street,” he says, and those leaders themselves were clueless.

Moreover, an agency that has always overvalued secretly gathered intelligence and undervalued “open source” material “was not doing enough to mine the wealth of information available through social media,” he writes. “We thought and told policy makers that this outburst of popular revolt would damage Al Qaeda by undermining the group’s narrative,” he writes.

Instead, weak governments in Egypt, and the absence of governance from Libya to Yemen, were “a boon to Islamic extremists across both the Middle East and North Africa.”

Mr. Morell is gentle about most of the politicians he dealt with — he expresses admiration for both Mr. Bush and Mr. Obama, though he accuses former Vice President Dick Cheney of deliberately implying a connection between Al Qaeda and Iraq that the C.I.A. had concluded probably did not exist. But when it comes to the events leading up to the Bush administration’s decision to go to war in Iraq, he is critical of his own agency.

Mr. Morell concludes that the Bush White House did not have to twist intelligence on Saddam Hussein’s alleged effort to rekindle the country’s work on weapons of mass destruction.

“The view that hard-liners in the Bush administration forced the intelligence community into its position on W.M.D. is just flat wrong,” he writes. “No one pushed. The analysts were already there and they had been there for years, long before Bush came to office.”

William Pfaff, Critic of American Foreign Policy, Dies at 86

Mr. Pfaff was an international affairs columnist and author who found Washington’s intervention in world affairs often misguided.

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

In Baltimore, National Guard Pullout Begins as Citywide Curfew Is Lifted

David Goldman/Associated Press

National Guard soldiers boarding a truck in Baltimore on Sunday.

Baltimore residents prepared to resume the more familiar rhythms of their lives as days passed without new bouts of widespread rioting and as the National Guard began to pull its troops from the city.

In Baltimore, National Guard Pullout Begins as Citywide Curfew Is Lifted | PAKET UMROH BULAN JANUARI 2016

Rhapsody, a Lofty Literary Journal, Perused at 39,000 Feet

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Last summer at a writers’ workshop in Oregon, the novelists Anthony Doerr, Karen Russell and Elissa Schappell were chatting over cocktails when they realized they had all published work in the same magazine. It wasn’t one of the usual literary outlets, like Tin House, The Paris Review or The New Yorker. It was Rhapsody, an in-flight magazine for United Airlines.

It seemed like a weird coincidence. Then again, considering Rhapsody’s growing roster of A-list fiction writers, maybe not. Since its first issue hit plane cabins a year and a half ago, Rhapsody has published original works by literary stars like Joyce Carol Oates, Rick Moody, Amy Bloom, Emma Straub and Mr. Doerr, who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction two weeks ago.

As airlines try to distinguish their high-end service with luxuries like private sleeping chambers, showers, butler service and meals from five-star chefs, United Airlines is offering a loftier, more cerebral amenity to its first-class and business-class passengers: elegant prose by prominent novelists. There are no airport maps or disheartening lists of in-flight meal and entertainment options in Rhapsody. Instead, the magazine has published ruminative first-person travel accounts, cultural dispatches and probing essays about flight by more than 30 literary fiction writers.

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An airline might seem like an odd literary patron. But as publishers and writers look for new ways to reach readers in a shaky retail climate, many have formed corporate alliances with transit companies, including American Airlines, JetBlue and Amtrak, that provide a captive audience.

Mark Krolick, United Airlines’ managing director of marketing and product development, said the quality of the writing in Rhapsody brings a patina of sophistication to its first-class service, along with other opulent touches like mood lighting, soft music and a branded scent.

“The high-end leisure or business-class traveler has higher expectations, even in the entertainment we provide,” he said.

Some of Rhapsody’s contributing writers say they were lured by the promise of free airfare and luxury accommodations provided by United, as well as exposure to an elite audience of some two million first-class and business-class travelers.

“It’s not your normal Park Slope Community Bookstore types who read Rhapsody,” Mr. Moody, author of the 1994 novel “The Ice Storm,” who wrote an introspective, philosophical piece about traveling to the Aran Islands of Ireland for Rhapsody, said in an email. “I’m not sure I myself am in that Rhapsody demographic, but I would like them to buy my books one day.”

In addition to offering travel perks, the magazine pays well and gives writers freedom, within reason, to choose their subject matter and write with style. Certain genres of flight stories are off limits, naturally: no plane crashes or woeful tales of lost luggage or rude flight attendants, and nothing too risqué.

“We’re not going to have someone write about joining the mile-high club,” said Jordan Heller, the editor in chief of Rhapsody. “Despite those restrictions, we’ve managed to come up with a lot of high-minded literary content.”

Guiding writers toward the right idea occasionally requires some gentle prodding. When Rhapsody’s executive editor asked Ms. Russell to contribute an essay about a memorable flight experience, she first pitched a story about the time she was chaperoning a group of teenagers on a trip to Europe, and their delayed plane sat at the airport in New York for several hours while other passengers got progressively drunker.

“He pointed out that disaster flights are not what people want to read about when they’re in transit, and very diplomatically suggested that maybe people want to read something that casts air travel in a more positive light,” said Ms. Russell, whose novel “Swamplandia!” was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize.

She turned in a nostalgia-tinged essay about her first flight on a trip to Disney World when she was 6. “The Magic Kingdom was an anticlimax,” she wrote. “What ride could compare to that first flight?”

Ms. Oates also wrote about her first flight, in a tiny yellow propeller plane piloted by her father. The novelist Joyce Maynard told of the constant disappointment of never seeing her books in airport bookstores and the thrill of finally spotting a fellow plane passenger reading her novel “Labor Day.” Emily St. John Mandel, who was a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction last year, wrote about agonizing over which books to bring on a long flight.

“There’s nobody that’s looked down their noses at us as an in-flight magazine,” said Sean Manning, the magazine’s executive editor. “As big as these people are in the literary world, there’s still this untapped audience for them of luxury travelers.”

United is one of a handful of companies showcasing work by literary writers as a way to elevate their brands and engage customers. Chipotle has printed original work from writers like Toni Morrison, Jeffrey Eugenides and Barbara Kingsolver on its disposable cups and paper bags. The eyeglass company Warby Parker hosts parties for authors and sells books from 14 independent publishers in its stores.

JetBlue offers around 40 e-books from HarperCollins and Penguin Random House on its free wireless network, allowing passengers to read free samples and buy and download books. JetBlue will start offering 11 digital titles from Simon & Schuster soon. Amtrak recently forged an alliance with Penguin Random House to provide free digital samples from 28 popular titles, which passengers can buy and download over Amtrak’s admittedly spotty wireless service.

Amtrak is becoming an incubator for literary talent in its own right. Last year, it started a residency program, offering writers a free long-distance train trip and complimentary food. More than 16,000 writers applied and 24 made the cut.

Like Amtrak, Rhapsody has found that writers are eager to get onboard. On a rainy spring afternoon, Rhapsody’s editorial staff sat around a conference table discussing the June issue, which will feature an essay by the novelist Hannah Pittard and an unpublished short story by the late Elmore Leonard.

“Do you have that photo of Elmore Leonard? Can I see it?” Mr. Heller, the editor in chief, asked Rhapsody’s design director, Christos Hannides. Mr. Hannides slid it across the table and noted that they also had a photograph of cowboy spurs. “It’s very simple; it won’t take away from the literature,” he said.

Rhapsody’s office, an open space with exposed pipes and a vaulted brick ceiling, sits in Dumbo at the epicenter of literary Brooklyn, in the same converted tea warehouse as the literary journal N+1 and the digital publisher Atavist. Two of the magazine’s seven staff members hold graduate degrees in creative writing. Mr. Manning, the executive editor, has published a memoir and edited five literary anthologies.

Mr. Manning said Rhapsody was conceived from the start as a place for literary novelists to write with voice and style, and nobody had been put off that their work would live in plane cabins and airport lounges.

Still, some contributors say they wish the magazine were more widely circulated.

“I would love it if I could read it,” said Ms. Schappell, a Brooklyn-based novelist who wrote a feature story for Rhapsody’s inaugural issue. “But I never fly first class.”

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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?”

Taiwan party leader affirms eventual reunion with China

BEIJING (AP) — The head of Taiwan's Nationalists reaffirmed the party's support for eventual unification with the mainland when he met Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping as part of continuing rapprochement between the former bitter enemies.

Nationalist Party Chairman Eric Chu, a likely presidential candidate next year, also affirmed Taiwan's desire to join the proposed Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank during the meeting in Beijing. China claims Taiwan as its own territory and doesn't want the island to join using a name that might imply it is an independent country.

Chu's comments during his meeting with Xi were carried live on Hong Kong-based broadcaster Phoenix Television.

The Nationalists were driven to Taiwan by Mao Zedong's Communists during the Chinese civil war in 1949, leading to decades of hostility between the sides. Chu, who took over as party leader in January, is the third Nationalist chairman to visit the mainland and the first since 2009.

Relations between the communist-ruled mainland and the self-governing democratic island of Taiwan began to warm in the 1990s, partly out of their common opposition to Taiwan's formal independence from China, a position advocated by the island's Democratic Progressive Party.

Despite increasingly close economic ties, the prospect of political unification has grown increasingly unpopular on Taiwan, especially with younger voters. Opposition to the Nationalists' pro-China policies was seen as a driver behind heavy local electoral defeats for the party last year that led to Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou resigning as party chairman.

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