PAKET UMROH BULAN FEBRUARI MARET APRIL MEI 2018

CARA MEMBUAT BALON UDARA

saco-indonesia.com,
Cara Membuat Balon Udara Sederhana

Cara untuk membuatnya pertama yang harus kita lakukan adalah dengan memotong tas kresek menjadi lembaran-lembaran yang nantinya akan disatukan. Potong lembaran kresek untuk menjadi bentuk segi empat.
Satukan tiap-tiap lembar kresek dengan menggunakan lilin. Caranya seperti kalau orang yang membungkus krupuk dengan plastik, 2 sisi plastik harus direkatkan dengan cara dibakar pakai lilin. Hati-hati karena tahap ini yang paling telah menyita waktu dan butuh teliti, salah sedikit kresek bisa bolong karena terbakar. Pelan-pelan aja yang penting jadi. Agar lebih mudah, bisa gunakan lidi. Ukurannya dikira-kira dengan ukuran plastik yang dipakai, yang diharapkan hasil akhirnya akan membentuk seperti tabung dengan diameter lebih dari 30cm, umumnya diameter 50cm sudah bagus dengan ketinggian 1m lebih.
Setelah jadi, tahap berikutnya adalah dengan membuat tutup untuk bagian atasnya. Buat dari beberapa lembar kresek yang akan disatukan, kemudian diukur berapa yang dibutuhkan untuk dapat membuat tutup atas. Satukan dengan lilin seperti sebelumnya.
Badan balon sudah jadi, tinggal membuat bagian bawah yang nantinya akan dipakai untuk dapat mengaitkan gombal. Bahannya juga bisa dari bambu atau kawat, yang penting adalah ringan. Bentuk seperti lingkaran dengan diameter kurang dari diameter tabung yang dibuat tadi. Semisal tabung dari kresek dibuat 50cm, maka lingkaran bawah harus dibuat menjadi 30cm. Kemudian, tengahnya harus diberi kawat yang membentuk tanda plus.

Selesai, kemudian satukan kresek dengan lingkaran masih dengan menggunakan cara biasa yaitu dengan bantuan dibakar lilin. Mungkin bingung kenapa jika diameter tabung 50cm kok lingkarannya 30cm. Sebenarnya sebelum disatukan, tabung dari kresek tadi dipotong dulu agar diameter bawah sesuai dengan diameter lingkaran bambu. Tujuannya agar balon bisa terlihat lebih gembung.

Bagian yang ada garis putus-putus adalah yang perlu dipotong, kemudian disambung lagi dengan dibakar lilin.
Nah, jadilah balon sedehana. Siapkan gombal yang dibentuk seperti bola, lalu diikat dengan kawat agar tidak berubah bentuk. Rendam dalam minyak goreng. Direkomendasikan, langkah ini juga dilakukan sehari sebelum membuat balon, karena semakin lama direndam, maka minyak yang dihisap gombal juga makin banyak. Artinya gombal bisa menyala lebih lama.

Berikutnya adalah saat yang ditunggu, menerbangkan balon. Siapkan dahan-dahan pohon atau daun kering untuk dibakar. Biasanya digunakan daun kelapa, jika tidak ada sesuaikan saja, yang penting bisa menghasilkan api yang besar. Daun dibakar mengeluarkan asap, usahakan asap masuk ke dalam balon.

Jika balon sudah mengembang dan dirasa sudah bisa terbang, kaitkan gombal ke tengah kawat dan nyalakan. Balon siap dilepaskan.

Editor : Dian Sukmawati

CARA MUDAH KUNCI FLASHDISK TANPA SOFTWARE ATAU APLIKASI

Pada zaman cyber seperti saat ini, kebutuhan akan data sangatlah penting bagi kita. Dengan data, kita dapat melakukan berbagai hal yang dapat membuat perkembangan teknologi semakin maju. Jadi sudah selayaknya data yang dimiliki dijaga dengan baik dan harus benar-benar dalam kondisi yang aman. Bahkan kalau di dunia IT, data merupakan sesuatu yang dapat membuat suatu lembaga atau perusahaan menjadi berkembang dan sangat maju. Contohnya saja seperti perusahaan search engine terbesar layaknya google.com . Perusahaan satu ini menyimpan atau pun mengindex cukup banyak data yang ada di dunia ini sehingga dapat membawa mereka menjadi pepuler dengan menyandang predikat mesin pencari terbaik dan terlengkap. Jadi tidak bisa dipungkiri, data memang sangatlah penting.

Oleh karena itu, kami disini akan sedikit memberikan tips yang baik untuk menjaga data flashdisk anda dengan cara menguncinya menggunakan password. Namun, cara ini cukup mudah dikarenakan tidak perlu menggunakan software atau pun aplikasi lain yang ada. Cukup dengan mengikuti beberapa langkah nya.
Namun yang perlu di ingat, fitur password untuk mengunci flashdisk ini tidak dimiliki oleh semua Operating System. Salah satu Operating System yang memiliki fitur password untuk flashdisk ini adalah windows 7. Pada windows 7, fitur ini dinamakan dengan bitlocker. Jadi, kami akan membahas bagaimana caranya mengunci flasdisk anda dengan menggunakan password pada windows 7.

Langkah-langkah nya adalah sebagai berikut.

• Buka windows explorer
• Kemudian klik kanan pada drive flashdisk anda dan pilih Turn On Bitlocker
• Jika sudah keluar botton check box, maka centang lah pada bagian Use a Password to unlock the drive
• Masukkan password anda pada kotak type your password dan masukkan kembali password nya pada kotak Retype your password
• Klik save the recovery key to a file dan klik save untuk menyimpannya
• Klik next
• Untuk memulai proses pemberian password pada flashdisknya, langsung klik start encrypting
• Tunggulah sampai proses nya selesai dan jika berhasil, Icon drive flashdisk akan berubah dengan adanya gambar gembok
• Coba uji flashdisk anda dengan mencolokkannya pada laptop, jika berhasil maka ia akan meminta password untuk membuka flashdisk tersebut

KONVEKSI JAKET

Perusahaan kami, berlokasi di Bandung, Jawa Barat, bergerak dalam bidang Industri Pakaian Konveksi semi Garment dan Bordir Komputer (computerized embroidery).
Kami menerima pesanan dan memproduksi sendiri pakaian untuk keperluan Seragam, Olahraga, Promosi, Kampanye, Souvenir, dll dari bahan baku sesuai dengan order / pesanan konsumen, ditambah dengan atribut sablon atau bordir komputer.

Berkat visi,kerja keras, dan perbaikan pada berbagai bidang, perusahaan konveksi kami sudah jauh berkembang pada saat ini. Klien / Customer yang sudah pernah kami tangani berasal dari berbagai provinsi di Indonesia sampai luar negeri.

Kritik, saran, dan berbagai komentar (kekecewaan, kepuasan, dll) telah membuat perusahaan konveksi kami membuat banyak perubahan yang membawa pada kemajuan demi kemajuan seiring dengan bertambahnya usia perusahaan kami.

Meskipun berada di Lokasi Jalur Jl. Suci (Surapati-Cicaheum), perusahaan kami memiliki standard kualitas yang berbeda karena kami lebih berorientasi membidik segmen Corporate dan Export dan juga kami memproduksi sendiri order/ pesanan konsumen sehingga kualitasnya lebih terkontrol. Hal ini kami paparkan karena beberapa kalangan memiliki image negatif terhadap Jl. Suci karena kecewa terhadap beberapa showroom di Jl. Suci lewat pengalaman memesan di tempat tersebut.

Divisi-divisi yang kami miliki:
- Pola dan Potong (Pattern Maker & Cutting)
- Produksi Upper the Line Products (Aneka Uniform, Jaket Formal, Polo Shirt Eksklusif, Seragam perusahaan, dll)
- Finishing dan Quality Control
- Produksi Bordir Komputer (embroidery)
- Produksi Below the Line Products (Kaos Promosi, Seragam Sekolah, Kaos Pilkada, dsb)

Perusahaan kami melayani standard kualitas dari yang kualitas Exclusive (seperti untuk kebutuhan Export, Polo Shirt Golf, Jaket Formal/ Jaket semi Jas (Jasket), Seragam Staff Perusahaan, dll), dsb, sampai ekonomis seperti kaos kampanye / pilkada, seragam olahraga sekolah, baju promosi, dsb, untuk setiap kategori produk yang ditawarkan.

Untuk masalah ukuran, kami mengerjakan berbagai macam alternatif sistem ukuran:
1. S, M, L, XL, XXL, dst (Lokal, America, Eropa)
2. Penomoran 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 15 1/2, 16, 16 1/2, dst. (kemeja)
3. Penomoran 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, dst. (Celana)
4. Taylor Size (ukur satu per satu).


BAHAN KAIN/ Fabric yang kami gunakan antara lain:

- Kaos & Polo Shirt : PE (Polyester), Hyget, Cotton Carded, Cotton Combed, TC (tetoron cotton - 35 % cotton 65 % polyester, CVC (80% cotton, 20 % polyester), Polyester, Lacoste, Lacoste Cotton pique, Wafel, Double Knit, Spandex Balon, Spandex Rayon, Spandex Sutera, Jersey, Dryfit, dll.

- Jaket: Drill, Parasut/ Parasit, Taslan (nylon taslon), Baby canvas, Canvas sueding, Canvas ring, Canvas Marsoto, Ribstock/ Ribstop, Jeans/Denim, Micro fibre, Micro Satin, High Twist, Semi Wol, Diadora, Adidas, Lotto, Elvana, dll.

- Pakaian Olahraga: Parasut/parasit, Taslan (nilon Taslon), Micro fibre, Micro saten, Mikro Taroko, Adidas, Lotto, Elvana, Puma, Paragon, Diadora, Trilobal, Eye let, Serena, dll.

- Kemeja: American drill, Castilo, Verlando American Drill, Ventura Drill, Japan Drill, Taipan Drill, Oxford, Canada, Golden Mela, Tetoron, Ripstop/ Ribstok, High twist (Sebastian, Caravelle, Intercooler, Maxi Style ( Staff, Serasi, Diploma, Chinos, Pro, dll), Bellini ( Topman, United, Fortis, dll), Textile One, Estilo, Bertoluci, Pedroza, Exprezzo, Tifosi, Amarilo, Britain, Mantovani, Caterina, dll), BSY (tisu), Sutra, dll.

- Celana: American drill, Castilo, Verlando, Ventura, Japan, Taipan, Canvas, Jeans (denim), Corduroy, High twist ( Sebastian, Caravelle, Intercooler, Maxi Style( Staff, Serasi, Diploma, Chinos, Pro, dll), Bellini ( Topman, United, Fortis, dll), Textile One, Estilo, Bertoluci, Pedroza, Exprezzo, Tifosi, Amarilo, Britain, Mantovani, Caterina, dll) Wol, Ripstop (ribstock/ribstok), dsb.

- Topi: Canvas, Drill, Jala/jaring, Raphel/ Rafel, Twill, Matador, dll.

- Sweater: fleece katun, fleece PE, polar fleece, baby tery, dll.

Berikut daftar beberapa client kami (baik langsung/lewat perantara):

Perusahan Tambang (Mining, Oil& Gas Company)
01. PT. STAR ENERGY- Kakap Field,Natuna - (www.starenergy.co.id)
02. PT. PETROSEA SANGA COAL - Balikpapan,Kalimantan Timur (www.petrosea.com)
03. Pertamina Dumai - HCC Division
04. PT. SAIPEM INDONESIA - Jakarta
05. PT. Bumi Reksa Halmahera -Ternate
06. PT. ANEKA TAMBANG- Pomalaa, Sulawesi Tenggara

Bank
1. BCA Pangkal Pinang - Bangka Belitung
2. BANK INDONESIA - Jayapura
3. Bank Riau, Divisi Consumer Banking -Pekanbaru
4. Bank Indonesia - Tasikmalaya


Perusahaan Transportasi dan Pelayaran
1. PT. TANTO INTIM LINE Cab. Gorontalo
2. PT. Pelindo - Medan
3. CKB Logistics (PT. Cipta Krida Bahari) - Jakarta (http://www.ckb.co.id)

Instansi Pemerintah
1. Kejaksaan Agung RI - Bag. Protokoler, Jakarta
2. SEKRETARIAT DAERAH KALTENG - Palangkaraya
3. PEMDA Kab. Boven Digoel - PAPUA

Perusahaan Telekomunikasi & Information Technology, TV, Radio
1. PT.Telkom - Jakarta Selatan
2. TVRI KALSEL - Banjarmasin, Kalimantan Selatan

Militer/ TNI
1. KODAM XVI- Patimura, Ambon
2. PRIMKOPAL - Sabang, Banda Aceh
3. Batalyon Infanteri- 8 Marinir - Pangkalan Brandan

Perusahaan Otomotif, Dealer Motor-Mobil
1. PT. Bajaj Auto Indonesia - Jakarta (www.bajajautoindonesia.com)
2. FORD KELAPA GADING - Jakarta


Club Golf
1. Driving Range Siliwangi - Bandung.
2. Soewarna Business Park - Cengkareng, Banten (www.soewarna-businesspark.com)
3. PT. Gapura Angkasa - Cengkareng, Banten

Perusahaan BUMN dan Swasta
1. PT. PUPUK KALTIM Dep SMSDM-Bontang, Kalimantan Timur
2. PLN Kaltim- Balikpapan,Kalimantan Timur
3. PT. PLN (Persero) Pembangkitan Jawa Bali - Muara Karang
4. dll
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MACAM TIPE JENIS KERTAS CETAK FOTO

Dalam jual beli, jika anda ingin Bisnis Kertas HVS-A4–Folio–Art Paper dan sejenisnya, maka anda harus tahu strateginya agar mendapatkan keuntungan melimpah dalam bisnis kertas.
Untuk mendapatkan harga kertas termurah dari pabrik, maka anda harus bisa mendapatkan sub dari pabrik pusat yang menyuplai kertas tersebut. Karena jika mengambil dari pabrik langsung, maka anda harus teken kontrak terlebih dahulu dengan pabrik yang bersangkutan yang nilainya ratusan hingga miliaran rupiah untuk bisa menjalankan bisnis kertas tersebut.
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Jika anda ingin bisnis kertas dengan skala kecil yang bisa anda jual langsung di fotocopy atau perceakan offset yang kelasnya kecil hingga sedang. Untuk kelas ke atas (percetakan besar), maka anda juga harus berani bersaing, dan itu merupakan pertarungan normal dalam bisnis.
Kembali ke urusan kertas. Untuk mendapatkan harga kertas termurah, ukuran HVS dengan ukuran A4, Folio, hingga Double Folio maka bisa di akali dengan membeli kertas HVS plano (ukuran besar). Yang tentunya, berdasarkan pengalaman, harga kertas tersebut mempunyai selisih harga yang lebih murah dari pada kertas terbungkus langsung dari pabriknya.
Namun demikian, untuk memulai Bisnis Kertas Harga Murah, anda harus terlebih dahulu meng-cros chek dari berbagai toko kertas, hingga ke pergudangan kertas (sub pabrik) untuk mendapatkan harga terbaik, yakni harga kertas termurah yang lebih murah dari pada harga grosir kertas A4 atau Folio.
Dengan membeli kertas di sub agen kertas tersebut, ada kelebihan tentunya. karena anda tidak perlu menanam modal terlebih dahulu, yakni jika ada uang bisa langsung membeli dan tidak ada target penjualan dalam tiap bulannya seperti halnya sub agen dari pabrik tersebut. Dan tentunya sudah sesuai dengan apa yang anda harapkan, mendapatkan harga kertas termurah sesuai dengan kualifikasi jenis kertas tersebut.
HARGA JUAL BELI KERTAS MURAH dan STRATEGI Sebagai Ladang Bisnis
Untuk mendapatkan harga beli kertas murah, maka anda harus membeli kertas ukuran satu plano, yang bisa di potong A4 atau Folio yang nantinya juga bisa anda jual kertas tersebut dengan harg lebih murah juga dari toko kertas yang lain.
Sebagai gambaran ukuran kertas HVS satu plano  misalnya: 61x86, 65x100, 79x109 dan sejenisnua. Itu merupakan kertas pada umumnya yang dipakai untuk percetakan  maupun foto copy dalam pembuatan buku-buku dari pemesannya. Berlaku juga untuk kertas Artpaper, namun yang ukuran 61x86 agak sulit dicari, setahu saya memang tidak ada. Jadi khusus untuk Art paper kebanyakan mulai ukuran 65x100 ke atas ketika artikel ini Showroom cetak tulis. Mungkin saja, harga dan jenis kertas di tahun 2013 ada perubahan, maka anda harus cek juga di toko kertas tentang harga kertas.
Selanjutnya, setelah anda mendapatkan kertas ukuran plano, anda bisa memotong jenis ukuran kertas tersebut sesuai ukuran, baik A4 ataupun kertas Folio. Tergantung selera dan konsumsi dari pembeli yang menjadi sasaran anda.
Dan yang terpenting, anda juga harus mempersiapkan harga jual kertas A4 atau folio tersebut dan bandingkan dengan toko lain. Tips jual dalam bisnis kertas, jika awal penjualan, maka jangan mengambil selisih terlalu banyak dari toko sebelah, tapi targetkan pelanggan terlebih dahulu. Baru selanjutnya terserah anda.
Demikian rahasia dan Strategi Bisnis Kertas HVS-A4–Folio–Art Paper dan Sejenisnya jika anda ingin mulai merambah bisnis kertas sebagai usaha anda. Salam Wirausaha.

ANAK GADIS GURU NGAJI DIBUNUH OLEH KEKASIHNYA SENDIRI

saco-indonesia.com, Polisi telah berhasil membekuk pelaku pembunuhan Nurul Hakiki yang berusia (20) tahun , anak seorang guru ngaji, yang tewas terikat dan dimasukkan dalam karung. Ternyata, pembunuh tersebut adalah sang kekasih.

Kapolres Sumbawa AKBP Karsiman telah mengungkapkan, pelaku pembunuhan tersebut telah dilakukan oleh HA yang berusia (30) tahun yang tak lain kekasih korban. HA tinggal tak jauh dari tempat tinggal Nurul di Kecamatan Badas, Kota Sumbawa.

"Pengungkapan kasus ini serta keberhasilan dalam menangkap HA pada Rabu (22/1) sekitar pukul 08.00 Wita, berkat kerja keras anggota dan oleh didukung masyarakat, termasuk keluarga korban," kata Karsiman, Kamis (23/1).

Nurul telah dibunuh dengan cara dijerat di bagian lehernya saat berada di rumah HA. Korban telah dihabisi sekitar pukul 21.00 WITA, kemudian jasadnya telah dimasukkan ke dalam karung. Selang satu jam, pelaku telah membawa karung berisi jenazah ke bawah Jembatan Kembar, atau sekitar dua kilometer dari rumah HA.

"Mayat dimasukkan dalam karung hanya untuk dapat memudahkan tersangka membawanya, di samping untuk menyamarkan agar tidak diketahui orang," ungkap kapolres.

Kasus pembunuhan ini telah terungkap ketika Mursali yang berusia (50) tahun , warga Tanjung Pasir Desa Labuan yang kesehariannya menjadi pemulung, menemukan sebuah karung mencurigakan, saat sedang mengais sampah di kolong Jembatan Kembar Saliperate, Jumat (27/12) sekitar pukul 07.00 WITA.

Setelah karung dibuka, ternyata isinya adalah jenazah seseorang bernama Nurul Hakiki, gadis yang tinggalnya di Karang Padak, Desa Labuan, Badas.

Jasad putri seorang guru ngaji ini telah ditemukan dalam keadaan terbungkus di dalam karung. Tak sehelai benang pun menempel di tubuhnya, kecuali sebuah 'bra' yang sudah terbalik.

Editor : Dian Sukmawati

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.

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.

Finding Scandal in New York and New Jersey, but No Shame

From sea to shining sea, or at least from one side of the Hudson to the other, politicians you have barely heard of are being accused of wrongdoing. There were so many court proceedings involving public officials on Monday that it was hard to keep up.

In Newark, two underlings of Gov. Chris Christie were arraigned on charges that they were in on the truly deranged plot to block traffic leading onto the George Washington Bridge.

Ten miles away, in Lower Manhattan, Dean G. Skelos, the leader of the New York State Senate, and his son, Adam B. Skelos, were arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on accusations of far more conventional political larceny, involving a job with a sewer company for the son and commissions on title insurance and bond work.

The younger man managed to receive a 150 percent pay increase from the sewer company even though, as he said on tape, he “literally knew nothing about water or, you know, any of that stuff,” according to a criminal complaint the United States attorney’s office filed.

The success of Adam Skelos, 32, was attributed by prosecutors to his father’s influence as the leader of the Senate and as a potentate among state Republicans. The indictment can also be read as one of those unfailingly sad tales of a father who cannot stop indulging a grown son. The senator himself is not alleged to have profited from the schemes, except by being relieved of the burden of underwriting Adam.

The bridge traffic caper is its own species of crazy; what distinguishes the charges against the two Skeloses is the apparent absence of a survival instinct. It is one thing not to know anything about water or that stuff. More remarkable, if true, is the fact that the sewer machinations continued even after the former New York Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, was charged in January with taking bribes disguised as fees.

It was by then common gossip in political and news media circles that Senator Skelos, a Republican, the counterpart in the Senate to Mr. Silver, a Democrat, in the Assembly, could be next in line for the criminal dock. “Stay tuned,” the United States attorney, Preet Bharara said, leaving not much to the imagination.

Even though the cat had been unmistakably belled, Skelos father and son continued to talk about how to advance the interests of the sewer company, though the son did begin to use a burner cellphone, the kind people pay for in cash, with no traceable contracts.

That was indeed prudent, as prosecutors had been wiretapping the cellphones of both men. But it would seem that the burner was of limited value, because by then the prosecutors had managed to secure the help of a business executive who agreed to record calls with the Skeloses. It would further seem that the business executive was more attentive to the perils of pending investigations than the politician.

Through the end of the New York State budget negotiations in March, the hopes of the younger Skelos rested on his father’s ability to devise legislation that would benefit the sewer company. That did not pan out. But Senator Skelos did boast that he had haggled with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, in a successful effort to raise a $150 million allocation for Long Island to $550 million, for what the budget called “transformative economic development projects.” It included money for the kind of work done by the sewer company.

The lawyer for Adam Skelos said he was not guilty and would win in court. Senator Skelos issued a ringing declaration that he was unequivocally innocent.

THIS was also the approach taken in New Jersey by Bill Baroni, a man of great presence and eloquence who stopped outside the federal courthouse to note that he had taken risks as a Republican by bucking his party to support paid family leave, medical marijuana and marriage equality. “I would never risk my career, my job, my reputation for something like this,” Mr. Baroni said. “I am an innocent man.”

The lawyer for his co-defendant, Bridget Anne Kelly, the former deputy chief of staff to Mr. Christie, a Republican, said that she would strongly rebut the charges.

Perhaps they had nothing to do with the lane closings. But neither Mr. Baroni nor Ms. Kelly addressed the question of why they did not return repeated calls from the mayor of Fort Lee, N.J., begging them to stop the traffic tie-ups, over three days.

That silence was a low moment. But perhaps New York hit bottom faster. Senator Skelos, the prosecutors charged, arranged to meet Long Island politicians at the wake of Wenjian Liu, a New York City police officer shot dead in December, to press for payments to the company employing his son.

Sometimes it seems as though for some people, the only thing to be ashamed of is shame itself.

Cher and Marc Jacobs

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

Richard Suzman, 72, Dies; Researcher Influenced Global Surveys on Aging

At the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Suzman’s signature accomplishment was the central role he played in creating a global network of surveys on aging.

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

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Maya Plisetskaya, Ballerina Who Embodied Bolshoi, Dies at 89

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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.

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As he reflected on the festering wounds deepened by race and grievance that have been on painful display in America’s cities lately, President Obama on Monday found himself thinking about a young man he had just met named Malachi.

A few minutes before, in a closed-door round-table discussion at Lehman College in the Bronx, Mr. Obama had asked a group of black and Hispanic students from disadvantaged backgrounds what could be done to help them reach their goals. Several talked about counseling and guidance programs.

“Malachi, he just talked about — we should talk about love,” Mr. Obama told a crowd afterward, drifting away from his prepared remarks. “Because Malachi and I shared the fact that our dad wasn’t around and that sometimes we wondered why he wasn’t around and what had happened. But really, that’s what this comes down to is: Do we love these kids?”

Many presidents have governed during times of racial tension, but Mr. Obama is the first to see in the mirror a face that looks like those on the other side of history’s ledger. While his first term was consumed with the economy, war and health care, his second keeps coming back to the societal divide that was not bridged by his election. A president who eschewed focusing on race now seems to have found his voice again as he thinks about how to use his remaining time in office and beyond.

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In the aftermath of racially charged unrest in places like Baltimore, Ferguson, Mo., and New York, Mr. Obama came to the Bronx on Monday for the announcement of a new nonprofit organization that is being spun off from his White House initiative called My Brother’s Keeper. Staked by more than $80 million in commitments from corporations and other donors, the new group, My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, will in effect provide the nucleus for Mr. Obama’s post-presidency, which will begin in January 2017.

“This will remain a mission for me and for Michelle not just for the rest of my presidency but for the rest of my life,” Mr. Obama said. “And the reason is simple,” he added. Referring to some of the youths he had just met, he said: “We see ourselves in these young men. I grew up without a dad. I grew up lost sometimes and adrift, not having a sense of a clear path. The only difference between me and a lot of other young men in this neighborhood and all across the country is that I grew up in an environment that was a little more forgiving.”

Organizers said the new alliance already had financial pledges from companies like American Express, Deloitte, Discovery Communications and News Corporation. The money will be used to help companies address obstacles facing young black and Hispanic men, provide grants to programs for disadvantaged youths, and help communities aid their populations.

Joe Echevarria, a former chief executive of Deloitte, the accounting and consulting firm, will lead the alliance, and among those on its leadership team or advisory group are executives at PepsiCo, News Corporation, Sprint, BET and Prudential Group Insurance; former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell; Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey; former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.; the music star John Legend; the retired athletes Alonzo Mourning, Jerome Bettis and Shaquille O’Neal; and the mayors of Indianapolis, Sacramento and Philadelphia.

The alliance, while nominally independent of the White House, may face some of the same questions confronting former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as she begins another presidential campaign. Some of those donating to the alliance may have interests in government action, and skeptics may wonder whether they are trying to curry favor with the president by contributing.

“The Obama administration will have no role in deciding how donations are screened and what criteria they’ll set at the alliance for donor policies, because it’s an entirely separate entity,” Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, told reporters on Air Force One en route to New York. But he added, “I’m confident that the members of the board are well aware of the president’s commitment to transparency.”

The alliance was in the works before the disturbances last week after the death of Freddie Gray, the black man who suffered fatal injuries while in police custody in Baltimore, but it reflected the evolution of Mr. Obama’s presidency. For him, in a way, it is coming back to issues that animated him as a young community organizer and politician. It was his own struggle with race and identity, captured in his youthful memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” that stood him apart from other presidential aspirants.

But that was a side of him that he kept largely to himself through the first years of his presidency while he focused on other priorities like turning the economy around, expanding government-subsidized health care and avoiding electoral land mines en route to re-election.

After securing a second term, Mr. Obama appeared more emboldened. Just a month after his 2013 inauguration, he talked passionately about opportunity and race with a group of teenage boys in Chicago, a moment aides point to as perhaps the first time he had spoken about these issues in such a personal, powerful way as president. A few months later, he publicly lamented the death of Trayvon Martin, a black Florida teenager, saying that “could have been me 35 years ago.”

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That case, along with public ruptures of anger over police shootings in Ferguson and elsewhere, have pushed the issue of race and law enforcement onto the public agenda. Aides said they imagined that with his presidency in its final stages, Mr. Obama might be thinking more about what comes next and causes he can advance as a private citizen.

That is not to say that his public discussion of these issues has been universally welcomed. Some conservatives said he had made matters worse by seeming in their view to blame police officers in some of the disputed cases.

“President Obama, when he was elected, could have been a unifying leader,” Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a Republican candidate for president, said at a forum last week. “He has made decisions that I think have inflamed racial tensions.”

On the other side of the ideological spectrum, some liberal African-American activists have complained that Mr. Obama has not done enough to help downtrodden communities. While he is speaking out more, these critics argue, he has hardly used the power of the presidency to make the sort of radical change they say is necessary.

The line Mr. Obama has tried to straddle has been a serrated one. He condemns police brutality as he defends most officers as honorable. He condemns “criminals and thugs” who looted in Baltimore while expressing empathy with those trapped in a cycle of poverty and hopelessness.

In the Bronx on Monday, Mr. Obama bemoaned the death of Brian Moore, a plainclothes New York police officer who had died earlier in the day after being shot in the head Saturday on a Queens street. Most police officers are “good and honest and fair and care deeply about their communities,” even as they put their lives on the line, Mr. Obama said.

“Which is why in addressing the issues in Baltimore or Ferguson or New York, the point I made was that if we’re just looking at policing, we’re looking at it too narrowly,” he added. “If we ask the police to simply contain and control problems that we ourselves have been unwilling to invest and solve, that’s not fair to the communities, it’s not fair to the police.”

Moreover, if society writes off some people, he said, “that’s not the kind of country I want to live in; that’s not what America is about.”

His message to young men like Malachi Hernandez, who attends Boston Latin Academy in Massachusetts, is not to give up.

“I want you to know you matter,” he said. “You matter to us.”

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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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