PAKET UMROH BULAN FEBRUARI MARET APRIL MEI 2018

JASA PENGIRIMAN BARANG DI JAKARTA

Ketika anda memulai usaha untuk dapat mengembangkan pasar tentu yang harus di pikirkan adalah vendor yang akan kirim barang. Jasa kirim barang di Jakarta cukup mudah di temukan. Anda hanya cukup mendatangi sentral penjualan grosir barang, biasanya perusahaan kirim barang di Jakarta akan berada di area tersebut. Mereka mendekati pelanggan agar dapat memangkas cost yang tidak perlu sehingga harga dapat murah dan bersaing.

Jasa kirim barang di Jakarta cukup banyak sekali, karena Jakarta sebagai pusat Negara tentu semua perusahaan jasa kirim barang memiliki kantor di Jakarta. Untuk menyikapi dan memilih perusahaan jasa kirim barang di Jakarta yang bagus kita harus melihat dari kebutuhan kita dahulu, misalnya :

    Apakah barang yang akan kita kirim bersifat urgent ?
    Apakah cost kirim barang tersebut menjadi hal yang paling penting ?
    Apakah barang tersebut termasuk kategori barang yang mempunyai nilai ?

Tentunya dengan pertanya pertanyaan di atas tersebut , kita sudah dapat menentukan perusahaan jasa kirim barang yang akan kita pilih di Jakarta ini. Perusahaan jasa kirim barang di Jakarta yang mampu menjawab kebutuhan kita tentunya perusahaan yang sudah mempunyai nama dan terkenal. Tetapi kita terkadang terkendala dengan ongkos kirim barang yang cukup tinggi sehingga tidak sesuai dengan harga barang atau dengan cost anda.

Solusi dari hal tersebut adalah, anda bisa mencari perusahaan jasa kirim barang di Jakarta yang masih berada dalam posisi perusahaan yang baru berkembang. Ciri dari perusahaan jasa kirim barang yang baru berkembang  adalah mereka masih memberikan flexible terhada harga , tidak semua network yang dia miliki merupakan cabang tetapi hanya sebuah agent penerus, system informasinya masih semi online. Jika dilihat memang cukup meragukan di bandingan dengan perusahaan yang telah memiliki nama dan terkenal. Tetapi, usahan jasa pengiriman barang merupakan usaha yang kendalinya berada di operational. Jika perusahaan tersebut sudah memiliki sdm yang handal dan network yang kuat maka layanan mereka akan melebihi perusahaan perusahaan yang telah mempunyai nama dan terkenal.

Memilih perusahaan jasa kirim barang di Jakarta yang bagus menurut kebutuhan kita tidak mudah. Tetapi, kalau kita mau mencari perusahaan tersebut sangat banyak tersebar di seluruh wilayah Jakarta.

TUBUH LANGSING DENGAN MANFAAT BUAH NANAS

Tubuh Langsing Dengan Manfaat Buah Nanas : Mengkonsumsi beberapa buah-buahan di percaya telah memiliki kontribusi positif dalam upaya untuk menurunkan berat badan, hal ini dikarenakan didalam buah-buahan tersebut telah terkandung beberapa nutrisi penting dan bermafaat bagi tubuh.

Salah satu buah-buahan yang dianjurkan untuk anda konsumsi ketika diet adalah nanas. Buah yang identik dengan warna kuning pada dagingnya ini selain telah memiliki rasa manis dan menyegarkan, juga dianggap mampu untuk menyingkirkan timbunan lemak dalam tubuh.

Dalam buah nanas juga terkandung beberapa nutrisi penting antara lain vitamin C, vitamin B6, tembaga, tiamin, mangan, serat,sukrosa, dan dekstrosa. Selain itu terdapat juga beberapa enzim seperti bromelain, proteiolitik dan zat penting lainnya seperti asid sitrik.

Manfaat Kandungan Nutrisi Buah Nanas Untuk Diet

Beberapa kandungan nutrisi dalam buah nanas juga dapat memberikan efek cukup baik terhadap program diet yang anda jalankan. Antara lain sebagai berikut :

Vitamin C. vitamin ini juga berperan untuk dapat mengurangi kandungan lemak dalam tubuh yaitu dengan menggiatkan pembakaran lemak sehingga jumlahnya dalam tubuh tidak berlebihan. Tapi, patut anda ketahui, untuk bisa mendapatkan manfaat dari vitamin ini terhadap diet, anda juga harus mengkonsumsi vitamin C dalam kadar mencukupi. Untuk bisa mendapatkan asupan vitamin C yang cukup kedalam tubuh, caranya bisa dengan mengkonsumsi makanan yang kaya akan vitamin C dan juga bisa dengan mengkonsumsi suplemen vitamin C.

Serat. manfaatnya untuk diet yaitu dapat membantu melancarkan buang air besar dan juga dapat menjaga kondisi perut agar merasa kenyang dalam waktu lama.

Enzim proteiolitik. peranannya yaitu dapat memperlambat penyerapan lemak pada saluran pencernaan sehingga sebagian besar terbuang dalam peses.

Asid sitrik. zat ini juga berperan dalam mengurangi tumpukan lemak dalam tubuh sebagai salah satu penyebab obesitas.

Air. Buah nanas juga mengandung banyak air, sehingga dengan menkonsumsi buah nanas, perut akan cepat merasa kenyang.

MAKANAN YANG MAMPU MENGATASI HIPERTENSI

saco-indonesia.com, Tekanan darah tinggi atau yang dikenal sebagai penyakit yang telah membunuh secara diam-diam. Hal ini juga karena tekanan darah tinggi tak menunjukkan gejala yang terlihat jelas. Padahal tekanan darah tinggi yang dibiarkan dan tak diobati bisa dapat menyebabkan penyakit jantung dan stroke.

Namun jangan khawatir, tekanan darah tinggi dapat diatasi dengan cara alami. Salah satunya adalah dengan makanan alami. Berikut adalah beberapa makanan alami yang bisa Anda gunakan untuk dapat mengatasi tekanan darah tinggi.
1. Ekstrak biji anggur
Penelitian yang telah dilakukan pada 32 orang penderita hipertensi telah menunjukkan bahwa ekstrak biji anggur juga bisa membantu menurunkan tekanan darah sistolik dan diastolik setelah delapan minggu. Dalam penelitian lainnya, 36 partisipan yang telah mengalami hipertensi juga diberikan ekstrak biji anggur. Penelitian ini telah menunjukkan bahwa ekstrak biji anggur memang mampu untuk menurunkan tekanan darah.

2. Kacang
Sebuah penelitian telah menunjukkan bahwa mengonsumsi 56 gram walnuts sehari bisa untuk menurunkan tekanan darah sistolik tanpa meningkatkan tekanan darah. Dalam penelitian lainnya, sekitar 28 partisipan yang telah memiliki hipertensi juga mengalami penurunan tekanan darah setelah mengonsumsi satu porsi kacang pistacios secara teratur setiap hari.

3. Jus bit
Jus bit telah mengandung nitrat diet yang dapat membantu untuk merilekskan pembuluh darah dan membantu melancarkan aliran darah. Hal ini dapat menyebabkan jus bit sangat baik dikonsumsi untuk dapat menurunkan tekanan darah. Penelitian juga menunjukkan bahwa mengonsumsi satu cangkir jus bit sehari bisa menurunkan tekanan darah sistolik dan diastolik.

4. Kismis
Dalam penelitian yang telah dilakukan pada 46 penderita hipertensi selama 12 minggu, telah diketahui bahwa kismis juga bisa menurunkan tekanan darah sistolik. Kismis mampu untuk menurunkan tekanan darah secara bertahap dan stabil pada minggu ke-4, ke-8, dan ke-12. Selain itu, kismis juga bisa menjadi camilan yang enak dan tak menyebabkan gemuk.

5. Biji flax
Masyarakat Indonesia memang belum familiar dengan makanan yang satu ini. Namun sebuah penelitian telah menunjukkan bahwa biji flax (flaxseed) mampu untuk menurunkan tekanan darah sistolik dan diastolik. Flaxseed bahkan bisa membantu pasien hipertensi yang telah mengalami penyempitan arteri. Penelitian telah menunjukkan bahwa setelah mengonsumsi 30 gram flaxseed setiap hari selama enam bulan, tekanan darah telah berhasil menurun.

Itulah beberapa makanan alami yang bisa Anda konsumsi untuk dapat menurunkan tekanan darah tinggi dan mengatasi hipertensi. Selain mengonsumsi makanan tersebut, perhatikan juga makanan lain yang Anda konsumsi. Jangan banyak mengonsumsi makanan yang bisa menaikkan tekanan darah.

Editor : Dian Sukmawati

3 LANGKAH BELAJAR BAHASA INGGIRS

Mungkin Anda banyak mencari tentang cara cepat belajar bahasa Inggris dan bagaimana bisa berbicara, menulis, dan hafal semua aturan tata bahasa dalam bahasa Inggris. Belajar bahasa Inggris banyak membuat siswa frustrasi, karena mereka tidak mengetahui bagaimana metode yang tepat. Sebagai hasilnya, pembelajaran yang mereka lakukan tentu saja sia-sia dan tidak membuahkan hasil dengan signifikan.

Fokus pada Input dan bukan hanya output

Ulangi dan kemudian lakukan secara perlahan

Fisik KTP Elektronik Jangan Difotokopi, Cip Bisa Rusak

GRESIK, Saco-Indonesia.com — Kartu tanda penduduk elektronik (e-KTP) dianjurkan untuk tidak difotokopi sebab di dalam kartu identitas kependudukan itu tertanam cip.

Direktur Jenderal Kependudukan dan Pencatatan Sipil Kementerian Dalam Negeri Irman mengatakan, kerusakan cip yang tertanam di dalam e-KTP bisa saja terjadi karena proses fotokopi.

Ia menyarankan, kartu itu tak usah difotokopi melainkan setiap institusi pelayanan harus mempunyai card reader. "Hanya cukup memasukkan Nomor Induk Kependudukan (NIK), bisa sebagai kunci akses data," kata Irman, di Gresik. Jawa Timur, Rabu (1/5/2013).

NIK itu sifatnya personal dan tertera pada setiap keping e-KTP. "Jadi jangan khawatir ada data ganda karena pasti kelihatan. Sistem kami langsung menolak bila seseorang pernah melakukan perekaman data," tutur Irman.

Berdasarkan perekaman e-KTP selama ini, pihak Direktorat  Jenderal Kependudukan dan Pencatatan Sipil Kementerian Dalam Negeri telah membersihkan sekitar 7 juta NIK ganda dari 497 Kabupaten/kota seluruh Indonesia. Irman juga mengimbau agar tim e-KTP semua kabupaten/kota segera melakukan perekaman, terutama para kaum urban.

Irman menegaskan, mulai 1 Januari 2014, KTP lama tidak berlaku lagi. Proses perekaman sudah harus tuntas paling lambat Juli 2013. Sampai Oktober akan tercetak semua hasilnya. Sampai Desember 2013 semua keping e-KTP sudah didistribusikan ke setiap wajib KTP se-Indonesia.

Irman menyatakan, fungsi e-KTP banyak sekali, termasuk untuk pelayanan di kepolisian dan perbankan. "Saat ini banyak institusi yang sudah mengajukan untuk mengintegrasikan data e-KTP," ujarnya.

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.

Gene Fullmer, a Brawling Middleweight Champion, Dies at 83

Fullmer, who reigned when fight clubs abounded and Friday night fights were a television staple, was known for his title bouts with Sugar Ray Robinson and Carmen Basilio.

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.

Ellen Turner Dies at 87; Opened Kitchen to Feed the Needy of Knoxville

Ms. Turner and her twin sister founded the Love Kitchen in 1986 in a church basement in Knoxville, Tenn., and it continues to provide clothing and meals.

Joseph Lechleider, a Father of the DSL Internet Technology, Dies at 82

Mr. Lechleider helped invent DSL technology, which enabled phone companies to offer high-speed web access over their infrastructure of copper wires.

Police Rethink Long Tradition on Using Force

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

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

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

Suzanne Crough, Actress in ‘The Partridge Family,’ Dies at 52

Ms. Crough played the youngest daughter on the hit ’70s sitcom starring David Cassidy and Shirley Jones.

Sid Tepper Dies at 96; Delivered ‘Red Roses for a Blue Lady’ and Other Songs

Mr. Tepper was not a musical child and had no formal training, but he grew up to write both lyrics and tunes, trading off duties with the other member of the team, Roy C. Bennett.

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?”

Jozef Paczynski, Inmate Barber to Auschwitz Commandant, Dies at 95

Mr. Paczynski was one of the concentration camp’s longest surviving inmates and served as the personal barber to its Nazi commandant Rudolf Höss.

How Some Men Fake an 80-Hour Workweek, and Why It Matters

Imagine an elite professional services firm with a high-performing, workaholic culture. Everyone is expected to turn on a dime to serve a client, travel at a moment’s notice, and be available pretty much every evening and weekend. It can make for a grueling work life, but at the highest levels of accounting, law, investment banking and consulting firms, it is just the way things are.

Except for one dirty little secret: Some of the people ostensibly turning in those 80- or 90-hour workweeks, particularly men, may just be faking it.

Many of them were, at least, at one elite consulting firm studied by Erin Reid, a professor at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. It’s impossible to know if what she learned at that unidentified consulting firm applies across the world of work more broadly. But her research, published in the academic journal Organization Science, offers a way to understand how the professional world differs between men and women, and some of the ways a hard-charging culture that emphasizes long hours above all can make some companies worse off.

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Ms. Reid interviewed more than 100 people in the American offices of a global consulting firm and had access to performance reviews and internal human resources documents. At the firm there was a strong culture around long hours and responding to clients promptly.

“When the client needs me to be somewhere, I just have to be there,” said one of the consultants Ms. Reid interviewed. “And if you can’t be there, it’s probably because you’ve got another client meeting at the same time. You know it’s tough to say I can’t be there because my son had a Cub Scout meeting.”

Some people fully embraced this culture and put in the long hours, and they tended to be top performers. Others openly pushed back against it, insisting upon lighter and more flexible work hours, or less travel; they were punished in their performance reviews.

The third group is most interesting. Some 31 percent of the men and 11 percent of the women whose records Ms. Reid examined managed to achieve the benefits of a more moderate work schedule without explicitly asking for it.

They made an effort to line up clients who were local, reducing the need for travel. When they skipped work to spend time with their children or spouse, they didn’t call attention to it. One team on which several members had small children agreed among themselves to cover for one another so that everyone could have more flexible hours.

A male junior manager described working to have repeat consulting engagements with a company near enough to his home that he could take care of it with day trips. “I try to head out by 5, get home at 5:30, have dinner, play with my daughter,” he said, adding that he generally kept weekend work down to two hours of catching up on email.

Despite the limited hours, he said: “I know what clients are expecting. So I deliver above that.” He received a high performance review and a promotion.

What is fascinating about the firm Ms. Reid studied is that these people, who in her terminology were “passing” as workaholics, received performance reviews that were as strong as their hyper-ambitious colleagues. For people who were good at faking it, there was no real damage done by their lighter workloads.

It calls to mind the episode of “Seinfeld” in which George Costanza leaves his car in the parking lot at Yankee Stadium, where he works, and gets a promotion because his boss sees the car and thinks he is getting to work earlier and staying later than anyone else. (The strategy goes awry for him, and is not recommended for any aspiring partners in a consulting firm.)

A second finding is that women, particularly those with young children, were much more likely to request greater flexibility through more formal means, such as returning from maternity leave with an explicitly reduced schedule. Men who requested a paternity leave seemed to be punished come review time, and so may have felt more need to take time to spend with their families through those unofficial methods.

The result of this is easy to see: Those specifically requesting a lighter workload, who were disproportionately women, suffered in their performance reviews; those who took a lighter workload more discreetly didn’t suffer. The maxim of “ask forgiveness, not permission” seemed to apply.

It would be dangerous to extrapolate too much from a study at one firm, but Ms. Reid said in an interview that since publishing a summary of her research in Harvard Business Review she has heard from people in a variety of industries describing the same dynamic.

High-octane professional service firms are that way for a reason, and no one would doubt that insane hours and lots of travel can be necessary if you’re a lawyer on the verge of a big trial, an accountant right before tax day or an investment banker advising on a huge merger.

But the fact that the consultants who quietly lightened their workload did just as well in their performance reviews as those who were truly working 80 or more hours a week suggests that in normal times, heavy workloads may be more about signaling devotion to a firm than really being more productive. The person working 80 hours isn’t necessarily serving clients any better than the person working 50.

In other words, maybe the real problem isn’t men faking greater devotion to their jobs. Maybe it’s that too many companies reward the wrong things, favoring the illusion of extraordinary effort over actual productivity.

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

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

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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Who Is Running for President (and Who’s Not)?

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.”

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.

Jayne Meadows, Actress and Steve Allen’s Wife and Co-Star, Dies at 95

Ms. Meadows was the older sister of Audrey Meadows, who played Alice Kramden on “The Honeymooners.”