PAKET UMROH BULAN FEBRUARI MARET APRIL MEI 2017

WANITA SETENGAH BAYA TEWAS

saco-indonesia.com, Seorang wanita setengah baya di Kabupaten Batang, Jawa tengah telah ditemukan tewas dibunuh, sedangkan seorang balita lemas diikat tangannya.

Hingga berita ini diturunkan, kasus pembunuhan tersebut juga masih dalam pengusutan aparat Polres Batang, diduga keduanya telah menjadi korban kebrutalan perampok. Peristiwa yang mengagetkan itu telah terjadi di Desa/Kecamatan Warungasem, Kabupaten Batang.

Korban tewas diketahui bernama Siti Asimah yang berusia 41 tahun, warga setempat , sedang Balita yang masih keponakan korban yang telah ditemukan terikat adalah Naza Alima Syafira, yang berusia 2 tahun . Siti Asimah telah ditemukan tewas dengan kondisi dilakban mulut dan hidungnya serta tulang leher belakangnya patah. Menurut laporan polisi, pembunuhan ini terungkap berawal dari keponakan korban bernama Nurul , yang berusia 12 tahun , siswa SMP 1 Warungasem Batang saat pulang dari sekolah . Seperti yang telah diketahui rumah kuno besar yang ditempati korban selama ini ditempati empat keluarga yang masih bersaudara .

Sesampai di rumah yang telah terletak di tepi jalan raya Warungasem-Batang , saksi Nurul tidak bisa masuk rumah karena, pintu terkunci. Meski pintu sudah diketuk berulang kali, namun tidak ada yang membukakan. Sementara suara radio dari dalam telah terdengar sangat keras. Setiap hari mulai dari pagi hingga siang , di rumah yang telah ditempati empat keluarga itu hanya ada korban dan keponakannya Naza Alima Syafira, yang berusia 2 tahun . Karena tidak bisa masuk rumah , selanjutnya Nurul telah meminta bantuan tetangganya Mudhor untuk dapat membukakan pintu.

Pintu telah berhasil dibuka, namun suasana rumah sepi karena Siti Asimah dan Naza Alima Syafira tidak terlihat . Dalam rumah kuno model khas Batang yang telah terdiri atas banyak kamar itu, akhirnya telah ditemukan Naza dalam posisi tangan dilakban diikat dengan leher di kamar depan. Selanjutnya balita yang kondisinya lemas itu langsung dibawa ke luar rumah. Sedangkan Siti Asimah telah ditemukan tewas di kamar yang lain dalam posisi terlentang di tempat tidur , mulut dan hidung dilakban . Selain itu tulang leher korban juga patah diduga akibat lehernya dipeluntir .

Dalam sekejab kejadian itu telah membuat gempar seluruh warga , para tetangga berdatangan ke lokasi kejadian ingin melihat peristiwa terebut dari dekat . Sejumlah polisi datang ke lokasi kejadian dengan melakukan penyelidikan setelah mendapat laporan .Kapolsek Warungasem AKP Juharno langsung memimpin anggotanya melakukan penyelidikan dan memasang garis polisi di seputar lokasi kejadian.

Sore itu jenazah Siti Asimah langsung dibawa ke kamar mayat RSUD Batang untuk dapat divisum. Sampai berita ini, telah diturunkan polisi masih melakukan pemeriksaan terhadap sejumlah saksi . Sementara rumah korban juga masih dijaga ketat. Beberapa keluarga yang lain, mengaku tidak tahu menahu peristiwa itu. Peirtiwa itu diduga berlatar belakang perampokan , ujar seorang petugas.

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SENI UKIR DI INDONESIA

saco-indonesia.com,
    
SENI UKIR DIINDONESIA
Ukiran merupakan Seni yang telah menghias suatu benda menjadi hiasan 3Dimensi yang menyusun suatu gambar yang indah. Hal ini juga membuat seni ukir telah memiliki pengertian sebagai seni yang telah membentuk gambar pada batu, kayu atau bahan-bahan lain. Indonesia telah mengenal seni ukir sejak zaman batu muda atau sekitar tahun 1500 SM.Saat itu hasil dar seni ukir Indonesia berupa ukiran yang berapa pada kapak batu. Bahan yang digunakan untuk dapat membuat ukiran telah mengalami perkembangan yaitu dengan menggunakan bahan perunggu, emas, perak, batu dan lain sebagainya. Membuat ukirannya pun juga menggunakan teknologi cor.
Seni ukir yang mengalami perkembangan yang sangat pesat, dalam bentuk desain produksi, dan motif Setelah agama Hindu, Budha, Islam masuk ke Indonesia. Bentuk ukiran juga ditemukan pada senjata-senjata, seperti keris dan tombak, batu nisan, masjid, termasuk gamelan dan wayang. Motif seni ukir, selain menggambarkan bentuk, kadang-kadang berisi tentang kisah suatu cerita.
Saat sekarang seni ukir kayu dan logam juga mengalami perkembangan pesat. Dan fungsinyapun juga sudah bergeser dari hal-hal yang berbau magis berubah menjadi hanya sebagai alat penghias saja.pada ukiran kayu telah meliputi motif Pejajaran, Majapahit, Mataram, Pekalongan, Bali, Jepara, Madura, Cirebon, Surakarta, Yogyakarta, dan berbagai macam motif yang berasal dari luarJawa
Bukti-bukti sejarah peninggalan ukiran pada periode tersebut juga dapat dilihat pada relief candi Penataran di Blitar, candi Prambanan dan Mendut di Jawa Tengah.
    
    
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AIRIN JENGUK SUAMI DI RUTAN KPK

saco-indonesia.com, Wali Kota Tangerang Selatan Airin Rachmi Diany telah kembali mengunjungi suaminya Tubagus Chaeri Wardana (wawan) yang telah mendekam di Rutan KPK. Airin datang sekitar jam 10.00 WIB pagi dengan mengenakan baju warna putih dan kerudung bermotif bunga.

Saat tiba di gedung KPK Airin langsung menuju tempat meminta surat izin jenguk tahanan. Sejak tiba di gedung KPK dia selalu tersenyum lalu bergegas menuju ruang tahanan KPK dengan membawa berkas yang telah digenggamnya.

Suami Airin sendiri telah tertangkap tangan oleh penyidik KPK di kediamannya di jalan Denpasar, Kuningan, Jakarta Selatan pada Kamis (3/10).

Wawan telah di tangkap oleh penyidik KPK terkait dalam penyuapan kepada mantan ketua MK Akil Mochtar terkait sengketa pilkada Lebak, Banten.

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TIPS MEMBELI JAKET YANG PAS DI TUBUH

saco-indonesia.com, Udara yang tidak menentu memang juga sangat mengakhawatirkan. Hujan juga bisa mendadak turun dan suhu udara akan menjadi tinggi. Selain payung, tentunya jaket juga bisa menjadi alternatif pilihan yang sesuai. Apalagi fungsi utama jaket untuk dapat melindungi tubuh kian menarik dengan model yang sesuai tren. Di antara pilihan yang beragam, bagaimana cara untuk memilih jaket yang pas di badan? Simak tipsnya di sini, seperti dikutip dari Mag for Women.

1. Ajak Teman
Pendapat kedua selalu penting ketika kita bingung dalam menentukan pilihan. Kita juga terkadang bingung dengan beragam model yang telah ditawarkan. Nah, di sinilah fungsi teman. Teman yang baik akan selalu memberikan pendapat yang jujur dan apa adanya. Sehingga kita tidak lagi bingung dalam menentukan pilihan. Mengajak teman untuk berbelanja juga selalu menjadi kegiatan yang sangat menyenangkan.

2. Jangan Tertipu
Seringkali pramuniaga juga menawarkan pilihan jaket mahal yang sebenarnya belum tentu cocok untuk kita. Jangan terpengaruh, mereka hanya menjalankan target penjualan. Model yang sedang menjadi tren bisa jadi tidak sesuai dengan kepribadian dan kebutuhan Anda. Tidak mau kan memakai jaket bulu-bulu ala antartika di negara yang tropis ini?

3. Coba Dahulu
Menjatuhkan pilihan yang tepat tidak bisa terburu-buru. Ambil beberapa pilihan dan cobalah di kamar ganti. Penampilan yang sangat menarik di manekin belum tentu cocok di tubuh Anda. Dengan mencobanya terlebih dahulu Anda juga akan tahu bagian mana yang pas dan tidak.

4. Utamakan Kenyamanan
Model yang bagus juga tidak menutup kemungkinan akan bahan yang jelek. Pastikan saat mencoba Anda menggerakkan tangan, duduk dan berjalan. Jika dengan gerakan ini merasa tidak nyaman, berarti jaket ini belum tepat untuk Anda.

5. Jangan Ditumpuk
Lepaskan jaket atau jas yang Anda kenakan sebelum mencoba jaket yang ingin dibeli. Memakai pakaian yang ditumpuk dapat memperbesar ukuran tubuh Anda yang sebenarnya. Dengan begitu, Anda akan tahu ukuran mana yang pas di tubuh.

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Bom Bunuh Diri di Poso Diperkirakan Terkait Badri atau Basri?

JAKARTA, Saco-Indonesia.com — Aparat kepolisian belum dapat memastikan apakah pelaku bom bunuh diri di Markas Polres Poso, Sulawesi Tengah, Senin (3/6/2013), terkait dengan kelompok Solo pimpinan Badri Hartono.

"Kami belum dapat memastikan karena Densus masih mendalami," kata Kepala Divisi Humas Polri Inspektur Jenderal Suhardi Alius di Jakarta, Senin (3/6/2013).

Suhardi menambahkan, aparat kepolisian juga belum dapat memastikan apakah ledakan bom bunuh diri itu terkait dengan terpidana kasus terorisme yang melarikan diri dari lembaga pemasyarakatan di Sulteng, Basri.

Seperti diberitakan sebelumnya, bom bunuh diri terjadi di antara pos jaga Mapolres Poso dan masjid pada pukul 08.03 Wita. Pelaku awalnya memasuki halaman Mapolres Poso menggunakan sepeda motor seorang diri. Tak lama setelah itu, bom pun meledak. Pelaku dan motor yang dikendarainya hancur.

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

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

Ruth Rendell, Novelist Who Thrilled and Educated, Dies at 85

Ms. Rendell was a prolific writer of intricately plotted mystery novels that combined psychological insight, social conscience and teeth-chattering terror.

Jean Nidetch, 91, Dies; Pounds Came Off, and Weight Watchers Was Born

A 214-pound Queens housewife struggled with a lifelong addiction to food until she shed 72 pounds and became the public face of the worldwide weight-control empire Weight Watchers.

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.

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.

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.

The Uphill Battle to Better Regulate Formaldehyde

WASHINGTON — A decade after emergency trailers meant to shelter Hurricane Katrina victims instead caused burning eyes, sore throats and other more serious ailments, the Environmental Protection Agency is on the verge of regulating the culprit: formaldehyde, a chemical that can be found in commonplace things like clothes and furniture.

But an unusual assortment of players, including furniture makers, the Chinese government, Republicans from states with a large base of furniture manufacturing and even some Democrats who championed early regulatory efforts, have questioned the E.P.A. proposal. The sustained opposition has held sway, as the agency is now preparing to ease key testing requirements before it releases the landmark federal health standard.

The E.P.A.’s five-year effort to adopt this rule offers another example of how industry opposition can delay and hamper attempts by the federal government to issue regulations, even to control substances known to be harmful to human health.

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Document: The Formaldehyde Fight

Formaldehyde is a known carcinogen that can also cause respiratory ailments like asthma, but the potential of long-term exposure to cause cancers like myeloid leukemia is less well understood.

The E.P.A.’s decision would be the first time that the federal government has regulated formaldehyde inside most American homes.

“The stakes are high for public health,” said Tom Neltner, senior adviser for regulatory affairs at the National Center for Healthy Housing, who has closely monitored the debate over the rules. “What we can’t have here is an outcome that fails to confront the health threat we all know exists.”

The proposal would not ban formaldehyde — commonly used as an ingredient in wood glue in furniture and flooring — but it would impose rules that prevent dangerous levels of the chemical’s vapors from those products, and would set testing standards to ensure that products sold in the United States comply with those limits. The debate has sharpened in the face of growing concern about the safety of formaldehyde-treated flooring imported from Asia, especially China.

What is certain is that a lot of money is at stake: American companies sell billions of dollars’ worth of wood products each year that contain formaldehyde, and some argue that the proposed regulation would impose unfair costs and restrictions.

Determined to block the agency’s rule as proposed, these industry players have turned to the White House, members of Congress and top E.P.A. officials, pressing them to roll back the testing requirements in particular, calling them redundant and too expensive.

“There are potentially over a million manufacturing jobs that will be impacted if the proposed rule is finalized without changes,” wrote Bill Perdue, the chief lobbyist at the American Home Furnishings Alliance, a leading critic of the testing requirements in the proposed regulation, in one letter to the E.P.A.

Industry opposition helped create an odd alignment of forces working to thwart the rule. The White House moved to strike out key aspects of the proposal. Subsequent appeals for more changes were voiced by players as varied as Senator Barbara Boxer, Democrat of California, and Senator Roger Wicker, Republican of Mississippi, as well as furniture industry lobbyists.

Hurricane Katrina in 2005 helped ignite the public debate over formaldehyde, after the deadly storm destroyed or damaged hundreds of thousands of homes along the Gulf of Mexico, forcing families into temporary trailers provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The displaced storm victims quickly began reporting respiratory problems, burning eyes and other issues, and tests then confirmed high levels of formaldehyde fumes leaking into the air inside the trailers, which in many cases had been hastily constructed.

Public health advocates petitioned the E.P.A. to issue limits on formaldehyde in building materials and furniture used in homes, given that limits already existed for exposure in workplaces. But three years after the storm, only California had issued such limits.

Industry groups like the American Chemistry Council have repeatedly challenged the science linking formaldehyde to cancer, a position championed by David Vitter, the Republican senator from Louisiana, who is a major recipient of chemical industry campaign contributions, and whom environmental groups have mockingly nicknamed “Senator Formaldehyde.”

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Typical

laminate

flooring

CLEAR FINISH LAYER

Often made of melamine resin

PATTERN LAYER

Paper printed to resemble wood,

or a thin wood veneer

GLUE

Layers may be bound using

formaldehyde-based glues

CORE LAYER

Fiberboard or other

composite, formed using

formaldehyde-based adhesives

BASE LAYER

Moisture-resistant vapor barrier

What is formaldehyde?

Formaldehyde is a common chemical used in many industrial and household products as an adhesive, bonding agent or preservative. It is classified as a volatile organic compound. The term volatile means that, at room temperature, formaldehyde will vaporize, or become a gas. Products made with formaldehyde tend to release this gas into the air. If breathed in large quantities, it may cause health problems.

WHERE IT IS COMMONLY FOUND

POTENTIAL HEALTH RISKS

Pressed-wood and composite wood products

Wallpaper and paints

Spray foam insulation used in construction

Commercial wood floor finishes

Crease-resistant fabrics

In cigarette smoke, or in the fumes from combustion of other materials, including wood, oil and gasoline.

Exposure to formaldehyde in sufficient amounts may cause eye, throat or skin irritation, allergic reactions, and respiratory problems like coughing, wheezing or asthma.

Long-term exposure to high levels has been associated with cancer in humans and laboratory animals.

Exposure to formaldehyde may affect some people more severely than others.

Sources: Consumer Product Safety Commission; Minnesota Department of Health

 

By The New York Times

By 2010, public health advocates and some industry groups secured bipartisan support in Congress for legislation that ordered the E.P.A. to issue federal rules that largely mirrored California’s restrictions. At the time, concerns were rising over the growing number of lower-priced furniture imports from Asia that might include contaminated products, while also hurting sales of American-made products.

Maneuvering began almost immediately after the E.P.A. prepared draft rules to formally enact the new standards.

White House records show at least five meetings in mid-2012 with industry executives — kitchen cabinet makers, chemical manufacturers, furniture trade associations and their lobbyists, like Brock R. Landry, of the Venable law firm. These parties, along with Senator Vitter’s office, appealed to top administration officials, asking them to intervene to roll back the E.P.A. proposal.

The White House Office of Management and Budget, which reviews major federal regulations before they are adopted, apparently agreed. After the White House review, the E.P.A. “redlined” many of the estimates of the monetary benefits that would be gained by reductions in related health ailments, like asthma and fertility issues, documents reviewed by The New York Times show.

As a result, the estimated benefit of the proposed rule dropped to $48 million a year, from as much as $278 million a year. The much-reduced amount deeply weakened the agency’s justification for the sometimes costly new testing that would be required under the new rules, a federal official involved in the effort said.

“It’s a redlining blood bath,” said Lisa Heinzerling, a Georgetown University Law School professor and a former E.P.A. official, using the Washington phrase to describe when language is stricken from a proposed rule. “Almost the entire discussion of these potential benefits was excised.”

Senator Vitter’s staff was pleased.

“That’s a huge difference,” said Luke Bolar, a spokesman for Mr. Vitter, of the reduced estimated financial benefits, saying the change was “clearly highlighting more mismanagement” at the E.P.A.

The review’s outcome galvanized opponents in the furniture industry. They then targeted a provision that mandated new testing of laminated wood, a cheaper alternative to hardwood. (The California standard on which the law was based did not require such testing.)

But E.P.A. scientists had concluded that these laminate products — millions of which are sold annually in the United States — posed a particular risk. They said that when thin layers of wood, also known as laminate or veneer, are added to furniture or flooring in the final stages of manufacturing, the resulting product can generate dangerous levels of fumes from often-used formaldehyde-based glues.

Industry executives, outraged by what they considered an unnecessary and financially burdensome level of testing, turned every lever within reach to get the requirement removed. It would be particularly onerous, they argued, for small manufacturers that would have to repeatedly interrupt their work to do expensive new testing. The E.P.A. estimated that the expanded requirements for laminate products would cost the furniture industry tens of millions of dollars annually, while the industry said that the proposed rule over all would cost its 7,000 American manufacturing facilities over $200 million each year.

“A lot of people don’t seem to appreciate what a lot of these requirements do to a small operation,” said Dick Titus, executive vice president of the Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association, whose members are predominantly small businesses. “A 10-person shop, for example, just really isn’t equipped to handle that type of thing.”

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Big industry players also weighed in. Executives from companies including La-Z-Boy, Hooker Furniture and Ashley Furniture all flew to Washington for a series of meetings with the offices of lawmakers including House Speaker John Boehner, Republican of Ohio, and about a dozen other lawmakers, asking several of them to sign a letter prepared by the industry to press the E.P.A. to back down, according to an industry report describing the lobbying visit.

Within a matter of weeks, two letters — using nearly identical language — were sent by House and Senate lawmakers to the E.P.A. — with the industry group forwarding copies of the letters to the agency as well, and then posting them on its website.

The industry lobbyists also held their own meeting at E.P.A. headquarters, and they urged Jim Jones, who oversaw the rule-making process as the assistant administrator for the agency’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, to visit a North Carolina furniture manufacturing plant. According to the trade group, Mr. Jones told them that the visit had “helped the agency shift its thinking” about the rules and how laminated products should be treated.

The resistance was particularly intense from lawmakers like Mr. Wicker of Mississippi, whose state is home to major manufacturing plants owned by Ashley Furniture Industries, the world’s largest furniture maker, and who is one of the biggest recipients in Congress of donations from the industry’s trade association. Asked if the political support played a role, a spokesman for Mr. Wicker replied: “Thousands of Mississippians depend on the furniture manufacturing industry for their livelihoods. Senator Wicker is committed to defending all Mississippians from government overreach.”

Individual companies like Ikea also intervened, as did the Chinese government, which claimed that the new rule would create a “great barrier” to the import of Chinese products because of higher costs.

Perhaps the most surprising objection came from Senator Boxer, of California, a longtime environmental advocate, whose office questioned why the E.P.A.’s rule went further than her home state’s in seeking testing on laminated products. “We did not advocate an outcome, other than safety,” her office said in a statement about why the senator raised concerns. “We said ‘Take a look to see if you have it right.’ ”

Safety advocates say that tighter restrictions — like the ones Ms. Boxer and Mr. Wicker, along with Representative Doris Matsui, a California Democrat, have questioned — are necessary, particularly for products coming from China, where items as varied as toys and Christmas lights have been found to violate American safety standards.

While Mr. Neltner, the environmental advocate who has been most involved in the review process, has been open to compromise, he has pressed the E.P.A. not to back down entirely, and to maintain a requirement that laminators verify that their products are safe.

An episode of CBS’s “60 Minutes” in March brought attention to the issue when it accused Lumber Liquidators, the discount flooring retailer, of selling laminate products with dangerous levels of formaldehyde. The company has disputed the show’s findings and test methods, maintaining that its products are safe.

“People think that just because Congress passed the legislation five years ago, the problem has been fixed,” said Becky Gillette, who then lived in coastal Mississippi, in the area hit by Hurricane Katrina, and was among the first to notice a pattern of complaints from people living in the trailers. “Real people’s faces and names come up in front of me when I think of the thousands of people who could get sick if this rule is not done right.”

An aide to Ms. Matsui rejected any suggestion that she was bending to industry pressure.

“From the beginning the public health has been our No. 1 concern,” said Kyle J. Victor, an aide to Ms. Matsui.

But further changes to the rule are likely, agency officials concede, as they say they are searching for a way to reduce the cost of complying with any final rule while maintaining public health goals. The question is just how radically the agency will revamp the testing requirement for laminated products — if it keeps it at all.

“It’s not a secret to anybody that is the most challenging issue,” said Mr. Jones, the E.P.A. official overseeing the process, adding that the health consequences from formaldehyde are real. “We have to reduce those exposures so that people can live healthy lives and not have to worry about being in their homes.”

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.

Take the Money and Run

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

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.

Tribute for a Roller Hockey Warrior

Hockey is not exactly known as a city game, but played on roller skates, it once held sway as the sport of choice in many New York neighborhoods.

“City kids had no rinks, no ice, but they would do anything to play hockey,” said Edward Moffett, former director of the Long Island City Y.M.C.A. Roller Hockey League, in Queens, whose games were played in city playgrounds going back to the 1940s.

From the 1960s through the 1980s, the league had more than 60 teams, he said. Players included the Mullen brothers of Hell’s Kitchen and Dan Dorion of Astoria, Queens, who would later play on ice for the National Hockey League.

One street legend from the heyday of New York roller hockey was Craig Allen, who lived in the Woodside Houses projects and became one of the city’s hardest hitters and top scorers.

“Craig was a warrior, one of the best roller hockey players in the city in the ’70s,” said Dave Garmendia, 60, a retired New York police officer who grew up playing with Mr. Allen. “His teammates loved him and his opponents feared him.”

Young Craig took up hockey on the streets of Queens in the 1960s, playing pickup games between sewer covers, wearing steel-wheeled skates clamped onto school shoes and using a roll of electrical tape as the puck.

His skill and ferocity drew attention, Mr. Garmendia said, but so did his skin color. He was black, in a sport made up almost entirely by white players.

“Roller hockey was a white kid’s game, plain and simple, but Craig broke the color barrier,” Mr. Garmendia said. “We used to say Craig did more for race relations than the N.A.A.C.P.”

Mr. Allen went on to coach and referee roller hockey in New York before moving several years ago to South Carolina. But he continued to organize an annual alumni game at Dutch Kills Playground in Long Island City, the same site that held the local championship games.

The reunion this year was on Saturday, but Mr. Allen never made it. On April 26, just before boarding the bus to New York, he died of an asthma attack at age 61.

Word of his death spread rapidly among hundreds of his old hockey colleagues who resolved to continue with the event, now renamed the Craig Allen Memorial Roller Hockey Reunion.

The turnout on Saturday was the largest ever, with players pulling on their old equipment, choosing sides and taking once again to the rink of cracked blacktop with faded lines and circles. They wore no helmets, although one player wore a fedora.

Another, Vinnie Juliano, 77, of Long Island City, wore his hearing aids, along with his 50-year-old taped-up quads, or four-wheeled skates with a leather boot. Many players here never converted to in-line skates, and neither did Mr. Allen, whose photograph appeared on a poster hanging behind the players’ bench.

“I’m seeing people walking by wondering why all these rusty, grizzly old guys are here playing hockey,” one player, Tommy Dominguez, said. “We’re here for Craig, and let me tell you, these old guys still play hard.”

Everyone seemed to have a Craig Allen story, from his earliest teams at Public School 151 to the Bryant Rangers, the Woodside Wings, the Woodside Blues and more.

Mr. Allen, who became a yellow-cab driver, was always recruiting new talent. He gained the nickname Cabby for his habit of stopping at playgrounds all over the city to scout players.

Teams were organized around neighborhoods and churches, and often sponsored by local bars. Mr. Allen, for one, played for bars, including Garry Owen’s and on the Fiddler’s Green Jokers team in Inwood, Manhattan.

Play was tough and fights were frequent.

“We were basically street gangs on skates,” said Steve Rogg, 56, a mail clerk who grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, and who on Saturday wore his Riedell Classic quads from 1972. “If another team caught up with you the night before a game, they tossed you a beating so you couldn’t play the next day.”

Mr. Garmendia said Mr. Allen’s skin color provoked many fights.

“When we’d go to some ignorant neighborhoods, a lot of players would use slurs,” Mr. Garmendia said, recalling a game in Ozone Park, Queens, where local fans parked motorcycles in a lineup next to the blacktop and taunted Mr. Allen. Mr. Garmendia said he checked a player into the motorcycles, “and the bikes went down like dominoes, which started a serious brawl.”

A group of fans at a game in Brooklyn once stuck a pole through the rink fence as Mr. Allen skated by and broke his jaw, Mr. Garmendia said, adding that carloads of reinforcements soon arrived to defend Mr. Allen.

And at another racially incited brawl, the police responded with six patrol cars and a helicopter.

Before play began on Saturday, the players gathered at center rink to honor Mr. Allen. Billy Barnwell, 59, of Woodside, recalled once how an all-white, all-star squad snubbed Mr. Allen by playing him third string. He scored seven goals in the first game and made first string immediately.

“He’d always hear racial stuff before the game, and I’d ask him, ‘How do you put up with that?’” Mr. Barnwell recalled. “Craig would say, ‘We’ll take care of it,’ and by the end of the game, he’d win guys over. They’d say, ‘This guy’s good.’”

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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.

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.