PAKET UMROH BULAN FEBRUARI MARET APRIL MEI 2017

BUNGA CITRA LESTARI KARENA KU CINTA KAU

    saco-indonesiacom,

    Jika ada yang bilang ku lupa kau
    Jangan kau dengar
    Jika ada yang bilang ku tak setia
    Jangan kau dengar

    Banyak cinta yang datang mendekat
    Ku menolak
    Semua itu karena ku cinta kau

    Jika ada yang bilang ku tak baik
    Jangan kau dengar
    Jika ada yang bilang ku berubah
    Jangan kau dengar

    Banyak cinta yang datang mendekat
    Ku menolak
    Semua itu karena ku cinta kau
    Kau

    Reff:
    Saat kau ingat aku ku ingat kau
    Saat kau rindu aku juga rasa
    Ku tahu kau slalu ingin denganku
    Ku lakukan yang terbaik yang bisa ku lakukan
    Tuhan yang tahu ku cinta kau

    Jika kau tak percaya pada ku
    Sakitnya aku
    Jika kau lebih dengar mereka
    Sedih hatiku
    Banyak cinta yang datang mendekat
    Ku menolak
    Semua itu karena ku cinta kau
    Kau

    Back to Reff:

    Saat kau ingat aku ku ingat kau
    Saat kau rindu aku juga rasa
    Ku tahu kau slalu ingin denganku
    Kau tahu ku juga ingin denganmu
    Ku tahu kau slalu ingin denganku
    Ku lakukan yang terbaik yang bisa ku lakukan
    Tuhan yang tahu ku cinta kau

    Editor : dian sukmawati

Asian Agri Akan Cicil Rp 200 Miliar Per Bulan, Jaksa Agung

Bekasi, Saco-Indonesia.com — Asian Agri Group (AAG) menyatakan sanggup membayar denda pajak senilai Rp 2,5 triliun. Namun, atas dasar kelangsungan usaha, Kejaksaan Agung pun telah menyetujui pembayaran pertama Asian Agri sebesar Rp 719.955.391.304.

Jaksa Agung RI Basrief Arief di Kejaksaan Agung, Jakarta, Kamis (30/1/2014), mengatakan, kekurangan denda pajak akan dibayarkan dengan dicicil setiap bulan Rp 200 miliar. "Yang Rp 1,8 triliun lagi itu dibayar per bulan Rp 200 miliar dan akan berakhir bulan Oktober 2014. Ini yang sudah kita sepakati," kata Basrief.

Ia yakin Asian Agri patuh memenuhi cicilan. Hal itu lantaran, sebagai jaminan pembayaran cicilan tiap bulan, Asian Agri telah menjaminkan sebanyak 126 giro bilyet. Basrief mengatakan, jaminan sudah diserahkan ke Bank Mandiri. Ia menambahkan bahwa dirinya telah bertemu dengan Direktur Utama Bank Mandiri untuk memberikan atensi lebih pada kasus ini.

Saat ditanya perihal landasan hukum denda pajak bisa dicicil, Basrief mengatakan memang tidak ada dasar hukumnya. Ia justru meminta pakar asset recovery, Andi Lolo, yang juga hadir di Kejaksaan Agung pagi ini, untuk menjelaskan.

"Berkaitan masalah bisa dicicil, memang tidak ada ketentuan yang mengatur, tapi mungkin Pak Andi Lolo bisa menyampaikan pendapatnya. Yang jelas yang dilakukan jaksa kita sudah melakukan putusan," terang Basrief.

"Seperti yang saya katakan tadi, total nominal yang begitu besar pasti menimbulkan kerepotan sendiri. Bagaimanapun juga, perusahaan harus tetap jalan, ada 25.000 karyawan, dan 29.000 petani plasma. Yang penting negara dapat melaksanakan sesuai putusan itu," katanya.

Berdasarkan putusan MA No.2239K/PID.SUS/2012 tanggal 18 Desember 2012, Asian Agri dinyatakan kurang membayar pajak pada periode 2002-2005 senilai Rp 1,25 triliun dan denda Rp 1,25 triliun. Total yang harus dibayarkan Rp 2,5 triliun. Jika tidak dibayar hingga tenggat 1 Februari 2014, aset Asian Agri yang di antaranya 14 perusahaan kelapa sawit terancam disita.

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ARSENAL TAK DIPERHITUNGKAN

saco-indonesia.com, Gelandang Arsenal, Santi Cazorla juga mengaku senang mereka bisa terus bergerak maju di bawah radar dalam persaingan untuk memburu gelar juara Premier League musim ini.

The Gunners juga masih harus memimpin klasemen hingga kompetisi telah memasuki lebih separuh jalan. Namun banyak pihak juga masih meragukan mereka dan memasang Manchester City serta Chelsea sebagai favorit juara - hal yang tak dirisaukan oleh Cazorla.

"Saat ini, kami telah menunjukkan jika kami selevel mereka. Mungkin di awal musim, tak seorang pun akan menempatkan kami sejajar City atau Chelsea, mungkin karena pembelian besar mereka. Tapi semua juga sudah terlihat jelas di lapangan - kini Arsenal di depan dan tujuan kami adalah terus bertarung dengan mereka.

Eks gelandang Malaga itu juga menambahkan, "Musim ini kami akan lebih konsisten, lebih solid, terutama saat kami dalam penampilan puncak. Musim lalu kadang kami sudah unggul namun kemenangan kemudian lepas, itu telah membuat gelar praktis mustahil dimenangkan - musim ini semuanya sudah berubah

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AMALAN YANG SETARA DENGAN HAJI DAN UMRAH

 Allah Maha Pemurah, diantara refleksi sifat Maha Pemurah Allah, Allah mensyariatkan  amal-amal yang ringan dikerjakan namun pahalanya (balasan kebaikannya) berlipat ganda, baik di dunia maupun di akhirat. Dengan amal-amal ini, kita sebagai umat manusia yang ditakdirkan Allah memiliki usia yang pendek, rata-rata antara 60-70 tahun bisa mengoptimalkan usia kita untuk mendapatkan balasan kebaikan dari Allah yang berlipat ganda. Diantara amal-amal ringan tapi berpahala besar adalah amal-amal yang pahalanya setara dengan pahala ibadah haji dan umrah. Amalan-amalan tersebut diantaranya:

1. KELUAR DARI RUMAH MENUJU SHALAT FARDHU DI MASJID DALAM KONDISI SUDAH BERSUCI.
Dari ABu Umamah, Rasulullah shallallahu alaihi wa sallam bersabda, "Barang siapa keluar dari rumahnya dalam keadaan suci untuk menunaikan shalat fardhu, pahalanya seperti pahala haji orang berihram." (Shahih: Shahih Abu Dawud, no 558)

2. SHALAT BERJAMA'AH DI MASJID KEMUDIAN DUDUK BERDZIKIR SAMPAI TERBIT MATAHARI LALU SHALAT 2 RAKA'AT

مَنْ صَلَّىالْغَدَا ةَ فِي جَمَاعَةٍ ثُمَّ قَعَدَ يَذْكُرُ اللَّهَ حَتَّى تَطْلُعَ الشَّمْسُ ثُمَّ صَلَّى رَكْعَتَيْنِ كَانَتْ لَهُ كَأَجْرِحَجَّةٍ وَعُمْرَةٍ قَالَ قَالَرَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ تَامَّةٍ تَامَّةٍ تَامَّةٍ   
Dari Anas bin Malik, Rasulullah s.a.w bersabda, " Barangsiapa Shalat Subuh berjamaah lalu duduk berdzikir (mengingat) Allah sampai terbit matahari kemudian shalat 2 raka'at, maka baginya pahala seperti pahala haji dan umrah yang sempurna, sempurna, sempurna." (Hasan: Shahih At-Tirmidzi, no. 480, 586; Shahih At-Targhib wa AT-Tarhib, no. 464; Ash-Shahihah, no. 3403)(Dishahihkan oleh Al-Albani). Dalam hadits lain, dari Abu Umamah dan 'Utbah bin 'Abd, Rasulullah bersabda, "Barangsiapa shalat Subuh dalam sebuah masjid secara berjama'ah lalu tinggal di dalamnya hingga ia Shalat Dhuha, maka ia mendapatkan pahala seperti pahalanya orang haji dan umrah yang sempurna haji dan umrahnya." (Hasan li ghairihi: Shahih At-Targhib wa At-Tarhib, no. 469).
Dalam hadits-hadits diatas, Rasulullah menyebutkan dzikir secara umum. Masuk dalam dzikir adalah ta'lim/kajian Islam. Selain lebih banyak faedahnya karena mempelajari ilmu syar'i, juga karena lebih meringankan jiwa yang terkadang malas berdzikir sendiri dalam waktu yang cukup lama.

3. MEMPELAJARI ATAU MENGAJARKAN KEBAIKAN DI MASJID
Dari Abu Umamah, Nabi saw bersabda," Barangsiapa pergi ke masjid, dia tidak menginginkan kecuali mempelajari suatu kebaikan atau mengajarkannya, maka baginya pahala seperti pahala orang haji sempurna hajinya.". Dalam riwayat lain dengan redaksi, "Barangsiapa berangkat di pagi hari menuju masjid, ia tidak menginginkan kecuali untuk mempelajari suatu kebaikan atau mengajarkannya, maka baginya pahala orang yang melaksanakan umrah dengan umrah yang sempurna. Dan barangsiapa berangkat sore hari menuju masjid, ia tidak menginginkan kecuali mempelajari suatu kebaikan atau mengajarkannya, maka ia mendapatkan pahala orang yang naik haji dengan haji yang sempurna."(Hasan Shahih: Shahih At-Targhib wa AT-Tarhib no 82).
Perlu diketahui, pahala ini bisa didapat dengan syarat, pelaku sebelum masuk ke dalam masjid, di perjalanan menuju masjid, atau masih dirumah, haruslah berniat untuk mempelajari atau mengajarkan kebaikan. Nabi dalam hadits diatas tidak menetapkan durasi waktu tertentu.

4. MELAKSANAKAN SHALAT FARDHU BERJAMA'AH DAN SHALAT DHUHA DI MASJID
Dari Abu Umamah, Rasulullah s.a.w bersabda," Barangsiapa berjalan menuju berjama'ah sholat wajib, maka dia seperti berhaji. Dan barang siapa berjalan menuju shalat tathawwu'(sunnah) maka dia seperti berumrah yang nafilah (istilah lain sunnah)." (Hasan: Shahih Al-Jami' no. 6556), dalam hadits yang lainnya, Rasulullah bersabda," Barangsiapa keluar dari rumahnya dalam keadaan sudah bersuci untuk shalat fardhu maka pahalanya seperti pahala orang haji yang berihram, Dan barangsiapa keluar shalat Dhuha dia tidak bermaksud kecuali itu, maka pahalanya seperti pahala orang yang berumrah. Dan shalat sesudah shalat yang tidak ada perbuatan sia-sia di antara keduanya diyulis di kitab 'Illiyyin."( Shahih: Shahih Sunan Abu Dawud, no. 522;Shahih Al-Jami' no. 6228)

Itulah beberapa amalan yang pahalanya setara dengan pahala orang yang sedang berhaji dan berumrah. Perlu diingat, amal-amal ini tidak bisa menggugurkan kewajiban berhaji dan berumrah. Orang-orang yang telah mengerjakan amal-amal ini tetap wajib melaksanakan ibadah haji dan umrah. Al-Munawi dalam Al-Faidh Al-Qadiir jilid 6 hal. 228, "makna mendapat pahala haji atau mendapat pahala seperti pahala haji, tetapi tidak harus sama persis." Maka, amal-amal yang berpahala seperti/setara pahala haji dan umrah itu tidak menghapus kewajiban haji dan umrah.

Seandainya amal-amal itu bisa mengganti kewajiban haji dan umrah atas setiap muslim, maka tidak akan ada orang yang melaksanakan haji dan umrah sejak zaman Nabi Muhammad. Nabi Muhammad yang mensosialisasikan amal-amal tersebut saja tetap melakukan haji dan umrah, demikian juga para pengikut beliau yang setia. Maka sebuah bid'ah dan kesesatan jika seseorang yang tidak berhaji dan berumrah dengan alasan telah beramal dengan amal-amal berpahala seperti pahala dan haji.

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Hard but Hopeful Home to ‘Lot of Freddies’

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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.

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.

Bruce Alger, 96, Dies; Led ‘Mink Coat’ Protest Against Lyndon Johnson

Mr. Alger, who served five terms from Texas, led Republican women in a confrontation with Lyndon B. Johnson that may have cost Richard M. Nixon the 1960 presidential election.

William Sokolin, Wine Seller Who Broke Famed Bottle, Dies at 85

The bottle Mr. Sokolin famously broke was a 1787 Château Margaux, which was said to have belonged to Thomas Jefferson. Mr. Sokolin had been hoping to sell it for $519,750.

Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, 93, Dies; Polish Auschwitz Survivor Aided Jews

Mr. Bartoszewski was given honorary Israeli citizenship for his work to save Jews during World War II and later surprised even himself by being instrumental in reconciling Poland and Germany.

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

By VINDU GOEL and QUENTIN HARDY

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

Dave Goldberg Was Lifelong Women’s Advocate

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.

Jim Fanning, 87, Dies; Lifted Baseball in Canada With Expos

Hired in 1968, a year before their first season, Mr. Fanning spent 25 years with the team, managing them to their only playoff appearance in Canada.

ay 4, 2015 ‘Game of Thrones’ Q&A: Keisha Castle-Hughes on the Tao of the Sand Snakes

“It was really nice to play with other women and not have this underlying tone of being at each other’s throats.”

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.

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?”

Ghostly Voices From Thomas Edison’s Dolls Can Now Be Heard

Though Robin and Joan Rolfs owned two rare talking dolls manufactured by Thomas Edison’s phonograph company in 1890, they did not dare play the wax cylinder records tucked inside each one.

The Rolfses, longtime collectors of Edison phonographs, knew that if they turned the cranks on the dolls’ backs, the steel phonograph needle might damage or destroy the grooves of the hollow, ring-shaped cylinder. And so for years, the dolls sat side by side inside a display cabinet, bearers of a message from the dawn of sound recording that nobody could hear.

In 1890, Edison’s dolls were a flop; production lasted only six weeks. Children found them difficult to operate and more scary than cuddly. The recordings inside, which featured snippets of nursery rhymes, wore out quickly.

Yet sound historians say the cylinders were the first entertainment records ever made, and the young girls hired to recite the rhymes were the world’s first recording artists.

Year after year, the Rolfses asked experts if there might be a safe way to play the recordings. Then a government laboratory developed a method to play fragile records without touching them.

The technique relies on a microscope to create images of the grooves in exquisite detail. A computer approximates — with great accuracy — the sounds that would have been created by a needle moving through those grooves.

In 2014, the technology was made available for the first time outside the laboratory.

“The fear all along is that we don’t want to damage these records. We don’t want to put a stylus on them,” said Jerry Fabris, the curator of the Thomas Edison Historical Park in West Orange, N.J. “Now we have the technology to play them safely.”

Last month, the Historical Park posted online three never-before-heard Edison doll recordings, including the two from the Rolfses’ collection. “There are probably more out there, and we’re hoping people will now get them digitized,” Mr. Fabris said.

The technology, which is known as Irene (Image, Reconstruct, Erase Noise, Etc.), was developed by the particle physicist Carl Haber and the engineer Earl Cornell at Lawrence Berkeley. Irene extracts sound from cylinder and disk records. It can also reconstruct audio from recordings so badly damaged they were deemed unplayable.

“We are now hearing sounds from history that I did not expect to hear in my lifetime,” Mr. Fabris said.

The Rolfses said they were not sure what to expect in August when they carefully packed their two Edison doll cylinders, still attached to their motors, and drove from their home in Hortonville, Wis., to the National Document Conservation Center in Andover, Mass. The center had recently acquired Irene technology.

Cylinders carry sound in a spiral groove cut by a phonograph recording needle that vibrates up and down, creating a surface made of tiny hills and valleys. In the Irene set-up, a microscope perched above the shaft takes thousands of high-resolution images of small sections of the grooves.

Stitched together, the images provide a topographic map of the cylinder’s surface, charting changes in depth as small as one five-hundredth the thickness of a human hair. Pitch, volume and timbre are all encoded in the hills and valleys and the speed at which the record is played.

At the conservation center, the preservation specialist Mason Vander Lugt attached one of the cylinders to the end of a rotating shaft. Huddled around a computer screen, the Rolfses first saw the wiggly waveform generated by Irene. Then came the digital audio. The words were at first indistinct, but as Mr. Lugt filtered out more of the noise, the rhyme became clearer.

“That was the Eureka moment,” Mr. Rolfs said.

In 1890, a girl in Edison’s laboratory had recited:

There was a little girl,

And she had a little curl

Right in the middle of her forehead.

When she was good,

She was very, very good.

But when she was bad, she was horrid.

Recently, the conservation center turned up another surprise.

In 2010, the Woody Guthrie Foundation received 18 oversize phonograph disks from an anonymous donor. No one knew if any of the dirt-stained recordings featured Guthrie, but Tiffany Colannino, then the foundation’s archivist, had stored them unplayed until she heard about Irene.

Last fall, the center extracted audio from one of the records, labeled “Jam Session 9” and emailed the digital file to Ms. Colannino.

“I was just sitting in my dining room, and the next thing I know, I’m hearing Woody,” she said. In between solo performances of “Ladies Auxiliary,” “Jesus Christ,” and “Dead or Alive,” Guthrie tells jokes, offers some back story, and makes the audience laugh. “It is quintessential Guthrie,” Ms. Colannino said.

The Rolfses’ dolls are back in the display cabinet in Wisconsin. But with audio stored on several computers, they now have a permanent voice.

Taiwan party leader affirms eventual reunion with China

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

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

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

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

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

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

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