PAKET UMROH BULAN FEBRUARI MARET APRIL MEI 2018

Jaket kulit memiliki sifat dan daya tahan yang kuat, tidak mudah ditembus oleh angin dan memiliki daya serap keringat yang baik. Apabila dibandingkan dengan jaket yang imitasi.

Bagaimanapun modelnya, jaket kulit tidak akan ketinggalan jaman. Jaket kulit akan cocok dikenakan dalam berbagai cuaca dan suasana, baik dalam cuaca panas ataupun dingin, siang ataupun malam, dan santai ataupun resmi.

Semoga bermanfaat...

saco-indoneia.com, CARA MERAWAT AC RUMAH juga sangat penting diketahui karena tidak dapat dipungkiri lagi di zaman sekarang ini AC juga sudah digunakan oleh semua kalangan, dari kalangan atas sampai kalangan bawah. Hal ini juga dikarenakan kebutuhan sesuai dengan perkembangan zaman dan juga ditunjang dengan harga yang semakin terjangkau. Akan tetapi dengan adanya harga yang terjangkau, alias lebih murah. Dengan sendirinya kualitaspun juga akan berkurang. Untuk itu harus diperlukan cara untuk merawat ac rumah, supaya bisa merawat AC sendiri, agar AC tetap dapat berfungsi sebagai mana mestinya. Untuk orang yang berduit masalah perawatan tidak menjadi masalah, beda dengan yang agak kurang keuangannya, untuk itu di sini ada tips untuk dapat mengurangi biaya perawatan sehingga AC tetap dapat berfungsi dan biaya bisa dikurangi.Dengan mengikuti CARA MERAWAT AC RUMAH maka ikuti berikut ini, mudah-mudahan biaya bisa lebih ekonomis.
Langkah pertama:

AC split terdiri dari 3 bagian : indoor, outdoor, remote control. Bukalah tutup indoor, dan disitu akan didapati filter/saringan, dan ambilah filter tersebut, kalau kotor cucilah sampai bersih (hati-hati jangan sampai rusak). lakukan hal ini paling tidak sebulan sekali. Karena ini merupakan inti dari CARA MERAWAT AC RUMAH

Setelah dibuka filter/saringann maka akan dapat terlihat evaporator. Perhatikan evaporator tersebut, kalau sudah kotor harus segera dibersihkan. Adapun untuk dapat membersihkan evaporator harus dengan menggunakan alat tersendiri yaitu steam ac. Sebelum menggunakan alat ini kita harus mengamankan modul yaitu dengan menutupnya dengan plastik atau sejenisnya supaya tidak terkena air. Sedangkan modul letaknya ada di sebelah kiri evaporator. Nah daripada susah-susah apalagi tidak punya alatnya, lebih baik panggil tukang service yang bisa dipercaya.

Langkah kedua :
Periksa outdoor, singkirkan benda apapun yang telah mengganggu sirkulasi udar, karena akan dapat mempengaruhi kondensasi sehingga AC kurang dingin. Lihatlah pipa yang telah menempel pada outdoor. disitu juga ada dua pipa. Pipa besar dan pipa kecil. Apabila pada pipa kecil terlihat fros/bunga es, itu salah satu tanda froen berkurang dan harus segera ditambah, dalam hal ini juga akan dilakukan oleh yang berpengalaman dalam menangani hal ini. Panggil saja nomor telepon diatas.

Langkah ketiga :
Matikan AC dengan segera pada saat tegangan listrik turun. Untuk dapat mengetahui tegangan listrik itu turun bisa dilihat dengan melihat lampu yang biasanya nyala terang tapi saat tegangan turun lampu akan nyala kurang terang/redup. Selamat mencoba CARA MERAWAT AC RUMAH  ini semoga bisa menjadikan AC rumah anda dingin kembali

PERHATIAN :
Kebersihan AC haruslah selalu dijaga, karena akan dapat mempengaruhi listrik yang digunakan. AC yang selalu bersih pemakaian listriknya lebih irit dibanding AC yang kotor. Hal ini juga dikarenakan AC yang kotor akan susah untuk mencapai titik dingin suatu ruangan sesuai dengan suhu yang diinginkan sehingga kompresor akan hidup terus menerus. Berbeda dengan AC yang bersih< dalam waktu tertentu akan mencapai titik dingin yang diinginkan sehingga kompresorpun akan berhenti bekerja, sehingga arus listrik yang digunakan sangat kecil. Maka penting untuk dapat memperhatikan langkah demi langkah yang ada di dalam CARA MERAWAT AC RUMAH

Editor : Dian Sukmawati

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Editor : Dian Sukmawati

Mau tahu perbandingan gaji antara pemain bola Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Robert Lewandowki atau Mario Gomes. Atau ingin tahu koleksi mobil Ronaldo dan berapa harganya?

Nah, berita menarik ini bisa diperoleh dari surat kabar Berita Kota Superball yang sudah bisa diperoleh pembaca di Jabodetabek yang edisi perdananya mulai Senin (29/4/2013) ini.

Surat kabar yang mengusung tagline Super Ball. It's Bola Lifestyle merupakan produk Group of Regional Newspaper Kompas Gramedia (Tribun Group) mempunyai  halaman 16 buah dengan lima halaman  Superchampions, dua superindonesia.

Bagi Jakmania, Berita Kota Superball memberikan satu halaman bernama Superjak yang berisi tentang berbagai macam tentang Persija.

Kemudian dua halaman berita Supernews yang berisi berita-berita non sepak bola, dan masing-masing satu halaman yakni Supersoccer, Superpremier, Supersport dan Superceleb.

Dalam pengantar edisi perdananya, Direktur Group of Regional Newspaper Kompas Gramedia Herman Darmo menyatakan, hadirnya Berita Kota Superball ini karena banyak aspek dalam sepak bola, tidak hanya skor saja tetapi juga dramanya, lifestyle pemain serta komunitasnya

"Kami menangkap spirit itu. Kami menangkap ekspektasi pembaca tentang berita dan foto bola yang bukan cuma skor, bukan cuma statistik, tapi–lebih dari itu: tentang lifestyle dan komunitas bola. Itulah Super Ball. It's Bola Lifestyle," tutur Herman Darmo.
 
Dikatakan, cara melihat bola seperti itu mendorong kami untuk menghadirkan berita-berita sepak bola yang berbeda dari media bola lainnya. Super Ball tidak hanya menyajikan berita, tapi juga lifestyle dan komunitas bola.
 
"Mulai hari ini, Senin, 29 April 2013, Berita Kota berubah tampilan maupun isi. Namanya pun berubah, Berita Kota Super Ball. Berita bolanya lebih banyak, sedangkan berita peristiwa dan berita selebriti dikemas dengan lebih menarik, easy reading dan menyenangkan (entertaining)," katanya.

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4 Hal yang Harus Diperhatikan Saat kita Membeli Komputer :

Hampir setiap orang telah memiliki komputer pribadi (PC) tetapi tidak semua orang telah memiliki yang sesuai bagi kebutuhannya. Mengingat investasi besar PC, membeli yang salah juga dapat menjadi benda yang tak berguna atau pemberat kertas yang terlalu besar.

Di sini, kita juga akan membahas hal-hal yang harus diperhatikan ketika kita membeli komputer, informasi yang Anda butuhkan untuk dapat melakukan pembelian yang tepat dan kesalahan umum yang dibuat oleh pembeli pertama kali.
Harga vs Performa

Setiap komputer telah dilengkapi dengan fungsi dan performa yang berbeda-beda pula, hal ini tercermin dalam perbedaan harga antara komputer tingkat pemula dan tingkat tinggi. Pahamilah dan ketahuilah kebutuhan Anda sehingga bisa mendapatkan komputer yang tepat dan menghindari membayar terlalu banyak untuk komponen yang tidak Anda perlukan. Kami juga dapat membantu Anda dengan menemukan PC yang tepat bagi Anda. Pada saat yang sama, komputer dengan diskon promosi tinggi mungkin tidak cukup kuat untuk kebutuhan Anda. Komputer semacam itu sering kali berisi sistem lama dengan komponen murah atau usang sehingga dengan membayar sedikit lebih banyak saja Anda bisa mendapatkan sebuah PC yang secara dramatis lebih baik. Lakukan perbandingan harga, lihat komponen individu dan pertimbangkan kebutuhan untuk bisa mendapatkan keseimbangan yang tepat antara harga dan performa.
Peripheral & Perangkat Lunak

Banyak komputer yang telah dipaketkan sering disertai perangkat lunak standar dan dibundel dengan peripheral tertentu. Ini termasuk sistem operasi, perangkat lunak antivirus, mouse dan keyboard. Cek dengan toko sebelum membeli mengenai peripheral apa saja yang menyertai komputer. Pastikan Anda telah mendapatkan semua yang dibutuhkan dengan anggaran yang sesuai untuk add-on seperti printer atau kabel ekstra sesuai yang diinginkan. Sebagian besar komputer tidak dilengkap dengan aplikasi perkantoran dan Anda harus menyadari hal itu.
Komponen Sistem

Pastikan masing-masing komponen Anda bekerja sama dengan baik. Memiliki prosesor terbaru dan tercepat tanpa RAM yang cukup akan membuat program Anda berjalan lebih lambat dari seharusnya. Cek bahwa komponen-komponen yang ada seimbang dalam performa. Untuk sejumlah faktor bentuk, mungkin sulit untuk meng-upgrade komponen. Selalu mencoba untuk dapat meneliti dan pastikan untuk membeli apa yang Anda butuhkan sekarang selain juga memiliki kemampuan untuk ditingkatkan di masa mendatang. Pelajari tentang komponen yang berbeda.
Siap Untuk Masa Depan

Siap untuk masa depan mengacu pada pembelian atau perakitan komputer yang mampu untuk menjalankan aplikasi tingkat tinggi di masa depan. Hal ini biasanya datang dengan harga yang sangat tinggi. Dalam jangka panjang, akan lebih baik bila Anda membeli komputer dengan nilai harga-berbanding-performa terbaik untuk uang Anda dan tabung sisanya. Anda akan menghemat dalam jangka panjang untuk terus meng-upgrade setiap 6 bulan atau mengganti komputer Anda seiring kemajuan teknologi.

Editor : Dian Sukmawati

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

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.

GREENWICH, Conn. — Mago is in the bedroom. You can go in.

The big man lies on a hospital bed with his bare feet scraping its bottom rail. His head is propped on a scarlet pillow, the left temple dented, the right side paralyzed. His dark hair is kept just long enough to conceal the scars.

The occasional sounds he makes are understood only by his wife, but he still has that punctuating left hand. In slow motion, the fingers curl and close. A thumbs-up greeting.

Hello, Mago.

This is Magomed Abdusalamov, 34, also known as the Russian Tyson, also known as Mago. He is a former heavyweight boxer who scored four knockouts and 14 technical knockouts in his first 18 professional fights. He preferred to stand between rounds. Sitting conveyed weakness.

But Mago lost his 19th fight, his big chance, at the packed Theater at Madison Square Garden in November 2013. His 19th decision, and his last.

Now here he is, in a small bedroom in a working-class neighborhood in Greenwich, in a modest house his family rents cheap from a devoted friend. The air-pressure machine for his mattress hums like an expectant crowd.

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Today is like any other day, except for those days when he is hurried in crisis to the hospital. Every three hours during the night, his slight wife, Bakanay, 28, has risen to turn his 6-foot-3 body — 210 pounds of dead weight. It has to be done. Infections of the gaping bedsore above his tailbone have nearly killed him.

Then, with the help of a young caretaker, Baka has gotten two of their daughters off to elementary school and settled down the toddler. Yes, Mago and Baka are blessed with all girls, but they had also hoped for a son someday.

They feed Mago as they clean him; it’s easier that way. For breakfast, which comes with a side of crushed antiseizure pills, he likes oatmeal with a squirt of Hershey’s chocolate syrup. But even oatmeal must be puréed and fed to him by spoon.

He opens his mouth to indicate more, the way a baby does. But his paralysis has made everything a choking hazard. His water needs a stirring of powdered food thickener, and still he chokes — eh-eh-eh — as he tries to cough up what will not go down.

Mago used to drink only water. No alcohol. Not even soda. A sip of juice would be as far as he dared. Now even water betrays him.

With the caretaker’s help, Baka uses a washcloth and soap to clean his body and shampoo his hair. How handsome still, she has thought. Sometimes, in the night, she leaves the bedroom to watch old videos, just to hear again his voice in the fullness of life. She cries, wipes her eyes and returns, feigning happiness. Mago must never see her sad.

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When Baka finishes, Mago is cleanshaven and fresh down to his trimmed and filed toenails. “I want him to look good,” she says.

Theirs was an arranged Muslim marriage in Makhachkala, in the Russian republic of Dagestan. He was 23, she was 18 and their future hinged on boxing. Sometimes they would shadowbox in love, her David to his Goliath. You are so strong, he would tell her.

His father once told him he could either be a bandit or an athlete, but if he chose banditry, “I will kill you.” This paternal advice, Mago later told The Ventura County Reporter, “made it a very easy decision for me.”

Mago won against mediocre competition, in Moscow and Hollywood, Fla., in Las Vegas and Johnstown, Pa. He was knocked down only once, and even then, it surprised more than hurt. He scored a technical knockout in the next round.

It all led up to this: the undercard at the Garden, Mike Perez vs. Magomed Abdusalamov, 10 rounds, on HBO. A win, he believed, would improve his chances of taking on the heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko, who sat in the crowd of 4,600 with his fiancée, the actress Hayden Panettiere, watching.

Wearing black-and-red trunks and a green mouth guard, Mago went to work. But in the first round, a hard forearm to his left cheek rocked him. At the bell, he returned to his corner, and this time, he sat down. “I think it’s broken,” he repeatedly said in Russian.

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Maybe at that point, somebody — the referee, the ringside doctors, his handlers — should have stopped the fight, under a guiding principle: better one punch too early than one punch too late. But the bloody trade of blows continued into the seventh, eighth, ninth, a hand and orbital bone broken, his face transforming.

Meanwhile, in the family’s apartment in Miami, Baka forced herself to watch the broadcast. She could see it in his swollen eyes. Something was off.

After the final round, Perez raised his tattooed arms in victory, and Mago wandered off in a fog. He had taken 312 punches in about 40 minutes, for a purse of $40,000.

In the locker room, doctors sutured a cut above Mago’s left eye and tested his cognitive abilities. He did not do well. The ambulance that waits in expectation at every fight was not summoned by boxing officials.

Blood was pooling in Mago’s cranial cavity as he left the Garden. He vomited on the pavement while his handlers flagged a taxi to St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital. There, doctors induced a coma and removed part of his skull to drain fluids and ease the swelling.

Then came the stroke.

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It is lunchtime now, and the aroma of puréed beef and potatoes lingers. So do the questions.

How will Mago and Baka pay the $2 million in medical bills they owe? What if their friend can no longer offer them this home? Will they win their lawsuits against the five ringside doctors, the referee, and a New York State boxing inspector? What about Mago’s future care?

Most of all: Is this it?

A napkin rests on Mago’s chest. As another spoonful of mush approaches, he opens his mouth, half-swallows, chokes, and coughs until it clears. Eh-eh-eh. Sometimes he turns bluish, but Baka never shows fear. Always happy for Mago.

Some days he is wheeled out for physical therapy or speech therapy. Today, two massage therapists come to knead his half-limp body like a pair of skilled corner men.

Soon, Mago will doze. Then his three daughters, ages 2, 6 and 9, will descend upon him to talk of their day. Not long ago, the oldest lugged his championship belt to school for a proud show-and-tell moment. Her classmates were amazed at the weight of it.

Then, tonight, there will be more puréed food and pulverized medication, more coughing, and more tender care from his wife, before sleep comes.

Goodbye, Mago.

He half-smiles, raises his one good hand, and forms a fist.

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.

Late in April, after Native American actors walked off in disgust from the set of Adam Sandler’s latest film, a western sendup that its distributor, Netflix, has defended as being equally offensive to all, a glow of pride spread through several Native American communities.

Tantoo Cardinal, a Canadian indigenous actress who played Black Shawl in “Dances With Wolves,” recalled thinking to herself, “It’s come.” Larry Sellers, who starred as Cloud Dancing in the 1990s television show “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,” thought, “It’s about time.” Jesse Wente, who is Ojibwe and directs film programming at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto, found himself encouraged and surprised. There are so few film roles for indigenous actors, he said, that walking off the set of a major production showed real mettle.

But what didn’t surprise Mr. Wente was the content of the script. According to the actors who walked off the set, the film, titled “The Ridiculous Six,” included a Native American woman who passes out and is revived after white men douse her with alcohol, and another woman squatting to urinate while lighting a peace pipe. “There’s enough history at this point to have set some expectations around these sort of Hollywood depictions,” Mr. Wente said.

The walkout prompted a rhetorical “What do you expect from an Adam Sandler film?,” and a Netflix spokesman said that in the movie, blacks, Mexicans and whites were lampooned as well. But Native American actors and critics said a broader issue was at stake. While mainstream portrayals of native peoples have, Mr. Wente said, become “incrementally better” over the decades, he and others say, they remain far from accurate and reflect a lack of opportunities for Native American performers. What’s more, as Native Americans hunger for representation on screen, critics say the absence of three-dimensional portrayals has very real off-screen consequences.

“Our people are still healing from historical trauma,” said Loren Anthony, one of the actors who walked out. “Our youth are still trying to figure out who they are, where they fit in this society. Kids are killing themselves. They’re not proud of who they are.” They also don’t, he added, see themselves on prime time television or the big screen. Netflix noted while about five people walked off the “The Ridiculous Six” set, 100 or so Native American actors and extras stayed.

But in interviews, nearly a dozen Native American actors and film industry experts said that Mr. Sandler’s humor perpetuated decades-old negative stereotypes. Mr. Anthony said such depictions helped feed the despondency many Native Americans feel, with deadly results: Native Americans have the highest suicide rate out of all the country’s ethnicities.

The on-screen problem is twofold, Mr. Anthony and others said: There’s a paucity of roles for Native Americans — according to the Screen Actors Guild in 2008 they accounted for 0.3 percent of all on-screen parts (those figures have yet to be updated), compared to about 2 percent of the general population — and Native American actors are often perceived in a narrow way.

In his Peabody Award-winning documentary “Reel Injun,” the Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond explored Hollywood depictions of Native Americans over the years, and found they fell into a few stereotypical categories: the Noble Savage, the Drunk Indian, the Mystic, the Indian Princess, the backward tribal people futilely fighting John Wayne and manifest destiny. While the 1990 film “Dances With Wolves” won praise for depicting Native Americans as fully fleshed out human beings, not all indigenous people embraced it. It was still told, critics said, from the colonialists’ point of view. In an interview, John Trudell, a Santee Sioux writer, actor (“Thunderheart”) and the former chairman of the American Indian Movement, described the film as “a story of two white people.”

“God bless ‘Dances with Wolves,’ ” Michael Horse, who played Deputy Hawk in “Twin Peaks,” said sarcastically. “Even ‘Avatar.’ Someone’s got to come save the tribal people.”

Dan Spilo, a partner at Industry Entertainment who represents Adam Beach, one of today’s most prominent Native American actors, said while typecasting dogs many minorities, it is especially intractable when it comes to Native Americans. Casting directors, he said, rarely cast them as police officers, doctors or lawyers. “There’s the belief that the Native American character should be on reservations or riding a horse,” he said.

“We don’t see ourselves,” Mr. Horse said. “We’re still an antiquated culture to them, and to the rest of the world.”

Ms. Cardinal said she was once turned down for the role of the wife of a child-abusing cop because the filmmakers felt that casting her would somehow be “too political.”

Another sore point is the long run of white actors playing American Indians, among them Burt Lancaster, Rock Hudson, Audrey Hepburn and, more recently, Johnny Depp, whose depiction of Tonto in the 2013 film “Lone Ranger,” was viewed as racist by detractors. There are, of course, exceptions. The former A&E series “Longmire,” which, as it happens, will now be on Netflix, was roundly praised for its depiction of life on a Northern Cheyenne reservation, with Lou Diamond Phillips, who is of Cherokee descent, playing a Northern Cheyenne man.

Others also point to the success of Mr. Beach, who played a Mohawk detective in “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and landed a starring role in the forthcoming D C Comics picture “Suicide Squad.” Mr. Beach said he had come across insulting scripts backed by people who don’t see anything wrong with them.

“I’d rather starve than do something that is offensive to my ancestral roots,” Mr. Beach said. “But I think there will always be attempts to drawn on the weakness of native people’s struggles. The savage Indian will always be the savage Indian. The white man will always be smarter and more cunning. The cavalry will always win.”

The solution, Mr. Wente, Mr. Trudell and others said, lies in getting more stories written by and starring Native Americans. But Mr. Wente noted that while independent indigenous film has blossomed in the last two decades, mainstream depictions have yet to catch up. “You have to stop expecting for Hollywood to correct it, because there seems to be no ability or desire to correct it,” Mr. Wente said.

There have been calls to boycott Netflix but, writing for Indian Country Today Media Network, which first broke news of the walk off, the filmmaker Brian Young noted that the distributor also offered a number of films by or about Native Americans.

The furor around “The Ridiculous Six” may drive more people to see it. Then one of the questions that Mr. Trudell, echoing others, had about the film will be answered: “Who the hell laughs at this stuff?”

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.

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

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

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.

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

Under Mr. Michelin’s leadership, which ended when he left the company in 2002, the Michelin Group became the world’s biggest tire maker, establishing a big presence in the United States and other major markets overseas.

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.

Mr. Miller, of the firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges, represented companies including Lehman Brothers, General Motors and American Airlines, and mentored many of the top Chapter 11 practitioners today.

As governor, Mr. Walker alienated Republicans and his fellow Democrats, particularly the Democratic powerhouse Richard J. Daley, the mayor of Chicago.

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