saco-indonesia.com, Pencurian sepeda motor sekaligus pembunuhan sadis telah terjadi di Desa Sungai Pinang kecamatan Tambang kabu

saco-indonesia.com, Pencurian sepeda motor sekaligus pembunuhan sadis telah terjadi di Desa Sungai Pinang kecamatan Tambang kabupaten Kampar Riau. Korban yang bernama Nurhayati yang berusia (38) tahun telah dibunuh lalu dibakar di atas kasur tempat tidur di rumahnya oleh pencuri.

"Kita juga sudah melakukan olah tempat kejadian perkara (TKP) dan memeriksa beberapa saksi," ujar Kapolsek Tambang AKP Sumarno, Senin (30/12).

Dari hasil penyelidikan sementara, Sumarno juga mengatakan belum ada titik terang mengenai indikasi pelaku pembunuhan sadis yang sekaligus pencurian sepeda motor Honda Vario di rumah korban. "Keterangan empat saksi yang telah diperiksa belum ada yang jelas," kata Sumarno.

Sumarno juga telah menduga motif pelaku adalah pencurian membunuh korban mungkin karena ketahuan, "Karena itulah bisa saja pelaku nekat untuk menghabisi nyawa korban," ucap Sumarno.

Selain itu, berdasarkan penuturan empat saksi, korban yang merupakan warga yang baik dan tidak punya musuh. Bahkan, sehari-harinya, korban tergolong ibu rumah tangga yang tak pernah keluar dari rumah. "Makanya para saksi juga bingung mengapa korban bisa dibunuh dengan cara yang sangat sadis," tambah Sumarno.

Walaupun belum ada keterangan saksi yang begitu jelas, Sumarno telah menegaskan, pihaknya juga akan serius mengungkap peristiwa perampokan dan pembunuhan itu. "Saat ini anggota kita masih berada melacak dan memburu pelakunya," pungkas Sumarno.

Seperti diberitakan sebelumnya, Nurhayati yang berusia (38) tahun warga Desa Sungai Pinang, Kampar, Minggu (29/12) sekitar pukul 03.00 dini hari telah ditemukan tewas terbakar di atas kasus dalam kamar oleh kedua anaknya Tri Riski (16) dan Bayu (20).

Pada subuh itu, Riski dan Bayu tersentak bangun dari tidurnya karena telah merasakan asap yang keluar dari kamar orangtuanya. Merasa penasaran kedua anak Nurhayati langsung membuka pintu kamar ibunya yang sedang tidur dalam kamar.

Alangkah terkejutnya Bayu saat melihat ibunya yang tidur di atas kasur sudah terbakar. Melihat peristiwa tragis itu Bayu dan Tri Riski langsung menjerit histeris dan minta pertolongan warga sekitar.

Warga yang terkejut dengan teriakan anak korban berhamburan ke rumah korban. Selanjutnya warga berusaha untuk memadamkan api, setelah api berhasil dipadamkan warga curiga sebab di kamar korban tidak ditemukan bercak darah.

Warga pun bergegas melaporkannya ke Polsek Tambang. Mendapat laporan dari warga Kapolsek Tambang AKP Sumarno bersama anggotanya bergegas datang ke lokasi untuk dapat melakukan olah tempat kejadian perkara (TKP).

Paman korban Ilut kepada wartawan juga mengatakan, korban tinggal di rumah bersama 2 orang anaknya. Sedangkan suami korban bekerja sebagai TKI di Malaysia.

"Tempat tinggal Nurhayati jauh dari keramaian, sebab di situ cuma hanya ada 4 petak rumah," ujar Ilut.

Menurut IIut, ia telah mendapat informasi Nurhayati tewas terbakar dari kedua anak Nurhayati. "Mendapat kabar itu saya bergegas ke lokasi, dan ternyata kondisi Nurhayati sudah hangus terbakar," tuturnya.

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saco-indonesia.com, Firman Wijaya, pengacara Gubernur Banten, Ratu Atut Chosiyah, hari ini akan mengajukan surat penangguhan pen

saco-indonesia.com, Firman Wijaya, pengacara Gubernur Banten, Ratu Atut Chosiyah, hari ini akan mengajukan surat penangguhan penahanan bagi kliennya ke Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi.

Dia juga berharap Komisi antikorupsi ini bisa mengabulkan permohonan penangguhan penahanan Ratu Atut. "Bu Atut tidak bisa melarikan diri karena statusnya tersangka dan sudah dilakukan pencekalan. Saya rasa alasan penangguhan dengan subjektif ini akan bisa dikabulkan," kata Firman di KPK, Jakarta Selatan, Senin (23/12/2013).

Menurut Firman, ditahannya Ratu Atut juga sangat mempengaruhi kerja pemerintahan Provinsi Banten. "Penahanan ini juga bisa dipersepsikan sebagai sarana ampuh untuk dapat melumpuhkan kewenangan Atut sebagai gubernur provinsi aktif. Sampai hari ini kewenangan untuk dapat memutuskan sesuatu tetap pada Ibu Atut. Tidak ada pada Undang-undang yang melegitimasi tanpa persetujuan Atut," ujar Firman.

Firman Wijaya juga menyatakan semestinya KPK mengabulkan permohonannya tersebut. "Tentu saja penahanan yang begitu akan cepat bisa mengganggu kesinambungan Pemerintahan Provinsi Banten," tegas Firman.

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saco-indonesia.com, Akhir-akhir ini, pengguna kendaraan bermotor dihadapkan dengan bayang-bayang kenaikan harga BBM. Tidak perlu khawatir, karena irit tidaknya konsumsi bahan bakar bukan semata-mata karena faktor minyak murah, tetapi juga perlakuan terhadap kendaraan itu sendiri.

London, Saco-Indonesia – Akhir-akhir ini, pengguna kendaraan bermotor dihadapkan dengan bayang-bayang kenaikan harga BBM. Tidak perlu khawatir, karena irit tidaknya konsumsi bahan bakar bukan semata-mata karena faktor minyak murah, tetapi juga perlakuan terhadap kendaraan itu sendiri.

KompasOtomotif merangkum delapan nasihat yang dilansir about.com untuk pengguna sepeda motor agar konsumsi bahan bakar irit, berangkat dari sudut pandang perilaku. Berikut tipsnya:

1. Memanaskan mesin sudah jadi ritual. Tapi kebanyakan sepeda motor berteknologi injeksi sudah bisa dinaiki instan setelah dinyalakan. Jika Anda yakin performa sepeda motor tidak turun, langsung tancap lebih baik dan lebih cepat memanaskan mesin ketimbang membuang bahan bakar saat dipanaskan dalam kondisi diam.

2. Salah satu yang paling efektif, memelihara tekanan angin. Cari tekanan yang direkomendasikan yang biasa tertempel pada sepeda motor atau buku petunjuk kendaraan. Tekanan ban yang pas tak hanya menghemat bahan bakar, tetapi juga meningkatkan pengendalian.

3. Performa sepeda motor akan baik jika mesin terawat. Pahami bahwa saringan udara bersih, busi fresh, saringan bensin bebas kotoran, dan setelan bagus, sangat besar peranannya mengirit bahan bakar. Lakukan ini.

4. Fokus memelihara kecepatan konstan. Tarik tuas gas perlahan dan jangan menghentak, apalagi menggeber- geber gas. Sok-sokan ngebut padahal di depan bakal macet, hanya akan membuang bahan bakar sia- sia.

5. Berpikirlah begini: Batas kecepatan di jalan diciptakan Polisi bukan hanya untuk menertibkan, melainkan juga menghemat bahan bakar. Tarik gas memang enak, dan menimbulkan perasaan meledak-ledak karena adrenalin meningkat deras, tapi bahan bakar dijamin jauh lebih boros.

6. Bobot pasti mempengaruhi konsumsi bahan bakar. Kurangi komponen tambahan yang tidak perlu. Misalnya, boks di kanan-kiri-belakang, jika tidak ada isinya, kenapa harus dipasang untuk dipakai berangkat kerja? Pasanglah hanya kalau butuh, misalnya touring.

7. Aerodinamis itu penting. Sebisa mungkin buang peralatan yang membuat angin "menabrak" keras sepeda motor, misalnya tameng angin (windshield) yang tegak lurus. Usahakan memasang tameng angin yang aerodinamis, bila perlu posisinya tak terlalu tinggi.

8. Berkendaralah di jalan yang benar (aspal). Banyak sepeda motor kurang sabar dengan mengambil jalan tanah di sebelahnya, atau bahkan naik trotoar rusak hanya untuk menyalip dua atau tiga kendaraan lain dan mengorbankan pejalan kaki. Sia-sia, dan percayalah bahwa jalan yang tak mulus menambah konsumsi bahan bakar.

Selamat berkendara hemat, nyaman, dan aman.

Terpidana kasus korupsi yang menjadi buronan Kejaksaan Agung, Susno Duadji dikabarkan menyerahkan diri ke pihak kejaksaan. Susno

Terpidana kasus korupsi yang menjadi buronan Kejaksaan Agung, Susno Duadji dikabarkan menyerahkan diri ke pihak kejaksaan. Susno kini sudah berada 'di tangan' tim eksekusi Kejaksaan Agung.

Informasi yang dihimpun detikcom, Jumat (3/5/2013) Susno menyerahkan diri malam tadi. Susno menyerahkan diri setelah ditetapkan buron selama sepekan.

Saat dikonfirmasi Kapuspenkum Kejagung Setia Untung Arimuladi enggan menjelaskan lebih jauh. Dirinya tidak mengetahui persis informasi tersebut.

"Saya tidak tahu," kata Setia saat dikonfirmasi.

Setia juga belum mengetahui soal informasi Jaksa Agung Basrief Arief akan melakukan jumpa pers pagi ini terkait penyerahaan diri Susno.

"Jangan paksa saya ngomong dong kalau saya tidak mau," imbuhnya.

Sementara itu kuasa hukum Susno Fredrich Yunadi juga belum mengetahui informasi tersebut. "Saya tidak tahu, tanya Kejaksaan saja," jawabnya singkat.

Seperti diketahui, Rabu, (24/4) pagi, Jaksa eksekutor dari Kejati DKI, Kejati Jabar dan Kejari Jakarta Selatan yang berjumlah puluhan orang mendatangi rumah Susno Duadji di Dago Pakar, Bandung. Mereka akan melakukan eksekusi pada mantan Kabareskrim itu.

Perdebatan sengitpun tidak dapat dihindarkan. Susno meminta perlindungan dari Polda Jawa Barat. Eksekusi yang berlangsung hingga tengah malam ini pun gagal. Jaksa harus pulang dengan tangan hampa.

Di tengah upaya jaksa mencari dan mengesekusi Susno, tiba-tiba publik dikagetkan dengan kemunculan Susno di Youtube. Dalam video itu, Susno menuding kejaksaan melakukan eksekusi liar.

Dalam rekaman berdurasi 15 menit 34 detik itu, Susno mengaku tidak berupaya melarikan diri untuk menghindar dari eksekusi. Bakal calon anggota legislatif dari Partai Bulan Bintang itu menyatakan, saat ini ia berada di daerah pemilihan Jawa Barat 1.

saco-indonesia.com, Keberanian anggota Kelompok Sadar Kamtibmas (KSK) Lintas Tomang ini patut diacungi jempol. Dede Iskandar

saco-indonesia.com, Keberanian anggota Kelompok Sadar Kamtibmas (KSK) Lintas Tomang ini patut diacungi jempol.

Dede Iskandar yang berusia 24 tahun , telah berhasil menggagalkan aksi pencurian sepeda motor setelah membuat pencuri terjengkang dari motor curiannya lewat tendangannya.

Peristiwa yang telah terjadi di Jalan Rawa Kepa Ujung, Jakarta Barat, Selasa (27/1) sekitar pukul 17:00 juga sempat membuat gempar masyarakat setempat. Namun sayang ketika pelaku akan diringkus, penjahat tersebut juga langsung mencabut senjata api dari pinggangnya.

Karuan saja telah membuat Dede yang sehari-hari dipanggil Gudel ini telah memilih untuk kabur dengan sepeda motornya.

“Saya ditodong senjata api ketika saya mau menangkapnya. Daripada saya ditembak saya langsung kabur saja,” ujar Gudel yang kabur sambil berteriak rampok.

Pelaku yang menurut Gudel berperawakan sedang ini juga kabur menumpang motor Yamaha Mio warna putih rekannya yang mengiringinya dalam aksi kejahatan. Sementara motor Satria FU 150 F 4383 PI yang sempat dicuri pelaku ditinggalkan di jalan dengan kunci leter T yang masih menancap di stop kontak.

Aksi penggagalan pencurian sepeda motor ini menurut pentolan KSK Lintas Tomang H. Nanang Kurniawan ini bermula dari pantulan jajaran KSK.lewat HT (Handy Talky). Dikabarkan sepeda motor Satria FU F 4383 PI milik Agus telah hilang di Jalan Gelong Baru Timur. Agus saat itu tengah memfoto copy di sebuah warung.

Pantulan ini telah didengar Dede yang berada di Jalan Rawa Kepa Utama. “Saya lihat ada sepeda motor Satria FU seperti yang dipantulkan lewat. Saya juga minta ulang lagi nomor polisinya agar tak salah,” ujar pemilik call sign Ende 1 ini.

Setelah mendapat jawaban bahwa memang motor yang sedang dicurigainya itu benar motor curian Dede langsung memepetnya lalu menendangnya di Jalan Rawa Kepa Ujung. Hal ini telah membuat pelaku terjengkang dari motor curiannya.

Pelaku yang terjatuh langsung mencabut senjata api dan ditodongkan ke Dede.

“Saya kira pelakunya sendiri. Tak taunya ada temannya yang ikut mengiringinya,” ujarnya.

Sepeda motor yang gagal dicuri ini langsung diamankan ke Pos RW O13 dan selanjutnya dibawa oleh. petugas Polsek Tanjung Duren yang telah mengusut kejadian ini

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Murti Transindo bertekad untuk dapat menjadi yang terbaik dibidang jasa kirim barang tujuan Jakarta-Batam. Dan sekarang ketika k

Murti Transindo bertekad untuk dapat menjadi yang terbaik dibidang jasa kirim barang tujuan Jakarta-Batam. Dan sekarang ketika kita memasuki milenium baru dan era teknologi informasi kini Murti  Transindo hadir ditengah-tengah anda guna untuk memberikan layanan terbaik untuk dapat mencapai kesuksesan bersama . Untuk itu kami tidak hanya memberikan layanan yang efesien,tetapi menawarkan harga yg kompetitif . Kehandalan , kecep atan  dan kerja team adalah bahan-bahan untuk sukses dalam bidang logistik kontes melawan waktu . Peralatan inovatif,qualitas yg luar biasa adalah dasar untuk kesuksesan ini. Ambisi kita yg paling penting adalah untuk memenuhi permintaan pelanggan. baik dalam mengembangkan layanan baru serta mengembangkan lebih lanjut akan pentingnya menjalin kemitraan yg baik kepada setiap pelanggan.

Tinjauan Umum Ternak kerbau sudah dipelihara petani Indonesia dari dahulu kala untuk berbagai tujuan, terutama sebagai sumb

Tinjauan Umum Ternak kerbau sudah dipelihara petani Indonesia dari dahulu kala untuk berbagai tujuan, terutama sebagai sumber tenaga untuk pengolahan tanah dan alat transportasi. Ternak dipelihara dengan cara ekstensif dengan pemberian pakan hijauan dari rumput dengan cara penggembalaan maupun dengan mencari rumput dan memberikannya pada ternak Menurut sejarah perkembangan domestikasi, ternak kerbau yang berkembang di seluruh dunia berasal dari daerah sekitar India. Pada dasarnya ternak kerbau digunakan sebagai ternak kerja, selanjutnya untuk penghasil daging dan juga penghasil susu. Ternak kerbau diklasifikasi sebagai kerbau sungai dan kerbau Lumpur. Di Indonesia lebih banyak terdapat kerbau Lumpur dan hanya sedikit terdapat kerbau sungai di Sumatera Utara yaitu kerbau Murrah yang dipelihara oleh masyarakat keturuan India dan digunakan sebagai penghasil susu. Populasi ternak kerbau di dunia diperkirakan sebanyak 130−150 juta ekor, sekitar 95% berada di belahan Asia selatan, khususnya di India, Pakistan, China bagian selatan dan Thailand (SONI, 1986). Populasi ternak kerbau di Indonesia hanya sekitar 2% dari populasi dunia. Hanya sedikit sekali kerbau lumpur yang dimanfaatkan air susunya, karena produksi susunya sangat rendah yaitu hanya 1−1,5 l/hari, dibandingkan dengan tipe sungai yang mampu menghasilkan susu sebanyak 6−7 l/hari. Namun demikian, di beberapa daerah, susu kerbau lumpur telah lama dimanfaatkan oleh masyarakat. Di Pulau Sumatera banyak ditemukan ternak kerbau mulai dari dataran rendah sampai dengan dataran tinggi. Disamping itu ditemukan juga di daerah rawa, namun masih termasuk dalam bangsa kerbau lumpur. Potensi pakan yang cukup banyak tersedia menjadikan ternak kerbau sebagai komoditas unggulan di sebagian besar daerah di Pulau Sumatera. Usaha ternak kerbau merupakan usaha peternakan rakyat yang dipelihara sebagai usaha sampingan, menggunakan tenaga kerja keluarga dengan skala usaha yang kecil karena kekurangan modal. Disamping itu sebagian peternaknya adalah penggaduh dengan sistem bagi hasil dari anak yang lahir setiap tahunnya. Pemeliharaan ternak umumnya bergantung pada ketersediaan rumput alam. Siang hari peternak menggiring ternak ke tempat penggembalaan dan malam hari dibawa ke dekat pemukiman dan biasanya tanpa kandang, ternak hanya diikat di belakang rumah petani, dan belum biasa memberikan pakan tambahan.Selain produksi dagingnya, kerbau juga sebagai penghasil susu yang diolah dan dijual petani dalam bentuk dadih di Sumatera Barat serta gula puan, sagon puan dan minyak samin di Sumatera Selatan. Secara umum produktivitas susu masih rendah yaitu sekitar 1−2 liter/ekor/hari. Dibandingkan dengan ternak sapi, ternak kerbau agak kurang mendapat perhatian dari berbagai kalangan. Konsekuensinya, produktivitas ternak relatif rendah, bahkan populasi ternak kerbau di Sumatera hanya sedikit meningkat, walaupun masih jauh lebih tinggi dari rataan nasional. Pemeliharaan Ternak Kerbau di Pandaisikek Ternak kerbau yang dipelihara di Pandaisikek adalah jenis kerbau sawah. Tujuan pemeliharaan ternak kerbau tersebut bukanlah  untuk pengembang biakan ataupun penghasil susu, sebab tidak akan kita temukan ternak kerbau  betina di negeri ini. Kerbau yang di pelihara di Pandaisikek hanyalah kerbau jantan dengan tujuan pemeliharaan sebagai berikut: -         Sebagai tenaga pembajak sawah -         Sebagai tenaga kilang tebu (gula tradisional) -         Untuk tujuan penggemukan Kerbau sebagai Tenaga pembajak Sawah : Kerbau merupakan ternak yang telah lama dikenal dan dipelihara petani. Salah satu tujuan utama memelihara kerbau adalah sebagai sumber tenaga kerja untuk membantu kegiatan pertanian terutama membajak sawah, Bajak adalah salah satu alat pengolah tanah tradisional dalam system pertanian orang Pandasikek. Alat tradisional ini berfungsi untuk menggemburkan tanah sebelum dilakukan pemetakan lahan untuk di Tanami palawija ataupun untuk penggemburan tanah setelah di tanami palawija dan kembali di tanam padi. Penggemburan tanah dengan pembajakan sebelum di Tanami palawija adalah pembajakan kering (tanpa air), sedangkan penggemburan tanah dengan pembajakan sebelum di tanami padi adalah pembajakan basah , dimana sebelum pembajakan sawah digenangi dan direndam terlebih dahulu lebih kurang selama satu minggu. Pemeliharaan ternak kerbau sebagai tenaga kilang tebu: Industri gula tebu tradisonal atau lebih dikenal dengan istilah saka telah member konstribusi yang besar bagi perekonomian masayarakat pandaisikek. Pemerasan air tebu sebelum di masak menjadi gula membutuhkan tenaga yang besar, disini peran tenaga kerbau untuk menarik kilang tebu masih sangat dibutuhkan. Ada satu kilang tebu yang sudah menggunakan diesel sabagai alat kilang akan tetapi terkendala dalam memasak air tebu menjadi gula, dimana terjadi penumpukan air tebu yang akan di masak sehingga kualitas gula yang diharapkan tidak tercapai. Dengan demikian sampai saat ini kerbau sebagai tenaga penarik kilang tebu masih sangat efektif dan seimbang karena tidak terjadi penumpukan air tebu sebelum dimasak menjadi gula. Pemeliharaan ternak kerbau untuk tujuan penggemukan : Tujuan pemeliharaan kerbau untuk penggemukan tidak lain sebagai tabungan, kegemaran, sumber pendapatan tambahan dan untuk upacara adat. Demikian pentingnya kehadiran kerbau untuk petani, namun perhatian pemerintah terhadap kerbau sangat kurang, penelitian-penelitian mengenai kerbau hampir tidak ada. Ketiga tujuan pemeliharaan tersebut di atas merupakan suatu kesatuan yang utuh, disamping ternak kerbau sebagai sumber tenaga pembajak sawah dan penarik kilang tebu, seiring dengan berjalannya waktu maka ternak kerbau tersebut makin besar dan makin bertambah berat badan. Sehingga dapat dikatakan bahwa pemeliharaan ternak kerbau di pandaisikek memilki kegunaan ganda (multi purpose).

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

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

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

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

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Obama Speaks of a ‘Sense of Unfairness’

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

UNITED NATIONS — Wearing pinstripes and a pince-nez, Staffan de Mistura, the United Nations envoy for Syria, arrived at the Security Council one Tuesday afternoon in February and announced that President Bashar al-Assad had agreed to halt airstrikes over Aleppo. Would the rebels, Mr. de Mistura suggested, agree to halt their shelling?

What he did not announce, but everyone knew by then, was that the Assad government had begun a military offensive to encircle opposition-held enclaves in Aleppo and that fierce fighting was underway. It would take only a few days for rebel leaders, having pushed back Syrian government forces, to outright reject Mr. de Mistura’s proposed freeze in the fighting, dooming the latest diplomatic overture on Syria.

Diplomacy is often about appearing to be doing something until the time is ripe for a deal to be done.

Now, with Mr. Assad’s forces having suffered a string of losses on the battlefield and the United States reaching at least a partial rapprochement with Mr. Assad’s main backer, Iran, Mr. de Mistura is changing course. Starting Monday, he is set to hold a series of closed talks in Geneva with the warring sides and their main supporters. Iran will be among them.

In an interview at United Nations headquarters last week, Mr. de Mistura hinted that the changing circumstances, both military and diplomatic, may have prompted various backers of the war to question how much longer the bloodshed could go on.

“Will that have an impact in accelerating the willingness for a political solution? We need to test it,” he said. “The Geneva consultations may be a good umbrella for testing that. It’s an occasion for asking everyone, including the government, if there is any new way that they are looking at a political solution, as they too claim they want.”

He said he would have a better assessment at the end of June, when he expects to wrap up his consultations. That coincides with the deadline for a final agreement in the Iran nuclear talks.

Whether a nuclear deal with Iran will pave the way for a new opening on peace talks in Syria remains to be seen. Increasingly, though, world leaders are explicitly linking the two, with the European Union’s top diplomat, Federica Mogherini, suggesting last week that a nuclear agreement could spur Tehran to play “a major but positive role in Syria.”

It could hardly come soon enough. Now in its fifth year, the Syrian war has claimed 220,000 lives, prompted an exodus of more than three million refugees and unleashed jihadist groups across the region. “This conflict is producing a question mark in many — where is it leading and whether this can be sustained,” Mr. de Mistura said.

Part Italian, part Swedish, Mr. de Mistura has worked with the United Nations for more than 40 years, but he is more widely known for his dapper style than for any diplomatic coups. Syria is by far the toughest assignment of his career — indeed, two of the organization’s most seasoned diplomats, Lakhdar Brahimi and Kofi Annan, tried to do the job and gave up — and critics have wondered aloud whether Mr. de Mistura is up to the task.

He served as a United Nations envoy in Afghanistan and Iraq, and before that in Lebanon, where a former minister recalled, with some scorn, that he spent many hours sunbathing at a private club in the hills above Beirut. Those who know him say he has a taste for fine suits and can sometimes speak too soon and too much, just as they point to his diplomatic missteps and hyperbole.

They cite, for instance, a news conference in October, when he raised the specter of Srebrenica, where thousands of Muslims were massacred in 1995 during the Balkans war, in warning that the Syrian border town of Kobani could fall to the Islamic State. In February, he was photographed at a party in Damascus, the Syrian capital, celebrating the anniversary of the Iranian revolution just as Syrian forces, aided by Iran, were pummeling rebel-held suburbs of Damascus; critics seized on that as evidence of his coziness with the government.

Mouin Rabbani, who served briefly as the head of Mr. de Mistura’s political affairs unit and has since emerged as one of his most outspoken critics, said Mr. de Mistura did not have the background necessary for the job. “This isn’t someone well known for his political vision or political imagination, and his closest confidants lack the requisite knowledge and experience,” Mr. Rabbani said.

As a deputy foreign minister in the Italian government, Mr. de Mistura was tasked in 2012 with freeing two Italian marines detained in India for shooting at Indian fishermen. He made 19 trips to India, to little effect. One marine was allowed to return to Italy for medical reasons; the other remains in India.

He said he initially turned down the Syria job when the United Nations secretary general approached him last August, only to change his mind the next day, after a sleepless, guilt-ridden night.

Mr. de Mistura compared his role in Syria to that of a doctor faced with a terminally ill patient. His goal in brokering a freeze in the fighting, he said, was to alleviate suffering. He settled on Aleppo as the location for its “fame,” he said, a decision that some questioned, considering that Aleppo was far trickier than the many other lesser-known towns where activists had negotiated temporary local cease-fires.

“Everybody, at least in Europe, are very familiar with the value of Aleppo,” Mr. de Mistura said. “So I was using that as an icebreaker.”

The cease-fire negotiations, to which he had devoted six months, fell apart quickly because of the government’s military offensive in Aleppo the very day of his announcement at the Security Council. Privately, United Nations diplomats said Mr. de Mistura had been manipulated. To this, Mr. de Mistura said only that he was “disappointed and concerned.”

Tarek Fares, a former rebel fighter, said after a recent visit to Aleppo that no Syrian would admit publicly to supporting Mr. de Mistura’s cease-fire proposal. “If anyone said they went to a de Mistura meeting in Gaziantep, they would be arrested,” is how he put it, referring to the Turkish city where negotiations between the two sides were held.

Secretary General Ban Ki-moon remains staunchly behind Mr. de Mistura’s efforts. His defenders point out that he is at the center of one of the world’s toughest diplomatic problems, charged with mediating a conflict in which two of the world’s most powerful nations — Russia, which supports Mr. Assad, and the United States, which has called for his ouster — remain deadlocked.

R. Nicholas Burns, a former State Department official who now teaches at Harvard, credited Mr. de Mistura for trying to negotiate a cease-fire even when the chances of success were exceedingly small — and the chances of a political deal even smaller. For his efforts to work, Professor Burns argued, the world powers will first have to come to an agreement of their own.

“He needs the help of outside powers,” he said. “It starts with backers of Assad. That’s Russia and Iran. De Mistura is there, waiting.”

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Judge Patterson helped to protect the rights of Attica inmates after the prison riot in 1971 and later served on the Federal District Court in Manhattan.

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.