saco-indonesia.com, Gelandang Arsenal, Santi Cazorla juga mengaku senang mereka bisa terus bergerak maju di bawah radar dalam pe

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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Badan Search and Rescue Nasional (Basarnas) telah menghentikan sementara pencarian sementara pesawat Malaysia Airlines (MAS) MH370 di kawasan perairan laut Selat Malaka dan Samudera Hindia. Pencarian telah dihentikan sementara sambil menunggu petunjuk dari pihak Malaysia.

Badan Search and Rescue Nasional (Basarnas) telah menghentikan sementara pencarian sementara pesawat Malaysia Airlines (MAS) MH370 di kawasan perairan laut Selat Malaka dan Samudera Hindia. Pencarian telah dihentikan sementara sambil menunggu petunjuk dari pihak Malaysia.

"Untuk sementara pencarian pesawat MAS MH370 kami hentikan, sambil menunggu petunjuk selanjutnya dari Basarnas Pusat dan Pemerintah Malaysia," kata Penanggung jawab operasi pencarian pesawat MAS MH370 Basarnas Wilayah Barat Sumatera, Budi Cahyadi, di Banda Aceh , Selasa (18/3).

Menurutnya, kapal Basarnas KN Purworejo 101 untuk sementara siaga di Pelabuhan Ulee Lheu, Banda Aceh dan helikopter Basarnas HR1522 di Bandara Udara TNI AU Sultan Iskandar Muda.

Didampingi kapten kapal Basarnas KN Purworejo 101 Adil Triyanto dan pilot helikopter Basarnas HR1522, Kapten Laut (P) Arif Sukmono Akbar dan co pilot Lettu Laut (P) Hayat, dia juga mengatakan tim Basarnas dengan menggunakan tiga Kapal, satu helikopter dan 90 personel telah melakukan pencarian sejak 11 Maret hingga 17 Maret 2014 di perairan Selat Malaka dan Samudera Hindia.

"Tidak ada temuan apapun selama pencarian, yang banyak kami temukan hanya rumpon milik nelayan, meskipun menunggu perintah, kami juga akan menerima informasi dari seluruh pihak terkait pesawat MAS MH370 yang hilang sejak 8 Maret 2014," katanya.

Selain kapal KN Purworejo 101, Basarnas juga telah mengerahkan Kapal Basarnas KN208 untuk dapat membantu pencarian pesawat yang membawa 227 penumpang dan 12 awak dari Malaysia tujuan Beijing, China.

Kepala SAR Aceh Ibnu Harris Al Hussain telah didampingi nahkoda kapal KN208 Kapten Supriyadi juga menyebutkan, tim Basarnas sejak lima hari terakhir telah mengelilingi lebih dari 2.000 mil laut Selat Malaka dan Samudera Hindia untuk mencari pesawat nahas tersebut.

"Pencarian sudah dilakukan di kawasan zona ekonomi eksklusif (ZEE) hingga hampir di wilayah yang berbatasan dengan Thailand dan Pulau Andaman," kata Ibnu Haris.

Hilangnya pesawat Malaysia Airlines dengan nomor penerbangan MH370 telah menyatukan sejumlah negara, yang selama ini bertikai soal klaim tapal batas di perairan Laut China Selatan, untuk bahu membahu dalam mencari pesawat yang belum diketahui keberadaannya itu.

Selain Malaysia dan China sejumlah negara seperti Indonesia, Vietnam, Filipina, Jepang bahkan Amerika Serikat juga mengirimkan armada bantuan.

saco-indonesia.com, Real Madrid gagal dalam memanfaatkan kesempatan untuk dapat menembus dua besar La Liga setelah semalam hanya

saco-indonesia.com, Real Madrid gagal dalam memanfaatkan kesempatan untuk dapat menembus dua besar La Liga setelah semalam hanya bermain imbang 1-1 dalam melawan Athletic Bilbao di San Mames. Dalam laga yang berlangsung dalam tensi tinggi tersebut, juga sempat muncul insiden kontroversial saat Cristiano Ronaldo dikartu merah oleh Wasit Miguel Ayza.

Hukuman tersebut telah dijatuhkan setelah pemain asal Portugal ini karena dianggap mendorong wajah defender Bilbao, Carlos Gurpegui. Insiden ini juga sempat menimbulkan keributan antara pemain kedua tim di atas lapangan.

Pelatih Madrid, Carlo Ancelotti sebelumnya juga telah menyatakan bahwa hukuman kartu merah yang telah diterima Ronaldo terlalu kelewatan. Namun pendapat berbeda telah diungkapkan Entrenador Bilbao, Ernesto Valverde.

"Saya juga tidak melihat kejadian itu secara langsung. Namun saya pikir apa yang ia lakukan sudah lebih dari cukup untuk diganjar kartu merah," kata pria 49 tahun ini.

Kartu merah yang diterima sang winger produktif telah membuat daya serang El Real berkurang sehingga gagal memburu gol kemenangan. Tim tamu unggul terlebih dahulu di menit ke 65 melalui Jese Rodriguez, sebelum akhirnya sepuluh menit kemudian pemain pengganti Ibai Gomez menyamakan kedudukan 1-1.

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Jika terpaksa harus kalah, maka jadilah pecundang terhormat daripada kalah sebelum berjuang. padahal sebenarnya, sahabat berhak

Jika terpaksa harus kalah, maka jadilah pecundang terhormat daripada kalah sebelum berjuang. padahal sebenarnya, sahabat berhak menjadi pemenang mulia.

Jangan meremehkan kesempatan kecil yang muncul di hadapan kita. Ingat, seringkali kesempatan kecil merupakan awal dari kesuksesan yang besar.
 

Makin banyak kita membuang waktu untuk merasa iri pada bakat ataupun kesuksesan orang lain, maka semakin sulit pula kita berkembang maju. Buang sikap negatif itu!

Jadilah seperti yang kamu inginkan, karena kamu hanya memiliki satu kehidupan dan kesempatan untuk melakukan hal yang ingin kamu inginkan.
 

Kita dilahirkan dengan 2 buah telinga di kanan dan di kiri, supaya kita dapat mendengarkan semuanya dari dua buah sisi. Untuk berupaya mengumpulkan pujian dan kritikan dan memilih mana yang benar dan mana yang salah.

Kesuksesan diraih dari karja keras kita bukan hanya dari doa yang kita panjatkan

Jangan takut akan kesulitan dalam kehidupanmu, karena itu awal perbaikan dari usaha yang kamu lakukan untuk melewati hal itu
 

Kesempurnaan dirasakan dgn ketulusan dan keikhlasan menerima apa adanya.

Kehilangan orang yg kita sayangi adalah tempat kita belajar, belajar untuk kuat tanpa dirinya.
 

Tuhan memuliakan mereka yang mau bekerja keras. Dan modal utama untuk keberhasilan adalah kerja keras yang diiringi doa.

Kata Kata Indah Tentang Cinta

Cinta tidak menyedari kedalamannya dan terasa pada saat perpisahan pun tiba. Dan saat tangan laki-laki menyentuh tangan seorang perempuan mereka berdua telah menyentuh hati keabadian.
 

Cinta adalah satu-satunya kebebasan di dunia kerana cinta itu membangkitkan semangat, hukum-hukum kemanusiaan dan gejala alami pun tak mampu mengubah perjalanannya.

Cinta sejati tak datang begitu saja. Banyak proses yang harus dilalui bersama, menderita, menangis, dan tertawa bersama.
 

Pria dan wanita adalah kesatuan abadi dua gender berbasiskan mawaddah (cinta) dan Rahmah (kasih sayang).

Semuanya bisa ditaklukan, dikalahkan, dan diwujudkan dengan cinta karena cinta tidak pernah kehabisan tenaga.
 

Cinta merupakan kekuatan paling tinggi yang selalu berhasil mengubah hidup ke arah yang lebih baik....selengkap nya klik di sini

by yandre pramana putra

Pandaisikek sudah mulai kehilangan salah satu sayuran yang merupakan cirikhas daerah ini yaitu lobak rimbo, dahulunya tanaman sa

Pandaisikek sudah mulai kehilangan salah satu sayuran yang merupakan cirikhas daerah ini yaitu lobak rimbo, dahulunya tanaman sayuran ini adalah salah satu tonggak ekonomi bagi masayarakat petani. Sekitar tahun 1930-1990 tanaman ini hanya di budidayakan di lereng gunung singgalang, walau banyak daerah lain di kaki gunung singgalang tapi sayuran ini hanya ada di pandaisikek , Sehingga terkenalah daerah pandaisikek penghasil sayuran ini. Kemudian pada tahun-tahun berikutnya sampai sekarang sayuran ini dikembanghan di daerah tetangga masih wilayah kaki gunung singgalang, tetapi bibit yang ditanam saat sekarang jauh berbeda dengan yang ditananm di pandaisikek. Mungkin karena usia tanaman ini cukup lama,petani beralih ketanaman sayuran yang lebihcepat produksinya seperti sawi bola,sawi pahit dan sawi manih, Sehingga lobak rimbo ini semakin punah . Petani yang membudi dayakan sayuran ini hanya tingal sekitar 1-2 keluarga saja dan dilahan deadanya saja. Pembudidayaan Lobak rimbo tidaklah memakan biaya yang terlalu besar karena tanaman ini tahan akan berbagai macam penyakit dan hama lain (kurang disukai oleh ulat), sehingga tidak perlu menggunakan banyak pestisida dalam melakukan penyemproyan atau perawatan . Begitu pula dengan pemupukan ,rata-rata pupuk yang paling dibutuh kan oleh sayuran ini adalah pupuk organic atau pupuk kandang. Mungkin kalau keadaan ini terus berlangsung, lobak rimbo akan punah dan tinggal kenangan , Biasanya masayarakat perantau pandai sikek bila pulang kekampung halaman begitu pengen dengan suguhan tanaman kobak rimbo ini yang terlebih dahulu disayur atau cukup di rebus saja. Rasa dari lobak rimbo ini pun begitu khas menbuat selera makan meningkat. Juga biasanya untuk kembali keperantauan tidak lupa untuk membawa lobak rimbo ini sebagai oleh-oleh. Lobak rimbo ini di pasaran juga sangat laris , yang biasa digunakan untuk campuran sayuran yang disuguhkan di rumah-rumah makan di Sumatra barat khusunya bahkan sampai ke provinsi lain di Indonesia, seperti pekanbaru, jambi dan lainya. Akankah Lobak rimbo hanya akan tingal kenangan…………………………………..?

Dua pria di Malaysia Airlines yang menggunakan paspor palsu diduga warga negara Iran. Mereka ditenggarai telah menggunakan paspor hasil curian untuk DAPAT berimigrasi ke Jerman dan Denmark. Menurut laporan televisi BBC Persia, teman dari kedua orang itu juga mengaku mengundang keduanya ke Kuala Lumpur beberapa hari sebelum berangkat ke Beijing. Mereka juga diyakini telah membeli paspor di Kuala Lumpur serta tiket ke Amsterdam via Beijing.

Dua pria di Malaysia Airlines yang menggunakan paspor palsu diduga warga negara Iran. Mereka ditenggarai telah menggunakan paspor hasil curian untuk DAPAT berimigrasi ke Jerman dan Denmark.

Menurut laporan televisi BBC Persia, teman dari kedua orang itu juga mengaku mengundang keduanya ke Kuala Lumpur beberapa hari sebelum berangkat ke Beijing. Mereka juga diyakini telah membeli paspor di Kuala Lumpur serta tiket ke Amsterdam via Beijing.

Koran Inggris Financial Times telah melaporkan, berdasarkan informasi dari agen perjalanan Thailand, pengaturan perjalanan diminta melalui koneksi Iran.

Benjaporn Krutnait, pemilik agen perjalanan di Pattaya Grand Horizon juga mengatakan, kontak bisnis dilakukan oleh Ali yang memesan tiket penerbangan murah ke Eropa untuk kedua orang itu pada 1 Maret lalu.

Surat kabar itu juga mengatakan, awalnya Benjaporn mencari tiket dari Qatar Airways dan Etihad. Namun, akhirnya dibatalkan. Demikian dilansir dari themalaysianinsider, Selasa (11/3).

Kemudian Ali menghubungi kembali pada hari Kamis. Akhirnya, Benjaporn telah memesan tiket melalui Beijing MAS karena itu adalah tiket termurah yang tersedia.

The Financial Times juga melaporkan, seorang teman dari Ali membayar tunai untuk dua tiket. Namun belum ada bukti jika Ali mengetahui kedua pria temannya tersebut pergi menggunakan paspor curian.

Benjaporn juga mengatakan, dia tidak percaya Ali berkomplot dengan terorisme karena tidak meminta rincian untuk memesan tiket perjalanan Kuala Lumpur-Beijing. Tetapi Ali meminta untuk rute termurah ke Eropa.

Benjaporn juga mengatakan, dia takut berbicara karena ada spekulasi tentang serangan teroris dikaitkan dengan hilangnya MH370. Dia hanya berharap sejumlah fakta terungkap untuk dapat mengetahui hilangnya pesawat tersebut.

Sebelumnya, dua pengguna paspor palsu disebut telah memiliki wajah Asia. Tetapi tak lama kemudian dibantah pejabat Malaysia, yang menyebut salah satu pemilik paspor palsu itu berwajah mirip pesepakbola Italia Mario Balotelli.

saco-indonesia.com, Guna untuk mempersiapkan pengamanan gelaran Pemilu 2014, Badan Pengawas Pemilu (Bawaslu) akan melaksanakan p

saco-indonesia.com, Guna untuk mempersiapkan pengamanan gelaran Pemilu 2014, Badan Pengawas Pemilu (Bawaslu) akan melaksanakan pelatihan pengamanan yang telah bekerjasama dengan sejumlah aparat kepolisian. Atas rencana tersebut, maka besok akan dilakukan penutupan di sekitaran Gedung Bawaslu, Jalan MH Thamrin, Jakarta Pusat, pada hari Jumat 7 Februari 2014.

"Latihan Pengamanan Bawaslu dan Sispam Kota Pemilihan Umum 2014 di tingkat Polda Metro Jaya pada hari Jumat, 7 Februari 2014 di sekitaran gedung Badan Pengawas Pemilu (Bawaslu), Jalan M.H. Thamrin No.14.Jakarta, maka besok akan dilakukan penutupan arus lalu lintas sementara di sekitaran Bundaran HI sampai depan Kedutaan Besar Jepang," tulis petugas TMC Polda Metro Jaya dalam akun facebook resminya, Kamis (6/2/2014).

Pelaksanaan pelatihan tersebut akan dimulai sejak pukul pukul 07.00 WIB sampai 13.00 siang WIB. "Untuk dapat mendukung kelancaran kegiatan pelatihan pengamanan dan menghindari kepadatan lalu lintas, maka bagi pengguna jalan yang akan melintasi jalan Jend. Sudirman-Jalan M.H. Thamrin disarankan untuk berangkat lebih awal atau sebelum pukul 07.00 WIB, atau setelah sholat Jumat," tulis petugas TMC.

Diimbau bagi pengguna jalan agar tetap mematuhi rambu-rambu lalu lintas yang ada dan mengikuti petunjuk petugas polisi yang berada di lapangan.

"Pengalihan lalu lintas di ruas jalan Jenderal Sudirman-Jalan MH Thamrin akan dilakukan situasional atau sesuasi kondisi peningkatan volume kendaraan. Selain akan dilakukan pengaturan lalu lintas, petugas juga akan memasang sarana dan prasarana seperti rambu-rambu dan kelengkapan petunjuk di ruas jalan tersebut sebelum acara dimulai," tulis petugas.

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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.

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National Guard soldiers boarding a truck in Baltimore on Sunday.

Baltimore residents prepared to resume the more familiar rhythms of their lives as days passed without new bouts of widespread rioting and as the National Guard began to pull its troops from the city.

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

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

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.

HOBART, Tasmania — Few places seem out of reach for China’s leader, Xi Jinping, who has traveled from European capitals to obscure Pacific and Caribbean islands in pursuit of his nation’s strategic interests.

So perhaps it was not surprising when he turned up last fall in this city on the edge of the Southern Ocean to put down a long-distance marker in another faraway region, Antarctica, 2,000 miles south of this Australian port.

Standing on the deck of an icebreaker that ferries Chinese scientists from this last stop before the frozen continent, Mr. Xi pledged that China would continue to expand in one of the few places on earth that remain unexploited by humans.

He signed a five-year accord with the Australian government that allows Chinese vessels and, in the future, aircraft to resupply for fuel and food before heading south. That will help secure easier access to a region that is believed to have vast oil and mineral resources; huge quantities of high-protein sea life; and for times of possible future dire need, fresh water contained in icebergs.

It was not until 1985, about seven decades after Robert Scott and Roald Amundsen raced to the South Pole, that a team representing Beijing hoisted the Chinese flag over the nation’s first Antarctic research base, the Great Wall Station on King George Island.

But now China seems determined to catch up. As it has bolstered spending on Antarctic research, and as the early explorers, especially the United States and Australia, confront stagnant budgets, there is growing concern about its intentions.

China’s operations on the continent — it opened its fourth research station last year, chose a site for a fifth, and is investing in a second icebreaker and new ice-capable planes and helicopters — are already the fastest growing of the 52 signatories to the Antarctic Treaty. That gentlemen’s agreement reached in 1959 bans military activity on the continent and aims to preserve it as one of the world’s last wildernesses; a related pact prohibits mining.

But Mr. Xi’s visit was another sign that China is positioning itself to take advantage of the continent’s resource potential when the treaty expires in 2048 — or in the event that it is ripped up before, Chinese and Australian experts say.

“So far, our research is natural-science based, but we know there is more and more concern about resource security,” said Yang Huigen, director general of the Polar Research Institute of China, who accompanied Mr. Xi last November on his visit to Hobart and stood with him on the icebreaker, Xue Long, or Snow Dragon.

With that in mind, the polar institute recently opened a new division devoted to the study of resources, law, geopolitics and governance in Antarctica and the Arctic, Mr. Yang said.

Australia, a strategic ally of the United States that has strong economic relations with China, is watching China’s buildup in the Antarctic with a mix of gratitude — China’s presence offers support for Australia’s Antarctic science program, which is short of cash — and wariness.

“We should have no illusions about the deeper agenda — one that has not even been agreed to by Chinese scientists but is driven by Xi, and most likely his successors,” said Peter Jennings, executive director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and a former senior official in the Australian Department of Defense.

“This is part of a broader pattern of a mercantilist approach all around the world,” Mr. Jennings added. “A big driver of Chinese policy is to secure long-term energy supply and food supply.”

That approach was evident last month when a large Chinese agriculture enterprise announced an expansion of its fishing operations around Antarctica to catch more krill — small, protein-rich crustaceans that are abundant in Antarctic waters.

“The Antarctic is a treasure house for all human beings, and China should go there and share,” Liu Shenli, the chairman of the China National Agricultural Development Group, told China Daily, a state-owned newspaper. China would aim to fish up to two million tons of krill a year, he said, a substantial increase from what it currently harvests.

Because sovereignty over Antarctica is unclear, nations have sought to strengthen their claims over the ice-covered land by building research bases and naming geographic features. China’s fifth station will put it within reach of the six American facilities, and ahead of Australia’s three.

Chinese mappers have also given Chinese names to more than 300 sites, compared with the thousands of locations on the continent with English names.

In the unspoken competition for Antarctica’s future, scientific achievement can also translate into influence. Chinese scientists are driving to be the first to drill and recover an ice core containing tiny air bubbles that provide a record of climate change stretching as far back as 1.5 million years. It is an expensive and delicate effort at which others, including the European Union and Australia, have failed.

In a breakthrough a decade ago, European scientists extracted an ice core nearly two miles long that revealed 800,000 years of climate history. But finding an ice core going back further would allow scientists to examine a change in the earth’s climate cycles believed to have occurred 900,000 to 1.2 million years ago.

China is betting it has found the best location to drill, at an area called Dome A, or Dome Argus, the highest point on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Though it is considered one of the coldest places on the planet, with temperatures of 130 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, a Chinese expedition explored the area in 2005 and established a research station in 2009.

“The international community has drilled in lots of places, but no luck so far,” said Xiao Cunde, a member of the first party to reach the site and the deputy director of the Institute for Climate Change at the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences. “We think at Dome A we will have a straight shot at the one-million-year ice core.”

Mr. Xiao said China had already begun drilling and hoped to find what scientists are looking for in four to five years.

To support its Antarctic aspirations, China is building a sophisticated $300 million icebreaker that is expected to be ready in a few years, said Xia Limin, deputy director of the Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration in Beijing. It has also bought a high-tech fixed-wing aircraft, outfitted in the United States, for taking sensitive scientific soundings from the ice.

China has chosen the site for its fifth research station at Inexpressible Island, named by a group of British explorers who were stranded at the desolate site in 1912 and survived the winter by excavating a small ice cave.

Mr. Xia said the inhospitable spot was ideal because China did not have a presence in that part of Antarctica, and because the rocky site did not have much snow, making it relatively cheap to build there.

Anne-Marie Brady, a professor of political science at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and the author of a soon-to-be-released book, “China as a Polar Great Power,” said Chinese scientists also believed they had a good chance of finding mineral and energy resources near the site.

“China is playing a long game in Antarctica and keeping other states guessing about its true intentions and interests are part of its poker hand,” she said. But she noted that China’s interest in finding minerals was presented “loud and clear to domestic audiences” as the main reason it was investing in Antarctica.

Because commercial drilling is banned, estimates of energy and mineral resources in Antarctica rely on remote sensing data and comparisons with similar geological environments elsewhere, said Millard F. Coffin, executive director of the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies in Hobart.

But the difficulty of extraction in such severe conditions and uncertainty about future commodity prices make it unlikely that China or any country would defy the ban on mining anytime soon.

Tourism, however, is already booming. Travelers from China are still a relatively small contingent in the Antarctic compared with the more than 13,000 Americans who visited in 2013, and as yet there are no licensed Chinese tour operators.

But that is about to change, said Anthony Bergin, deputy director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. “I understand very soon there will be Chinese tourists on Chinese vessels with all-Chinese crew in the Antarctic,” he said.

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.