Sesuai jadwal kampanye yang telah dikeluarkan oleh KPUD Manado, Partai Demokrat (PD) seharusnya melakukan kampanye terbuka untuk dapat menggalang massa pemilu pada Senin (17/3). Namun beberapa Caleg partai berlambang segitiga mercy ini malah terlihat di acara kawin massal yang telah digelar oleh Pemkot Manado.

Sesuai jadwal kampanye yang telah dikeluarkan oleh KPUD Manado, Partai Demokrat (PD) seharusnya melakukan kampanye terbuka untuk dapat menggalang massa pemilu pada Senin (17/3). Namun beberapa Caleg partai berlambang segitiga mercy ini malah terlihat di acara kawin massal yang telah digelar oleh Pemkot Manado.

Dua caleg Partai Demokrat , Jackson Kumaat untuk DPR-RI dan Stella Pakaya untuk DPRD Kota Manado, bahkan telah menjadi saksi pada acara nikah massal itu. Ritual religius tersebut pun mengeluarkan 'aroma' politik.

Salah seorang Panwaslu Manado, Issac Yusuf kepada sejumlah wartawan menyatakan bahwa sesuai jadwal, seharusnya PD telah melakukan kampanye terbuka Senin kemarin.

"Sayang waktu yang disediakan tidak dimanfaatkan dengan baik," ucap Issac Yusuf.

Terkait adanya dugaan pelanggaran yang terjadi dalam acara nikah massal yang mempersatukan 33 pasang pengantin ini, dirinya juga mengatakan masih akan dibicarakan dalam internal Panwas.

"Untuk hal tersebut masih akan kami bicarakan dalam rapat," ujar Issac.

Wali kota Manado Vecky Lumentut menepis jika acara yang digelar Pemkot ini telah dikaitkan dengan agenda partai meski atribut dan nuansa biru khas PD terlihat digunakan beberapa Caleg.

"Acara ini bukan acara partai, jadi setiap orang berhak datang di sini jika mengetahuinya," tegas Lumentut yang juga Ketua Partai Demokrat Sulut kepada wartawan.

Makan malam merupakan jam makan yang unik. Di satu sisi banyak orang yang menghindarinya dengan alasan takut gemuk. Namun banyak orang pula yang menganggap makan malam sebagai jam makan yang paling penting sebab mereka dapat memanjakan diri dengan menu makan malam setelah seharian beraktivitas.

Makan malam merupakan jam makan yang unik. Di satu sisi banyak orang yang menghindarinya dengan alasan takut gemuk. Namun banyak orang pula yang menganggap makan malam sebagai jam makan yang paling penting sebab mereka dapat memanjakan diri dengan menu makan malam setelah seharian beraktivitas.

Namun demi alasan kesehatan, pastikan Anda untuk selalu menu makan malam yang tepat yaitu sehat dan mudah dicernan oleh tubuh. Sebab makan malam adalah jam makan yang mendekati waktu tidur, dimana tubuh akan berhenti untuk mencerna makanan selama waktu tidur. Sehingga apabila makanan tidak dicerna dengan baik justru akan menimbulkan kegemukan.

Berikut adalah menu makan malam sehat yang tidak akan membuat tubuh Anda gemuk :

Selada
Mengonsumsi selada juga dapat membantu Anda untuk dapat meningkatkan nafsu makan. Selain itu Anda juga dapat mengonsumsi selada sebanyak apapun tanpa merasa takut gemuk sebab selada memiliki nol kalori.

Sup
Sup terutama sup sayur yang lezat dapat Anda jadikan sebagai menu makan malam. Kandungan sayur dan air di dalamnya dapat membuat tubuh Anda menjadi sehat karena terhidrasi dengan baik.

Daging tanpa lemak
Daging tanpa lemak baik untuk Anda konsumsi di malam hari terutama untuk dapat menurunkan berat badan. Kandungan protein di dalamnya juga baik untuk membangun otot.

Paprika
Paprika adalah jenis sayuran yang kaya akan zat antioksidan namun rendah kalori. Selain itu paprika juga mampu untuk memberi rasa masakan supaya lebih lezat.

Buncis
Buncis yang ditumis dengan bumbu sederhana mampu Anda jadikan sebagai menu makan malam yang lezat dan sehat. Buncis juga kaya akan serat yang baik untuk kesehatan pencernaan.

Tahu
Tahu juga merupakan makanan yang dengan mudah ditemui di olahan masakan Indonesia. Tahu akan mencukupi kebutuhan protein Anda namun tidak akan membuat Anda gemuk.

Keju rendah lemak
Keju mampu membuat rasa masakan menjadi lezat. Namun apabila Anda takut untuk menjadi gemuk, Anda dapat memilih keju rendah lemak namun kaya akan kalsium yang bermanfaat untuk dapat memperkuat tulang Anda.

Ikan bakar
Ikan telah lama dikenal sebagai makanan yang sehat karena kandungan asam lemak omega 3 di dalamnya. Anda juga dapat mengolahnya dengan cara yang sehat seperti dengan dibakar.

Jamur
Jamur adalah makanan yang dapat diolah menjadi menu makan malam yang sehat. Jamur juga kaya akan protein, vitamin D, serta dapat meningkatkan gairah seksual Anda.

Udang
Sama seperti ikan, udang juga merupakan makanan laut yang sehat. udang adalah sumber dari triptofan, suatu zat yang baik untuk meningkatkan kualitas tidur Anda.

Pengen pulang kampung atau mudik bareng keluarga? Tapi tiket pesawat naik dan harganya sangat mahal sekali. Ada solusinya , pake

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Namun ada beberapa hal penting yang harus diperhatikan pada saat ingin menggunakan jasa rental mobil. Apa saja itu? simak ulasan dibawah ini:

- Sesuaikan jenis mobil dengan kebutuhan Anda.
Hitunglah berapa banyak anggota keluarga yang akan ikut mudik dan sesuaikan dengan mobil yang akan di sewa nantinya. Jika anda termasuk keluarga kecil terdiri dari anda, istri, dan dua orang anak sebaiknya memilih jenis mobil keluarga kecil. Apabila lebih banyak jumlahnya bisa menggunakan mobil MPV yang 7 seater.

- Cek harga untuk sewa mobil.
Anda bisa mencari referensi di internet, tanya temen atau saudara atau bisa juga mendatangi beberapa tempat rental mobil yang ada di dekat rumahAnda. Pastikan memilih jasa rental mobil yang sudah ternama karena memiliki layanan yang bagus.

- Baca kontrak perjanjian sewa mobil dengan teliti.
Terkadang hal ini tidak diperhatikan, bisa-bisa malah rugi ntar. Perhatikan dengan detail dari setiap kontrak tersebut. Baik mengenai biaya tambahan apabila terjadi keterlambatan pengembalian mobil. Cek juga apakah ada asuransi dan biaya-biaya lainnya.

- Cek kondisi mobil dengan cermat.
Apabila anda ingin mengemudi sendiri atau menggunakan jasa rental mobil tanpa sopir, hal ini sangatlah penting. Lakukan pengecekan kondisi kelistrikan, mesin, ban, serta kestabilan mobil. Kondisi kelistrikan bisa menggunakan alat bantu volt meter untuk mengecek sumber listrik baik alternator maupun aki dan sebagainya.

- Mintalah kartu nama atau nomor telepon jasa sewa mobil
Bila sudah sepakat untuk menyewanya, pastikan untuk meminta nomor telepon perusahaan tempat anda menyewa yang bisa dihubungi setiap saat. Hal ini bertujuan untuk mengantisipasi bila terjadi peristiwa yang tidak diinginkan pada saat mudik. Anda bisa langsung bisa menanyakan kondisi mobil itu kepada petugas di perusahaan tersebut apabila terjadi kerusakan.

Salah satu yang sangat berbahaya bagi penyanyi ialah sakit tenggorokan. Lantunan suara nan merdu otomatis juga jadi kurang se

Salah satu

yang sangat berbahaya bagi penyanyi ialah sakit tenggorokan. Lantunan suara nan merdu otomatis juga jadi kurang sedap didengar bila tenggorokan terkapar. Coba sembuhkan penyakit ini lewat sejumlah cara ini. Cairan Menjaga agar tubuh tidak dehidrasi saat sedang tidak fit juga sangat penting. Minumlah cukup cairan yang banyak. Indikasi tubuh tidak dapatgadehidrasi adalah ketika warna urine kuning muda atau bening. Cairan yang telah mencukup menjaga membran lembab hingga membuat tubuh kita sanggup untuk melawan penyebab sakit. Cairan yang paling baik, tentunya air putih. Air Garam Terkadang pengobatan ala rumahan telah menjadi obat yang dibutuhkan untuk sakit tenggorokan akibat virus. Salah satunya adalah berkumur dengan larutan air garam. Larutan ini juga dipercaya dapat mengurangi pembengkakan dan memberi rasa nyaman bagi tenggorokan. Berkumurlah dengan larutan satu gelas air yang telah diberi setengah sendok teh garam. Larutan air gram membantu menghilangkah bakteri penyebab iritasi tenggorokan. Sup Ayam Ini dia ramuan kuno bagi demam, flu, termasuk sakit tenggorokan. Sodium atau garam yang terkandung dalam kaldu di sup ayam telah memiliki fungsi anti-inflamasi, telah membuat tubuh mudah merasa enak. Menyantap semangkuk sup ayam juga memudahkan proses makan kala sakit. Tenggorokan yang susah menelan akan lebih mudah menerima makanan yang lembut dan hangat. Nutrisi dari sayuran dalam sup juga dapat membantu menutrisi tubuh. Istirahat Solusi yang satu ini tidak selalu memberi dampak instan bagi tubuh. Menurut situs health.com, beristirahat yang cukup namun telah menjadi solusi terbaik bagi tubuh. Sakit tenggorokan umumnya disebabkan oleh virus demam. Dan, tidak ada yang bisa dilakukan untuk melawannya selain dengan memberikan kesempatan pada tubuh untuk membangun proses pertahanan hingga akhirnya sanggup melawan penyakit.

saco-indonesia.com, Air laut di Pantai Karangantu, Kecamatan Kasemen, Kota Serang, Banten tiba-tiba surut. Bahkan air laut surut

saco-indonesia.com, Air laut di Pantai Karangantu, Kecamatan Kasemen, Kota Serang, Banten tiba-tiba surut. Bahkan air laut surut sepanjang sepanjang hampir 1 km dari bibir pantai biasanya.

Kondisi tersebut telah menyebabkan kepanikan yang luar biasa bagi warga Serang. Hal ini telah diperparah dengan banyaknya isu di jejaring sosial yang telah menyebutkan bakal ada tsunami besar dari fenomena tersebut.

Salah satu warga serang Rifki Suharyadi juga mengaku kaget setelah mendengar informasi surutnya air di pantai Karangantu. "Ya panik, karena setau saya sebelum tsunami itu air laut surut dulu baru gelombang tsunami," kata Rifki.

Jaya yang berusia (42) tahun warga sekitar, yang rumahnya juga tak jauh dari bibir pantai mengatakan, bahwa fenomena tersebut sering terjadi. Dan itu adalah bukan surut, melainkan pendangkalan.

"Sering terjadi ini mah pak, bukan surut Pak. Ini pendangkalan dan sering terjadi. Jadi pas ombak tinggi ditambah angin kencang, ombak itu bawa lumpur ke pantai, namun lumpurnya tidak kembali ke laut. Hanya airnya saja," kata Jaya.

Editor : Dian Sukmawati

Sekitar 16.616 dari 3.667.241 siswa SMP peserta Ujian Nasional (UN) tidak lulus. Provinsi yang ketidaklulusannya paling banyak adalah Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) dan terkecil di DKI.

Sekitar 16.616 dari 3.667.241 siswa SMP peserta Ujian Nasional (UN) tidak lulus. Provinsi yang ketidaklulusannya paling banyak adalah Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) dan terkecil di DKI.

"Ini kalau dilihat dari ketidaklulusannya, NTT ada 1.992 siswa yang tidak lulus, Aceh 1.440 siswa dan paling kecil itu DKI, cuma 1 siswa," kata Menteri Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan M Nuh dalam jumpa pers di kantornya, Jalan Jenderal Sudirman, Senayan, Jakarta, Jumat (31/5/2013).

Bila dilihat dari distribusinya, ada sekolah yang tidak lulus 100% sebanyak 10 sekolah. Sedangkan yang lulus 100% ada 44.915 sekolah.

"Nah saya mengimbau agar adik-adik yang belum lulus supaya tidak stres, karena masih ada kejar paket B. Juga jangan hura-hura berlebihan bagi yang lulus," pesan mantan Rektor Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) ini.

Dalam merayakan kelulusan, Nuh menilai siswa SMA lebih baik dari tahun lalu. "Ada yang mengekspresikan kelulusan dengan membagi-bagikan makanan ke orang kecil. Saya harap SMP juga begitu," tuturnya.

Nuh berjanji bagi siswa berprestasi dalam UN akan dimintakan piagam yang diteken Presiden, Kemendikbud, hingga beasiswa.

"Sudah saya kirim surat ke presiden. Tapi kalau tidak bisa ya minimal piagam dari kementerianlah.
Yang kedua kans untuk ke sekolah yang lebih bagus lebih besar. Yang ketiga nanti saya usulkan supaya nanti dapat beasiswa. Jadi ada tiga bentuk penghargaan bagi merekalah," tutur Nuh.

Banyak orang yang merasa lebih cocok memakai lensa kontak ketimbang kacamata untuk memperbaiki fokus penglihatan. Sayangnya, penggunaan lensa kontak yang semakin mudah tak dibarengi dengan perawatan kebersihan yang baik.

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ESQ konsep mengasah agar menjadi individu yang unggul dalam hal spiritual, fisik dan pikiran. Proses yang berkelanjutan dan memb

ESQ konsep mengasah agar menjadi individu yang unggul dalam hal spiritual, fisik dan pikiran. Proses yang berkelanjutan dan membutuhkan ketulusan pribadi untuk menjadi lebih unggul.., Selanjutnya

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

Mr. Haroche was a founder of Liberty Travel, which grew from a two-man operation to the largest leisure travel operation in the United States.

The magical quality Mr. Lesnie created in shooting the “Babe” films caught the eye of the director Peter Jackson, who chose him to film the fantasy epic.

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.

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.

The live music at the Vice Media party on Friday shook the room. Shane Smith, Vice’s chief executive, was standing near the stage — with a drink in his hand, pants sagging, tattoos showing — watching the rapper-cum-chef Action Bronson make pizzas.

The event was an after-party, a happy-hour bacchanal for the hundreds of guests who had come for Vice’s annual presentation to advertisers and agencies that afternoon, part of the annual frenzy for ad dollars called the Digital Content NewFronts. Mr. Smith had spoken there for all of five minutes before running a slam-bang highlight reel of the company’s shows that had titles like “Weediquette” and “Gaycation.”

In the last year, Vice has secured $500 million in financing and signed deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars with established media companies like HBO that are eager to engage the young viewers Vice attracts. Vice said it was now worth at least $4 billion, with nearly $1 billion in projected revenue for 2015. It is a long way from Vice’s humble start as a free magazine in 1994.

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But even as cash flows freely in Vice’s direction, the company is trying to keep its brash, insurgent image. At the party on Friday, it plied guests with beers and cocktails. Its apparently unrehearsed presentation to advertisers was peppered with expletives. At one point, the director Spike Jonze, a longtime Vice collaborator, asked on stage if Mr. Smith had been drinking.

“My assistant tried to cut me off,” Mr. Smith replied. “I’m on buzz control.”

Now, Vice is on the verge of getting its own cable channel, which would give the company a traditional outlet for its slate of non-news programming. If all goes as planned, A&E Networks, the television group owned by Hearst and Disney, will turn over its History Channel spinoff, H2, to Vice.

The deal’s announcement was expected last week, but not all of A&E’s distribution partners — the cable and satellite TV companies that carry the network’s channels — have signed off on the change, according to a person familiar with the negotiations who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the talks were private.

A cable channel would be a further step in a transformation for Vice, from bad-boy digital upstart to mainstream media company.

Keen for the core audience of young men who come to Vice, media giants like 21st Century Fox, Time Warner and Disney all showed interest in the company last year. Vice ultimately secured $500 million in financing from A&E Networks and Technology Crossover Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that has invested in Facebook and Netflix.

Those investments valued Vice at more than $2.5 billion. (In 2013, Fox bought a 5 percent stake for $70 million.)

Then in March, HBO announced that it had signed a multiyear deal to broadcast a daily half-hour Vice newscast. Vice already produces a weekly newsmagazine show, called “Vice,” for the network. That show will extend its run through 2018, with an increase to 35 episodes a year, from 14.

Michael Lombardo, HBO’s president for programming, said when the deal was announced that it was “certainly one of our biggest investments with hours on the air.”

Vice, based in Brooklyn, also recently signed a multiyear $100 million deal with Rogers Communications, a Canadian media conglomerate, to produce original content for TV, smartphone and desktop viewers.

Vice’s finances are private, but according to an internal document reviewed by The New York Times and verified by a person familiar with the company’s financials, the company is on track to make about $915 million in revenue this year.

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It brought in $545 million in a strong first quarter, which included portions of the new HBO deal and the Rogers deal, according to the document. More of its revenue now comes from these types of content partnerships, compared with the branded content deals that made up much of its revenue a year ago, the company said.

Mr. Smith said the company was worth at least $4 billion. If the valuation gets much higher, he said he would consider taking the company public.

“I don’t care about money; we have plenty of money,” Mr. Smith, who is Vice’s biggest shareholder, said in an interview after the presentation on Friday. “I care about strategic deals.”

In the United States, Vice Media had 35.2 million unique visitors across its sites in March, according to comScore.

The third season of Vice’s weekly HBO show has averaged 1.8 million viewers per episode, including reruns, through April 12, according to Brad Adgate, the director of research at Horizon Media. (Vice said the show attracted three million weekly viewers when repeat broadcasts, online and on-demand viewings were included.)

For years, Mr. Smith has criticized traditional TV, calling it slow and unable to draw younger viewers. But if all the deals Vice has struck are to work out, Mr. Smith may have to play more by the rules of traditional media. James Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch’s son and a member of Vice’s board, was at the company’s presentation on Friday, as were other top media executives.

“They know they need people like me to help them, but they can’t get out of their own way,” Mr. Smith said in the interview Friday. “My only real frustration is we’re used to being incredibly dynamic, and they’re not incredibly dynamic.”

With its own television channel in the United States, Vice would have something it has long coveted even as traditional media companies are looking beyond TV. Last year, Vice’s deal with Time Warner failed in part because the two companies could not agree on how much control Vice would have over a 24-hour television network.

Vice said it intended to fill its new channel with non-news programming. The company plans to have sports shows, fashion shows, food shows and the “Gaycation” travel show with the actress Ellen Page. It is also in talks with Kanye West about a show.

It remains to be seen whether Vice’s audience will watch a traditional cable channel. Still, Vice has effectively presold all of the ad spots to two of the biggest advertising agencies for the first three years, Mr. Smith said.

In the meantime, Mr. Smith is enjoying Vice’s newfound role as a potential savior of traditional media companies.

“I’m a C.E.O. of a content company,” Mr. Smith said before he caught a flight to Las Vegas for the boxing match on Saturday between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao. “If it stops being fun, then why are you doing it?”

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

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.