SEJARAH PULAU TIDUNG Indonesia terkenal dengan ragam budaya dan wisatanya, tak ketinggalan tempat wisata yang berada di daerah jakarta utara ini, tepatnya di suatu pulau dengan nama pulau tidung.Banyak orang berdatangan untuk berwisata ke pulau indah ini, karena keunikan dan keindahan pulau ini, tempat wisata ini tentunya mempunyai sejarah tersendiri, kenapa harus dinamakan pulau tidung.mari kita simak sejarahnya pulau tidung.

SEJARAH PULAU TIDUNG

By  :  Bro Iman

Indonesia terkenal dengan ragam budaya dan wisatanya, tak ketinggalan tempat wisata yang berada di daerah jakarta utara ini, tepatnya di suatu pulau dengan nama pulau tidung.Banyak orang berdatangan untuk berwisata ke pulau indah ini, karena keunikan dan keindahan pulau ini, tempat wisata ini tentunya mempunyai sejarah tersendiri, kenapa harus dinamakan pulau tidung.mari kita simak sejarahnya pulau tidung.


Pada Awalnya Pulau Tidung diambil dari nama tempat yang ada di daerah Kalimantan Timur , tepatnya dari desa malinau yaitu "tana tidung"Kok diberi  nama "tidung" kenapa ? karena yang memberi nama pada waktu itu adalah seorang Raja besar dan terkenal di kalimantan waktu itu, dari suku Tidung.

Pada awalnya indonesia masih di jajah oleh kolonial yang bengis dan kejam, siapa yang tidak ingat penjajahan belanda selama 3,5 abad. Yang mana seorang raja ini awalnya diusir oleh kolonial belanda, karena tidak mau diajak untuk bekerjasama dan menjadi anteknya di kalimantan timur ,Hal ini di dasarkan karena ia  seorang raja sekaligus tokoh pahlawan yang tidak ingin di jajah oleh kolonial belanda pada waktu itu. Nama dari Raja pada waktu itu adalah Raja Pandita alias Kaca alias Sapu.

Dalam perjalannanya di usir dari tana tidung, akhirnya raja pandita meneruskan perjalannanya tak tentu arah dan tujuan, mau kemana, ketemu siapa, diliputi rasa bingung yang tak karuan.Sepanjang perjalanan, akhirnya
dia sampai di jepara, setelah itu ia meneruskan perjalanan nya dengan tekad yang mulia ini, akhirnya sampailah ia di pulau terpencil, di pinggiran jakarta, yang sekarang terkenal dengan nama pulau tidung ini.

Hari berganti hari, terus berlalu, hingga berganti bulan dan tahun, yang mana dengan keberadaan raja pandita di pulau tidung itu tidak ada satu orangpun yang tahu kalau dia adalah seorang raja yang pertamakali datang ke pulau tidung itu adalah seorang raja dari kalimantan Timur.Karena raja pandita pergi dari kalimantan timur, tidak membawa gelar sebagai raja, karena waktu itu tidak di dampingi oleh para prajuritnya.Raja pandita pada waktu itu hanya dikenal dengan sebutan "Kaca".
Sampai meninggalnya pun Kaca hanya dikenal sebagai masyarakat biasa yang tidak beda dengan masyarakat lainnya.


Beberapa puluh Tahun kemudian datanglah sekelompok keluarga Raja Pandita dari Kalimantan Timur dan mencari tahu tentang keberadaan raja pandita.Pulau ini mengapa bernama Pulau Tidung? singkat cerita keluarga Raja Pandita dari Kaltim bertemu dengan keluarga Kaca di Pulau Tidung  ketika keluarga Raja Pandita Bertanya kepada keluarga Kaca dan ternyata menurut kelurga Raja Pandita bahwa Kaca adalah nama kecil Raja Pandita sebelum diangkat dari Raja.
dan akhirnya keduanya mengambil kesimpulan bahwa nama Pulau Tidung di beri nama dari Raja Pandita yang berasal dari tanah tidung Kalimantan Timur.

Itulah sejarah singkat tentang keberadaan pulau tidung yang sekarang banyak di kunjungi oleh wisatawan,
baik dari dalam negeri, maupun luar negeri.

Sejarah yang lainnya tentang pulau pulau di sekitar pulau tidung akan saya ceritakan di www.pulautidungjaya.com

sumber : http://pulautidungjaya.com

Bekasi, Saco-Indonesia.com - Kawanan pencuri kendaraan sepeda motor menggunakan senjata api beraksi pada siang hari di wilayah Kabupaten Karawang, Jawa Barat, Sabtu (11/1).

Bekasi, Saco-Indonesia.com - Kawanan pencuri kendaraan sepeda motor menggunakan senjata api beraksi pada siang hari di wilayah Kabupaten Karawang, Jawa Barat, Sabtu (11/1). Dalam melakukan aksinya, pelaku mengintai sepeda motor milik penghuni kontrakan yang kondisinya sepi dan jauh dari permukiman warga.

Seperti dilansir dari Antara, dua tersangka pelaku pencurian kendaraan bermotor beraksi di sebuah tempat kontrakan sekitar Desa Puseurjaya, Kecamatan Telukjambe Timur, Karawang.

Saat menjalankan aksinya, pelaku diduga sudah membuntuti korban hingga ke tempat kontrakannya. Di saat korban masuk kontrakan, pelaku langsung mencongkel kunci kendaraan korban dengan menggunakan kunci kendaraan yang sudah dibuat menjadi jenis kunci "T".

Tetapi aksi pelaku diketahui korban bernama Budi. Korban kemudian lari menghampiri pelaku. Lalu pelaku langsung menodongkan pistol ke arah korban, sedangkan kendaraan korban jatuh saat aksi pelaku diketahui korban.

Saat itu juga, pelaku langsung menembakkan senjatanya ke arah korban, lalu kabur melarikan diri. Tembakan pelaku hanya mengenai bagian pintu gerbang.

Sementara beberapa jam setelah kejadian, pihak kepolisian dari Polres Karawang tiba di lokasi kejadian perkara. Petugas berhasil mengamankan barang bukti kunci "T" dan peluru dari senjata pelaku.

Sumber : Merdeka.com

Editor : Maulana Lee

saco-indonesia.com, Dua bandit residivis telah berulah lagi. Pria baru turun dari Bus Mayasari Bakti ditodong lalu merampas HP d

saco-indonesia.com, Dua bandit residivis telah berulah lagi. Pria baru turun dari Bus Mayasari Bakti ditodong lalu merampas HP dan dompet di Fly Over Galur, Johar Baru, Jakarta Pusat. Satu pelaku terpaksa ditembak karena telah melawan petugas.

Heriyanto alias Heri yang berusia 29 tahun , ambruk setelah peluru petugas bersarang di paha kiri, Tersangka kini telah dibawa ke RS Polri Kramatjati, sedang satu pelaku lainnya Bule yang berusia 27 tahun , berhasil kabur dari keramaian. Sementara korban Tono Hartono yang berusia 32 tahun , telah dimintai kerterangan.

“Bandit yang ketembak ini residivis, dalam kasus pejambretan, kini telah mendekam lagi di kantor polisi, mereka ini juga punya kelompok yang selalu gonta-ganti pasangan saat beraksi,” tegas Kasat Reskrim Polres Jakpus AKBP Tatan Dirsan Atmaja.

Pelaku yang juga mengaku baru sebulan keluar dari Rutan Salemba dalam kasus yang sama. “Bandit yang beraksi di Fly 0ver Galur, tak habis-habisnya, Pak, bagaikan patah tumbuh hilang berganti (mati satu tumbuh seribu) di kawasan tersebut,” ujar Herwan, salah satu warga.

Sekitar pukul 17:00, Bus Patas Mayasari Bakti jurusan Kampung Rambutan-Senen, lagi sarat penumpang datang dari arah Cempakah Putih telah melintas di Jalan Suprapto. Korban ketika itu duduk di pintu belakang.

Ketika bus melaju di bawah jalan layang, korban turun di depan SPBU. Begitu korban , satu dari dua lelaki itu merangkulnya lalu menarik si korban di bawah todongan pisau lipat.

“Jangan teriak, lho tadi yang memukul adik saya dan sekarang ada di rumah sakit, ayo ikut biar kamu lihat kondisinya,”ancam pelaku, seperti yang telah ditirukan korban pada polisi.

Karena warga mulai lalulalang hingga membuat pelaku takut, akhirnya memukul korban kemudian merampas HP dan dompet lalu kabur ke arah jalan raya. Korban pun telah berteriak. Mendengar teriakan korban tersebut, mobil Kijang yang di dalamnya ada Kanit Resmob Polres Jakpus AKP Mustakim, segera turun bersama anggotanya mendekti dua pelaku, saat petugas menegor bandit tersebut malah kabur .

Polisi telah melihat pelaku megang pisau. Seketika petugas telah mencabut pistol lalu melepas tembakan peringatan agar pelaku menyerah. Namun pelaku terus kabur sambil menyerang petugas. Petugas akhirnya satu tersangka.”Pelaku ini terancam dengan pasal 365 KUHP, pencurian dengan kekerasan, ancam pidana hingga 9 tahun,” ujar Mustakim.

Editor : Dian Sukmawati

saco-indonesia.com, Seorang pemuda habis nyuntik putaw di rumah susun (Rusun) Baladewa, Johar Baru, Jakarta Pusat, telah berhasi

saco-indonesia.com, Seorang pemuda habis nyuntik putaw di rumah susun (Rusun) Baladewa, Johar Baru, Jakarta Pusat, telah berhasil dibekuk polisi, Sabtu (8/2) malam.

Namun betapa kagetnya, disaat pria itu ditangkap, polisi telah berhasil menemukan alat suntik bercampur darah dipegang pemuda itu, Kini tersangak Risky,27, warga Tanjung Priok, Jakarta Utara, tak berkutik ketika petugas membekuk dan dari tangan pria pengangguran itu disita alat suntik yang habis dipakai pelaku. “Alat suntik ini milik teman pak, saya nggak pemakai kok malah dibekuk,” elak si pencandu pada petugas.

Kanit Rekrim AKP Polsek Johar Baru Mulyadi,SH,MH, telah menturkan tertangkap pria pemakai shabu itu sekitar pukul 21:00 malam, berawal disaat anggotanya dengan mengendarai sepeda motor sedang obeservasi di ketempat yang dianggap rawan.

Namun ketika polisi telah melintas di sepanjang lokasi kejadian, tiba-tiba saja melihat seorang lelaki berjalan santai sambil sempoyongan. Melihat pe-muda itu agak aneh-aneh hingga membuat petugas semakin curiga dan akhirnya disamperi.

Begitu pemuda itu berhasil diamankan petugas, polisi telah menemukan alat suntik yang habis dipakai pelaku. Untuk dapat mempertanggung jawab. Sementara pemuda tersebut telah diamankan ke kantor polisi

“Barang haram mengaku di beli dari temannya berinsial D di kawasan Johar Baru,” ujar Kanit Mulyadi, usai mengintrogasi pemuda itu.

Editor : Dian Sukmawati

Satreskrim Polres Cimahi terus akan mendalami Dedeh Uum Fatimah yang berusia (38) tahun ibu tersangka pembunuh anaknya, Aisah Fany yang berusia (2,5) tahun yang ditenggelamkan ke dalam toren atau penampungan air. Termasuk dugaan aliran sesat dalam diri Dedeh.

Satreskrim Polres Cimahi terus akan mendalami Dedeh Uum Fatimah yang berusia (38) tahun ibu tersangka pembunuh anaknya, Aisah Fany yang berusia (2,5) tahun yang ditenggelamkan ke dalam toren atau penampungan air. Termasuk dugaan aliran sesat dalam diri Dedeh.

Pasalnya ibu tiga anak ini sama sekali tidak menyesali perbuatannya. Dedeh justru menyesal tidak menghabisi dua anak lainnya dalam insiden tersebut.

"Belum kita temukan, kita masih dalami kita juga geledah rumahnya tapi belum bisa kita simpulkan," kata Kapolres Cimahi AKBP Erwin Kurniawan , Jumat (14/3).

Dedeh saat ini masih terus dalam pemeriksaan intensif penyidik Polres Cimahi. Tes kejiwaan juga sudah dilakukan untuk dapat memastikan apakah terganggu atau tidak.

"Sudah hari Rabu kemarin di tes kejiwaan, hasilnya paling satu minggu baru keluar, jadi belum bisa kami simpulkan," paparnya.

Diberitakan sebelumnya, Dedeh ini dengan sadis tiba-tiba menenggelamkan anaknya sendiri yang masih balita ke dalam toren air di rumahnya di Kampung Cijengjing, Desa Kertamulya, Kecamatan Padalarang, Kabupaten Bandung Barat pada Selasa (11/3) lalu. Pelaku nekat menghabisi nyawa anaknya saat tidur pulas. Dedeh membunuh anaknya sendiri karena ingin mengirimnya ke surga.

Jika ketika melihat gambar di atas Anda berpikir bahwa anjing-anjing kecil itu tengah dikejar dan menjadi santapan singa besar t

Jika ketika melihat gambar di atas Anda berpikir bahwa anjing-anjing kecil itu tengah dikejar dan menjadi santapan singa besar tersebut, Anda salah sangka. Hewan-hewan tersebut tengah bermain bersama karena mereka bersahabat.

Bonedigger adalah singa berusia lima tahun dan memiliki berat sekitar 226 kilogram. Untuk ukuran raja hutan yang ditakuti, Bonedigger tampaknya memiliki teman yang tak biasa, yaitu Milo, seekor anjing jenis Dachshund berusia tujuh tahun yang memiliki berat badan lima kilogram.

Anda mungkin tak percaya, namun keduanya bersahabat sangat dekat. Setelah makan malam, Milo bahkan menjilati sisa makanan dari gigi Bonedigger. Tak hanya Milo, Bonedigger juga berteman dengan beberapa anjing dachschund lain yaitu Bullet dan Angel.

Milo dan Bonedigger telah menjadi sahabat yang tak terpisahkan selama lima tahun. Keduanya tinggal bersama di Garold Wayne Interactive Zoological Park di Wynnewood, Oklahoma. Joe Schreibvogel, ahli hewan yang sering mengunggah videonya di YouTube, adalah orang yang pertama kali memperkenalkan anjing Dachshund miliknya pada Bonedigger ketika singa itu masih berusia empat minggu.

"Para anjing ini menganggap Bonedigger sebagai anjing besar dan mereka mencintainya. Aku juga berpikir bahwa anjing-anjing itu tahu Bonedigger tak seperti singa normal lainnya," ungkap Schreibvogel, seperti dilansir oleh Huffington Post (28/05).

Bonedigger memiliki kelainan tulang yang disebut metabolic bone disease. Karena itulah tampaknya dia dan anjing-anjing lainnya bisa sangat akrab satu sama lain. Milo bahkan mencoba meniru raungan Bonedigger ketika dia 'berbicara' dengan singa lain di taman tersebut. Sumber : www.merdeka.com

saco-indonesia.com, Aksi ayah bunuh anaka telah direkonstruksi di rumahnya Komplek Perumahan Bumi Citra Lestari (BCL) Jalan Arju

saco-indonesia.com, Aksi ayah bunuh anaka telah direkonstruksi di rumahnya Komplek Perumahan Bumi Citra Lestari (BCL) Jalan Arjuna X Blok B III, Desa Waluya, Cikarang Utara, Kamis(6/2) siang. Tersangka Epi Suhendar yang berusia 29 tahun , juga sempat tertegun dan enggan masuk ke rumah. Namun setelah 15 menit kemudian lelaki bertubuh tambun itu masuk ke rumah.

Dijaga ketat petugas, tersangka Epi telah melakukan 45 adegan dengan lancar. Mulai dari aksi keji membunuh anaknya Ikhsan,3, hingga melukai istrinya Ny Cucun, yang berusia 23 tahun . Tiga saksi telah dihadirkan yakni Andi, Haris dan Dede. Sedangkan Ny Cucun, istri korban juga tak bisa hadir lantaran masih trauma.

Warga setempat juga tak menyangka dengan aksi keji yang dilakukan Epi. Sebab selama ini keluarga tersebut selalu baik-baik saja. Warga hanya bisa mengelus dada saat menyaksikan tersangka masuk dan keluar rumah yang menjadi tragedi berdarah itu.

Kanitserse Polsek Cikarang Utara AKP Bobby Kusumawardana juga mengatakan tersangka mengaku tidak sadar melakukan aksi keji itu. Namun kejiwaan tersangka dinyatakan normal.

Diberitakan sebelumnya, Ikhsan yang berusia 3 tahun , telah dibunuh ayah kandungnya yang takut dipecat lantaran tak dapat memenuhi target dalam bekerja di sebuah perusahaan paralon. Tersangka Epi pun kemudian merencanakan pembunuhan pada anak dan istri serta dirinya sndiri. Namun upaya itu gagal. Sang anak meregang nyawa setelah dihujani 18 tusukan, sementara istrinya Ny Cucun sekarat dihujani 10 tusukan. tersangka sendiri gagal saat akan bunuh diri

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saco-indonesia.com, Arus lalu lintas menuju akses pintu M1 atau yang dikenal dengan pintu belakang Bandara Soekarno-Hatta akan d

saco-indonesia.com, Arus lalu lintas menuju akses pintu M1 atau yang dikenal dengan pintu belakang Bandara Soekarno-Hatta akan dialihkan. Pengalihan arus lalu lintas ini rencananya juga akan diberlakukan mulai tanggal 26 Desember 2013 mendatng.

"Akan diberlakukan. Untuk penjelasannya belum. Rencananya mulai tanggal 26 Desember mendatang . Nanti kita update lagi. Kita juga masing tunggu penjelasan berikutnya mengenai sistem dan lainnya," kata petugas TMC Polda Metro Jaya, Briptu Arlen, Selasa (24/12).

Sementara itu, di Facebook TMC Polda Metro Jaya juga dijelaskan pengalihan arus lalu lintas tersebut sehubungan dengan akan dibangunnya rel kereta Bandara Soekarno-Hatta.

Di Twitter TMC Polda Metro Jaya juga dijelaskan adanya pengalihan arus lalu lintas akses pintu masuk M1 Bandara Soetta.

Editor : dian sukmawati

saco-indonesia.com, Kamu tlah tinggal dalam hati Dan takkan kulepas lagi Tetaplah kau disini Kamu bagaikan bidadari Dat

saco-indonesia.com,

Kamu tlah tinggal dalam hati
Dan takkan kulepas lagi
Tetaplah kau disini

Kamu bagaikan bidadari
Datang dan turun ke bumi
Dan berdetak dalam nadi

Kamu wanita pilihanku
Kamu cinta matiku
Hiduplah bersamaku

Kamu redakan ambisiku
Menepiskan khilafku
Bidadari syurga-ku
Bila kita bersama
Kitakan bahagia
Kan kudendangkan lagu
Itu hanya untukmu

Reff :
Bila engkau pergi
Bawaku bersamaku
Karna kusetia padamu
Kumohon padamu
Jadikanlah pengantinku
Aku takut kehilanganmu

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Children playing last week in Sandtown-Winchester, the Baltimore neighborhood where Freddie Gray was raised. One young resident called it “a tough community.”

Hard but Hopeful Home to ‘Lot of Freddies’

The neighborhood where Freddie Gray came of age has survived harrowing rates of unemployment, poor health, violent crime and incarceration.

A lapsed seminarian, Mr. Chambers succeeded Saul Alinsky as leader of the social justice umbrella group Industrial Areas Foundation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There was a little girl,

And she had a little curl

Right in the middle of her forehead.

When she was good,

She was very, very good.

But when she was bad, she was horrid.

Recently, the conservation center turned up another surprise.

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

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

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

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

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

Mr. Mankiewicz, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter for “I Want to Live!,” also wrote episodes of television shows such as “Star Trek” and “Marcus Welby, M.D.”

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Last summer at a writers’ workshop in Oregon, the novelists Anthony Doerr, Karen Russell and Elissa Schappell were chatting over cocktails when they realized they had all published work in the same magazine. It wasn’t one of the usual literary outlets, like Tin House, The Paris Review or The New Yorker. It was Rhapsody, an in-flight magazine for United Airlines.

It seemed like a weird coincidence. Then again, considering Rhapsody’s growing roster of A-list fiction writers, maybe not. Since its first issue hit plane cabins a year and a half ago, Rhapsody has published original works by literary stars like Joyce Carol Oates, Rick Moody, Amy Bloom, Emma Straub and Mr. Doerr, who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction two weeks ago.

As airlines try to distinguish their high-end service with luxuries like private sleeping chambers, showers, butler service and meals from five-star chefs, United Airlines is offering a loftier, more cerebral amenity to its first-class and business-class passengers: elegant prose by prominent novelists. There are no airport maps or disheartening lists of in-flight meal and entertainment options in Rhapsody. Instead, the magazine has published ruminative first-person travel accounts, cultural dispatches and probing essays about flight by more than 30 literary fiction writers.

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An airline might seem like an odd literary patron. But as publishers and writers look for new ways to reach readers in a shaky retail climate, many have formed corporate alliances with transit companies, including American Airlines, JetBlue and Amtrak, that provide a captive audience.

Mark Krolick, United Airlines’ managing director of marketing and product development, said the quality of the writing in Rhapsody brings a patina of sophistication to its first-class service, along with other opulent touches like mood lighting, soft music and a branded scent.

“The high-end leisure or business-class traveler has higher expectations, even in the entertainment we provide,” he said.

Some of Rhapsody’s contributing writers say they were lured by the promise of free airfare and luxury accommodations provided by United, as well as exposure to an elite audience of some two million first-class and business-class travelers.

“It’s not your normal Park Slope Community Bookstore types who read Rhapsody,” Mr. Moody, author of the 1994 novel “The Ice Storm,” who wrote an introspective, philosophical piece about traveling to the Aran Islands of Ireland for Rhapsody, said in an email. “I’m not sure I myself am in that Rhapsody demographic, but I would like them to buy my books one day.”

In addition to offering travel perks, the magazine pays well and gives writers freedom, within reason, to choose their subject matter and write with style. Certain genres of flight stories are off limits, naturally: no plane crashes or woeful tales of lost luggage or rude flight attendants, and nothing too risqué.

“We’re not going to have someone write about joining the mile-high club,” said Jordan Heller, the editor in chief of Rhapsody. “Despite those restrictions, we’ve managed to come up with a lot of high-minded literary content.”

Guiding writers toward the right idea occasionally requires some gentle prodding. When Rhapsody’s executive editor asked Ms. Russell to contribute an essay about a memorable flight experience, she first pitched a story about the time she was chaperoning a group of teenagers on a trip to Europe, and their delayed plane sat at the airport in New York for several hours while other passengers got progressively drunker.

“He pointed out that disaster flights are not what people want to read about when they’re in transit, and very diplomatically suggested that maybe people want to read something that casts air travel in a more positive light,” said Ms. Russell, whose novel “Swamplandia!” was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize.

She turned in a nostalgia-tinged essay about her first flight on a trip to Disney World when she was 6. “The Magic Kingdom was an anticlimax,” she wrote. “What ride could compare to that first flight?”

Ms. Oates also wrote about her first flight, in a tiny yellow propeller plane piloted by her father. The novelist Joyce Maynard told of the constant disappointment of never seeing her books in airport bookstores and the thrill of finally spotting a fellow plane passenger reading her novel “Labor Day.” Emily St. John Mandel, who was a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction last year, wrote about agonizing over which books to bring on a long flight.

“There’s nobody that’s looked down their noses at us as an in-flight magazine,” said Sean Manning, the magazine’s executive editor. “As big as these people are in the literary world, there’s still this untapped audience for them of luxury travelers.”

United is one of a handful of companies showcasing work by literary writers as a way to elevate their brands and engage customers. Chipotle has printed original work from writers like Toni Morrison, Jeffrey Eugenides and Barbara Kingsolver on its disposable cups and paper bags. The eyeglass company Warby Parker hosts parties for authors and sells books from 14 independent publishers in its stores.

JetBlue offers around 40 e-books from HarperCollins and Penguin Random House on its free wireless network, allowing passengers to read free samples and buy and download books. JetBlue will start offering 11 digital titles from Simon & Schuster soon. Amtrak recently forged an alliance with Penguin Random House to provide free digital samples from 28 popular titles, which passengers can buy and download over Amtrak’s admittedly spotty wireless service.

Amtrak is becoming an incubator for literary talent in its own right. Last year, it started a residency program, offering writers a free long-distance train trip and complimentary food. More than 16,000 writers applied and 24 made the cut.

Like Amtrak, Rhapsody has found that writers are eager to get onboard. On a rainy spring afternoon, Rhapsody’s editorial staff sat around a conference table discussing the June issue, which will feature an essay by the novelist Hannah Pittard and an unpublished short story by the late Elmore Leonard.

“Do you have that photo of Elmore Leonard? Can I see it?” Mr. Heller, the editor in chief, asked Rhapsody’s design director, Christos Hannides. Mr. Hannides slid it across the table and noted that they also had a photograph of cowboy spurs. “It’s very simple; it won’t take away from the literature,” he said.

Rhapsody’s office, an open space with exposed pipes and a vaulted brick ceiling, sits in Dumbo at the epicenter of literary Brooklyn, in the same converted tea warehouse as the literary journal N+1 and the digital publisher Atavist. Two of the magazine’s seven staff members hold graduate degrees in creative writing. Mr. Manning, the executive editor, has published a memoir and edited five literary anthologies.

Mr. Manning said Rhapsody was conceived from the start as a place for literary novelists to write with voice and style, and nobody had been put off that their work would live in plane cabins and airport lounges.

Still, some contributors say they wish the magazine were more widely circulated.

“I would love it if I could read it,” said Ms. Schappell, a Brooklyn-based novelist who wrote a feature story for Rhapsody’s inaugural issue. “But I never fly first class.”

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

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