Agen Tiket Pesawat di Kutai Hubungi 021-9929-2337 atau 0821-2406-5740 Alhijaz Indowisata adalah perusahaan swasta nasional yang bergerak di bidang tour dan travel. Nama Alhijaz terinspirasi dari istilah dua kota suci bagi umat islam pada zaman nabi Muhammad saw. yaitu Makkah dan Madinah. Dua kota yang penuh berkah sehingga diharapkan menular dalam kinerja perusahaan. Sedangkan Indowisata merupakan akronim dari kata indo yang berarti negara Indonesia dan wisata yang menjadi fokus usaha bisnis kami.
Agen Tiket Pesawat di Malang Hubungi 021-9929-2337 atau 0821-2406-5740 Alhijaz Indowisata adalah perusahaan swasta nasional yang bergerak di bidang tour dan travel. Nama Alhijaz terinspirasi dari istilah dua kota suci bagi umat islam pada zaman nabi Muhammad saw. yaitu Makkah dan Madinah. Dua kota yang penuh berkah sehingga diharapkan menular dalam kinerja perusahaan. Sedangkan Indowisata merupakan akronim dari kata indo yang berarti negara Indonesia dan wisata yang menjadi fokus usaha bisnis kami.
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Agen Tiket Pesawat di Bandung Hubungi 021-9929-2337 atau 0821-2406-5740 Alhijaz Indowisata adalah perusahaan swasta nasional yang bergerak di bidang tour dan travel. Nama Alhijaz terinspirasi dari istilah dua kota suci bagi umat islam pada zaman nabi Muhammad saw. yaitu Makkah dan Madinah. Dua kota yang penuh berkah sehingga diharapkan menular dalam kinerja perusahaan. Sedangkan Indowisata merupakan akronim dari kata indo yang berarti negara Indonesia dan wisata yang menjadi fokus usaha bisnis kami.
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Agen Tiket Pesawat di Palembang Hubungi 021-9929-2337 atau 0821-2406-5740 Alhijaz Indowisata adalah perusahaan swasta nasional yang bergerak di bidang tour dan travel. Nama Alhijaz terinspirasi dari istilah dua kota suci bagi umat islam pada zaman nabi Muhammad saw. yaitu Makkah dan Madinah. Dua kota yang penuh berkah sehingga diharapkan menular dalam kinerja perusahaan. Sedangkan Indowisata merupakan akronim dari kata indo yang berarti negara Indonesia dan wisata yang menjadi fokus usaha bisnis kami.
Garut adalah salah satu penghasil jaket kulit terbaik di Indonesia. Produk jaket kulit di Garut dihasilkan dari pusat peternakan
Garut adalah salah satu penghasil jaket kulit terbaik di Indonesia. Produk jaket kulit di Garut dihasilkan dari pusat peternakan domba yang tersebar di seluruh Kabupaten Garut - Jawa Barat, jika tertarik dengan jaket kulit ini, datang saja ke sentra kerajinan jaket kulit Garut. Sentra kerajinan jaket kulit ini sudah cukup terkenal, bahkan sampai ke mancanegara. Ini bisa dilihat dari banyaknya produk jaket kulit Garut yang diekspor ke luar negeri. Desain dan motif yang digunakan pada jaket kulit Garut sangat beragam dan modern. Tidak monoton itu-itu saja, jadi selalu menarik untuk dilihat dan dibeli. Saat memasuki kawasan sentra kerajinan jaket kulit Garut, Anda akan melihat ada banyak jejeran toko yang menjual jaket kulit. Mulai jaket laki-laki, perempuan, dewasa dan anak kecil ada di sini. Model yang ditawarkan pun bervariasi. Pasti membuat pengunjung bingung untuk memilih karena banyak macamnya dari jaket kulit berbahan dasar kulit domba, kambing ataupun sapi, masuklah ke dalam toko dan Anda pun bisa melihat aneka barang dari kulit yang dijual.
Ternyata, disentra kerajinan jaket kulit Garut tidak hanya menjual jaket kulit, tetapi juga barang lain seperti tas kulit, sarung tangan untuk bikers. Juga barang-barang yang menggunakan bahan dari kulit. Aneka produk buatan sentra kerajinan jaket kulit Garut baik jaket atau pun aksesoris lainnya memang 100 persen kulit asli, soal harga tergantung jenis barang, ketebalan, dan modelnya. Sebagai contoh, untuk aksesoris seperti tas dari kulit dikenai harga mulai dari Rp 80.000. Untuk jaket, banyak pilihannya ada pilihan unik yang bisa dicoba dari harga mulai Rp 650.000. Beda ketebalan,Beda kwalitas, beda model beda juga harga tentunya. Untuk jaket yang tebal dan menutup seluruh tubuh, bisa dikenai harga Rp 700.000-2.000.000. Ya, harganya memang bervariasi, tergantung dari model, ketebalan jaket, kwalitas dan tentu saja kemampuan menawar Anda. Selain toko yang menjual kerajinan jaket kulit, Anda juga bisa melihat langsung proses pembuatan jaket kulit. Mulai dari kulit yang baru dikuliti, hingga proses penjahitan bisa pengunjung saksikan. Ya, Anda memang bisa melihat pembuatan secara langsung karena industri jaket kulit di sini merupakan industri rumahan. Kemampuan produksi rata-rata tiap produsen mencapai 2.000 jaket per bulan. Anda Bisa lebih puas lagi memilih bahan sendiri, diukur badan agar lebih pas dan langsung dijahit.
ATUT DIPERIKSA TERKAIT KASUS PILKADA LEBAK
saco-indonesia.com, Kuasa hukum tersangka dalam kasus suap Pemilukada Lebak, Ratu Atut Chosiyah, TB Sukatma, juga mengatakan kli
saco-indonesia.com, Kuasa hukum tersangka dalam kasus suap Pemilukada Lebak, Ratu Atut Chosiyah, TB Sukatma, juga mengatakan kliennya telah diperiksa oleh Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK) dalam kasus dugaan suap pada Pemilukada Lebak, Banten.
"Diperiksa sebagai saksi (dalam jadwal KPK sebagai tersangka). Untuk kasus Lebak," kata Sukatma di Gedung KPK, Jumat (27/12/2013).
Pemeriksaan itu terkait dengan adanya keterlibatan Tubagus Chairi Wardana alias Wawan, dan mantan Ketua Mahkamah Konstitusi (MK) Akil Mochtar. "Beliau juga harus mempelajari kembali dokumen yang berkaitan dengan perkara beliau maupun keterangan saksi-saksi lain," terangnya.
Atut sampai di KPK, sekira pukul 10.15 WIB tadi. Dia tak berikan komentar apapun, sang Gubernur itu langsung melenggang menuju ruang penyidikan.
Editor : Dian Sukmawati
ASYIK NYABU DUA REMAJA DIBEKUK POLISI
saco-indonesia.com, Polres Kabupaten Aceh Barat, Meulaboh telah berhasil membekuk dua orang remaja dalam kasus kepemilikan dan m
saco-indonesia.com, Polres Kabupaten Aceh Barat, Meulaboh telah berhasil membekuk dua orang remaja dalam kasus kepemilikan dan menggunakan sabu-sabu di kawasan Jalan Swadaya Meulaboh, Kabupaten Aceh Barat, Aceh.
Saat penangkapan, polisi telah berhasil mengamankan satu bungkus kecil narkoba jenis sabu-sabu dari tangan mereka. Sabu-sabu tersebut telah disimpan oleh pelaku dalam bungkus rokok untuk dapat mengelabui aparat kepolisian.
"Saat ini mereka juga sudah ditahan di Polres Aceh Barat untuk dapat diusut lebih lanjut," kata Kasat Narkoba Polres Aceh Barat, Iptu Darkasyi, Senin (3/2).
Menurutnya, penangkapan ini bermula dari laporan masyarakat. Pelaku di antaranya Reski Febriansyah yang berusia (20) tahun dan Khairul Rusdi yang berusia (18) tahun kerap menggunakan narkoba jenis sabu-sabu. Reski yang juga merupakan warga Raja Wali Rundeng, Melaboh dan Rusdi warga Blang Pulo Ujung Kalak, Meulaboh.
"Sejauh ini pelaku masih dituduhkan sebagai pemakai, makanya kita sedang kembangkan siapa pengedar barang haram itu," tegasnya.
Saat ini pelaku juga masih mendekam di tahanan Polres Aceh Barat guna untuk pengusutan lebih lanjut. Karena selama ini, katanya, banyak laporan dari masyarakat banyaknya peredaran narkoba jenis sabu-sabu di Meulaboh.
Editor : Dian Sukmawati
LSN: Publik Tidak Setuju Pemerintah Naikan BBM Bersubsidi
Berdasarkan hasil survei yang dirilis Lembaga Survei Nasional (LSN),
JAKARTA,
Saco-Indonesia.com, - Berdasarkan hasil survei yang dirilis Lembaga Survei Nasional
(LSN), sebanyak 86,1 persen responden menolak rencana kenaikan harga Bahan Bakar Minyak (BBM)
bersubsidi. Sementara itu, hanya 12,4 persen yang mengaku setuju dengan kebijakan pemerintah
itu, dan sisanya sebayak 1,5 responden menyatakan tidak tahu.
"Menurut temuan
LSN, mayoritas mutlak dari masyarakat berpendidikan dan berpenghasilan rendah menolak kenaikan
harga BBM. Mereka khawatir kenaikan itu mempersulit ekonomi rumah tangga mereka," ujar
Peneliti LSN Gema Nusantara di Jakarta, Minggu (2/6/2013).
Adapun yang menyetujui
kenaikan BBM berasal dari responden berpendidikan dan berpenghasilan tinggi. Mereka memahami
argumentasi pemerintah untuk menaikan harga BBM, namun tidak yakin akan berhasil membantu
perekonomian nasional. Gema menjelaskan, ada tiga alasan utama mengapa publik menolak kenaikan
harga BBM yang rencananya mulai naik pada bulan Juni ini.
Pertama, kenaikan BBM
dinilai semakin memberatkan ekonomi masyarakat sebab harga kebutuhan pokok otomatis akan naik.
Kedua, masyarakat menilai kenaikan harga BBM tidak akan menolong kesehatan fiskal seperti yang
direncanakan pemerintah. "Bebeberapa kali kenaikan harga BBM di masa lalu terbukti tidak
efektif menyelamatkan APBN," katanya.
Kemudian, alasan ketiga, publik menilai
adanya motif politik praktis. Kebijakan kenaikan harga BBM dinilai hanya menjadi pintu masuk
peluncuran Bantuan Langsung Sementara Masyarakat (BLSM) yang sarat dengan muatan politik praktis
menjelang Pemilu 2014 dan upaya mendongkrak elektabilitas partai pemerintah.
Di sisi
lain, sebanyak 51,7 persen responden setuju dengan pemberian BLSM, dan 47,2 persen tidak setuju.
Masyarakat menilai, nominal BLSM yang diberikan oleh pemerintah tidak signifikan untuk membantu
rakyat kecil.
Editor :Liwon Maulana
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LEDAKAN KERAS YANG TERJADI DI PERTOKOAN UDAYA BALI
saco-indonesia.com, Pengunjung pertokoan Udayana di Jalan Letda Made Putra, Denpasar, telah dikejutkan dengan adanya suara ledak
saco-indonesia.com, Pengunjung pertokoan Udayana di Jalan Letda Made Putra, Denpasar, telah dikejutkan dengan adanya suara ledakan keras yang telah terjadi. Usut punya usut, ledakan tersebut telah berasal dari meteran listrik.
"Semua orang di sini juga sempat terkejut mendengar ledakan itu," kata Budi Arsana, pengunjung pertokoan Udayana, Kamis (2/1).
Meteran listrik yang berkapasitas 11.00 watt itu meledak sekitar pukul 09.00 Wita ketika sejumlah toko di kompleks pertokoan tersebut baru buka.
Meteran yang telah meledak itu berada di depan toko Balonku yang telah menjual perlengkapan bayi. Bahkan, ledakan yang ditimbulkan telah mengakibatkan tempat sampah di bawahnya terbakar.
"Beberapa pembeli pun langsung lari, begitu mendengar suara ledakan yang mirip petasan," kata Ni Komang Sarini, pelayan toko Balonku.
Ledakan itu tidak sampai mengakibatkan toko dan barang-barang dagangan di dalamnya terbakar.
Editor : Dian Sukmawati
UN SMP N 19 JAKARTA
Smp N 19 Jakarta
Mengkhawatirkan dengan tipisnya lembar jawaban maka murid murid takut akan rusaknya lembar
jawaban ter
Smp N 19 Jakarta
Mengkhawatirkan dengan tipisnya lembar jawaban maka
murid murid takut akan rusaknya lembar jawaban tersebut
Kesek
SMP N 19 Jakarta menyarankan agar mencetak lembar jawaban jangan terpokus dengan satu perusahaan
percetakan saja, paling tidak satu propinsi ditangani dengan satu percetakan
Siswa dan orang tua murid SMP N 19 jakarta sangat mengkhawatirkan dengan
tipisnya kertas jawaban karena dengan tipisnya lembar jawaban dapat atau mudah rusak
sehingga mengkhawatirkan kelulusan.
Soal kebocoran lembar jawaban itu Cuma bohong
belaka, sedangkan siswa tidak mengkhawatirkan dengan soal ujian tersebut karena mereka telah
dibekali dengan materi-materi pelajaran dari guru dan tempat-tempat bimbel
JIKUSTIK DIMANA KAU ADA
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Usap kenangan yang tersusun
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How Some Men Fake an 80-Hour Workweek, and Why It Matters
Imagine an elite professional services firm with a high-performing, workaholic culture. Everyone is expected to turn on a dime to serve a client, travel at a moment’s notice, and be available pretty much every evening and weekend. It can make for a grueling work life, but at the highest levels of accounting, law, investment banking and consulting firms, it is just the way things are.
Except for one dirty little secret: Some of the people ostensibly turning in those 80- or 90-hour workweeks, particularly men, may just be faking it.
Many of them were, at least, at one elite consulting firm studied by Erin Reid, a professor at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. It’s impossible to know if what she learned at that unidentified consulting firm applies across the world of work more broadly. But her research, published in the academic journal Organization Science, offers a way to understand how the professional world differs between men and women, and some of the ways a hard-charging culture that emphasizes long hours above all can make some companies worse off.
Ms. Reid interviewed more than 100 people in the American offices of a global consulting firm and had access to performance reviews and internal human resources documents. At the firm there was a strong culture around long hours and responding to clients promptly.
“When the client needs me to be somewhere, I just have to be there,” said one of the consultants Ms. Reid interviewed. “And if you can’t be there, it’s probably because you’ve got another client meeting at the same time. You know it’s tough to say I can’t be there because my son had a Cub Scout meeting.”
Some people fully embraced this culture and put in the long hours, and they tended to be top performers. Others openly pushed back against it, insisting upon lighter and more flexible work hours, or less travel; they were punished in their performance reviews.
The third group is most interesting. Some 31 percent of the men and 11 percent of the women whose records Ms. Reid examined managed to achieve the benefits of a more moderate work schedule without explicitly asking for it.
They made an effort to line up clients who were local, reducing the need for travel. When they skipped work to spend time with their children or spouse, they didn’t call attention to it. One team on which several members had small children agreed among themselves to cover for one another so that everyone could have more flexible hours.
A male junior manager described working to have repeat consulting engagements with a company near enough to his home that he could take care of it with day trips. “I try to head out by 5, get home at 5:30, have dinner, play with my daughter,” he said, adding that he generally kept weekend work down to two hours of catching up on email.
Despite the limited hours, he said: “I know what clients are expecting. So I deliver above that.” He received a high performance review and a promotion.
What is fascinating about the firm Ms. Reid studied is that these people, who in her terminology were “passing” as workaholics, received performance reviews that were as strong as their hyper-ambitious colleagues. For people who were good at faking it, there was no real damage done by their lighter workloads.
It calls to mind the episode of “Seinfeld” in which George Costanza leaves his car in the parking lot at Yankee Stadium, where he works, and gets a promotion because his boss sees the car and thinks he is getting to work earlier and staying later than anyone else. (The strategy goes awry for him, and is not recommended for any aspiring partners in a consulting firm.)
A second finding is that women, particularly those with young children, were much more likely to request greater flexibility through more formal means, such as returning from maternity leave with an explicitly reduced schedule. Men who requested a paternity leave seemed to be punished come review time, and so may have felt more need to take time to spend with their families through those unofficial methods.
The result of this is easy to see: Those specifically requesting a lighter workload, who were disproportionately women, suffered in their performance reviews; those who took a lighter workload more discreetly didn’t suffer. The maxim of “ask forgiveness, not permission” seemed to apply.
It would be dangerous to extrapolate too much from a study at one firm, but Ms. Reid said in an interview that since publishing a summary of her research in Harvard Business Review she has heard from people in a variety of industries describing the same dynamic.
High-octane professional service firms are that way for a reason, and no one would doubt that insane hours and lots of travel can be necessary if you’re a lawyer on the verge of a big trial, an accountant right before tax day or an investment banker advising on a huge merger.
But the fact that the consultants who quietly lightened their workload did just as well in their performance reviews as those who were truly working 80 or more hours a week suggests that in normal times, heavy workloads may be more about signaling devotion to a firm than really being more productive. The person working 80 hours isn’t necessarily serving clients any better than the person working 50.
In other words, maybe the real problem isn’t men faking greater devotion to their jobs. Maybe it’s that too many companies reward the wrong things, favoring the illusion of extraordinary effort over actual productivity.
Maya Plisetskaya, Ballerina Who Embodied Bolshoi, Dies at 89
Ms. Plisetskaya, renowned for her fluidity of movement, expressive acting and willful personality, danced on the Bolshoi stage well into her 60s, but her life was shadowed by Stalinism.
William Pfaff, Critic of American Foreign Policy, Dies at 86
Mr. Pfaff was an international affairs columnist and author who found Washington’s intervention in world affairs often misguided.
G.O.P. Hopefuls Now Aiming to Woo the Middle Class
WASHINGTON — The last three men to win the Republican nomination have been the prosperous son of a president (George W. Bush), a senator who could not recall how many homes his family owned (John McCain of Arizona; it was seven) and a private equity executive worth an estimated $200 million (Mitt Romney).
The candidates hoping to be the party’s nominee in 2016 are trying to create a very different set of associations. On Sunday, Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, joined the presidential field.
Senator Marco Rubio of Florida praises his parents, a bartender and a Kmart stock clerk, as he urges audiences not to forget “the workers in our hotel kitchens, the landscaping crews in our neighborhoods, the late-night janitorial staff that clean our offices.”
Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, a preacher’s son, posts on Twitter about his ham-and-cheese sandwiches and boasts of his coupon-clipping frugality. His $1 Kohl’s sweater has become a campaign celebrity in its own right.
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky laments the existence of “two Americas,” borrowing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s phrase to describe economically and racially troubled communities like Ferguson, Mo., and Detroit.
“Some say, ‘But Democrats care more about the poor,’ ” Mr. Paul likes to say. “If that’s true, why is black unemployment still twice white unemployment? Why has household income declined by $3,500 over the past six years?”
We are in the midst of the Empathy Primary — the rhetorical battleground shaping the Republican presidential field of 2016.
Harmed by the perception that they favor the wealthy at the expense of middle-of-the-road Americans, the party’s contenders are each trying their hardest to get across what the elder George Bush once inelegantly told recession-battered voters in 1992: “Message: I care.”
Their ability to do so — less bluntly, more sincerely — could prove decisive in an election year when power, privilege and family connections will loom large for both parties.
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Questions of understanding and compassion cost Republicans in the last election. Mr. Romney, who memorably dismissed the “47 percent” of Americans as freeloaders, lost to President Obama by 63 percentage points among voters who cast their ballots for the candidate who “cares about people like me,” according to exit polls.
And a Pew poll from February showed that people still believe Republicans are indifferent to working Americans: 54 percent said the Republican Party does not care about the middle class.
That taint of callousness explains why Senator Ted Cruz of Texas declared last week that Republicans “are and should be the party of the 47 percent” — and why another son of a president, Jeb Bush, has made economic opportunity the centerpiece of his message.
With his pedigree and considerable wealth — since he left the Florida governor’s office almost a decade ago he has earned millions of dollars sitting on corporate boards and advising banks — Mr. Bush probably has the most complicated task making the argument to voters that he understands their concerns.
On a visit last week to Puerto Rico, Mr. Bush sounded every bit the populist, railing against “elites” who have stifled economic growth and innovation. In the kind of economy he envisions leading, he said: “We wouldn’t have the middle being squeezed. People in poverty would have a chance to rise up. And the social strains that exist — because the haves and have-nots is the big debate in our country today — would subside.”
Republicans’ emphasis on poorer and working-class Americans now represents a shift from the party’s longstanding focus on business owners and “job creators” as the drivers of economic opportunity.
This is intentional, Republican operatives said.
In the last presidential election, Republicans rushed to defend business owners against what they saw as hostility by Democrats to successful, wealthy entrepreneurs.
“Part of what you had was a reaction to the Democrats’ dehumanization of business owners: ‘Oh, you think you started your plumbing company? No you didn’t,’ ” said Grover Norquist, the conservative activist and president of Americans for Tax Reform.
But now, Mr. Norquist said, Republicans should move past that. “Focus on the people in the room who know someone who couldn’t get a job, or a promotion, or a raise because taxes are too high or regulations eat up companies’ time,” he said. “The rich guy can take care of himself.”
Democrats argue that the public will ultimately see through such an approach because Republican positions like opposing a minimum-wage increase and giving private banks a larger role in student loans would hurt working Americans.
“If Republican candidates are just repeating the same tired policies, I’m not sure that smiling while saying it is going to be enough,” said Guy Cecil, a Democratic strategist who is joining a “super PAC” working on behalf of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Republicans have already attacked Mrs. Clinton over the wealth and power she and her husband have accumulated, caricaturing her as an out-of-touch multimillionaire who earns hundreds of thousands of dollars per speech and has not driven a car since 1996.
Mr. Walker hit this theme recently on Fox News, pointing to Mrs. Clinton’s lucrative book deals and her multiple residences. “This is not someone who is connected with everyday Americans,” he said. His own net worth, according to The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, is less than a half-million dollars; Mr. Walker also owes tens of thousands of dollars on his credit cards.
But showing off a cheap sweater or boasting of a bootstraps family background not only helps draw a contrast with Mrs. Clinton’s latter-day affluence, it is also an implicit argument against Mr. Bush.
Mr. Walker, who featured a 1998 Saturn with more than 100,000 miles on the odometer in a 2010 campaign ad during his first run for governor, likes to talk about flipping burgers at McDonald’s as a young person. His mother, he has said, grew up on a farm with no indoor plumbing until she was in high school.
Mr. Rubio, among the least wealthy members of the Senate, with an estimated net worth of around a half-million dollars, uses his working-class upbringing as evidence of the “exceptionalism” of America, “where even the son of a bartender and a maid can have the same dreams and the same future as those who come from power and privilege.”
Mr. Cruz alludes to his family’s dysfunction — his parents, he says, were heavy drinkers — and recounts his father’s tale of fleeing Cuba with $100 sewn into his underwear.
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey notes that his father paid his way through college working nights at an ice cream plant.
But sometimes the attempts at projecting authenticity can seem forced. Mr. Christie recently found himself on the defensive after telling a New Hampshire audience, “I don’t consider myself a wealthy man.” Tax returns showed that he and his wife, a longtime Wall Street executive, earned nearly $700,000 in 2013.
The story of success against the odds is a political classic, even if it is one the Republican Party has not been able to tell for a long time. Ronald Reagan liked to say that while he had not been born on the wrong side of the tracks, he could always hear the whistle. Richard Nixon was fond of reminding voters how he was born in a house his father had built.
“Probably the idea that is most attractive to an average voter, and an idea that both Republicans and Democrats try to craft into their messages, is this idea that you can rise from nothing,” said Charles C. W. Cooke, a writer for National Review.
There is a certain delight Republicans take in turning that message to their advantage now.
“That’s what Obama did with Hillary,” Mr. Cooke said. “He acknowledged it openly: ‘This is ridiculous. Look at me, this one-term senator with dark skin and all of America’s unsolved racial problems, running against the wife of the last Democratic president.”
Jim Fanning, 87, Dies; Lifted Baseball in Canada With Expos
Hired in 1968, a year before their first season, Mr. Fanning spent 25 years with the team, managing them to their only playoff appearance in Canada.
Ghostly Voices From Thomas Edison’s Dolls Can Now Be Heard
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.
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