Gubernur DKI Jakarta Joko Widodo hari ini telah resmi melantik Anas Effendi sebagai Wali Kota Jakarta Barat. Anas Effendi yang sebelumnya telah menjabat sebagai Kepala Badan Perpustakaan dan Arsip Daerah Provinsi (BPAD) DKI Jakarta menggantikan Fatahillah yang telah menjalani masa jabatan kurang dari setahun.

Gubernur DKI Jakarta Joko Widodo hari ini telah resmi melantik Anas Effendi sebagai Wali Kota Jakarta Barat. Anas Effendi yang sebelumnya telah menjabat sebagai Kepala Badan Perpustakaan dan Arsip Daerah Provinsi (BPAD) DKI Jakarta menggantikan Fatahillah yang telah menjalani masa jabatan kurang dari setahun.

Dalam pengambilan sumpah pelantikan, Jokowi berpesan kepada jajaran pegawai di wali kota Jakarta Barat untuk mengutamakan pelayanan terhadap warga. Dia pun akan menekankan agar kinerja jajaran harus berorientasi terhadap hasil dan bukan pada prosedur.

"Orientasi bukan pada prosedur, tapi harus berorientasi hasil. Hasilnya yang dilihat, prosedur mengikuti sesuai ketentuan berlaku," kata Jokowi, Selasa (11/3).

Jokowi juga menegaskan, dirinya juga tidak ingin lagi melihat adanya pengerjaan proyek basa-basi, yakni program tanpa hasil yang tidak ada manfaatnya buat warga. "Saya tidak mau melihat proyek yang hasilnya cuma foto-foto, tulisan, dan laporan. Tidak bermanfaat bagi masyarakat. Ini juga akan kita lihat di lapangan secara detail," ujarnya.

Mantan wali kota Solo ini juga menegaskan, dirinya tak ingin Anas main-main dengan tugas yang diberikan. Sebab, hasil lelang jabatan lurah dan camat, ada 6 pejabat yang tidak memenuhi target, karena tidak melayani dan tidak ada dedikasi terhadap warga.

"Artinya saya ganti. Dengan kepemimpinan baru ini Pak Anas dan seluruh jajaran di Jakbar betul-betul di-manage, dikelola, diawasi, dikontrol, dan hasilnya harus kelihatan," katanya.

Seperti yang telah diketahui, Anas Effendi juga sempat menjabat Wali Kota Jakarta Selatan. Namun kinerjanya menjadi sorotan ketika Anas tertidur saat Jokowi rapat tentang RAPBD DKI. Jokowi mencopot Anas dari jabatan wali kota Jaksel. Kemudian Jokowi mempercayakan Anas menjabat Kepala Badan Perpustakaan dan Arsip Daerah Provinsi (BPAD) DKI Jakarta.

Saat ini kebutuhan terhadap jasa kirim barang semakin tinggi. Hal itu telah ditandai dengan meningkatnya volume kirim barang. Po

Saat ini kebutuhan terhadap jasa kirim barang semakin tinggi. Hal itu telah ditandai dengan meningkatnya volume kirim barang. Potensi pasar yang cukup besar telah membuat perusahaan jasa kirim barang Titipan Kilat (Tiki) menargetkan pertumbuhan omset di kwartal keempat tahun ini meningkat.

Tiki dari manajemen PT Citra Van Titipan Kilat didirikan pada 1 September 1970 ini optimis akan mencapai target, mengingat perusahaannya telah mengalami kenaikan arus kirim barang rata-rata sebesar 10%-15% dibandingkan tahun lalu.

“Kami optimis, target bisa tercapai. Layanan telah mencakup seluruh wilayah di Indonesia. Kepuasan dan kenyamanan pelanggan diutamakan,” kata Rocky Nagoya, Direktur Tiki, dalam perayaan hari jadi ke-43 tahun belum lama ini. Ia telah menargetkan omset pada tahun ini di kwartal keempat meningkat sampai 50 persen dibanding tahun 2012.

Perusahaan jasa kiriman ini telah memiliki sekitar 2 ribu titik pelayanan dan penjualan tersebar di seluruh Indonesia. Tiki melayani pengiriman ke 7500 tujuan di seluruh wilayah nusantara, mencapai tingkat kecamatan dan lebih dari 220 tujuan pengiriman ke luar negeri.

Tiki telah memiliki dukungan 5.000 personel dan 500 kantor perwakilan di seluruh pelosok nusantara. Untuk memudahkan jasa, Tiki juga menggunakan sistem komputerisasi untuk layanan konsumen. Selain itu, Tiki juga bekerja sama dengan armada pesawat maupun moda transportasi lainnya untuk mempercepat pengiriman.

Di era serba cepat sekarang ini, sektor layanan penjualan memberi kemudahan bagi konsumen melakukan pengiriman di titik sales counter tersebar di berbagai tempat, termasuk layanan jasa drive thru selama 24 jam di salah satu gerai di Jalan Pemuda, Rawamangun, Jakarta. Sistem tracking mempermudah mengetahui status kiriman.

Di usianya yang ke-43, menurut Rocky, perusahan bekerja lebih giat lagi, meningkatkan profesionalitas dan dedikasi di semua lini untuk memberi pelayanan yang optimal bagi masyarakat ."Di usia ke-43, kami tetap ingin menjadi tonggak dan memantapkan tujuan mulia,” katanya.

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.

Fullmer, who reigned when fight clubs abounded and Friday night fights were a television staple, was known for his title bouts with Sugar Ray Robinson and Carmen Basilio.