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Saco-Indonesia.com.-Haduhhh, kacamata saya jatuh dan retak! Kata mbak Nen, Mama kacamatanya kok ada kelap-kelipnya (haaa itu retakkkkk, Nak! ”).

Mencari di Jerman susah karena memang hidung orang Jerman tidak sama dengan hidung saya. Modelnya juga Europe minded. Saya pengen yang mata kucing, panjang almond. Hiks, nasib.

Oh. Saya baru memakai kacamata pada umur 30 tahun, itupun serasa tersiksa. Kok ada yang nyantol. Meski hanya minus 1 dan minus 0,5, ini harus dipakai saat berkendara. Blereng … jarak jauh terasa kabur kalau kacamata ketinggalan.

Huh. Saya memang malas memakainya sehari-hari karena seperti ada yang mengganjal disudut mata dekat hidung. Ingin pakai lensa mata, takut. Banyak cerita yang tidak mengerikan terdengar di telinga saya.

Saya imbangi dengan memakan wortel mentah sebanyak-banyaknya. Yaaaa … jadi merasa seperti kelinci. Untung gang rumah kami tidak sempit. Bukan gang kelinci atau gang senggol.

Yaiy. Orang kedua yang memakai kacamata di rumah kami adalah anak sulung. Setelah saya periksakan di Augen Zentrum, pusat pemeriksaan mata di RS kota Tuttlingen (dengan rekomendasi dokter umum kampung kami), ditemukan bahwa ia plus 2. Walahhhh … kok sama dengan Eyang kakung di Semarang? Tapinya si kakek tahun ini telah menginjak umur 74 tahun. Dia waktu itu baru berumur 10 tahun ….

Akhirnya oleh dokter diberikan resep kacamata. Setelahnya, kami menuju toko optik di alun-alun kota. Disana berjajar beberapa toko yang menjual barang yang sama. Kami memilih salah satu rekomendasi suami, F.

Begitu memasuki ruangan, kami disambut dengan senyuman dan ucapan halus, “Was kann ich für Sie tun?“ (ingat kisah cara kakek Jerman membahagiakan nenek …). Artinya, ada yang bisa saya bantu?

Saya jelaskan maksud kedatangan kami dan memberikan resep. Si anak disuruh memilih bingkai kacamata mana yang ia sukai. Ia memilih yang berwarna kuning cleret hitam dari yang diperlihatkan di etalase nul tariff. Setelah dicoba, pas, si embak memberikan kertas pengambilan.

Kacamata gratis untuk anak Jerman dibawah umur 18

Disana tertera … NUL TARIFF alias GRATIS!

Wow, saya tanyakan lagi apakah benar seperti itu. Sekali lagi, si embak yang cantik tersenyum dan mengatakan memang ketentuan di Jerman seperti itu. Anak dibawah umur 18 tahun gratis. Bingkainya memang khusus, kalau permintaan khusus bermerk, lain soal.

Seminggu kemudian, kami mengambilnya. Anak kami mencobanya. Si embak lagi-lagi tersenyum ramaaaah sekali. Oooo … ini image bagus toko optik F, ya? Makanya kondang.

Setelah beberapa menit mencoba dan mematut diri di depan cermin, si embak membenahi bingkai agar pas melekat ditelinga.

Selesai.

Si embak menanyakan apakah mau dimasukkan etui tempat kacamata hadiah dari toko, atau dipakai saja. Si anak mengangguk dan mengambil kotak yang diberikan si embak.

Kata dokter yang memeriksanya, ini akan diuji selama 9 bulan, periksa lagi apakah masih sama atau berubah dan mengganti kacamata dengan yang baru atau tidak. Sekian lama, untung tidak tambah, malah lebih baik kondisi matanya.

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Wah, asyik ya? Jika asuransi yang dipilih orang di Indonesia bisa meng-cover semua bea kesehatan untuk anak-anak dibawah umur 18 tahun. Saya tidak tahu apakah di tanah air juga demikian untuk kacamata anak-anak …. Kompasianer di tanah air pasti lebih tahu.

Meski nul tariff, saya sarankan anak-anak yang perempuan untuk mencintai matanya dengan membaca di tempat yang terang, banyak makan wortel (saya iris kecil-keciiiiiiiiiiil dalam lumpia atau sup yang dimakan), jus jeruk campur wortel (instan) dan makanan-minuman-buah-sayur yang mengandung vitamin A lainnya. Namanya anak-anak … susah dari awalnya, semoga terbiasa. Mari jaga mata kita. (G76)

Editor;Liwon Maulana

Sumber:http://lifestyle.kompasiana.com/catatan/2013/06/11/pelayanan-kaca-mata- anak-gratis-563978.html

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.