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machine data processing.
• Born in Buffalo, NY, Hollerith received a Ph.D. in engineering from
Columbia University in 1890, and taught mechanical engineering
at Massachusetts Institute of Technology before going to work for
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• Hollerith's job with the Census Bureau involved compiling
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• Then one day he took a train trip. The railroad had been plagued
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engineers kept track of everybody on board. They had a card for
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green eyes. Punch this corner for short people, or that corner for
tall people. This gave Hollerith an idea.
• Several weeks later his invention was ready: an electric tabulator.
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would be made and a counter would register it.
• He subsequently set up the Tabulating Machine Company and
began to improve the design of an automatic card-feed system, a
keypunch, and punch cards, which formed the foundation of the
modern information processing industry.
• Hollerith fought an uphill battle to get the notice he deserved. For
three years he tried unsuccessfully to get financial backing and
corporate interest. Finally, he asked Boston city officials to let him
tabulate the town's death records. In just a few days, he tabulated
data that would have kept many clerks busy for weeks. People
were finally impressed, and the Army hired him to tabulate some
statistics. Next he took his invention to the Paris Exposition,
where he won a gold medal.
• Then he applied for the job of tabulating the 1890 census. The
Bureau of the Census set up a competition between all people
who were interested in the contract. Herman and his electric
tabulator were finished before the others were half through.
He got the job. When the census was taken, it took Herman
and 30 electric tabulators only six weeks to compile most of
the information that had previously required eight years to
accomplish.
• His tabulator machines rapidly spread across the world.
Countries around the world used them for their census taking,
and insurance companies used them as well. Even today, his
method of keeping track of information is used everywhere
extensively.
• In 1910, Hollerith sold his Tabulating Machine Company for a few
million dollars, but he never liked the new president. In fact, he
refused to buy any stock in the company. Perhaps he came to
regret that, for if Herman Hollerith had invested $200,000 in that
business in 1910, it would have been worth about a billion dollars
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Yoga classes can be expensive. Your best bet is to
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In China, factory workers and office personnel
alike regularly take a nap after lunch. Article 49
of the Chinese constitution maintains that “the
working population has a right to rest.” Many
Japanese companies provide employees with
quiet, darkened relaxation rooms.
A French expert named Pierre Fluchaire
maintains that, “It is a huge mistake to go
sixteen hours without sleeping. Nothing
is so civilized as a siesta.” He feels that
American businesses could improve
productivity by encouraging a
little napping now and then.
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Veteran
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than 1.1 million care packages
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in harm’s way. Now, in addition,
OpGrat is sending care packages
to recruits coming out of boot
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You remember boot camp ... and
what it was like to finally be finished.
So far, the non-profit organization
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graduating classes. Do the math:
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send out 100,000 packages.
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Now – January 12 - Current, prospective
& returning students can register for spring
semester courses at UA - Ft Smith until
the start of classes January 12. Individuals
can select from more than 30 bachelor’s
degrees, as well as various associate
degrees & certificate programs, that span
a variety of career fields. The Admissions,
Financial Aid, Records, Advising &Career
Services offices located on the second floor
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offices are 8 am-6 pm Monday -Thursday &
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Now - January 29 - An exhibit hanging at
The Blue Lion at UAFS Downtown through
Jan. 29 will feature artwork produced by 16
student artists from a class they’re taking at
U A - Ft Smith. “Finding Voice: An Advanced
Drawing Exhibition” showcases artwork from
students in Mary Spears’ Advance Drawing
course, with a reception to be held at The
Blue Lion from 5-6 pm. Dec . 2. Viewing for
the exhibition is available an hour before
scheduled events at The Blue Lion, located
at 101 N 2nd St. For more info about the
exhibit call UAFS Box Office 479-788-7300.
January 9 - Kindle: Jump Start! Ft Smith
Public Library, 3201 Rogers Ave,11 am–
1 pm Free Did you get a new Kindle this
holiday season? Do you have questions
on how to get started with it? Join us for a
presentation to learn the basics about your
Kindle.
Following the presentation, we will be
answer your questions and offer handson help. Bring your Kindle (make sure it is
charged). You will also need to know your
Amazon account information. Ashley Hagan
– [email protected] or 783-0229
January 23 - The Chester Thompson Trio
will perform a concert at 7:30 pm at The Blue
Lion at UAFS Downtown as part of the UA
- Ft Smith’s Season at The Blue Lion. The
musical group, headlined by the drummer
who toured with Phil Collins-led Genesis for
20 years & played with Frank Zappa, will
treat audience members to a night of jazz
music. General admission is $12 & $6 for
UAFS students. For tickets, contact UAFS
Box Office 479-788-7300 or http://uafs.
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February 8 – Fort Smith Marathon
Riverfront Pavilion 100 North B
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GRIT! This USA-TF Certified Course
is both scenic & challenging
&includes historic downtown,
beautiful neighborhoods, paved
trails, & rolling terrain with a few
significant climbs & descents as
well. This is certainly a finisher’s
medal you’ll be proud to earn!
Marathon – $80 (Includes long
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2015. Registration will continue
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Packet pickup at Ft Smith Pavilion
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February 6 from 4-7pm, Saturday
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STAPLERS
• Before the invention of staples, people would
bind papers using ribbons strung through
holes, or drops of wax to seal them together.
• The first stapler was invented in the 1700s
for the benefit of King Louis XV of France.
Every single staple was made by hand and
inscribed with his insignia.
• George McGill patented the modern stapler
in 1866, but his contraption weighed 2.5
lbs (1.1 kg) and was not very portable.
Each staple had to be inserted individually.
McGill showcased his invention at the 1876
Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia.
• McGill's design was improved in 1905, but
the stapler had to be smacked with a mallet
to secure the staple because the staples
were connected to each other with a thin bit
of metal.
• At first the stapler was such a rare contraption
that firms would buy a single stapler and the
entire company had to share it.
• In the 1920s Swingline invented a stapler
that used a row of staplers that were
connected by glue instead of by metal. This
made stapling easy and quick, and mallets
were no longer required.
• The world’s most expensive stapler was an
antique Remington model manufactured in
1919. It sold for $760 on eBay.
(Answer on Page 6)
with Janet B. Carson
Courtesy of University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service.
I had several beautiful amaryllis
plants over the holidays. Now that
they are done blooming, what do I do
with the bulbs so they will bloom again.
After bloom, cut off the bloom stalk,
but leave the foliage in-tact. Allow it
to get as much sunlight as possible and
water as needed. When spring arrives
(if it ever does!) move the plant outside.
You can plant the bulb in the ground or
grow it in a container outside. Give it full
morning sun and afternoon shade—that
will help you keep it watered. Fertilize
monthly until September. At that point,
you have two options. One is to leave it
planted in the ground and mulch heavily
after a frost, or bring the bulb inside,
stop watering and allow the foliage to
die down. Once dormant, ignore it for
a while. The amaryllis bulb has a mind
of its own and will start growing when
it is good and ready. When you see a
sprout beginning in the center of the
bulb, increase sunlight and water. You
should see a flower in 6-8 weeks. Then
you repeat the process. .
My triple-bloom amaryllis fell over
during the night and broke the
flower stalk off. Is the bulb reusable? If
so, what is needed?
A.
Q.
A.
This is not an unusual occurrence
on amaryllis. The flowers are large
and come with three to five blooms per
stalk, so the plants are often top-heavy
and fall over if left unsupported. Cut off
the flower stalk and use it as a cut flower.
The foliage should be emerging, and
you may even be lucky and have another
flower spike. Let the foliage grow. Give it
a sunny window and regular water. Once
spring arrives, move it outdoors, fertilize
every month or two through August,
then let the foliage die back and start
the cycle over again next fall/winter. The
bulb should not be damaged, just the
flower stalk. Next time, be sure to turn it
periodically to keep it from leaning, and
consider weighting the pot a bit to keep
it stable, or provide staking.
Last year, I purchased a rosemary
bush in the shape of a Christmas
tree over the holidays. After the holidays,
I planted it in a planter and put it by my
front door (outside) in a sunny location.
The tag said it could stay outdoors to
10 degrees. It died soon after I moved
it outdoors. I did not leave it out in
temperatures below 20 degrees so I
am disappointed that I may have killed
it. I have seen them in stores now, and
Q.
Whitney Wiley
would love to try again. Any advice
would be appreciated.
Rosemary is quite winter hardy in
most parts of Arkansas. There is
a bit of difference in varietal hardiness,
but if the tag said hardy to 10 degrees
F, I think you had a hardy variety. If you
do choose to buy one this year, don’t
leave it indoors at all. That is probably
what killed it. They do not take indoor
conditions well. I would suggest planting
the rosemary in the ground or in a large
container. If the plant is in a quart sized
pot, the root system is going to get much
colder than it would like. Giving the plant
more soil volume can also help protect
the root system, and make it easier to
keep watered.
I have a question about limelight
hydrangeas. I’ve read that they can
take full sun, but does that apply even
here in Little Rock?
Believe it or not, but yes. The
paniculata hydrangeas will tolerate
full sun. Limelight is a tough performer
in full sun to partial shade and gets quite
large. The beauty of these hydrangeas
is that even if they get winter damaged,
they still bloom, since they bloom on the
new growth.
A.
Q.
A.
STRANGE BUT TRUE
By Samantha Weaver
۩ It was feminist and social activist Gloria Steinem who made the following
sage observation: "Logic is in the eye of the logician."
۩ Some historians claim that Moses had a stutter.
۩ If you're like the average American, your vocabulary consists of roughly
45,000 words.
۩ Despite the sound of the word, those who suffer from amusia do not
have any impairment of their sense of humor; rather, they're tone deaf -medically unable to hear or accurately reproduce relative pitch.
۩ When the wildly successful 1965 film "The Sound of Music" was released
in South Korea, one theater owner felt that the movie was too long. He
took it upon himself to remedy the situation -- by cutting out all the
musical numbers.
۩ If you're planning a trip to the Canadian province of New Brunswick, you
might want to include a stop to see the Reversing Falls of St. John. While
the St. John River flows into the Bay of Fundy at low tide, high tide in the
bay is so extreme that it causes the water to reverse itself and flow from
the bay back into the river.
۩ It's been reported that famed chef Julia Child loved to eat corn chips with
peanut butter.
۩ You might be surprised to learn that out of the 362 episodes of "Alfred
Hitchcock Presents" that were produced over the course of a decade,
Hitchcock himself directed only 20.
۩ Those who study such things say that the fastest-growing sport among
high-school students in Minnesota is trap shooting
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• Michael was born in Texas in 1965. He was
interested in computers from the moment they
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• While attending the University of Texas, he started
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calling it PCs Limited. With a thousand dollars
start-up capital, he began manufacturing his
own kind of computer with the revolutionary idea
that he could sell them directly to the customers
instead of going through a third party. This kept
his prices much lower than his competitors and
also kept him in close contact with consumers.
•At 19, Michael quit college to run his computer
company, re-naming the company after himself.
By 1992 his firm was listed on the Fortune 500
list of the largest companies in the world, making
him the youngest CEO ever to head a Fortune
500 company.
•Today his company is the most profitable PC
manufacturer in the world, and he ranks high on
the “Forbes” list of America’s richest people. The
company is based in Texas and employs nearly
83,000 people worldwide. What’s Michael’s
last name, now carried on personal computers
worldwide? (Answer at bottom)
COMPUTER FACTS
• It took the radio 38 years to reach 50 million users,
television only 13 years, but the internet reached
50 million users in only 4 years.
• Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, the first female
admiral in the US Navy, came up with the term
‘debugging’ after removing a moth from a
computer.
Answer: Dell.
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•Edward Kasner was a mathematician. In 1938
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(cont. from page 5):
• In 2012, $80 million worth of staplers were sold in the
U.S., and Swingline remains the major manufacturer.
PENCILS
• When an oak tree tipped over in Cumbria, England, in
the mid-1500s, a deposit of extremely pure graphite
was discovered underneath it. Graphite is a form of
carbon. Other graphite deposits are soft, but this
deposit was solid. Bits could be sawn off into sticks.
The locals used these sticks for marking sheep. Today it
remains the only graphite deposit found in solid form.
• Because solid graphite had never been heard of,
people mistook it for a form of lead, giving us what
we now call "pencil lead" even though pencils have no
lead in them.
• The news of these writing sticks spread around the
world, and England held a monopoly on pencils for
centuries.
• The first pencils made from these graphite sticks
were wrapped in string or leather. Around 1560, an
Italian couple invented the prototype for the modernday pencil by encasing a stick of graphite inside a
hollowed-out stick of wood. This prevented the pencil
lead from breaking and prevented the black carbon
from rubbing off on the fingers. Later, this method was
improved by splitting a stick in half, hollowing out the
center, inserting the graphite, and then gluing the two
halves of the stick together. This is how pencils are still
made today.
• During the Napoleonic wars, England refused to
export any graphite to France, and Napoleon was
desperate for pencils. In 1795, officer Nicholas Jacques
Conte ground soft graphite into powder, mixed it
with clay, pressed it into sticks, and baked them in a
kiln. The success of this formula broke the English
monopoly on pencils because soft graphite is widely
available. The recipe Conte concocted is used by pencil
manufacturers today.
PENCIL FACTS
• 14 billion pencils are manufactured each year.
• A tree can make around 300,000 pencils.
• Hexagonal pencils outsell round by 10 to 1.
• You can make pencil marks permanent by washing
them in skimmed milk.
• Carpenters' pencils are rectangular so they don't roll
away during work.
• John Steinbeck is said to have used more than 300
pencils to write his novel "East of Eden."
• During World War II rotary pencil sharpeners were
outlawed in Britain because they wasted so much
scarce graphite and wood, so pencils had to be
sharpened with knives.
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The History Channel
۩ On Jan. 23, 1775, London merchants petition
Parliament for relief from the financial hardship
put upon them by the curtailment of trade with
the North American colonies. Most critical to the
merchants’ concerns were the 2 million pounds
sterling in outstanding debts owed to them.
۩ On Jan. 19, 1915, during World War I, Britain
suffers its first casualties from an air attack when
two German zeppelins drop bombs on Great
Yarmouth and King’s Lynn on the eastern coast of
England.
۩ On Jan. 20, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt
is inaugurated for the second time as president.
The Constitution had originally set March 4 as the
presidential inauguration date to allow the winner
time to travel to the nation’s capital.
۩ On Jan. 25, 1949, the Academy of Television Arts
& Sciences holds its first annual awards ceremony
in Los Angeles. The now-famous award statuette
“Emmy” was a feminized version of “immy,” the
shorthand term for the image orthicon tube that
was used in TV cameras until the 1960s.
۩ On Jan. 24, 1956, Look magazine publishes the
confessions of J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, two
white men from Mississippi who were acquitted
in the 1955 kidnapping and murder of black
teenager Emmett Till. In August 1955, on a visit
to relatives, the 14-year-old Till had allegedly
whistled at a white woman who ran a store.
۩ On Jan. 21, 1977, President Jimmy Carter
grants an unconditional pardon to hundreds of
thousands of men who evaded the draft during the
Vietnam War. Some 100,000 young Americans
went abroad, with 90 percent going to Canada.
The Canadian government had instructed border
guards not to ask too many questions.
۩ On Jan. 22, 1981, the final portrait of John
Lennon and wife, Yoko, appears on the cover of
Rolling Stone. The photo, taken 12 hours before
Lennon was assassinated, shows a naked Lennon
curled up in a fetal embrace with a fully clothed
Yoko. Photographer Annie Liebowitz had been
told by a Rolling Stone editor, “Please get me
some pictures without [Yoko].”
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By Sam Mazzotta
Guinea Pig’s Sudden Death a Mystery
DEAR PAW'S CORNER: Our guinea pig, “Trixie,” died
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breaths, and wouldn’t eat or come out of her igloo. A couple
hours later we found her passed away, lying on her side. We
don’t understand what happened. Unfortunately it was Sunday,
and we have no small-animal vet in our town. Just curious if you
have any idea what may have happened. -- Diana, via email
Dear DIANA: I’m sorry to hear about the death of your
pet. Sadly, guinea pigs can fall victim to a number of different
illnesses, and can do so shockingly fast. Sometimes, they show
few to no outward symptoms. Respiratory illnesses, especially
pneumonia, strike guinea pigs hard. Adenovirus, an illness that
doesn’t always directly cause death, can lead to pneumonia as
the guinea pig’s immune system weakens.
Guinea pigs also can suffer a stroke or heart attack at any age,
often for no apparent reason.
When a guinea pig (or hamster, or other pet rodent) begins
to show signs of distress -- such as weight loss (more than
2 ounces is cause for an immediate vet visit), hiding away in
her igloo or refusing to eat -- getting help quickly is important,
and that means getting your pet to the vet within hours or even
minutes to give it the best chance.
In this case, a veterinarian wasn’t available right away. Wheek
Care Guinea Pig Rescue lists a few first-aid items to keep on
hand here: http://www.wheekcare.org/first-aid.html, as well as
extensive tips on health signs to watch for. Daily monitoring of
your pet is your best bet to combat the threat of sudden death.
Send your questions or comments to [email protected]. Readers
whose questions are published in the print edition will receive a free copy
of my booklet, "Fighting Fleas," also available as a Kindle download.
Please support these
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Give them a call and ask them what they need
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Kiah. a beautiful
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he was asked to come up with a name for a very
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•Nine-year-old Milton suggested a name out of the
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name for the number.
•Kasner announced the new name for the big
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•Sixty years later, Larry Page and Sergey Brin
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•They decided they needed a name that reflected
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