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May 1, 2018 The Our 24th Year of Publishing FREE Weekly (979) 849-5407 PLEASE mybulletinnewspaper.com © 2018 TAKE ONE LAKE JACKSON •Bulletin CLUTE • RICHWOOD • FREEPORT • OYSTER CREEK • ANGLETON DANBURY • ALVIN • WEST COLUMBIA • BRAZORIA • SWEENY Giving up We all have coins is a skin in this penny foolish game of life By Peter Funt WIN FREE TICKETS By John Toth Special to The Bulletin Editor and Publisher Now that the nation has a $1.3 tril- The nurse was friendly, but to lion budget, lawmakers can resume the point, asking me all kinds of Here we go again, with our biggest Ticket Giveaway Contest of the year. We are planning to give questions while typing away on the debate about whether to pinch away two tickets to each entry slip we select randomly out of the old shoe box. There will be at least pennies. computer. This was the big day. six winners. To enter, just fill in all spaces of this form and mail to: The Bulletin, PO Box 2426, Angle- I had an appointment for a skin The threat to do away with pen- ton, TX 77516. Entry deadline is May 24, 2018. One entry per person. Please include city and zipcode. nies and nickels surfaces on Capitol cancer screening. Hill almost every year. Indeed, NAME__________________________________________________________________________________ I’ve never had one, and my wife The Wall Street Journal printed had nagged me into getting it, just a spirited debate recently by two ADDRESS_______________________________________________________________________________ to make sure highly accredited economists on that everything that vexing question. One scholar PHONE_________________________________EMAIL__________________________________________ was alright. But claimed the coins are “a nuisance,” what if it wasn’t? while the other wrote, “Money is the I LIKE THE BULLETIN BECAUSE _______________________________________________________________ Well, she said, lubricant that greases the wheels of it’s good to know commerce.” early on so that it As someone who spent formative can be treated. years scrounging for coins, let me Sully, meet Tammie, America’s new hero airline pilot RAMBLINGS Either way, there was no way offer what economists refer to as By The Chicago Tribune Editorial Board out. She made the appointment, and “my two cents” on this matter. A century after airplanes first took there I was, sitting next to the nurse. First, to dispel a myth. You can’t to the skies, the concept of flying “Would you mind if the doctor retrieve a coin from under a grate in confounds. Even though air travel is brings in an intern for the examina- the street by lowering a string tied to routine, leaving earth to float in an tion?” she asked. “They have to a piece of bubblegum, as I once saw engine-powered tube still feels – at learn somehow, you know.” in a movie. What you need is more some level, to most commercial air I was thinking, isn’t that what weight - for instance, a golf ball - and passengers – mysterious or scary. classrooms are for, and maybe a properly viscous liquid such as Any sense of terror is misplaced. cadavers? This was my first time (Continued on Page 4) Flying is safer than driving. Say it with a dermatologist, and I was with us: Flying is safe. already nervous – not about the Yet mistrust helps explain our examination, but about the what if. fascination with flight, and our Tears of joy How could I refuse? What differ- dread of air accidents. Southwest ence did it make? After all, she is Airlines 737 headed from New York studying to be a doctor, and one day to Dallas experienced a cataclysmic I may have to rely on her expertise engine failure, forcing it to divert to keep me alive. to Philadelphia. One passenger “Of course not. That’s fine,” I died, but the captain, a former Navy replied. fighter pilot named Tammie Jo “Great. Take off all your clothes Shults, was credited with landing (Continued on Page 10) (Continued on Page 7) Approved by all INSIDE THIS ISSUE Texas courts AI and banking May 5 Shortest class allowed by law Skin cancer risks Always entertaining! Brazosport College student Ashley Texas job numbers Lundy has a big reason to be very Always educational! Call today to make a reservation! happy. See Page 9 for story. Today’s Honolulu Page 2 THE BULLETIN May 1, 2018 (979) 849-5407 www.mybulletinnewspaper.com AI predicted to wipe out half of banking jobs in a decade BASF, Yara contribute to Farm Bureau The Mercury News it’s going to take a big investment to “Unless banks deal with the per- Advances in artificial intelligence make that happen. formance issues that AI will cause and automation could replace as James D’Arezzo, CEO of for ultra-large databases, they many as half the nation’s financial Glendale, Calif.-based Condusiv will not be able to take the money services workers over the next Technologies, says that’s where gained by eliminating positions and decade, industry experts say, but things are headed. spend it on the new services and products they will need in order to stay competitive,” he said. Intensive hardware upgrades are often cited as an answer to the problem, but D’Arezzo said that’s prohibitively expensive. He cited a recent announcement from the Tokyo Institute of Technology Global LET’S GIVE HER THOSE PSYCH MEDS IMMEDIATELY: A Scientific and Computing Center as woman started choking her boyfriend from behind as they were sitting an example. in his truck in a parking lot in Your County, Pa., after she read his emails The center is developing a super- and found out he was cheating on her. He bit her arm and threw one of computer to meet the demands of her shoes out of the vehicle to get her to go after it. She did. He drove off artificial intelligence and big data BASF & Yara International made a $10,000 donation to Brazoria- with her psych medications, which she told police she wanted back. applications. But existing supercom- Galveston County Farm Bureau’s Agricultural Education program at the OLD HABITS DIE HARD: A man, facing a stolen car charge in puters tend to cost $50 million to grand opening/ribbon cutting celebration of the new Yara Freeport LLC Hartford, Conn., came to court in a stolen car. several hundred million dollars. Ammonia Plant. Pictured are Deana Fuchs, Ag Program Coordinator, I SCREAM, YOU SCREAM, WE ALL SCREAM FOR ICE But senior banking executives James Northrup, Cindy Suggs (BASF), Tom Ferguson & Donald Fuchs. CREAM: An ice cream van driver hit a rival ice cream guy with a shovel increasingly agree on the inevitabil- after the rival pulled into his usual selling spot in South Close, England. ity of artificial intelligence-based COME AND GET ME, COPPER! Police arrested a convicted felon services – and the job losses they who was living in a vacant store in Orland Park, Ill., with two loaded will create. pistols, 100 rounds of ammunition and a bobcat. 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