August 8, 2017 The Our 24th Year of Publishing FREE Weekly (979) 849-5407 PLEASE mybulletinnewspaper.com © 2017 TAKE ONE LAKE JACKSON Bulletin• CLUTE • RICHWOOD • FREEPORT • OYSTER CREEK • ANGLETON DANBURY • ALVIN • WEST COLUMBIA • BRAZORIA • SWEENY A crooked Baseball the king with a old fashioned crooked back way – no A/C By Ron Rozelle By John Toth Contributing Editor Editor and Publisher Well, you might have heard on I’m sitting in Kauffman Stadium the news or read in the paper a in Kansas City, waiting for the few years ago that they’ve found sun to set so the temperature can King Richard the Third. go back down to the low 90s. I don’t know about you, but I This is a grand stadium, but was getting awfully worried. After there is something missing – a all, he’d been missing for over dome. Air conditioning would be 500 years. And they hadn’t even nice also. put out an Of course, we have to walk Amber alert. all around It turns out the place so he’d been in that I can see the park- everything in ing lot of a UW donates $100,000 to S.F.A for mental health work one visit. Who grocery store Stephen F. Austin Commu- to care for residents and enable the uninsured. knows when in Leicester, I’ll be return- THE WORDSMITH nity Health Network received them to live healthier lives. Its main locations are found in a small city $100,000 from the United Way Stephen F. Austin Community Alvin and Freeport. The mission ing here? I’m in the English midlands, all this of Brazoria County to expand Health Network is a Federally of Stephen F. Austin Community RAMBLINGS trying to stay time. Or actually under the park- mental health services by increas- Qualified Health Center located Health Network is to make qual- in the shade. ing lot, which was the site of a ing access to counseling and in Brazoria County, offering high ity health care accessible to all It’s one of the hottest days of the monastery when he was buried psychiatry. quality, integrated medical, dental people regardless of their ability year here. there. The collaborative partnership and behavioral health care ser- to pay. The domeless concept takes DNA evidence and carbon with the United Way of Brazoria vices for individuals with private For information on these ser- a little getting used to after dating apparently established County will create better access insurance, Medicaid, Medicare and vices, please call (281) 824-1480. decades of attending games in the remains as almost certainly the Astrodome and Minute Maid those of Richard, the cause of Park. I can look up and see the death likely a “large skull fracture ‘Active inactivity’ depends on how much walking you do sky as I wipe the sweat from my behind the left ear that was con- By Peter Funt to be crowded, noisy and, compared directly to obesity levels. Notably, eyes. I am sweating in the seat, sistent with a crushing blow from Special to The Bulletin to the paradises in Arizona, quite the data don’t vary much according and we’re not even in the sun. a halberd.” A halberd, according When I’m in, say, Phoenix – with dirty – I invariably walk, sometimes to income or gender (although men Across the field, I can see to Webster, was a battle ax or its gorgeous weather, scenery and 20 or 30 blocks at a time. do tend to walk more than women). people filing into their sun-baked pike mounted on a shaft about acre upon acre of beautiful parks Researchers at Stanford Univer- The key factor is a city’s walkability. seats. They will be tanning for six feet long. That would have and gardens – I generally hop in sity, never at a loss to coin a term, Our largest and oldest cities, another two hours until the shade done it, I’d think. The spine of the the car to get from the coffee coun- have labeled this difference among such as New York and Boston, are extends over them. They don’t skeleton is significantly crooked, ter, to the barber shop, to the movie cities “activity inequality.” most walkable and offer the lowest seem to mind it much. which accounts for his trademark theater, because things are spread In sum, they found that inequality activity inequality. Even hilly San But aside from the heat, this posture. out and it’s easier to drive. among locales in terms of how likely Francisco, because of its layout, is a nice place, very friendly. To (Continued on Page 7) When in Manhattan – which I find it is for people to walk, correlates my right sits a small-built older (Continued on Page 6) woman who is really into the game. She is a long-time fan and season ticket holder. Her son sits to her right. They are following the game intensely. I’m following Aug. 12 (Continued on Page 11

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Take a venomous snake, and poverty that these people live in flage detection and anti-counterfeit- a mouse and a heroic biolo- and the effect that snakebite has on ing to art and data visualization.” gist, and what good may not only them but their families, it’s Q. When etymology meets come of it? a powerful motivator.” entomology, some colorful A. You begin with a biologist Q. Researchers recently words may emerge, such as willing to milk a poisonous snake of invented a pair of spectacles “earwig,” “gadfly,” “puce,” its venom, after which a non-lethal that enhance the number and “ecdysis.” Can you dose is injected into a horse or of colors a person can see. define any of these? sheep for developing antivenomous What’s the magic here? A. Word origins (etymology) substances that are used to create A. Normal human eyes have derived from insects (entomol- an antidote for humans, says Sean three different types of color recep- ogy) include everyday words like O’Neill in “New Scientist” magazine. tors (cones), roughly corresponding “canopy,” from Greek “konops” However, a problem with this tradi- to red, green and blue. Many ani- for “mosquito” (literally, a bed with tional method is that the numerous mals, however, with more than three mosquito netting); and “pavilion,” animal proteins in the antivenom different receptors, can make out from Latin “papillio” for butterfly can induce severe allergic reactions color differences in objects which (like a butterfly with its wings in people. appear identical to humans. spread out), says Anu Garg on his Enter U.K. research fellow Nick A group of researchers span- “A.Word.A.Day” web site. “Earwig,” Casewell and colleagues, who are ning the disciplines of computer borrowed from an insect with a working to identify the 20 or so key engineering, materials science, pair of pinchers at the rear of the toxins that cause life-threatening physiology, psychology and art abdomen, means “to influence or bleeding and will then immunize (see Bradley Gundlachi at al. at bias a person by insinuations.” And mice with them. “The resulting arxiv.org), have now created a pair one who persistently annoys might antibodies should combat the lethal of spectacles that in effect endow be labeled a “gadfly,” after various effects of any venom from half of all the wearer with four distinct cones, types of flies that annoy or bite snakebites.” Beyond this, plans are with the blue cone divided into a livestock (earliest documented use to clone the mice’s antibody-making short-wavelength-blue cone in one 1626). cells to produce an endless supply eye and a long-wavelength-blue The color “puce” (pyoos) sug- of all-round antivenom, meaning cone in the other. gests dark reddish or brownish animals would no longer be needed Designed not to interfere with purple and derives from the French to produce it and the allergy issue binocular vision and not to cause “puce” for “flea”; other related terms would mostly be solved. disorientation, the specs allow users include “flea market” and “ukulele,” Reflecting on the risk involved to perceive color differences that from Hawaiian, “literally ‘leaping in working so intimately with such normal humans cannot discern. flea,’ perhaps from the rapid motion lethal animals, Casewell concludes: Conclude the researchers: Ulti- of the fingers playing the instru- ment.” Finally, from molting insects comes “ecdysis” (EK-duh-sis), the shedding of an outer layer, literally or figuratively, as one casts off one or another career or self-image. (Send STRANGE questions to brothers Bill and Rich at [email protected])

Please let our advertisers know that you saw their ad in The Bulletin Page 4 THE BULLETIN August 8, 2017 (979) 849-5407 www.mybulletinnewspaper.com in children and contribute to lower amount of time that we cat owners If you’re a self-identifying “older Good Ship Lollipop.” Who knew dogs blood pressure, but the responsibil- spend letting the cat in and out person” or care about someone who A mutually beneficial dog/owner ity of caring for a canine can jolt ---- and looking at the feline’s smug is, keep dog ownership in mind as a relationship is something to prize, older people out of a life-shortening expression that says, “They thought healthy lifestyle motivator. But, just but beware of the law of unintended could keep you sedentary lifestyle. Lincoln freed ALL the slaves? Puh- as not every child gives high-quality consequences. If all older people (Younger people? Owning a leeze.”) lifelong support to an Easter rabbit, start spending an extra 23 minutes so healthy? family dog USED to mean lots of The findings of that study were not everyone is prepared to care a day away from the TV, Pat and romping and frolicking in the Great strengthened by even more recent for “Man’s Best Friend.” Don’t be Vanna may wind up having a seden- By Danny Tyree Outdoors. Now caring for a dog research by the University of East presumptuous and provide a dog tary lifestyle and eating dog food. Special to The Bulletin just jolts young couch potatoes into Anglia and the Center for Diet and without discussing it. (“He followed Enjoy the relatively inexpensive Alas, we haven’t been a “dog ordering a drone to walk the critter. Activity Research at the University me home, Ma. Can YOU keep health benefits of dogs while you family” since we had to euthanize But I digress.) of Cambridge. him?”) still can.”Big Pharma” is probably poor old Turpy; but a time.com A recent study shows that older True, common sense should Last year some anonymous kind already investigating ways to horn article titled “More Evidence That people who take their dogs for a make such studies unnecessary; but soul dumped a mother dog and in on the business.(“Who owns the Owning A Dog Is Really Good For walk take 2,760 steps more per every little reminder/nudge helps. seven (!) puppies on my then- patent on poodles? Let’s buy it up You” certainly grabbed my attention. day on average compared to non- There are probably people out there 89-year-old mother. Only Shasta and raise the price of free puppies Not only can having a dog around owners. That’s an extra 23 minutes waiting with bated breath, thinking, remains from the litter; but I’ve been 10 zillion percent to cover research the house lead to lower stress a day of moderate exercise! “I wish the University of East Anglia foolhardy enough to take her on a and development. What do you levels, decrease the risk of asthma (Granted, this is very close to the and the University of Cambridge few walks, and she could have a mean 10 zillion percent of zero is would give us some glimmer of bright future competing in Truck & still zero? That’s a doggone travesty indication whether we should leave Tractor pulls. I guess whoever left my congressman needs to look into! the oven on while vacationing or those puppies thought they were Somebody hand me his leash.”) Open give our Social Security number to a giving my mother enough “moderate © 2017 Danny Tyree. Danny Nigerian general’s widow. Enquiring exercise” to re-create the Fountain welcomes email responses at Sundays minds want to know!” of Youth and start singing “On The [email protected]. 5:00-9:00 for the Summer! www.mybulletinnewspaper.com (979) 849-5407 August 8, 2017 THE BULLETIN Page 5

If nobody wants to be King of England, I’ll take the job and gladly wave to the crowd below By Greg Schwem shops for his own meat. happy to volunteer. Of course, it will I’ll stay out of the Brexit kerfuffle cess will take hours for I will always Tribune Content Agency Appearances may be deceiv- require uprooting my family from simply because I don’t understand plead, “Just one more.” Fearing a Shocking news out of Great ing, but being a monarch looks our suburban Chicago homestead it. On that note, I also don’t under- repeat of this tedium, the press will Britain recently, as Prince Harry like a pretty sweet gig. Your living and jetting across the pond, but I stand polo; so, British subjects, stop following me on day two of my confessed nobody in the royal family arrangements include hopping from think I can sell my kids on the idea, don’t expect your new king to spend reign. wants to be king or queen. palace to castle; you wear medals, since none of us has ever lived in a his weekends swinging a mallet With my privacy intact, who My initial response was, ride around in carriages, occasion- palace. from atop a galloping horse like knows? Like Harry, I might just “Blimey,” “balderdash,” “rubbish” and ally wave, and accept gifts from little My hat size is 10, handy infor- Prince Charles does. visit a butcher shop. I’ll pick out a other words Brits use to express girls and heads of foreign countries. mation before that crown is placed But I’ll gladly sit in the Royal few steaks and, on the balcony of shock and dismay. Dealing with an intrusive press upon my head. I wear a 44-long suit Box on Wimbledon’s Centre Buckingham Palace, barbecue for My secondary response was, seems like a small price to pay in and have a size 36 waist, although Court during the acclaimed tennis my family. Occasionally I will wave “Sign me up. I’m ready.” exchange for that job description. I hope the latter will eventually be tournament. In between matches to the crowd below. Suffice it to say, Harry, the It’s also a job that seems rela- immaterial for I plan to urge Parlia- I’ll delight the crowd by rallying with After all, I am the king. second born son of Prince Charles tively free of controversy and head- ment to ban the wearing of kilts. John McEnroe and screaming, “You (Greg Schwem is a corporate and Princess Diana, has about aches. While British Prime Minister I will happily carry a sword cannot be serious!” when he calls stand-up comedian and author as much chance of assuming the Theresa May caroms from one whenever possible; my children will one of my forehands wide. I’ll award of two books: “Text Me If You’re throne as I do of winning a green crisis to the next - including the loss show me newfound respect. I will the Claret Jug at golf’s British Open, Breathing: Observations, Frustra- jacket at Augusta National. of her Conservative majority in Par- use that sword to liberally knight an event lacking a royal family pres- tions and Life Lessons From a Low- When I last checked the royal liament and a devastating London individuals I’ve always wanted to ence. I assume it conflicts with a Tech Dad” and the recently released family lineage, Harry was in line apartment fire - Queen Elizabeth meet. I’ll start with Roger Waters polo match? “The Road To Success Goes behind two adults and two toddlers. summers at Balmoral Castle. from Pink Floyd, just so he can I will deal with the paparazzi by Through the Salad Bar: A Pile of BS Still, in an interview with Newsweek Recently, during her annual answer some of my questions about wading into their ranks on my first From a Corporate Comedian,” avail- magazine, Harry spoke of the royals’ Queen’s Speech, she addressed certain lyrics in “The Wall.” To curry day as king and demanding to take able at Amazon.com. Visit Greg on desire to “modernize” the British issues confronting Britain as it pre- favor with my children, I’ll also selfies with every photographer the web at www.gregschwem.com.) monarchy and live normal lives, pares to leave the European Union, knight Ed Sheeran. using my personal iPhone. This pro- (c) 2017 GREG SCHWEM even though the interview was con- but she did so while sitting on a ducted in a private cottage adjoining throne; something I look forward to a palace. experiencing when I’m king. So much for normalcy, despite That’s right, if nobody from the prince’s proud admission that he the royal family wants the job, I’m Page 6 THE BULLETIN August 8, 2017 (979) 849-5407 www.mybulletinnewspaper.com If you live in the sprawling suburbs, you may not be walking enough and suffer from ‘active inactivity’ (Continued from Page 1) Disease Control and Prevention, of their research, the people at groups. www.CandidCamera.com. Peter ranks much better than nearby San identified what’s called a “sprawl Stanford have estimated that 5.3 In some ways, the study begs Funt is a writer and speaker. His Jose. index,” based on population density. million deaths per year in the U.S. the obvious - walking is good. book, “Cautiously Optimistic,” is Among the least walkable were In general, the more densely packed are “associated” with inactivity. No But drilling down, the researchers available at Amazon.com and several cities in Texas, including a community’s population, the more doubt. Obesity is a growing problem believe that city planning - designing CandidCamera.com.©2017 Peter Fort Worth and the Dallas suburb of fit and slender its residents tend to and, clearly, increased activity helps urban centers in ways that facilitate Funt. Arlington. be. To some this seems counterin- reduce obesity. walking - would be an important, Globally, the U.S. ranked poorly in tuitive, since many of us gravitate to The research covered nearly yet relatively inexpensive way to Did you know? terms of activity inequality. Sweden, wide open spaces in pursuit of more three-quarters of a million people in combat obesity. • Today two-thirds of adults and for example, had very low inequal- healthful outdoor activities. Yet, 111 countries, using smartphones According to the researchers, “the nearly one-third of children struggle ity and, correspondingly, one of the urban walking appears to do the that measured activity. As a result, findings have implications for global with overweight and obesity. lowest rates of obesity. most people the most good. the study seems likely to have public health policy and urban plan- • If obesity rates stay consistent, Another study, by the Centers for To underscore the importance under-reported poorer people, ning and highlight the role of activity by 2030, 51 percent of the popula- although the data were consistent inequality and the built environment tion will be obese by 2030. My Answer by Billy Graham among income levels that were for improving physical activity and • Twenty years ago, no state had measured. Indeed, the study shows health.” an obesity rate above 15 percent. To avoid offensive comments, cultivate that in more walkable cities activity Building more walkable cities • Today there are 41 states with is greater throughout the day and would be a step in the right direc- obesity rates over 25 percent, compassion for others throughout the week, across age, tion. according to the Trust for Ameri- Q: I’m always getting into how much you know, or by putting gender, and body mass index Peter Funt can be reached at can’s Health. trouble because I say things others down? Is it because you without thinking and end up enjoy gossip, even if it’s not true? offending people. Can I do Whatever your reasons, face them, anything about this, or am I and then confess them to God and always going to be this way? ask His forgiveness. - Mrs. S.D. Then commit your mind and A: No, you won’t always be your tongue to Christ, asking Him this way if you seek God’s help to control both what you think and and allow Him to take control of say. your mind and your tongue. The Remember, what you say is only Bible says, “Whoever would love a reflection of what you’re thinking. life and see good days must keep Ask God to give you compassion their tongue from evil and their lips for others and a desire to help from deceitful speech” (1 Peter 3: them by what you say. The Bible 10). says, “Do not let any unwholesome One key is to ask yourself why talk come out of your mouths, but you constantly blurt out things that only what is helpful for building don’t need to be said, and are not others up according to their needs” only hurtful but wrong. Only you (Ephesians 4:29). August 12 can answer this, of course, but is In addition, when you do fail, it because you feel a need to call ask for God’s forgiveness, as well August 26 attention to yourself? Is it because as that of anyone you may have you’re trying to build yourself up offended. This will not only help 9am - 3pm in the eyes of others by showing heal any hurt you’ve caused, but remind you to be more careful next time. Tribune Media Services (Send your queries to “My Answer,” c/ o Billy Graham, Billy Graham Evangelis- tic Association, 1 Billy Graham Parkway, Charlotte, N.C., 28201; call 1-(877) 2-GRAHAM, or visit the Web site for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association: www.billygraham.org.) www.mybulletinnewspaper.com (979) 849-5407 August 8, 2017 THE BULLETIN Page 7 There was a crooked king with a crooked back Poll: let’s move on from Obamacare repeal (Continued from Page 1) half a millennium, famous actors ers wanted no association with the The freshly unearthed sovereign (Laurence Olivier and Ian McKellen vile king so they covered his naked By Kyle Stewart representatives to repeal and might not have been the worst in two of the best film adaptations) body up and kept their silence. CQ-Roll Call (TNS) replace the law. Most Republi- monarch in British history – that have pulled on heavy shoulder pads Being monks, they were probably WASHINGTON — A major- cans, however, said other issues dubious honor might have to go to to affect the awkwardly jutting right very good at keeping their silence. ity of Americans want members were more important than health King John, the despicable ruler who hump and limped along, snarling out But rumors persisted. The gen- of Congress to ditch health care care reform at the moment. is best remembered from the Robin some of the poet’s best lines. eral site of the old monastery was reform efforts and focus their Out of all Americans, only 29 Hood tales and was so abysmally “Now is the winter of our dis- always believed to be in a particular attention elsewhere, according to percent said their highest priority inept that no other king in the 800 content,” the grotesque cripple section of Leicester, and recent a Reuters/Iposos poll conducted was health care reform. years since has taken his name moans in the opening scene, “made excavations hit the jackpot. after the Senate Republicans’ effort The poll also showed an – but Richard has to win the prize glorious summer by this sun of Richard was buried in royal crashed recently. increase in support for specific for the meanest. York, and all the clouds that loured splendor in a cathedral. And a The new poll shows that nearly components of the Affordable At least tradition and legend have (loomed dark and threatening) upon group of historians hope the recent two-thirds of Americans want to Care Act. made him that. And the great- our house in the deep bosom of the discovery can be what they’ve keep the 2010 health care law, Seventy-seven percent of est literary voice in England, and ocean buried.” called “a springboard to a new age either “entirely as is” or after Americans favor expanding Medic- arguably in the world, was largely He goes on like that for five long of scholarship” that might lead to a reforming “problem areas.” This aid to low-income families, up from responsible for it. acts, spitting out vile snippets and reappraisal of his life and legacy. was an increase from January, 66 percent in April 2012. And 43 Leicester, where Richard has long speeches full of venom and Just how they hope to do that when just over half of Americans percent said they support requiring recently turned up in that parking cold calculation. He even alludes to with nothing more than a heap of agreed with that sentiment. U.S. residents to own health insur- lot, is just up the road from Stratford his own physical ugliness, lament- 500-year-old bones is beyond me. The poll, conducted Friday and ance, an increase from 36 percent on Avon, the birthplace of William ing that “dogs bark when I halt by But never underestimate the com- Saturday, surveyed more than in 2012. Shakespeare, who had yet to be them.” And at the end, on the field mitment of historical revisionists. 1,130 Americans, including 381 Blame for the health care reform born when King Richard died. But of battle, he shakes his gnarled Before they’re through they might Republicans and 475 Democrats, failure was shared, according to Shakespeare would go on to write hand and, in a desperate clutching manage to dehobgoblinize the old following the collapse of health survey respondents. the play that would forever saddle at straws to survive the day, shouts rascal to such an extent that he care reform in the Senate. Twenty percent said Senate the hunchbacked monarch with his out what would become his epitaph: could end up a saint. Results showed that support for Republicans were “most respon- vile reputation and revolting legacy. “A horse! A horse! My kingdom for Though there might be two little the Affordable Care Act still splits sible,” while 13 percent said In Richard III, Shakespeare paints a horse!” murdered princes tucked neatly down party lines. While 9 out of President Donald J. Trump, the portrait of a dastardly fellow He didn’t get the horse. He got away who would have likely had a 10 Democrats said they wanted to and 11 percent said Republican who murdered his two nephews, the business end of that halberd thing or two to say about that. keep or modify the 2010 law, only Sen. John McCain of Arizona. princes aged about 10 and 13, instead during the Battle of Bos- Ron Rozelle’s columns can be 3 out of 10 Republicans said the The remaining 56 percent was by walling them up, still alive, in worth Field in 1485. accessed at ronrozellewordsmith same. divided between Senate Demo- a castle in order to assume the Then he apparently got uncer- .wordpress.com. He is the author Republicans have campaigned crats, Republican Senate Major- throne. He doesn’t pull any punches emoniously thrown into a hastily dug of “Writer’s Digest’s Write Great on dismantling the Affordable Care ity Leader Mitch McConnell of in his portrayal; his Richard is a real grave by some nervous monks in Fiction: Description & Setting,” Act since it was passed in 2010. Kentucky, and Republican Sens. piece of work as a villain: scheming, the monastery where his body was and nine other books of fiction and Three-fourths of Republicans Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa scowling, snidely snickering. For delivered after the battle. The broth- nonfiction. said they still wanted their elected Murkowski of Alaska. Page 8 THE BULLETIN August 8, 2017 (979) 849-5407 www.mybulletinnewspaper.com News from the Brazoria County Library System

MADE POSSIBLE BY THESE SPONSORS www.mybulletinnewspaper.com (979) 849-5407 August 8, 2017 THE BULLETIN Page 9 Local writer donates book proceeds Heroic war rescue mostly overlooked finally gets its due to help build new SPCA-BC shelter By Emily Mae Czachor The film chronicles a British (TNS) filmmaking team’s endeavor to put Be honest: Before last week, Dunkirk together a “morale-boosting” film what did you know about Dunkirk? pher Nolan’s acclaimed new film about Britain’s role in the evacu- Beyond that it’s the title of a new “Dunkirk,” you’d be hard-pressed to ation. wartime epic by “that director who find anyone who doesn’t know the Timed almost perfectly with made those really good Batman name. the release of Nolan’s “Dunkirk,” movies,” you probably didn’t know Judging from the initial box-office publishers are rolling out books too much about the historical haul, “Dunkirk” is now known the left and right that further elucidate event. world over. In its first week of the- Dunkirk’s legacy. That’s because the 350,000- atrical run, “Dunkirk” had banked a Historian Joshua Levine’s person evacuation of a sleepy lofty $50.5 million in the U.S. alone. “Dunkirk: The History Behind the French village during World War II And Nolan is not the only person Major Motion Picture” is already a (also known as Operation Dynamo) who wants to talk about the bomb- New York Times bestseller. has largely taken a backseat in raked shores of Dunkirk in May and Dunkirk’s unexpected emer- America to the more storied events June 1940. gence in pop culture is something of the era: D-Day, Pearl Harbor, the In April, Danish director Lone of a double victory: a coup for atom bomb. Scherfig’s dramedy “Their Finest” Nolan’s film but also for Dunkirk But now, thanks to Christo- was released in the U.S. and the history buried within it.

Janice R. Edwards has published Every penny made from these her seventh “Chicken Soup for books will be donated to the SPCA the Soul” dog story in “The Dog BC to help build a new and bigger Really Did That?” now available in shelter. There will also be refresh- bookstores. ments and adoptable dogs who are The 101 stories for this book were hoping for a forever home at the selected from thousands of submis- event. sions. “Chicken Soup for the Soul” Her story this year is about her is contributing royalties from this family’s first Yorkie, George Mutt, book’s sales to the American and their canoeing adventure involv- Humane Association - living up to its ing a very large alligator. slogan, “changing lives, one story at She has had her dog stories pub- a time.” lished in four other “Chicken Soup Now retired, she enjoys freelance for the Soul” Books. writing, but she contributes more The SPCA of Brazoria County personal life stories in the “Chicken and Jan Edwards have teamed up Soup for the Soul” venue. for a book signing at the Brazos Jan just learned that she will have Mall on Saturday, Aug. 12 from another story published in “Chicken 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Copies of “The Soup for the Soul - Dreams and Dog Really Did That?” and other the Unexplainable” due out in the “Chicken Soup” books containing bookstores in September. some of her other stories will be for Though it’s not a dog book, the sale for $15. story is – well, another dog story. Did you know? • People tend to perform better on their own at coming up with new ideas than in a brainstorming group. • Nationwide internet speed is slowing down due to the increasing traffic and old infrastructure. Page 10 THE BULLETIN August 8, 2017 (979) 849-5407 www.mybulletinnewspaper.com Ex-smokers now outnumber smokers But cessation efforts still face uphill battle By Kay Manning pressing college campuses and (TNS) the military to keep younger people CHICAGO — “Her death was from starting; getting pharmacies to senseless. If I could have video- stop selling cigarettes; encouraging taped her last moments, traveled hospitals and medical profession- back in time and showed her how als to step up efforts to persuade horrible her death would be, I think patients to quit. A recent focus is she would’ve quit,” Joe Konrath said on those with mental disorders and of his mother, Laura. substance abuse problems who As it was, Laura Konrath had consume 40 percent of all cigarettes four strokes, two heart attacks and sold in the U.S. coronary artery blockages and was “My mantra is, hate the smoke, in constant pain from plaque in her love the smoker,” Schroeder said. body and brain. She died in Janu- Various approaches are necessary ary at 71 after smoking four to five because “there’s no one way to get packs a day since her teens. people to stop smoking.” Joe Konrath, a novelist from The graphic TV ads featuring Schaumburg, Ill., bluntly blamed people ravaged by smoking cause cigarettes in her obituary and sug- a spike in calls to quit lines each gested hers be a cautionary tale. time they air, he said. But that tack “Her family is angry that she suf- doesn’t work with youths, who don’t fered so much and died so young. think they’re ever going to get sick, They’re especially angry that she leading to campaigns focusing on chose cigarettes over living a longer, the bad behavior of the tobacco healthier life,” he wrote. industry and how it’s not cool to date “What my mother had to endure, a smoker, he said. what her family had to endure The lead researcher in a study watching her die, was entirely released in March by AARP and the preventable.” National Institutes of Health hopes Smoking cessation efforts the main takeaway — that it’s better show progress — there are now to quit at any age than to keep more ex-smokers than smokers, smoking — will aid cessation efforts. according to the U.S. Centers for The study, said to be the first Disease Control and Prevention. to look at the effects of quitting on However, even though the Robert mortality rates of those in their 70s, Wood Johnson Foundation reports was needed to see if the benefits cessation saved 8 million lives from already documented for those who 1964 to 2013, 17 million people died quit earlier in life held true for those during that period of tobacco-linked giving up smoking in their 60s, said problems. The CDC predicts that Sarah Nash, a cancer epidemiolo- if smoking continues at the current gist in Anchorage, Alaska. rate among U.S. youths, 1 in every “We now have data that shows 13 who are 17 or younger now will even those who quit in their 60s die prematurely from a smoking- have reduced risk of death into their related illness. 70s and 80s,” she said. “We have Of the almost 37 million people evidence that clinicians should try to in the U.S. who smoke, 70 per- get people to quit even if they’re in cent want to quit, said Dr. Steven their 60s.” Schroeder, director of the California- With the number of people 70 and based Smoking Cessation Leader- older expected to more than double ship Center, which is funded by the to 63.6 million in 2050 from 29.2 mil- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation lion in 2012, the effects of smoking and the 1998 settlement between on health care could be significant. the four largest tobacco companies Study results, published in the and states seeking to recoup costs American Journal of Preventive for treating smokers. Medicine, involved more than But only a tiny percentage of 160,000 participants ages 70 to 82 smokers succeed in quitting without who filled out questionnaires about assistance, which is why the center smoking in 2004-05 as part of a is working on a number of fronts different study on diet and health. — pursuing policy changes and They were followed until the end of tobacco taxes to discourage sales; 2011. www.mybulletinnewspaper.com (979) 849-5407 August 8, 2017 THE BULLETIN Page 11 Baseball the old fashioned way – no A/C and a lot of sweat (Continued from Page 1) have to remain a mystery. I never coach, who decided to pay a visit to the Astros game on my phone. ask. It would be awkward. How the mound. I’m really here just out of curiosity. would you even phrase something I don’t blame him getting mad. I’d I don’t care who wins this game, like that? be mad also if the Astros did that. and I hope it is over quickly so we A man behind me starts scream- But right now, I really don’t care. can get out of this sauna. ing at the Royals pitcher, who just I am staying for the entire game My seat neighbor’s son leaves, delivered an 0-2 pitch down the because of the fireworks afterwards. and the woman and I strike up a middle, and the batter slammed it I am really hoping that the White conversation. She’s had a beer into center field for a double. I forgot Sox wrap this up quickly. already, so she is quite talkative. I to tell you that they are playing the Unfortunately, the game becomes tell her I’m from Texas. That gets the Chicago White Sox. Yawn. tied and goes into extra innings. conversation going quickly. “You don’t throw an 0-2 pitch And, I set a new personal record She is a native Kansan, has anywhere near the strike zone,” he for continuous sweating. But the held season tickets for years, and explained to the pitcher very loudly. fireworks are great. It reminds me a doesn’t like coming to day games The pitcher didn’t hear him because little of Minute Maid Park – with the because of the heat. Her son is a he was too busy listening to his roof open. computer tech, and they always attend games together. Did you know about the Astrodome? I’m maybe five rows away from • Houston’s plan to host the 2012 Summer Olympics included renovating the field. These are good seats. the Astrodome for use as a main stadium. We chat some more between • A 1988 Sports Illustrated article featured the garish apartment Houston innings, but otherwise she is riveted Mayor Roy Hofheinz had built for himself inside the stadium, not to mention to the game. The son returns with the Presidential Suite he hoped would lure Lyndon Johnson. Hofheinz would beer after beer. We’re in the late sometimes tend bar at the hidden in-stadium Tipsy Tavern, where an electro- innings, and she is on her fourth magnetic device at the end of the bar prevented beers from sliding off. one. The son leaves periodically to • After the stadium introduced turf, groundskeepers stayed busy vacuum- either go to the bathroom or to get ing the carpet clean between innings and raking the remaining infield dirt. more beer. My neighbor never gets They wore space suits, presumably because space suits are awesome. up. • The famed tennis match between Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King hap- How does she do that? It will pened at the Astrodome in 1973.

Please let Bulletin advertisers know that you saw their ads in the paper, and always shop locally when possible. Page 12 THE BULLETIN August 8, 2017 (979) 849-5407 www.mybulletinnewspaper.com Top fantasy football quarterbacks By Casey Musarra Patriots. He finished second in the Newsday (TNS) league with 4,944 passing yards With NFL training camps getting and 38 touchdown passes behind under way this week, here’s a look only Drew Brees and Aaron Rodg- at the top quarterbacks to target in ers, respectively, to earn league upcoming fantasy football drafts. MVP. Ryan also threw a career-low 1. Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay seven interceptions. Packers 7. Derek Carr, Oakland After a down year by his stan- Raiders dards in 2015, Rodgers rebounded Carr delivered big numbers — with one of the best years of his 63.8 completion percentage, 3,937 career. He threw for 4,428 yards, a yards, 28 touchdowns and a career- league-leading 40 touchdowns and low six interceptions in 15 games. seven interceptions, marking the Part of that was luck, though. second time he reached the 40-TD According to Pre-Snap Reads’ Cian mark and the sixth straight season Fahey, Carr threw 24 interceptable he kept interceptions in the single passes, and his accuracy percent- digits. age of 70.94 percent ranked 25th in 2. Tom Brady, New England the league. Carr, 26, has arguably Patriots the best supporting cast in the NFL, Brady played 12 games because despite losing running back Latavius of his DeflateGate suspension, but Murray to the Vikings. that didn’t slow him down. In his 8. Cam Newton, Carolina age-38 season, Brady threw for Panthers 3,554 yards, 28 touchdowns and After winning NFL MVP honors just two interceptions. in 2015, Newton regressed last 3. Drew Brees, New Orleans season. He had a career-low 52.9 Saints completion percentage and threw For the fifth time in his career, for 3,509 yards, 19 touchdowns and Brees eclipsed the 5,000-yard mark 14 interceptions, his worst since his with a league-best 5,208 passing rookie year in 2011. Newton’s run yards. Brees also had a league-high game also took a hit last season. 673 pass attempts and capitalized The fleet-footed quarterback rushed with a completion percentage of for a career-low 359 yards and five 70. Brees lost his leading receiver touchdowns, matching a career low. in Cooks, but Michael Thomas 9. Kirk Cousins, Washington emerged as a 1,000-yard receiver Redskins as a rookie last season. In his second year as the Red- 4. Andrew Luck, Indianapolis skins’ starting quarterback, Cousins Colts proved to be among the league’s Colts owner Jim Irsay declared top fantasy players. He threw for “the offensive line is fixed” during 4,917 yards, third best in the NFL, OTAs in June, which would be good with 25 touchdowns and 12 inter- news for Andrew Luck after the ceptions. team allowed 44 sacks last season, Washington’s offense took a big fifth-worst in the league. Luck will hit this offseason, though, as its two start training camp on the physi- 1,000-yard receivers, Pierre Garcon cally unable to perform list but is and DeSean Jackson, left in free expected to be ready for the start of agency. the regular season. 10. Ben Roethlisberger, 5. Russell Wilson, Seattle Pittsburgh Steelers Seahawks After considering retirement The Seahawks relied more on this offseason, Big Ben inevitably Wilson to throw the ball as they decided to return to the Steelers. struggled to run the ball with Roethlisberger, 35, threw for 3,819 Christine Michael and Thomas yards, 29 touchdowns and 13 inter- Rawls following Marshawn Lynch’s ceptions in 14 games last season. retirement. Wilson racked up a He suffered a torn meniscus in his career-best 4,219 passing yards on left knee that required surgery and a career-high 546 pass attempts. was expected to cost him about 6. Matt Ryan, Atlanta Falcons a month. The infamously tough Ryan is coming off a career year quarterback ended up just missing after leading the Falcons to the one game as the team’s bye came a Super Bowl before falling to the week later. www.mybulletinnewspaper.com (979) 849-5407 August 8, 2017 THE BULLETIN Page 13 Bulletin Horoscope Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Sometimes you want LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Play with the cards in your what you want when you want it. You may insist on hand. You may be challenged in the week ahead when having your own way despite the appearance of being you are dealt some wild cards. Find inspiration by appre- illogical. 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Be content to be admired or complete a project. Remain focused on honoring your and adored for just being yourself. commitments in the week ahead. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Open the windows for CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It takes two to a breath of fresh air. This is a good week to escape tango. Working with a friend or in a group setting can from people or situations that have stifled your happi- help you shine even if you don’t have a dance floor ness. You could receive a great deal of attention from handy. Ask for assistance with a project or popularize others due to a new toy or interest. your cause as the week unfolds. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You are quick to grasp con- AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Count your change cepts before you float on to a new one. By embracing twice, and then count it again. In the week ahead your

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Did you know? GASOLINE ALLEY By Jim Scancarelli • A sleeping human brain can and political affiliation. still understand the words being • If you remember and use spoken around it. people’s names in conversations, • When people feel down about they will like you more. themselves, they’re more likely to • The more mutual friends two use social media to check other people share, the stronger their people out, making them feel even relationship. worse. • A study found that people liter- • Using only Facebook likes, ally sitting outside a box came up researchers can accurately predict with more ideas than those sitting your race, sexuality, intelligence, inside the box. www.mybulletinnewspaper.com (979) 849-5407 August 8, 2017 THE BULLETIN Page 15 41 Film spool Bulletin Crossword Puzzle of the Week 42 Photo caption for NFL Hall of Complete the grid so each row, column ACROSS with a bowl of pintos? Famer Sam with a pastry shell? and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains 1 “The Aviator” actor Alan 23 Take for granted 47 Farm pen every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to 5 Subtle attention-getter 24 Neptune’s domain 48 Joins solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk. 9 Charge the quarterback 25 White lie 49 Uncomplaining type 14 Enter 28 Fillable flatbreads 51 Chewie’s shipmate 15 Indian princess 31 Ultimatum words 52 Like many a morning coffee: 16 Haunting 33 “__ as directed” Abbr. 17 Boot out 36 Photo caption for Chris with a 54 Fake 18 __ before: deadline words sandwich bun? 58 Photo caption for Kevin with his 19 Gone up 38 Headlights-in-fog effect Easter basket? 20 Photo caption for Condoleezza 40 Put on television 61 Jeweler’s unit 64 Fat used in baking 65 Bellini’s “Casta diva,” e.g. 66 Love 67 Not busy 68 Become softened by cuteness 69 Study aids 70 Whole bunch 71 Canonized mlles.

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63 Go bad ANSWERS BOGGLE (c)2017 TRIBUNE CONTENT AGENCY, INC. Page 16 THE BULLETIN August 8, 2017 (979) 849-5407 www.mybulletinnewspaper.com attack its prey, here are the clues: destroyed a Persian fleet in the 5th sharks, for example, follow a distinct world. These waters have seen 210 Shark Facts The shark will hunch its back, lower century B.C., which may have been pecking order in which the biggest attacks since 1882. However 90% its pectoral fins (the ones near its the first time sharks were tagged shark eats first. of these attacks were just bites with • You can’t see a shark’s ears, belly) and swim in zigzag motions. with a negative and killer reputation. • Sharks can see in murky water very low number of fatalities, so but that doesn’t stop it from being • Unlike humans, whose upper • Sharks have an astounding because of a special feature that they don’t keep die-hard surfers and able to hear you from more than two jaw is a fixed part of the skull, a sense of smell, so powerful that they makes their eyes more sensitive swimmers away. football fields away. That’s because shark can dislocate and protrude its can detect a single drop of blood in to light. A membrane in the back of • Great white sharks are picky sharks only have inner ears, which upper jaw to help it grab and hang an Olympic-sized pool. the eye called the tapetum lucidum eaters. Their diet requires lots of they use to track the sound of their onto prey. • Different species of sharks have reflects sunlight back into the eye, fat, and after one bite, a great white prey from lengths of more than 800 • “Jaws” wasn’t the first time their own set of etiquette during a so the shark can make more use of shark can determine whether or not feet (244 meters). sharks have been given a bad rap. feeding frenzy, a rare occurrence what little light is there. the meal will satisfy its nutritional • If you’re watching a circling Ancient Greek historian Herodotus when a large group of sharks all go • Volusia County has more shark needs. If it doesn’t, the shark will shark and wondering if it’s about to claimed that a group of sharks after the same prey. Caribbean reef attacks than anywhere else in the leave the rest and swim away.