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Paid circulation
papers are their
own worst enemy
ROUNDABOUT
D.C. food fight
trickles down
By Peter Funt
Special to The Bulletin
The biggest threat to newspapers
today might be newspapers themselves - or, to be more precise, the
companies that own them.
Recently, Gannett’s USA Today
doubled its cover price from one
dollar to two. Can you think of any
other struggling business that would
raise prices 100 percent?
The U.S. Postal Service, similarly
threatened by digital alternatives to
its core business, is proposing to hike
the price of a First Class stamp from
46 cents to 49. How many people,
even those who eschew email,
would continue mailing letters if the
price was immediately doubled to 92
cents?
Gannett, along with several other
newspaper groups, is effectively
throwing in the towel on its printed
products. The apparent strategy is to
extract as much circulation revenue
as possible from a small group of
die-hard readers, with little regard for
the damaging effects to the product
itself. Meanwhile, publishers wait and
hope for digital advertising revenue to
increase beyond current levels.
The gambit is shortsighted and,
moreover, a blow to journalism - even
for those who don’t read or care much
about the affected newspapers.
In most businesses, total revenue
can be increased either by selling
more units at or below the current
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BASF Signature Sponsor
for “Black Tie & Boots”
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Brazosport College plans
Transfer Fair on Oct. 28
See Pages 13
By John Toth
Editor and Publisher
Brazosport Regional hosts flu shot clinics
Brazosport Regional is hosting three
separate free flu shot clinics for the
community.
The first one was Tuesday morning at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in
Freeport. If you missed it, there are
two more.
The second clinic is Wednesday,
Oct. 16 at the Lake Jackson Civic
Center from 8:30-11 a.m. The last
clinic is in Brazoria at the Brazosport
Regional Family Medicine Center
on Friday, Oct. 18 from 9-11 a.m.
For additional information about
the flu and the flu shot clinics, please
visit www.BrazosportRegional.org or
call (979) 285-1585.
According to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), the 2012
vaccinations reduced the vaccinated
population’s risk of having to go to the
doctor because of the flu by more than
half.
Since 2010, the CDC has recommended that everyone six months and
older should get a flu vaccine each year.
Most people who get the flu will have
mild illness and will not need medical
care.
However, others are more likely to
get flu complications that result in being
hospitalized and occasionally result
in death. High-risk people include any
adult 65 years and older, healthcare
workers, adults with chronic or immunocompromised conditions and pregnant
women.
Influenza (flu) is a respiratory illness
with symptoms like high fever, chills, dry
cough, headache, runny or stuffy nose,
sore throat, fatigue, and muscle aches.
Flu is thought to spread by droplets
made when people with flu cough,
sneeze, or talk. Moreover, you may be
able to pass on the flu to someone else
before you even know you are sick.
According to CDC, the single best
way to prevent the flu is to get a flu
vaccine each season.
Test your knowledge about the flu on
Page 5.
If you noticed that the cartoons in
The Bulletin have decreased, you
are right.
Due to the government shutdown
and the debt ceiling debate (or, the
food fight), we had to cut back on the
cartoons in this paper.
Don’t get me wrong, there is
plenty of funding available for Bulletin cartoons,
and our syndicate service is
continuing to
provide hundreds of them
weekly.
But 99
percent of them
are about the food fight in D.C. The
other one percent is from foreign
cartoonists that we never use. They
are just too serious, artsy, and not
funny. We like funny cartoons.
Yes, this latest political escapade
is a cartoonist’s dream, regardless
of which side they are drawing, or
blaming, or ridiculing.
But it has become this publisher’s
nightmare.
These type of cartoons are only
funny to those readers who agree
with them, and often make other
readers mad. Funny is in the eyes of
the beholder. Political humor is only
funny half the time.
We’re not a daily paper with editorial and op-ed pages. Our pages are
sort of a free-for-all, with each one
containing non-categorized stories
about anything that our editorial staff
thinks would interest readers.
Since I know that we appeal to
both sides of the aisle, the hundreds
of debt limit and shut down cartoons
are to us completely useless.
I have tried to get the syndicate to
negotiate in good faith with us about
this, but they won’t budge. So, the
cartoon shortage continues.
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UH, YEAH, I WORK HERE …ABSOLUTELY: A woman dropped off her
$125,000 black Bentley GTC – a birthday present from her mother -- at
a car wash in Manchester, England, leaving it in the hands of a man she
assumed was an employee. He was not. He was actually a car thief, and
was so excited at scoring the valuable prize that he crashed it into a wall.
YOU LOOKIN’ AT ME!? I SAID, ARE YOU LOOKIN’ AT ME?!!! A
stork with three young babies has been terrorizing the town of Bergholz,
Germany, attacking parked cars, because she sees her reflection in the
windows and thinks it is a rival bird.
PAINFUL TO SAY THE LEAST: Firefighters were called to a hospital in
Ibiza, Spain to free a German tourist from a steel sex device which he had
secured to himself. They had to use a buzz saw, which produced “plenty of
sparks,” and they had to change batteries twice in the two-hour procedure,
during which the man complained a great deal.
AND FUTURE FAMILY GATHERINGS WILL BE PRETTY TENSE: Two
young women and a young man in Kristiansand, Norway, faked a kidnapping to get money from one of the families. Police quickly saw through this,
located them, and arrested them all.
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THIS WILL NOT HELP YOUR CASE AT ALL, SIR: Police said that a
man they arrested for drunken driving in Houma, La., told the officers he
had “so many drinks that he could not remember how many.” He also said
he could not remember the name of the bar at which he had been drinking.
NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL EVIDENCE: A gang member was convicted
of murder in Los Angeles. He had a tattoo of the scene of the crime on his
chest.
SHOWTIME! A young couple got drunk, then got to know each other
better in their hotel room in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Normally, this wouldn’t be a
problem, but they ran afoul of the law because their room was at street level
and the curtains were open.
See who is waiting for you at SPCA-BC
CUPCAKE WARS: A woman riding with her mother got into an argument
when they stopped at an intersection in Hampton, Va. They both reached
into the back seat and grabbed cupcakes, which they started throwing at
each other. When the ammo ran out, the hitting and scratching commenced.
The fight continued when they got to the daughter’s boyfriend’s house,
where they were hitting each other as they rolled around on the ground.
OK, RIGHT, THAT’S NOT EXACTLY HOW IT HAPPENED: A man called
the police in Fairbanks, Alaska, to complain that his neighbor punched
him in the face. The officers, who don’t necessarily believe everything that
people tell them, soon discovered that the man was engaged in a property dispute with his alleged assailant, and questioned him closely. That’s
when he admitted that he punched himself in the face to get the neighbor
arrested.
YES, OFFICER, I HAVE HIS ADDRESS RIGHT HERE: A man applying
for a job at a store in Ocala, Fla., reached over the counter and stole money
from the cast register when the clerk wasn’t looking. The theft was captured
on security video, and the man was captured because he had filled out a
job application.
Romeo is a special little boy. He is a white male Guinea Pig. Do you like the
easy life? Then he would be the perfect companion for you. Can you help him find
his “forever” home?. Maybe you are looking to adopt a cat? Maybe you are looking
to adopt a cat? Chance is a black and brown male Tabby mix. Can you take a
“chance” on him and help him find a new family?. Come by the SPCA-BC Shelter at
141 Canna Ln., Lake Jackson, or we are at Brazos Mall, Petco and Petsmart every
Saturday, to visit with these pets and many of their friends. Kennel sponsorships
are now available for large or small kennels. Why not have your company or family
recognized with a plaque to show you care? Call (979) 285-2340, ext. 100, or visit
www.spcabc.org for details. Help control the pet population. Have your pet spayed
or neutered. Come by the SPCA-BC, and fill out an application today.
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Strange but True
Getting by without these
body parts
Q. Can you name seven “useless”
human body parts?
A. You might start with wisdom
teeth, says Judy Dutton in “Mental
Floss” magazine. Are you among
the 5% of people today with room for
them? “Back in pre-toothpaste days
when molars fell out, wisdom teeth
were handy backup chompers.”
2. Tonsils in the back of the throat
filter out bacteria and viruses but are
prone to infection, and many kids have
them removed. Luckily for adults,
tonsils shrink with age and usually stop
causing trouble.
3. Probably not as useless as once
thought, the appendix may store beneficial bacteria for repopulating the gut
after an illness.
4. The coccyx at the base of the
spine consists of three to five vertebrae
fused together, “remnants of our longlost tails.”
5. “Arrectores pilorum” are minimuscles that long ago made our
ancestors’ body hairs stand on end to
conserve heat and to make us look
bigger, frightening off enemies. “Today,
all they do is create goose bumps.”
6. About 1 in 200 people has a
set of spare ribs to go along with the
normal 12 sets; all chimps and gorillas
have an extra set near the neck.
7. Pinky toes: Our ape ancestors
used all their toes to grab and swing
from branches. Modern man can
remain upright using his big toe “with a
little help from its three neighboring piggies. The fifth is just along for the ride.”
Game boards were better
Q. Players of high-tech Scrabble
no longer need huddle in small groups
hunched over game boards. Rather,
utilizing the Web, wireless and smartphones, they can drop a ZYGOTES
bingo on fellow players anywhere in
the world. That’s good! But what new
“psychic danger” is ever at hand?
A. After each move, a widget on the
screen can now reveal what WOULD
HAVE BEEN the best move based on
the letters in the player’s virtual rack. “A
game today thus affords competitors a
plethora of regrets,” writes Steve Mirsky
in “Scientific American” magazine.
“And the worst come from not seeing a
potential ‘bingo’--a rack-emptying play
that earns a 50-point bonus.”
“For purposes of self-flagellation,”
Scrabbler Mirsky records sciencerelated bingos he himself missed over
a few weeks of play. Among them:
a rock-climbing REVERSO (68);
PORCINI mushroom (72); ROSEATE
spoonbill (73); NEGATON, also known
as “electron” (77); Heimlich MANEUVER (84); BOLIDES from outer space
(95); and in the realm of metaphysics,
By Bill Sones
and Rich Sones, Ph.D.
FOREKNOW (104!).
Our longing to be different
Q. At a nursery for newborns in a
U.S. hospital, what might underscore
Americans’ growing individualistic
tendencies?
A. Parents these days so much
want “a child like no other child” that
they choose a more uncommon baby
name, says David G. Myers in “Exploring Psychology: Ninth Edition.” Around
1950, for instance, nearly 35% of boys
were given one of the 10 most common
male names, about 25% of girls’ names
were similarly chosen. But by 2010
or so, these percentages had plunged
to under 10%, with uniqueness and
individualism more and more ruling the
baby roost!
“Over time, the most common
American names listed by year on
the U.S. Social Security baby names
website were becoming less desirable,”
Myers continues. “An analysis of the
first names of 325 million American
babies born between 1880 and 2007
confirmed this trend.”
In the U.S. in 2012, the 10 most
common male baby names in descending order were Jacob, Mason, Ethan,
Noah, William, Liam, Jayden, Michael,
Alexander and Aiden. For female
babies, Sophia ranked first, followed
by Emma, Isabella, Olivia, Ava, Emily,
Abigail, Mia, Madison and Elizabeth.
(Send STRANGE questions to brothers
Bill and Rich at [email protected])
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MATAGORDA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
has the following positions currently available:
LAN SUPPORT/NETWORK SPECIALIST –
full time position
available; Associates Degree or equivalent from a two year college or technical
school; related experience and/or training; equivalent combination of education
and experience; network server installation, maintenance, and support required;
previous experience in healthcare environment is desired; 3-5 year training
and/or experience installing and repairing computer/network systems hardware,
software and peripheral device operations; must have a broad knowledge of
troubleshooting both hardware, software and networking topology.
MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIST or MEDICAL LAB TECHNOLOGIST
– full time position available for night shift (8:30pm to 6:30am); Bachelor’s degree
or equivalent with current registration through one of the licensed agencies is
preferred, and/or an equivalent combination of experience, education and with
the eligibility for high complexity testing.
Offering competitive salaries and an excellent benefit package consisting of
educational assistance/tuition reimbursement, and much more. Qualified applicants may send resumes via facsimile at (979) 241-5544 or via E-mail address:
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Migrating birds fly
nonstop for more
than six months
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
LOS ANGELES— Talk about a
red-eye flight. After attaching electronic
monitors to half a dozen Alpine swifts,
researchers say they were shocked
to discover that migrating birds flew
nonstop for 200 days.
That’s right, the birds remained
airborne for more than six months,
eating, drinking and sleeping on the fly,
so to speak. Swiss scientists recently
published their findings in the journal
Nature Communications.
FEC wants former
senator to pay penalty
McClatchy Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — Former Republican Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho should
personally pay a “significant civil penalty”
of $70,000 for his “serious violations” of
campaign finance laws.
Craig’s campaign committee should
also pay a separate $70,000 penalty,
the FEC attorneys argue. The proposed
penalties, in addition to having Craig
pay back $216,984 to the campaign
committee, would also resolve the FEC’s
complaint that Craig had improperly
used campaign committee funds to pay
for personal legal expenses he incurred
after a disputed 2007 incident at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is hereby given that original Letters of Administration for the Estate of
Margaret Ellen Grounds, Deceased, were issued on October 1, 2013, in Cause
No. PR033755, pending in the County Court at Law No. 3, Brazoria County,
Texas, to: Christine Lesley Garcia.
All persons having claims against this Estate which is currently being administered are required to present them to the undersigned within the time and in
the manner prescribed by law.
c/o: Estate of Margaret Ellen Grounds
14407 Harvest Ridge Road
Houston, Texas 77062
DATED the 4th day of October, 2013
By:/s/ G. Riley Hetherington
Attorney for Estate of Margaret Ellen Grounds
State Bar No: 09554500
6363 Woodway, Suite 1000
Houston, Texas 77057
Telephone: (713) 590-9620
Facsimile: (713) 590-9602
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Test your knowledge about the flu and the flu shot, and then get the shot
By Drs. Kay Judge
and Maxine Barish-Wreden
The Sacramento Bee (MCT)
The flu season is rapidly approaching. Here is a quick quiz to check your
flu-vaccine knowledge.
True or false: The flu shot can give
you the flu.
False, says the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention. The flu vaccine
contains killed viruses, which means
the flu shot cannot cause infection. The
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that “The only differences
in symptoms was increased soreness
in the arm and redness at the injection
site among people who got the flu shot.
There were no differences in terms of
body aches, fever, cough, runny nose
or sore throat.”
For some people who notice
symptoms immediately after the flu
shot, it can be from the immune system
making antibodies to the killed viruses
in the vaccine that help fight off the flu.
True or false: The nasal flu vaccine can give you the flu.
False. Unlike the flu shot, which
contains killed viruses, the nasal spray
vaccine does contain live viruses.
However, the viruses contained in the
nasal-spray flu vaccine are attenuated
(weakened), which means they cannot
cause flu illness. These weakened
viruses are designed to cause mild
infection at the cooler temperatures
found within the nose, but they cannot
infect the lungs or other warmer areas
of the body.
True or false: The flu shot doesn’t
work half of the time.
False. The flu shot actually works
more than half of the time. According
to the CDC, the flu shot appeared to
be about 60 percent effective for all
age groups combined in the 2010-11
season. In earlier years, the effectiveness rates have been as high as 90
percent.
True or false: Getting the flu is
no big deal. False. The flu can cause
significant death and illness. Over
the last 30 years, the flu has been
linked to anywhere from 3,000 to as
many as 49,000 fatalities a year in the
United States, with more than 200,000
hospitalizations a year. Flu is a serious
disease, particularly among young
children, older adults and people with
certain chronic health conditions such
as asthma, heart disease and diabetes.
True or false: You should get the
flu shot in the winter, not the fall.
False. You should get the flu shot
earlier in the year, and most clinics start
offering the flu shot in October. That’s
because once you get the vaccine, the
protection lasts an entire flu season.
The CDC recommends that all people
How flu spreads
older than 6 months get a flu vaccine.
True or false: You don’t need a flu
shot this year if you had one last year.
False. The CDC recommends a yearly
flu vaccine for people 6 months and
older. The reason is that a person’s
immune protection from vaccination
declines over time, so a yearly vaccination is needed.
If you had all seven questions correct, congratulations. You have likely
already lined up your flu shot.
Most experts believe that flu viruses spread mainly by droplets made when
people with flu cough, sneeze or talk. These droplets can land in the mouths or
noses of people who are nearby. Less often, a person might also get flu by touching
a surface or object that has flu virus on it and then touching their own mouth, eyes
or possibly their nose.
Certain people are at greater risk for serious complications if they get the flu. This
includes older people, young children, pregnant women and people with certain
health conditions (such as asthma, diabetes, or heart disease), and persons who
live in facilities like nursing homes.
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Texas A&M System joins the College Credit for Heroes
The Texas Workforce Commission’s
(TWC) College Credit for Heroes
initiative reached a milestone recently
when TWC Commissioner Representing Labor Ronny Congleton and Texas
A&M University System Chancellor
John Sharp jointly announced that the
A&M System has joined College Credit
for Heroes.
This is a statewide program that
seeks to maximize the award of college
credits to veterans and service members for their military training.
“The addition of the Texas A&M
University System to College Credit
for Heroes expands opportunities for
our veterans to have the skills and
knowledge they gained during service
to our country recognized,” said TWC
Chairman Andres Alcantar.
Recognizing the need to help more
student veterans earn degrees, all 13
A&M System campuses joined the
College Credit for Heroes initiative and
signed agreements with TWC, Texas
Higher Education Coordinating Board
and Central Texas College committing
to review all www.CollegeCreditforHe
roes.orgtranscript evaluations used to
award college credit to veterans and
service members for their military training. A total of 30 colleges and universities are now part of the initiative.
“Aligning our institutions with College
Credit for Heroes demonstrates our
commitment to keeping our military and
veterans on track to achieve academic
and career success,” said Texas
A&M System Chancellor John Sharp.
“Military training can absolutely match
many academic courses, and this
program offers substantial efficiencies
and savings in time and money for our
student veterans.”
Administered by TWC and launched
in 2011, College Credit for Heroes is
a workforce development initiative
designed to recognize the exceptional knowledge and skills gained by
veterans and service members during
their military service and award them
with college credits for this experience,
and thus accelerate degree, workforce
certificate, and licensing programs,
allowing them to more easily re-enter
the workforce.
“College Credit for Heroes will
enable our returning veterans to
establish credentials qualifying them for
work in a variety of occupational fields,”
said TWC Commissioner Representing
Labor Ronny Congleton. “The growth
of this initiative will ultimately expand
professional and academic opportuni-
ties for our veterans, and allow them
faster entry into rewarding careers.”
Central Texas College was integral in
the development of the College Credit
for Heroes Web portal, www.CollegeC
reditforHeroes.org, and is working to
standardize evaluation of college credit
for military training and experience
across Texas institutions.
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board also supports program
expansion by consulting on various
military and higher education-related
issues and coordinating program partnerships with higher education entities
throughout the state.
What hitting the debt ceiling really means
By Reid Kanaley
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)
We can’t duck the debt ceiling. The recurring battle over federal borrowing is
about to overtake even the discouraging fight that prompted a partial government
shutdown.
—Spending in the run-up to World War I is partly to blame for the existence
of a U.S. debt ceiling, according to this post and accompanying video at
Investopedia.com. The ceiling sets the maximum amount of money the federal
government can borrow. President Woodrow Wilson and Congress came up with
a debt limit as a way to keep tabs on borrowing to fund the war. While the limit
has been continually raised by lawmakers, the very constitutionality of a debt limit
is sometimes challenged. The grounds? “According to the 14th Amendment of
the Constitution, ‘The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized
by law … shall not be questioned,’ ” notes the Investopedia post. http://bit.ly/
1g0MFzo
—If the debt limit is not raised, what then? Let us roll back the calendar to
the last time this issue was at a boil — just last winter! Who even remembers?
Bankrate.com at that time posted this step-by-step road map to default and what
could happen then. It isn’t pretty. “ ‘It would start to feel like September 2008,’
when the investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection,” says
the post by Claes Bell, quoting an expert at the Brookings Institution.
—“The Economist explains,” a blog at Economist.com, says that “the Treasury
reached the current debt ceiling of $16.7 trillion on May 19.” It has been juggling
accounts to keep issuing bonds, but the wiggle room is almost used up. Now, if
the Treasury misses a debt payment, “that would be virtually without precedent,
and quite bad — just how bad, nobody knows.” By the way, a debt limit is a
“quirk” that America shares “with almost no other countries,” the Economist says.
http://econ.st/156j8zS
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B’port Choral Union to perform season-opening concert
A program titled “Passionate Expressions” will open the Brazosport Choral
Union’s 2013-2014 season at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 19 in the Performance
Hall of the Clarion at Brazosport College.
The autumn-themed concert will feature some of the individual choirs that
combine to form the Brazosport Choral Union.
The Brazosport College Chamber Choir will present Craig Hella-Johnson’s Gitanjali (Song offerings) Chants,with text by Rabindrath Tagore, a Bengali poet,
painter, musician, playwright and 1913 winner of the Nobel Prize for literature,
and Once Upon a Dream, from the musical “Jekyll and Hyde.”
The Brazosport College Jazz Singers will offer an arrangement of the jazz
standard “Autumn Leaves.”
Matthew Todd and Barbara Carter serve as accompanists, with Rodney
Mason serving as director. The concert is given free as cultural enrichment for
the Brazosport community so no ticket is required and it is festival (first-come,
first-served) seating.
Paid circulation papers are their own worst enemy
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price, or fewer units at a higher price.
However, the second option works a lot
better for, say, thousand-dollar designer
shoes than it does for mass media.
And the first option generally requires
improving the product, which many
major newspaper owners seem unwilling to support.
Readers of dailies in California
owned by MediaNews have watched
the newspapers shrink, like prisoners
on a starvation diet. The Oakland
Tribune, for example, exists now
in name only, while functioning as
an edition of the San Jose Mercury
News. The Merc-News, meanwhile,
is shedding pages like a jet dumping fuel before a crash. The chain’s
smaller dailies, such as The Monterey County Herald and Santa Cruz
Sentinel, have seen their presses
sold for scrap, with production moved
to distant facilities.
In the same Bay Area market,
Hearst’s San Francisco Chronicle
recently cut costs by moving the
copy deadline for its first edition
to 5 p.m. Papers delivered to many
California homes miss everything
- news and sports - that occurs the
evening before.
Many publishers have concluded,
perhaps correctly, that ink-on-paper
editions will not survive too far into
the future. What is reckless - for
papers and their readers - is that
management is taking misguided
steps to try and speed the process.
When Gannett cut 223 newsroom
jobs in late summer, including 29 at
its largest regional paper, the Arizona
Republic, the Phoenix Business Jour-
nal obtained an internal memo from
Gannett’s management. A telling passage addressed the future of print:
“While consumer habits continue
to change, the print edition remains
a preferred format to many of our
readers and an effective advertising
vehicle for advertisers. A daily print
edition will continue to be produced
until a point (at which) there is no
longer a significant demand for the
product.”
Therein lies the rub. By natural
process, demand will ebb gradually
as digital alternatives improve and
as older readers die off. Artificially,
it will be hastened by newsroom
layoffs, reduced page counts, earlier
production schedules and jarring
price hikes.
Some publishers see it differently.
Aaron Kushner, the entrepreneur who
owns southern California’s Orange
County Register, has expanded the
reporting staff and launched a sister
paper in Long Beach, while holding
the cover price at one dollar.
Among the national dailies, the
Wall Street Journal and the New York
Times have high cover prices, but
they also charge for digital subscriptions and had double-digit circulation
increases in the latest reporting
period ending March 31. USA Today,
on the other hand, does not have
a paid digital presence. Its circulation dropped 8 percent in the same
period.
Newspapers are businesses,
entitled to operate as they see fit. But
in the best-case scenario, publishers
profit by providing quality journalism.
That’s not happening across much of
the media landscape. It is disingenuous to cite reduced demand while
working aggressively to reduce it.
On the first day of USA Today’s
two-dollar price, the boxcar headline
was about the federal government,
but readers may have wondered if
it was also about the paper itself. It
said: Closing Time?
Peter Funt’s new book, “Cautiously
Optimistic,” is available at Amazon.com
and CandidCamera.com. ©2013 Peter
Funt.
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Problems in Washington D.C. create all kinds of problems for this editor
(Continued from Page 1)
Most of the time, this is not a problem. The syndicate’s many artists are
all over the map on different issues and
current events, and there are plenty of
cartoons from which to choose.
Now, they are all drawing about only
one topic – the food fight in D.C.
We all hope this is resolved and we
go on to other fights that are a little less
messy, and our cartoonists once again
expand their horizons.
Meanwhile, I am enjoying the
Facebook debate about the food fight.
The photoshopped posts are very good
as they point out how wrong the other
side is.
It feels good to vent a little, but I can
honestly say that those posts will not
convince the other side to see it your
way.
And, it does no good to get into a
political feud over the issue, raising the
emotional level by each post, and even
being insulting.
There are other issues that are more
suited for such venture, like posting
about the Houston Texans as you
watch the game. Both sides can agree
on these posts.
“Like it or not, fixing Schaub is our
best shot unless you are ready to
write off this season and for next year
again.”
“Schaub, you are a bum!!!!!!”
“BREAKING: Matt Schaub says he
will not take the field unless the 49ers
come to the table and negotiate.”
There were dozens more. The last
one is my favorite. It was posted by a
one-time Houston Chronicle colleague.
I wish my syndicated cartoonists
and West Columbia branch libraries,
are among the nine locations around
the county where people will be able to
drop off unwanted, unused and expired
over-the-counter and prescription drugs
and needles for safe disposal.
“As soon as I learned they were
looking for more drop-off sites I said
let’s make this happen” said Tom West,
the Adult Coordinator for the Brazoria
County Library System. The addition
of the libraries more than doubles the
number of sites this year.
The parking lots of the Pearland
Library at 3522 Liberty Drive, Pearland
Westside Library at 2803 Business
Center Drive, and the Stella Roberts
Recycling Center at 5800 Magnolia, are
the three drop-off locations in Pearland
this year.
The West Columbia Library at 518
East Brazos, has been added as a
drop-off location in the southern part of
the county.
The DEA’s National Prescription
Drug Take Bake is coordinated by
the Brazoria County Prescription
Drug Abuse Task Force and the Bay
Area Council on Drugs and Alcohol.
Please visit www.BACODA.org or
www.DEA.gov for a complete list of
drop-off locations.
Library system helps prescription drug take-back effort
The Brazoria County Library System
will participate in the DEA’s National
Prescription Drug Take Back being held
on Saturday, Oct. 26 from 10 a.m. to 2
p.m. across Brazoria County.
Three library locations, the parking
lots of the Pearland, Pearland Westside
would watch football and get some
ideas.
Or any other sport, or read the lifestyle pages, or any other pages than
news and editorials.
I write these columns early, so I
hope by the time it appears on Oct.15,
this “food fight” will be over, and both
sides agree to do what’s best for the
country.
Then we can all go back to ranting
about sports (which is easy to do if you
follow Houston teams), and I can get
once again some usable cartoons.
Two AHS students recognized
for academic achievement
Angleton High School seniors Chase Caldwell and Mary Waller have been
named Commended Students in the 2014 National Merit Scholarship Program.
The two join approximately 34,000 other students across the nation who have
earned the “commended” status for their exceptional academic promise.
Although they will not continue in the 2014 competition for National Merit
Scholarship awards, Commended Students placed among the top five percent of
more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2014 competition by taking the 2012
Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT).
Angleton High School counselors Terri Giles (far left) and Page Friudenberg
(far right) present Chase Caldwell and Mary Waller with a certificate of commendation from the National Merit Scholarship Program.
At the movies
OCT. 18
“12 Years a Slave”: “Shame” director Steve McQueen returns with another artful
provocation, this one based on the true story of a free black man (Chiwetel Ejiofor)
from upstate New York in the pre-Civil War era who was abducted and sold into
slavery. Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti and
Brad Pitt co-star.
“Carrie”: Chloe Grace Moretz takes over for Sissy Spacek as the bullied teen
with telekinetic powers in this “reimagining” (aka “Don’t Call It a Remake!”) of the
Stephen King novel. Director Kimberly Pierce (“Boys Don’t Cry”) reportedly consulted with Brian De Palma, who made the 1976 original, before shooting began.
Julianne Moore co-stars as Carrie’s fanatically religious mother.
“Escape Plan”: Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzegger co-star for the first
time (no, “The Expendables” movies don’t count) as convicts who attempt a daring
prison break. Directed by Mikael Hafstrom (“1408,” “Evil”).
“The Fifth Estate”: Having finally put the “Twilight” saga to rest, director Bill
Condon (“Kinsey,” “Showgirls) gets back to real movies with this drama about the
price WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his partner
Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Bruhl) paid after they starting posting classified
documents online.
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State Rep. Thompson speaks to ACC student government
State Rep. Ed Thompson spoke
about his experiences in local and
state government during a meeting
with the Alvin Community College
Student Government Association on
Sept. 18.
Thompson talked about the recent
session of the Texas Legislature and
his time on the Pearland ISD school
board.
He encouraged students interested
in politics and government to get
involved soon.
“You have an opportunity to learn
early,” he said. “There’s a lot of power
in what one person can do.”
For more information about the
Student Government Association,
call 281-756-3551 or visit www.alvincoll
ege.edu/studentactivities
My Answer
How we handle money indicates
what’s really important to us
By Billy Graham
Tribune Media Services
Q: Every year about this time, our church board presents the new budget to
the congregation, and our preacher takes several weeks to preach about money
and tithing and all that. Frankly, I get tired of it. In my opinion, he ought to be
dealing with spiritual things, not with money. - H.C.
A: I don’t know if your pastor is spending too much time on this topic; if you
think he is, perhaps you should express your concern to him or to a member of
your church board.
But I do know this: How we handle our money is of great concern to God,
and it’s just as spiritual an issue as anything else. Why is this? The reason is
because how we handle our money indicates what’s really important to us. If our
goal is to put ourselves first and provide just for our comfort and security, then
that’s how we’ll spend our money.
But if God is at the center of our lives, we’ll want to use our money for His
glory. Instead of spending it all on ourselves, we’ll want to use it to bless others
and extend God’s kingdom. This is undoubtedly your pastor’s concern - and
it should be yours, as well. Jesus said, “No one can serve two masters.... You
cannot serve both God and Money” (Matthew 6:24).
Who is more important to you? Is it yourself - or is it Jesus Christ? Remember, Christ gave His life for you; why do anything less for Him? Ask God to help
you use the resources He’s given you for things that will count for eternity. The
Bible says, “Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not
reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver” (2 Corinthians 9:
7).
(Send your queries to “My Answer,” c/o Billy Graham, Billy Graham Evangelistic 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.)
Sponsors of this column
State Rep. Ed Thompson speaks with
Alvin Community College students
during a Student Government Association meeting.
Longest-serving
House Republican
plans to retire
Tribune Washington Bureau (MCT)
WASHINGTON — C.W. Bill Young,
the longest-serving Republican in the
House, said he will retire at the end of
his current term.
The Florida Republican disclosed his
plans in an interview with the Tampa
Bay Times, during which he also said
tea party conservatives were driving the
direction of the Republican Party.
“He withstood the pressure for a long
time,” Young said, referring to House
Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio. “He
finally has agreed to the outspoken
minority of his conference. And they’re
pretty much in charge right now.”
He credited the conservative bloc,
though, for “doing what they think is
right. That’s what I did.” He said his
decision to retire was based on a
number of factors, including his health.
He is currently at Walter Reed National
Military Medical Center with a back
injury.
Young is one of just 17 House
Republicans who represent a district
that President Barack Obama carried
in the 2012 election. Now 83, he easily
won his 22nd term last November with
58 percent of the vote, though that was
his lowest vote percentage in 20 years,
and second-lowest ever. His current
term ends Jan. 3, 2015.
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History of
the World
By Mark Andrews
Tribune Content Agency
Oct. 14: ON THIS DATE in 1066,
William the Conqueror gained control
over much of England by winning
the Battle of Hastings. In 1947, test
pilot Chuck Yeager broke the sound
barrier for the first time in the Bell X-1
rocket plane.
Oct. 15: ON THIS DATE in 1917,
Mata Hari, a Dutch dancer who had
spied for the Germans, was executed
by a French firing squad. In 1949,
evangelist Billy Graham began his
ministry.
Oct. 16: ON THIS DATE in 1859,
abolitionist John Brown led about 20
men in a raid on the federal armory
at Harper’s Ferry, Va. In 1962,
President Kennedy was informed that
reconnaissance photographs had
revealed the presence of Soviet-built
nuclear missile bases in Cuba.
Oct. 17: ON THIS DATE in 1931,
mobster Al Capone was convicted of
income-tax evasion and sentenced to
11 years in prison. In 1933, physicist
Albert Einstein arrived in the United
States, a refugee of Nazi Germany.
Oct. 18: ON THIS DATE in 1892,
the first long-distance telephone line
between Chicago and New York was
opened. In 1898, the American flag
was raised in Puerto Rico shortly
before Spain relinquished control of
the island.
Oct. 19: ON THIS DATE in 1781,
British troops under Lord Cornwallis
surrendered at Yorktown, Va., as the
Revolutionary War neared its end. In
1960, the United States imposed an
embargo on most exports to Cuba.
Oct. 20: ON THIS DATE in 1944,
during World War II, Gen. Douglas
MacArthur stepped ashore at Leyte
in the Philippines, 2 1/2 years after
he had said, “I shall return.” In 1977,
three members of the rock group
Lynyrd Skynyrd died in the crash of a
chartered plane.
Answer to last week’s question:
This week in 1964, the Soviet leadership forced Premier Nikita Khrushchev out of office and replaced him
with Alexei Kosygin and Leonid
Brezhnev.
This week’s question: In 1836,
who was inaugurated as the first
president of the Republic of Texas?
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County Historical Commission initiates local Medallion Project
The Brazoria County Historical
Commission is beginning a Historical
Medallion Project to recognize and
encourage preservation of county
historical structures through restoration
for present and future generations.
The historical medallions will further
educate the public and spark interest in
local history.
Property owners who work to
improve a historical structure, thereby
extending its life and adding to the
ambiance that old buildings provide,
may be eligible for one of the Brazoria
BASF is signature sponsor for
2014 Bluebonnet Social Club
‘Black Tie & Boots!’ event
Chris Witte, BASF VP and GM of Freeport Site; Judith Pepper, Executive
Director of Brazosport Health Foundation; Cindy Suggs, BASF Manager
of Community & Government & Community Affairs; Al Guevara, CEO/
President of Brazosport Regional Health System.
Brazosport Health Foundation is pleased to announce BASF as the Signature Sponsor for the 2014 Bluebonnet Social Club fundraising event. Chris
Witte, BASF vice president and general manager of Freeport site, and Cindy
Suggs, manager of Community & Government & Community Affairs, presented
an $80,000 check to Al Guevara, Brazosport Regional President and CEO, to
underwrite this community event. The Health Foundation biennially chooses an
entertainment venue and group to rock out the community with music, fun, food
and flair. Each year, the funds raised benefit a special project at Brazosport
Regional. This year, the proceeds from the Bluebonnet Social Club are designated to the renovation of the Emergency Services Department.
Adverising that fits your business’ budget: (979) 849-5407
County Historical Commission Medallions.
To conduct a feasibility study for
possible action, a Medallion Project
Management Team was appointed
by Commission Chairman, Sandra
Pollan. Members include: Jamie
Murray, Beverly Nixon, Dr. Max
Royalty, Ginger Tumlinson and Ron
Livingston. Responsibilities of the
team have included: Medallion Eligibility Guidelines, Application Forms,
Structure Restoration and Maintenance
Guidelines.
The Brazoria County Medallion shall
recognize restoration efforts when
attempts to comply with the Texas Historical Commission marker standards
are not practical for the owner. There
shall be no penalty for necessary
relocation or additions to the structure,
if the same integrity is maintained.
A structure at least 75 years old is
eligible for consideration of a County
Medallion. Applications may be
secured from Jamie Murray at the
Brazoria County Historical Museum
Library, 100 East Cedar, Angleton,
Texas.
The completed application, along
with a $50 fee for the honor and
privilege of recognition, shall be submitted to: Sandra Pollan, Commission
Treasurer, 400 College Blvd., Clute,
TX 77531-4778.
The application shall be reviewed
by members of the Medallion Team
to determine any need for additional
information.
It is the responsibility of the medallion applicant to establish historical
significance with researched ownership
documentation, compiled in written
form, including photographs and any
other memorabilia available. Structures
do not necessarily have to be of statewide or national significance.
The medallion applicant shall be
financially responsible for restoration and future maintenance of the
structure. Materials for restoration shall
be as near the original as available. As
maintenance is needed, the materials
shall continue to be as near the original
as possible.
When the structure meets the
eligibility and restoration guidelines,
final approval for the County Medallion
will be granted by the Brazoria County
Historical Commission.
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BC to hold
Transfer Fair
on Oct. 28
For students with questions
and concerns about transferring to
other schools, Brazosport College’s
2013 College Transfer Fair has the
answers.
Parents, students, teachers and
counselors from all area school
districts, as well as local private and
charter schools, are invited to meet
with representatives from a number
of colleges and universities at the
College Transfer Fair on Monday,
Oct. 28.
The event will be from 5:30 to
7:30 p.m. in the college’s Student
Pavilion area. Brazosport College
is located at 500 College Drive in
Lake Jackson.
More than 30 institutions of
higher education will be represented at the College Transfer Fair,
including University of Texas, Texas
A&M, University of Houston, Sam
Houston State, Texas State and
University of North Texas, along
with a host of others.
Among the types of questions
that can be answered on the spot
include costs, financial aid, scholarships, academic programs and
entrance requirements. Information
on admissions and transfers will
also be available.
“This is a great opportunity for
students and parents to get information about a lot of colleges all at
one time,” BC College Transfer Fair
Coordinator Phil Robertson said.
The College Transfer Fair is
carefully planned to be a valuable,
educational and goal-planning
resource for area high school
communities. The event is an effective, convenient and cost-efficient
method to help parents as they
develop strategies for their child’s
higher education.
The College Transfer Fair is a
collaborative effort between BC and
the independent school districts
of Angleton (AISD), Brazosport
(BISD), and Columbia/Brazoria
(C/BISD), and is held in the Student
Pavilion area, located on the first
floor of the college, next to the
library.
For more information, contact
Robertson at (979) 230-3236 or
at [email protected].
9-year-old stowaway’s history: car
theft, sneaking into water park
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)
MINNEAPOLIS — Before a 9-year-old boy stowed away on a flight to Las Vegas
last week, he had already stolen a car, sneaked into a Minnesota water park without
paying and come under the scrutiny of child protection investigators, a Hennepin
County official wrote Monday.
In a one-page e-mail obtained by the Star Tribune, Janine Moore, area director
of the county’s Human Services and Public Health Department, told administrators and County Board members that since December 2012, county staff have
conducted four child-protection assessments on the boy’s family.
She didn’t identify the boy, his family or where they live, but wrote that his mother
works at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, so “there is also an investigation into whether she aided him flying to Las Vegas.”
Activists free hundreds of mink from Minn. farm
The Miami Herald (CMT)
MINNEAPOLIS — A southeastern Minnesota mink ranch had hundreds of its
animals set loose in the dead of night as part of a multistate assault by animal rights
activists on an industry that serves a well-to-do clientele.
The four-generation Myhre ranch east of Grand Meadow was targeted late
Sunday or early Monday, setting off a scramble by workers, friends and fellow farmers to retrieve as many of the suddenly free 450 or so mink, owner Einar Myhre said
Tuesday morning.
Myhre said he’s been able to reclaim all but about 75 of the mink that were set
loose.
The intrusion on Myhre’s farm was one of nine around the country in the past
three months involving the raising of fur-bearing mink, according to Animal Liberation Frontline, a website that tracks these types of actions.
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end in, in more ways than one
40 Pigeon-loving Muppet
21 Sum, sometimes
42 Fjord cousin
22 Country across the sea from Eritrea
43 __ Victor
23 *Small museum piece
44 Bargainer with GM
27 Oil-rich African country
45 LeVar’s “Roots” role
29 City on the Rhone
47 Bender
30 “__ Theme”: “Doctor Zhivago” song
51 Icky coating
32 Tram contents
53 *Dancer with many fans
33 Hog : sow :: rabbit : __
55 Its young are called crias
35 Freak (out)
57 Rock’s __ Lobos
36 Court cry
58 Touch clumsily
37 What the answers to starred clues
59 *Profit factors
62 Siouan tribe
63 __ d’amore
64 Terse observation
65 W.S. winner in four of the last five
years
66 Flex
67 Leafy recess
68 Pirate played by Laughton
Bulletin Crossword Puzzle of the Week
Across
1 Their first parts are geog. indicators
5 Her last film was “Two-Faced
Woman”
10 Newspaper page
14 Injure, in a way
15 __ dome
16 Denpasar’s island
17 __ mentality
18 *Celebrating the big five-oh, say
20 __-Locka, Florida
Solutions on the right side of this page
Down
1 Art movement
2 Elude
3 Code talkers’ tribe
4 5-Across’s home: Abbr.
5 Lose it
6 Member of a large kingdom
7 Clear
8 Spa specimen
9 Lacking siblings
10 President with a B.A. from Columbia
11 Shoulder-length hair styles
12 The “you” in the 1968 lyric “Gee I
think you’re swell”
13 Imitated
19 Brain tests, briefly
21 “Put up your dukes, then!”
24 Break up
25 Statistician’s input
26 Common folk group
28 __ Perce tribe
31 Seaweed extract
34 Beige relative
36 Atheist activist Madalyn Murray __
37 Dennis the Menace neighbor
38 German opener
39 Super Fro-Yo sellers
40 Eat at
41 Drop zone?
45 Dole’s running mate
46 Put forth without proof
48 City SE of Roma
49 Ate (at)
50 “__ Scissorhands”
52 Checked for the last time?
54 Like one who is 52-Down
56 Fast horse
59 Pen’s mate
60 Brief commitment
61 Crow’s croak
62 Pen filler
(c)2013 TRIBUNE CONTENT AGENCY, INC.
In memory of Greg Wilkinson
Complete the grid so each row, column
and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains
every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to
solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.
Solutions
Boggle Answers
DAY YEAR WEEK MONTH DECADE SECOND CENTURY
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Bulletin Horoscope
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Try
thinking for yourself this week. Sometimes it’s difficult to know whether your
opinions and beliefs are your own or
just an echo of the voices overheard
on TV and the Internet. Stay out of the
limelight today.
MR. MORRIS
THE MIDDLETONS
BROOM HILDA
ANIMAL CRACKERS
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Color
inside the lines. Be precise about
everything you do and say in order to
impress others this week. As long as
you’re willing to shoulder responsibilities you’ll have a true blue friend willing
to share the burden.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Tell it like
it is. Some of the pressure has been
relieved and in the week ahead you can
discuss your options, as well as your
feelings, more succinctly. Don’t begin
anything of crucial importance today.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Be
conscientious and dutiful and someone
will love you more. Your sociability
By Rick Brooks
By Ralph Dunagin and Dana Summers
quotient is kicked up a notch this week,
so expect a few innocent flirtations or
a sense of healthy competition in the
business world.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Hold your
head high. It’s difficult for anyone to
make you feel miserable when you feel
worthy and proud. Repeat successful
maneuvers this week. Take action to
remain above criticism, even if it means
redoing a project.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Merge
ambitions with the desire to please
those in your intimate circle, and you’ll
have a winning combination. In the
week ahead, ask for assistance with
tasks that could take a toll on your time
and energy.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You’ll
never have regrets if you help the weak
when you’re strong and confess your
faults when you’re wrong. Problems
could occupy your mind early in the
week, but this isn’t the right time to
break free.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your
get up and go may have gotten up and
gone. Try switching gears and tackling
things from a different angle in the
week ahead. Talking your problems
over with a friend or partner may
provide a solution.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
Communication is the best tool to use
to keep relationships on an even keel
in the week to come. Shared finances
could be the center of attention. Be
sure to use your shrewd eye for making
a profit.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
Money makes the world go around like
a top, but you don’t need to use spin.
Your financial know-how gives you the
edge in delicate negotiations in the
upcoming week. Wait until mid-week to
start new projects.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You
are a bit wiser than usual this week, but
socializing at the wrong time with the
wrong person could generate gossip.
Stay within the budget and talk over
purchases with a good friend before
you spend.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you
can’t beat them, join them. Someone
you admire may demand precision
and professionalism in the week to
come. To earn respect, you may need
to knuckle down and put forth some
concentrated effort.
By Russel Myers
By Fred Wagner
Jumble Answers
Jumbles: DEITY PUPPY OPIATE NAUSEA
Answer: How the active toddlers left Mom -- TIED UP IN “NOTS”
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