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  1. Didn't see this posted anywhere and this looked like the best existing thread based on search.

    Wendy's will soon begin testing surge pricing

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    The price of a Wendy’s Frosty could soon fluctuate throughout the day as the chain looks to introduce Uber-like surge pricing on its menu.

    The practice, known as “dynamic pricing,” will begin testing in 2025, Wendy’s recently revealed in an earnings call. It’s part of a $20 million investment in new digital menu boards at its US restaurants that enable them to change prices depending on demand.

    Few details were released about the change, but Wendy’s CEO Kirk Tanner said the new menus will let the fast food chain test “more enhanced features like dynamic pricing and day-part offerings along with AI-enabled menu changes and suggestive selling.”

    “We expect our digital menu boards will drive immediate benefits to order accuracy, improve crew experience and sales growth from upselling and consistent merchandising execution,” Tanner said on the call.

    The menus were first shown in a mockup of a redesigned Wendy’s unveiled in 2022 that featured new pick-up windows, a more technologically advanced kitchen and a spruced-up interior. The new menus have already rolled out at some drive-thrus, with some TikTok users showing them powered by an automated voice, instead of a human worker, with suggestions for add-ons featured onscreen.

    Surge pricing is common with sports and concert tickets and for ride-hailing apps, with services like Ticketmaster and Uber using sophisticated dynamic pricing algorithms that change minute by minute, based on demand. However, there hasn’t been widespread adoption from restaurants because of the labor it takes employees to change menus.

    But apps and digital menus can easily update prices on the fly, giving fast food chains an easier to way to implement dynamic pricing. Wendy’s expects digital order sales to reach $2 billion this year and is spending $15 million to upgrade its app.

    McDonald’s has also dabbled with dynamic pricing and new order-suggestion capabilities at some of its upgraded drive-thrus and on its app. However, the varied and inconsistent prices at its franchises have ignited outrage recently for affecting the affordability of its food.

    Surge pricing could be a “turning point” in the industry, according to Jonathan Maze, editor-in-chief of trade publication Restaurant Business. “If Wendy’s idea works, it could get others to do something similar, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see another chain or two test the idea themselves, given what Wendy’s is doing.”

    Maze adds that there’s risk, especially in light of the fluctuating prices of fast food. “The idea that a restaurant chain would potentially raise prices during busy times of day, even if consumers think they’re raising prices, then it could lead to a backlash,” he told CNN. “They’ll have to tread carefully. This is why we haven’t seen a lot of it.”

     

  2. 4 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

    I never understand people who make strong proclamations that some certain music is trash or sucks. So, you don’t like it. Fine. Who the fuck are you to decide for the world what’s trash music and what’s not?

    There’s a lot of music I don’t like, but if other people like it, that’s the whole point, isn’t it? So fuck off you “pretend” music critics. 

    Sir, this is Surly Horns and the internet.

    Opinions like this are frowned upon.

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  3. On 2/1/2024 at 10:33 AM, Helobious said:

    4A and below should all be one division per class, change my mind. 

    I'm with you on this except I think no classification should have divisions.  Make a 7A and and 8A if need be, but this D1/D2 bullshit needs to go away.  State titles should not be handed out like participation trophies.

  4. According to this, John Madden told Carl Weathers to pursue acting because he did not believe Weathers was tough enough to be an outstanding football player.

    https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/the-black-hole-plus/carl-weathers-john-madden-apollo-creed-sylvester-stallone-rocky-las-vegas-raiders

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    When Weathers was with the Raiders, future Hall of Fame Coach John Madden went to see him play the lead in “Othello,” and reportedly told him afterward to pursue his second career because Madden didn’t believe he was tough enough to be an outstanding pro football player.

    “I was good enough to fool ’em, but never dedicated enough to become a great player,” Weathers recalled of his pro career. “Up to a point, everybody can capitalize on the fact that nobody knows what’s going on. I could make coaches believe I could do what they wanted me to do, but that’s not the same as pushing yourself. The great ones are willing to work harder.

    “I was still looking to hop out of football as soon as I made some headway with acting. I forced the issue by exaggerating a little. In L.A., I lied about having acting credits up in San Francisco. How can they bother to verify your claim that you studied at ACT (the American Conservatory Theater) or worked as an extra in ‘Dirty Harry’? They can’t. But if you run scared, you’ll never get what you want.”

     

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  5. What’s a ‘Diaper Spa,’ and why is it raising eyebrows in New Hampshire?

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    “People tend to fear anything that they fail to comprehend," said the owner of The Diaper Spa, a new business that's stoking local controversy.

    A debate over a new spa is brewing in southern New Hampshire, where some residents in Atkinson are taking a stand against The Diaper Spa — a nursery-like business for adults who role play as children and, yes, wear diapers. 

    According to its website, The Diaper Spa is open to “all diaper-wearing individuals who seek acceptance, respite, and care.” Photos on the spa’s page show a space decorated with the soft comforts of a nursery, complete with toys, folded diapers, and an adult-sized crib.

    Dr. Colleen Ann Murphy, the spa’s owner, offers a range of services that include virtual playdates at $200 an hour, as well as a $1,500 all-day “Diaper B&B” experience that promises rejuvenating pampering “for the little one inside of you.”

    But for now, Murphy said, the vast majority of The Diaper Spa’s business involves telehealth services and life coaching. A recent Christmas-themed event featured a festive story, freshly baked sugar cookies, and a stocking to take home, she explained in an email interview. 

    A board-certified integrative medicine physician and sexologist, Murphy settled in Atkinson in 2022; the home-based spa was a recent addition. 

    Working in and out of high-stress hospital settings led to burnout and fatigue, and Murphy eventually began focusing on sex and relationship coaching with an emphasis on overlooked populations — including ABDL, or adult baby/diaper lovers. 

    “This led me to find a community of people who had varied needs to wear diapers, whether they were physical or emotional, such as vets wounded in combat with incontinence, people with progressive and congenital musculoskeletal conditions, and victims of trauma and abuse,” she explained. “The void of care was there, and I sought a meaningful way to fill it.”

    What does adult baby/diaper lover mean?

    Adult baby/diaper lovers are people “who act a voluntary regression to a previous age and/or wear a diaper for psychological reasons,” according to a 2020 article in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

    The authors speculated that several physiological and psychological factors could cause ABDL fantasies, including continence issues, childhood abuse, and the premature loss of a parent.

    “ABDL behaviours could have different functions, including sexual gratifications or strategies to cope with negative mood states,” they wrote. 

    download-1-65b93ec5ba11a.webp Diapers laid out in The Diaper Spa. – Photo courtesy The Diaper Spa

    Murphy emphasized that the ABDL community is vast, and her business focuses on a specific subgroup who “see this lifestyle as a physical or emotional necessity rather than just entertainment.”

    Drawing comparisons between unhealthy coping mechanisms such as smoking, alcohol, and self-harm, she added: “For these individuals, being a part of this community brings comfort and solace, providing a haven from the stresses, traumas, and triggers they have faced in their history or that they face daily.” 

    And while sexuality plays a role in some ABDL cases, research published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine in 2017 concluded that adult baby role playing in particular “is more likely to be an interpersonal, non-sexual behavior helping some individuals decrease attachment anxiety and negative mood states.”

    For her part, Murphy was emphatic that none of her services have a sexual component. 

    “The most common misconception I hear about ABDL is that the community is composed of pedophiles, perverts, and sex offenders,” she said. “This is blatantly not true.”

    What are neighbors saying?

    Still, The Diaper Spa’s debut has stoked fear and concern among some residents of Atkinson, a town of about 7,000 people near the Massachusetts border. 

    Speaking to The Eagle-Tribune, which first reported on the controversy over The Diaper Spa, Kayla Gallagher expressed concern about the spa’s proximity to a local park and the possibility of run-ins with families.

    “That is something that I will never be willing to expose my kids to, so now we will no longer be able to use that park,” the mother of three told the newspaper. 

    Gallagher doubled down on those concerns in a Jan. 28 Change.org petition, which calls on town leaders to reject any business and zoning licenses and applications for the spa. Murphy has submitted a home business application to the town’s zoning board. 

    “It has come to our attention that this business is advertised to individuals whose sexual fetish involves childlike behaviors,” Gallagher wrote in the petition, which had more than 260 signatures as of Tuesday morning. “This business, per their website, has advertised our town playground to their potential clientele. Thus their sexual fetish will involve the town park where our children play.”

    She sounded the alarm about “potential incidents that pose a threat to the safety and well-being of our community members, particularly our children.”

    Boston.com has reached out to Atkinson’s town administrator for comment on the petition. Murphy, meanwhile, stated that all spa services are offered exclusively on-site, and she’s since updated her website to make that clear. 

    “All clients are respectfully dressed in public, and besides this media attention, there is no reason that anyone would have thought that they were any different than any other neighbor or visitor from the outside,” she added.

    Murphy also has several safeguards in place, only taking clients aged 21 and older, and barring cigarettes, drugs, alcohol, and weapons.

    “These are standard safeguards for most businesses,” she explained. “In any business, you want to keep yourself, your clients, and your community safe. I take this responsibility very seriously.”

    While the community’s outrage saddens her, Murphy expressed hope that her neighbors will come to learn more about what The Diaper Spa is — and, more importantly, what it isn’t

    “People tend to fear anything that they fail to comprehend,” she said, adding, “However, I know that the people in this community are reasonable and intelligent, and I am optimistic that, with time, their concerns will dissipate, and we all will resume enjoying this beautiful life we are all so blessed to have here.”

     

  6. Not a photographer myself.  I stand in awe at the skill and eye y'all have.

    Saw this story on ESPN.com and figured it would be appropriate to post it here.  Did not check to see if it was posted anywhere else so apologies if it has been.

    Texas' Friday Night Lights through the lens of photographer Nash Pils (long form article)

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    On Dec. 7, the Franklin (Texas) High football team was preparing for a state semifinal game against Edna with a customary send-off pep rally at the school.

    The Lions are the biggest show in the town of 1,614 about 65 miles southeast of Waco. The 3A powerhouse entered the season two-time defending state champion and was working on making it back for a fourth straight year. But before the band fired up the fight song, there was an important first order of business: a surprise for a local celebrity.

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    The football team's leadership group called Nash Pils, a 17-year-old junior with Down syndrome, to the gym floor. A naturally gifted photographer, Nash has become the documentarian of a small town's sports programs, and in turn, the football team has become his champion.

    Students chanted, "Nash! Nash! Nash!" as Nash waved his arms to encourage them to get louder. Then the football players, holding a sign that said "Thank you, Nash! Our MVP," presented him with a gift-wrapped box.

     

    Courtesy Franklin Independent School District

    Nash opened his gift and found a $2,000 camera lens that would allow him to grow as a photographer. The community came together to crowdfund the new gear -- reaching the goal in about 12 hours -- just in time for the road trip.

    "We decided to show everyone in public at the pep rally, because we wanted people to see how easy it is to be a good friend to anyone," said Jayden Jackson, Franklin's star running back. "I hope everyone took something from it. I know he's enjoying that lens. He's everywhere with it."

    The fabled Friday Night Lights of Texas encompass entire communities, and in this one, Nash plays his own important role, one that showcases the unique way he sees the world and the moments he is able to capture. Here's what that journey looks like through Nash's eyes.

    Building brotherhood

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    Courtesy Nash Pils

    When the Lions take the field, Nash is usually right there waiting for them, dating back to Franklin's 2021 state championship season when his brother, Jensen, was a senior tight end and defensive back.

    The players have become a collection of his brothers, too, giving Nash's parents peace of mind as he tried to navigate high school after Jensen left for college.

    "Jensen would see [Snapchat] snaps from people teasing him in the lunchroom, and would say, 'Don't do that,'" said Nash's mom, Honny. "But even when he graduated, the football boys put a stop to it."

    Players would message Honny on social media and let her know when there had been an issue and that they had handled it.

    "Some of the kids I knew, and some of them I didn't," she said. "But we always had little feelers."

    And when one of the state's best players comes to your defense, it gets noticed.

    "I used to hear people bully Nash, and sometimes I'd see him cry," Jackson said. "I didn't like that. I tried to step up and be a good friend because I don't like bullying."


    Serious business

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    Courtesy Douglas Pils

    Nash took a shine to photography early, grabbing his parents' camera and taking photos as a toddler, which Honny said raised some eyebrows among other parents.

    "When he was a little baby, I remember them going, 'Oh dear, no, give that camera to your parents, you're gonna break that,'" she said. "And we were like, 'No he's not. That's his job.'"

    Nash started taking his job seriously when he tagged along to family sporting events, including his brother's youth football games. Nash's father, Doug, said he would often see Nash playing with the camera and wonder what he was up to.

    "There was a selfie he took when Jensen was playing flag football. I turned around and looked at him laying in the grass with the light in his face," Doug said. "When I went back to go edit the photos that he had taken, there was just that one picture, the grass is perfectly lit, with his hair in his face and grass in front. I was just like, 'OK, yeah, Nash knows what he's doing.'"


    An eye toward joy

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    Courtesy Nash Pils

    Nash's photographic eye developed naturally, said Hannah White, one of Nash's mentors. For instance, Nash was 10 years old when -- while at the soccer fields for one of sister Ayla's games on a foggy Saturday morning -- he fixated on a spiderweb stretched across a gate with droplets of dew on it. When Ayla came and peeked through the hole in the web, Nash snapped her photo.

    It became his first award-winning photo, when it won a summer youth photography contest held by the College Station library in 2017. It was all Nash's idea, without any guidance.

    "He knows what he wants to capture, and he's not going to let anyone else dictate it to him," White said. "He is able to capture people's happiness, laughter and just true human emotion."

    Nash's eye also earned him a lifelong pal in Tom Fox, a Dallas Morning News photographer and Pils family friend who sold them one of his old cameras to help Nash get more serious. Tom was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for coverage of Hurricane Katrina and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2020 for his photos of a courthouse shooter in Dallas. Not a bad resource to have. He offers Nash tips on camera settings and how to hold the camera at chest level instead of looking through the viewfinder on occasion. ("Nash thought that was coooooool," Honny said.)

    "The communication skills aren't there," Honny said of Nash. "He says hi and hello and thank you, but that's pretty much about it. You're not gonna get a whole conversation from him. ... But Tom's name is easy to say. He says, 'Tom! Tom!' Whenever he and Tom are next to each other, Tom grabs that camera and starts pointing out weird stuff. And Nash hangs on every word.


    Ability to showcase

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    Courtesy Nash Pils

    Nash shoots all sports year-round, but football has the most downtime during a game. And according to his pro mentors, this is where he excels.

    "He's fearless," Fox said. "I mean, he goes right after it and he does these candids as well as photos of his friends and the players on the teams. I just love how real and natural his photos are."

    During a timeout in a win over Woodville in Franklin in 2022, Nash took a photo of linebacker Brayden Youree grabbing a drink, with dramatic lighting. It would go on to win Best of Show in the photo contest at the 2023 Robertson County Fair in Hearne, Texas.

    "I tell people this all the time. He is the best at capturing what the environment is of sporting events, but especially for football," White said.

    With White's encouragement and a community of support, the Pils family realized Nash had found his calling. "For the first time, it wasn't the disability," Honny said. "It was the ability."


    The character behind the camera

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    Courtesy Nash Pils

    When he's not capturing prize-winning photos on the field, Nash often turns his camera around on his classmates in the stands, like this one from the 52-14 semifinal win.

    At Franklin's state championship game in December, the die-hards up front at AT&T Stadium in Arlington would cheer whenever Nash would walk by, and he would stop, wave his hands to get them to show some excitement, then start snapping away.

    "It's really hard for someone to photograph their peers, especially someone in high school," Fox said. "But he doesn't have that fear or that anxiety. I think that builds his confidence, that somebody else trusted his ability to take their picture."

    It's a far cry from several years ago, when Honny asked Nash what he wanted for Christmas.

    "A friend," he told her, delivering a gut punch to a parent.

    He felt lonely in special education classes. "Nash knows he's different," she said. "Nash knows he has Down syndrome."

    But, she said, she thinks the camera has changed how Nash is seen.

    "The photography helped him socially," she said. "You can hide behind that camera and be awkward or be different, but that makes you more socially acceptable in some people's eyes like, 'Oh, he can do that.' He's a funky dude, and he's gonna make you smile."

    And he's not afraid to play to the crowd if that's what it takes.

    "He will do just about anything that he can to have a good time," White said. "During halftime or during timeouts, they'll play music, and you'll just catch Nash dancing. He knows the power that he has. And he's not shy to use that."


    More than football

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    Courtesy Nash Pils

    White gets emotional talking about Nash, with whom she has bonded while photographing Franklin events. She marvels at his ability to spotlight the culture that surrounds sports while also photographing the game.

    "His work just captures the definition of joy," she said. "He's able to capture moments for what they are. They're not staged. Photos from his eye are something that I would never be able to capture, just because he is who he is. His pictures are able to show the good sides or the good parts of human beings to their core."

    And the subjects have grown to appreciate having such an attentive photographer.

    "Nash takes pictures of the band, the twirlers, the kids in the stands. He's always focused on that," Doug said of photos like this one Nash took of sophomore cheerleader Haidyn Fannin, daughter of Franklin coach Mark Fannin. "They share his photos; they become their profile pics, or they just share them in their [Instagram] stories. That happens a lot. That's cool that they see his work is worthy of being their profile picture."

    Doug runs Facebook and Instagram accounts devoted to Nash's photography, and he jokes that he's going to add "Nash's social media director" to his LinkedIn profile. But he sees firsthand that Nash is no longer lacking for friends.

    "His first non-sports thing was that he got asked to come shoot the eighth-grade graduation party this past year by one of the parents," Doug said. "That was his sister's class."

    He said students send Instagram messages to Nash's account asking him to come shoot events, like when an eighth-grade football player messaged, "Hey, Nash, can you come out and shoot our big game against Lorena this week? It's a big showdown game and we want to make sure we have some of your photos from the game."

    Honny said some kids have even asked to take him to the kind of parties that parents aren't supposed to know about, promising they'll look after him. She's moved by their consideration, but she's not quite ready for that.

    "Through this process of him being able to get out and be involved with the school and with the community, it's allowed people to see who Nash is," White said. "He is so much more than his Down syndrome."


    Professional praise

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    Courtesy Nash Pils

    Fox, one of the best photojournalists in the country, said he once told Doug how lucky Nash is to have a modern camera with a motor drive, meaning you can snap several photos in rapid succession and hope one of them captures the moment.

    But Fox was shocked to find out that Nash doesn't do that. He takes single frames, such as when Jackson stretched the ball across the goal line on a 20-yard touchdown run against Edna, the first night Nash had his new lens.

    "I look at some of the photos, and it's a one-shot wonder kind of thing," Fox said. "That's one thing I was floored by. It's incredible to me that he can just pull them out this way."

    Jackson, who was a junior this year, recently visited Texas and will be a highly recruited player after rushing for 4,655 yards and 65 touchdowns in the past two seasons. He said he sees Nash as one of the team's stars, too.

    "Everyone shows love to Nash," Jackson said. "Whenever Nash is in our presence, we always give him high-fives and tell him how good of a photographer he is. We try to be positive and just throw good comments at him anytime we can because Nash, that's a person to love. We know that he doesn't have to travel to these games and take these photos for us, but he does.


    The big stage

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    Nash is the son of journalists. Doug worked for 15 years at Hearst newspapers, notably for the San Antonio Express-News and Honny, now a nurse, was once a graphic artist at The Dallas Morning News. Jensen is a sophomore at North Texas, and Ayla, a freshman at Franklin High, is a cheerleader, plays basketball, runs cross country, and throws the discus and shot.

    Doug said he always appreciated the impact of sports and learning to be part of a team. When they found out they were having another boy after Jensen was born, he and Honny dreamed of brothers who would grow up playing sports together.

    "When Nash was born with Down syndrome, we knew that was not going to be the case," Doug said. But years later, Nash is right in the mix.

    "Being able to be on the field with Jensen when they won the [first] state championship was a really big deal," Doug said. "Then last year, when they won it again with me being able to be on the field with Nash, with Nash being a part of it, was an equally big deal. Could I have imagined Nash being able to take part in a football game at AT&T Stadium? No. That's an amazing part of this story for me.


    Gearing up for more

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    Courtesy Douglas Pils

    White was a longtime photography hobbyist whose husband, Jacob, an assistant coach for the Lions, pushed her to pursue her passion, buying her a camera in 2019 and encouraging her to become a professional. That's right around the same time she moved to Franklin, and eventually became fast friends with Nash. Both White and Nash's parents think it probably had to do with the snacks she would buy Nash while they were working.

    "We share a love of Dr Pepper and Sprite, pepperoni pizza, and sometimes Skittles or a pickle," she said.

    Doug said he and Nash were on the sideline for one of Jensen's JV games and Nash and White struck up a friendship. Then Nash started to go sit by her during basketball games, where they'd shoot together from the court.

    "That's been going on ever since," Doug said. "She just took a liking to him, and every time he learned something."

    White said she was immediately moved by Nash, a kindred spirit as someone who loved photography but needed encouragement.

    "I think that's kind of why I gravitated toward Nash, outside of him being a really bright and bubbly and fun individual," she said. "I think he's a lot like me in the sense where we have the belief in ourselves but sometimes we just need that extra push to put ourselves out there."

    She knew that for Nash to improve, he needed some new equipment. And as much as the football team appreciated him, she appreciated his impact on the team as well. So she wanted to show it by rallying his fans to buy him his new lens.

    She posted on Facebook (without the knowledge of Nash or his parents) asking for contributions for a new lens for Nash's camera that would allow him to grow even more. It took almost no time to reach the $2,200 goal.

    "I was just so thrilled because he's been wanting for so long to make his pictures better, and you just need a pro lens to make that happen, especially in those small-town settings where there's not a lot of light," Fox said. "You need that."

    White teared up talking about how Nash sprinted full-speed to meet the team at the presentation, and she said anytime she's having a rough day, she watches it. She might have made it happen, but she said he has more than done the same for her.

    "When I'm with him, I have such peace and such joy," she said. "He's such a gift to me. It fills me with so much joy for people to see who he is, to bring out the best in people."


    Access for change

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    Courtesy Nash Pils

    Nash has become a fixture in Franklin with an all-access pass that would be the envy of any professional journalist.

    Fannin, the head coach, has welcomed him into the program, which is how Nash ends up getting a photo of the coach giving a fiery speech after a playoff win.

    Doug laughed, thinking about a story he was told during the season. Fannin was laying down the ground rules about how the locker room was all business and was closed to outsiders. No families, no brothers, no cousins.

    "Literally the next words out of his mouth were, 'Oh hey, Nash,'" Doug said. "He was walking around the locker room taking pregame pictures."

    But that's the way things work in Franklin.

    "The boys on our football team, they love him a whole lot. He really, truly is a part of the Franklin Lions football team, really any sports team," White said. "It's good to see a little bit of change coming from our Franklin community. They're changing the tide, and it's really kind of beautiful."


    More than photos

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    Courtesy Nash Pils

    Nash is still, first and foremost, a Franklin student, classmate and fan. The Lions' quest for a three-peat ended with a 14-7 loss to Malakoff in the state championship.

    Jackson, his friend, was crushed. After the game, he fell to his knees, and stayed there for several minutes while White, holding her son, reached down to console him.

    It was the only picture Nash took postgame. Instead, he held his camera while he walked around the field, hugging anyone who looked upset and patting others on the shoulder pads. Nobody said he was missing the moment or should be working.

    One-shot Nash got the pic, then he hugged his friends.

     

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  7. Bumping this thread to acknowledge the anniversary of the Challenger disaster happening on this date back in 1986.  Still remember being in 6th grade science class and one of the other teachers coming in to tell my science teacher about what happened.

    Also a belated remembrance of Apollo 1 (January 27th) and the upcoming anniversary of the Columbia disaster (February 1st).

    I always find it amazing that 3 of the biggest disasters in space program history all happened within the same week on the calendar.

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  8. 4 minutes ago, pacman said:

    I am probably the last to know, but I am just now learning that the satellite schools act like they are college station with yell leaders and "gameday".

    https://www.tamug.edu/yell/index.html

    This is an old clip I found in demonstration.

     

     

    As someone who works with several sea aggy grads, I have been informed that the Galveston campus is not a system school in the way that A&M Commerce or A&M Kingsville is.  The Galveston campus is considered a part of the main College Station campus.  Probably a better analogy out there, but it is sort of the aggy version of the Balcones Research Center or whatever it called nowadays.   

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  9. 5 hours ago, NameAlreadyInUse said:

    So I'm out here on the west coast watching the late night replay on ESPN.  I remember in the 80's and 90's they would "Due to time constraints we're moving ahead in this game" and show us the entire god damned half time show.  Then somewhere in the early 2000's they figured that shit out and would give us more of the game and skip halftime, so you still might skip some plays but not as many.  Admittedly, I haven't watched replays like this in awhile because Texas has sucked, so how long have they been doing replays where you get 2-3 plays and then 5 minutes of commercials?  We're in 7:43 in the 3rd in the last 44 minutes, and I've seen no more than 3 plays between commercials in this whole fucking game.  WTF Is this bullshit?  I think we're going to get the whole god damned game in an hour, and 35 minutes of that hour at least will be commercials. 

    Those big fat checks from the conference come from somewhere.  This is the price we are going to have to pay.  Not saying it isn't aggravating and it most certainly sucks sitting through seemingly endless commercial breaks, but it is what it is.

  10. Are radar detectors still a thing?  I cannot recall the last time I saw one in a vehicle.  I remember when I got my driver's license and first car in 1990 it seemed like everyone had a radar detector in their car.  Maybe it was just us idiot teenagers with lead feet that had them.  

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