October 6, 2025 • 38 mins
Lottery winner has a wakeup call. Upcoming October events. Bad grammar. Handwriting research. Nap research. Badminton robots. Happy Noodle Day! Waiting can be good for you. Merriam-Webster Dictionary adds terms. How to get your guests to leave.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
WTAW news time is three minutes after seven.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's sixty eight degrees. Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
I'm Chelsea reberb, the interim president at Texas A and
M is a former state senator. The Board of Regents
unanimously hired Tommy Williams, an Aggie graduate who worked for
the system after spending ten years as a state senator
representing the Woodlands. The only regent who made a comment
was Chairman Bob Albritton of Fort Worth.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Here's respect for the institution, it's students, it's staff, and
its faculty, along with his understanding of the needs of
our state, make him the right FIP to serve as
interim president of Texam University.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Alberton said Williams will serve as long as necessary to
pick the exact right person as the next permanent president.
College Station Municipal Court continues to be busy with cases
involving underage drinking.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
I just looked this past Monday. We had sixty minor
and possession cases filed. Sixty and that's with a couple
of bars that had produced quite a bit had closed down.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Municipal Judge Ed Splane, speaking on our show, says one
out of every six minor in possession of alcohol cases
in Texas is from College Station and most of those
are from the north Gate district.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
There's about thirty thousand from what you know, living around
Northgate and the next few week we have like three
home weekend games and it's just almost a ride of passage,
it seems.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
A week from today starts the College Station Municipal Court's
annual Fall warrant amnesty period, where the seventy five dollars
warrant fee is waived for those taking care of business.
By Halloween, look for more construction in West Bryan's Lakewalk district.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
The Brian City Council and it's private developer proposing near
the Stell Hotel a combination of an office building, a
parking garage, entertainment venues, restaurants, and multi family housing. The
City Council, acting as the Brian Commerce and Development Board,
is scheduled tomorrow to spend eighty percent and on the
developer of the remaining twenty percent towards the nearly five
million dollar cost of a two hundred space parking garage
(01:52):
and the necessary infrastructure for the rest of the complex.
The city and the developer will recover the costs from
land sales that are estimate to total more than twenty
million dollars bill Omiver sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
College Station ISD buses transport more than thirty six hundred
students each day. New technology to monitor the whereabouts of
buses was reviewed during September CSISD school board meeting.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
It provides immediate information for who has boarded the bus
for us. It provides overall student security through the monitoring system.
It creates accountability trill for students.
Speaker 7 (02:26):
Where are they at?
Speaker 6 (02:26):
Where are they supposed to be at? Are they supposed
to be on the bus? Were they supposed to ride home?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
CSISD Transportation Director Shannon cal Tharp says one thing the
technology does not automatically do is give parents notice of
buses that are behind schedule.
Speaker 7 (02:39):
That comes strictly from my office.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
I try to stress to my drivers if you don't
tell me you're fifteen minutes late, I can't tell anyone
you're running fifteen minutes late, and I'm getting yelled at
for it.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
So we need to make sure we're staying in contact.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Caltharp says more than thirty three hundred parents are using
an app that monitors the whereabouts of their students who
are being tracked with a badge.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
If you see lots.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Of green today, it's in recognition of National four H Week.
Speaker 8 (03:03):
We have been tasked with painting the town green. So
on Monday, October sixth, we'll celebrate Go Green Day. Hope
y'all will join us, and that is the director's challenge
to paint the town green.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Brasses County four H Agent Ashley Sugg also introduced students
who represent the local four AH council during last week's
County Commission meeting. There are more than seven hundred and
twenty four H members in Brass County. WTAW news time
is six minutes after seven. It's sixty eight degrees. More
news at seven thirty or online at WTAW dot com.
I'm Chelsea Reebert for sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
Speaker 9 (03:38):
It is seven o eight. It's SEMFOYTYX on this Monday morning.
Let's have a look at our weather. It's brought to
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HI temperature today about ninety three or so. Going to
do that all week long. Northeasterly winds. They'll get up
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to about twenty miles an hour or on Wednesday, just
so you know, and then low's each night probably be
around seven or so.
Speaker 10 (04:04):
We're looking at sixty eight right now.
Speaker 11 (04:06):
Good day if you're an NFL fan in the state
of Texas, as long as you're rooting for the Texans
and the Cowboys. Both of those teams picked up victories.
We'll talk about that and more coming up in sports,
all right.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
We hear about, you know, lottery winners often on the show.
We talk about people who win big, but we don't
always hear about what happens after they win the lottery,
you know, whether yeah, whether they decide to, you know,
be smart about it or maybe not be so smart. Well,
Adam Lopez, he's he's a forklift driver, not anymore, but
he was a forklift driver from the village of.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Matti Shawl in England.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
And he watched his bank balance go from about seventeen
dollars to one point.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Three million back in July pretty good.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, after he bought five scratch off lotto tickets for
five pounds each from a corner store near Norwich. He said,
when I saw the the one million, you know pounds,
he was I didn't know what to do with myself.
I shoved the scratch card in the glove box without
even thinking. I always thought i'd scream if I ever
won big, but when it actually happened, I was stunned
into complete silence. But before he knew it, what began
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with treating his family to things that they had always
dreamed of, including new range rovers, and his mom you know,
went on a family trip to Barbados turned into a
marathon of spending and non stop partying for about three months.
Speaker 11 (05:23):
That's a party, yeah, he said.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I left my job. I never should have done that.
He admitted this in a BBC interview earlier this month.
He said, I lost the structure to my life and
day to day living. It was a complete disconnect from
the life I was living. To make things worse, he
found himself hospitalized with a bilateral pulmonary embolism oh after
getting a blood clot in his leg, which then spread
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to his lungs.
Speaker 10 (05:49):
Wow, yeah, he.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Said, I couldn't walk, I couldn't breathe I called the ambulance.
I got wheeled into the ambulance from my house. The
biggest life changing thing I had was laying in the
back of that ambulance and hearing the sirens.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
He spent eight days in a hospital.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
He decided that his recent health scare was a much
needed wake up call to put his health.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
First and to reconnect with his normal routine.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
He said, it just makes you look at both sides
of life, because it doesn't matter if you have a million,
one hundred million, a billion, a trillion, when you're in
the back of an ambulance, none of it matters.
Speaker 9 (06:20):
It's an expensive lesson that yeah, well, well war it's
unfortunately went through.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
That, but yeah, yeah, and it doesn't say that he's
at zero. I mean, I don't think he's spent it all,
but you know, yeah, definitely let the let the winnings
get a little bit to his head and then you know,
was doing everything he probably hadn't obviously been able to
do his whole life, but you know, got the wake
up call he needed and unfortunately spent more than a
week in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
But hopefully he learns his lesson.
Speaker 9 (06:46):
All right, So we'll let you know that Tomorro's jackpot's
five hundred and forty seven million dollars. Okay, which is
a lot more than a million pounds. But again, and
you have to buy a ticket. You have to buy
a ticket, all right.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
To play to win.
Speaker 11 (06:56):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (06:57):
It's uh October the sixth. We have things we need
to look forward to the rest of the month. Of course,
the start of the NHL season is coming up tomorrow hockey.
More importantly, the twenty twenty five North American Wife Carrying Championship,
Oh yeah, returns this weekend, all right, gonna be at
Sunday River Resort in Maine.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Okay, challenging a so this yeah, this is the United
States one. They have one over in Europe.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (07:25):
It's a two hundred and seventy eight yard course packed
with sand, water and log hurdles, the team's race for
glory and quirky prizes like your wife's weight in beer
and five times are weight in cash. Couples don't have
to be married, and the chosen carry style is up
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to them.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Okay, yep.
Speaker 10 (07:49):
However, the most.
Speaker 9 (07:49):
Popular techniques, sure the Estonian carry apparently leads the pack
beyond the race itself.
Speaker 10 (07:56):
Awards go to.
Speaker 9 (07:56):
Best costumes and also best wipeouts. If you don't win,
I mean, if you look bad losing, then now.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
You go, yeah, maybe you still win something.
Speaker 10 (08:05):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (08:05):
Also, then we have the Women's Iron Man World Championship.
That's October the eleventh. Canadian Thanksgiving because October thirteenth. I
guess we've never figured out why they have a different
Thanksgiving than we do. But that's fine because they're contrary.
Speaker 10 (08:18):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (08:19):
Uh, October twentieth through the twenty third, we've got a
meteor shower if you want to look at the sky.
Back to the Future day is October twenty first. Okay,
that's because in Back to the Future Part two, Marty
McFly travels too October twenty first, twenty fifteen, to save
his kids who are born back.
Speaker 11 (08:38):
In the future, back in nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 10 (08:41):
NBA season starts.
Speaker 9 (08:42):
Oh, can't get more excited than that, that's right, Yeah,
October twenty first. Game one of the World Series is
October the twenty fourth.
Speaker 10 (08:48):
We don't care in Texas this year.
Speaker 9 (08:50):
And October twenty fifth, of course, we have two weeks
two months until Halloween until Christmas. Halloween is coming up
five six days later. On October the thirty first, which is.
Speaker 10 (09:01):
Says Friday Friday.
Speaker 11 (09:02):
This ye, yeah, this will be fun.
Speaker 9 (09:03):
All right.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
It's a Friday and a volleyball plays Texas at read Arena.
Speaker 10 (09:06):
Oh that's rights.
Speaker 9 (09:08):
Sobody, okay, so before you post your profile on a
dating app, have somebody check your grammar.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Men were talking about the five thousand dating apps ltely
and seeing what's on there.
Speaker 9 (09:26):
I'm just saying, okay from from the voice of someone
who's been there.
Speaker 10 (09:30):
All right.
Speaker 9 (09:31):
They say that basically, look, personal hygiene is number one.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Okay, but well you can't really see.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I mean, if it's that bad on your profile on
an online app, then it's really bad. So yeah, the
first thing that you're going to notice is can you spell?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And can you use there correctly?
Speaker 11 (09:51):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (09:51):
Yes, yeah, And I mean it's eighty eight percent of
the women say and seventy five percent of the men
say that too.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I mean, you're I don't out that it's not It
doesn't happen across both genders.
Speaker 9 (10:02):
But anyway, I mean that they're putting that ahead of
a person's confidence and ahead of their teeth as well.
Speaker 11 (10:10):
Well, it shows that you actually have some intelligence and
you paid a little attention in school, and you put
some time and effort into your profile.
Speaker 10 (10:17):
I guess that you care what you're writing.
Speaker 9 (10:21):
Yeah, Well, speaking of writing, researchers in Norway found that
kids who write by hand as much as possible have
better brain activity than those who type. And that's in
both kids and adults. Actually, researchers they looked at the
they strapped these electrodes on kids. I know the kids
loved that and had them do some handwriting. The brain
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waves were found to be significantly more active in participants
when they were writing by hand than they did the
same thing, put them on them and had them type
on their phones and as a result, they said, it
does make a difference. A lot of senses are activated
by pressing the pen to papers, seeing the letters that
you write, hearing the sound that you make while writing.
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These senses experience. Since these sensory experiences create contact between
different parts of your brain, they open your brain up
to learning and we learn and we we know this,
we know we remember better when we write something down.
There's no doubt about that. That's they found that from
years of people who are now taking notes in class.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Well, and now everybody's using a laptop, they do, you know,
And I get it. You know, it's it's it's hard
to take notes quickly enough handwriting when you know, professors
are flying through slides on the PowerPoint and obviously it's easier.
But when I was like studying, making flash cards and
things like that, I would always handwrite things.
Speaker 10 (11:42):
Down flash cards.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah, wow, the great way to study.
Speaker 11 (11:45):
Oh with that daughter. That daughter made some last night
for her anatomy testing. Nice. Oh really?
Speaker 10 (11:49):
Oh yeah, okay, So and did you help her with that?
Speaker 8 (11:52):
Or no?
Speaker 11 (11:53):
This kid is way smarter than men. Need anything for me?
This one is. She's the one that gets really upset
if she gets a ninety on something.
Speaker 10 (12:00):
Oh all right, okay, so how many did she make?
Speaker 11 (12:04):
I have no idea. I was passed out going to
sleep as she was creating her flash card.
Speaker 10 (12:10):
There you go, taking care of her business.
Speaker 11 (12:12):
Eighteen minutes now after seven o'clock, the info maniacs on
your Monday morning. You know, around the world, naps are
looked up upon in a lot of countries. They tend
to be looked down upon here in the United States,
But some studies are changing this, y'all know. I'm a
big fan of the siesta, okay, Latin American countries. Of course,
in Spain and Portugal over there, they take the siesta
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and they're pretty good at it. In certain parts of
the world like Japan and China, falling asleep at your
desk is considered a sign that you have dedicated everything
that you have to your job, and that looks working
to a point of exhaustion is seen as a display
of dedication. So it is not a bad thing. It
should not be outlawed, it should not be it should
be encouraged. And a lot of places are Ben and
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Jerry's does that sort of thing, a few other companies,
pr firms, famous magazines. A lot of people in the
United States are starting to gravitate towards this, and I
think we ought to get behind the siesta. I'm all
for that. People say that because a lot of folks
are staying up later at night, there's more sleep disruptions
with all the electronics, especially phones, and that modern life,
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a daytime nap is something that can help your productivity.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
So because we're not self disciplined enough to just go
to bed when we're supposed to, true, right, we should be.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Able to nap during our workday.
Speaker 11 (13:28):
Well, that's not the only reason, but it's a good one.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Listen. I love a good nap.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I also wake up at three point thirty in the morning,
so like, I don't you know. But so when my
friends are like, oh, I didn't get enough sleep, and I'm.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Like, well, it's your fault.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
You stayed up till midnight, right, nobody's forcing you to
watch that extra three episodes of the show you're watching.
Speaker 11 (13:47):
Well, if you're going to take on the siesta, you
should know that the nap should last between fifteen and
twenty minutes. You sleep any longer than that, yeah, if
you sleep any longer than that, it will trigger what
they call sleep inertia, a difficulty waking up, and you'll
be a little bit grey. They shouldn't happen after six
pm and we'll interfere with your sleep later on in
the evening. It should be like a relief valve, you know.
You just get that little fifteen twenty minute nap in there.
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Send an alarm for twenty to thirty minutes, and that
way you have time to fall asleep and get that
fifteen to twenty minute nap in a lot of people
are doing it.
Speaker 9 (14:17):
Is it because you know, I can remember when AOL
was a thing, okay, back in the nineties, and I
can remember talking to other grown ups going, god, I
stayed up until two o'clock in the morning, just you know,
on this AOL thing and just chat rooms and stuff
like that.
Speaker 11 (14:34):
And now it's binge watching.
Speaker 9 (14:35):
But I mean, there are all sorts of things that
if we don't have the discipline, they'll sure snatch your.
Speaker 11 (14:41):
Sleep on that. That's what it comes back to, is
the discipline. But if you're just worn out, or you
get up at three o'clock in the morning to come
to a radio show, you know, take that little fifteen
to twenty minute nap. When I was a camper at
summer camp in the Hill Country as a kid, they
implemented a siesta essentially right after lunch for two hours,
you had a rest period. And it was part of
it was because you were very active and you needed
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some extra rest. And the other part of it is
summertime in Texas, that's the hottest part of the day, right,
so they had you inside getting a little relief from
that big fan.
Speaker 10 (15:10):
So how many days a week you nap?
Speaker 11 (15:12):
Now, will it depends on the day. I will say,
out of the week days, I probably catch a nap
three out of the five days.
Speaker 10 (15:19):
And so how long does that nap?
Speaker 11 (15:21):
Usually that nap generally will be about thirty to forty
five minutes, Chelsea.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
It really depends on the week and what I've got
going on and if I have the time.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I mean, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
There are weeks where I will nap four out of
the five week days. But then there's also where I
don't nap at all because you know, if I feel good,
I feel energized enough, I don't want to nap, and
for it to you know, kind of ruin my sleep
time because I do go to sleep so early, and
when I do nap during the week, I try not
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to nap longer than an hour because then, yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
That will really stresses.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
So it just no like more so it disrupts my
sleep at night, and it makes it harder to go
to bed if I've gotten enough rest during the day.
Speaker 9 (16:08):
Well, the problem, yeah, because you go to bed so early.
Speaker 10 (16:11):
That's close to that nap ends.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
That's the problem.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Like I wake up at like let's say I take
a nap at three pm, I'm waking up at four
four thirty I.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Go to bed at like six thirty. That doesn't work.
It doesn't really work.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
So if I'm still feeling good in the afternoon, I
try to push through and you know, just you know,
busy myself with something else. But there are truly afternoons
where I just have like nothing else going on, and
I'm like, oh, I might as well.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Kind of lay down here, nat. I don't, are you
a napper right now?
Speaker 10 (16:37):
I'd much No, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Oh yeah, okay, Sunday afternoon is an okay time, Okay,
I can.
Speaker 9 (16:42):
I like, I'll be reading stuff that I've aggregated during
the week, and I'll fall asleep when I'm reading because
I'm not sitting in a couch and I'm comfortable.
Speaker 10 (16:51):
So I might do that, but not for long. I don't.
Speaker 9 (16:54):
As far as a special time to take a nap, no,
and I haven't had one in a long, long years.
Speaker 10 (17:00):
I haven't done that.
Speaker 11 (17:01):
That's a fifteen minutes yesterday.
Speaker 10 (17:02):
There you go.
Speaker 9 (17:03):
Scientists have trained a four legged robot to play badminton
against a human opponent.
Speaker 11 (17:09):
Okay, not enough opponents out there.
Speaker 10 (17:11):
You know, That's what I'm thinking.
Speaker 9 (17:13):
And they say it it'll scuttle around the court just
like you're supposed to, and apparently play rallies up to
ten shots.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Wow, that's pretty good.
Speaker 9 (17:21):
By combining whole body movements and visual perception, the robot,
which is called anti mole, it's like animal, but it's animal, Okay.
So animal learned to adapt the way that it moved
to reach the shuttlecock then successfully return it over the
court thanks to of course, artificial intelligence. They've got a
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video of it. So it's a four legged robot. And
we've seen these before. They can do things like open doors,
that sort of stuff. And there's apparently something called Science Robotics,
a magazine that shows all the different things that they
can do. But this thing, four legged dog like robot,
weighs about one hundred and ten pounds, stands about a
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foot and a half. And then what they did is
they attached an arm to it. Yeah, that sticks out
of the top and you know that pretty interesting thing. Now,
there are three different joints in each one of their legs,
so they've got like twelve connect points that it has
to think about. But sports is a good application, the
scientists say, in this kind of research, because you can
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gradually increase the competitiveness or the difficulty, which does make sense.
In their research, they put together this dynamic arm holding
the badminton racket at a forty five degree angle. With
addition to the arm, the robot now is five feet
tall and with these joints having to interact, I mean
it's got to figure out how to do this right.
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Team also added stereo cameras put two lenses stacked on
top of each other just to the right of center
so that they can watch across the way. The robot
was then taught to become a bad mitten player through
reinforcement learning. This is a type of machine learning. The
robot explored its environment trial and error, found where the
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walls were found, where the out of bounds lines were,
and learned how to swing the racket. Then the researchers
created a training regimen for it. They found that the
robot spontaneously started to move back to the center, which
is what people do when they hit it too, so
it's learning.
Speaker 11 (19:18):
A little bit.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
Also now sounds like fun. But the whole idea, they
say is they think that the research like this ultimately
can be taken beyond sports, for example, to remove debris rescue. Yeah,
search and rescue type situations.
Speaker 11 (19:31):
A lot of that work goes on just across the
road over there atiques and they do a lot of
the stuff with the robots and search and rescues.
Speaker 10 (19:37):
So there you go. They've got it. Play in badmint't.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Wtal. News time is seven thirty and sixty nine degrees.
News is presented by west Web All Britain gentry law firm,
the experience legal team for the Things You Value most.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Good morning, I'm Chelsea reberb.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Tomorrow's Brian City Council agenda includes a proposal to expand
the West Side Lakewalk District.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
The Council, acting as the Brine Commerce and Development Board,
will consider spending up to three point eight million dollars
that's not budgeted. This would pay for eighty percent of
a two hundred space parking garage and the required infrastructure
to support a future office, retail, restaurant and entertainment complex
near the Stellar Hotel. City staff projects the expansion will
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generate twenty million dollars in land sales revenue, sales and
property tax revenue from an office building, and entertainment venues
projected to eventually generate more than twenty six million dollars
A year, and the future construction of multifamily housing and
commercial uses is projected to generate an additional eighty million dollars.
Speaking of the Stellar Hotel, tomorrow's council agenda includes a
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request to allow the hotel owner to keep another year
of hotel occupancy tax money. The request is to compensate
the hotel for reduced occupancy during the pandemic. The maximum
amount of money the hotel will keep from the city
to a quarter million dollars is not changing, Bill Oliver sixteen,
twenty ninety four to five WAW.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
The Texas A and M System Board of Regents choose
as an interim president at the Flagship campus. Regent's chairman
Bob Albritton and Fort Wertz said it was a unanimous
selection to bring on Tommy Williams, an Aggie graduate who
spent ten years as a state senator representing the Woodlands
before working for the System as a lobbyist in Austin.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
We're not going to put a timeline on the search
for our next president. We're going to make sure that
this next president is the exact right person to lead
us forward, and so we are very comfortable that Tommy
can Act in the Interim forever long it takes us
to do this job right.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
All Britain was the only regent making a comment after
the board spent nearly two hours in executive session. While
the Northgate District continues to produce more high rise student
apartment complexes, it's also one of the most prolific areas
of Texas for underage drinking. That was part of an
update on our show from Municipal Judge Ed Splaine.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
One out of six mips Minor and Possession of alcohol
filed in Texas has filed in our court, and it's
almost for the most part from Northgate.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Last Monday in municipal courts, Blane handled sixty minor in
possession of alcohol cases.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
I get really kind of up when we get an
MIP second, because that clearly either someone has an alcohol
problem or they just haven't learned the lesson right.
Speaker 11 (22:12):
But it is a big factor. We're seeing a lot
of that.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
The judge also says the annual amnesty period for warrants
issued by College Station Municipal Court starts a week from
today and continues through Halloween. That saves offenders a warrant
fee that is increasing to seventy five dollars the hour
before the bars in the Northgate district closed. On Saturday morning,
College Station police arrested two men for reckless driving where
both drivers did burnouts on Church Avenue. Both drivers were
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released from jail after posting bonds. One of the men,
a twenty year old from suburban Fort Worth, was also
charged with DWY with an open container and unlawful carrying
of a weapon. A Brian man was arrested last week
for assaulting a sixty five year old man in July.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
The arrest report from.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
The Brazos County Sheriff's office says the victim which treated
at his home after he was punched in the face
with a closed fist and for a dog bar from
the suspect's pit bull. The arrest report does not say
what happened to the dog when forty three year old
Dale Pindergraft went to jail. District Court records say Pindergraft
pleaded guilty in May to possessing a controlled substance and
was placed on three years probation. That's after Pendergraft spent
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two months in jail after probation was revoked following a
conviction for a deadly conduct three years ago. Two months
into the school year, College Station ISD school board members
receive an update on the district's new technology to monitors
school buses, their drivers, and the more than thirty six
hundred students who are passengers. And Transportation Director Shannon caltharp
says more than thirty three hundred parents are using an
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app that monitors the whereabouts of their students who are
being tracked with a badge.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
They can be notified as many times as they want.
Maybe that parent that wants to know when they go
through every single intersection, I don't really want all that information.
I just want to know maybe when you're five minutes
from my house. That's fine too.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Safety features include parents giving permission for someone else to
pick up their child.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
The driver can ask for an ID and if that
person actually is supposed to be there and get little Johnny,
then we can go ahead and let them have them.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
If they're not, then we just take them back to school.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Caltharpe says one thing the technology does not automatically do
is give parents notice of buses that are behind schedule.
She manually issues issues those notices to parents through their app.
Last year, Brazos County had the sixth largest number of
four H members in the state, with seven hundred. Recognizing
this week as National four H Week. County Commissioners learned
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from four H agent Ashley Sug that the number is
more than seven hundred and twenty.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
They're projects ranging from the traditional ag in livestock to
stem healthy living, archery, shooting, sports, and community service.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Sug also said today is Go Green Day to promote
four H. WTAW news time is seven thirty six at
sixty nine degrees. News is presented by west Web All Britain, Gentry.
More news at the top of the hour or online
at WTAW dot com. I'm Chelsea Reebert for sixteen twenty
ninety four to five. WTAW Morning at seven thirty eighty's
(25:01):
the infliming X on a Monday morning Ledger with us,
Let's have a look at our weather.
Speaker 9 (25:05):
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high temperature probably all week long, wins out of the
Northeast all week long, and low temperatures will be probably
about seventy one to seventy three, which is pretty okay,
and we're getting they We're at sixty nine right now.
Speaker 11 (25:24):
Nice day over at Kyle Field. On Saturday night, an
m improves to five and zer after handling Mississippi State
thirty one to nine. The final score we will hear
from coach Mike Elko coming up in sports.
Speaker 9 (25:34):
Happy noodle day, Yeah, it is a noodle day. They've
been around for a long long time.
Speaker 11 (25:42):
Chinese.
Speaker 10 (25:43):
Yeah, Chinese, probably the ones who invented him.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Hum.
Speaker 9 (25:47):
But Thomas Jefferson in seventeen eighty nine. I don't know
how they know it was in seventeen eighty nine, but
will take their word for it. Thomas Jefferson returned to
the US after several years in France and brought back
two cases of pasta, and it was on.
Speaker 11 (26:05):
It was just on.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Yeah, you were right, originating in China around four thousand
years ago.
Speaker 9 (26:10):
Wow, Okay, Yeah, I don't know how they came up
with that idea, but we're glad they did it.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Glad they did exactly.
Speaker 9 (26:16):
And I didn't realize that instant. Ramen was invented in
Japan in.
Speaker 10 (26:22):
Nineteen fifty eight.
Speaker 9 (26:24):
Oh, okay, I had no idea that they had had
it for that long. I mean, I don't remember the
first time we had Ramen noodles. But wasn't that far back.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Man, Okay, Yeah, I don't know. I wasn't around.
Speaker 10 (26:34):
No, I know what I mean.
Speaker 9 (26:35):
You think about that, Hey, I'm not getting enough sodium
in my year.
Speaker 10 (26:40):
Let me go ahead and just have them.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
And that has nothing to do with the noodles, obviously.
That has to do with the flavor packets that they
got through it says. In the nineteen sixties, they became
popular in the United States, a subsidiary of Nissin Foods,
where it was established there. In nineteen seventy one, Nissan
introduced cup noodles, the first cup noodle product.
Speaker 11 (26:59):
Man, and then kiddos love them.
Speaker 9 (27:02):
Oh yeah, well, you know, and it works, and it's
a I guess it's basically inexpensive.
Speaker 10 (27:07):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 11 (27:08):
I used to get them four for a dollar back
when I was a poor college student.
Speaker 10 (27:13):
You can't get four of anything, no, not anymore. I mean,
it doesn't matter what it is. You can't you cannot
do that.
Speaker 9 (27:18):
So science new study just came out that says waiting
is actually good for you. So try that the next
time you I mean, and your mindset has to you know,
you got to be there. Yeah, my blood pressure through
the roof. There's a line, but here are The reason
depends on what you're waiting on. Being okay with waiting
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improves your self control.
Speaker 10 (27:42):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (27:43):
Waiting is an exercise in patience, so being able to
regulate your emotions and not get annoyed will only help
you in the long run.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Okay. Now, it's kind of like what doesn't kill you
makes you stronger.
Speaker 10 (27:56):
That's what they say.
Speaker 9 (27:57):
It's different for me. It's different when I'm waiting in
a car. I'm oh okay.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Yeah, And as I said, there's so many different kinds
of waiting, right.
Speaker 10 (28:06):
You can be in ligne with people aligne. You could
be waiting during this.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Yeah, you could be.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
You could be, you know, at a restaurant or something
where you're waiting for a friend who's late.
Speaker 12 (28:14):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 9 (28:15):
You could be waiting for your food to get to
the table after you ordered it.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Yeah sort of.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah, you could have ordered your you know, your your
coffee and you're waiting for it to come out.
Speaker 11 (28:24):
Now.
Speaker 9 (28:24):
Another kind of waiting, waiting before you respond to an
email or making a purchase.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Oh okay, yeah, in fact, little self control right there. Yeah,
waiting to respond to a text message that maybe isn't pleasant.
Speaker 9 (28:38):
Sure, people, people do. We tend to react impulsively.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Because we can now, right like, because technology has made
it to her, we can respond immediately and and and yeah,
waiting can definitely be beneficial in so many ways.
Speaker 9 (28:55):
This intentional pause before you make a big decision can
also make a difference.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Oh sure, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 10 (29:02):
Waiting can also be fun if you savor it, like.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Waiting for Christmas.
Speaker 9 (29:06):
Okay, how many times has the excitement and count down
for a trip?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Sometimes the waiting is more fun. And then you get
to the trip and you're like, oh, here's.
Speaker 9 (29:14):
Okay, it's this long before it's this long.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Yea yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it's it's nice to
have something on the books, so be waiting for So.
Speaker 9 (29:21):
Instead of seeing waiting as an inconvenience, try to reframe
it in your mind. Think of it as an opportunity
to reflect or give your brain a gift of zoning out.
Speaker 10 (29:33):
For your judgment.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 11 (29:35):
I do too.
Speaker 9 (29:35):
Wait waiting can be uh can be fun. But at
the same time, so the Merriam Webster people, you know,
they always like to add words for us so that
we can actually there are words that we've probably used,
maybe some of us have even stopped using them, but
they decided to add them to the list.
Speaker 11 (29:51):
So here we go.
Speaker 9 (29:53):
Merriam Webster defines beast mode. Beast mode Okay, I have
never used that word or that phrase before, but anyway,
an extremely aggressive or energetic style or manner that someone
adopts temporarily to overpower an opponent in a fight or competition.
Speaker 11 (30:12):
I think they called Marshawn Lynch beast mode, the running
back for when he was a Seattle.
Speaker 9 (30:16):
I Got you Dead, bod A physique regarded as typical
of your average father, especially one that is slightly overweight
and not extremely muscular.
Speaker 11 (30:26):
Can confirm dumb phone.
Speaker 9 (30:28):
That's a sat phone that does not have any of
the advanced software features like email or Internet browser.
Speaker 10 (30:34):
It's actually a phone.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
It's the opposite of a smartphone.
Speaker 11 (30:38):
Yep, did we need to define farm to table? It
seems pretty self explanatory to me, But they've included that
involving or advocating the direct sale of distribution of food
from its point of origin to the customer's name, which
is a great thing, but it seems pretty self explanatory.
Hard pass a firm refusal or rejection of something such
as an offer.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Hard pass yet hard path.
Speaker 11 (31:00):
Love language person's characteristic means of showing love or care
for one another. It's important to understand your partner's love language, and.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
There are technically five. I mean, there's a book all
about it.
Speaker 11 (31:10):
There we go, yep, Now, if you can work this
one into conversation if we ever get rain again, Petrocore,
it's yeah, the distinctive earthy, unusually pleasant odor that is
associated with rainfall, especially after following a warm, dry period.
So we'll hopefully have an opportunity to whip that one out,
will Petrocore.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Okay, how about this one? RIZ? Romantic appeal or charm.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
A lot of people say it's short for charisma, So
RIZ a side eye I like when Dottie gives me
the side eye, A sidelong lancer gaze, especially when expressing scorn, suspicion, disapproval,
or veiled curiosity. Okay, A terra flop. This is a
unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer
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equal to one trillion floating point operations per second.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
I said it tritically because I don't understand it.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
I don't know, but teraflop it has been added to
the dictionary terror.
Speaker 9 (32:03):
I remember, like Tara bite. I remember the first time
that we had a Terra bite. As for us, the
memory is concerned, but tara flop. Okay, does that come up?
Speaker 10 (32:12):
I mean no, I've never heard that one. No, I
haven't either, so not common usage.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
But the other one's all made sense.
Speaker 10 (32:18):
Yeah, those we did two?
Speaker 11 (32:18):
All right, Good morning, I'm will welch with your morning
sports updates. On sixteen to twenty ninety four, five WTA
W Texas A and M earned its second conference win
of the season, improving to five and zero after handling
Mississippi State thirty one to nine in front of a
giant crowd at Kyle on Saturday night. Two hundred ten
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yards of total offense, two passing touchdowns and one rushing
score for Marcel Reid. Casey conceptsi On hauled in both
receiving scores. Mario Kraber registered six catches for eighty yards,
adding thirty five rushing yards with one touchdown. Ruben Owens
notched a career best one hundred and forty two yards
on twenty want attempts. On the defense, Damian Sandford had
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nine tackles, including a sack. Cash you as hal a
three sack game for the second time the season, and
Tory and York led the team with ten tackles.
Speaker 13 (33:11):
I think we played really complimentary in the second half.
We were getting stops on defense which kept their offense
on the field, which really kind of I think got
them a little bit tired and certainly got the crowd
going and really got a lot of energy into that building.
Speaker 11 (33:23):
The twelfth Man had a heck of a night as well.
Speaker 13 (33:25):
Twelk Man was phenomenal. You know, they're always behind Texas
A and M football, but I think they're starting to
get behind this program, specifically the coach Elco version of
Texas A and M football, and that's just really awesome,
and so we're always thankful for them. They always show
up for us. I think I saw it was the
fifth largest crowd again in State of Issues. I think
that's the third time this year that we've hit a
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top ten crowd, and so yeah, it's a phenomenal place
to coach. It's a phenomenal place to be because of them.
Speaker 11 (33:53):
Texas A and M is now right number five in
the latest AP poll, between Old Miss and Oklahoma at
four and six. Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Tennessee, Missouri, and Vanderbilt
round out the SEC teams in the top twenty five.
Texas A and M returns to Kyle Field on Saturday
six o'clock conference matchup with Florida. The number nine Texas
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A and M volleyball team swept Alabama for its seventh
straight win yesterday. Here's head coach Jamie Morrison good.
Speaker 14 (34:20):
I thought we played good volleyball from I want to
say eight points in on. I thought we came out
a little bit sloppy and we took a time out,
and I thought from then on we kind of dialed
things in and leading into the second set, I just
talked about there's no nights off in the SEC, so
it's a good opponent, and I thought we played good voiball.
Speaker 11 (34:35):
This is the team's seventh sweep of the season. They
are undefeated in SEC play. The Maroon and White return
home to host Kentucky on Wednesday, evening at ried Arena
First serves at four to six pm. The Texas A
and M men's tennis team concluded the Big twelve sec
Challenge yesterday at the Heard Tennis Center with a seventeen
to ten overall record over the three day event. The
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Maroon and White return to action at the ITA Texas
Regional Championship at the Mitchell Tennis Center from October seventeenth
through the twenty first. The Houston Texas put a proverbial
whooping on Baltimore yesterday forty four to ten.
Speaker 12 (35:09):
Proud of all of our guys for the way they
showed up today and executed and all all three phases
of the game. Guys played the game the right way,
we finished it the right way, and could it be
more proud.
Speaker 11 (35:21):
The Texans have some time off until their next game,
Monday Night Football against Seattle on the twentieth. The Dallas
Cowboys took down the New York Jets yesterday thirty seven
to twenty two. Here's Brian Schottenheimer after the game.
Speaker 12 (35:32):
We found a way to win, but there's going to
be a lot to correct, a lot to fix, and
that's what we do as coaches.
Speaker 11 (35:37):
Dallas is now two to two and one on the season,
and we'll face the Panthers next Sunday. That's your morning
Sports Update on sixteen, twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
I'm will welch all right, it is seven fifty seven
on a Monday morning, and I'm so glad that I
look at my phone quickly enough.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
To give direction. No, we've all had people.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
You know, come to the house, whether you invited them
or not, and they just won't leave, right. Throwing a
dinner party for some people is a lot of fun
and they really enjoy having people over. But at some
point it's just like time for people to go. How
do you get people to leave your house? You know, like,
how do you politely say okay, it's time to go.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Exactly exactly? So they talked to, you know, a.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Couple of people in the I guess etiquette world to
kind of figure out what is the best way. Right,
So picture this, dessert's over, it's late, I'm tired, there's
amount of dishes waiting in the kitchen, but my lovely
guests just.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Keep lingering and lingering and lingering.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
So you know, what do you do? Well, there's a
few quick scripts. Obviously, you can.
Speaker 14 (36:42):
You know.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Basically this is this experts go to announcement. This has
been so fun, but it's approaching my bedtime. Most people
will be actually relieved and they're ready to go. Right.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
The party never.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Ends, crowd will keep it going somewhere else, like they
can go down the street to the bar. So yeah,
it's you know, sometimes if it's a couple, she'll tap
her husband and say, hey, we should really let these
guys go to bed.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Oh that's good, which is really.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Just politely saying we're tired, we're ready to go to bed.
Speaker 8 (37:11):
You know.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Everyone immediately gets it and typically results in laughter and
friends screwing out the door with no hard feelings.
Speaker 11 (37:19):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Somebody else said my other go to is to start
offering to pack up leftovers. That's good, right, and then
once their friends have their to go box, they're always
ready to go and get home.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
So yeah, there's a few ways.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Best way to do, you know, wait until there's a
pause in the conversation, right, try this if you know.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
In that way you're not.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Interrupting anybody's conversation. But I like all of those. I
thought those were good.
Speaker 9 (37:43):
My go to is now get out all right, I
like that. Hey Coler, what's up?
Speaker 11 (37:51):
Hey my grandparents.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
She used to say, well, we better go to bed.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
So I can go home.
Speaker 10 (38:00):
Whatever whatever floats your body.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Yeah, but I thought those were because yeah, I am
definitely guilty of like that.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
I'll just you know, keep pouring wine. Yep, you gotta
go to bed, though, gotta go to bed.
Speaker 10 (38:09):
But Chelsea doesn't have the party in her house because
she goes to bed.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
It's say not during the week. Definitely not.
Speaker 10 (38:14):
That would not happen.
Speaker 9 (38:16):
So dancing was banned at Baylor until nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 10 (38:21):
Yeah, there you go. Less than half of the cultures
in the world kiss.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Less than half, less than hal okay.
Speaker 9 (38:28):
And on Chinese Japanese television, when there's a show on
the features food on the screen, it is common that
there will be a caption that says the staff ate
it later because generally it's not socially acceptable to throw
away food in Japan.
Speaker 10 (38:45):
Oh how about that? Yeah all right.
Speaker 9 (38:48):
Bridebroadcasting Station WTAW College Station, Brian
WTAW news time is three minutes after seven.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's sixty eight degrees. Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
I'm Chelsea reberb, the interim president at Texas A and
M is a former state senator. The Board of Regents
unanimously hired Tommy Williams, an Aggie graduate who worked for
the system after spending ten years as a state senator
representing the Woodlands. The only regent who made a comment
was Chairman Bob Albritton of Fort Worth.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Here's respect for the institution, it's students, it's staff, and
its faculty, along with his understanding of the needs of
our state, make him the right FIP to serve as
interim president of Texam University.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Alberton said Williams will serve as long as necessary to
pick the exact right person as the next permanent president.
College Station Municipal Court continues to be busy with cases
involving underage drinking.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
I just looked this past Monday. We had sixty minor
and possession cases filed. Sixty and that's with a couple
of bars that had produced quite a bit had closed down.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Municipal Judge Ed Splane, speaking on our show, says one
out of every six minor in possession of alcohol cases
in Texas is from College Station and most of those
are from the north Gate district.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
There's about thirty thousand from what you know, living around
Northgate and the next few week we have like three
home weekend games and it's just almost a ride of passage,
it seems.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
A week from today starts the College Station Municipal Court's
annual Fall warrant amnesty period, where the seventy five dollars
warrant fee is waived for those taking care of business.
By Halloween, look for more construction in West Bryan's Lakewalk district.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
The Brian City Council and it's private developer proposing near
the Stell Hotel a combination of an office building, a
parking garage, entertainment venues, restaurants, and multi family housing. The
City Council, acting as the Brian Commerce and Development Board,
is scheduled tomorrow to spend eighty percent and on the
developer of the remaining twenty percent towards the nearly five
million dollar cost of a two hundred space parking garage
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and the necessary infrastructure for the rest of the complex.
The city and the developer will recover the costs from
land sales that are estimate to total more than twenty
million dollars bill Omiver sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
College Station ISD buses transport more than thirty six hundred
students each day. New technology to monitor the whereabouts of
buses was reviewed during September CSISD school board meeting.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
It provides immediate information for who has boarded the bus
for us. It provides overall student security through the monitoring system.
It creates accountability trill for students.
Speaker 7 (02:26):
Where are they at?
Speaker 6 (02:26):
Where are they supposed to be at? Are they supposed
to be on the bus? Were they supposed to ride home?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
CSISD Transportation Director Shannon cal Tharp says one thing the
technology does not automatically do is give parents notice of
buses that are behind schedule.
Speaker 7 (02:39):
That comes strictly from my office.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
I try to stress to my drivers if you don't
tell me you're fifteen minutes late, I can't tell anyone
you're running fifteen minutes late, and I'm getting yelled at
for it.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
So we need to make sure we're staying in contact.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Caltharp says more than thirty three hundred parents are using
an app that monitors the whereabouts of their students who
are being tracked with a badge.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
If you see lots.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Of green today, it's in recognition of National four H Week.
Speaker 8 (03:03):
We have been tasked with painting the town green. So
on Monday, October sixth, we'll celebrate Go Green Day. Hope
y'all will join us, and that is the director's challenge
to paint the town green.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Brasses County four H Agent Ashley Sugg also introduced students
who represent the local four AH council during last week's
County Commission meeting. There are more than seven hundred and
twenty four H members in Brass County. WTAW news time
is six minutes after seven. It's sixty eight degrees. More
news at seven thirty or online at WTAW dot com.
I'm Chelsea Reebert for sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
Speaker 9 (03:38):
It is seven o eight. It's SEMFOYTYX on this Monday morning.
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to about twenty miles an hour or on Wednesday, just
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Speaker 10 (04:04):
We're looking at sixty eight right now.
Speaker 11 (04:06):
Good day if you're an NFL fan in the state
of Texas, as long as you're rooting for the Texans
and the Cowboys. Both of those teams picked up victories.
We'll talk about that and more coming up in sports,
all right.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
We hear about, you know, lottery winners often on the show.
We talk about people who win big, but we don't
always hear about what happens after they win the lottery,
you know, whether yeah, whether they decide to, you know,
be smart about it or maybe not be so smart. Well,
Adam Lopez, he's he's a forklift driver, not anymore, but
he was a forklift driver from the village of.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Matti Shawl in England.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
And he watched his bank balance go from about seventeen
dollars to one point.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Three million back in July pretty good.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, after he bought five scratch off lotto tickets for
five pounds each from a corner store near Norwich. He said,
when I saw the the one million, you know pounds,
he was I didn't know what to do with myself.
I shoved the scratch card in the glove box without
even thinking. I always thought i'd scream if I ever
won big, but when it actually happened, I was stunned
into complete silence. But before he knew it, what began
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with treating his family to things that they had always
dreamed of, including new range rovers, and his mom you know,
went on a family trip to Barbados turned into a
marathon of spending and non stop partying for about three months.
Speaker 11 (05:23):
That's a party, yeah, he said.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I left my job. I never should have done that.
He admitted this in a BBC interview earlier this month.
He said, I lost the structure to my life and
day to day living. It was a complete disconnect from
the life I was living. To make things worse, he
found himself hospitalized with a bilateral pulmonary embolism oh after
getting a blood clot in his leg, which then spread
(05:47):
to his lungs.
Speaker 10 (05:49):
Wow, yeah, he.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Said, I couldn't walk, I couldn't breathe I called the ambulance.
I got wheeled into the ambulance from my house. The
biggest life changing thing I had was laying in the
back of that ambulance and hearing the sirens.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
He spent eight days in a hospital.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
He decided that his recent health scare was a much
needed wake up call to put his health.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
First and to reconnect with his normal routine.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
He said, it just makes you look at both sides
of life, because it doesn't matter if you have a million,
one hundred million, a billion, a trillion, when you're in
the back of an ambulance, none of it matters.
Speaker 9 (06:20):
It's an expensive lesson that yeah, well, well war it's
unfortunately went through.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
That, but yeah, yeah, and it doesn't say that he's
at zero. I mean, I don't think he's spent it all,
but you know, yeah, definitely let the let the winnings
get a little bit to his head and then you know,
was doing everything he probably hadn't obviously been able to
do his whole life, but you know, got the wake
up call he needed and unfortunately spent more than a
week in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
But hopefully he learns his lesson.
Speaker 9 (06:46):
All right, So we'll let you know that Tomorro's jackpot's
five hundred and forty seven million dollars. Okay, which is
a lot more than a million pounds. But again, and
you have to buy a ticket. You have to buy
a ticket, all right.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
To play to win.
Speaker 11 (06:56):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (06:57):
It's uh October the sixth. We have things we need
to look forward to the rest of the month. Of course,
the start of the NHL season is coming up tomorrow hockey.
More importantly, the twenty twenty five North American Wife Carrying Championship,
Oh yeah, returns this weekend, all right, gonna be at
Sunday River Resort in Maine.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Okay, challenging a so this yeah, this is the United
States one. They have one over in Europe.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (07:25):
It's a two hundred and seventy eight yard course packed
with sand, water and log hurdles, the team's race for
glory and quirky prizes like your wife's weight in beer
and five times are weight in cash. Couples don't have
to be married, and the chosen carry style is up
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to them.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Okay, yep.
Speaker 10 (07:49):
However, the most.
Speaker 9 (07:49):
Popular techniques, sure the Estonian carry apparently leads the pack
beyond the race itself.
Speaker 10 (07:56):
Awards go to.
Speaker 9 (07:56):
Best costumes and also best wipeouts. If you don't win,
I mean, if you look bad losing, then now.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
You go, yeah, maybe you still win something.
Speaker 10 (08:05):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (08:05):
Also, then we have the Women's Iron Man World Championship.
That's October the eleventh. Canadian Thanksgiving because October thirteenth. I
guess we've never figured out why they have a different
Thanksgiving than we do. But that's fine because they're contrary.
Speaker 10 (08:18):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (08:19):
Uh, October twentieth through the twenty third, we've got a
meteor shower if you want to look at the sky.
Back to the Future day is October twenty first. Okay,
that's because in Back to the Future Part two, Marty
McFly travels too October twenty first, twenty fifteen, to save
his kids who are born back.
Speaker 11 (08:38):
In the future, back in nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 10 (08:41):
NBA season starts.
Speaker 9 (08:42):
Oh, can't get more excited than that, that's right, Yeah,
October twenty first. Game one of the World Series is
October the twenty fourth.
Speaker 10 (08:48):
We don't care in Texas this year.
Speaker 9 (08:50):
And October twenty fifth, of course, we have two weeks
two months until Halloween until Christmas. Halloween is coming up
five six days later. On October the thirty first, which is.
Speaker 10 (09:01):
Says Friday Friday.
Speaker 11 (09:02):
This ye, yeah, this will be fun.
Speaker 9 (09:03):
All right.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
It's a Friday and a volleyball plays Texas at read Arena.
Speaker 10 (09:06):
Oh that's rights.
Speaker 9 (09:08):
Sobody, okay, so before you post your profile on a
dating app, have somebody check your grammar.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Men were talking about the five thousand dating apps ltely
and seeing what's on there.
Speaker 9 (09:26):
I'm just saying, okay from from the voice of someone
who's been there.
Speaker 10 (09:30):
All right.
Speaker 9 (09:31):
They say that basically, look, personal hygiene is number one.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Okay, but well you can't really see.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I mean, if it's that bad on your profile on
an online app, then it's really bad. So yeah, the
first thing that you're going to notice is can you spell?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And can you use there correctly?
Speaker 11 (09:51):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (09:51):
Yes, yeah, And I mean it's eighty eight percent of
the women say and seventy five percent of the men
say that too.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I mean, you're I don't out that it's not It
doesn't happen across both genders.
Speaker 9 (10:02):
But anyway, I mean that they're putting that ahead of
a person's confidence and ahead of their teeth as well.
Speaker 11 (10:10):
Well, it shows that you actually have some intelligence and
you paid a little attention in school, and you put
some time and effort into your profile.
Speaker 10 (10:17):
I guess that you care what you're writing.
Speaker 9 (10:21):
Yeah, Well, speaking of writing, researchers in Norway found that
kids who write by hand as much as possible have
better brain activity than those who type. And that's in
both kids and adults. Actually, researchers they looked at the
they strapped these electrodes on kids. I know the kids
loved that and had them do some handwriting. The brain
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waves were found to be significantly more active in participants
when they were writing by hand than they did the
same thing, put them on them and had them type
on their phones and as a result, they said, it
does make a difference. A lot of senses are activated
by pressing the pen to papers, seeing the letters that
you write, hearing the sound that you make while writing.
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These senses experience. Since these sensory experiences create contact between
different parts of your brain, they open your brain up
to learning and we learn and we we know this,
we know we remember better when we write something down.
There's no doubt about that. That's they found that from
years of people who are now taking notes in class.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Well, and now everybody's using a laptop, they do, you know,
And I get it. You know, it's it's it's hard
to take notes quickly enough handwriting when you know, professors
are flying through slides on the PowerPoint and obviously it's easier.
But when I was like studying, making flash cards and
things like that, I would always handwrite things.
Speaker 10 (11:42):
Down flash cards.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah, wow, the great way to study.
Speaker 11 (11:45):
Oh with that daughter. That daughter made some last night
for her anatomy testing. Nice. Oh really?
Speaker 10 (11:49):
Oh yeah, okay, So and did you help her with that?
Speaker 8 (11:52):
Or no?
Speaker 11 (11:53):
This kid is way smarter than men. Need anything for me?
This one is. She's the one that gets really upset
if she gets a ninety on something.
Speaker 10 (12:00):
Oh all right, okay, so how many did she make?
Speaker 11 (12:04):
I have no idea. I was passed out going to
sleep as she was creating her flash card.
Speaker 10 (12:10):
There you go, taking care of her business.
Speaker 11 (12:12):
Eighteen minutes now after seven o'clock, the info maniacs on
your Monday morning. You know, around the world, naps are
looked up upon in a lot of countries. They tend
to be looked down upon here in the United States,
But some studies are changing this, y'all know. I'm a
big fan of the siesta, okay, Latin American countries. Of course,
in Spain and Portugal over there, they take the siesta
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and they're pretty good at it. In certain parts of
the world like Japan and China, falling asleep at your
desk is considered a sign that you have dedicated everything
that you have to your job, and that looks working
to a point of exhaustion is seen as a display
of dedication. So it is not a bad thing. It
should not be outlawed, it should not be it should
be encouraged. And a lot of places are Ben and
(12:56):
Jerry's does that sort of thing, a few other companies,
pr firms, famous magazines. A lot of people in the
United States are starting to gravitate towards this, and I
think we ought to get behind the siesta. I'm all
for that. People say that because a lot of folks
are staying up later at night, there's more sleep disruptions
with all the electronics, especially phones, and that modern life,
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a daytime nap is something that can help your productivity.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
So because we're not self disciplined enough to just go
to bed when we're supposed to, true, right, we should be.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Able to nap during our workday.
Speaker 11 (13:28):
Well, that's not the only reason, but it's a good one.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Listen. I love a good nap.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I also wake up at three point thirty in the morning,
so like, I don't you know. But so when my
friends are like, oh, I didn't get enough sleep, and I'm.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Like, well, it's your fault.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
You stayed up till midnight, right, nobody's forcing you to
watch that extra three episodes of the show you're watching.
Speaker 11 (13:47):
Well, if you're going to take on the siesta, you
should know that the nap should last between fifteen and
twenty minutes. You sleep any longer than that, yeah, if
you sleep any longer than that, it will trigger what
they call sleep inertia, a difficulty waking up, and you'll
be a little bit grey. They shouldn't happen after six
pm and we'll interfere with your sleep later on in
the evening. It should be like a relief valve, you know.
You just get that little fifteen twenty minute nap in there.
(14:09):
Send an alarm for twenty to thirty minutes, and that
way you have time to fall asleep and get that
fifteen to twenty minute nap in a lot of people
are doing it.
Speaker 9 (14:17):
Is it because you know, I can remember when AOL
was a thing, okay, back in the nineties, and I
can remember talking to other grown ups going, god, I
stayed up until two o'clock in the morning, just you know,
on this AOL thing and just chat rooms and stuff
like that.
Speaker 11 (14:34):
And now it's binge watching.
Speaker 9 (14:35):
But I mean, there are all sorts of things that
if we don't have the discipline, they'll sure snatch your.
Speaker 11 (14:41):
Sleep on that. That's what it comes back to, is
the discipline. But if you're just worn out, or you
get up at three o'clock in the morning to come
to a radio show, you know, take that little fifteen
to twenty minute nap. When I was a camper at
summer camp in the Hill Country as a kid, they
implemented a siesta essentially right after lunch for two hours,
you had a rest period. And it was part of
it was because you were very active and you needed
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some extra rest. And the other part of it is
summertime in Texas, that's the hottest part of the day, right,
so they had you inside getting a little relief from
that big fan.
Speaker 10 (15:10):
So how many days a week you nap?
Speaker 11 (15:12):
Now, will it depends on the day. I will say,
out of the week days, I probably catch a nap
three out of the five days.
Speaker 10 (15:19):
And so how long does that nap?
Speaker 11 (15:21):
Usually that nap generally will be about thirty to forty
five minutes, Chelsea.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
It really depends on the week and what I've got
going on and if I have the time.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I mean, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
There are weeks where I will nap four out of
the five week days. But then there's also where I
don't nap at all because you know, if I feel good,
I feel energized enough, I don't want to nap, and
for it to you know, kind of ruin my sleep
time because I do go to sleep so early, and
when I do nap during the week, I try not
(15:53):
to nap longer than an hour because then, yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
That will really stresses.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
So it just no like more so it disrupts my
sleep at night, and it makes it harder to go
to bed if I've gotten enough rest during the day.
Speaker 9 (16:08):
Well, the problem, yeah, because you go to bed so early.
Speaker 10 (16:11):
That's close to that nap ends.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
That's the problem.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Like I wake up at like let's say I take
a nap at three pm, I'm waking up at four
four thirty I.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Go to bed at like six thirty. That doesn't work.
It doesn't really work.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
So if I'm still feeling good in the afternoon, I
try to push through and you know, just you know,
busy myself with something else. But there are truly afternoons
where I just have like nothing else going on, and
I'm like, oh, I might as well.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Kind of lay down here, nat. I don't, are you
a napper right now?
Speaker 10 (16:37):
I'd much No, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Oh yeah, okay, Sunday afternoon is an okay time, Okay,
I can.
Speaker 9 (16:42):
I like, I'll be reading stuff that I've aggregated during
the week, and I'll fall asleep when I'm reading because
I'm not sitting in a couch and I'm comfortable.
Speaker 10 (16:51):
So I might do that, but not for long. I don't.
Speaker 9 (16:54):
As far as a special time to take a nap, no,
and I haven't had one in a long, long years.
Speaker 10 (17:00):
I haven't done that.
Speaker 11 (17:01):
That's a fifteen minutes yesterday.
Speaker 10 (17:02):
There you go.
Speaker 9 (17:03):
Scientists have trained a four legged robot to play badminton
against a human opponent.
Speaker 11 (17:09):
Okay, not enough opponents out there.
Speaker 10 (17:11):
You know, That's what I'm thinking.
Speaker 9 (17:13):
And they say it it'll scuttle around the court just
like you're supposed to, and apparently play rallies up to
ten shots.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Wow, that's pretty good.
Speaker 9 (17:21):
By combining whole body movements and visual perception, the robot,
which is called anti mole, it's like animal, but it's animal, Okay.
So animal learned to adapt the way that it moved
to reach the shuttlecock then successfully return it over the
court thanks to of course, artificial intelligence. They've got a
(17:41):
video of it. So it's a four legged robot. And
we've seen these before. They can do things like open doors,
that sort of stuff. And there's apparently something called Science Robotics,
a magazine that shows all the different things that they
can do. But this thing, four legged dog like robot,
weighs about one hundred and ten pounds, stands about a
(18:01):
foot and a half. And then what they did is
they attached an arm to it. Yeah, that sticks out
of the top and you know that pretty interesting thing. Now,
there are three different joints in each one of their legs,
so they've got like twelve connect points that it has
to think about. But sports is a good application, the
scientists say, in this kind of research, because you can
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gradually increase the competitiveness or the difficulty, which does make sense.
In their research, they put together this dynamic arm holding
the badminton racket at a forty five degree angle. With
addition to the arm, the robot now is five feet
tall and with these joints having to interact, I mean
it's got to figure out how to do this right.
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Team also added stereo cameras put two lenses stacked on
top of each other just to the right of center
so that they can watch across the way. The robot
was then taught to become a bad mitten player through
reinforcement learning. This is a type of machine learning. The
robot explored its environment trial and error, found where the
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walls were found, where the out of bounds lines were,
and learned how to swing the racket. Then the researchers
created a training regimen for it. They found that the
robot spontaneously started to move back to the center, which
is what people do when they hit it too, so
it's learning.
Speaker 11 (19:18):
A little bit.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
Also now sounds like fun. But the whole idea, they
say is they think that the research like this ultimately
can be taken beyond sports, for example, to remove debris rescue. Yeah,
search and rescue type situations.
Speaker 11 (19:31):
A lot of that work goes on just across the
road over there atiques and they do a lot of
the stuff with the robots and search and rescues.
Speaker 10 (19:37):
So there you go. They've got it. Play in badmint't.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Wtal. News time is seven thirty and sixty nine degrees.
News is presented by west Web All Britain gentry law firm,
the experience legal team for the Things You Value most.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Good morning, I'm Chelsea reberb.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Tomorrow's Brian City Council agenda includes a proposal to expand
the West Side Lakewalk District.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
The Council, acting as the Brine Commerce and Development Board,
will consider spending up to three point eight million dollars
that's not budgeted. This would pay for eighty percent of
a two hundred space parking garage and the required infrastructure
to support a future office, retail, restaurant and entertainment complex
near the Stellar Hotel. City staff projects the expansion will
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generate twenty million dollars in land sales revenue, sales and
property tax revenue from an office building, and entertainment venues
projected to eventually generate more than twenty six million dollars
A year, and the future construction of multifamily housing and
commercial uses is projected to generate an additional eighty million dollars.
Speaking of the Stellar Hotel, tomorrow's council agenda includes a
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request to allow the hotel owner to keep another year
of hotel occupancy tax money. The request is to compensate
the hotel for reduced occupancy during the pandemic. The maximum
amount of money the hotel will keep from the city
to a quarter million dollars is not changing, Bill Oliver sixteen,
twenty ninety four to five WAW.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
The Texas A and M System Board of Regents choose
as an interim president at the Flagship campus. Regent's chairman
Bob Albritton and Fort Wertz said it was a unanimous
selection to bring on Tommy Williams, an Aggie graduate who
spent ten years as a state senator representing the Woodlands
before working for the System as a lobbyist in Austin.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
We're not going to put a timeline on the search
for our next president. We're going to make sure that
this next president is the exact right person to lead
us forward, and so we are very comfortable that Tommy
can Act in the Interim forever long it takes us
to do this job right.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
All Britain was the only regent making a comment after
the board spent nearly two hours in executive session. While
the Northgate District continues to produce more high rise student
apartment complexes, it's also one of the most prolific areas
of Texas for underage drinking. That was part of an
update on our show from Municipal Judge Ed Splaine.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
One out of six mips Minor and Possession of alcohol
filed in Texas has filed in our court, and it's
almost for the most part from Northgate.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Last Monday in municipal courts, Blane handled sixty minor in
possession of alcohol cases.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
I get really kind of up when we get an
MIP second, because that clearly either someone has an alcohol
problem or they just haven't learned the lesson right.
Speaker 11 (22:12):
But it is a big factor. We're seeing a lot
of that.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
The judge also says the annual amnesty period for warrants
issued by College Station Municipal Court starts a week from
today and continues through Halloween. That saves offenders a warrant
fee that is increasing to seventy five dollars the hour
before the bars in the Northgate district closed. On Saturday morning,
College Station police arrested two men for reckless driving where
both drivers did burnouts on Church Avenue. Both drivers were
(22:37):
released from jail after posting bonds. One of the men,
a twenty year old from suburban Fort Worth, was also
charged with DWY with an open container and unlawful carrying
of a weapon. A Brian man was arrested last week
for assaulting a sixty five year old man in July.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
The arrest report from.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
The Brazos County Sheriff's office says the victim which treated
at his home after he was punched in the face
with a closed fist and for a dog bar from
the suspect's pit bull. The arrest report does not say
what happened to the dog when forty three year old
Dale Pindergraft went to jail. District Court records say Pindergraft
pleaded guilty in May to possessing a controlled substance and
was placed on three years probation. That's after Pendergraft spent
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two months in jail after probation was revoked following a
conviction for a deadly conduct three years ago. Two months
into the school year, College Station ISD school board members
receive an update on the district's new technology to monitors
school buses, their drivers, and the more than thirty six
hundred students who are passengers. And Transportation Director Shannon caltharp
says more than thirty three hundred parents are using an
(23:37):
app that monitors the whereabouts of their students who are
being tracked with a badge.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
They can be notified as many times as they want.
Maybe that parent that wants to know when they go
through every single intersection, I don't really want all that information.
I just want to know maybe when you're five minutes
from my house. That's fine too.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Safety features include parents giving permission for someone else to
pick up their child.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
The driver can ask for an ID and if that
person actually is supposed to be there and get little Johnny,
then we can go ahead and let them have them.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
If they're not, then we just take them back to school.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Caltharpe says one thing the technology does not automatically do
is give parents notice of buses that are behind schedule.
She manually issues issues those notices to parents through their app.
Last year, Brazos County had the sixth largest number of
four H members in the state, with seven hundred. Recognizing
this week as National four H Week. County Commissioners learned
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from four H agent Ashley Sug that the number is
more than seven hundred and twenty.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
They're projects ranging from the traditional ag in livestock to
stem healthy living, archery, shooting, sports, and community service.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Sug also said today is Go Green Day to promote
four H. WTAW news time is seven thirty six at
sixty nine degrees. News is presented by west Web All Britain, Gentry.
More news at the top of the hour or online
at WTAW dot com. I'm Chelsea Reebert for sixteen twenty
ninety four to five. WTAW Morning at seven thirty eighty's
(25:01):
the infliming X on a Monday morning Ledger with us,
Let's have a look at our weather.
Speaker 9 (25:05):
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high temperature probably all week long, wins out of the
Northeast all week long, and low temperatures will be probably
about seventy one to seventy three, which is pretty okay,
and we're getting they We're at sixty nine right now.
Speaker 11 (25:24):
Nice day over at Kyle Field. On Saturday night, an
m improves to five and zer after handling Mississippi State
thirty one to nine. The final score we will hear
from coach Mike Elko coming up in sports.
Speaker 9 (25:34):
Happy noodle day, Yeah, it is a noodle day. They've
been around for a long long time.
Speaker 11 (25:42):
Chinese.
Speaker 10 (25:43):
Yeah, Chinese, probably the ones who invented him.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Hum.
Speaker 9 (25:47):
But Thomas Jefferson in seventeen eighty nine. I don't know
how they know it was in seventeen eighty nine, but
will take their word for it. Thomas Jefferson returned to
the US after several years in France and brought back
two cases of pasta, and it was on.
Speaker 11 (26:05):
It was just on.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Yeah, you were right, originating in China around four thousand
years ago.
Speaker 9 (26:10):
Wow, Okay, Yeah, I don't know how they came up
with that idea, but we're glad they did it.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Glad they did exactly.
Speaker 9 (26:16):
And I didn't realize that instant. Ramen was invented in
Japan in.
Speaker 10 (26:22):
Nineteen fifty eight.
Speaker 9 (26:24):
Oh, okay, I had no idea that they had had
it for that long. I mean, I don't remember the
first time we had Ramen noodles. But wasn't that far back.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Man, Okay, Yeah, I don't know. I wasn't around.
Speaker 10 (26:34):
No, I know what I mean.
Speaker 9 (26:35):
You think about that, Hey, I'm not getting enough sodium
in my year.
Speaker 10 (26:40):
Let me go ahead and just have them.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
And that has nothing to do with the noodles, obviously.
That has to do with the flavor packets that they
got through it says. In the nineteen sixties, they became
popular in the United States, a subsidiary of Nissin Foods,
where it was established there. In nineteen seventy one, Nissan
introduced cup noodles, the first cup noodle product.
Speaker 11 (26:59):
Man, and then kiddos love them.
Speaker 9 (27:02):
Oh yeah, well, you know, and it works, and it's
a I guess it's basically inexpensive.
Speaker 10 (27:07):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 11 (27:08):
I used to get them four for a dollar back
when I was a poor college student.
Speaker 10 (27:13):
You can't get four of anything, no, not anymore. I mean,
it doesn't matter what it is. You can't you cannot
do that.
Speaker 9 (27:18):
So science new study just came out that says waiting
is actually good for you. So try that the next
time you I mean, and your mindset has to you know,
you got to be there. Yeah, my blood pressure through
the roof. There's a line, but here are The reason
depends on what you're waiting on. Being okay with waiting
(27:40):
improves your self control.
Speaker 10 (27:42):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (27:43):
Waiting is an exercise in patience, so being able to
regulate your emotions and not get annoyed will only help
you in the long run.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Okay. Now, it's kind of like what doesn't kill you
makes you stronger.
Speaker 10 (27:56):
That's what they say.
Speaker 9 (27:57):
It's different for me. It's different when I'm waiting in
a car. I'm oh okay.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Yeah, And as I said, there's so many different kinds
of waiting, right.
Speaker 10 (28:06):
You can be in ligne with people aligne. You could
be waiting during this.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Yeah, you could be.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
You could be, you know, at a restaurant or something
where you're waiting for a friend who's late.
Speaker 12 (28:14):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 9 (28:15):
You could be waiting for your food to get to
the table after you ordered it.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Yeah sort of.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Yeah, you could have ordered your you know, your your
coffee and you're waiting for it to come out.
Speaker 11 (28:24):
Now.
Speaker 9 (28:24):
Another kind of waiting, waiting before you respond to an
email or making a purchase.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Oh okay, yeah, in fact, little self control right there. Yeah,
waiting to respond to a text message that maybe isn't pleasant.
Speaker 9 (28:38):
Sure, people, people do. We tend to react impulsively.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Because we can now, right like, because technology has made
it to her, we can respond immediately and and and yeah,
waiting can definitely be beneficial in so many ways.
Speaker 9 (28:55):
This intentional pause before you make a big decision can
also make a difference.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Oh sure, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 10 (29:02):
Waiting can also be fun if you savor it, like.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Waiting for Christmas.
Speaker 9 (29:06):
Okay, how many times has the excitement and count down
for a trip?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Sometimes the waiting is more fun. And then you get
to the trip and you're like, oh, here's.
Speaker 9 (29:14):
Okay, it's this long before it's this long.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Yea yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it's it's nice to
have something on the books, so be waiting for So.
Speaker 9 (29:21):
Instead of seeing waiting as an inconvenience, try to reframe
it in your mind. Think of it as an opportunity
to reflect or give your brain a gift of zoning out.
Speaker 10 (29:33):
For your judgment.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 11 (29:35):
I do too.
Speaker 9 (29:35):
Wait waiting can be uh can be fun. But at
the same time, so the Merriam Webster people, you know,
they always like to add words for us so that
we can actually there are words that we've probably used,
maybe some of us have even stopped using them, but
they decided to add them to the list.
Speaker 11 (29:51):
So here we go.
Speaker 9 (29:53):
Merriam Webster defines beast mode. Beast mode Okay, I have
never used that word or that phrase before, but anyway,
an extremely aggressive or energetic style or manner that someone
adopts temporarily to overpower an opponent in a fight or competition.
Speaker 11 (30:12):
I think they called Marshawn Lynch beast mode, the running
back for when he was a Seattle.
Speaker 9 (30:16):
I Got you Dead, bod A physique regarded as typical
of your average father, especially one that is slightly overweight
and not extremely muscular.
Speaker 11 (30:26):
Can confirm dumb phone.
Speaker 9 (30:28):
That's a sat phone that does not have any of
the advanced software features like email or Internet browser.
Speaker 10 (30:34):
It's actually a phone.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
It's the opposite of a smartphone.
Speaker 11 (30:38):
Yep, did we need to define farm to table? It
seems pretty self explanatory to me, But they've included that
involving or advocating the direct sale of distribution of food
from its point of origin to the customer's name, which
is a great thing, but it seems pretty self explanatory.
Hard pass a firm refusal or rejection of something such
as an offer.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Hard pass yet hard path.
Speaker 11 (31:00):
Love language person's characteristic means of showing love or care
for one another. It's important to understand your partner's love language, and.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
There are technically five. I mean, there's a book all
about it.
Speaker 11 (31:10):
There we go, yep, Now, if you can work this
one into conversation if we ever get rain again, Petrocore,
it's yeah, the distinctive earthy, unusually pleasant odor that is
associated with rainfall, especially after following a warm, dry period.
So we'll hopefully have an opportunity to whip that one out,
will Petrocore.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Okay, how about this one? RIZ? Romantic appeal or charm.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
A lot of people say it's short for charisma, So
RIZ a side eye I like when Dottie gives me
the side eye, A sidelong lancer gaze, especially when expressing scorn, suspicion, disapproval,
or veiled curiosity. Okay, A terra flop. This is a
unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer
(31:55):
equal to one trillion floating point operations per second.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
I said it tritically because I don't understand it.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
I don't know, but teraflop it has been added to
the dictionary terror.
Speaker 9 (32:03):
I remember, like Tara bite. I remember the first time
that we had a Terra bite. As for us, the
memory is concerned, but tara flop. Okay, does that come up?
Speaker 10 (32:12):
I mean no, I've never heard that one. No, I
haven't either, so not common usage.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
But the other one's all made sense.
Speaker 10 (32:18):
Yeah, those we did two?
Speaker 11 (32:18):
All right, Good morning, I'm will welch with your morning
sports updates. On sixteen to twenty ninety four, five WTA
W Texas A and M earned its second conference win
of the season, improving to five and zero after handling
Mississippi State thirty one to nine in front of a
giant crowd at Kyle on Saturday night. Two hundred ten
(32:41):
yards of total offense, two passing touchdowns and one rushing
score for Marcel Reid. Casey conceptsi On hauled in both
receiving scores. Mario Kraber registered six catches for eighty yards,
adding thirty five rushing yards with one touchdown. Ruben Owens
notched a career best one hundred and forty two yards
on twenty want attempts. On the defense, Damian Sandford had
(33:03):
nine tackles, including a sack. Cash you as hal a
three sack game for the second time the season, and
Tory and York led the team with ten tackles.
Speaker 13 (33:11):
I think we played really complimentary in the second half.
We were getting stops on defense which kept their offense
on the field, which really kind of I think got
them a little bit tired and certainly got the crowd
going and really got a lot of energy into that building.
Speaker 11 (33:23):
The twelfth Man had a heck of a night as well.
Speaker 13 (33:25):
Twelk Man was phenomenal. You know, they're always behind Texas
A and M football, but I think they're starting to
get behind this program, specifically the coach Elco version of
Texas A and M football, and that's just really awesome,
and so we're always thankful for them. They always show
up for us. I think I saw it was the
fifth largest crowd again in State of Issues. I think
that's the third time this year that we've hit a
(33:47):
top ten crowd, and so yeah, it's a phenomenal place
to coach. It's a phenomenal place to be because of them.
Speaker 11 (33:53):
Texas A and M is now right number five in
the latest AP poll, between Old Miss and Oklahoma at
four and six. Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Tennessee, Missouri, and Vanderbilt
round out the SEC teams in the top twenty five.
Texas A and M returns to Kyle Field on Saturday
six o'clock conference matchup with Florida. The number nine Texas
(34:14):
A and M volleyball team swept Alabama for its seventh
straight win yesterday. Here's head coach Jamie Morrison good.
Speaker 14 (34:20):
I thought we played good volleyball from I want to
say eight points in on. I thought we came out
a little bit sloppy and we took a time out,
and I thought from then on we kind of dialed
things in and leading into the second set, I just
talked about there's no nights off in the SEC, so
it's a good opponent, and I thought we played good voiball.
Speaker 11 (34:35):
This is the team's seventh sweep of the season. They
are undefeated in SEC play. The Maroon and White return
home to host Kentucky on Wednesday, evening at ried Arena
First serves at four to six pm. The Texas A
and M men's tennis team concluded the Big twelve sec
Challenge yesterday at the Heard Tennis Center with a seventeen
to ten overall record over the three day event. The
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Maroon and White return to action at the ITA Texas
Regional Championship at the Mitchell Tennis Center from October seventeenth
through the twenty first. The Houston Texas put a proverbial
whooping on Baltimore yesterday forty four to ten.
Speaker 12 (35:09):
Proud of all of our guys for the way they
showed up today and executed and all all three phases
of the game. Guys played the game the right way,
we finished it the right way, and could it be
more proud.
Speaker 11 (35:21):
The Texans have some time off until their next game,
Monday Night Football against Seattle on the twentieth. The Dallas
Cowboys took down the New York Jets yesterday thirty seven
to twenty two. Here's Brian Schottenheimer after the game.
Speaker 12 (35:32):
We found a way to win, but there's going to
be a lot to correct, a lot to fix, and
that's what we do as coaches.
Speaker 11 (35:37):
Dallas is now two to two and one on the season,
and we'll face the Panthers next Sunday. That's your morning
Sports Update on sixteen, twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
I'm will welch all right, it is seven fifty seven
on a Monday morning, and I'm so glad that I
look at my phone quickly enough.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
To give direction. No, we've all had people.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
You know, come to the house, whether you invited them
or not, and they just won't leave, right. Throwing a
dinner party for some people is a lot of fun
and they really enjoy having people over. But at some
point it's just like time for people to go. How
do you get people to leave your house? You know, like,
how do you politely say okay, it's time to go.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Exactly exactly? So they talked to, you know, a.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Couple of people in the I guess etiquette world to
kind of figure out what is the best way. Right,
So picture this, dessert's over, it's late, I'm tired, there's
amount of dishes waiting in the kitchen, but my lovely
guests just.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Keep lingering and lingering and lingering.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
So you know, what do you do? Well, there's a
few quick scripts. Obviously, you can.
Speaker 14 (36:42):
You know.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Basically this is this experts go to announcement. This has
been so fun, but it's approaching my bedtime. Most people
will be actually relieved and they're ready to go. Right.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
The party never.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Ends, crowd will keep it going somewhere else, like they
can go down the street to the bar. So yeah,
it's you know, sometimes if it's a couple, she'll tap
her husband and say, hey, we should really let these
guys go to bed.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Oh that's good, which is really.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Just politely saying we're tired, we're ready to go to bed.
Speaker 8 (37:11):
You know.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Everyone immediately gets it and typically results in laughter and
friends screwing out the door with no hard feelings.
Speaker 11 (37:19):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Somebody else said my other go to is to start
offering to pack up leftovers. That's good, right, and then
once their friends have their to go box, they're always
ready to go and get home.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
So yeah, there's a few ways.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Best way to do, you know, wait until there's a
pause in the conversation, right, try this if you know.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
In that way you're not.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Interrupting anybody's conversation. But I like all of those. I
thought those were good.
Speaker 9 (37:43):
My go to is now get out all right, I
like that. Hey Coler, what's up?
Speaker 11 (37:51):
Hey my grandparents.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
She used to say, well, we better go to bed.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
So I can go home.
Speaker 10 (38:00):
Whatever whatever floats your body.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Yeah, but I thought those were because yeah, I am
definitely guilty of like that.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
I'll just you know, keep pouring wine. Yep, you gotta
go to bed, though, gotta go to bed.
Speaker 10 (38:09):
But Chelsea doesn't have the party in her house because
she goes to bed.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
It's say not during the week. Definitely not.
Speaker 10 (38:14):
That would not happen.
Speaker 9 (38:16):
So dancing was banned at Baylor until nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 10 (38:21):
Yeah, there you go. Less than half of the cultures
in the world kiss.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Less than half, less than hal okay.
Speaker 9 (38:28):
And on Chinese Japanese television, when there's a show on
the features food on the screen, it is common that
there will be a caption that says the staff ate
it later because generally it's not socially acceptable to throw
away food in Japan.
Speaker 10 (38:45):
Oh how about that? Yeah all right.
Speaker 9 (38:48):
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