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Yes Mow June
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Now that we’re all mowing our lawns again, I thought I’d dig up some fun and un-fun facts about the green carpets beneath our feet. Fun Fact No. 1: We Americans grow a lot of grass. In fact, we devote more acreage to growing grass than we do to growing corn or wheat. Fun Fact…
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The Joys of Nostalgia
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Would you describe yourself as a nostalgic person? Do you find yourself longing for the happy times in your past? I guess I have always been a bit of a sentimental person. OK, in full disclosure, I am a sucker for nostalgia. As my former players will attest, I cried like a baby at every…
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Interest Rate Bets
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The U.S. Federal Reserve took on the fight against high inflation by raising interest rates 11 times in the last two years from .08% to 5.25-5.5%, which is a 23-year high. Overall, the Fed has been successful with inflation going from 8% in 2022 to 3.36% as of April 30, 2024. The long-term average for…
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The Seven Habits and One Amazing Story Behind Penn State’s High Performance Coach Tom Morris
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Thomas J. Morris has known life’s victories, big and small. Ruggedly handsome with a slightly graying beard and blue eyes that always peer into yours, and a relentlessly upbeat personality, Tom was a long-bomb throwing QB king of Penn State IM football while getting his degree in kinesiology and movement science at University Park. A…
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Hook: Questions Remain About Penn State’s Beaver Stadium Renovation Decision
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“I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!” Actor Peter Finch’s character Howard Beale speaks that line in the movie “Network,” as he exhorts his television viewers to “get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell” that famous line. It’s one of the…
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‘It May Have Started as a Battle’: On the Site of the Bear River Massacre
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PRESTON, IDAHO – Just north of Preston, the town where “Napoleon Dynamite” was filmed, past Polar Bear Burgers and Shakes, past the Pop’n Pins bowling alley, past The Hangout, the Jiu Jitsu studio, Big J Burgers and the Spit Shine car wash, is a terrible, peaceful place – site of the worst massacre of native…
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Paterno: Penn Staters Deserve Better from Beaver Stadium Renovation Planning
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During a remotely held meeting on Tuesday, Penn State’s Board of Trustees were asked to vote on a proposed $700 million renovation that was, even to trustees being asked to vote on it, shrouded in mysterious details with mystical future revenue predictions. No one argues that we need to renovate Beaver Stadium. No one argues…
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Friends for Life
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Among the many positive benefits to participating in team sports, and perhaps the most underrated and longest lasting, are the lifelong friendships that are forged. Coaches constantly talk about the significance of culture, chemistry and camaraderie. Yes, we all want to win and to be champions, but in the end, the final scores are mostly…
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Constructing an All-22 on the Future of Penn State’s Beaver Stadium
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The future of Beaver Stadium is in the hands of the Penn State Board of Trustees on Tuesday. The Board will vote on allocating an additional $630 million to renovate the stadium, which was built in 1960 for $1.6 million — in part using steel hauled across campus from New Beaver Field, which was located…
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A Belated Convert to Robot Vacuums Enjoys the Fruits of Automated Labor
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Automation. The automatically controlled operation of an apparatus, process or system by mechanical or electronic devices that take the place of human labor. As humans we wake up every morning and many of us labor through our days in some sort of similar fashion. Clean ourselves, dress ourselves, feed ourselves, travel somewhere, engage in an…