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☆ A traveler who's been to 35 national parks shares her top 5 for fall leaf-peeping
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-28 | by ( Priyanka Rajput | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Alexandra Blodgett has been to 35 national parks in the US. She prefers parks with stunning views and epic hikes but also loves leaf-peeping in the fall. She thinks North Cascades National Park in Washington is an underrated fall foliage site. Visiting national parks to see the season's colors, or "leaf peep," is a popular pastime and gives a major boost to some states' economies. Here are her five favorite national parks to visit in fall.

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☆ Gen Z found a home in Asheville. Hurricane Helene swept it away.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-05 | by ( Allie Kelly | Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

But natural disasters like Helene may influence if Gen Zers stay in western North Carolina. The 24-year-old and her partner moved to Asheville, North Carolina from Philadelphia a few weeks ago and signed a lease on their new apartment. AdvertisementGen Zers moved to Asheville for work opportunities and communityOver the past decade, Gen Z has been flocking to the Asheville area. Scott Pridemore of Pridemore Properties at Compass, a real-estate brokerage in North Carolina, told BI that many people go to nearby universities like Appalachian State University or University of North Carolina Asheville and never leave. "Post Covid, we definitely saw a lot of people opting for life in the North Carolina Mountains," Pridemore said.

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Now, the Harris campaign says it’s seeing an unprecedented rush of volunteers in the state, especially young adults. “It’s certainly going to help the Harris campaign,” Dinan said, though he added just how much Swift moves the needle is an open question. “We care about the issues that every other person on the ballot is looking at.”Health care has been a huge issue for the Harris campaign, particularly in North Carolina. One of every 5 North Carolina residents is Black, and there is a growing number of Latino voters. “Republican leadership in North Carolina is tested and has proven to have a superior ground game,” he said.

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☆ I converted a sheep barn into an Airbnb with $2,000. Now, I manage over 100 listings. Here's how I grew my business and weathered the Airbnb apocalypse.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Claire Turrell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Jamie Inlow saw the Airbnb potential of her neighbor's sheep barn, and the two went into business. A property Inlow manages in Charlottesville, Virginia. In late 2020, the business took a real shift when a local real estate agent sent me a DM on Instagram. My partner and I run this Airbnb business full timeI didn't leave my consultancy job until July 2022 as my husband and I were also building our family home. The stylish interior of a Be Still Getaways property.

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☆ The objects we keep when loved ones die — and what they say about mourning
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Oscar Holland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

In the years since, she has gathered the stories behind dozens of objects that people have kept after their loved ones died. Jody Servon and Lorene Delany-Ullman/savedobjectsofthedead.com This metal colander is among the everyday items that Servon's interviewees selected for the project. Jody Servon and Lorene Delany-Ullman/savedobjectsofthedead.com This item tells the story of a woman, Elaine, who sewed and sold star-shaped gifts prior to her murder. Jody Servon and Lorene Delany-Ullman/savedobjectsofthedead.com "Saved: Objects of the Dead," published by Artsuite (Wilson, NC), is available now. Jody Servon and Lorene Delany-Ullman/savedobjectsofthedead.comPower of memoryServon and Delany-Ullman say the project has been therapeutic for the interviewees — and themselves.

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RALEIGH, N.C. – The 2024 election promises to feature several major battlegrounds, but for sheer breadth of competitive contests, North Carolina next year will be hard to beat. Recent presidential contests in North Carolina have been close: In 2020, Donald Trump won North Carolina by about 74,000 votes out of more than 5.5 million cast. In other words, in 2024, North Carolina will be one of the centers of the political universe – important in part because it’s a uniquely competitive state. “North Carolina has proved to be a purple state, but not necessarily a swing state,” says Cooper, the political scientist. For the better part of two decades, Georgia, like North Carolina, had voted consistently Republican in key federal races – until 2020.

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☆ College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

While some professors have embraced it as a tool, others are finding ways to fight its use. Concerned professors told Insider they plan to go back to handwritten assignments and oral exams to avoid the use of generative AI. "I'm planning on going medieval on the students and going all the way back to oral exams," Christopher Bartel, a philosophy professor at Appalachian State University, told Insider in January. "If it's school kids, that's a real yellow-red flag on the size of the prize," internet analyst Mark Shmulik told Insider. "This idea that if the ChatGPT drop-off is due to students on summer break, that implies a narrower audience and fewer use cases."

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☆ 2 writers who get paid to produce assignments to let lazy students cheat suspect ChatGPT is stealing their customers
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-18 | by ( Stephanie Stacey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

People who get paid to write students' assignments told Insider they're already losing work. Insider spoke with Austin and Taylor, who both get paid to help college students cheat. "I began my professorial career as a one-year lecturer at a flagship state university," Taylor said. After she shared her confusion, colleagues told Taylor about the bespoke essay-writing business and she decided to try it out herself. "I'm currently looking for other types of writing work, because there's really no way to see where this is going to go," Taylor said.

☆ College professors are considering creative ways to stop students from using AI to cheat
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-21 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Some professors say students are using new tech to pass off AI-generated content as their own. Some professors say students are using OpenAI's buzzy chatbot, ChatGPT, to pass off AI-generated content as their own. The issue has led to professors considering creative ways to stamp out the use of AI in colleges. Blue books and oral exams"I'm perplexed about how to handle AI going forward," Aumann told Insider. Bartel agreed that students could get away with using AI very easily.

☆ Two professors who say they caught students cheating on essays with ChatGPT explain why AI plagiarism can be hard to prove
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-14 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Two philosopher professors said they caught their students submitting essays written by ChatGPT. If students don't confess to using the program, professors say it can be hard to prove. Antony Aumann, a religious studies and philosophy professor at Fordham University, told Insider he had caught two students submitting essays written by ChatGPT. When the chatbot said it was 99% sure the essays were written by ChatGPT, he forwarded the results to the students. Christopher Bartel, a professor of philosophy at Appalachian State University, said that while the grammar in AI-generated essays is almost perfect, the substance tends to lack detail.

☆ I moved from a big city to a small town in North Carolina for a job and regretted it immediately
▼ + stars: | 2022-04-27 | by ( Alexis Lawson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Lawson felt isolated in the small town where golf courses outnumbered people who looked like her. After receiving my bachelor's degree in December 2019, from Appalachian State University, I began scrolling through LinkedIn job listings. ArtistYear is a yearlong program in which recent grads in the arts go to low-income schools and teach their practice. There was a six-month gap between getting the offer and moving to start my job, so I moved back to Charlotte temporarily. I had spent a year at Appalachian State University in Boone, another small North Carolina town, so I thought I was prepared.

☆ Cum să faci ca ziua de luni să fie preferata ta
▼ + stars: | 2015-06-29 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +3 min

Cum să faci ca ziua de luni să fie preferata taCine iubește zilele de luni? Gândul că weekendul s-a încheiat și trebuie să iei de la capăt rutina de zi cu zi ne afectează psihicul, creându-ne o dispoziție nu tocmai bună. Un studiu realizat de cercetătorii de la Universitatea Rush din Chicago arată că ziua de luni este cea mai grea zi a săptămânii. Pentru a ocoli aceste obstacole, echipa #diez îți propune câteva trucuri care te vor ajuta să te bucuri de ziua de luni și să-ți începi săptămâna pe o notă pozitivă. Hainele noi te fac mai încrezător și îți oferă un look proaspăt.

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