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Promises, promises...
The University of Tennessee launches UT Promise. The flagship leveraging its resources to assist students from families earning less than $50,000 is a good thing for students. Less so for the rest of Tennessee's universities. I can't imagine that new interim President Randy Boyd wasn't the driving force behind this initiative. From the Tennessean.
University of Tennessee to launch free college program that mirrors successful Promise, Reconnect programs
Thousands of Tennessee students soon will be able to attend a University of Tennessee school free of tuition and fees through a new initiative modeled after the state's popular Promise program.
University of Tennessee system interim President Randy Boyd announced the UT Promise program on Thursday at the annual State of UT address in Nashville.
The program will cover tuition and fees for students with a household income of less than $50,000 a year.
Boyd said the UT Promise program will begin in fall 2020 and will ensure the university continues to fulfill its founding mission to provide a gateway to success for Tennessee's low-income and middle-class residents.
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Tuesday, March 5, 2019
Those zany Baby Boomers
Ruining America for everybody else. Joe Oliveto, writing in Cracked, lists five ways Boomers keep getting worse. Here's the fifth, which seems absolutely true. And it's why I quit Facebook.
5 Ways Baby Boomers Keep Getting Worse
They're The Ones Spreading Fake News
Anyone who has made the mistake of having both an extended family and a Facebook account knows there's no shortage of fake news out there. Whether it's a blog like RedWhiteAndTrue.com telling them Obama is vaccinating their kids with gay, or a meme that says shit like "Liberals are against Trump's wall, but their own homes have at least four of them!" it's only going to get worse as the next election heats up.
And ironically, while lots of those memes are about young people destroying the world with their Instagram addictions and gender-neutral restrooms, it's the boomers who are ruining society by sharing bullshit. A study found that they are four times as likely to share fake news on Facebook, and twice as likely as the second-oldest age group that was looked at.
It sort of makes sense. Younger people grew up with the internet, and so hopefully are a little more familiar with what viral bullshit looks like. Boomers lived most of their lives without it, and now every single bit of information in the history of humanity, real or otherwise, is at their fingertips. Learning to separate real stuff from troll nonsense can be a process, and it's not even clear that they're trying.
And remember, this isn't just a handful of grandparents complaining about the Deep State. The number of Facebook users over the age of 65 in the United States is now greater than that of users between the ages of 13 and 17. Baby boomers control the flow of information on the largest social media platform, and they're terrible at it. Also ...
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Be happy!
How much down time is need for peak happiness? Turns out, not all that much, according to this article in The Atlantic.
How Much Leisure Time Do the Happiest People Have?
Up and down the economic ladder, many Americans who work—and especially those raising kids—are pressed for time, wishing they had more of it to devote to leisure activities (or even just sleeping). At the same time, research has indicated that people who are busy tend to be happier than those who are idle, whether their busyness is purposeful or not.
A research paper released late last year investigated this trade-off, attempting to pinpoint how much leisure time is best. Its authors examined the relationship between the amount of “discretionary time” people had—basically, how much time people spend awake and doing what they want—and how pleased they were with their lives. (Some examples of “discretionary” activities were watching TV, socializing, going to the movies, spending time with family, and doing nothing.)
The paper, which analyzed data covering about 35,000 Americans, found that employed people’s ratings of their satisfaction with life peaked when they had in the neighborhood of two and a half hours of free time a day. For people who didn’t work, the optimal amount was four hours and 45 minutes.
The research traced a correlation between free time and life satisfaction, but didn’t provide any definitive insight into what underlies that correlation—“which is exciting, because this is a work in progress,” says Cassie Mogilner Holmes, a professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management and a co-author of the paper, which hasn’t yet been peer-reviewed or published in an academic journal. Holmes’s co-authors are her UCLA colleague Hal Hershfield and Marissa Sharif, a professor at Wharton, the University of Pennsylvania’s business school.
Monday, February 25, 2019
Obesity?
Opioid addiction? Gun violence? Smoking? There would appear to be a lot of choices for the worst statistic about Tennessee. From 24/7 Wall Street.
The Worst Statistic About Your State
Tennessee: 9.8%
According to the CDC, 9.8% of Tennessee adults have a major cardiovascular disease of some kind, compared to the national prevalence of 6.9%.
Friday, February 22, 2019
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Two-thirds of the Tri-Cities
The Most Stressed Out City in Every State
To identify the most stressed city in every state, 24/7 Wall St. created an index of data measuring the two most common sources of stress — money and work — in each state’s metropolitan areas. To capture money-related stress inputs we reviewed poverty rates, housing affordability, and food insecurity. For work-related stress inputs we included average weekly work hours, average daily commute times in hours, and annual unemployment rates. With the exception of food insecurity and unemployment rates, which came from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), respectively, all data used in the index came from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2017 American Community Survey (ACS). The incidence of violent crime in each area came from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 2017 Uniform Crime Report. All data are for the most recent periods available.
42. Tennessee: Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol> Poverty level: 15.3%
> Commute time: 24.2 minutes
> Dec. 2018 unemployment: 3.3%
> Violent crime rate: 354.8 per 100,000
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Monday, February 18, 2019
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The most romantic place in Tennessee
The Most Romantic Place in Every State
TENNESSEE: CADES COVE
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
This gorgeous valley in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park can draw a crowd, but it's big enough for couples to steal some private moments. Highlights include rustic churches, a working gristmill, log cabins, and ample chances to spot deer, coyotes, turkeys, and even black bears. It's also the starting point for the 5-mile round-trip hike to picturesque Abrams Falls.
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Reducing tuition
To stay competitive. A strategy for small private colleges that seems to be a bit desperate. And I though tbeing at a regional public university was tough. From CBS Money Watch.
As college costs keep rising, some schools slash tuition
Along with English literature and the beauty of campus life, recruiters at a small but growing number of private colleges now have another talking point: They're cutting tuition costs.
Two dozen private institutions have cut tuition since 2016, according to the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.
Colleges have periodically done such tuition "re-sets," where they dramatically lower costs, since the late 1980s, but it's typically been no more than a couple institutions each year, said Mark Kantrowitz, publisher and vice president of research at Savingforcollege.com, an online guide to college savings plans. But that's changing.
"There's been an uptick since 2011, and this past year we've seen a total of 18, so that's a big increase," he told CBS MoneyWatch. "The increase is a sign that more colleges are struggling financially. I would expect to see this trend continue."
The sizable tuition cuts are being made by little-known institutions vying for a competitive edge, usually again other colleges in their area, and amid calls for free tuition, Kantrowitz said.
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
The oldest bar in Tennessee
Is in Nashville. I'm a little surprised it's not east of Nashville. If you scan all fifty states below, you'll find the White Horse Tavern in Newport, Rhode Island. America's oldest. I was there as recently as last October. Not too far away is The Tavern, in Abingdon, Virginia. I need to check it out. From Cheapism.
The Oldest Bar in Every State
TENNESSEE: SPRINGWATER SUPPER CLUB & LOUNGE
Nashville
Established in 1896, this watering hole was a speakeasy during prohibition. These days the Springwater Supper Club & Lounge in Nashville is known for its regular live music and no-frills vibe.
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