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• Brief training in meditation can help you cope with pain

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  Washington, Nov 10 (ANI): A short investment of time in mental training can help you manage pain, concludes a new study.The study, which examined the perception of pain and the effects of various mental training techniques, found that relatively short and simple mindfulness meditation training can have a significant ...
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• Study shows brief training in meditation may help manage pain

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 158
  (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) An experimental study examining the perception of pain and the effects of various mental training techniques has found that a relatively short and simple meditation method can have a significant positive effect on pain management.
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• A sense of autonomy is a primary reward or threat for the brain

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  This is the fourth in a series of five posts about the big drivers of threat and reward in the brain. So far I have posted about status , certainty and relatedness . This week lets explore the issue of autonomy. Autonomy is a feeling of having choices. This feeling turns out to be deeply upsetting when taken away ...
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• Your Week Ten Football Scores

  
  Rumors and Rants — Authority: 598
  Record after week nine: 99-53, 73-77-2 AS Week 10 Picks 10 am ET : Morning. I’ve been in line with the wife to get her the H1N1 shot for about two hours already so…yeah, it’s gonna be a long morning. Looking forward to an IU win over Wisconsin and all the rest of the awesome games this week. See you all day ...
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• Your Week Ten College Football Picks

  
  Rumors and Rants — Authority: 598
  Record after week nine: 99-53, 73-77-2 AS 12 pm ET (21) Wisconsin (6-2) at Indiana (4-5) (+10.5) Wisconsin learned to f*cking hold leads. Why can’t we? The Hoosiers still needs two wins for bowl eligibility and they’ve melted down two weeks in a row instead. See a pattern yet? The hardest thing for a ...
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• Link Dump! Brought To You By Amber Heard

  
  Rumors and Rants — Authority: 598
  Amber Heard is a favorite around these parts. It’s not hard to understand why. I’ve worked at a Blockbuster, and I’ve definitely thought of doing this - Strait Pinkie Your college football previewrooski - No Guts, No Glory Joe Girardi helped a traffic…guy…or something…on the way home from the World ...
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• Congratulations to the 2010 Campaign College Training Sites!

  
  AAUW Dialog — Authority: 495
  AAUW, the American University Women & Politics Institute, and Running Start are pleased to announce the 10 Campaign College sites for the 2010 academic year. These sites were chosen from a competitive applicant pool to host the only training in the country that encourages young women to run for student government ...
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• Videoconferencing: a virtual way to attend your meeting

  
  Bizmology — Authority: 124
  Can’t make it into the office for that meeting?  Not a problem, thanks to videoconferencing systems.  A recent article from The Chronicle of Higher Education discusses how some college campuses are utilizing this technology more nowadays for their faculty meetings.  In hopes to save on costs, these virtual ...
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• Novel computer programme identifies new targets for old drugs

  
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  London, Nov 2 (ANI): A novel computer program has identified thousands of new targets for existing drugs by comparing the molecular structures of drug compounds and chemicals that occur naturally in the body. The technique could be used to uncover new applications or reveal potential side effects for drugs already on ...
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• Blackboard’s Response to Open Source: Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt

  
  e-Literate — Authority: 415
  Blackboard has not been having a good time in the state of North Carolina. As I noted recently, the University of North Carolina (a Blackboard customer) reported highly favorable results of their pilot study of Sakai, with an outcome of further investigation into Sakai as a full replacement of Blackboard as their ...
  2 weeks ago

• “my TOMS story”

  
  TOMS Shoes — Authority: 122
  Hey, my name is Harris Googe and I am a TOMS Campus Club member at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill!  I’ll be blogging about my experience with TOMS Shoes and how my club and I are sharing the One for One movement with other students on our campus! “Are you wearing socks?”  Wriggling my ...
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• Winds of Change

  
  Blue Ridge Outdoors - Outdoor Sports and News — Authority: 131
  Offshore wind power moves forward in North Carolina
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• Re-Viewing Black Mountain College

  
  Barbecue Grills Plus Cover — Authority: 147
  Beauty and the Beast (Francine du Plessix Gray and Joel Oppenheimer), 1951. A few weeks ago nearly a hundred academics, artists, educators and critics descended upon the University of North Carolina’s Asheville campus for an on-site conference examining the legacy of Black Mountain College, the first since the ...
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• Methane. Liquid fuel. “… catalytically replace one hydrogen atom on methane with other atoms and produce liquid chemicals such as methanol …”

  
  Biotech — Authority: 131
  Scientists from the University of Washington and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have indicated “… an important step in converting methane gas to a liquid, potentially making it more useful as a fuel and as a source for making other chemicals.”More from a Release dated October 22, sourced from ...
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• People looking for prostitutes communicate on web in code (Lead)

  
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  London, Oct 23 (IANS) People looking out for prostitutes share precise information on the net about them, couched in ‘argot’ a coded language, to share warnings of prostitution hot zones and stings, which can hamper the efforts of law enforcement officials, says a new study.These ‘johns’ provide detailed ...
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• Scientists come one step closer to turning methane gas into liquid fuel

  
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  Washington, October 23 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Washington (UW) and the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill have taken an important step in converting methane gas to a liquid, potentially making it more useful as a fuel and as a source for making other chemicals.Methane, the primary ...
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• Roundup: With Big Rally, Florida State Ends Three-Game Slide

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Christian Ponder threw for 395 yards and 3 touchdowns to help Florida State rally from an 18-point second-half deficit and beat North Carolina.
  3 weeks ago

• Progressive Liberalism Or: How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Big Government

  
  arezzo1.com — Authority: 141
  American Liberalism: An Interpretation for Our Time by John McGowan. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007). Moorpark, CA . If the current administration is liberal, it matters what kind of liberalism it represents. I suggest that it is neo-progressive, which means that its philosophical origins ...
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• Internet spawns virtual subculture for prostitution

  
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  Washington, Oct 22 (ANI): Internet is not only a major tool in all businesses, it has also given rise to a virtual subculture for “johns” who share information electronically about prostitution, potentially making them harder to catch, according to a new study co-authored by a Michigan State University ...
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• Internet fuels virtual subculture for sex trade, study finds

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 621
  EAST LANSING, Mich. -- The Internet has spawned a virtual subculture of "johns" who share information electronically about prostitution, potentially making them harder to catch, according to a new study co-authored by a Michigan State University criminologist.
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