Jennifer Calhoun

A Dickens Holiday | Fayetteville, North Carolina | Holiday Festivals NC

theartscouncil.com — Gerald Dickens, the great-great grandson of Charles Dickens, will delight the public! Join him for a Produced by the Arts Council and the Downtown Alliance A Family Tradition Continues On Friday, Nov. 23, 2012, Historic Downtown Fayetteville will again be transformed into a unique and wonderful experience. New this year!

Study: Facebook and other internet usage are linked to psychotic episodes

blogs.fayobserver.com — A paper published in the Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences shows that internet usage could be bad for your mental health. For some reason, that does not surprise me. In the paper, Dr. Uri Nitzan of Tel Aviv University's Sackler Faculty of Medicine and the Shalvata Mental Health Care Center, presented three case studies from his own practice.

Cape Fear Valley Health System CEO Mike Nagowski's salary now private

fayobserver.com — Cape Fear Valley Health System CEO Mike Nagowski's salary now private The salary of Cape Fear Valley Health System's top executive will no longer be a matter of public record. A divided Cumberland County Board of Commissioners voted 5-2 Monday night to allow all future discussion of compensation for the nonprofit's CEO to take place in private.

t.co / Twitter

t.co — Twitter uses the t.co domain as part of a service to protect users from harmful activity, to provide value for the developer ecosystem, and as a quality signal for surfacing relevant, interesting Tweets.

Deprived of media, college students describe ordeal

poynter.org — A research team at the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communication put 48 college students on a "complete and extended media fast for 48 hours." More cruelly, it required them to write "multiple-page essays" about their experiences.

Pregnant Moms’ Flu Linked to Higher Risk of Autism Among Children

healthland.time.com — Expectant moms have one more reason to get a flu shot. According to the latest research on flu vaccination during pregnancy, following current recommendations for influenza shots may help to lower rates of autism.