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What: Second Annual Denver Folk & Roots Music Festival. When: Friday, March 28 at 6 p.m. Where: The Ellie Caulkins Opera House at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.

Swallow Hill Music Association is pleased to announce its official artist lineup for its Second Annual Denver Folk & Roots Music Festival on Friday, March 28 at 6 p.m. This evening of diverse music is presented in the unique setting of one of the finest acoustic concert halls in America, the Ellie Caulkins Opera House at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.

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Baxter & Cook Art Advisors chosen by the Committee of 100 for Tibet and The Dalai Lama Foundation as sales agents for artwork exhibited in The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama exhibition, currently on view at The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco through March 16, 2008.

The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama is a multi-media art exhibition that brings together 88 respected artists representing 30 countries. The exhibition has been shown in Los Angeles and New York and will travel to Tokyo, Japan and other venues around the world for several years. Many of the artists have created new work for the exhibition in a wide variety of media, including photography, painting, textiles, animation and sculpture, video and installation works. Artists with work in the exhibition include Bill Viola, El Anatsui, Richard Avedon, Christo, Guy Buffet, Chuck Close, Marina Abramovic, Herb Ritts and Anish Kapoor. The Missing Peace is collaboration between the Committee of 100 for Tibet and the Dalai Lama Foundation. The artists, both established and emerging, were selected because their work addresses themes that are embodied by the Dalai Lama: compassion, peace, unity of all things, impermanence, spirituality, belief systems, community and people in exile, non-violence, happiness and tolerance.

The Earth Organization announced yesterday they have joined forces with the Orca Network and a long list of Hollywood celebrities to free Lolita, an orca whale, from the Miami Seaquarium after 37 years of captivity.

Lolita the orca whale, kept in a substandard tank at the Miami Seaquarium for the past 37 years, has recently gained some powerful friends dedicated to her release into retirement. The Earth Organization (TEO), an international, non-profit dedicated to finding effective solutions to environmental and conservation issues, announced yesterday that they have joined forces with the Orca Network and a wide variety of concerned celebrities to help find a reasonable solution to what some conservationists describe as a travesty of inhumanity.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu will be the opening Keynote speaker for the U.S. Green Building Council's annual Greenbuild Conference & Expo to be held in Boston this November.

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced yesterday that Archbishop Desmond Tutu will be the opening Keynote speaker for USGBC’s annual Greenbuild Conference & Expo. Greenbuild will be held November 17-19, 2008, in Boston.

Yoko Ono Lennon, The Black Eyed Peas’ will.i.am, Natasha Bedingfield and Pat Monahan of Train, Unveil the All New John Lennon Educational Tour Bus at CES.

Yoko Ono was joined by The Black Eyed Peas’ will.i.am, Natasha Bedingfield and Pat Monahan of Train for the official unveiling of the new non-profit state-of-the-art John Lennon Educational Tour Bus. The launch took place at the Consumer Electronics Show today. The mission of the venture is to provide students with free hands-on opportunities to make music, produce video projects, and shoot digital photos in the mobile recording studios. The Lennon Bus also has an illustrious history as a hit maker, with chart topping singles from The Black Eyed Peas and Fergie recorded on board.

According to a recent study conducted by the University of Haifa, a ninety minute nape will speed up the process of long term memory consolidation.

A ninety minute daytime nap helps speed up the process of long term memory consolidation, a recent study conducted by Prof. Avi Karni and Dr. Maria Korman of the Center for Brain and Behavior Research at the University of Haifa found. The research was published in the scientific journal Nature Neuroscience. "We still don't know the exact mechanism of the memory process that occurs during sleep, but the results of this research suggest the possibility that it is possible to speed up memory consolidation, and in the future, we may be able to do it artificially," said Prof. Karni.

Called "The Sleeping Prophet," Edgar Cayce is known to have given over 14,000 psychic readings from a self-induced trance state over a period of 43 years. Even though he died in 1945, Cayce is still the subject of fascination and research. Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp in Florida will host Edgar Cayce Awareness and Sharing Day, devoted to Cayce and his Association for Research and Enlightenment, on Saturday, January 26, 2008 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

While Sylvia Browne, John Edward, Lisa Williams and James Van Praagh grab headlines and dominate the small screen today, they can't compete with a soft spoken photographer from Kentucky, dead since 1945, when it comes to psychic phenomena. The media darling of his day, Edgar Cayce never sought the public attention his unusual talents generated, but eventually devoted much of his time to helping people regain their health with advice obtained through his trance readings. The majority of his readings dealt with health maintenance and treatment of illness, according to the Edgar Cayce's Association for Research and Enlightenment (ARE) in Virginia Beach, Virginia. This amazing man has been the subject of much study and research into his sometimes unorthodox yet very successful health protocols, then and now. More information on Cayce can be found on the web at http://www.edgarcayce.org.

Did you know that 76 percent people realize less than half of their New Year's resolutions? According to a recent poll, this year will be no different than the past. People will resolve to eat healthier, excercise more and lose weight.

According to a recent web poll conducted by DecideBetter! (http://www.decidebetter.com/), almost everyone who participated in the poll is planning on making New Year's resolutions this year even though most people (76%) traditionally achieve half or less of their resolutions.

A Philadelphia hypnotist presents a free workshop on the 4th Annual World Hypnotism Day, Friday January 4th 2008

Every New Year, people resolve to make a positive change in their life. But soon after, their motivation fades away and they find themselves back in the same old rut, feeling even more frustrated than before.

Traditional Inipi (sweat lodge) ceremonies, a "Healing Heart Drumming" workshop and a totem animal workshop are included in the mix at the Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp in Florida.

Cassadaga, Florida, located between Orlando and Daytona Beach, will host four events in January that highlight Native American heritage. The monthly Native American Gathering will be held on Saturday, January 5. In addition, Chief Charles Chipps, Lakota elder, will conduct traditional Inipi (sweat lodge) ceremonies evenings from January 18 through the 24, Russell Buddy Helm will hold a "Healing Heart Drumming" workshop on Saturday, January 19 and on Sunday, January 27 Harry Byard and Georgie Kern will facilitate the "Discover Your Animal Totem Spirit Through Native American Traditions" workshop.