Topic: News

12th Annual Florida music festival features top talents in Americana, Bluegrass & Folk. Commander Cody & the Lost Planet Airmen slated to appear.

The holiday season means that the 2008 music festival season is right around the corner. The 12th Annual Suwannee Springfest marks the season by making its initial lineup announcement. Over 8,000 dedicated music lovers from across the nation are expected to be on hand when the festival takes place March 27-30, 2008, at the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, FL. The eclectic list of over 40 acts includes many of the finest performers in Americana, Bluegrass, Folk, and Roots Rock music including the David Grisman Quintet, Commander Cody & the Lost Planet Airmen, Donna the Buffalo, Peter Rowan, Railroad Earth, Guy Clark, Jim Lauderdale, Infamous Stringdusters, Steep Canyon Rangers, the Greencards, the Lee Boys, the Waybacks, Red Stick Ramblers, Claire Lynch & the Front Porch Stringband, Blueground Undergrass, Acoustic Syndicate, and Larry Keel & Natural Bridge.

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Editor's note: If you think that's bad, just remember that we're one of the sparsest populated countries on the planet. Massive overpopulation is our number one problem. Solve that and global warming, pollution, etc. goes away.

As our nation prepares to ring in the new year, the U.S. Census Bureau today projected the Jan. 1, 2008, population will be 303,146,284 -- up 2,842,103 or 0.9 percent from New Year's Day 2007.

We just had to print this story. We especially like the part where the towel will be sold on eBay "so that others will benefit from its divine properties." Yep, it looks like this family's financial troubles will soon be over.

Oceanside, California resident Candice Kane was awakened this morning to a miracle. A holy icon in the form of an angel appeared on an ordinary bath towel in her dryer. "I have had some bad luck recently and was praying on my knees last night for a sign from God that peace would come to the world and that my luck would improve. When I woke up, and unloaded the dryer, I found this amazing image. It looks like the Virgin Mary or some other angelic figure. It is obviously a miraculous sign of Gods love for us."

Japan has vowed to spare 50 humpback whales, but will continue whaling in Antartica and in the north Pacific.

The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) on Friday welcomed news that the Government of Japan has suspended plans to kill 50 humpback whales over the next several months. Friday's announcement follows months of public and diplomatic pressure on Japan, which launched its whaling fleet on November 18.

"The Lord of the Rings" stage show, at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London, has been nominated for 7 prestigious awards in the eighth annual Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Choice Awards.

The 2007 nominations for the eighth annual Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Choice Awards, recently announced at a star-studded event at Café de Paris in London's West End, included 7 nominations for The Lord of the Rings, now playing at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London.

Books For Soldiers opens an online social club to unite families separated by war.

BooksForSoldiers.com (BFS) has announced a day-long Christmas Eve party at its newly renovated BFS Social Club in Second Life.

The BFS Social Club, which initially opened on Halloween, will be hosting music, dancing, and a virtual Christmas tree stocked with free gifts donated by Second Life merchants such as the clothier, Formal Affair. The Social Club unites deployed US soldiers with their loved ones back home even though they are physically separated by thousands of miles. BFS Founder, Storm Williams said, “Second Life is a great opportunity for deployed soldiers to reunite with their family and friends back home for the holidays. It sure beats email.”

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Books for Soldiers Second Life Social Club

The stunning amount of forest devastation at Tunguska a century ago in Siberia may have been caused by an asteroid only a fraction as large as previously published estimates, Sandia National Laboratories supercomputer simulations suggest.

The stunning amount of forest devastation at Tunguska a century ago in Siberia may have been caused by an asteroid only a fraction as large as previously published estimates, Sandia National Laboratories supercomputer simulations suggest.

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INCINERATION POSSIBLE - Fine points of
the "fireball" that might be expected from an
asteroid exploding in Earth's atmosphere are
indicated in a supercomputer simulation
devised by a team led by Sandia researcher
Mark Boslough.

The top 10 wildlife conservation success stories for 2007 from the folks at the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.

The Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) today announced its top 10 wildlife conservation success stories for 2007. From amphibians to zebras, AZA-accredited zoos and aquariums are spearheading new efforts to protect wild animals -- in some cases bringing them back from the brink of extinction.

The Chopra Center for Wellbeing is coming to the city of Austin with two programs, Seduction of Spirit and the Chopra Yoga Retreat.

The Chopra Center for Wellbeing is coming to the beautiful city of Austin, with two signature programs, Seduction of Spirit and the Chopra Yoga Retreat, in the spring of 2008. Both programs will offer the city of forward-thinking Texans - as well as visitors to Austin - an opportunity to integrate well-being into their daily routine. Learn stress management and explore the timeless teachings of Ayurveda, yoga and meditation.

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Dr. Deepak Chopra

Hypnosis organizations set their own educational requirements for membership, meaning that there are as many educational requirements for hypnosis and hypnotherapy training as there are professional hypnosis and hypnotherapy organizations.

Even though the art and science of hypnosis has been in existence for hundreds of years, there has been a controversy lurking regarding hypnosis education. The various hypnosis organizations have always set their own educational requirements for membership. There have been as many different educational requirements for hypnosis and hypnotherapy training as there have been professional hypnosis and hypnotherapy organizations. Finally, however, hypnosis and hypnotherapy is entering a new era, an era of quality education in the use of this ancient tool to help bring about desirable behavioral changes.