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Bruce Cockburn, a favorite in the counter-culture in the early seventies, and Nancy Griffith, who became known in the early days of MTV, will headline a concert of folk and roots music in March of 2008.

After a successful start last March, the Denver Folk & Roots Music Festival has become the flagship of Swallow Hill's fundraising efforts. Showcasing six hours of live, world-class performers, the Festival has attracted audience from California to Maine. The Second Annual Denver Folk & Roots Music Festival will be held from 6 p.m. to midnight on Saturday, March 29, 2008, in one of the finest acoustic concert halls in the United States, the Ellie Caulkins Opera House at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 950 13th St., Denver, Colo., 80204. Tickets will be available on Monday, December 3 at 11 a.m. online at www.swallowhillmusic.org, by phone at 303-777-1003 or at our box office located on 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, Colo., 80210. Two legendary artists, Bruce Cockburn and Nanci Griffith, will headline the event.

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Bruce Cockburn

Sovereign Bank to keep them safe in bank vault until event.

The National Braille Press announced today that it has stored a valuable set of original Harry Potter books signed by author J.K. Rowling in a vault at Sovereign Bank in Boston. Rowling has personally donated the series that includes her distinctive signature on each copy, the only such series available in the U.S. Rowling recently donated a signed set in the U.K. to benefit a local charity, which auctioned them off for almost $40,000. On October 26, Rowling is being honored by the National Braille Press and her priceless books will be auctioned off to benefit the non profit organization that produces the Harry Potter books in braille.

The Monterey Music Summit is an interactive arts festival created to serve as a forum for new thought and inspired intervention regarding the critical political and social issues of our time. The Monterey Music Summit features some of the most relevant contemporary and historically important musicians from a variety of genres all in concert, including: Michael Franti & Spearhead, The Roots, G.Love & Special Sauce, Cake, Ozomatli, Céu, Brandi Carlile, Colbie Callait and several others. Performers are invited to participate not for their talent and popularity alone, but also for their willingness to speak openly on current political matters, and for their commitment to positive social change.

Beautiful Monterey will host 25 cutting-edge musical performances on three stages over two days on October 20-21, 2007, offering concert attendees everything from regional favorites to international icons of pop, rock, folk and world music, all live in concert. A combination of reserved and general admission one and two-day event tickets are on sale now at http://monterey.inticketing.com, starting at just $55 per day. Early purchase discounts apply. To purchase tickets by telephone, please call (866) 55-TICKETS. For event information, please visit www.montereymusicsummit.com.

Everything, everywhere is made of atoms, right? Perhaps not, according to Howard Baer, professor of physics at Florida State University.

We’ve all been taught that our bodies, the Earth, and in fact all matter in the universe is composed of tiny building blocks called atoms. Now imagine if this weren’t the case. This mind-bending concept is at the core of the scientific research that one Florida State University professor -- and hundreds of his colleagues all over the world -- are pursuing.

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Dark/luminous matter separation in the bullet cluster of
galaxies.

Kurt Vonnegut once wrote a novel that centered around Saturn's largest moon. As strange as his tale was, it appears to be nowhere near as weird as real life on Titan.

If space travelers ever visit Saturn's largest moon, they will find a tropical world where temperatures plunge to minus 274 degrees Fahrenheit, methane rains from the sky and dunes of ice or tar cover the planet's most arid regions. These conditions reflect a cold mirror image of Earth's tropical climate, according to scientists at the University of Chicago.

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Orange clouds (at lower center) on Saturn's moon Titan as
seen by the Cassini spacecraft's visual and infrared mapping
spectrometer after closest approach on a July 22, 2006 flyby.
University of Chicago scientists are studying the dynamics
behind Titan's methane clouds.

Are you really as smart as you think you are? Or are you merely too smart for your own britches? Here's your chance to find out.

For those who are curious about everything, enjoy learning new things, discussing current events, solving mind-blowing puzzles or who are just plain smart, American Mensa will be hosting the tenth annual Mensa Testing Day in cities nationwide on October 20, 2007. Anyone who scores in the top 2% on the Mensa Admission Test will be invited to join the organization.

During the last two winters, perennial artic ice shrunk by an area the sixe of Texas and California combined, with thick ice confined to the Arctic Ocean north of Canada.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation, which is the nation's largest association of atheists and agnostics, is unveiling what is believed to be the first-ever nontheistic billboard on Tuesday, Oct. 2 in Madison, Wis.

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The event, presented by the Feng Shui Institute International, will feature the most published American writer on western Feng Shui.

Feng Shui Institute International (FSII) will be hosting an educational event "The Continuum of Connectedness" at the Sheraton Station Square Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on November 2, 3, and 4, 2007. Pre-registration is required due to limited space.

Tour starts October 18 in Seattle. The long-awaited first live album from Rob Zombie Zombie - Live will be released October 23, 2007.

Ozzy Osbourne announced his 2007 North American tour in support of the new CD release Black Rain. Aligning with Ozzy this tour is the pioneer of new horror media and music, Rob Zombie. Zombie just released Halloween, premiering number one at the box office breaking all Labor Day weekend records while grossing an estimated 31 million dollars. As Halloween is well on its way towards cult status, Zombie once again takes his horror-show back on the road in support of the long awaited Zombie-Live album.

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Forever Family Foundation to present investigations of consciousness and the unseen world. The conference is called Investigations of Consciousness and the Unseen World - Proof of an Afterlife?

Forever Family Foundation, a non-profit, non-sectarian organization that supports the premise that life does not end with physical death, today announced a conference that will bring together scientists, medical doctors, researchers, and mediums with a goal of educating the general public. The conference, called Investigations of Consciousness and the Unseen World - Proof of an Afterlife?, is scheduled to take place January 19 through 20, 2008 at the Cowell Theater at Fort Mason Center. It's purpose is to help raise awareness among the general public about the extensive research of consciousness and its implications that we survive our physical deaths.