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Newsvine – BOSTON — Mary Travers, one-third of the hugely popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, has died. The band's publicist, Heather Lylis, says Travers died at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut on Wednesday. She was 72 and had battled leukemia for several years. Travers joined forces with Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey…

Scientists re-examined data from a 2004 study of 18,531 people age 50 and over. As one example, among participants age 50 to 59 who had no chronic pain, 37 percent could jog a mile and 91 percent could walk several blocks with no trouble. Among those with chronic pain, only 9 percent could jog the…

Stamps (remember those?) make direct mail work. Because it costs money to send a piece of junk mail, you'll think two or three times before you mail something to a million people. READ SETH'S ARGUMENT AT sethgodin.typepad.com I posted this, not because of Seth's rant on the Huggie's ad, but because of his sound advice…

John Piper hates the health, wealth, and prosperity gospel because he says it is no gospel at all. Now, let us go for the whole gospel without losing the essential gospel. I love what John Piper is trying to say here, but I sometimes have a conflict. God is enough. I could not agree more.…

"The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs." "The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself." "It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who…

How to Build Your Business with Twitter Hashtags! By Social Editors • on September 15, 2009 Business Rules for Socializing on Twitter By Social Editors • on September 15, 2009 Best Business Practices for Twitter By Social Editors • on September 15, 2009 One of the most obvious lessons that any Internet entrepreneur learns is…

I have served as a campus minister for five years and have taught at two universities for nine years. In that time, I've learned some lessons about doing campus ministry both the hard way and from great mentors. Here are the top six things you need to know if you're doing college ministry: READ IT…

Decide in advance to use every adversity or setback as a spur to greater effort.about 10 hours ago from web      BrianTracy via twitter.com Here is a tweet worth retweeting and blogging!

Posted by: Robert Westervelt DDoS protection, VeriSign VeriSign has entered into the DDoS protection market, hoping the latest spate of DDoS attacks have raised enough concern among companies that they are shopping for solutions. The firm is using the word “cloud” to describe their DDoS service since it filters network traffic in one of VeriSign’s…

Global data deduplication can simplify administration of multiple deduplication devices 08 Sep 2009 | W. Curtis Preston via searchdatabackup.techtarget.com http://www.datavaultsecurity.com/TomSims