This isn’t your typical survival story. The people I’m going to tell you about didn’t make it out alive from an earthquake, they didn’t survive a political upheaval, and they didn’t come out the other end of a financial devastation smelling like roses.

There is good news in, at least in those whose bodies are still producing insulin. We are learning more each day about insulin resistance and how to reduce it. Although all forms of diabetes are thought to be degenerative, progressive, and incurable, there is more and more acknowledgment among those who work with diabetics that
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Do We Have the Backbone for Tough Love? The GOP-controlled House has issued their Spending Reduction Act of 2011, reducing federal spending by $2.5 trillion dollars over the next ten years. Rand Paul has proposed $500 billion in federal budget cuts just for 2011 alone, targeting numerous federal programs (including the food stamps program) in
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He’s such a tall, dark, strong, and handsome brute. —Beauty and the Beast Beauty and the Beast Once in a while we mishear the words of a song. “Olive, the other reindeer” and “José, can you see?” come to mind. Sylvia Wright calls these mistakes “mondegreens” from a mistake of her own. Writing for Harper’s
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Last time we talked about some of the leading trends in today’s marketplace. Today we’ll discuss some of the specific ways you can come up with your own “off the grid” product ideas. I started my company, Solutions From Science, with just one product. Since then, we’ve grown our line to dozens of products, and we’re always adding more into the mix. People often ask me how I come up with so many new ideas; today I’m going to give you an insider’s look into how I do just that.

“The Martial Artist of Trend Forecasting” returns and his acerbic wit is as evident as ever. As someone has said, if Nostradamus was alive today, he’d have a hard time keeping up with this man, the world’s only trend analyst covering 300 trend fields. View Text Transcription Gerald Celente joins Bill and Brian in discussing
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What is hospitality? Is it a gift, a virtue, a choice? How about a command? Biblical hospitality is one of the cornerstones of our faith and one of the actions that sets apart the “sheep” from the “goats.” Something so important as this is something that we want to pass on to our children. But
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The human body is basically a complex machine. When it works, it works superbly, much to our delight. It does what we want it to do, when we want it to do it. Sadly, as we get older, the machinery becomes sluggish and sometimes non-responsive. We, like those machines that make our lives easier, start
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When gold was cheap – relatively speaking – loading up on bullion bars, coins, and rounds made sense.  The premiums for graded numismatic coins seemed crazy, and the concept of collectibles generating wealth wasn’t a mainstream idea.  However, now that the price of gold is consistently hovering around the range of $1400 per ounce, looking
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By the time David Platt was 26-years-old, he had earned a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism (A.B.J.) from the University of Georgia, and a Master of Divinity (M.Div.), Master of Theology (Th.M.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.  Platt had also served as Assistant
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