Locked in a room: no escape, no mercy 🥊 who survives when power meets skill in pure boxing warfare?

Co-instructing a OH-138, Master Scenario Events List (MSEL) workshop in Medina County Ohio. Master your MSEL!

Fun Fact: 🎸 Rush’s “Tom Sawyer” was inspired by the Mark Twain character… but that’s not the full story. Neil Peart wrote the lyrics after reading a poem called “Tom Sawyer” by his friend Pye Dubois (from Max Webster). He then reimagined it as a modern-day rebel — “a modern-day warrior, mean, mean stride.” The result? One of the most iconic rock songs ever, with that legendary bass line and drum fill that still gives chills. Who else thinks this is peak Rush? 🤘

Real lessons are found in the decisions made along the way. Don't just ask, "Did we succeed" but ask." • What was missed? • What worked? • What should change next time? We improve when lessons learned become lessons applied. #EmergencyManagement #LessonsLearned #EriePrep

Public Information Officer (PIO) course in Montgomery County today. The right info, to the right people, at the right time. Looking forward to a great training. #PIO @MCOEM #EmergencyManagement #CrisisCommunication @Ohio_EMA

Windproof hook knot

7 knots. One skill that can save your life 🪢🔥

9 in 10 people without electricity today live in Sub-Saharan Africa. Across People, Planet, Prosperity, Infrastructure & Digital — the Atlas of Global Development 2026 tracks which countries are moving fastest and which are losing ground. ▶️ wrld.bg/82L850YXKZw #WBGAtlas

Very sad

Head first slide by Pete Rose

Rubio when the UFO files drop 😂

Huey never let me down.

Marco Rubio finding out he now has to run Spirit Airlines

For those planning courses, our exercise design text, Emergency & Disaster Exercises: A Practitioner’s Guide, is available in print and E-book via Kendall Hunt Publishing, Amazon & bookstores. #HSEEP #MEP #drill #EmergencyManagement @MrDarrenEPrice

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page. It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection. Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do. Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades. The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water. It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left. The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero. When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

How can #Christian disaster responders better navigate the tension between evangelistic mission and humanitarian action. Faithful innovation depends on service where #compassionate care and Christian witness work together not against one another. shorturl.at/kzjLp

I mystery-shopped 23 churches online like a real first-time visitor and only 2 would have earned my visit. 😳 Here are the 5 tests that separated the churches people actually show up to from the ones that quietly lose visitors before Sunday morning. 👇

Fertility rates have been declining for decades, and lower rates could stress the economy... MORE: bit.ly/41wlUAb

After-Action Reviews aren’t just for first responders! Almost any industry can benefit. ✅ Improve performance ✅ Enhance decision-making ✅ Strengthen collaboration ✅ Boost innovation ✅ Reduce risks Make reflection a habit. Learn. Adapt. Succeed. #Improvement #AAR