We live today in a world short on hope and amply supplied with despair. For most, this has been a rather bleak year. We are all looking for hope in the midst of the pandemic – hope for Covid numbers to improve, hope for life to go back to normal.

One of the challenges that first responders like paramedics or firefighters face when they arrive on the scene of an accident is to assess quickly what is the injury—the greatest hazard—that poses risk to human life.

You may be familiar with the incredible true story of a con man named Frank Abagnale. Between the ages of 15 and 21, Abagnale successfully passed himself off as a commercial airline pilot with Pan Am, a medical doctor, and a lawyer.

It’s easy to be hypocritical, and we’re all guilty of it sometimes. A little while ago, Florida’s Sun Sentineli examined the records of 3,915 officers who had traveled on toll roads in 2011.

It’s a challenging thing to create a new society. It does, of course, happen from time to time. One of the world’s newest nations at the present time is South Sudan, which declared independence in 2011. For this new nation, the last few years have been years of immense challenge – and its very survival has been in jeopardy.