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My Symposium in the Pines ended ten days ago; my last guests departed the next day. Since then, I've ordered school clothes and school supplies for my son, who starts school on August 1st. My InSight 3 Decks arrived, were processed, and shipped. I still have shipping stuff all over the living room, both coming and going. The wine glasses from the Symposium's freaking magical Wednesday night dinner were still sitting on my dining room table two Sundays later, waiting for me to make sense of the kitchen and run them through the dishwasher.
Worth it.
In January of this year, I realized that the Australia trip I had imagined for this summer was not going to materialize, so I decided to focus my energies on bringing people to Prescott. I moved here with my son two years ago, and have marveled at the natural beauty, the Native American presence, the rip-roarin' Old West history, the charming Courthouse Square downtown, the diverse architectural treasures, and the present-day arts-and-antiques culture. I wanted to share all of this, so I paid a huge deposit on a boutique hotel undergoing renovations and crossed my fingers.
By the end of April, I had deposits from enough people to fill the hotel's 12 rooms. A couple people backed out, and a couple more came to take their place. I could not have designed a better group, though I suspect that pretty much any mix of my serious clients would've had its own special character. Some people who came have only been studying with me for a little over a year; for others, it's been closer to two decades. No one took everything home from the week, but everyone took something. Lots of things, in fact. The content was organic: sketched out at the beginning of the week, but open for questions and tangents and rabbit holes.
I am somewhat embarrassed to write that several attendees brought me gifts. I mean, in addition to paying to be there and traveling in from afar, they brought me gourmet chocolates, fancy paper drinking straws with little die-cut cacti on them, a book about swearing in many languages, a handmade mussel-shaped dish, and a hand-crocheted market bag that I christened this weekend. One lovey brought me homemade spanakopita in her suitcase, frozen for the trip. I did nothing to deserve any of it.
But I did organize a hell of a week.
In addition to our studies, we toured the Sharlot Hall Museum and learned about Arizona's earliest days. We visited local pre-Columbian petroglyphs and went kayaking at Watson Lake — our three brave paddle-boarders were no match for strong winds and had to be rescued, but no one was hurt, unless you count my stupid sunburn. There was an early morning hike to Thumb Butte. We had this beautiful catered group dinner on Wednesday night at the stunning Foxbriar Inn, and on Thursday we got to tour the stunning 1907 Masonic Temple downtown, its original ceremony room now a photography studio, with the original pentalpha lighting and carved wooden lintels intact. Those who stayed Friday night had an impromptu Friday night wine-and-pizza gathering at the beautiful home of one of the local teachers who had joined us.
Of course, none of this was the point.
We studied our hearts out. We clarified PIE patterns and Germanic grammar, Latin twin bases and combining forms, and Greek formative elements. We investigated lexical doublets and French cousins and we even had a Zoom visit from Doug Harper, who walked us through the suppletive tendencies of the verb to be. We examined the three suffixing patterns in English, and we teased apart differences between conventions and principles. We discussed zero allophones and etymological markers, default graphemes and competing constraints. Over the course of the week, we circled back several times to the replaceable <e>, because how could we not? So-called 'silent' letters in general make English spelling work optimally, but the <e> in particular is the linchpin to the whole system. I bet you a dollar that's in every single person's notes.
When my great-grandmother, Idonia, was pregnant with or a new mother to my paternal grandfather, Charlie, in 1900, her husband, Harry, skipped town or went to prison or something, after committing some kind of financial fraud. We don't know much about Harry or exactly where he came from: Idonia was from West Virginia, but gave birth to Charlie in New York. No one knows where Harry went after he left. Somewhere in there was the Ohio State Penitentiary and a fire. The details are sketchy for me, though some of my cousins may know more.
Idonia divorced Harry and raised Charlie on her own as a single mother, working as a stenographer and a postmistress. She smoked a pipe. In the 1910 census records, she is listed under her maiden name of Lytle, living alone in a rented home in West Virginia. Under the column for "children," there is a big, fat zero. This must've been during the time that Charlie spent in a Catholic boys' home, as family legend has it, the same one Babe Ruth spent time in for his youthful waywardness. Like I said, the details are sketchy, and the people who might've known more about them personally are gone now.
Charlie grew up with a last name (Cook) different from his mother's (Lytle), something that undoubtedly marked them both in the Ohio and West Virginia neighborhoods where they lived. When Charlie reached adulthood — which couldn't have been easy in the early 1900s with a single mama, no matter how resourceful — he added an <e> to the last name he had inherited from his father, Harry Cook, as a way to disavow him and become his own man.
That final <e>, you could say, is the linchpin in the family story.
Charlie Cooke-with-an-<e> worked most of his adult life for the Columbus Dispatch newspaper as a typesetter; the 1940 Census shows his profession as "Composition" for the "Newspaper."
He was a father to four, one of whom, my dad, started his career as a Linotype machinist for the Dispatch, later became a typesetter, and eventually, ran the photocomposition department for Peterson Publishing Company in Los Angeles. My dad and my grandpa are a big part of why I proudly use a union printer for my LEX materials. I never knew Charlie, as he died two years before I was born. All told, he was grandfather to 24, known as Pop Cooke, and posthumously, a great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather now, to too many to count. We are all "Cooke cousins," even those bear a different name.
One of the things we studied at the Symposium was base elements that have two forms — one with a replaceable <e> and one without — like the free base <sore> and the putative <sor> that we find in <sorry>, or the <tom> in <atom> that's a <tome> in its free form and derivatives, like <ana + tome + ic + al> and <en + tome + o + loge + y>. We investigated what becomes of the <e> in words like truly, truth, only, once, judgment and fledgling, unanimous, and philharmonic, words in which that <e> is not being replaced by a vowel suffix. We made sense of these patterns by studying not only individual words, but each word's permanent context in its own family and within the system as a whole.
Words, like people, make more sense when we know more about the families they come from.
We looked at words like borne and come and please, words whose <e> completes them, marks them as lexical forms, and differentiates them from otherwise homographic structures. We discussed the final <e> in candle and bible and double, and the highly mutable <e> in words like meter~metre and center~centre, switched around by a young Noah Webster in a newborn American nation.
Noah Webster and Charlie Cooke were both men of letters, you could say.
At the end of the final afternoon of the Symposium, one of the attendees, Marie, brought me another one of these undeserved gifts, this one a shiny white draw-string bag with several small, square metal plates in it. They spelled out my name. At first I thought they were typesetting molds called — brace yourself — matrices that shape and hold the punches in letterpress printing. "Oh Marie, I love these!" I effused. "My dad was a printer. So was my grandpa." Now, after looking around a little, I think that they are actually brass etching guides, used for a different kind of 'printing.'
Either way, they're perfect: to write, a glyph, a graph, to scribe, to print — all of these are etymologically a cutting, a carving, a punch, an engraving, an etching. Character derives from a very ancient word for a pointed tool. Character is, after all, that which is imprinted on our soul.
On Friday evening, over wine and pizza, I shared this photo with those who had not seen the letter plates earlier that day. People asked Marie where she had found them.
"In an antique shop around the corner," she said. "I was going to give them this morning, but I saw Cooke written and thought, Oh, hell, there's an <e> on the end of her name! So I had to go back at lunch for an <e>."
It was then that I remembered that Marie had been uncharacteristically late coming back from lunch that day. We got started, and when she arrived after a few minutes, she was breathless and sweaty, her sweet Scottish freckle face flushed. It was clear that she had rushed to get back.
"The clerk and I had to dig through the whole bin," she explained that evening. There weren't many <e> plates in the bin, and it took them a while to find one. That was why Marie was late. An <e> is a pretty popular letter, you see. Kind of the linchpin for the whole system.
I hesitate to write about these gifts at all. My purpose is not to boast, but to marvel, and this includes marveling that my people know me so well. They know that I love books and cacti and Arizona, swearing and all kinds of pink things, local history and farmers markets and France, chocolate and coffee and baguettes.
And words.
I am so grateful for and even embarrassed by the love in these gifts.
But the best gift, the biggest return on my investment, is watching what these people take home from here. They take home what we studied: things that they had wondered about and now understand for the first time; things that they understand better and more deeply than before; and things that they never even imagined. Things I never even imagined.
We discussed several times over the week how so many of our students — specifically, the students of the people in the Symposium room — find us as a last resort. They've been through phonics. They've had years of OG or one of its offshoots. Their parents have begged and pleaded and fought for Wilson or Barton or Lindamood Bell only to find after years of it that their kids are still half-literate at best, unable to spell English and hopelessly unconvinced that it's even possible.
You know what I mean. These are the kids that are called treatment resisters, the mamas who never get eye contact from school personnel because they're so difficult, the papas whose hair's gone gray over bills for tutors and lawyers and conferences and advocates, all promoting more phonics. When teachers can show these kids and families how things work in English — why two has a <w> and why one has an <e> — then not only does the language make more sense, but the families can also understand themselves as systematic, scientific thinkers instead of as defective learners. When I see a light bulb go on for a teacher in my room, and then I watch her shine that light on language for her families, there is no better gift.
I got an email from Marie a few days ago, exactly a week after that wine and pizza.
Dear Gina,
I know you are super busy, but I wanted to take a moment to thank you again for all the insights and information you shared at the Symposium.
I taught all week, and was able to bring back to the students lots of the new learning from the Symposium.
I talked about the concept of curiosity with a student who started with me for the first time this week after two years of intense phonics instruction. She was not very happy with bring brought to ANOTHER tutor and told me that what I was doing was NOT science.
On day one we explored why there is an < e > on the end of the word horse as she loves horses. This led to a discussion on the difference between suffix < -es > and < -s > and investigating the word plural and its connection to plus.
On day two we looked at the spelling of < have > and then last night she went home and wrote up a list of over twenty words that ended in < e > and asked me today to help her understand why they ended in < e >.
The word < be > happened to be on the list, so we jumped into a discussion on function and content words. As she sat happily sorting out content and function words and drawing little pictures for the content words, she stopped and said, "this is science, Marie, it is word science." To which I said, "that's pretty much what Linguistics is."
Her mom was very moved by her daughter's progress and said to me, "she seems to be really getting this," to which I said, "because this is the truth of hour our language works and the truth sticks."
Thanks for sharing the truth about language. I had so much fun this week bringing the learning from the Symposium to the students and parents.
Thank you for arranging the Symposium. I will be forever grateful.
Meeeeeeeee too.
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Letters and documents written to and by Dr. Charles McIver. Topics include leadership roles in educational organizations, nominating a secretary for the Normal Department of the National Educational Association, the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce and...


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Q: Collation for accent-insensitive comparison on Postgres? On PG 13 documentation, there are several examples of ICU collations for specialized purposes.  It is also mentioned that ICU locales exist that allow creating collations to ignore accents, and that they can be found on https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/master/common/bcp47/collation.xml
However, after reading that document, I am still unclear on what is the locale I should use to create an ICU collation for accent insensitive comparisons in Spanish.
What is the name of such an ICU locale?  Is there any list of ICU Spanish collations?

A: This would be a case sensitice, but accent insensitive locale for Spain that works with recent versions of ICU:
CREATE COLLATION spanish_noaccent (
   PROVIDER = 'icu',
   LOCALE = 'es-ES-u-ks-level1-kc',
   DETERMINISTIC = FALSE
);

SELECT 'Olé' = 'Ole' COLLATE spanish_noaccent;

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(1 row)

SELECT 'Olé' = 'ole' COLLATE spanish_noaccent;

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ks-level1 means "case and accent insensitive", and kc adds case sensitivity.
See my blog post for more.

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Zvolen Castle
Zvolen, Slovakia
Zvolen Castle is a medieval well-preserved castle located on a hill near the center of Zvolen. The original seat of the region was above the confluence of Slatina and Hron rivers on a steep cliff in a castle from the 12th century, known today as Pustý hrad (meaning 'Deserted castle'). Its difficult access had consequence in relocation of the seat to the new-built Zvolen castle, which was ordered by Louis I the Great as a hunting residence of Hungarian kings. The future queen regnant Mary of Hungary and emperor Sigismund celebrated their wedding there in 1385.
Gothic architecture of the castle built between 1360 and 1382 was inspired by Italian castles of the fourteenth century. Italian masons also contributed to a Renaissance reconstruction in 1548. The last major reconstruction occurred in 1784, when the chapel was rebuilt into the Baroque style.
Zvolen castle was built by Louis I of Hungary, which built it like a gothic hunting castle. In his form was finished in 1382, when it was a witness of an engagement of his daughter Mary and Sigismund. John Jiskra of Brandýs, who became one of the most powerful commander in Hungary and this castle was one of his manors from 1440 to 1462. The castle was also often visited by king Matthias Corvinus with his wife Beatrice, who used this castle as a manor from 1490.
About 1500 was built up external fortification with four round bastions and entrance gate. In half of 16th century was built up another floor with embrasures and corner oriel towers. About 1590 was built up artillery bastion also.
The castle was rebuilt many times, but it retains its Renaissance look. The castle was nominated as a National culture monument for his historic, art and architecture values and it was reconstructed in the 1960s. The Slovak National Gallery has a seat in this castle now, where it presents its expositions.
Zvolen Castle hosts a regional branch of the Slovak National Gallery with an exposition of old European masters, including works by P. P. Rubens, Paolo Veronese, and William Hogarth. There is also a popular tea room located in the castle.
Every year The Zvolen Castle Plays are introduced to huge amount of visitors. Here you can see actors and theatres from Slovakia, but also from another countries. The castle also offered a rental of his King hall, Column hall and Knightly hall, which is useful for organizing concerts, receptions, wedding ceremonies, etc. Now you can also see a computer model of this castle, which was made as an academic project.
Medieval castles in Slovakia
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Pustý Castle Ruins (2,3 km)
St. Francis Xavier Cathedral (18,1 km)
Banská Bystrica Castle (18,3 km)
St. Catherine's Church (21,4 km)
Banská Stiavnica Town (21,4 km)
Starý Zámok (21,5 km)
The Church of the Assumption (18,3 km)
Vlkolínec (53 km)
Modrý Kamen Castle (39,6 km)
Nový Zámok (21,4 km)
Jeffrey Jones (10 months ago)
Amazing array of icons gathered from neighbouring countries and from Slovakia and, of course, Zvolen. Many of the exhibits date from the 14th and 15th century and some even earlier. Also here are fine artworks with some excellent portraiture on display.
Viktoria Takacs (12 months ago)
Nice castle, very good exhibition inside if you like religious art.
Nicolas Schaeffer (12 months ago)
Interesting museum, particularly the polychrome wood statues by a local master.
Daniel Šácha (14 months ago)
Amazing castle, cultural events of high quality.
Veronika Nagyová (16 months ago)
Really wonderful to place to go with your friends or family. You can see nice paintings there with descriptions to learn more. I recommend this place for everyone.


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S. Hugo Moreno
Miller 315, MSC: 30
moreno@lclark.edu
Hugo Moreno grew up in the border city of Juárez, México. He joined the faculty at Lewis & Clark in 2014. He has also been a faculty member at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Western University-Ontario, Reed College, and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. In 2008 the American Philosophical Association awarded him its annual Essay Prize in Latin American Thought.
Professor Moreno has written peer-reviewed articles on Mexican and Hispanic poetry and philosophy. He also co-edited a special issue on Hispanic aesthetic thought with Elizabeth Millán for Symposium: The Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy. His book Rethinking Philosophy with Borges, Zambrano, Paz, and "Plato's Philosophical Poetry in the Republic" (Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming in 2021) calls into question the conventional distinction between philosophy and literature.
Hugo also writes fiction. You can read an excerpt of his first novel, Donde se acaba el Norte, by opening the following link: https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B08GG9ZMQS&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_zfsrFb2GYD6M5
PhD and MA from Cornell University in Hispanic Studies; MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Latin American Studies; MA from the University of Texas at El Paso in Political Science, and BS from Texas A&M University in Agricultural Economics.
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Hispanic Studies Program is located in Miller Center on the Undergraduate Campus.
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Behind the biohazard suit: A look into cleanup after tragedies
Posted: September 17, 2016 - 9:54pm | Updated: September 18, 2016 - 12:54am
By LUCINDA HOLT, A-J MEDIA
Behind the respirators and biohazard suits are the men and women who provide comfort, cleanliness and peace of mind to those dealing with the loss of a loved one.
For Dr. Andy Young, coordinator for the Lubbock Police Department's Victim Service Crisis Team, he's seen firsthand that these cleanup services often are critical in the aftermath of an at-home death.
In responding to victims of crisis situations, Young said he assists people coping with the traumatic loss of a loved one.
In homes still tainted with blood, bodily fluids, odors and other painful reminders of a loved one's death, it requires more than counseling, and many face the decision of how to move forward.
"I think it's difficult for the people in the midst of that situation to have a really good sense of what the right decision is," said Young, who is also a professor of behavioral sciences and psychology at Lubbock Christian University.
Wanting to experience what victims walk in on after first responders leave the scene, he described an incident where a person had passed away in a home.
Recalling the site where the person died on a bed, he said he noticed a wave of relief wash over the family member's face when he offered to dispose of the sheets and mattress.
Young said incidents like this are emotional and shocking for people to initially process, and biohazard cleanup is the furthest thing from their mind.
But as Lubbock's population climbs, crew members for biohazard cleanup companies who described their jobs to A-J Media over the summer said there's a growing need for the service.
"Any situation in which you know that it's something you can't handle and it's a health risk, we can take care of it," said Stephanie Henderson with Carpet Tech.
Sensitive services
Two biohazard cleaning companies, nationally and locally, shared information on the services they provide.
Bio-Tech biohazard technician Matt Brooker stood next to a specialized vehicle filled with the supplies he needs to carry out each task, big or small.
Professional cleaning and restoration company Carpet Tech of Lubbock has offered Bio-Tech, a biohazard restorative service, for about six years, covering Lubbock and working out to a 50-mile radius on the South Plains.
As the company's sole biohazard technician, Brooker had completed nine jobs since January when he spoke to A-J Media this summer. Most of their jobs, he said, involve suicide and unattended deaths. In 2015, he completed 30, with about 10 percent being at crime scenes.
"You run into a whole spectrum of emotions when you get there," Brooker said about responding to scenes.
While the company is equipped for any task, prices vary per job, with the most expensive at $10,000. Brooker said they rarely see homicide-related scenes. Lubbock saw an average of just under a dozen homicides per year from 2010 to 2015, according to A-J Media archives.
Henderson, who has been with Carpet Tech for nine years, said the demand for service has increased as the city continues to grow. In July 2015, Lubbock County's population reached 299,453, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
A report from the Lubbock County Medical Examiner's Office shows there were 50 suicides in 2015. Since January 2016, documents released in the middle of the year show there have been more than 15.
With a growing need for the specialized service, Henderson said, Carpet Tech is looking at adding more biohazard technicians as a backup for Brooker.
Each technician undergoes a blood pathogen certification and training at a specialty school.
Brooker attended a weeklong school in Indianapolis for classroom and hands-on training, where he followed protocol in a mock bedroom crime scene.
To simulate bodily fluids, he said, the instructors had technicians practice with cow blood. Brooker said starting out in the carpet and water restoration industry is beneficial when undergoing training for these special services.
He said the biohazard recovery industry is self-monitoring to ensure it remains ethical. Continuous training, he said, is a necessity with development of technology, tools and concepts.
Texas a busy state
For nationally based Aftermath, the certifications and training are similar, except the company has its own school for its technicians.
Bryan Reifsteck, senior director of operations, worked as a field technician for 10 years.
Headquartered in Illinois, the company's Fort Worth dispatch center helps service the area from Amarillo to Midland.
Like Bio-Tech, Reifsteck said the majority of Aftermath's calls are unattended deaths and suicides, and Texas, as the second largest by population in the country, is one of the company's busiest states.
Three-person crews are dispatched to each scene, and the company has about 45 to 50 crews throughout the nation, with the Lubbock area visited several times a month on average.
"It's very demanding," Reifsteck said. "It's not like general cleaning contractors."
He said a crew remains on standby 24 hours a day with five hours being the lengthiest time of arrival.
Aftermath and Bio-Tech, do not have automated phone systems — callers will always have the opportunity to speak with someone about their situation.
Like Aftermath, Bio-Tech technician Brooker is also on 24-hour standby.
Manager Henderson said Brooker enjoys helping people in their time of need.
"This is very sensitive work," Henderson said, "and it is work that you have to be able to handle particular situations very well. And Matt (Brooker), in particular, is very good at that."
The company offers assessments at no extra cost, while Aftermath provides no-obligation assessments.
Tina Bao, senior vice president of marketing and strategy for Aftermath, said the sensitivity of each task is why their company places a great emphasis on customer privacy.
Brooker also addressed the issue of privacy as he said he has placed garbage bags over the windows to block out potential spectators.
In the midst of a traumatic situation, Dr. Young said, it may be difficult for people to decide to enlist the help of a cleaning crew.
He lets people know about area services, and lets them know there may be a fee. Some people may be able to handle the cleaning themselves, and others may break down halfway through, he said.
What makes the situation difficult, he said, is that many people want to remember their loved ones as they were.
Booker said a person who knows the involved family usually makes the call because it can be emotional on family members.
The pros suit up for multiple reasons.
Wearing a respirator, Brooker demonstrated the suit that helps keep him safe while maintaining the integrity of the scene. He said although bodies are never at the scene by the time his crews get there, decomposition odor attaches to other surfaces very quickly.
Gloves are taped around the wrists for safety and cleanliness, and no suit is used twice. Both companies switch out suits frequently to help protect the technicians and the scene.
Blood creates a dangerous situation, as it may carry a risk for disease.
Both service providers warned of the dangers of spot cleaning. If blood or bodily fluids are on a carpeted surface, Reifsteck said more than likely there is pooling underneath the surface.
Additional blood spatter, he said, may also be an issue if a suicide was carried out by a shotgun.
A thorough cleaning is required, he said, in order to eliminate all odors and hazardous material.
Brooker said blood can also seep into the concrete, so carpet removal is a necessity to remove the risk of disease transmission.
If a mattress is contaminated, the soiled spot is cut out, and all removed waste is then collected by a medical waste company.
He said under state and federal regulations, all biohazardous material has to be dealt with in a specific way, and specialized containers similar to the ones found in hospitals are used.
Aftermath's Bao said the company carries its own line of custom disinfectants to assure optimal cleanliness, and a HEPA air filtration machine is brought out to the site.
Care, compassion
Do you have to call biohazard cleanup after a traumatic event? Brooker said the answer is no, but highly recommended.
If the government were to place biohazard regulations on individuals, he said, people would be unable to blow their nose and dispose of the tissue. Regulations do come into effect, he said, when a technician takes on the task.
Aftermath offers a 28-point checklist to help families choose the right service for them. The website list details qualifications they say technicians should have before taking on the task.
For Bio-Tech, Henderson said customers are treated with the utmost care and dignity in order to help them in their time of need.
"Care and compassion comes first," said Henderson. "Second, we're gonna get you taken care of and get your house the way it needs to be so that you can continue on your journey that you're dealing with right now."
Posted on September 21, 2016 by Andy Young.
Lubbock Police Department's Crisis Team
FROM Fox24.com
Posted: Jul 12, 2016 10:24 PM EDT
LUBBOCK, Texas - Police officers wake up each morning not knowing what they will face.
"You're going to see a lot of bad things, things you can't un-see, things you're going to think about at night and it will reappear in dreams. You've got to have somebody and outlet that you can talk to about those things and not everybody understands what the officers are going through and how to deal with those issues," Lubbock Police Sgt. Lowell Owens.
The Lubbock Police Department's Critical Incidents Management Team has been around for 16 years.
Andy Young, the coordinator of the Critical Incidents Management Team at LPD, went through the training in 2000. "I think we had a number of officers go through the training before July 13, 2001, when we had one officer killed in the line of duty," he said.
Owens said he was "actually on the department during those times and it was a very difficult time. We had two officers, several years ago, that were killed within a week a part of each other and during those times it was just the beginning stages of the existing crisis team that we have now and I believe that was the time we realized we really needed something in place and available for these guys."
The Crisis Team opens the door for discussion. "It's a camaraderie that you can sit down and visit with people that have been through what you've been through," Owens said.
The team assists anytime they are needed. They are there "for the officers on patrol, for everything from a domestic disturbances to where they need counseling, to accidents with injuries, deceased persons, the team is available to come out and help them at anytime there's an issue or somebody needs someone to talk to," Owens said.
There are currently 40 officers on the Crisis Team, "who are able to assist other officers one on one as the needs arise and then a large scale incident like what happened in Dallas happens we have a lot of people that we can call on from other agencies to come up here and help us and we are available to go to other places and help them," Young said.
"To have somebody else that can relate to you and listen to you and understand at the same level of what you do is vitally important to their well-being for their mental stability and officers see some bad things in their career and that's just the way it is that's the nature of the job we do but knowing there is a a place you can go and people you can talk to is a big help to them," Owens said.
The LPD Crisis Team assisted in Odessa after the death of three officers in 2007.
"I reached out to Dallas police department to see if there was anything we could do," Young said.
"The whole week after the incident impacts people and the incident kind of carries on even after the immediate threat is over and the funerals are a part of that to it's not until a couple days after the funeral that everyone will kinda let down and take a breathe and that's the best time to give people a chance to process what they have been through," Young said.
"You've gotta give it some time and have to let us grieve like anybody else, after a period of time then it's time to come together and talk about what you're going through," Owens said.
Young said a crisis team will probably start speaking with Dallas Police officers at least two days after the last funeral.
Posted on September 14, 2016 by SelenaJ and tagged Lubbock police crisis team.
Researchers studying how longer shifts affect LPD officers
FROM LUBBOCK CW
http://www.lubbockcw.com/
Posted: Jun 09, 2016 9:39 PM EDT
Earlier this year, Lubbock Police Department's patrol division lengthened its shift hours to address manpower issues. It switched from eight-hour to 12-hour shifts.
"By going to the 12-hour shift, we can spread out more officers throughout the city and more officers on duty at one time," LPD Lt. Ray Mendoza said.
"If I was on duty, I would love it," City Councilman and former LPD officer Floyd Price said.
Council voted Thursday to allow two doctoral investigators to research how these longer hours affect officer performance through February 2019. Texas Tech University professor Megan Thoen and Lubbock Christian University professor Andy Young said their research is not to tell LPD what's right or wrong, it is to protect the well-being of those on the force.
"They're working long shifts, they're having a long change at work, anything like that can affect a person's home life, it can affect their job performance so it seems wise to try and see how a change affects a person at their job," Young said. "It seems always wise when there's a systemic change in a police officer's life or anybody's life, you want to take a look at how that will affect that person and affect the department as a whole. We're going to try and do this for a number of years to try and measure the impact as people adjust to a new schedule."
"They're the ones that actually have to perform the duties," Price said. "Studies are excellent to sort of get the catch on things where you would likely be one way or the other. You do the study and you get the input from the people who the study is going to affect and take the data."
How they will study the officers, they cannot exactly say. However, they can tell us the work will be under strict scrutiny.
"We have to be careful about answering that question too, because we don't want to affect the study before we do it," Young said. "There's a review board at Tech that makes sure this is study is done right, everybody involved is protected and no undo coercion is done."
Young is no stranger to working with Lubbock police. he has been with the department since 2000. He is the negotiator for the SWAT team, coordinator for the victim services crisis team and the coordinator for the critical incident stress management team. He even wrote a book about his experiences with LPD.
"Nobody really knows and can appreciate what goes on at 3 a.m. behind the yellow tape so I wanted to write some of those stories down so people can have a better understanding of what this work is like," Young said.
Young said his co-investigator, Thoen, is also well-versed with police work and its culture.
"Law enforcement is an important work and to assist officers who are trying to do their work has been gratifying to me," Young said.
My First Blog
This is my first attempt at posting a blog and wanted to see how it looks. As everyone is well aware, our society is struggling with law enforcement and its place in our society. More specifically, our society is struggling with authority. This struggle is compounded by the examples of authority behaving selfishly or poorly that are being highlighted right now. But these examples of authority behaving selfishly or poorly cannot distract us from the real issue at hand, which is, what place does authority have in our society and how do those under that authority submit to it, especially when caught doing something wrong?
The real test here is when those in society are confronted by authority when they are not doing something wrong. If I am pulled over when I wasn't speeding, if I am asked to make accommodations during an investigation (e.g. being put in handcuffs while officers investigate something), and even if I am arrested for doing nothing wrong . . . these are the things that test me. Can I be patient and allow the system to work things out, even while awaiting arraignment and a judge's decision about my circumstances and innocence? It takes humility and patience in order to submit to imperfect authority, and these are qualities that need to be fostered in all of us.
Posted on August 20, 2016 by Andy Young.
Fight Or Flight by Dr. Andy Young
Crisis Intervention Training
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Posted on December 1, 2015 by Andy Young.


WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (BCFP), working in collaboration with 11 financial regulators and related organizations, is announcing an initiative to create the Global Financial Innovation Network (GFIN).
The network will seek to provide a more efficient way for innovative firms to interact with regulators, helping them navigate between countries as they look to scale new ideas. It will also create a new framework for cooperation between financial services regulators on innovation-related topics.
provide firms with an environment in which to trial cross-border solutions.
The BCFP and the other regulators are seeking views on the mission statement for the GFIN, its proposed functions, and where it should prioritize activity. The group would also welcome hearing from other interested regulators who wish to get involved. In the United States, interested parties can provide feedback to the Bureau's new Office of Innovation.
Regulatory cooperation: Respondents were supportive of the idea of the initiative providing a setting for regulators to collaborate on common challenges or policy questions firms face in different jurisdictions.
Speed to market: Respondents cited one of the main advantages for the global sandbox could be reducing the time it takes to bring ideas to new international markets.
Governance: Feedback highlighted the importance of the project being transparent and fair to those potential firms wishing to apply for cross-border testing.
Emerging technologies/business models: A wide range of topics and subject matters were highlighted in the feedback, particularly those with notable cross-border application. Among issues highlighted were artificial intelligence, distributed ledger technology, data protection, regulation of securities and Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), know your customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML).
The working group is asking for feedback on questions contained in the Consultation Document by October 14, 2018. Over the course of the next two months, the group will engage with interested parties across different jurisdictions. In the fall, the working group will assess feedback and agree on next steps.
In the United States, interested stakeholders can share written and/or other feedback directly to the Bureau's Office of Innovation, which looks forward to active stakeholder consultation on this matter. Contact information for the Office is as follows: officeofinnovation@cfpb.gov. Commenters should be aware that the content of comments may be subject to release under the Freedom of Information Act.
Comments can also be shared with the FCA and other regulators, with contact information available within the Consultation Document.
The Office of Innovation is intended to help the Bureau fulfill its statutory mandate to promote competition, innovation, and consumer access within financial services. To achieve this goal, the new office will focus on creating policies to facilitate innovation, engaging with entrepreneurs and regulators, and reviewing outdated or unnecessary regulations.
In addition to the BCFP and the FCA, the organizations currently involved in the GFIN are: Abu Dhabi Global Markets; Autorité des marchés financiers (Québec); Australian Securities & Investments Commission; Central Bank of Bahrain; Dubai Financial Services Authority; Guernsey Financial Services Commission; Hong Kong Monetary Authority; Monetary Authority of Singapore; Ontario Securities Commission; and Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP).


"After hearing the same question over and over from friends and family — "Why aren't you married yet?" — art director Suzanne Heintz got tired of it and set out to do something about it. She got herself a little family…of mannequins.
Yes. I related to this a bit.
I saw this, too. One way to answer back!
Wow! Satire at its best. The artistry is amazing … just wish it didn't tug on some memories, if you know what I mean.


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Nobody has to tell Pittsburghers how embracing a sports team can bring disparate people together. But when some teams tap into ancient rivalries, nationalism or other emotional hot buttons, such fierce devotion can also be divisive.
Clint Eastwood's Invictus tells the story of South Africa's national rugby team, which transformed itself from a symbol of its country's ugly history into one of a more hopeful -- and inclusive -- future. The mass adoration of sports teams is a phenomenon that's simplistic, if valid and crowd-pleasing -- a tag that can be hung on Eastwood's movie as well.
The film opens in 1994, as recently elected President Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) and his staff adjust to their new positions. There's rampant mistrust between blacks and whites, from the corridors of power to the bleak townships.
The story, adapted from John Carlin's Playing the Enemy, details Mandela's political gamble that the fractured nation could be rallied around a sports team -- even the Springboks, the rugby team indelibly linked to the ruling whites of the apartheid era. (Mandela explains that he was among the South African blacks who would automatically root for any Springbok opponent.) But in 1995, South Africa is hosting the World Cup, and the Springboks have an automatic berth, despite being a losing team and carrying unpleasant historical baggage.
Mandela sees opportunity, and thus enlists Francois Pienaar (Matt Damon), the team's Afrikaner captain. The strategy is simple: With this twin leadership and a winning team, South Africa will move out of the past, even if it simply means blacks adopting the despised team's colors, and the team reaching out to create black fans. Mandela tells his disapproving aide: "The rainbow nation starts here ... [there must be] reconciliation."
While Invictus depicts some of Mandela's other challenges, this is neither explicitly a political film nor a character study of the statesman. It's an inspirational sports drama wrapped in some admittedly historic political and cultural shifts. And as sports movies go, the Springboks' quest is familiar: Find some larger reason to become a great team -- and in a down-to-the-wire match, beat the hated rivals and bestow victory upon all countrymen.
Damon is perfectly serviceable as Pienaar, but the script doesn't give him much to work with. (Pienaar to his struggling players mid-match: "This is our destiny!") Likewise his teammates, who mostly act as a unit, and the scattering of minor characters around the edges of Mandela and Pienaar's central drama.
My chief complaint is that Eastwood doesn't trust his capable actors, or the compelling story, enough. He falls back on the rah-rah tropes and cheats that define road-to-glory bandwagon films. Mandela and Pienaar spend most of their dialogue vocalizing their motivations. (Both have the convenient gimmick of having to explain everything to skeptical teammates.) And when Pienaar visits Robben Island and sees where Mandela was imprisoned, is it necessary to superimpose a ghost image of Mandela breaking rocks? Pienaar is emotionally affected simply by seeing the empty prison; can't we be, too?
But as Mandela himself counsels, "Forgiveness liberates the soul." So, I bow: Invictus is, at its core, a heart-swelling, sports-transcends-bad-stuff movie, and grumblers like myself are quickly sidelined. This isn't Eastwood's best film, but it's clearly a story he's emotionally invested in, and his enthusiasm is palpable. The story of Mandela and the Springboks of 1995 was a rare feel-good chapter of 20th-century South African history; it swept up millions, if only for a temporary bit of entertainment. Invictus invites viewers to share the same events, and few will be unstirred, if only for these brief movie-watching moments.