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Kundalini yoga meditation for complex psychiatric disorders
Aarti Jagannathan
Assistant Professor, Division of Yoga and Life Sciences, Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samasthana (SVYASA), Bangalore - 560 019, India
Date of Web Publication 9-Jul-2012
Jagannathan A. Kundalini yoga meditation for complex psychiatric disorders. Int J Yoga 2012;5:161-3
Jagannathan A. Kundalini yoga meditation for complex psychiatric disorders. Int J Yoga [serial online] 2012 [cited 2021 Jan 15];5:161-3. Available from: https://www.ijoy.org.in/text.asp?2012/5/2/161/98252
Author: David S Shannahoff Khalsa
Publishers: Norton Professional Book, New York, USA.
Through his book titled, 'Kundalini Yoga Meditation for Complex Psychiatric Disorders - Techniques specific for treating the psychoses, personality and pervasive developmental disorders', Shannahoff-Khalsa has provided field-tested protocols of Kundalini Yoga Meditation for severe psychiatric disorders. These protocols are substantiated with evidence-based case studies, which add to the validity of the prescribed Kundalini yoga techniques. The author has written this book as an extension of his first book on Kundalini Yoga Meditation, where he focused on protocols for specific psychiatric disorders like OCD, couples therapy and personal growth. His introductory chapter clearly states that the focus of the present book is to target Kundalini yoga meditation for severe psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia, pervasive developmental disorders and personality disorders and toward dealing with psychiatric 'multimorbidity' conditions (Chapter 5, Page 270) which seem to be common in USA. [1]
In each of his subsequent chapters on treating schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders (Chapter 2), treating personality disorders (Chapter 3), treating pervasive developmental disorder (Chapter 4) and treating multimorbidity in psychiatric disorders (Chapter 5), he eloquently details the diagnostic details of each disorder, its prevalence, conventional modalities of treatment, yogic view of etiology and yogic protocols for treatment along with successfully treated case histories. Certain notable and new concepts have also been discussed in each of the chapters. For example: in chapter 2 on 'treating schizophrenia', the patient's 'desire to self-heal' in the process of treatment has been emphasized (page 53). In chapter 3 (treating personality disorders), the traditional method of therapy for patients with personality disorders i.e., of Dialectical Behavior Therapy is mentioned along with that of yoga through scientific research studies (pages 122-131). Further, how certain symbols can be used as associations in therapy have been detailed (e.g., cave, tall tree, low tree, spiral shell, stick or branch, waterfall, snake, stone, claw, bird; page 150). In chapter 4 (treating pervasive developmental disorders, PDD) the authors have emphasized the need for therapy as an important part of the treatment, as in PDD's medications are observed to only help deal with the behavioral problems. Yogic methods to improve eye-to-eye contact and other symptoms of PDD have been detailed with the surmise that the effectiveness of the therapy would depend on the degree of trainability of the patient (page 280). Finally in the last chapter on 'multimorbilities', the author has detailed the principles of therapy to deal with these complex cases (page 270) and the importance of continued therapy for effective outcomes.
Certain issues raised by the author during the course of the book could, however, require further thought and debate:
Desire to self heal: All the case histories reported in this book have been successful in healing the patient, because of their 'desire to self heal' (Chapter 2, Page 53). However, the basic challenge in treating any psychiatric patient with the conventional modalities of treatment and more so with the yogic protocols is the patients' lack of insight regarding their own disorder. The Mental Status Examination (MSE) of any psychiatric patient involves assessing his insight which in turn enables the psychiatrist to prescribe pharmacological/non-pharmacological treatment. [2] The level of insight (about one's own disorder) in a patient can indirectly predict his co-operation to treatment and recovery. [2] Psychiatrists, hence, aim to first stabilize the patient's symptoms and insight through pharmacological treatment modalities, and once the patient is amenable to suggestions of a therapist, the patient could be prescribed conventional or alternative therapy. In cases of severe psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia, personality disorders and autism, yoga as a therapy, requires the patient to have at least a moderate level of insight [2] ('desire to self heal'), without which results could be discouraging.
Add-on therapy with medication: In continuation with the above point of discussion, yoga could possibly be looked at as a more effective add on treatment, than a stand alone treatment especially in psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, where some psychiatric symptoms (positive symptoms of schizophrenia) show initial good response only to drugs. [2] This issue is indirectly validated in this book as two out of three cases of psychosis mentioned, were either already on medications when they started the yoga treatment or were advised to start yoga along with medication treatment. Kundalini yoga could be looked at as a stand alone treatment in the case of personality disorders and pervasive developmental disorders where the mainstay of treatment is non-pharmacological. Therapists however need to be cognizant that in dealing with 'multimorbid' psychiatric disorders, the decision to prescribe yoga as a stand alone treatment could be complex.
Continuing yoga therapy: Yoga is as an effective alternative treatment in patients who do not obtain remission or satisfactory symptom-relief even after taking pharmacological treatment. [3] This effectiveness is, however, pronounced only if yoga is practiced on a continuous basis over a period of time. [4] The negative symptoms of schizophrenia such as lack of motivation deter patients from indulging in any activity. Further lack of insight about ones disorder may make the patient believe that they do not require the treatment. Research studies in yoga have reported logistic as well as illness related barriers to yoga therapy which requires to be understood before prescribing yoga to patients with psychiatric problems. [5] Most of the cases in this book were referred by the consultant doctor or by the family member of the patient, a possible cause for continuing with the treatment.
Chakras stimulation/ Meditation: The Kundalini yoga meditation techniques mentioned in this book are novel in the field of psychiatry as most other studies on patients with psychiatric disorders are limited to yogasanas and pranayama variants only. This is because, studies have depicted that meditation could possibly result in a risk of exacerbating psychosis. Some patients have the risk of activation of psychosis during meditation. [6] In patients with schizophrenia, a good proportion of who suffer from motivational defects, ensuring these mindful practices is a challenge. [7] The effectiveness of Kundalini yoga meditation techniques though seen to be effective in this book could require further investigation in large sample randomized controlled studies to counter the criticism of including meditation techniques in yoga protocols for treatment of (especially) patients with psychosis.
Tackling macro issues of mental health care through Yoga: The author has concluded his book with an epilogue which discusses yoga as an effective preventive treatment to counter the health care market forces. It is true that in the USA (where health care is privatized) as well as in developing countries like India, liberalization, privatization and globalization of mental health care have caused rise in the costs of medication and mental health care treatment. Despite the success of District Mental Health Programme in some states, the common person of India finds it difficult to access affordable mental health care in the community. To tackle this growing issue, introduction of yoga as a preventive, alternative and complementary treatment for patients with psychiatric disorders in India could be an effective solution for three basic reasons: (1) yoga which originated in India is seen to be a practical and accepted therapy for patients to practice at home, (2) the number of yoga therapists is more than the number of mental health professionals available in India, and finally, (3) yoga is cost-effective and has no side-effects as in the case of psychiatric medications.
Overall, the book provides practical and feasible yogic protocols for treatment of severe psychiatric disorders which were considered till date to be incurable even with pharmacological medications. By reading the success stories of the cases mentioned in this book, family members of psychiatric patients can seek solace in the existence of a possible alternative treatment for severe psychiatric disorders.
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2. Sadock BJ, Sadock VA. Kaplan and Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry: Behavioral Sciences/Clinical Psychiatry, 7 th Ed. USA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2000.
3. Buckley PF, Stahl SM. Pharmacological treatment of negative symptoms of schizophrenia: Therapeutic opportunity or cul-de-sac? Acta Psychiatr Scand 2007;115:93-100.
4. Patañjali (1989; Feuerstein, G. translation). The Yoga-Sutra of Patañjali: A New Translation and Commentary, Inner Traditions International; Rochester, Vermont, Verse/Page: 1.14.
5. Baspure S, Jagannathan A, Kumar S, Varambally S, Thirthalli J, Venkatasubramanain G, et al. Barriers to yoga therapy as an add-on treatment for schizophrenia in India. Int J Yoga 2012;5:70-3.
6. Walsh R, Roche L. Precipitation of acute psychotic episodes by intensive meditation in individuals with a history of schizophrenia. Am J Psychiatry 1979;136:1085-6.
7. Gangadhar BN, Varambally S, Thirthalli J, Jagannathan A., Kumar S., Venkatasubramanian G., et al. Therapeutic efficacy of add-on yogasana intervention in stabilized outpatient schizophrenia: Randomized controlled comparison with exercise and waitlist. Indian J Psychiatry 2012 [in press].
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All gas cylinders in the UAE would be subjected to new set of standards issued by the Emirates Authority for Standardisation and Metrology (ESMA) beginning next year.
Under the new system, ESMA would monitor and enforce new standards on safety, accuracy of weight as well as age, manufacturing and transportation of gas cylinders, a senior ESMA official said.
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Strategic Design and Implementation- Southwest Airlines Case Study
Being the smartest and highly responsive lawyer, quite humble and highly skilled in disputes resolution, the Southwest CEO Herb Kelleher clearly knew what was needed to move the young airline player forward. He need to overcome stiff competition by establishing clear vision for the company strong culture based on clients interests and dynamic strategies that kept the competitors bewildered by the magnitude of business war wedged through strategic management by the leadership. The airline leadership provided high value for low cost and consistently delivered what it promised. After analysis of the Airline business experience it has been observed that powerful and dynamic business strategy is key to withering challenges and sustaining growth.
Founded in 1967 by Rollin King the initial aim was to improve intercity air services. King realised that the market was bigger than many realised after a discussion with customers. During this time, Kelleher was the company point person. From the onset, experienced opposition from competitors determined to prohibit Southwest Airlines from operating in new routes. But the CEO Kelleher was determined to win the enemy by its terms, likening the struggle to the stretch of the WW11. The company's vision was to offer best services at lowest cost compared to other airline. Interestingly, even with the low costs, the employees become among the best paid in the industry (Carpenter & Sander, 2007).
During the initial stages, the Airline experienced threats in its capacity to implement the new plan. It only had three airplanes. But this was overcome by offering planes at 75 minutes interval with two planes between Dallas and Houston and 250 minutes interval between Dallas and San Antonio. Later, the strategy was changed to hourly flights. Change of strategy to initiate hourly flight after first two weeks caused a problem of scheduling. This challenge was solved by purchasing a new plane in late September 1967.
While the desire to make maximum use of the company's most expensive assets ensued, the biggest opportunity utilised was the 10 minutes turnaround. No plane stayed on ground for more than ten minutes due to well orchestrated servicing and maintenance.
The initial operations started under extreme pressure and tight deadlines. Kelleher had to raise additional start-up capital, hire new personnel and solve multitude of marketing problems. Weeks of negotiation with manufacturers yielded to Boeing 737-200, a crucial decision because the airline would not only use it for many years but required few crew members thus minimising operation cost (Carpenter & Sander, 2007).
Notably, the CEO's strategic approach to operational planning created differentiators that accelerated the Airlines competitiveness in the market. First was the idea to offer no frills low cost flights to and from secondary airports. The airline clung tenaciously to this strategy and created a reputation of having least complains from the passengers. Indeed, these strategies made the 1988 U.S department of transportation to rate it as the best on-time performance service provider, with the lowest number of customer and baggage complains. Indeed, it was the first airline to win all the three categories since the department started its performance rating. The no frills strategy included; no baggage transfer, no meals, no assigning of seats, use of reusable boarding cards. The passengers enjoyed a more efficient system of ticketing. The Southwest airline enabled the passengers to turn up at the designated time and find the ticket already printed by a machine. The passengers only enjoyed a drink and pea nut. No more. The emphasis on quality was not in the meals but on-time flights and no cases of lost baggage. In addition, the company did not subscribe to expensive computerised reservation system linking them to travel agencies but used other means to market the airline.
The second differentiating strategy adopted was the short turnaround across the airport which enabled the airline to project itself from the competitors. Many competitors who tried to adopt the approach failed. Those who tried to adopt the strategy were lured by the big routes but fallen by big people who knew what they were doing. Its average flights were 10.5 hours per day. The industry average was 4.5 hours a day. Although this increased the fuel cost and landing fees high above other planes. The airplane made extremely good use of its most expensive assets, their airplanes. It contracted about two thirds of monthly jet fuel supply while purchasing the rest on the spot market. In addition it maintained low operation cost by contracting for major maintenance, data processing and legal services.
Third, while many of competitors developed a hub-and spoke (from big airports to smaller airports), the Airline maintained a spider web pattern. The CEO refused to use the hub and spoke strategy because he felt that it ties high value assets to few pressure points. Spider strategy allowed for maximum flexibility in dispersing assets while at the same time reducing stress in the operation system (Carpenter & Sander, 2007).
As the capital gains and market share increased the need to expand arose. There was need to expand the services to other States, establish new routes and compete in routes that were underserved and overpriced. The company made success due to the impact of carefully made investigation on the external environment. The idea of looking for markets that were overpriced and underserved was a ground breaking strategy because the company made immediate impact on the operation and strategies of other airline operators such as American, USAir. In addition the operation in new small cities and small airports was important in that the planes could enter and get out quickly.
The Airline put great emphasis on business staging. After sufficient investigation was done and the management agreed to enter into a new market, the airplane embarked on its operations with full force. This high speed venture into new markets was a strong selling point in that it suddenly offered many planes that passengers would easily board once they enter into the airports. This was also a marketing strategy because the Airline could easily make a strong promotion message right from the beginning. For instance, after entry into California, Southwest Airlines engaged the competitors; the USAir and American into stiff fare warfare. At the end of the fare war, Southwest dominated while the two competitors were wiped out of the market almost entirely. Other tactics included offers such as fly one way get one way free with $59 unrestricted fare. The campaign was quite successful (Carpenter & Sander, 2007).
Notably, this success could not be attained without proper marketing strategy. According to Southwest strategists, marketing was 'fun'. Adopting the fun image was a strong selling point. The theme of its promotion campaign was focused on the concept of love. The attendants wore bright color hot pants. The notion that peanuts and in-flight drinks were 'Love Potions' or 'Love Bites' was a boost to the campaign efforts. Also use of adjectives such as exciting, dynamic, young and vital while making positions promotion highly enticed the potential passengers. In addition the Airline introduced 'Fun Fares' which included one way prices ranging from $19-$85 in 1986. This was accompanied by new uniform for the flight attendants. Two years later, the company went into an agreement with Sea World Texas to launch the 'Shamu One', a flying Killer whale plane that became so popular that the airline painted other planes similarly.
While setting competitive and calculated prices, the airline used a two tier pricing as a strategy to influence booking of the planes during the days that passenger turnaround was lowest such as the weekend days. This pricing was accompanied by an aggressive marketing campaign. The prices were reduced to as little as $10 for passengers flying after 7:00 p.m on any day of the week. However, this was short lived because few weeks later, he was able to raise the price without serious negative effect on the gains in the passenger turn around. For a long period (from 1972-1978) the Airline did not increase any fare. The Vice President for finance Gary Kelly argued that the pricing was based on profit rather than market share. The pricing strategy did not go well with competitors as they accused Southwest airline of seat dumping.
In complimenting other strategies the success of the airline was highly boosted by aggressive promotion. The Southwest management team sought to create a scenario whereby the target customers were not the customers from other Airlines but from those who travelled by other means, with more emphasis on bus passengers. This was a very good strategy since it challenged the other competitors who had made a price difference between the road and air transport by heavily charging the passengers. The primary targets were business commuters who constituted 89% of the traffic to the west. The company began promotions targeting marketing share but after a short while it attained a strong corporate image through use of mass media.
During the initial 'Fun' promotion approach, many critiques thought that the company was doomed to fail. But to build a reputation so strong that in early1974 it celebrated the millionth passenger, continued to expand routes, offered consistently low prices and consistently reliable service provider.
Today, the operations of the Airline remain admirable compared to other operators of similar scale. The strongest selling points remain the ability to offer high quality services while maintaining low costs and limited ability of competitors to develop substitute products that would compete with its efficient services (Brown & Eisenhardt, 1998). However, since the airline gains most from business travellers, the introduction of internet communication and efficient new media may in future reduce the number of travellers in short business mission.
The future of the Airline is bright if diversification measures are emphasised in expansion planning. Some of the opportunities include establishment of travel routes in the fast developing countries such as in Africa (Hamel & Prahalad, 1994). For instance, in East Africa, the cost of one way travelling from Nairobi to Mombasa, an 800 Kilometre distance is $130. The cost of travelling the same distance by bus is $20. The Airline can come in as a cheap substitute to the busses and connect the seven countries forming the East Africa Community. The routes are exorbitantly overpriced and extremely underserved.
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The Engine of Myself: Interview with Poet Hala Alyan
By Christian Arthur 04/01/20
Whether it's trauma or addiction it took me a long time to get the powerlessness thing, but in both cases it was the first step towards walking through it and being liberated and being able to tell a different story.
I've always thought of addiction as a violent act that people endure and live through. image via author
Of the many lines which have stayed with me after reading Hala Alyan's book The 29th Year, one of my favorites is, "I have held the engine of myself against my own ear and, dear miracle, I recognized the song." Perhaps because I'm currently twenty-nine, I found Hala's acts of reflection so honest and piercing that the book lies on my table like a footprint in the earth. Like something has passed through here, heavy and fast.
In some ways, every poem made after (during) survival is about survival, whether this truth is spoken directly or as undercurrent. The 29th Year does a little of both while Hala traces the mosaic of her identity and how it's shelled her experience of remaining brilliantly alive, despite the world and despite her own actions.
This book follows up the 2017 release of Salt Houses, a novel which narrates a middle-class Palestinian family, one generation after another, and as they migrate across countries. That novel was widely acclaimed and included in the Best of 2017 list compiled by NPR.
The 29th Year, which came out in early 2019, similarly engages what it means to be Palestinian, but also Woman, Wife, Dreamer, Fighter, Drinker, plus so much more. This parapet of poems introspects backwards from the point of transition between emerging adulthood and the full unalloyed thing. Simultaneously, much of the collection is devoted to registering the timeline of getting sober, shaped like a metal spring, with all its behavioral switchbacks.
Another piece of language from The 29th Year that stays with me is "How a wound becomes a heart." The collection represents a thrilling extension to the poetics of recovery, and the relationship between them and The Twelve Steps. There are many parts of this conversation I want to tattoo on the inside of my eyelids to reread every night.
I'm still thinking about intention ever since I did a workshop with Vincent Toro last summer at DreamYard in the Bronx. Can you tell me some of the important intentions of your new book?
Wait, did you say intention or tension?
IN-tention [laughs]. Although we can talk about tension if you want.
[Laughs] Oh, IN-tention. The Twenty-Ninth Year was driven by experience, and particularly a concentrated time when I started feeling a lot of essential crises about where I was in my life. I was finishing my training to be a psychologist and I was sort of entering the world in a number of ways. This all happened in my 29th year, literally.
For several months I was having a lot of vivid and intense dreams and feeling almost assaulted by memory. It felt like my mind was cycling back. On a physiological level, I had so much cortisol--that's the unromantic explanation. I was in a state of panic. But then being a poet [laughs] I was like, what's the story here? I did a lot of excavation and a lot of organizing and re-ordering of my understanding of who I was and how I got here.
So there was tension too. I can never tell these stories accurately because I'm always going to be editorializing. In the end the collection was a surrendering to that, being like, "Ok, I can't know for sure what was accurate, so I have to tell it the way I'm experiencing it right now." The intention was setting that record. I'm the type of person who is programmed to resist. To resist things that are difficult. To resist comfort. This was the first time I had a lot of practice at accepting.
Let's talk about addiction. Lately, I've been seeing things through the lenses of social work and public health so I'm going to approach this question from those places, but I think this approach will open up more tactile conversation. What are some risk factors for addiction that are unique to Palestinians, of course, acknowledging experience varies across diaspora and due to other social variables?
I speak from diasporic experience. I don't think there is much research about this, so I'll speak intuitively and from having conversations with people. There is a sense of dislocation and missing something that feels crucial and then filling the loss with whatever you have at your disposal. That could lead people to seek forms of self-soothing that aren't ideal. I also believe when you belong to an identity that is marginalized and subjected to both literal and rhetorical annihilation you kind of internalize that. You learn to annihilate yourself.
There's a line from "Call Me Prayer," "In the exile's suitcase, a carpet of dead grass. Seven persimmons. A dandelion stem skinny as a grenade pin."
I can remember parts of your book where imagery of war was imprinted into descriptions of emotion. I think about that, hearing what you just said about annihilation, and wonder if there is a connection.
It's tough to talk about collectively because it's the least intentional and the least premeditated connection, but instead one we are most driven by experientially and needing to capture that and put it into language. But one hundred percent afterward when I was reflecting and editing my manuscript. Through more and more conflict and more and more dislocation that becomes your city, your day-to-day. And it makes sense addiction would come from that.
A similar question...in the experience of being a woman in this world, what are some of the risk factors for addiction?
The answer is similar to the previous position of being Palestinian. Womanhood is an identity that comes with trying to be controlled, trying to be made as small as possible. There's vitriol, hatred, and violence. Again, I don't think it's a long walk from receiving violence from others to committing violence towards the self.
I've always thought of addiction as a violent act that people endure and live through. So it's a similar thing.
What your book does well and thoroughly is chart the lines between womanhood, violence, addiction, marriage, the major points of the web, but also the small ones that fill everything in.
Thank you so much for saying that. I struggle with this writing sometimes but experientially and existentially I don't know how to move through the world without one of those identities missing or not present.
In reading this book I thought about the people in recovery who are already poets or who want to be poets. For you, how did The Twelve Steps lend to the writing process or producing the poems. Or--and I will throw this question out there in a different way and you can navigate either however you want--how are The Twelve Steps already poetry, in terms of what they ask you to produce?
Oh, I love that. Beautiful. First, a disclaimer. I did not get sober through AA. I isolated myself and didn't turn to anyone for support. I now look back at it as a violence I inflicted upon myself in my own way. I would do it differently now and look for community. By myself I looked up the steps and interpreted them. I'm not advocating that, but it's just what I did. Later I thought about the Steps as I was writing the book and going through the intense period of tumultuousness, suffering, anxiety... I asked myself, "Well how did you move through the world when you were getting sober?" The taking stock of what you have. Thinking about what decisions or missteps got you here, retracing them, questioning how we can make amends.
The steps can be useful when we think about poetry and poetic device in that there is a certain surrender that comes from making art. There is a certain amends-making that comes from making art. Again you sit down with what you have, you take stock of it, you make sense of it, then you try to create some sort of meaning out of it. I think there's definitely a simpatico there.
I personally had a similar recovery in the sense...just as in addiction, then in recovery, I did a lot of it in isolation--
Yes, I know what you mean--
So I feel that. There is a spectrum of AA practitioners, with more orthodox folks on one end who believe there is a clear right and wrong way, and then on the other end, people who say, "You can take what you want and leave the rest."
Exactly, exactly.
For a while, I also didn't find traction with AA and The Twelve Steps. It wasn't for me. But the more I go now I start to feel that regardless if you subscribe to it medically, culturally it's wicked important to recovery culture--
Agreed--
Unless you're in a cave and you never read anything related to recovery, you're gonna absorb a bit of it. It's inevitably in the air.
It's so out there. Do you remember when you were getting sober, did you rely on some of the tenets and ideas?
The first meeting I ever went to, when I was 19, I remember hearing a speaker say, "Just keep the plug in the jug," meaning, no matter what happens in your life, no matter how bad it gets, if you remain sober at least you have that. Things would only be that much worse if you're using. I've clung to this throughout sobriety.
For a while I didn't like AA, because I didn't know how to navigate the spiritual component. But nowadays the more I go to meetings I'm appreciating the little sayings, and appreciating The Twelve Steps as cultural objects you can find healing through, and less like medical instruments.
Like less instructional and more metaphorical. I love that.
Although, some folks believe in rigorously adhering to the Steps as they're written in the Big Book and I want to acknowledge how this approach is valid for them. Well...with all that being said, want to look at some of your 12-Step poems?
In your poem "Step One: Admit Powerlessnes," it seemed like you were drawing a line between two types of powerlessness, the kind that can happen during sexual violence, and then the admission of an inability to control drinking. Again, maybe I'm just thinking like an epidemiologist, but within this poem are there multiple types of powerlessness being associated across time?
Yes, and it's not just powerlessness in terms of sexual violence. At the end of the day, we are powerless in the face of everything we've experienced. That does not mean we can't take back some power in the telling. I've been thinking a lot about the difference between pain and suffering lately. Pain is what happens to us that is nonnegotiable and suffering is what we do with that pain--
Wow--
So positioning the pain is what makes us suffer. It's been on my mind a lot. Whether it's trauma or addiction it took me a long time to get the powerlessness thing, but in both cases it was the first step towards walking through it and being liberated and being able to tell a different story. So definitely in that poem there is the tension between the two.
I feel the ending lines resonate with what you said, "Through the bar window a lightbulb exploded like a white tusk and when the sun finally rose I believed in a different god."
You're different once you go through it. You're different when you go through anything big and transformative. There can be a morning, but it's not always a pleasant or easy process.
Alright, howabout "Step Two: Higher Power"? There is the line, "I guess you could say I love the city like I love prickly pears, which is to say not very much, only when I'm starving." Perhaps I'm projecting because the higher power portion of The Twelve Steps wasn't something that came easily to me, but the poem seems to be saying, "Alright, I'm not all in on this, but I will accept it right now out of necessity."--
I don't have a choice. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's also the line, "This is how a year passes, with hundreds of lies, like that midnight walk in the French countryside dark, my sister giggling nervously, no streetlamp for miles. One footstep after the other, and the only way out ahead." I've considered different interpretations of this. Was faith something you were lying to yourself about in order to help you survive?
It's less about disbelief in faith...There's a quote I really like, "Trust in god but always tie up your camel." I have never resonated with the idea you just 100% lay down and give it all over. What I like about the quote is...you can have faith, but do your part. That idea of me walking with my sister at night, having faith the ground wasn't going to open up and swallow us. We will reach the place we need to go. Faith is deeply important. Even if people don't put faith in God or a higher power, that's fine, but having faith in something, even if it's just yourself, or having faith in other people, or having faith in time. That stuff is so crucial, because that's what keeps people moving when there's no indicator that there's a way out.
I feel like I want to say "Wow" every time you answer my questions. Let's move on to your poem "Step Four: Moral Inventory." It made me think...all contexts aside, there's nothing evil with wanting to be beautiful. Of course, it's wrong to hurt people and it's unhealthy to hurt ourselves and we shouldn't necessarily excuse the hurtful actions which might stem from the feeling. But the feeling itself is forgivable.
Totally. Wanting things, to be beautiful, to be young, there's shame attached to it. So being able to own that, and acknowledge that side of yourself that hungers and longs. It's the same thing with addiction. Being able to look your hunger in the eye is an important step in terms of entering that conversation with yourself, where desire can be negotiated.
So "Step Eight: Make Amends "...Making amends is a process in The Twelve Steps, but the poem for me also spoke outside that. It made me think of how women are pressured to apologize for things, and for taking up space.
This poem connects to your interpretation of the earlier one...about having to apologize for wanting, having to apologize for loving, to apologize for eating. Then there is the question...how much is making amends coming from a place that is genuine, versus you're doing what you're trained to do? At what point is amends-making another act of violence or self-hatred? This goes back to your first question, about intention. What is the intention behind a behavior? That explains a lot of why we're doing what we're doing. There are some amends, quote unquote "apologies" I've done because I felt like I was supposed to, not necessarily because I needed to.
You're a practicing clinical psychologist. This is wholeheartedly a book of literature and I couldn't detect much of your day job in there, at least not explicitly. I wonder how it might be showing up as an undercurrent. Does the overlap of these two lives appear in your book?
If there was overlap it wasn't consciously put here or there like an easter egg. Psychology has taught me to ask better questions, and to be on the lookout for patterns, including false ones, like the false stories we tell ourselves and believe. The book was a work of excavation, or making sense of things, so my background in psychology might have helped in the style of inquiry.
The book spans the globe, sometimes on a line-by-line basis, a piece from one landscape stitched to another. "Highway 17 in Texas; we stop to watch buzzards / supping on roadkill porcupine. The mountains are a Persian rug of emerald and brown, wolfish clouds / gathering rain," is a line from the poem "The Temperance (XIV) Card,"
I find your book to be double-headed to the extent it's focused inwards while at the same time lush with observations.
I think of myself and my identity as disparate depending on where I was. I moved and traveled. I was a different person in different places. When I revisit the phases of childhood and adolescence, or college years, with that comes revisiting Beirut, and Oklahoma, revisiting all these different places. My mind drags along with it all the significant places I've been to.
There are many poems in the book addressed to a "you." That "you" is constantly changing, from a husband, to an ex-lover, a friend, an enemy, or even the reader. Because it's a poem, you're writing it alone, sitting at a table, thinking about what the poem means to you. But it's like the letters written to someone else are in a small way written to yourself.
Even the poem, "Dear Layal," That's my cousin. It's also a letter to myself and the ways I intersect with my cousin. Or things I wish I'd said before. Even if on the surface it's directed towards her, it's an exercise taking place internally. Once it's out in the world people can read it. But until that happens the process of making belongs only to the writer.
Well...we've reached the end. What's going on for you in terms of writing right now?
Poetry-wise, I'm sort of lying low. I've been working on a series of poems based on choose your adventure books, where the reader gets to be involved in the process. That's been fun. In terms of fiction, I have a second novel coming out with Houghton Mifflin in the next year or so.
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Hotel, condo tower proposed on Bonita Beach Road west of U.S. 41
Barefoot Beach Hotel is a three-building project that could go on the north side of Bonita Beach Road 1.5 miles from the beach if the city approves.
Hotel, condo tower proposed on Bonita Beach Road west of U.S. 41 Barefoot Beach Hotel is a three-building project that could go on the north side of Bonita Beach Road 1.5 miles from the beach if the city approves. Check out this story on news-press.com: https://www.news-press.com/story/money/2019/07/17/hotel-condo-tower-proposed-bonita-beach-road-1-5-miles-beach/1755519001/
Thaddeus Mast, Naples Daily News Published 11:34 a.m. ET July 17, 2019 | Updated 11:54 a.m. ET July 17, 2019
Bonita Beach Road hotel proposed, under city review
Developers have submitted plans for Barefoot Beach Hotel, a 202-room hotel and 42-unit project on Bonita Beach Road west of Interstate 75. City Design & Graphics
A three-building project on Bonita Beach Road, which would include a 75-foot-tall hotel and condominium tower, is going through the Bonita Springs city review process.
The project, named Barefoot Beach Hotel, is proposed on a vacant on the north side of Bonita Beach Road along Imperial River Road.
Bonita Village, a gated condominium and vacation rental community, is about a quarter mile away.
Developers have submitted plans for Barefoot Beach Hotel, a 202-room hotel and 42-unit project on Bonita Beach Road west of Interstate 75. (Photo: City Design & Graphics)
More than 200 hotel rooms and 42 condos would fill the tallest building and the upper floors of a second, developer documents state. Retail shops and restaurants would be open to the public on the first floor of a 45-foot-tall building close to the Bonita Beach Road sidewalk.
A parking garage with more than 300 spaces would stand 31 feet tall at the far north end of the 4.75-acre property, planning documents show. The property line for five residential homes would be 10 feet away from the garage wall with new trees and shrubs filling the gap.
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Vacant properties to the east and west are set for commercial use.
Bonita Beach Road is already over capacity, city staff stated in a document. When asked how the project would accommodate additional vehicle trips, the developers responded that "it is not the responsibility of this development to mitigate impacts" of traffic caused by other developments.
Entrances would be created for Bonita Beach Road, Imperial River Road and a driveway offshoot of Okeana Street, according to building plans.
The garage would provide 42 parking spots for public use, project documents state. A shuttle would trolley people to and from the Lee County beach parking lot 1.5 miles away once every hour, documents show.
The land is owned by Barefoot Beach Florida LLC. It shares a California address with Hospman Hospitality Management Services LLC. Hospman has built the Four Points Sheraton in Fort Myers and the Holiday Inn Edison at Midtown in Fort Myers.
For Barefoot Beach Hotel, the developers are aiming for an Old Florida design that fits the current buildings along Bonita Beach Road, developer documents state. The property's use as a hotel, condos and retail fits the needs of the area, according to available documents.
"This is an urban, infill site and one of the few remaining vacant properties in proximity to Bonita Beach that can accommodate highly demanded hotel uses, tourist-related goods and services, public and private amenities, and public parking," developer documents state.
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The Barefoot Beach Hotel also would host events and conventions, documents state.
Concrete parking lots and buildings would cover 85 percent of the property. Most of the remaining green space would cluster around the retail areas near Bonita Beach Road.
The project is far from final approval.
City staff is reviewing the project to ensure all required documents, from traffic impact statements to rainwater runoff plans, are submitted. If everything is in order, a required neighborhood meeting with surrounding residents and business owners would be scheduled.
It would then go before the Bonita Springs Zoning Board for comments and ultimately the City Council. Several parts of the project, including the 75-foot-tall building and 10-foot buffer, require special deviations and need council approval.
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Getting Ahead of Trouble
Artificial intelligence for safer schools
By John Carter
Everyday nearly 75 million students attend school and rely on administrators to keep them safe. Unfortunately, too many tragic school shootings have shown educators and parents that what is currently in place is simply too little, too late. Much more needs to be done to protect our children. The good news is that in 2019 alone, lawmakers across the country introduced nearly 250 school safety bills to help prevent or mitigate the next mass tragedy on a campus.
Recently in Texas, lawmakers held hearings on safety proposals among schools and students impacted by gun violence. The proposals that earned the most support of lawmakers included those that strengthen security and mental health initiatives in schools. They also agreed that campuses need to have programs in place to ensure a quicker response when school shootings happen, and that lawmakers need to take steps to help prevent those shootings from happening in the first place.
On the national level, the Trump administration's 2020 budget includes a $200 million increase in funding for school safety with programs aimed to prevent, mitigate or respond to violence. Thankfully, school safety issues are front and center at both the state and national levels. While tremendous progress is being made, more action can be taken at the local school district level to ensure school safety by modernizing physical security with the help of artificial intelligence.
Connecting the Dots with A.I.
According to Benjamin Franklin, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." The programs and bills all seek to find a cure to school violence, but the key is in early detection and warning signs. Artificial intelligence, and its ability to integrate predictive insights with physical security, will be a game-changer for protecting the lives of students, by preventing threats before they happen.
Artificial intelligence (A.I.) is based on an Artificial Neural Network and works like the human brain. Just as humans have senses to see, hear, smell, taste and feel—so too does an artificial neural network. Like the human brain, it takes in a wide variety of inputs and data over time and constantly evaluates it to discover, predict, and make decisions based on machine learning. The more connections and integrations it has with security systems and non-security applications and data, the more informed and accurate it becomes.
Already, forward-thinking schools are experimenting with various forms of A.I., beginning by monitoring students and behaviors through new technologies. For instance, school safety apps monitor student attendance on buses, take in information about student behavior from bus drivers and track important markers such as student fights, bullying, or misbehavior. Data on students is collected, reported if needed, and goes into a larger system.
Teachers can monitor and record daily behaviors, such as did the student act up, were the parents notified, is there a problem at home, did he see the counselor or principal? Did the parents respond? Collecting data overtime can create a risk score for students, and determine if threatening behavior is increasing or suspicious, if a student needs attention and can potentially alert school officials before a bigger problem arises.
Schools are also employing other A.I. applications that scan and monitor emails, texts and social media to look for and flag signs of violence, depression, drug and alcohol use. "See something say something" apps, allow users to report tips on suspicious activity to their school district, school system and law enforcement all at once.
There are usually telltale signs of trouble before a mass shooting occurs, but it must be detected to be acted upon. While the apps are a tremendous improvement and in many cases spot threats before they arise, data in isolation is not effective. School safety administrators must make it a priority to tie all the data together and connect all the dots in order to make the most intelligent safety decisions and have the ability to prevent or mitigate in active school shooter situations as early as possible.
Acting Quickly to Protect What Matters Most with Risk-Adaptive Access Control
Tools now exist through A.I. assistance and integration allowing schools to automatically detect "people of interest" as they approach a campus and respond accordingly through access control, video surveillance, mobile applications and mass notification.
Currently most traditional physical security and access control systems are role-based systems that do not adapt dynamically to risk or threatening situations as they emerge in real-time. These systems can allow the wrong people or high-risk students into schools when they shouldn't be allowed in, or conversely, keep the right people, such as law enforcement and first responders, out when they're needed the most.
Intelligent physical security and access control systems can adapt to situations as risks increase. For instance, normally outside authorities do not have access to school cameras and video surveillance systems, or the ability to enter a school without permission.
With an intelligent system, when an active shooter situation occurs, access to view the facility can be opened to law enforcement and first responders with a smart device and proof of identity. Police nearby can communicate to look at school cameras to get eyes on and assess situations, and gain access automatically to go inside a school and respond to active threats. Furthermore, in an elevated risk situation, intelligent access control systems can prevent students and teachers from going into more dangerous areas.
In the case of an emergency, intelligent systems have mobile muster apps that make it possible for students to say if they are safe and where they are. Additional access intelligence can direct students and teachers to safe zones and areas out of harm's way. Emergency assist apps can also help students communicate with law enforcement and first responders in the event of an emergency improving time to action.
Modern physical security systems integrated with A.I. can recognize high-risk individuals before they enter buildings. In the case of any school shooting, we must ask, could this have been prevented or at least mitigated? The answer is yes.
A.I. integrated with modern physical security can determine if someone is high-risk and help monitor them throughout the day or stop them at the door before causing any harm. Schools can be alerted when a high-risk student is in the building, they can advise safety officers that there's a suspect or student in the building that's worrisome, watch over them throughout the day, initiate active shooter protocol, and get law enforcement officers or first responders on the scene and inside the building much faster.
Keys for More Intelligent and Proactive Security Systems
When considering modernizing physical security systems, campus administrators should look for comprehensive safety solutions that detect early warning signs, assess and manage threats, and offer communication and coordination for faster response times within the school walls and with outside authorities to mitigate threats, while keeping parents informed of student safety.
The following capabilities should be considered when modernizing a physical security system:
Integration platform to make sense of it all. Go beyond a centralized monitoring interface and move to true integration. Modern physical security systems should have the capabilities or interoperability built in to integrate with outside technologies and data input sources including gunshot detection alerts, access control, facial recognition, license plate recognition, mobile devices, object detection, mass notification, real-time location, video management and other outside data inputs and sources.
A.I. assistance. Automatically detects "persons of interest" along different pathways to violence, which triggers user-defined system responses. Modern systems should no longer rely solely on active monitoring to detect evolving threats or initiate emergency procedures.
Sharable mobile operations. Create and share a common operating picture with local law enforcement, simplifying coordination and increasing visibility when it matters most. Users can manage dynamic situations on the move in real-time.
Mobile upstander alerts. The "See Something, Say Something" app empowers staff to centrally manage suspicions, as well as initiate emergency response from mobile devices. These technologies transform staff from bystanders into upstanders, so nothing slips between the cracks.
Mobile muster notifications. This capability helps ensure student safety. Once a staff member initiates an active shooter alert, push notifications arrive on each student's mobile device prompting a simple "Safe/Not Safe" response. Each student response pushes their GPS coordinates to operators and parents, ensuring quicker response, while providing peace of mind.
A Painless Path to a More Prepared, Safe Campus
Implementing and integrating A.I. into physical security systems does not require starting over or complete '"rip and replace" overhauls. In many cases, A.I. and next-gen access control systems can augment existing security and access control systems, and be configured according to school district risks, privacy concerns and needs.
School violence has too frequently been in the headlines. Fortunately, legislation and technology are coming together in new ways to give schools the funding and tools they need to proactively fight back, arming everyone, with as much as possible, to improve the life safety of our students, children and teachers.
This article originally appeared in the May/June 2019 issue of Campus Security & Life Safety.
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German Emperor Wilhelm II had Cecilienhof Palace built for his son Crown Prince Wilhelm and his wife, Crown Princess Cecilie. It was the last palace built by the Hohenzollern dynasty that ruled Germany until 1918. The use for the Potsdam Conference in 1945, made it world famous.
In July and August 1945 the final Allied conference of the Second World War took place in the Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, just outside Berlin. The last Emperor of the German Reich, Kaiser Wilhelm II, had built Cecilienhof Palace for his eldest son Crown Prince Wilhelm (1882 to 1951). It was named Cecilienhof after the younger Wilhelm's wife, Crown Princess Cecilie (1886 to 1954). It was the last palace built by the Hohenzollern family that ruled Prussia and Germany until November 1918.
The design of the palace was inspired by the English Tudor-style, featuring half-timbered walls, brickwork and numerous decorative chimney stacks. By the use of these traditional features it was attuned to its scenic surroundings. In order to downplay the actual size of the palace with its 176 rooms, individual building elements were cleverly grouped around a number of courtyards.
The use of the palace for the Potsdam Conference in 1945, brought about drastic changes to the furnishings and décor of several of its rooms. But even 70 years after the conference, Cecilienhof Palace has an authentic air, making it easy to gain a feeling for the important events of the summer of 1945. Recently the permanent exhibition in Cecilienhof Palace reopened with a new look. While the furnishing of the rooms has remained basically unchanged, the presentation of the historic events has been revised, newly designed, and expanded to all the rooms in the palace. A wealth of historical photographs and a variety of information provide a lively picture of the events of the Conference.
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Conference room in Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam.
The head of states of the 'Big three', Clement Attlee, Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin, with their delegations in the garden of Cecilienhof Palace after the Potsdam Conference, 2 August 1945.
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with Class numbering running consequtively through all.
Flowers with separate Open and Members groups.
Fruit and Vegetables with separate Open and Members groups.
Junior Open with separate groups A ages 4 to 8 and B 9 to 14.
are awarded or withheld at the Judges discretion.
and advise on classification or procedure.
They are accompanied by the appropriate entry card.
They meet with the show rules for exhibitors.
They meet with the specific class requirements?
(Number of elements, size limits, exclusions, presentation).
Advising the judge on any special awards or prizes.
Verifying all classes and entries have been judged.
Affixing the prize labels to entry cards.
Cataloguing, for the Show Recorder, prize winners in each class.
Turning entry cards face upwards following judging completion.
Entrants to stage their exhibits.
Closing the show arena for the judging entries.
Show opening to public and exhibitors.
Removal of exhibits from the show arena.
Ensure ample time to avoid last-minute panic.


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package org.kaazing.gateway.management.system;

import org.kaazing.gateway.management.ManagementBean;
import org.kaazing.gateway.management.ManagementStrategyChangeListener;
import org.kaazing.gateway.management.gateway.GatewayManagementBean;

/**
 * Interface for the 'system' beans that support 'gatherStats' rather than relying on external message and session events
 * triggering things.
 */
public interface SystemManagementBean extends ManagementBean, ManagementStrategyChangeListener {

    GatewayManagementBean getGatewayManagementBean();

    void enableNotifications(boolean enableNotifications);

    boolean areNotificationsEnabled();

    int getSummaryDataGatherInterval();

    void setSummaryDataGatherInterval(int interval);
}

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