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U.S. Electronics Outlines Specific Open Access Proposal
U.S Electronics has outlined a specific open access proposal for the FCC to consider. Some sector followers believe that open access is a concession that could carry some weight with at least some of the FCC commissioners. While the U.S. Electronics proposal would take away the ability of Sirius and XM to make their own hardware, it would also make the "interoperable radio" as well as the "HD chipset inclusion" issues virtually disappear because the merged company would no longer be in the hardware business.
Open access as a concept seems like a pretty workable situation, but there are concerns that still need to be addressed. Thus far, the only distributor/manufacturer seeking an open access condition is U.S. Electronics, a company currently in litigation with Sirius over the hardware that the company made, as well as other issues. With retail sales being weak, it does not seem like manufacturers are knocking on the door in an effort to make hardware for satellite radio. The fact that the list of manufacturers seeking the condition only has one member is a bit of a concern in that unless the marketplace wants to participate, many of the theoretical benefits that open access promises would not come to fruition.
U.S. Electronics lists Sirius Buzz a a supporter of the concept of open access, which to a certain extent is accurate. I feel that the concept can be sound given the right conditions. Whether those conditions can happen is another issue altogether. Read It All After The Jump
The U.S. Electronics Proposal (My Comments In Italics):
A. Definitions
1. "Sirius" means the post merger SDARS entity.
2. "Satellite Radio Receiver" means any device that contains a SDARS chipset or is capable of receiving SDARS signals. This includes but is not limited to receivers that may be used in a home, a motor vehicle, marine applications or portable environments.
3. "Qualified Manufacturer" and "Qualified Distributor" means, respectively, a manufacturer or distributor that offers or seeks to offer satellite radio receivers to consumers that have been or will be subject to testing by an accredited independent testing facility as described in section C.1. below.
B. Restrictions
1. Sirius shall not directly or indirectly engage in the design, manufacture or distribution of satellite radio receivers.
To take the ability for Sirius to be involved in the final design of a receiver that will carry their product is taking away what in the future could be a revenue stream for the company. To take away distribution rights could also carry a negative impact on the company. Sirius better understands where more radios are needed, and until the company is making money, they need to have the ability to be efficient with the products that carry their service. Additionally, the manufacturers are getting a direct benefit from Sirius marketing. When Sirius advertises their service, people look for receivers. Will their be a requirement for qualified manufacturers or distributors to market their hardware?
2. Sirius shall not enter into any exclusive agreements with any manufacturer, distributor, retailer, partner or auto manufacturer that limits the availability of hardware capable of receiving SDARS signal by consumers.
This issue again gets to the heart of taking away certain efficiencies that enable SDARS to expand at a rate that the company can handle and anticipate. This is particularly the case when the company is still subsidizing the chipsets. The company needs to control growth, and ensure that most of the chipsets they make turn into subscriptions. By example, if 85% of retail radios sold translate into subscriptions, then the company can plan their growth, cash flow, and expenses. If an open access manufacturer makes a poor product that people do not want, then the subsidized chipset sits on the store shelves with little chance of becoming a subscription. The company has now paid money into a radio that simply collects dust. Satellite radio sales do not work in certain retail environments. Sirius should have some say to ensure that the local supermarket, for example, has 30,000 units in a warehouse, and only moves one per week. In the OEM channel, half of the radios translate into a self paying subscriber. The company is aware of this, and structures their deals accordingly.
3. Sirius shall not participate in setting, influence or seek to influence, directly or indirectly, the retail price paid by consumers to acquire any satellite radio receiver or ancialliary hardware used to support the operation of a satellite radio receiver except through mechanisms allowed pursuant to D.2. below.
Again, this issue comes down to the fact that there are hardware subsidies paid by these companies on chipsets. This is Sirius investing money into a chipset that the company want to recover in the fastest way possible. In the past, these companies have virtually given away receivers in hopes of getting a good subscription. In particular, XM did this in the fourth quarter of 2006. The result was higher subscriber acquisition costs, and a miss in subscribers relative to guidance. The company stated at that time that there were enough radios out there to hit the guidance, but that many simply were not activated.
C. Publication of Technical Requirements
1. Sirius shall publish and make available all technical requirements and specifications for its chipset technology and for any hardware that is compatible with the SDARS network, including advance notice of any new, changed, modified or improved requirements or specifications to all interested and qualified hardware providers in an equitable manner that favors no partner or other entity or entities. This information shall be made available at least 6 months prior to their implementation and on a reasonable non-discriminatory basis.
This time lag could place Sirius in a situation where they miss certain key retail or OEM staging cycles. This would not be fair to the company.
2. Sirius shall ensure that all specifications comply with any federal, state, or local laws and regulations and that all such regulations are strictly adhered to.
I can understand that the specifications need to comply with the laws, but why should Sirius be in charge of supervising the open device manufacturers. Are they (the manufacturers) not taking on the responsibility of making the devices to the specifications?
3. Compliance with all requirements, specifications or regulations will be verified by accredited independent testing facilities prior to a device being offered to consumers and approval will be the responsibility of the manufacturer or distributor that develops the SDARS compatible receiver. Testing fees shall be the responsibility of the manufacturer or distributor seeking approval of a device to be offered to consumers.
Sirius should have audit rights of any accredited testing facility.
D. Voluntary, Non-Discriminatory Provision Of Subsidies
1. Chipset subsidies
a. Chipset subsidies, if provided by Sirius, shall be provided on a non-discriminatory basis, that is fixed and equal for all manufacturers and distributors and paid in an identical manner.
The heart of the issue. What if manufacturer "A" is far more successful at converting sales into subscriptions? Shouldn't Sirius have the right to let company "A" make more radios? Particularly if Sirius is subsidizing the chipset. This issue is also missing the chasm that exists between the retail channel and the OEM channel. There is a lot more that goes into getting a SDARS receiver into a car. Typically, the subsidies are larger, and often there is even a subsidy for the installation into the car as well as the chipset.
b. Sirius shall not participate in setting, nor influence or seek to influence, the pricing to or from a manufacturer, wholesaler or retailer other than the subsidy, if any, referred to in paragraph "a" above, nor shall it accept or seek, directly or indirectly, from a manufacturer, wholesaler, or retailer any consideration intended to influence the distribution of chipsets.
Shouldn't one of the criteria for distributing chipsets be based on the success of a manufacturer or distributor? If an open access company does an outstanding job at getting units sold that actually convert to new subscribers, they should get more business, and the opportunity to produce more radios. If an open access company can "deliver" where it counts, they should get additional consideration. In particular if a subsidy is involved. Additionally, Sirius need to know that when they deliver 300,000 chipsets to an open access company that those chipsets will be installed into radios and delivered into the channel in an appropriate timeframe. Chipsets delivered in Q2 and Q3 need to be on store shelves in Q4. Sirius can not afford an inventory hic-up because an open access company fails to manufacture in a timely manner.
c. Changes in subsidy amount, if any, shall be applied non-discriminatory, that is, applied to all recipients equally and at the same time and in the same amount for all partners and with reasonable and equal notice.
This method seems to take away from the very innovation that open access is supposed to deliver. There is also no protection here for Sirius. Perhaps a workable solution is that subsidies be paid upon activation of a manufactured device. This compels the open access companies to strive to develop good hardware, partner with good retailers, and move units.
d. Sirius shall have no financial interest in any manufacturer or distributor of satellite radio receivers.
e. Sirius shall make its chipsets available to qualified manufacturers and distributors on a reasonable non-discriminatory basis.
In my opinion, quality open access manufactures and distributors that deliver success should be able to build on that by getting access to more chipsets. Again, this is the competitive landscape. If a company develops something that people want, they should be able to make more, and Sirius should not be hindered because they are limited in the number of chipsets they deliver to any particular company. let the market and the statistics of sales have meaning.
2. Sales and Marketing Support: Marketing support, rebates, hardware discounts, or any promotional payments or incentives on hardware must be made available non-discriminatory to all qualified manufacturers, distributors, retailers or devices, as the case may be.
What if Best Buy were the biggest seller of satellite radio's? Who is renting the shelf space? Sirius, or the open access manufacturer? Who is paying to put ads in the flyers? Sirius or the open access manufacturer? What if an open access manufacturer decides to sell their radios at a super market chain? Does Sirius have to spend as much money showing a radio in the supermarket flyer as they do in Best Buy? Sirius needs to be able to market themselves, and hardware is a part of that picture. Perhaps a scale based on sales statistics and success is a workable solution. Once again, the competitive situation that open access promises can not be compromised by everyone getting the same thing regardless of performance.
E. Monitoring and Enforcement of Condition
1. An independent monitor will be appointed by the FCC for the purpose of receiving complaints from manufacturers and distributors of satellite radio receivers concerning any violations of this condition, and to assist the commission in enforcement of the condition.
Who pays the monitor? I am not comfortable putting any more responsibility in the government.
2. The independent monitor will recommend to the commission proposed resolution of any alleged violation of the condition.
That is the U.S. Electronics filing as well as my comments on what was filed. Now, I would like to address something that in my opinion is missing.....Protection for the consumer.
1. Any open device manufacturer or distributor must have dedicated customer service via a toll free number so that consumers who have issue with a product can get resolution. This customer service must be accountable to an independent monitor paid for by the open access contractor but hired by Sirius. Detailed descriptions of issues must be maintained, and resolutions described in detail.
2. Any condition that limits innovation must be looked at with a careful eye. The key benefit, in theory, of open access is that various companies will innovate and develop. A good open access company should be able to reap the rewards of their work, and garner more business because of it, not be limited to a specified number of chipsets because that is the same number that the weakest link gets. Open access should reward the performance, and not be a regulation that requires Sirius as well as the consumer to carry dead weight.
3. Documentation that accompanies any open access device shall state clearly who this device is manufactured by and the contact information for customer service. This information shall be the only information on the page, and should be bold so that the consumer is not confused as to what to do if there is a problem.
In a perfect world, open access would provide a benefit to Sirius, the manufacturers and distributors, as well as the consumer. Any open access condition in my opinion MUST give all three entities equal weight and footing. Anything shy of this will be a condition for failure of open access.
Position - Long Sirius, Long XM


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…It's that time again!!! I wish you all a wonderful weekend!
TGIF Kitties
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- elaine h. said...
i really like that fat hairy one.
- April 30, 2010 at 8:36 AM
- Ellie Grace said...
The last one made me miss my kitty. She is back home in Seattle. Sigh...
Ellie Grace
- April 30, 2010 at 10:56 AM
- drollgirl said...
yowza! #2 looks like he is ready to rumble!!!
i hope you have a fab weekend. i kind of just want to chill and sleep and laze around in some pretty, sunny, shady garden of earthly delights.
WHAT A GOONY COMMENT! sorry!!!
- April 30, 2010 at 2:24 PM
- Asylum Dolly said...
omg, the first and third ones!!!! Adorable♥
Have a splendiferous and wondertastic weekend!
- April 30, 2010 at 7:48 PM
- the spectator said...
No. 1 and 2 sum up my Friday night mood this week - tired and fed up.
- April 30, 2010 at 9:06 PM
- Sam said...
Oh deary me! I really need to get me a kitty cat and not just rely on the once a week Harry (Dad's cat) visit! Looking at these photos I got all these lovey, maternal, nurturing feelings! So, so sweet! Hope you have a super weekend also!!
- May 1, 2010 at 3:04 PM
- alissa said...
that last one it giant! quite possibly the most hair ive ever seen on a cat haha.
grace went to the vet this weekend...she officially on a strict diet. and we're exercising. she is not entertained
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What struck me most about Lockout is how funny it is. The commercials don't really sell it as such, but it's basically action movie one-liners galore.
[Laughs.] Yeah, that was the reason why I couldn't wait to do it. I had the script emailed to me when I was on vacation in Istanbul, which, oddly enough, is also where we ended up shooting Taken 2. When I finished reading the script, I found myself laughing hysterically, and then I went back and re-read a bunch of the one-liners over again just to laugh some more.
It has that retro feel, going back to when action movies didn't take themselves so seriously. It's really fun, and the one-liners abound. It's unabashedly entertaining.
It does also have its escapist moments. There's definitely this dystopian world, but I would say that the film has a dark playfulness. I really embraced all of that.
Are those funny, tongue-in-cheek action movies of old the kinds of films that you grew up watching?
Yeah, to some degree, but I didn't go into Lockout with that much personal attachment, you know? The film just has this wry, wisecracking, reluctant hero at its center, and this great, combative, and sexual energy between him and my character. It definitely has that aesthetic to embrace, which gives it a throwback quality that I love.
I'd estimate that about 90% of Guy Pearce's dialogue consists of sarcastic one-liners.
Yeah, it's like, What's going to be the catchphrase? There are so many choices.
Which is your personal favorite?
I don't know. Well, I do have one that I particularly love. We were cracking up when we shot this scene where he's handing her a giant space-gun and a little dehydrated apple pack, and he says, "Here's a gun. And an apple. Don't talk to strangers—shoot them." [Laughs.] Shooting that scene was really funny, because we kept cracking up almost the entire time.
Was that rapport between you and Guy there immediately, or did you guys need time to hang out and develop it?
We were lucky to get there a little bit early and iron out the particulars about a few specific scenes. He's obviously a wildly intelligent dude, and I'm a big fan of his work, ranging from Memento to The Proposition.
I remember when I saw The Proposition at the Tribeca Film Festival, I was almost physically ill. [Laughs.] It's so intense, and he's so good in it. He just disappears into his roles, so I think we're really lucky to have him make a foray into the action genre. We need more heroes like him.
Plus, you two get to punch each other in the face, and that's good clean fun. That must take a certain level of trust.
Yeah, and a certain level of trust that I unfortunately, accidentally broke. [Laughs.] I hit him, but he was really graceful about it. Luckily, I didn't hit him very hard. There's a kind of "honor amongst thieves" between actors, where you're supposed to very carefully shoot those kinds of scenes and not make contact, and I somehow slipped, fell forward, and I hit him.
When the word "broke" just accidentally slipped out of your mouth, you had me thinking that you sent Guy Pearce to the hospital. That would've been quite a story to tell.
Oh, God, no. I'm flattered that you would think that I pack such a punch. [Laughs.]
Well, you have made a few intense action movies in recent years.
True, but I'm always more the "damsel in distress," I'm afraid.
Yeah, but you could've picked up a few ass-kicking pointers from your action hero co-stars, no?
Probably not as much I should have, though. [Laughs.]
You'll definitely have more opportunities in the future to do so. Since the huge, unexpected success of Taken, you've made quite a few action movies. Did you notice that people would send you more action scripts after that movie performed so well?
There have been more in that action arena, which is kind of great. They're a lot of fun to make, and I've really enjoyed being welcomed into that genre. Plus, it's amazing to get to shoot all over the world. I really love working with Europa [the company that produced both Taken and Lockout]; I just finished my third film with them, Taken 2.
The funny thing is that I was actually more of a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl when I was growing up, especially when it came to films. So I still have some catching up to do with the action movie genre. I saw the big ones, and, of course, Star Wars—I think everyone's childhood is, more or less, built on that foundation. But lately, I've been catching up to figure out what the homage moments in movies like Lockout are referencing exactly. [Laughs.]
The set design in Lockout is very detailed and evocative of some classic science fiction movies. How much of the prison's setting was made using green screens, as opposed to actual in-the-moment sets?
Most of it was real, actually. We shot in Serbia, and while we were shooting on one stage, they'd kind of reconfigure and tweak the look of everything, so it would be almost unrecognizable each week. That way, we were able to create this maze of a space station.
With the green screen stuff, there's a lot of trust of communicating with your directors on exactly what you're reacting to. Obviously, when you're shooting a scene that has thousands of rioting convicts going at it in outer space, it has to be largely CG. They had really great storyboards all over the set, though, which is always a great gift to receive as an actor—you always know exactly what you're reacting to, and how everything looks.
It must be intense to constantly play the "damsel in distress." In Lockout, in particular, you're dragged around by your hair and physically assaulted. Does that ever have any residual effects on you in real life?
Yeah, when you're shooting those kinds of scenes for 12, 15 hours a day, there is definitely some residual stuff in your psyche. I'd actually have nightmares about being in a rig and getting dragged by my hair. [Laughs.] It's always weird when you take your work home with you in that way. When you go to bed, playing the kinds of characters that I play, you're not dreaming about bunnies and ice cream cones.
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What is "Disassociation" and how can it help someone who is dealing with traumatic memories?
Recently, I had been asking if there were topics in the Self-Awareness 101 video series that people would like me to expand on. One of the responses that I received was a friend asking for specific processes that could be used regarding letting go of the past. And what are some specific steps that can be taken to help someone let go of the past.
Specifically, this person had a very traumatic experience happen to them and because of the intensity of the experience, they can't even think about that experience because as soon as they try to think about it, they are overcome by all of the emotions that it brings up for them.
So how does someone let go of something that traumatic and that intense? My first response is that you need to learn how to disassociate from the experience. There is a technique that I learned which is taught by Richard Bandler in his Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and also by Tony Robbins in Neuro-Associative Conditioning (NAC). The process is called "disassociation".
When we think of a past experience, based on the intensity of the experience there is a level of "association" or "disassociation" we have regarding the emotions that are attached to the memory. This can be for both pleasurable and painful memories. What I am going to share with you in this article is a technique called disassociation which is a way for you to "disassociate" from something and in doing so, free you up to explore more resources that will allow you to "let go" of the past.
When people think of a past experience, what happens is that they access different parts of their conscious and subconscious mind to pull together a representation of the memory. There are certain "modalities", visual, auditory and kinesthetic that they use to represent that experience. The characteristics of those modalities that are applied to the memory of that experience will determine the intensity of the association or disassociation to the memory.
Now in some cases, that associated recall is great! There are times when you want to be fully associated to a past experience. Maybe it is something that is empowering for you, something that is making you feel awesome. As an example, for me there is a very specific experience that I use when I want to feel gratitude, or when I want to feel grounded. It is the memory of the birth of my daughter. I still can remember vividly the first time I held her. And there was a moment... it wasn't planned it was just instantaneous... a moment where she was yawning and had just begun to exhale as I was breathing in. With the angle of her head, she ended up exhaling her breath directly into my nostrils as I was inhaling. The experience was so powerful that it was a life transforming moment for me.
Those are the types of experiences that you want to be fully associated to. In a future article we will discuss how to enhance memories. For now, we want to focus on limiting the impact of the memory through disassociation.
When I first start discussing disassociation with someone, the initial challenge is that most people don't understand that you have the ability to change your perception of the past. They believe that the past is written in stone. But the reality is, your perception of the past is simply one of many possible perceptions. When someone can help you look at it from a different point of view, often the full meaning of the experience will change. You actually have the ability to change how you perceive any memory so that when you retrieve it, the new perception will empower you.
For every one of us, when we recall a memory there are specific images, sounds and feelings that are all connected to that event. Those images, sounds and feelings have specific qualities that are related to the experience and determine how we respond to that event every time that we think about it.
As an example, I want you to just experience this for a moment. Right now, I want you to think of a happy event, something that was a truly pleasurable experience. I want you to close your eyes for a moment, and just recall everything that you can about that event. Pay attention to what happens first. For some of you, when you recall that experience the first thing you will notice is an image. For some people it will be sounds. And for others it will be more of just a feeling. Again, everyone stores this information in different ways, and there is no "right" or "wrong" order that you will recall them. The important thing to know is that ultimately these modalities are all interconnected.
Now if an image is the first thing you notice when you think about this great experience, I want you to notice where it is located? Meaning, is it directly in front of you in your mind's eye? Is it close to you? Is it at arms length? Is it a moving picture like when you are watching a movie? Or is it a still picture like a portrait? Is it full color or is it black and white? Do you see it as an outside observer? Or do you remember it as though you are seeing it through your own eyes? Become aware of the characteristics of the image.
If the first thing that caught your attention when you think about this great memory are the sounds that you hear, notice the characteristics of those sounds. Are they clear and crisp? Are they harmonious or is there discord? Is it at a comfortable volume level? Is it noticeably louder or is it softer? Become aware of these nuances related to the sounds.
Now if the first thing you notice is a feeling, simply become aware of that feeling. Notice, where does that emotion rest, do you have a specific feeling in a specific area of your body? What do you feel? Is there tension or is does it feel loose? Is there warmth? What are the different characteristics of the feelings that you feel when you think about that experience, both tactile and emotionally.
Now, what I would like you to do is make some slight adjustments to those representations. I'm going to walk you through parts of each modality in this exercise. If you are seeing an image of the experience no matter whether it is a full color image or black and white, whether it is a moving picture or a still picture, I want you to take that image and actually pull it closer to yourself. As you bring it closer make the image more vivid. As you bring it closer notice what happens to the intensity of the feelings.
Also notice what happens to everything associated to that image. Do the sounds get louder or softer as you pull the image closer? Do the feelings intensify or lessen as you bring that image closer?
Now, I want you to do the opposite of what you just did. Reverse the process. I want you to push the image away from yourself as if you were just sliding back away from it. Push the image out to where it's out 15 to 20 feet away from you. As you push it away, make the image smaller as it gets farther away from you. Notice what happens to the intensity of the sounds and the feelings.
If you are more auditory and the first thing you noticed when you thought about this great experience were the sounds associated to it, I want you to notice what happens if you increase the volume and the clarity. What happens to everything connected to it? What happens to the feelings when you increase the volume and the clarity? If you become more aware of the different sounds that are present, listening more intensely to things you didn't notice before, what happens to the feelings and the images that are associated to it? Do they also become more amplified and get more intense?
And now, just imagine turning that volume down. Make it softer, quieter. Notice what happens to the imagery and the feelings that are associated to those sounds.
Now the last thing that I'm going to do is for those people who are more kinesthetically driven. If the first thing you noticed when you thought about the great experience was a feeling, take a moment right now and notice what happens if you double the intensity of any of the feelings that you have. If there's pressure, if there's tension, if there's a sense of relaxation; if you just take that feeling or that emotion and you double it, what happens to all the other associated modalities? What happens to the sounds and the images?
And now, take it back to its original feeling. Then notice what happens if you lessen that feeling by 50 percent. What happens to everything else?
The reason we're going through this exercise is to let you have the experience that any feelings that you have associated to your memory change based on how you perceive that memory.
So if you want to intensify any memory, you can. You can bring it closer, you can make it louder; you can double the intensity of the feelings. As you do, the intensity of the memory will increase. There are many, many ways to apply this and I invite you to play around with it. Make great memories exquisite and lessen the intensity of the memories of negative experiences.
Now, let's take this new perspective we've just experienced back and apply it to someone who's had a traumatic experience. Most of the time, what happens is when they think about that traumatic experience, it comes back as a flood of images, sounds and feelings. All of the images, the sounds and the sensations are extremely amplified because of how they unconsciously store that memory. This is where we apply the technique of disassociation that Tony and Richard talk about. This is where you actually help a person explore that past experience by getting them to disassociate, or disconnect from the associations that they remember.
The way this technique of disassociation works is like this. If you're having a situation from the past that you just can't seem to let go of because it is to intense for you to think about, what I'd like you to do is to close your eyes, and instead of remembering the situation, I want you to imagine that you're sitting in the fifth row of a movie theater. And as you imagine sitting in the fifth row, I want you to just imagine changing everything you see so it looks like an old black and white movie. See the chairs around you, the ceiling, the lights and everything around you as though it were an old black and white movie. Now when you think about that experience rather than seeing it the way that you used to see it, imagine seeing it on that movie screen in front of you as an old grainy black and white movie. When the movie begins, rather than watching it at the speed that you used to watch it, notice what it feels like to watch it pass by at a super high speed in grainy black and white while sitting in the fifth row. Then when it gets to the end, notice how it feels to watch it go in reverse at that same super high speed. Notice how your mind detaches from any meaning that you used to have as you watch it go forward and backwards at this super high speed. Run it forward and backwards again and again at this super high speed. Do it 7-10 times. Run it from beginning to end, end to beginning at faster and fatter speeds.
Now imagine moving to the tenth row back from the screen and watching that movie of the experience in black and white. From this new perspective, do you feel like you are more in the position of an unattached observer? Are you able to see it from different perspectives now? Do you notice the difference being the observer where before you were IN the image? When you used to think about it, you were right in the middle and there was only one perception you could have. Has the intensity lessened through this process of disassociation?
Now, being in tenth row you have the ability to see things in new and different perspectives which allows you new possibilities of dealing with the situation. From this position of disassociation you're actually able to see yourself and disconnect from the intensity of the situation. Disassociation allows you to open yourself to new possibilities from of all points of view. Notice what happens as you imagine moving around that movie theater. You can sit to the right of the screen. You can sit to the left. You can go to the balcony and even sit in the last row. Notice how each position has a different level of association to the event.
By using this technique of disassociation you can begin to ask yourself different questions that will help you let go of the past.
Begin asking these kinds of questions...
1) What is something empowering I can learn from this? 2) How can I use this experience to serve me? 3) If I were to choose to take a part of this experience and use it to my benefit, what could I choose? 4) How can I use this experience to serve a greater purpose?
When you ask more empowering questions, you begin to release the old meanings. Think of more empowering questions that you may be able to ask yourself.
So disassociation is one approach of how someone can actually let go of the past.
We'll explore more approaches in other articles soon and post the related links here for you.


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Shengren – Chapter 1.4.2 – The Orientalists
The size of the investment on the part of the German state in Indological studies throughout the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries and the volume of the production of German Orientalist knowledge […] almost certainly surpassed all the rest of Europe and America combined.
– Sheldon Pollock, Deep Orientalism
Orientalism is closely linked to Colonialism and Imperialism, all three want to dominate – intellectually, physically, and historically – the people of the East. The European nations practiced Orientalism in different ways and with different degrees of intensity. Sheldon Pollock, Edward Said, Kamakshi Murti, and Suzanne Marchand have already successfully argued that German orientalism was very different from British, Dutch, French, Portuguese, or American orientalism. Germany (it was really a collection of German nations, headed by Prussia), a nation of poets and thinkers [Land der Dichter und Denker], started very late with colonialism and had little physical presence in China, and none in India. Nevertheless, German orientalism was no less violent and abusive, just more psychological:
German interest in ancient India developed because it was useful for widely varying German projects, including Romanticism and nationalism. German Indologists made successful arguments about the cultural and intellectual relevance of ancient India for modern Germany, leaving an ambiguous legacy including a deeper appreciation of South Asian culture as well as scholarly justifications for the warlike image of a Swastika-bearing Aryan 'master race'.[1]
Germany had its own unique sense of mission: Sendungsbewusstsein. Combined with its Teutonic stubbornness and brutality, and German self-righteousness, the orientalists believed – with all their power of rationality – in Germanic authority over human history and human thought. There was no intention to relate to others, when the thinking subject was always the German and the rest of the world's cultures were merely the objects of that German exquisite mind. Such unrestricted treatment, egoism, and independence appear dominant and full of self-confidence, and are thus very attractive, in nature just as in culture. The Germans would not argue with an Asian and consider his strange rituals and etiquette, attitude, tactfulness, respect for personal, emotional and cultural matters, respect for elders, but will say without delay what (they think) is right. Today, artists see this as an amusing example of cultural differences and a funny German stereotype. But until German culture was finally put into place and left toothless by the Allied Forces after the World Wars, the German cultural intolerance for others was not funny at all, it was a great problem.
Heinrich Heine, a famous German poet, believed that the German war-soul needed to be restraint:
Christianity – and this is its fairest merit – subdued to a certain extent the brutal warrior ardor of the Germans, but it could not entirely quench it; and when the Cross, that restraining talisman, falls to pieces, then will break forth again the ferocity of the old combatants, the frantic Berserker rage whereof Northern poets have said and sung so much.
And Friedrich Nietzsche, in his Ecce homo (1988) noted:
Where Germany spreads she corrupts culture… […] Every great crime against culture committed during the last four hundred years lies in the German conscience.
The German Hugo Preuß, a political theorist, wrote in his Das Deutsche Volk und die Politik (1915) about what he called the "grave German defect" in that country's psyche that needed to be fixed at all costs – otherwise war was inevitable. Preuß further described the "eagerness of the German [spirit] to penetrate into all cultures". Sometimes, in defense of German "intellectual barbarism" (Preuß) and the "blonde Biest" (Nietzsche), historians blamed the unfavorable geographic location of the German lands in the center of Europe, surrounded by opponent, ill-willed cultures. German orientalists, for example, could excuse German assertiveness with the rise of Social Darwinism in Europe. The biological view on social life had caused the brutal competition among races, and cultures. Oswald Spengler, the German historian and author of Der Untergang des Abendlandes [The Decline of the West] (1926), reminded Germany that: "A nation or an individual may die and leave no gap!"; and Heinrich von Treitschke, another German historian, urged unified Germany to show no restraints and use every possible means to beat its rivals: "Every virile people has established colonial power. All great nations in the fullness of their strength have desired to set their mark upon barbarian lands and those who fail to participate in the great rivalry will play a pitiable role in time to come". Driven at home by social forces of the German Cult (e. g. German: rationalism, German romanticism, German idealism etc.), the rise of Germanism (blind worship of everything German), and various ideas of racial superiority (e. g. Ariosophie of Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels), Germany set out – much later than its rivals Great Britain and France – not to appreciate foreign cultures, but to explain them before others do.
Germany did not want to become Chinese or Indian. The German orientalists wanted to be in the position to explain Chinese and Indian cultures (and all cultures), not to emulate any of them. The Germans could not be the leaders or managers of the world which had fallen into the hands of the Anglo-Saxons. The Western alpha culture, the Anglo-Saxon world (now led by the United States), was always more generous than beta cultures such as France and Germany. Their prominence in the world let them have more, thus they could give more back. German historians instead concentrated on other tasks: they understood themselves as the analysts of the world. A leader or manager has to work with the people he leads and manages; Cultural Germany could not relate, and had little contact and experience with the people of Asia. Yet, an analyst only needed to look at data, with little concern for real people. Most German orientalists were analysts – they tried to make sense of what they read and explained the overall Western strategy in form of a monologue.
Explanatory power leads to authority. Authority means influence and command. With the Humboldt university reform in place, the Bildungsbürgertum, the historical sense of mission, and a remarkable self-confidence of one's culture, race and ability, Germany explained the East.
Various German thinkers claimed mythological authority (in Herder, 1881; Zantrop, 1997), intellectual authority (in Said, 1979), historical authority (in Hegel, 1919), linguistic authority (in Humboldt, 1836), spiritual authority (in Mueller, 1833), moral authority [master and slave mentality] (in Nietzsche, 1888), even sexual authority (in Schlegel, 1808), and literary authority (in Hesse, 1922; Günther Grass, 1990). Edward Said, the Palestinian-American literary theorist, explained European authoritarian style in writing about the Orient in his Orientalism (1978):
There is nothing mysterious or natural about authority. It is formed, irradiated, disseminated; it Is instrumental, it is persuasive; it has status, it establishes canons of taste and value; it is virtually indistinguishable from certain ideas it dignifies as true, and from traditions, perceptions, and judgments it forms, transmits, reproduces.
Every German thinker was a cell of that German network, and all cells were protected by Germany's collective power. German thought was legitimized by the state through its common German language, institutions, regulations, and German military might that reserved itself the right to punishment and retaliation with violence and sanctions whenever German authority was challenged by foreign powers, such as during the Boxer rebellion in China around 1900. The Boxer rebellion was a Chinese uprising against the Western occupiers. Germany saw that as challenge to its legitimized authority, and thus an affront against the entire German and Western world order. German thinkers thought that the German world was Civilization. The difference between culture and civilization is this: a culture refers to the achievements of the human spirit; while a civilization refers to its material manifestations.[2] The West has managed to have everyone agree that all material manifestations of any culture are Western. A European visitor who sees a bridge or street in China will automatically assume that bridge or street has been brought to the Chinese by the West. The same is true of laws and regulations. The idea that there are laws and regulations independent from the West is absurd, and thinking otherwise is like thinking about a world without a creator – very hard to do for most people. Although there is only one Civilization left, the Western one, there are still many cultures living within that civilization. If one of those cultures, for example the Chinese one, touches upon the earth beneath it or lays its hands on material that no longer shall belong to a Western colonialist – that was considered an attack on the world's Civilization. Therefore, the Chinese uprising against German authority was an affront against the entire world (even China, since China was to become part of the world). In 1900, Kaiser Wilhelm II sent the deutschen Ostasiatischen Expeditionskorps to Beijing. His instructions were precise and clear: "show no mercy", "make no prisoners", "avenge injustice" and "bring Civilization to China once and for all".
The German orientalists denied China the authority over China's own language and culture. Tens of thousand of Chinese terminology had to go, or were replaced with familiar German names, lest make mighty China seem as if it always belonged into tiny German encyclopedias.
It is dangerous for a conquering people to let the foreign tongue (of the conquered) be the vehicle for one's own precious thought. That's like reverse imperialism: the conqueror is slowly being assimilated. China might insist on ownership for Chinese thought, just like Europe insisted on its ownership of European thought traditions such as Greek philosophy or Christianity. Regardless, the Chinese concepts for now had to go. Junzi was bad, (British) "gentlemen" was better. Shengren was inacceptable, "Heilige" was understood. 2500 years of Chinese identity – the Europeans replaced it with European concepts in a matter of a few lazy, all-too-convenient translations.
German orientalists were explaining the Orient. Explaining another culture is an analytical process; it does not require experience [of that culture, language, literature etc.]; it only requires a systematic approach, a logical argument, and sound conclusion: It is the philosophical approach, again. Max Weber, the German historian, called the philosophical approach "Objectivity". Weber's "Objectivity", used by all German orientalist I can think of (if they didn't, they would not get a degree from any German university) meant that becoming an Oriental is not only undesirable but is in fact unhelpful to the successful German scholar and orientalist. Edward Said observed the following truism in German intellectual life:
There is some significance in the fact that the two most renowned German works on the Orient, Goethe's Westöstlicher Divan and Friedrich Schlegel's Űber die Sprache und Weisheit der Inder, were based respectively on a Rhine journey and on hours spent in Paris libraries.[3]
It is therefore evident that Germany never had the means nor the plan to understand Eastern cultures from an Eastern point of view. No matter how Indian one is and how many Indian languages one mastered, and no matter how native Chinese one is, it all will always have the exact opposite effect: it will degrade and compromise any individual's real chance of becoming a German scholar on Indian or Chinese studies in Germany – ever. One has to be German, to speak German, to think and expressoneself in German language and thought (best after thirteen years of compulsory schooling and four to six years at a German university), in order to become a German orientalist. If it were any different, if Germany really wanted to understand Eastern cultures and experience Eastern traditions, the entire German scholarship of Asian Studies could and should be easily replaced by Asian scholars. The Germans are terrible afraid that foreigners might expose them, that their progressive dreams (Kant's [biblical] End of all things; Hegel's [philosophical] End of history) of German and Western cultural superiority over China and India are crushed by real life, that some Chinese or Indian experts who evidently grew up in it and mastered and experienced the Eastern traditions will show them their place. That is why the Germans – we will find this unspoken agreement throughout the German Christian and philosophic tradition – must ignore the true East. Instead they have to invent a German version of it that can only be discussed by their own scholars and those foreigners who were willing to be completely assimilated by German culture. Just like the physical borders of Germany are guarded against too many Eastern people, so are the cultural borders of Germany protected against too much Eastern mind.
[1] McGetchin, 2009
[2] Gu, 2011
[3] Said, 1976


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My husband picked up Mars near his work.
Between the wall and the fence-netting a distance of approximately 10 cm. There was the kitten of a stray cat. Mama cat was torn between screaming from the horror of a kid caught in the trap and the other children.
In the end, the poor mother made a choice between the poor kitty and the rest of the children – she was gone. And the child two days screamed and called for help. Kitten born was only 3 weeks! It was the weekend and no one on site was not, except for the guards, they said.
I can't imagine how a 90-pound man (husband) managed to get the baby.
Kitten not sleeping at home for two days, afraid. Kitty's touch, and he falls on his side, then throws staggering on uncertain legs, and eyes close themselves…
In General, the fact remains that the kitten were not fed the ravens, he did not die from hunger, and lives with us. And, I love it, even anthropomorphized, BUT!… For Mars the father is all! Strange, after all, and have nothing to remember, but only dad's key in the lock turns the cat starts a real hysteria, and then a hug-out and impossible happiness…


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Another favorite author of mine is coming up on the Abunga chat schedule next week – Robin Jones Gunn, the main focus will be her book Engaging Father Christmas, how fitting for this time of year. I would imagine they will entertain questions on other books and general questions on writing, books, etc as well. Unfortunately I will be traveling so can't join in the chat but be sure and check it out if you can drop by Abunga's chatroom at the scheduled time.
Live, online chat with author Robin Jones Gunn at Abunga.com on Dec. 17 from 2-3 p.m. EST. Gunn has written more than 60 books including the popular "Christy Miller,†"Sierra Jensen†and "College Years†teen series and the "Glenbrooke†and "Sisterchicks†series. During the Abunga.com chat, she will be taking questions and talking about her new book, "Engaging Father Christmas.†To join in that chat, log on to Authors At Abunga. You can submit pre-chat questions now using the log in page.


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New Milestone Timers and more!
Milestone Timers
Being able to track time on milestones has been the most requested feature. Just like projects, you can now track time on milestones and tasks!
You can also edit the timer manually by launching the milestone editing window.
On the right side of the Timer fields, your total earnings will be displayed. This is a multiplication of your hourly rate by the total time spent on this milestone.
The project editing window went through some changes as well.
- Project Timer: This remains unchanged. The project's timer is independent of its milestone timers. If you've been using the project timer all these while, you can continue doing so without changing any habits.
- Total Timed Amount: This amount is calculated by adding the project's timer values to the total time tracked on all milestones.
- Grand Total: This figure is based on the calculation of Amount (the amount displayed on the left of the modal window) + Total Timed Amount
- Total time tracked on all milestones: This is the total time you've tracked on all milestones associated to this project
2. Adding Multiple Clients
Previously, if you add multiple clients of different contacts but with the same company's name, there is no way to tell which is which when selecting a client from a drop down menu. We solved this problem by adding the person's initials beside the company's name.
3. Increased Legibility of White on Black Texts
We've adjusted all fonts for better readability when they are white on black, especially on form fields.
We hope this small adjustment provides you with a better reading experience.
That's all for now, hope you enjoy this update!
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The timers and better legibility are great!
But the multiple clients feature……. ? What on earth?
Creating multiple clients was just a dodgy and inconvenient work around for adding multiple contacts for one client. In our experience a 'client' is a company, and in many cases we have multiple contacts at one company who we send quotes and invoices to.
Just adding the initials to a client name still means we have to create multiple client entries for one client…. It bulks out the client list and means we would be scrolling for ever to find a contact at a client.
Also, when it comes to sending out quotes/invoices to multiple contacts at the same client, we have to open up our address book or email client to copy and past the email address in…..
Please tell us this initials thing is just a temporary fix until you sort out being able to add multiple contacts to one client.
Still loving Subernova, but was really hoping for a better solutions for multiple contacts.


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Closing (unnecessary) equality blog
From 2004, I had blogged at Marry in Massachusetts. I'm closing the figurative shop.
Thinking of doing that kept me awake. I rose those relieved and still delighted that the SCOTUS declared same-sex marriage as a right and the law of the land.
Yes, I'm heavily invested in the themes and the blog. Yes, I know that plug nasties and loons will still try to harm, hinder and hurt homosexuals. Yet over a decade ago, I pledged to shut it down when marriage equality won in the Untied States.
This show is self-indulgent. It is omphaloskepsis. I did it coming up on 12 years. I spoke out for equality. I am not one of the magnificent warriors who made this happen, more a fellow traveler. I know we have come to a good stopping place.
My political blogging will be here, occasionally at BlueMassGroup, and at my personal blog, Harrumph.


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Nowadays, anyone can call themselves a dog trainer and I'm guilty of that. I'm self-taught and I don't work with trouble dogs.
All of the dogs I've trained have been smart, good natured dogs. Through positive re-enforcement, I've coached good dogs to transform into great dogs.
Basic Commands
Your dog should learn several basic commands that will put them on the path to future learning.
I want to teach dogs to be happy, to be great companions. Long Island is full of dog trainers, there might be one that could help you turn your dog into a guard dog or an aggressive instrument. I can't help you.
A kinder, gentler dog trainer
But if you are looking to make your dog a great companion, I'm confident we could work together to help your dog reach its best potential.
Special note: If your dog has serious issues: excessive aggression (toward people and other dogs), biting & nipping, running away, social behavior (including dog fighting in the house), anxiety (such as separation anxiety) and other issues - I'm probably not the best choice for you and your dog (when did you ever hear someone say that?).
But if you have a good dog and you see a spark in it's eye like you think it can learn good behavior and tricks, I'm sure I can help enrich your dog's life.
Next Steps...
Your puppy will also learn several basic commands that will put them on the path to future learning.


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The Catholic Record Society
This is an independent charity which shares the objectives of the CRS and with which it has close administrative links. It provides bursaries for students, normally registered in foreign universities, wishing to come to England for a short time to study recusant history.
The Trust was founded in 1985 by the late Captain Andrew Duncan, OBE, RN, to provide bursaries to assist students from outside the United Kingdom wishing to visit Britain to study aspects of the history of the Roman Catholic community in Great Britain since the Reformation. The trustees, drawn from a wide range of backgrounds – academic, diplomatic, financial and religious – include at least one member of the Council of the Catholic Record Society.
Applicants for awards from the Trust are normally registered in universities outside the UK. In certain circumstances, bursaries may also be available for UK-based students wishing to consult relevant continental European archives, particularly those in Rome. Applicants, who need not be Catholics, should normally be advanced in their studies. Their proposed field of study should be directly related to post-Reformation Catholic history, normally covering the period up to the passing of the Catholic Emancipation in 1829. Projects with timeframes extending to the end of the 19th century may be eligible for consideration. All applicants should have an adequate knowledge of English. Past students include:
Assistance from the Trust has also been extended to students from Romania, Germany and Italy.
The sum awarded by the Trust varies in accordance with the programme that the student wishes to follow. Awards, normally in the region of £500, are intended to assist in the cost of a short stay in the UK, rather than to cover all expenses.
An application form (available in PDF format), together with a photograph of the candidate and a letter of reference from an academic supervisor or other person able to comment on your research, should be sent to the Administrator of the Trust:
Dr Katy Gibbons
SSHLS, University of Portsmouth
Email: email@example.com
Please download the application form.


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By Jinjing Li and Michael Jensen
The annual Budget Speech is one of the most significant events on the Australian political calendar. The Budget Speech and Budget Reply constitute the contrasting narratives from the government and opposition regarding where the country is, its challenges and opportunities, and how the major parties aim to confront those challenges. But how did the public react in social media? Did it match the sentiment of the Treasurer's Budget Speech? This year, NATSEM/IGPA monitored the twitter discussions during the budget speech and it revealed some intriguing findings.
To begin with, we looked at the popularity of the word "budget" on Twitter. We monitored the number of tweets with the keyword. As shown below, there were more than 90,000 tweets posted contained the word "budget" between 5pm and midnight on 3 May 2016, and this rose to 600 tweets per minute when the Treasurer's speech started. While some of these tweets may not be entirely related to the Australian budget, given the global reach of Twitter, there was a spike in communications around the start of Treasurer Morrison's speech which is unmistakable and largely driven by conversations about the Australian budget.
Source: Twitter.com, collected by NATSEM, data points are showing the number of tweets within each 10 minute interval.
To get a sense of the overall interest in the budget by social media users, we analysed Twitter's stream of tweets produced in Australia. Although this data does not encompass all tweets produced in Australia, we have no indication that this data deviates from a relevant representative sample of tweets across Australia. More than 15% of the tweets produced in Australia on 3 May 2016 sent between 7 and 9 pm contain the word "budget". This shows a great interest from the general public in this major political event, and mirrors the trends we see in the global data collected from Twitter.
Source: Twitter.com, collected by NATSEM, data points are calculated based on the 60 minutes interval.
We also extracted the trending key words, hour by hour on tweets related to the budget. The phrase "tax cut" was a trending term one hour before the budget speech was delivered and remained so throughout the evening. This may be related to the widely reported information that the budget would contain a tax cut for both upper middle income earners and small businesses (a category which this budget also revises). As the specific nature of the cuts became clear, "cut to" also became a trending phrase at 8pm, persisting through the evening. We speculate these trending phrases could be linked to the themes repeated by politicians of fairness and equity in Australia.


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Kitchen gadgets spin, whiz, and whir so often that we have come to expect them to.
Considering that their job is to manipulate food into presentable and edible creations this is not much of a surprise. However, when a gadget comes along that finds its utility in silence, that doesn't have to mean it isn't doing what it is supposed to be doing. And if it doing what it is supposed to be doing involves doing it with chocolate, then nobody is going to raise a fuss.
The popular Zoku line of freezer pop makers has added a new accessory to its growing arsenal of add-ons. The base stations are available in configurations that make one, two, or even more freezer pops at a time. And now, the Zoku Chocolate Station lets them all be dipped into delicious chocolate.
The perfectly proportioned gadget holds enough melted chocolate to coat up to eight pops per batch. After pouring melted chocolate into the reservoir, kids and adults alike can dip their customized freezer pops into the waiting deliciousness, giving them a thin, even coating that rivals anything the ice-cream man can provide. Further allowing the ability to make the perfect pop, the accessory comes complete with dipping trays to add chopped nuts or sprinkles. While the gadget itself might not make noise while it is being used, having that silence extend to a group of children (or even adults) using it probably isn't going to happen.
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