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I just came across a very fascinating and well-written exchange on homosexuality in Commonweal. In it, New Testament scholar and theologian, Luke Timothy Johnson and freelance writer Eve Tushnet debate the current Catholic teaching on same-sex relationships. Interestingly enough, Johnson, who is both a creative and theologically conservative theologian, argues against the current teaching of the Catholic church, while Tushnet, an openly lesbian woman takes the traditional position, arguing for submission the traditional teachings of the church and Scripture on marriage and sexuality. Regardless of the position one takes on this issue, I think Tushnet's peice is quite good and should give anyone much to think about in regards to this particular question facing so many churches.
Here's a few paragraphs from her article:
The coming-out story is a quintessentially American story. It is self-discovery in opposition to societal regulation. It is personal liberation-as American as "lighting out for the territory." There are ways to tell the Christian story so that it corresponds very well to this story of self-discovery and liberation: through Christ we are freed from sin and come to know ourselves; in Nietzsche's phrase, we "become what we are." But there are other ways of talking about Christian life-ways that focus on sacrifice, martyrdom, dying in Christ to live with him-which are perhaps less quintessentially American, and for that reason all the more necessary for us. There's a reason all Catholic churches have a crucifix, an image of the tortured God.
Johnson, like many writers who oppose the church's prohibition against all homosexual acts, points to the real virtues exhibited by so many gay couples: loyalty, caretaking, and compassion. Anyone who supports church teaching must still acknowledge that these virtues are real; that deep, often sacrificial love works through these couples like gold threads in cloth. The question is whether that is enough. How could it not be? How could Christ require more?
And behold, one came up to him, saying, "Teacher, what good deed must I do, to have eternal life?" And he said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? One there is who is good. If you would enter life, keep the commandments." …The young man said to him, "All these I have observed; what do I still lack?" Jesus said to him, "If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me." When the young man heard this he went away sorrowful; for he had great possessions. (Matthew 19:16-22)
The sacrifices you want to make aren't always the only sacrifices God wants.
And so the central problem emerges: Whom do we follow? How do we follow love? Can a human beloved have the same ability to overturn us completely-to read and interpret and reshape us-that Jesus himself has? Can love of another person do the same work as the love of God?
Almost all the time, love of God will deepen and strengthen our love of others in obvious ways, rather than conflicting with that love or posing a dilemma. And so we are tempted to believe that our love of God and our love of others won't ever conflict. But there will be times when it does seem like God is asking us to choose. At the very least, God may require us to radically reshape our understanding of what love of another person should look like. God may ask you not to stop loving your partner but to express that love without sex.
The analogy between God's love for us and our love for one another is real but partial, and needs to be understood in light of the entire teaching of the church. The church does not teach that whatever anyone does out of a deep conviction and a desire to express love is always intrinsically good. We can sincerely seek to do good and yet actually act wrongly; this happens all the time. Even the saints get stuff wrong, as do all kinds of loving, sincere people. It might even be said that the reason we have church teaching in the first place is that loving, sincere people do their best and still sometimes get things very wrong.
Johnson begins by saying that his position "stand[s] in tension with Scripture." But he then seems to use human beloveds as a kind of walking Scripture in themselves, able to contradict and correct the merely paper canon. So he writes:
I think it important [for the integrity of our position] to state clearly that we do, in fact, reject the straightforward commands of Scripture, and appeal instead to another authority when we declare that same-sex unions can be holy and good. And what exactly is that authority? We appeal explicitly to the weight of our own experience and the experience thousands of others have witnessed to, which tells us that to claim our own sexual orientation is in fact to accept the way in which God has created us.
I'm not convinced this is how human love stories relate to the divine love story. Loving one another can be an echo of the love we receive from God; it can be the child of that love; it can be preparation for our own awestruck love of God. (I would argue that my erotic and romantic love of women has been all three of those things, at different times.) But our human experience, including our erotic experience, cannot be a replacement for the divine revelation preserved by the church. We must be careful not to let it become a counternarrative or a counter-Scripture.
When I was baptized and confirmed, pledging, "I believe all that the Catholic Church believes and teaches," I did it basically as a leap of faith. I knew why I needed to be Catholic; I knew that as a Catholic I'd have to follow this stuff, faith seeking understanding and all that; I trusted that eventually I would understand the reasons behind the teaching a little better. And I do. Even so, I waver on how much I think I understand the teaching from day to day.
But what has constantly surprised me about the Catholic Church is just how much there is for me here. There is a rich theology of friendship, helping me to express my love of women both sacrificially and chastely. There's honor for both celibacy and married life, and resources for living fruitfully in either of these states. We have Oscar Wilde's fairy tales, we have saints who are possibly even crazier than I am, we have the Anima Christi and Thomas à Kempis's rewriting of the Song of Songs as a hymn to the crucified Christ. I feel as if every week or so I discover yet another hidden treasure of the church that speaks to me in exactly the way I need in order to deal specifically with my struggles, resentments, longings, and strengths as a woman and a lesbian. We can make the church's teaching believable by becoming more Catholic-which is, not coincidentally, what we should be doing anyway.


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His resignation is effective July 1. Hall said in a news release that he's confident "things are headed in the right direction" at UMKC. The Baltimore campus is close to his extended family.
Hall has been the athletics director at UMKC since 2007. He previously served as the associate athletics director for development at Kent State University.
During Hall's tenure, UMKC has won conference championships in men's soccer, men's golf, men's tennis and softball. Hall also announced this spring the hiring of Louisville assistant Kareem Richardson as head men's basketball coach.
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Our brains are always looking out for us. They're wired to help us survive – alerting us to threats and ramping up our amygdala to help us take action.
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Toward the end of 1793, Romney began work on his last major subject inspired by lines from Shakespeare, the "Ages of Man" as described by Jaques in As You Like It. Most of the Folger drawings on the theme depict the first stage of life, that of the infant. Romney did not limit himself to Shakespeare's description of the babe "mewling and puking in the nurse's arms," but added his own images to those of the poet, including in the scene additional figures standing and kneeling, and the mother reclining on a couch behind.
Romney's graphic technique at this period was marked by the use of different materials and media. The paper he used in the 1790s, but not before, is a relatively heavy and smooth, cream-colored wove paper, quite different from the laid paper used earlier. His favorite medium was a softer graphite than he had used previously. The resulting style in these drawings is markedly different from that of Romney's earlier work. Darkness pervades the scenes, which are usually framed within a rectangle marked out on the page. Thick parallel strokes are laid on diagonally and belabored obsessively. Patches of shading consist of directional systems at war with one another, creating areas of tone that collide in a jarring manner. Figures register as white holes on the page. On the verge of being totally swallowed up, these figures but tenuously hold their own against the vigorous assault of the encroaching lines.
Romney experiences a serious illness in the spring of 1796, robably the first in a series of strokes that began to afflict him.
As his final years progressed, the artist was to endure old age almost as Shakespeare described it: "Last scene of all ... is second childishness and mere oblivion, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everyhing."
John Romney wrote that in his father "Reason, that noble faculty of the mind ... became entirely extinct before the dissolution of the body; and he departed life mentally the same as when he came into existence."
Accopmanying Romney's physical decline was an intesification of the melancholia to which he had always been prone. That gloom is amply conveyed in Romney's drawings on the "Ages of Man" and in other subjects he delt with in the mid to late 1790s.


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Gary Johnson on Abortion
Libertarian presidential nominee; former Republican NM Governor
A: Let each state decide.
Q: Should the federal government fund stem cell research and legalize its development in the private sector?
A: No, but allow the private sector to explore potential benefits.
Q: Should the government require health insurance companies to provide free birth control?
A: No, let the insurance companies decide instead of a government mandate.
A: I support women's rights to choose up until viability of the fetus. I've supported the notion of parental notification. I've supported counseling and I've supported the notion that public funds not be used for abortions. But I don't want for a second to pretend that I have a better idea of how a woman should choose when it comes to this situation. Fundamentally this is a choice that a woman should have.
JOHNSON: I support a woman's right to choose up until viability of the fetus, as governor of New Mexico, I would have signed a bill banning late term abortion, I've always favored parental notification, I've always favored counseling and I've always favored the notion that public funds should not be used for abortion. So running for Governor of New Mexico in a state that was 2:1 Democrat, I really didn't get that vote in the primary, but I'd like to think that I got all of those votes in the general election and that's a reality here also, for those individuals that hold that as their number one issue, I'm not going to get that vote, I would hope to get that vote if I were to move on to the general election.
A: It should be left up to the woman. If my daughter were pregnant and she came to me and asked me what she ought to do, I would advise her to have the child. But I would not for a minute pretend that I should make that decision for her or any other woman.
Q: But you have supported legislation that requires parental consent and signed a ban on partial birth abortions.
A: I think the decision can be made at an earlier stage. That's why I don't support partial birth abortions. I realize it's a fine line, but I generally come down on a woman's right to decide.
Q: Do you disagree that parental consent is problematic for teenagers who can't talk to their parents?
A: I believe that parents ought to know. Where that can't occur, there needs to be a process in place, which we have in New Mexico.
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I've been gliding and loved it, now applying for a Scholarship!
What size boots do you need Matilda? Pretty sure: http://www.cadetdirect.com/products1.php?cat=1 will have you covered!
Hi there, I'm a sea cadet down in the south and i'm in DESPERATE need of some boots however I'm kinda tight on money. Is there anyone willing to sell/give away their boots? I'm willing to pay for postage (provided it isn't like £15 or something stupid). Please let me know if anyone can help. THANKS!
Where are the St. John Ambulance Cadets based out of?
St. John Ambulance Cadet, here.
We're kinda wimpy compared to other cadets, but we learn how to save people's lives, so I'm proud of us all the same.
Yeah, some people don't like flying.... We have a band too, for those people
We are funded by our own work and by the area we are based in.
We fly Tutors mainly, I haven't really wanted to go flying with the whole height thing.
We are partially funded by the government, in part by fundraiser
It's pretty much the same, the drill, the ironing, polishing. We fly Cessna 172s and schweizer 2-33a gliders. We have different training regions for difrent parts of Canada, each with one or two summer training center camps. I live in "Prairie regions" So we have Penhold and Gimili
What's it like in the Royal Canadian Air Cadets?
Uniform looks similar and such.
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It's a back to back friendlies matches from the high-profile clubs in Europe play in the US soil this weekend. Brace yourselves soccer fans for the Real Madrid vs Inter Milan at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, MO and Chelsea vs AS Roma at the RFK Stadium in Washington, DC on August 10.
Real Madrid and Inter are two of the world's most recognizable and successful clubs. The Spanish giants have won a record 32 Spanish La Liga titles, 19 Copa del Rey titles and nine European championships. The squad features some of the game's bigger stars including Cristiano Ronaldo, Sergio Ramos and Mesut Ozil.
Inter Milan won 18 Italian Serie A titles, 7 Coppa Italia titles and 3 European Championships. It features top soccer players Esteban Cambiasso, Fredy Guarin and Samir Handanovic.
Chelsea, the 2012 UEFA Champions League winner and 2013 Europa League champion, is coached by the renowned and controversial Jose Mourinho. The star-studded roster includes Frank Lampard (England), John Terry (England), Ashley Cole (England), Eden Hazard (Belgium), Fernando Torres (Spain), Juan Mata (Spain) and Petr Cech (Czech Republic)
Roma finished sixth in Italy's Serie A will feature U.S. national team midfielder Michael Bradley and Italian legend Francesco Totti.
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Monday, February 6, 2012
Fabric Scrap and Remnant Ideas
If you are sitting there wondering what to do with your pile of scraps other than toss them, I've got some great things in store for you! In all my scrap hoarding, I have managed to accumulate quite a collection of scrappy projects around my house.
These are some of my favorites:
The bow on this vase is made entirely out of scrap fabric.
To make it: make a tiny cut at the edge of the fabric about an inch and a half on each side and then rip down the length of the fabric where you made those cuts. They end up about 1 1/2" by 20". Ripping it gives it a nice textured look - kind of raw and unfinished. Then cut any really long threads that are left hanging.
I did this on about 3 different pieces of fabric and then tied them together in a big bow on the vase.
quilt my mother made for my living room. It is Joel Dewberry's Aviary 2 if you are interested in getting it.
To make: You will need embroidery hoops in varying sizes. These are available at most craft stores. Lay your fabric wrong side facing up and then center the embroidery hoop on the fabric. With a fabric marker trace about one inch outside the hoop. This will let you fit the fabric nicely inside the hoop. Then cut out the circle you traced. Take apart the embroidery hoop frame, center the fabric inside and then slide the pieces back together and tighten the top screw. You can cut off any excess fabric after you get it inside. Finish it by embellishing it anyway you like. I added buttons and felt flowers to some of mine.
You can find pre-made ones at the craft store sometimes, but this is about using up your stash right? I love Zakka Life and they have a great tutorial on How to Sew Fabric Yo-Yo's. They also have some other great tutorials and fun things, so stop by and check them out.
To make: Supplies needed - blank canvas of any size, pre-cut fabric scraps, acrylic paints (the Deco-Art paints work great), Mod Podge, a sponge type paint brush, Krylon Matte Finish spray, and something to cover your work area.
I worked on a small area at a time. Paint Mod Podge on the canvas and then lay a piece of fabric over it. Continue working like this until the entire canvas is covered and in whatever random pattern you like. Then let it dry. Paint a good coat of Mod Podge over the whole thing and let dry. If you like, paint a design with acrylic paint on top of the fabric and on the edges of the canvas. Let dry. Spray Krylon Matte Finish over the whole thing to seal it. Be sure to do it outside in a well ventilated area.
Some other great fabric scrap ideas are linked up here:
Anthro-Inspired Necklace
Flower Power
That should give you some great ways to help bust that scrap stash lingering in your craft room and hopefully I can bust some of mine before the month is over!
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Thank you so much for stopping by my blog and leaving a comment. I love your ideas! The hoop art is great and I am hoping to do a wall of fabric hoops soon. I could not help but notice on your profile that you are from Bakersfield. My mother was born there. ~KellyReplyDelete
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So nice "meeting" you -- thanks for your sweet comment on my blog post. I am now following you also. Looking forward to catching up on your posts!Replies
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Hi there! Thanks for stopping by Dwell on Joy to check out my Sewing 101 post! I really appreciate you stopping by to let me know you liked it! I have a small fabric scrap pile that I'm sure will grow! I used a couple today to wrap a gift :) Nice to meet you!ReplyDeleteReplies
Wrapping gifts with them is such a great idea too! Thanks for stopping by to visit!Delete
Stumbled into your blog and found the inspiring posts. Good idea of scraps decoration with embroidiery hoops.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks so much Terrie! I'm glad you like them!Delete
I love love love the embroidery hoops idea! Such a pretty way to show off some favorite fabrics & have some art for one of those large walls I never know what to do with :)ReplyDeleteReplies
I hope you get the chance to do it! I just loved these fabrics and wanted a way to incorporate more of them into the room. It's also easy to switch them up!Delete
Such fun projects with scraps !ReplyDeleteReplies
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oh - I'm so used to crafting with scraps of paper; it's lovely to see some fabric remnants getting a fair go - gorgeous; well done!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks so much! I would love to see some of your paper scrap projects! I have a huge collection of paper scraps too. It seems that I always hang on to those little bits knowing that they might be good for something later.Delete
Thanks for linking up last week. I hope to see you this Thursday. I love your use of scraps.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks, Kate! I will be back by this week :)Delete
This is, perhaps, my most slow-pokey week yet. My apologies for taking so long to get over here from "A Little Birdie Told Me.." to enjoy your post. It's important to me to visit and really give my full attention to all the links, but as the party grows it's taking more and more time. Thank you so much for bearing with me, and for continuing to share your talent at Rook No. 17!ReplyDelete
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Deen Reveals Type 2 Diabetes: Criticism Abounds
Jan Chait
January 24, 2012
There are 300 recipes for macaroni and cheese on the Food Network's Web site. I'm using mac-n-cheese here as a symbol for all of those starch- and fat-laden comfort foods we love and like to occasionally indulge in.
Mac and cheese with two cheeses. Three cheeses. Four cheeses. SEVEN cheeses! Mac and cheese with ham…with bacon…with corned beef. With heavy cream (four cups in at least one recipe). With Tater Tots.
The recipes were from such celebrity chefs as Ina Garten (the Barefoot Contessa), Alton Brown, Giada De Laurentiis, Guy Fieri, and Emeril Lagasse (who once had an episode called "Pork Fat Rules." BAM!). And, oh yeah, Paula Deen. Who, admittedly, deep-fries mac-n-cheese.
But people are only complaining about Paula Deen cooking starch- and fat-laden foods. Why? Unless you live in a cave, you probably heard last week that Deen was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. Three years ago. Therefore, she should have stopped cooking those decadent foods. Immediately! Fessed up. Admitted her sins.
And her critics are crawling out of the woodwork: "5 Paula Deen recipes that could give you diabetes" proclaims one headline. (Psst! Food does NOT give you diabetes!)
Quick! All of you who immediately reconciled yourself to your diagnosis and knew exactly what to do raise your hands!
Hmmm…I don't see any hands out there.
"Chef Paula Deen hid diabetes, pushed high-fat food," read the headline over an Associated Press article. (BTW, she isn't a trained chef.)
That article also noted: "Government doctors say that being overweight (as Deen is), over 45 (as Deen is), and inactive (as Deen was) increase the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes." Didn't say a word about beta cell dysfunction and genetics.
NBC News' chief medical editor, Nancy L. Snyderman, called Deen's behavior "egregious" and said Deen should immediately have changed her recipes (and lost her audience?). Snyderman, by the way, is board-certified in otolaryngology and specializes in head and neck cancer. Is that part of the endocrine system?
Now, Snyderman believes you should just not get Type 2 diabetes in the first place. I agree with that. But it's not always possible, as was proven in the Diabetes Prevention Program, when all the help in the world couldn't totally prevent Type 2 diabetes.
"Did Paula Deen's diet cause her diabetes?" was the headline on a "Health on Today" blog.
Now this writer, Linda Carroll, I like. She went to an endocrinologist for background, writing:
(Note: Deen turned 65 on January 17.)
Where am I going with this? I don't watch Paula Deen's shows (nor many other Food Network programs, although I'm rather fond of Alton Brown). I don't buy her cookbooks. If I want to cook Southern, I make my family recipes. Unaltered. (But I don't make — or eat — them often.)
But that poor lady just walked right smack dab into a hornet's nest when she announced she has Type 2 diabetes. Take the way you feel when, in your little world, you encounter a sanctimonious, self-righteous person who knows nothing about diabetes telling you what you should and should not be doing and multiply it by…everybody. Including talk show hosts, comedians, ill-informed doctors, pundits — and more — blasting it out over the airwaves. What if darned near everybody you met on the street, or who was eating in a restaurant with you, knew who you were?
A former Indiana First Lady has diabetes and, several years ago, I asked her if I could write about it. Her answer? "No," because she wanted to be able to eat an elephant ear at the state fair without criticism. Hey, I couldn't argue with that. Her secret is still safe with me.
People, Paula Deen tapes about 30 days annually. That's less than 10% of the year. Plus, she cooks it. That's it. That doesn't mean you have to eat it. Nobody has you tied to a chair, shoveling it down your throat. In fact, I'd say that if Deen ate that way all of the time, she'd weigh a ton instead of being just a little bit "fluffy."
Another part of the criticism is that she's now a spokesperson for Novo Nordisk. Tsk! Wouldn't all of us like to make money from diabetes? It might help pay for all of those meds, supplies, doctors' visits, healthful foods, and such.
But Deen did not approach Novo. And, ironically, Novo didn't even know Deen had diabetes when it approached her to participate in its new online program, "Diabetes in a New Light."
"We really just wanted to ask her, 'Hey, Paula, do you think we could challenge you to change up some of your recipes and make them diabetes-friendly," Novo spokeswoman Ambre Morley was quoted in one article as saying. "And her reply was, 'How did you guys know I had diabetes?'"
My take on all of this?
So Paula Deen took three years to out herself. No big deal. It took me a bit of time to learn about diabetes. Imagine being a celebrity and expected to know it all. It sure beats what Dick Clark did, when he came out about having diabetes (when he teamed up with the American Association of Diabetes Educators and Merck & Co. to publicize diabetes' effect on the heart) and didn't know a darned thing about it.
Imagine being expected to tell the world you have Type 2 diabetes before you've had time to reconcile yourself to the fact that your life has changed. Took me nine years. How about you?
I think she should be allowed to cook however she wants. Maybe work in a more healthful recipe here and there. She got her audience by cooking the way she does. And she does tell people to eat it in moderation.
I see nothing wrong with her getting paid for altering recipes. So what if it happens to be a pharmaceutical company (which didn't even know she had diabetes when it approached her)? If Paula Deen's name gets people in to learn more about diabetes and how to eat in a more healthful manner, so be it. Even if it does promote Victoza on the site. Diabetes medicines are a good tool for keeping your blood glucose under control if diet and exercise cannot. Type 2 is progressive. Eventually, you'll likely have to add medicines and, possibly, insulin, to keep your glucose under control. It's not your fault. It's just the way it is.
So what's your take on all of this brouhaha?
When the Paula Deen story broke, I thought, wonder what Jan Chait has to say about that? I knew you'd see the whole situation clearly and put into words the way I was feeling about it. I hope Paula is hearing as many good things from people as she is hearing bad...
Posted by: pepper | Jan 26, 2012 09:40 AM
I like Paula Deen and many of her recipes are diabetic friendly if you pay attention to what you are eating. Some recipes are specifically for special occasions, and some can be changed around to be a bit more healthy.I think she has a lot to give, if she is given the chance.
Posted by: Pam | Jan 29, 2012 02:55 PM
It took me 10 years to come to grips with my T2 diabetes. Bad genes and heart surgery did me in. Then I was hospitalized in 2007 for a non-related ailment and the doctor took me off all oral meds except Metformin, 'cause he said it was no use flogging a dead pancreas. He put me on insulin (which I hated because I didn't understand it's benefits) and five years later it's still the best thing that has happened to me, diabetes-wise. I eat differently than I used to, walk 5-6 miles most days (at least 10,000 steps) and I'm in pretty good control. I understand why Deen took three years to come to grips with her T2. I've never cared for her show or her food, but like the author said, no one made anyone eat it.
Posted by: Steve | Jan 25, 2012 09:38 PM
OOPS. criticism, sorry no spellcheck.
Posted by: SandyB | Jan 25, 2012 09:33 PM
So Paula has diabetes... and what is the deal? She just joined a huge group in the U.S. and around the world. I am more concerned about her cardiovascular system with all the saturated fat and who knows how many years with Pre-diabetes which promotes heart disease. I am disappointed that a slow change in her recipes did not happen, BUT we are adults who can modify our own recipes and monitor our portions; remember what is often demanded by the public to keep your TV show and restaurant. I am tired of the casual blame game and critism from those who (I would guess) have no clue of her medical history or search for a healthier lifestyle (I would hope). Educate yourself and others AND motivate others by being healthier by example. I have been blessed with DM2 for ten years and no meds so far; it makes me strive to be healthier because I see the complications of others every day I work, so "Go Girl, lead by example with Novo's help".
Posted by: SandyB | Jan 25, 2012 09:30 PM
Jan, This is the first thing that you have written that I don't like. It is just like our politicians criticizing everything. The important thing for those of us with Type 2 diabetes to take care of ourselves in the very best way that WE CHOOSE to. Why worry so much about Paula and everyone else. I have more to do than worry about everyone else. Please write a nice article and apologize for this one. I love this magazine and all these blogs. Sharey Travis
Posted by: Sharey Travis | Jan 25, 2012 07:48 PM
Anyone who regulates their life by what they see on television is in real trouble. They need help.
Posted by: John Moore | Jan 25, 2012 05:56 PM
I really like Paula Dean. I don't care how she cooks. Like the article clearly and I feel correctly states "That doesn't mean you have to eat it." I love to cook. I have adopted some meals for my condition (type 2) but others, I just eat less of. My sugar has gone up slightly over the last 4 years and I will need to again loose weight to being my numbers down. I do not take medication so I will adapt a different eating style to bring my numbers back into line. I don't blame her a bit for taking theree years to come out. I didn't have that chance since I was hospitalized so I just told everyone "I am diabetic and my doctor and I have discussed my treatment." When people at dinner ask me if I can eat what I am eating (you know the searching of a diabetic's plate without being able to count what is on it.). In about 45 seconds I count the carbs protein and fat on everyone's plate. I then compare my plate to theirs and the questions seem to stop immediately and perminantly. Try it sometime and see the reaction. Heck if we go to national health care, Paula Dean's show might be taken off the air due to increased national medical costs because people ate too much. Food is food how much you eat of what type determines your health. Not what was cooked. :)
Posted by: Bob | Jan 25, 2012 04:38 PM
So what is the big deal, I cook for my family but don't eat the same since I am diabetic. she has great recepies if you like that kind of food. It's not her fault if you eat that and become diabetic I don't think she should change a thing about her show it's still up to us to be adaults and choose what is right for us and our bodies. I just enjoy watching her............
Posted by: Pam | Jan 25, 2012 04:30 PM
You said it!!!! Amen.
Posted by: cde | Jan 25, 2012 03:52 PM
I was diagnosed 10/2009 and still am not sure what I am doing,,,God Bless, Paula....
Posted by: Dorene Kleba | Jan 25, 2012 02:29 PM
I read over a year agao that she was diabetic. I agree it takes time to accept it took me well over a year and I still have to adjust. I am doing better just when I think i have it figured out it now longer works and I have to try something else. I agree when people tell me oh you can't have that. I see red almost immediately. (stress level up) I know what I can have. the portion size is the main thing. Hang in there Paula, unfortuantly everyone has an opinion even if they don't know what they are talking about. After 15 years I am still learning.
Posted by: Patty | Jan 25, 2012 02:16 PM
Thank you very much for this article. I was sad to see how many people were attacking her after she came out. I didn't know that the company had approached her rather than the other way around.
Posted by: Cathy R | Jan 25, 2012 01:48 PM
I feel so sorry for Paula Deen. The flak she is taking is ridiculous. I read where one doctor said that diabetes is curable. I wanted to scream. I'm T2 and i use an insulin pump. Just leave her alone. Thanks for posting about her.
Posted by: muffy57 | Jan 24, 2012 08:25 PM
I HATE DIABETES! I was diagnosed with diabetes over 20 years ago. It does run deep in my family. I have never been able to control my bad eating habits. Thus, never had my blood sugar under control. The toll it has taken on my health (my life) is despicable. The worst thing about it is all the criticism. Everyone telling me what to do. Embarrassing me in public. Always watching to see what I put on my plate. I have let diabetes destroy my life. I now live on disability and food stamps. My children and friends don't want much to do with me. I wouldn't wish diabetes on my worst enemy. And I don't have an ounce of fight left in me. But, I can tell you this. If anyone out there thinks that blaming the diabetic is somehow going to help them wake up and start taking better care of themselves. Think again. You may just be pushing them closer to the grave.
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DCMA mandatory requirements that
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required by the respective MOU. However, OCONUS CMO personnel shall not
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as defined in AQAP-2070 when requesting a NATO Member Nation to
perform GQA and when performing GQA when requested by a NATO Member Nation
and / or
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provisions of STANAG 4107 and AQAP-2070. QA personnel shall follow AQAP-2070 and the Swedish
GQA Administrative Procedure when requesting Sweden to
perform GQA and when performing GQA requested by Sweden.
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DCMA shall follow the processes, procedures, terms, and conditions of
the individual MOU, and any established GQA Administrative or Implementation
Plan, when
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necessary, through the chain of command.
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requirements shall be included as a risk and identified as a "Specific Customer Requirement" on the RGQA or RIAC as stated on the QALI
(Allied Quality Assurance
Publication (AQAP) - 2070). The QALI
may be attached to the RGQA or RIAC.
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information becomes available or risk events occur; however, as a minimum, risk
assessments shall be reviewed on an annual basis and revised as necessary. This annual review shall be documented on the
appropriate surveillance plan (Allied Quality Assurance
Publication (AQAP) - 2070)..
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personnel shall follow the specific Manufacturing License Agreement (MLA),
Technical Assistance Agreement (TAA) or DoD exemption, as applicable, in
providing access to the Host Nation as authorized. Normally, low
risks that can be satisfactorily verified after receipt should not be
delegated to the HN MoD. Additionally, non-complex, non-critical products
or other low risks will not normally require intensive GQA.
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When risks are identified as requiring surveillance, QA personnel shall
generate the appropriate RGQA (Allied Quality Assurance
Publication (AQAP) - 2070)..
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coordinate with the HN Government Quality Assurance Representative (GQAR)
to determine if a surveillance strategy can be established that will meet the
intent of the
instruction, as applicable. This coordination and determination shall be documented on the
RGQA. Additional information, such as those risks not accepted by the
HN GQAR or concerning any communication with the HN GQAR, shall be
documented on the surveillance plan.
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non-complex, non-critical products or other low risks, QA personnel
shall coordinate with the HN GQAR to establish a strategy that would provide
for an appropriate surveillance interval, i.e. quarterly, semi-annual, or
annual, to validate that these risks remain low. This coordination and determination shall be documented on the RGQA.
Additional information, such as those risks not accepted by the HN GQAR or
concerning any communication with the HN GQAR, shall be documented on the
surveillance plan.
4.1.3 In a NATO environment, QA
personnel shall prepare the
NATO RGQAR Form in accordance
with AQAP 2070 (Allied Quality Assurance
Publication (AQAP) - 2070).
(ND) In a
Non-NATO environment, QA personnel shall prepare the RGQA in accordance with
the applicable MOU and/or associated GQA Administrative Procedure /
Implementation Plan.
4.1.5 (ND) Where Host Nation organizations are
paid for the performance of surveillance, CMOs shall consider the cost
effectiveness of delegating on a case-by-case basis. This
determination to delegate or not shall be documented on the surveillance
plan. All documentation used in this determination shall be made a
part of the surveillance plan.
(ND) All requests for
CAS support received from foreign Governments (NATO and Non-NATO) shall be
processed through the US DoD Central Control Point (DoDCCP).
See the
International and Federal Business
(Reimbursable and Non-Reimbursable) Instruction for additional
requirements and guidance on foreign requests for CAS.
184.108.40.206. The DoDCCP shall determine if the request is
reimbursable or at no charge and will forward the request to the applicable CMO.
personnel shall formally accept or reject delegations from NATO nations and
Sweden utilizing the Response to Government Quality Assurance Request (NATO RGQAR Form)
form within the timeframes specified in AQAP 2070. If required, QA
personnel shall revise the RIAC in accordance with AQAP 2070, providing
additional risk information to the other Government, increasing or
decreasing the risk likelihood and risk index, as necessary to reflect the
current status of the risk (Allied Quality Assurance
Publication (AQAP) - 2070).
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initiate all requests/delegations to other Governments. Wherever possible,
HN support shall be used to perform the required supplier
surveillance in accordance with the applicable MOU or NATO STANAG. Only the
minimum surveillance necessary to mitigate the identified risks and to
provide confidence in the supplier's ability to perform shall be delegated.
4.1.8. RGQAs shall be sent electronically to the HN's
CCP email address identified in Annex A of STANAG 4107 for NATO nations (NATO
Standardization Agreement (STANAG) No. 4107); or
identified in the individual MOU or GQA Administrative Procedure, or
Implementation Plans for
Non-NATO nations.
4.1.9. RGQAs shall
(Allied Quality Assurance
Publication (AQAP) - 2070):
Clearly identify the HN GQAR's authority with regards to Deviation Permits
or Concessions (Material Review Board (MRB)).
MRB authority for Critical Safety Items (CSI) is normally withheld unless
specifically delegated.
Request copies of Corrective Action Requests (CARs). CARs received
from the HN GQAR shall be entered into the
DCMA CAR log in accordance with the
Corrective Action Request
instruction. DCMA QA personnel should gain an understanding
of the HN's corrective action process to enable appropriate communications
with the HN GQAR, i.e., utilizing HN's terminology vice DCMA's on RGQAs or
during email or telephone communications.
220.127.116.11. Request HN GQAR to contact the DCMA QAR
prior to issuing delegations for CSI to the next sub-tier QAR.
Request results of surveillance activities applicable to support data
analysis. RGQAs should also include a request for copies of
the HN's data analysis results, if available.
Request copies of the HN GQAR surveillance plans for contracts
that contain CSI, SOF or other high risk items, and / or for major programs.
QA personnel shall review the surveillance plans to ensure planned
surveillance address all risks and GQA activities identified on the RGQA.
Include instructions for product release to support execution of
the DD 250 / Receiving Report (RR), i.e. requesting the HN GQAR to provide a Statement of GQA, or
stamping / signing the supplier's shipping documentation.
4.1.10. (ND) RGQAs
shall be revised as changes to requested GQA services occur; however, as a
minimum, RGQAs
shall be reviewed for currency on an annual basis and revised as necessary. This review shall ensure RGQAs are still active.
4.1.11. In a Non-NATO environment, unless
specifically addressed in the applicable MOU or GQA Administrative
Procedure / Implementation Plan, the RGQA shall specify how the completion
of the RGQA will be communicated.
4.2. Request for Government Contract Audit Services (RGCAS).
personnel shall ensure the request received from the originator clearly
identifies the type of audit requested. The request should also include the information and supporting documentation
necessary to complete the audit. CMO personnel
shall prepare the RGCAS in accordance with the applicable MOU.
4.2.2. If the
applicable MOU does not specify a format for the RGCAS, CMO personnel
shall ensure that the request include all of the information required
by the MOU.
5. Develop GQA Surveillance Plans.
5.1. (ND) CONUS CMOs shall accomplish surveillance planning in
accordance with the
GCQA Surveillance Planning instruction.
CMOs shall provide a copy of their surveillance plan when requested in the
5.2. (ND) OCONUS CMOs shall document and maintain a QA
surveillance plan (surveillance plans
may be established by facility, program or contract) that include
the following information:
5.2.1. Copy of the current RGQA, or reference to the applicable
RGQA number, and the date the next annual review is due.
5.2.2. If applicable, a copy of the current RIAC, or reference
to the applicable RIAC number, and the date the next annual review is
5.2.3. Copy of the HN GQARs
surveillance plan, or reference to the current surveillance plan and its
location when filed separately from the surveillance plan.
5.2.4. Communications with the HN GQAR that
relate to discussions on CSI, SOF or non-critical / non-complex low risk
items, whether delegated or not.
Communications with the HN GQAR that relate to risk / activities not
delegated to the HN, including the reason for not delegating. This
includes those risk / activities that were not accepted by the HN.
5.2.6. Data analysis strategy,
i.e. data to be collected, intervals of collection, method of analysis, and
intervals of analysis, and the results of data analysis.
5.2.7. Documentation,
or reference to the location of documentation generated for determining
whether to delegate or not in a fee-for-service environment.
5.2.8. Facility-wide and
program surveillance plans shall include a list of all applicable contracts.
6. Execute Surveillance. When surveillance is delegated to the
HN, the HN shall perform the surveillance in accordance with their
national practices / procedures. DCMA is the HN when
performing CAS on behalf of another nation.
6.1. (ND) DCMA personnel shall maintain continuous
communication and work closely with their HN counterparts in establishing a
working relationship. This relationship shall provide a vehicle to exchange
information or data for evaluating risks, for making future delegation
decisions, and for reinforcing confidence in the cooperative contract
management program. Joint CMO / HN visits to supplier
facilities should be considered to improve the visibility of risks and to
foster communication between the organizations.
6.2. (ND) DCMA personnel shall not duplicate
surveillance delegated to the HN.
6.3. (ND) QA personnel shall perform data analysis in accordance
with the
Data Collection & Analysis instruction and the
strategy established in the surveillance plan.
6.4. In a NATO environment, QA
personnel shall (Allied Quality Assurance
Publication (AQAP) - 2070):
6.4.1. Update / revise and forward the
revised RIAC to the Delegator when new risk information becomes available,
as risk events occur, or based on results of data analysis.
6.4.2. When requested by the HN, respond
to requests for feedback utilizing the Delegation Feedback Form (NATO DFB Form).
The DFB has been established to assist nations in measuring the
implementation of AQAP 2070. Areas to be
addressed and analyzed are provided in Section 4.4 of AQAP 2070. Feedback
may be provided or requested at anytime during the life of the delegation
utilizing the DFB. The DFB shall be sent electronically to the
HN's CCP email address. CMOs shall provide a copy to the DoDCCP
at email@example.com.
(ND) In a Non-NATO environment, QA
personnel shall update / revise and forward the revised RGQA when new risk
information becomes available, as risk events occur, or based on the results
of data analysis.
6.6. For RGCAS, CMO
personnel shall maintain communication with the HN personnel to ensure audit
requests will be completed in the timeline requested. CMO
personnel should be aware of any issues that may cause completion of the
audit to be delayed. CMO personnel shall assist the HN personnel, if required and shall keep the requestor apprised of the progress of
the audit if delays are expected or realized.
7. Accept / Release Product.
7.1. OCONUS QA personnel shall execute the DD Form 250
in accordance with the Product
Acceptance instruction upon completion of the requested
GQA by the HN.
7.2. CONUS QA personnel shall
release product as specified in the RGQA.(Allied Quality Assurance
Publication (AQAP) - 2070)
8. Perform Request for CAS Closure.
8.1. For RGQAs in a NATO environment, the Government
Quality Assurance Closure Report (NATO GQACR Form)
form shall be used to communicate the completion of an RGQA (Allied Quality Assurance
Publication (AQAP) - 2070).
8.1.1. The
RIAC shall be revised / updated to include additional risk information and
the status of the risks at the completion of the RGQA, and forwarded to the
HN CCP with the GQACR.
8.1.2. OCONUS CMOs shall follow-up with
the HN MoD when RGQAs are known to be completed but a GQACR has not been
received. A DFB shall be forwarded to the HN's CCP when a second
request is made for a GQACR indicating a non-response to the first request.
Provide a copy of all DFBs to the DoDCCP at
8.1.3. A DFB shall
be completed and forwarded to the HN's CCP whenever requested for RGQA
closure. Provide a copy of all DFBs to the DoDCCP at
8.2. (ND) In a Non-NATO environment,
communication of RGQA completion shall be in accordance with the applicable
MOU, GQA Administrative Procedure / Implementation Plan, or as
specified in the RGQA.
8.3. For RGCAS, CMO personnel
8.3.1. Ensure
the audit report provides the information that is being requested.
8.3.2. Ensure the
audit report includes authorized or restricted distribution instructions. For
support audit requests, communication forwarding the report to the
originator shall include whether or not the report may be released outside
of Government channels.
8.3.3. Forward
the report to the originator in accordance with the request.
9. Document Results.
9.1. QA personnel shall prepare
and maintain records in accordance with
the procedures outlined in the
Records Management
instruction, the applicable MOU,
associated GQA Administrative Procedure / Implementation Plan, and / or as
prescribed by AQAP 2070.
9.2. QA personnel shall make records available to the HN
MoD when requested. Records containing classified or export-controlled
information shall not be released without express written authority.
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"You can't buy laptops, electrical chargers and other mass-produced goods manufactured by companies like Samsung on Etsy," said Etsy Chairman Caterina Fake in an interview with TheStreet. "Etsy has always been very much about small businesses, creative individual businesses. I always think of Etsy as empowering small, individual businesses like carpenters, soap makers and others. These are businesses that are not well represented on eBay."
Fake noted that eBay was initially an auction-based model but, over time, it moved to a marketplace model. Etsy recently purchased Grant St. (for a reported $10 million), a marketplace for creative technology, showcasing the fact that Etsy is committed to this model for sellers around the globe. "It shows a shift of how e-commerce is being done these days."
The move comes as Etsy is seeking to expand into new markets, outside of just the U.S., where it's seen tremendous growth. In 2013, over $1.3 billion worth of goods were sold on Etsy last year, and 2014 is shaping up to be another strong year for the company, particularly in international markets. Fake did not give any numbers for 2014 when asked, but noted the company has a lot of growth ahead of it. "We haven't really captured all of the opportunities that are out there for us globally," Fake said. "There is a whole marketplace for it that's forming around it, and it seems like a good time for investment."
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Barbetta sued over e-mails
Date: February 11, 2010
by: Robin Roy | City Editor
Two groups that filed a lawsuit against the county and city, which claimed both held secret negotiations to bring the Baltimore Orioles to Sarasota, has now filed a lawsuit against County Commission Chairman Joe Barbetta.
The suit, from Citizens for Responsible Government and Citizens for Sunshine, alleges that during a public-records request, Barbetta did not fully disclose all e-mails from his personal e-mail address.
The groups made that request in September. Barbetta submitted more than 27,000 e-mails, but the lawsuit claims that there were at least 28 e-mails that were not disclosed.
"How many other e-mails are out there?" asked Andrea Mogensen, attorney for the citizens groups.
Barbetta said he thought the public-records request was for baseball-related e-mails and that some of the e-mails cited in the lawsuit were newspaper articles on a variety of subjects that he read at home and forwarded to friends and colleagues from his personal e-mail account.
"I can't access my public account at home," he said. "I guess because I'm an elected official, I have to disclose every e-mail, even if it's to or from a personal friend. It gets to a point that it's ludicrous."
Michael Barfield, Mogensen's legal consultant, said he ignored many e-mails in which Barbetta simply sent a link to a newspaper story. But there are some in which Barbetta wrote comments along with the link.
One of the 28 e-mails mentioned in the lawsuit was from Sarasota resident Millie Small, whom Barbetta called a close friend. Small, who happens to be a vocal advocate for a new spring-training stadium, spoke on the subject numerous times in commission meetings.
"You can't just make friends with everyone and then say it's not public business," said Mogensen.
The subject of the e-mail in question, though, was not about baseball. It concerned the Metropolitan Planning Organization.
In fact, Barbetta said many of the e-mails that the lawsuit cites had nothing to do with baseball. Some deal with energy programs, Siesta Key Village construction and job growth.
But Mogensen said, ultimately, it doesn't matter what is in the e-mails.
"Irrespective of how important they are, when you request them, he has a legal duty to provide them," she said. "He failed that duty. We don't know why."
Barfield said Barbetta had a history of trying to influence people behind the scenes over baseball, citing an e-mail the county commissioner wrote in October 2008, in which he provided Boston Red Sox supporters with a list of talking points and asked that his name not be associated with the talking points.
During a Jan. 26 County Commission meeting, Barbetta laid into the citizens groups and the attorneys suing the county and city, calling the lawsuit frivolous.
The lawsuit against Barbetta was filed a week later. The commissioner said he and county attorney Steve DeMarsh briefly discussed whether there was a link between the two events.
Mogensen dismissed that notion, saying the lawsuit against Barbetta has been in the works for months and the only reason it wasn't filed sooner is that she double- and triple-checked all her facts to make sure they were accurate.
The plaintiffs are asking that Barbetta's computer be examined to determine if there are more undisclosed e-mails.
On Feb. 8, a judge ordered Barbetta to provide by the end of the month a written reason why the plaintiffs' request should be denied and called a Feb. 16 court hearing. During the hearing Mogensen plans to ask for an immediate injunction to stop Barbetta from using his computer.
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- This guy is a buffoon. Isn't he a lawyer? He should know the law. Hard to believe he's in the position he is and pulling shenanigans like this. Voters should remove this guy from office.
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Google Payments Chief: Closed NFC Platforms 'Not a Winning Strategy'
The head of payments at Google, Osama Bedier, cautions against NFC wallet providers closing their platforms, warning the move would backfire.
Bedier, when asked by NFC Times about potential competition with the Isis joint venture and the possibility Isis telcos would try to block the Google Wallet from accessing its NFC phones, said such a move would only "buy time" for the carriers or others seeking to restrict their NFC platforms.
"I can't speak for those carriers, but it is not a winning strategy to try to block access anymore, although it may buy you a bit of time," he told NFC Times in an interview. "They may try it, but it won't last, and I hear from the carriers that they want to be open."
Google officially launched its NFC wallet Sept. 19, with only one phone model, its own Android-based Nexus S 4G, sold through Sprint, which is the sole operator of the big four U.S. carriers that is not part of Isis.
Consumer Interest Piqued
NFC Times has learned from sources that interest has been high among consumers, with an estimated 200,000 downloads and activations of the Google Wallet in the first two weeks following the launch. A Google spokesman would not confirm the figure, saying only "we're happy with early reports."
Still, observers agree that Google needs to get more NFC models supporting its wallet into the pockets of consumers. With the announcement of the Galaxy Nexus, however, Google made no mention of consumers being able to use it for the wallet. The high-end handset is due out next month.
Google instead has touted the phone's ability to do unrelated NFC-based peer-to-peer content sharing, using a newly christened "Android Beam" feature. This is at a time when the Web giant is trying to garner more publicity for its wallet by announcing merchants that accept payment and offers stored inside the wallet running on the Nexus S 4G.
Blocking Move by Isis?
A source has told NFC Times that the first U.S. operator expected to sell the phone, Verizon Wireless–the largest telco in the Isis joint venture–is balking at supporting the Google Wallet. The implication is that Verizon sees the wallet as competition for Isis. AT&T and T-Mobile USA are also part of Isis.
Another source, Hans Reisgies, an industry veteran and executive vice president for U.S.-based Sequent Software, a specialist trusted service manager seeking to work with secure element and wallet owners, believes none of the Isis telcos will support the Google Wallet on their phones, including the Galaxy Nexus, just as Sprint, which remains outside of Isis, is the only telco that carries the Nexus S 4G and the wallet.
"They (Isis telcos) do not want to take a phone that has Google Wallet; it competes with their intention to offer their own wallet service," he contends. "I talk to operators in Europe, and they say the same thing: 'We're not taking the Google Wallet.'"
He added, however, that operators in both North America and Europe, especially smaller ones, that are not heavily invested in rolling out their own NFC wallets and services are more likely to do business with Google–if the terms are right. "There are carriers that will take it. (But) can Google get enough momentum with consumers that the carriers are forced to take the Google Wallet?"
Verizon on Friday announced it would carry the Galaxy Nexus and would enable the NFC functionality, though did not mention payment or the Google Wallet. This might refer to the handset's Android Beam feature and tag reading.
Experts told NFC Times that in the case of Google's own handsets, it would be difficult though possible for Verizon to block access to the embedded secure chip that anchors the Google Wallet. Google presumably owns those secure chips, though Verizon might take over ownership as part of its distribution agreement.
A Google spokesman told NFC Times that the Galaxy Nexus, as expected, "can" support the Google Wallet. But he declined to comment on whether an Isis telco selling the phone would agree to allow the phone to support the Google Wallet.
"We can't elaborate further on the details of the consumer release of this phone in the U.S. or other countries," he said.
Bedier acknowledged that the Google Wallet requires access to a phone's secure element for both its payment and "Offers," such as coupons and vouchers.
The Galaxy Nexus technically can support the Google Wallet. By all accounts, it carries an embedded secure element, just as the Nexus S does. It also has the NFC middleware and application-programming interface needed to support the wallet. Google uses the same type of embedded chip in the 4G version of the Nexus S to store payment data and keys for its banking partner Citigroup and for its own Google Prepaid Card. And the chip also stores coupons and other offers.
Payment, as well as coupons, loyalty points and other offers need to be stored on the same chip in order to enable consumers to make the payment and redeem, say, a coupon in a single tap, using NFC's card-emulation mode. This "SingleTap" feature is critical to the type of user experience Google wants for the wallet. The secure element could also be on a SIM card or even a microSD.
Dickson Chu, Citi's head of global enterprise payments for digital networks and mobile, speaking at a conference earlier this month, reportedly complained that Isis was taking the role of a "gatekeeper." Isis would charge fees to banks and other service providers to rent space on its SIM cards or other secure elements, as many mobile operators plan to do when they roll out NFC. That's in addition to charging fees for delivering coupons or offers. Google plans to charge fees from advertisers for delivering coupons and other offers but not from payment service providers.
"It's unclear what they (Isis telcos) are trying to achieve, other than extract a toll as gatekeepers," Chu reportedly said. "There's so much more that they could do...as it is they are just hampering the development of NFC as a mass-market commercial proposition."
Bedier played down any competition with Isis, however.
"It's hard to tell if Isis is a real competitor—it's hard to tell what they really have," Bedier told NFC Times. "But I have an open-market mentality, and would love to work with them." He was speaking shortly before Google announced its Galaxy Nexus.
"What we have learned over the past five years is that the consumers will choose, and it is hard to operate a closed model anymore," he added. "The whole ecosystem has opened up, and the app revolution has changed the face of mobile."
In contrast with Google, the Isis telcos are not expected to have problems sourcing NFC smartphones that can support the Isis wallet. The joint venture announced last month that six major handset makers, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, HTC, Research in Motion, Motorola Mobility and Sony Ericsson, plan to introduce NFC standard phones that could carry the Isis wallets and applications.
Even if Google were to get its wallet distributed on a variety of devices, this could create its own problems. It would need to manage keys to a variety of secure elements, both embedded and on SIMs, from different owners, such as handset makers and mobile operators.
Merchant Recruitment Challenges
Meanwhile, observers also see challenges ahead for Google's efforts to sign up new retailers to support the wallet. Google has only announced a handful of new merchants, mainly small regional chains, to the list of about 20 chains supporting the wallet when it unveiled it last May.
One of the major chains announced early on, Subway sandwich shops, will only enable about 30% of its locations for now and only for contactless payment, not yet for coupons or other offers. One problem is that Subway has a wide variety of point-of-sale terminals used by its franchisees.
But Bedier contends that recruiting merchants to sign up to support the Google Wallet was going "phenomenally well." Bedier said there are additional wallet merchants who have not been announced or have not sent out press releases.
Google is not using any particular recruiting inducements, and does not plan to pay for merchants' terminals or otherwise fully fund the adoption, he said. But Google will help merchants set up pre-rollout pilots, and that might include terminals, engineering help, and training, he noted.
This assistance might refer to the first phase of the rollout going on now. Sources have said that Google has subsidized at least some of the POS terminals now being used by Google Wallet merchants.
As for international expansion, sources have told NFC Times that Google has talked to banks and merchants, along with some operators, in both Europe and Asia.
Bedier said that Google Wallet is currently focusing on the U.S. market, but he expected it to expand overseas next year. He declined to say where. Previously he had said that Google Wallet would expand to Europe during the first half of 2012.


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Listening to Grass hoppers
By: Suba Subramaniam
Listening to grasshoppers - a book for one who would call a spade a spade . It also 'field' notes on democracy for the one who wants to know what's happening.
Arundhati Roy's indomitable spirit and quest for justice are reflected in her latest publication, 'Listening to Grass hoppers –field notes on democracy'. Listening to Grass hoppers is a collection of essays written in biting prose about the happenings in India's underbelly.
The first episode that is spread out before the readers is the killings of Muslims in 2002 Gujarat riots. Roy talks about how progress and genocide have gone hand in hand through the ages. She traces the journey of Hindu Nationalism and economic reforms which were two combined forces in the early 1990's, but today, they were slowly untangling themselves to go their separate and dangerous ways.
I am sure you remember the 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament that shocked the government and the people out of its wits – Roy moves on to write about the not so revealing investigations on the attack. At this juncture she talks about the dangers of a progressively powerful and entirely unaccountable judiciary; and about the collusion between large corporations, the government and the mainstream media.
To give you an idea of how she has used day to day trials and media in her writing here is an excerpt.
"News flash!
New Delhi, March 6: The Supreme Court on Wednesday sentenced Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy to a one-day "symbolic imprisonment" and a fine of Rs 2,000 after convicting her on charges of contempt of court. The bench held that she had "scandalized and lowered the dignity" of the apex court".
Roy in her essays accuses corporate India for its ravenousness and for its silence about human rights atrocities; she accuses the media for ignoring the crisis she sees unfolding in the country, and finally accuses the right-wing Hindus for channeling public anger into religious intolerance.
The collection of essays ends with an account of the August 2008 uprising in Kashmir and an analysis of the November 2008 attacks on Mumbai. 'The Briefing', that is added as an appendix, is an imaginary text that brings together many of the issues central to the collection.
Listening to Grasshoppers asks fundamental questions about the very fabric of democracy, the system of governance that has been considered 'the best available option'.
About The Author: Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer and activist who won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and in 2002, the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize. Roy is a well-known activist for social and economic justice. She was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in May 2004 for her work in social campaigns and her advocacy of non-violence.
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