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The Mission of the Twelve. 1* Then he summoned his twelve disciples* and gave them authority over unclean spirits to drive them out and to cure every disease and every illness.a 2The names of the twelve apostles* are these: first, Simon called Peter, and his brother Andrew; James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John; 3Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James, the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddeus; 4Simon the Cananean, and Judas Iscariot who betrayed him.
The Commissioning of the Twelve. 5b Jesus sent out these twelve* after instructing them thus, "Do not go into pagan territory or enter a Samaritan town. 6c Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 7As you go, make this proclamation: 'The kingdom of heaven is at hand.'d 8* Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, drive out demons. Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give. 9e Do not take gold or silver or copper for your belts; 10f no sack for the journey, or a second tunic, or sandals, or walking stick. The laborer deserves his keep. 11g Whatever town or village you enter, look for a worthy person in it, and stay there until you leave. 12As you enter a house, wish it peace. 13If the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it; if not, let your peace return to you.* 14* h Whoever will not receive you or listen to your words—go outside that house or town and shake the dust from your feet. 15Amen, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.i
Coming Persecutions. 16j "Behold, I am sending you like sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves. 17* But beware of people,k for they will hand you over to courts and scourge you in their synagogues,l 18and you will be led before governors and kings for my sake as a witness before them and the pagans. 19When they hand you over, do not worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say. You will be given at that moment what you are to say.m 20For it will not be you who speak but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you. 21* n Brother will hand over brother to death, and the father his child; children will rise up against parents and have them put to death. 22You will be hated by all because of my name, but whoever endures to the end* will be saved. 23When they persecute you in one town, flee to another. Amen, I say to you, you will not finish the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.* 24o No disciple is above his teacher, no slave above his master. 25It is enough for the disciple that he become like his teacher, for the slave that he become like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul,* how much more those of his household!
Courage Under Persecution. 26p "Therefore do not be afraid of them. Nothing is concealed that will not be revealed, nor secret that will not be known.* q 27What I say to you in the darkness, speak in the light; what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops. 28And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, be afraid of the one who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.r 29Are not two sparrows sold for a small coin? Yet not one of them falls to the ground without your Father's knowledge. 30Even all the hairs of your head are counted. 31So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows. 32* Everyone who acknowledges me before others I will acknowledge before my heavenly Father. 33But whoever denies me before others, I will deny before my heavenly Father.s
Jesus: A Cause of Division. 34t "Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring not peace but the sword. 35For I have come to set
a man 'against his father,
a daughter against her mother,
and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
36and one's enemies will be those of his household.'
The Conditions of Discipleship. 37u "Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; 38and whoever does not take up his cross* and follow after me is not worthy of me. 39* v Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
Rewards. 40"Whoever receives you receives me,* and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.w 41* Whoever receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, and whoever receives a righteous man because he is righteous will receive a righteous man's reward. 42And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones to drink because he is a disciple—amen, I say to you, he will surely not lose his reward."x
* [10:1–11:1] After an introductory narrative (Mt 10:1–4), the second of the discourses of the gospel. It deals with the mission now to be undertaken by the disciples (Mt 10:5–15), but the perspective broadens and includes the missionary activity of the church between the time of the resurrection and the parousia.
* [10:1] His twelve disciples: although, unlike Mark (Mk 3:13–14) and Luke (Lk 6:12–16), Matthew has no story of Jesus' choosing the Twelve, he assumes that the group is known to the reader. The earliest New Testament text to speak of it is 1 Cor 15:5. The number probably is meant to recall the twelve tribes of Israel and implies Jesus' authority to call all Israel into the kingdom. While Luke (Lk 6:13) and probably Mark (Mk 4:10, 34) distinguish between the Twelve and a larger group also termed disciples, Matthew tends to identify the disciples and the Twelve. Authority…every illness: activities the same as those of Jesus; see Mt 4:23; Mt 9:35; 10:8. The Twelve also share in his proclamation of the kingdom (Mt 10:7). But although he teaches (Mt 4:23; 7:28; 9:35), they do not. Their commission to teach comes only after Jesus' resurrection, after they have been fully instructed by him (Mt 28:20).
* [10:2–4] Here, for the only time in Matthew, the Twelve are designated apostles. The word "apostle" means "one who is sent," and therefore fits the situation here described. In the Pauline letters, the place where the term occurs most frequently in the New Testament, it means primarily one who has seen the risen Lord and has been commissioned to proclaim the resurrection. With slight variants in Luke and Acts, the names of those who belong to this group are the same in the four lists given in the New Testament (see note on Mt 9:9). Cananean: this represents an Aramaic word meaning "zealot." The meaning of that designation is unclear (see note on Lk 6:15).
* [10:5–6] Like Jesus (Mt 15:24), the Twelve are sent only to Israel. This saying may reflect an original Jewish Christian refusal of the mission to the Gentiles, but for Matthew it expresses rather the limitation that Jesus himself observed during his ministry.
* [10:8–11] The Twelve have received their own call and mission through God's gift, and the benefits they confer are likewise to be given freely. They are not to take with them money, provisions, or unnecessary clothing; their lodging and food will be provided by those who receive them.
* [10:13] The greeting of peace is conceived of not merely as a salutation but as an effective word. If it finds no worthy recipient, it will return to the speaker.
* [10:14] Shake the dust from your feet: this gesture indicates a complete disassociation from such unbelievers.
* [10:17] The persecutions attendant upon the post-resurrection mission now begin to be spoken of. Here Matthew brings into the discourse sayings found in Mk 13 which deals with events preceding the parousia.
* [10:21] See Mi 7:6 which is cited in Mt 10:35, 36.
* [10:22] To the end: the original meaning was probably "until the parousia." But it is not likely that Matthew expected no missionary disciples to suffer death before then, since he envisages the martyrdom of other Christians (Mt 10:21). For him, the end is probably that of the individual's life (see Mt 10:28).
* [10:23] Before the Son of Man comes: since the coming of the Son of Man at the end of the age had not taken place when this gospel was written, much less during the mission of the Twelve during Jesus' ministry, Matthew cannot have meant the coming to refer to the parousia. It is difficult to know what he understood it to be: perhaps the "proleptic parousia" of Mt 28:16–20, or the destruction of the temple in A.D. 70, viewed as a coming of Jesus in judgment on unbelieving Israel.
* [10:25] Beelzebul: see Mt 9:34 for the charge linking Jesus with "the prince of demons," who is named Beelzebul in Mt 12:24. The meaning of the name is uncertain; possibly, "lord of the house."
* [10:26] The concealed and secret coming of the kingdom is to be proclaimed by them, and no fear must be allowed to deter them from that proclamation.
* [10:32–33] In the Q parallel (Lk 12:8–9), the Son of Man will acknowledge those who have acknowledged Jesus, and those who deny him will be denied (by the Son of Man) before the angels of God at the judgment. Here Jesus and the Son of Man are identified, and the acknowledgment or denial will be before his heavenly Father.
* [10:38] The first mention of the cross in Matthew, explicitly that of the disciple, but implicitly that of Jesus (and follow after me). Crucifixion was a form of capital punishment used by the Romans for offenders who were not Roman citizens.
* [10:39] One who denies Jesus in order to save one's earthly life will be condemned to everlasting destruction; loss of earthly life for Jesus' sake will be rewarded by everlasting life in the kingdom.
* [10:40–42] All who receive the disciples of Jesus receive him, and God who sent him, and will be rewarded accordingly.
* [10:41] A prophet: one who speaks in the name of God; here, the Christian prophets who proclaim the gospel. Righteous man: since righteousness is demanded of all the disciples, it is difficult to take the righteous man of this verse and one of these little ones (Mt 10:42) as indicating different groups within the followers of Jesus. Probably all three designations are used here of Christian missionaries as such.
a. [10:1–4] Mk 3:14–19; Lk 6:13–16; Acts 1:13.
b. [10:5–15] Mk 6:7–13; Lk 9:1–6.
e. [10:9–10] Mk 6:8–9; Lk 9:3; 10:4.
f. [10:10] Lk 10:7; 1 Cor 9:14; 1 Tm 5:18.
g. [10:11–15] Mk 6:10–11; Lk 9:4–5; 10:5–12.
h. [10:14] Acts 13:51; 18:6.
i. [10:15] 11:24; Gn 19:1–29; Jude 7.
k. [10:17–22] Mk 13:9–13; Lk 21:12–19.
m. [10:19] Ex 4:11–12; Jer 1:6–10; Lk 12:11–12.
o. [10:24–25] Lk 6:40; Jn 13:16; 15:20.
q. [10:26] Mk 4:22; Lk 8:17; 1 Tm 5:25.
s. [10:33] Mk 8:38; Lk 9:26; 2 Tm 2:12; Rev 3:5.
u. [10:37–39] 16:24–25; Lk 14:26–27.
v. [10:39] Mk 8:35; Lk 9:24; Jn 12:25.
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In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus
that the whole world should be enrolled.
This was the first enrollment,
when Quirinius was governor of Syria.
So all went to be enrolled, each to his own town.
And Joseph too went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth
to Judea, to the city of David that is called Bethlehem,
because he was of the house and family of David,
to be enrolled with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child.
While they were there,
the time came for her to have her child,
and she gave birth to her firstborn son.
She wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger,
because there was no room for them in the inn.
Now there were shepherds in that region living in the fields
and keeping the night watch over their flock.
The angel of the Lord appeared to them
and the glory of the Lord shone around them,
and they were struck with great fear.
The angel said to them,
"Do not be afraid;
for behold, I proclaim to you good news of great joy
that will be for all the people.
For today in the city of David
a savior has been born for you who is Christ and Lord.
And this will be a sign for you:
you will find an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes
and lying in a manger."
And suddenly there was a multitude of the heavenly host with the angel,
praising God and saying:
"Glory to God in the highest
and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests."
-- Luke 2: 1-14
Birthplace of Jesus, Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem Photo by Colleen, August 2010 |
Today is born our Savior Christ the Lord.
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So on Sunday, the Swiss will vote on a referendum that would limit a CEO's pay to 12 times that of the company's lowest-paid worker.
The youth wing of the Social Democratic Party collected the 100,000 signatures necessary to turn the measure, known as the 1:12 initiative, into a national referendum.
David Roth, head of the party's youth wing, says that 25 years ago Swiss CEOs made six times more than the average worker; today, they earn more than 40 times as much. Roth says in a country of 8 million, 400,000 workers don't make enough to live on.
"I think we have to change something, because otherwise we'll go in a direction like the USA did in the last decade where people get homeless, for example, and other people had millions of dollars," he says. "It's a big problem if you have such inequality in a rich country."
To become law, the initiative needs to win a majority in the country's 26 cantons and among the total population.
"There is indeed a growing movement to at least rein in to some degree — there is a growing disgust, I think, with some of the excesses of corporate executive pay," says Jordan Davis, a reporter for Swiss public radio.
He says the opposition has been pouring money into a counter-campaign in the waning days.
"A lot of the posters you're seeing these days are from the business lobby, where they have these slogans saying it's a fake good idea, saying ... it sounds like a good idea to limit corporate salaries but indeed it's going to be actually terrible for the economy, it's going to force companies to leave and move to other countries," Davis says. "And so they're using, critics have said, scare tactics to get people to reject it."
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Anger at high corporate executive pay is flaring up elsewhere in Europe, including Spain.
In France, President Francois Hollande, on the campaign trail last year, promised to bring down the salaries of CEOs heading companies where the French state has a majority stake.
Effective last month, CEOs of French state firms cannot make more than 20 times what the lowest-paid employee earns. Their salaries are capped at around $600,000.
The opposition leader in France, Jean Francois Cope, scoffed at the measure, calling it ostentatious morality.
"How is lowering the salary of the head of the railroad going to change anything?" he said. "If you really want justice, then the average French worker should be earning more."
The latest polls show the Swiss salary measure has only about 36 percent support ahead of Sunday's vote, but proponents say don't count it out.
In March, Switzerland approved a referendum giving company shareholders a direct say in executive pay. That passed amid public anger over a proposed $78 million payout to a former executive of Swiss drug company Novartis.
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Monday, May 3, 2010
Mis(s) Feiring
What am I looking for in wine?
I'm looking for the Gertrude Steins, the k.d. langs, the Dizzy Deans. Wines that have a nasty screwball. Which I can relate to. I want my wines natural. Think pubic hair. Think armpits. Makeup is OK, only a little, but no animals tortured. Unless they're my critics who don't get it. I write only for me, about wines for me. But I'm driving a bandwagon. Under the influence, but a bandwagon nonetheless, and I want everyone to be on it. Except Parker. He'd have to sit on the left side and everyone else would have to sit on the right. Balance. Like wines. I seek balance. Think tightrope walker. No balance, they're dead. Naturally. So I'm a wine cop. With no authority. Except my own. I'll write you a nasty ticket if you make wines that aren't natural. I'll throw the book at you. My book. I wrote a book. You have it. It changed you. It changed everyone. I'm a wine messiah. Follow me. I know people. I'll mention all of them. Most are famous. Others should be. Who cares? I'm famous, I'm a wine cop, I'm a messiah. I'm so lonely.
I was asked to speak at a seminar. I'm the leading authority on Natural Wines. No. Make that I'm the Only Authority on Natural Wines. I'm asked to speak often. I changed the world. Like Gandhi. Like Martin Luther King. Like the Exxon Valdez. The only disasters I like are natural too. Earthquakes. Tsunami. Gamay.
I don't like giving speeches. I like giving commandments. Thou shalt not sulfur. I remember Jesus said, "Sulfur little children..." That was wrong too. Where was I?
In a room, issuing commandments, signing books. Michel Bettane was there, he's a wine critic also. He's French. I like the French, they're so natural. He had nose hair like a wire brush. I wrapped my fingers in it. He asked me to sign my book for him. My book. You have it, I know, it changed everything. I was happy to sign Bettane's book but the pen was filled with synthetic ink. Not ink from an octopus or a squid or pasta. I could not sully the book. I pricked my finger and signed in blood. It felt good. Natural. I thought of Carole King. Maybe it was Bettane's nose hair that reminded me of her hair. Jewish hair. Natural hair. "You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman!"
I probably shouldn't have sung it out loud.
I signed the book, With Love, Alice. Bettane smiled. I'm so lonely.
Others were there too. Mostly famous people to hear me. Maybe not famous to you. Not yet. But famous to me, and I assign fame only for myself. To myself. I'm a fame cop. Always copping the famous. Many great winemakers were there. Did I mention this speech was in France? I love France. I surrender to the French. No one's ever done that before. Usually the other way around.
I hope that doesn't offend my French friends. But I speak the truth. Someone has to. The wine world is filled with liars and cheats, and, well, then your wine is filled with lies and cheats. Is that what you want in your stool? Shit, I said stool.
Yet another lie. Another commandment. Thou shalt only use wild yeast. I almost typed wild Yeats. He was a poet. And a good one. He was at my speech. But he's dead. Ironic. He often wrote of the dead. I signed a book for him too. "To Bill" I wrote "you were far too cultured for my taste."
No wine can be natural if it wasn't fermented by wild yeast. Though yeast all over the world has been infiltrated by cultured strains and there is no more wild yeast. I don't care. I have my standards, my commandments. Pick out the cultured strains like they pick out illegal aliens in Arizona. It can be done. I can tell when I taste. I know when a wine was done with cultured yeast. It speaks to me. In an English accent. I hate the English. The accent is fake, like my writing style. The wines taste fake. You just know. You do. Ask anybody who agrees with me.
Francois Ghitaine was there at my speech from Domaine Hornswaggle. His wines are natural. When I visited Francois he proudly showed me his cement vats for fermenting. Cement vats are making a comeback. Why? They are better for the wine. There is concrete evidence. Get it? Concrete evidence! Funnier in French. Francois even goes so far as to ferment the wine in the vats before the cement has even set. The flavors of the ground, the rocks, are in his wines. His Petit Manseng is wet cement in a glass. It's perfect. I took a finger and wrote my name in it. "Alice" I'm so lonely.
I was last at Hornswaggle when only Francois' wife was there, Brigitte. She cooked for me while I spoke to her in short sentences. Very short. I asked her about their biodynamic lifestyle. She was blunt. Francois is a pig. She told him to bury his damned man horns in the vineyard stuffed with the manure he'd brought into their lives. I spoke more short sentences to her. She cooked. Eggs, from a virgin chicken. Over easy. Just how I wanted them. And her. She left weeping. The eggs were runny, like her nose. But the wines are brilliant. I'm brilliant.
I'm so lonely.
37 comments:
- Samantha Dugan said...
Ouch. Okay never mind, Do Not Do Me.
- May 3, 2010 at 9:34 AM
- Arthur said...
I'm getting tons of VE and VA and here....
- May 3, 2010 at 9:59 AM
- Sip with Me! said...
Oh… you are such a bad boy ;-)
- May 3, 2010 at 9:59 AM
- Charlie Olken said...
This may be the best yet. Funny and zingy at the same time. I cringed for Alice through my laughter. I hope she is like Steve "It's a good thing I have a sense of humor" Heimoff.
I dont quite know how to interpret the password for this post--herrag. Did you do that on purpose? - May 3, 2010 at 11:07 AM
- 1WineDude said...
"Earthquakes. Tsunami. Gamay."
Now THAT is goddamned funny!!! - May 3, 2010 at 11:16 AM
- Marcia Macomber said...
I love these pick-me-ups on Mondays! Smiles are ever so needed with a long week ahead.
It's Mz. Feiring to a T...sweetly. I can understand Samantha's... hesitant comment though. Exactly how close to the Real McCoy is safe distance in a HMW Parody???
I loved the rhythms of the punch lines. My favorite may have been the first: Thou shalt not sulfur.
Does Feiring scan? Methinks the HoseMaster hath determined that it does...even in prose! (How I loathed sorting out Trochees and Spondees in school.... It's Mr. HMW, Meter Master!)
Charlie, you think "herrag" is obtuse? I got "bundi." Should I be insulted? - May 3, 2010 at 4:09 PM
- Thomas said...
Good stuff indeed--it is right on.
- May 3, 2010 at 4:51 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Hey Gang,
Ms. Feiring was harder to do than Saramago. She reads very much like she's been poorly translated from a foreign language. I spent maybe 45 minutes reading her blog and was strongly struck by what I perceived as a messianic streak tempered by some sort of massive insecurity. That, and her strange writing style, is what I tried to convey.
Marcia Love, I knew that if I went after her viciously it would read more like cruelty than fun. So I intentionally pulled the meanest punches. I always aim only to make folks laugh, take down the mighty a notch. But cringing, Charlie, is also the response I'm after.
My Gorgeous Samantha,
Only you can do you, My Love. Though I may try it one day...
I adore you!
Ron - May 3, 2010 at 6:24 PM
- Charlie Olken said...
Ron, the cringing was in response to the "I am so lonely" lines. I presume you have read her book which is full of unsuccessful relationships.
Bundi is a comment on buns. This word thing is smarter than we are. - May 3, 2010 at 6:55 PM
- Ron Washam said...
No, I have not read her book, even though I like fiction. I know absolutely nothing about her past. Strangely, when I was about finished writing that first introductory paragraph the evil little HoseMaster in my head typed those four words. I had not planned them. But, honestly, I think that loneliness, if indeed it is loneliness, is the subtext of a lot of her writing.
But, really, I just wanted it to be satirical. So who do I lampoon next? - May 3, 2010 at 7:03 PM
- Arthur said...
(and for the record: I am NOT a blogger) - May 3, 2010 at 9:41 PM
- John M. Kelly said...
OMG. I don't know where to begin. Or end. If I can't find the start, how can I find the finish? I'm so lost.
Yes, it was better than Saramago. Next? How about Gary V as Garcia Marquez? - May 3, 2010 at 10:16 PM
- winebookgirl said...
You know I love you. But, this post bothers me. I have spent more time thinking about it than most of the posts I write--though, given their quality, that might be obvious.
I think the reason this post makes me cringe rather than laugh is that it comes off as more of a personal attack on Alice. Alice is a friend and I am not particularly troubled by criticisms on her work. If I had trouble with negative reviews, I would need to look for another type of employment.
But stating that you had not read her work and then adding the "lonely" comment takes this from parody to personal and it just strikes me as unnecessary and a bit mean.
End of lecture now. Back to whining about author I have worked with for several years who continues to introduce himself as meetings as though we have never met and sends emails to other departments asking what my name is.
Ftr, I got protac. Is someone implying i need prozac?
-Amy - May 4, 2010 at 7:59 AM
- John Cesano said...
Just all kinds of wow, but it made me glad I will never be a famous wine writer. While brilliant, I cringed a little as well - in between the laughs and smiles.
I think you cut very close to the bone with this parody, but Alice lays it all out there with her own writing.
Thanks for a morning chuckle. - May 4, 2010 at 8:18 AM
- Ron Washam said...
Would that be insulting to Gary V. or Garcia Marquez? Rhetorical question.
Amy Darling,
I love you too. You know that, I hope.
I'm glad you expressed your thoughts here, and, more than that, I'm really glad my post made you spend a lot of time thinking. I take that as flattery.
Satire cannot have any boundaries. Period. I felt, after reading through a bunch of her blog posts, that what drives an awful lot of Alice's work is this subtext of loneliness--it was just a hunch, based only on reading her words. It's not a personal attack on her. I have never met her and know absolutely nothing about her personally. And how did loneliness become a character fault? It's simply the human condition. Alice uses it in her work. I did too.
A cringe is the response I wanted. That feeling of needing to look away when you see a terrible accident. Only you can't. It was the feeling I took from her blog.
I'd only spend this much time "explaining" myself to someone like you, Amy, someone I adore. Otherwise, the work stands, or falls, on its own.
I'll never be a famous writer either. It's why we blog, right? To be famous in a tiny little way, among eight or nine people.
Thanks for the cringe. - May 4, 2010 at 8:54 AM
- Thomas said...
To Amy (and anyone else crazy enough to listen to me).
For the privilege of expressing opinions or lecturing, writers take on a great amount of risk. The risk increases exponentially when their writing is true to their personalities and to their voice.
Comes with the territory.
I'm sure that when Ron gets around to this famous writer (that's a joke) I will cringe at what he has discovered and that I am sure I try hard to hide... - May 4, 2010 at 9:21 AM
- Charlie Olken said...
The fact that we cringed at this post does not make it illegitimate. It does mean that we knew how close it was coming to the bone, and in a personal way. I have told Ron both here and privately, that this was one of his greatest pieces ever in my opinion. Not because it may have been hurtful at some level, but because it rang so damn true that it made me cringe for Alice--who, by the way, may or may not cringe on her own.
Amy (ABC) suggested that there was a mean edge to the piece, and perhaps there is (again, why cringe if there was not), but Ron has written tougher stuff, more accusatory stuff before. It is part of the territory. Really good, biting satire does that.
My wife and I saw a play in SF recently called VIGIL about a nephew who comes to care for an ailing aunt who is about to die. She does not die and the despair that causes him is treated in an amazingly humorous way. You know, as you laugh, that this is black humor. You know as you laugh that you too will feel the same thing when you get to care for an elderly person of diminishing capacity. You know as you laugh that you should not. But you do because the playwright has found the right voice, the right cadence to capture the irony. So you laugh at the prospect of death.
Humor is not always neat. It is not always kind. Sometimes you just have to cringe while you laugh. Great satire digs deep. - May 4, 2010 at 10:07 AM
- PaulG said...
I made it halfway thru her book before the cringing overtook my intention to see where (if anywhere) it was going. You nailed it, but could have gone further. Where is the whining about the sub-par accommodations? The dicey weather? The cold caves? The dismissal of all corporate wines as garbage, while happily chowing down at the corporate troughs? Onward HMW, and if necessary, I'll take my hit if it comes.
- May 4, 2010 at 10:52 AM
- Ron Washam said...
How can satire not be personal? It is funny that there was very little stir when I lampooned Alder. Satire is always funnier when you think the subject deserves it. When the subject is someone you like it's suddenly mean and unfunny. I've heard this my entire writing life. And I'm far from a great satirist, I'm simply having fun and trying to make folks laugh. Though cringeing has its place.
Thanks for the support. As I said, I haven't read Ms. Feiring's book. I lampooned her blog, not her book.
Somehow this debate is about being mean. Why? The wine world is not immune to comedy or criticism, I don't care who it is. Should I? - May 4, 2010 at 2:54 PM
- Charlie Olken said...
Yes, of course it was personal. If it had been generic who would have laughed? Who would have cringed?
Not to worry. And don't take these comments too personally either. The fact that some people got uncomfortable has to go with the terrority if you are going to go right to the heart of the matter.
But, that does not mean that some of us won't cringe from time to time. That also goes with the territory, and so do comments left here that we cringed.
OK, I think we have covered this topic in enough goo for the day. I think I will go greet my tasters with a pie in the face tonight and tell them that Ron made me do it.
Oh, and secret password is Hank Stram. What the hell does he have to do the price of tea in China? - May 4, 2010 at 5:19 PM
Honorable HMW,
Yes, do Gary V. I learned of him through my godson/nephew (25ish) whom we have been bringing along the twisting, turning wine road. The Vchucker really seems to resonate with the younger demographic (is Vaynerchuk Ruski for vomit?). Regardless, he provided some links to the V's spewing, including the one about eating dirt, tile grout mold, and old bandages from sucking chest wounds to help develop one's palate, and asked for my honest opinion. Not wanting to put the lad off on further exploration, I diplomatically said that the V also resonates with me, but did not add my comparison of him to a stack of 500W Marshalls with cracks in the bass speakers, tweeters gone terribly bad, and a sound man on a cocktail of meth, ecstasy and bad gin. Hmmm, this may explain my aversion to Twitter.
Light the barbie and dig out the skewers. Satire has no requirement to be pretty. - May 4, 2010 at 6:04 PM
- Ron Washam said...
You'd think by now I'd know better than to start talking the nuts and bolts of satire in the comments section. I've said it a thousand times, if you're writing satire and not pissing somebody off, you're not doing it right. And, you're right, we've effectively talked this subject to death.
The good news about wine blogging is that two days after you post, no one cares. It's just another post in the archive that no one will read.
I've only watched a Gary V. post once, and have no desire to watch him again. He's not a blogger, he's a huckster. That's why he's making money. A written parody of a guy who is a "personality" (much like American Idol features "talent") wouldn't work. Plus, in order to lampoon him I'd have to watch a bunch of episodes, and, frankly, I'd rather spend the weekend being waterboarded. - May 4, 2010 at 6:33 PM
" frankly, I'd rather spend the weekend being waterboarded. "
Come on over. - May 4, 2010 at 6:41 PM
- Ron Washam said...
Great! I'll bring the Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio.
- May 4, 2010 at 6:58 PM
Ron, you know that waterboarding is more effective when you use Gruner Veltliner...
- May 4, 2010 at 9:06 PM
- Ron Washam said...
Making anyone ingest Gruner Veltliner in any way is strictly prohibited by the Geneva Convention, and all that we hold sacred.
For God's Sake, I'll talk!! - May 4, 2010 at 9:12 PM
- Thomas said...
You do realize that when the Geneva Conventions convened Santa Ragamita wasn't popular.
Pity they don't have an amendment process on the Convention the way it is with the U.S. Constitution; imagine initiating a prohibition on Santababy. - May 5, 2010 at 5:25 AM
- Cabfrancophile said...
Wow, you brought out the Feiring squad and hosed Alice down real good. Based on her reaction to a few comments on my blog re: she thinks all CA wine is gooey carp, I don't think she'd be amused by this. It's too spot on . . . .
I think you need a little Gruner V boarding in the form of some Gary V watching. Bet you've never heard sheep's butt and bouquet used in the same sentence . . . . - May 5, 2010 at 1:19 PM
- Ron Washam said...
It wasn't intended to amuse her, it was intended to amuse everyone else. Well, amuse a few people anyway.
I can't believe how many people have asked me to go after Vainupchuck. Sheesh. I just don't think I have the heart and stomach to watch that cretin. - May 5, 2010 at 4:33 PM
- Charlie Olken said...
I don't want you to go after Gary V. I love cartoon characters.
Have you given some thought to fictitious conversations between wine personalities like Helen Turley and, oh, say, Alice Feiring.
Or Samantha Dugan and Charlie Olken discussing CA wine.
Or publishing Alder Yarrow's response to your expose on Vornography.
Or new wine book titles and the authors who could write them.
Or going back and figuring what the hell was really happening on the mean streets of Healdsburg with all those MS candidates dying.
Or what was it like being wineboarded? How many varieties could you pick out?
How about "Inside Dan Berger's Mouth--What Its Like To Taste Wine With When Your Mouth Has A pH Lower Than Pickle Juice".
Those would be just a few ideas. - May 5, 2010 at 5:54 PM
- winebookgirl said...
Or you know, you could just help me out with my Giro challenge and find me a wine or food for each stage:
Oh wait, I am the only one interested in that. - May 5, 2010 at 8:53 PM
- Steve said...
Fantastic post sir!
Can't blame you for not wanting to go after the vayne one, and agree with Mr. Olken that it would be hard to do satire of a such a cartoonish figure. Leave the hucksterchuck lampoon to South Park, and keep on skewering your way... - May 6, 2010 at 11:03 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Thanks. Every time I do a blog parody I get the most amazing and scary responses. That's why I keep doing them.
Vainroastchuck would be incredibly easy to do, so at this point I won't bother. His is self-parody and requires a very heavy and cruel hand. I can do that too, but don't feel compelled. And by the way, that kind of talk is VERY insulting to cartoon characters. - May 6, 2010 at 11:39 AM
- Matt Mauldin said...
Quite entertaining... this post and the next one have been the highlights of my day, albeit for much different reasons. Goes to show you the broad range a person's psyche can span in a matter of minutes :)
- May 6, 2010 at 7:22 PM
Lyle Fass told me to read this today. He was right, it's a pisser. And you pulled many a punch, too.
Alice in person is completely different from the strident fundamentalist harridan she has created as a persona in her writing. And you're right, her literary style seems a bit like a translation from the Lithuanian at times.
You hit on that and the loneliness very accurately. For satire to succeed you have to hit the target right smack in the middle, and you did.
(See, Samantha Dugan, I'm not always a fucking smartass.) - July 2, 2010 at 3:35 PM
- Samantha Dugan said...
I never said ALWAYS...
Kisses to you kid - July 2, 2010 at 3:47 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Thanks for the kind words. I did, indeed, pull punches, because there is a line a satirist can cross and the work becomes about simple nastiness and contempt, and I wanted it to be funny, not a bludgeoning.
I doubt I'll ever meet Ms. Feiring. All accounts say she is a lovely woman. I just parodied the person she portrays on her blog. As it happens, people also think from my work that I'm a jerk and probably very lonely. In that case, they're right.
Tell Lyle thanks for all of his support. - July 2, 2010 at 4:40 PM


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The total cost of STIs is far higher than the medical costs estimated, however, the study authors noted. The report didn't include costs associated with lost productivity, other non-medical expenses, or STI prevention.
"The burden of STIs is staggering," said Dr. Jonathan Mermin, director of CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention.
At a time when sexually transmitted infections are at an all-time high, they have fallen out of the national conversation, he said.
"Yet, STIs are a preventable and treatable national health threat with substantial personal and economic impact," Mermin said in the news release. "There is an urgent need to reverse the trend of increasing STIs, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has affected many STI prevention services."
Dr. Raul Romaguera, acting director for CDC's Division of STD Prevention, said prevention is key.
"There are significant human and financial costs associated with these infections, and we know from other studies that cuts in STI prevention efforts result in higher costs down the road," he said. "Preventing STIs could save billions in medical costs, but more importantly, prevention would improve the health and lives of millions of people."
More information
The American Academy of Family Physicians has more about sexually transmitted infections.
SOURCE: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, news release, Jan. 25, 2021
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Santa's work may have been completed on Christmas Eve, but for Montezuma County birders it was Dec. 26 that offered an opportunity for making a list and checking it twice.
Despite a fresh layer of snow on the ground and frigid temperatures, 12 volunteers gathered at the Cortez Cultural Center last Wednesday to participate in the National Audubon Society's 113th Christmas Bird Count. The goal of the day was simple, albeit ambitious: count all the avian creatures visible in a 15-mile diameter circle centered on Totten Lake.
Local count organizer Carolyn Gunn met with volunteers to explain the purpose of the count and hand out route maps. She stressed the amateur nature of the count and the safeguards in place to protect against errors.
"The beauty of this count is it is built for amateurs," she said. "Every year we collect data and after decades any inaccuracies become such a small percentage of the total count they are basically weeded out. All the data is useful."
Volunteers went out from the cultural center in groups of at least two, headed to their destinations armed with bird books, binoculars, spotting scopes and lists of species observed in the area in past counts. Rather than relying on a simple tally of birds, the annual count compiles data of species spotted in a particular region. With numbers coming in from across North and South America, a century's worth of data provides a fairly solid picture of changes in migration patterns and species in any given area.
"(The National Audubon Society) has collected just tons of data over the years," Gunn said in a phone interview on Dec. 27. "This count is considered a valid reference to use when you are considering whether or not a bird species is in decline or holding its own or even increasing in numbers. It is a very good way of tracking birds."
The count is held anywhere from Dec. 14 through Jan. 5, allowing for consistency in data regarding specific species. According to the National Audubon Society's website, "the data collected by observers over the past century allow researchers, conservation biologist, and other interested individuals to study the long-term health and status of bird populations."
The data gathered during the Christmas bird counts is compiled by the national organization and released in an annual report each September.
The count originated at the turn of the 20th century with what was called the Christmas "Side Hunt." People would choose sides, grab their favorite firearm and bring back to the table as many birds as they could bag. Over time, concern over conservation prompted avian enthusiasts to leave the guns at home and instead track the feathered friends with paper and pen.
"People would try to kill as many birds as they possibly could and then they tallied those numbers and that was supposed to be a good thing," Gunn said. "One hundred years ago that was the accepted thing, the idea that we need to kill birds to learn about them. Then, there came the realization that highly populated bird species were declining and we really needed to know what these birds were doing instead of shooting them. So people went out to count them instead of kill them."
That doesn't mean, however, that the sporting aspects or the joy has been taken from the annual count.
Local bird enthusiasts Lew Matis and Lynn Dyer took their job seriously the day after Christmas, heading to Hawkins Preserve to find as many birds as possible. Dyer has participated in the bird count for over 20 years, and Matis for at least 15. The two set up a spotting scope and went to work.
"It's outdoors and it is nature," Dyer said. "It is great to be able to be part of determining what is happening with our local populations."
Matis said he has always considered himself an environmentalist and the bird count affords an opportunity to be part of the science of the environment.
The two took their time looking for birds, and though the local preserve seemed an ideal location, only a few starlings, a junco, two sparrows and a Cooper's hawk were sighted. The two were somewhat disappointed as they packed up their gear, but expressed optimism that the next site may be home to numerous species, and perhaps even a rare sighting.
"It is a good challenge," Dyer said. "You don't always find them in the same place. If you keep looking, though, you always find them."
The records of the annual Cortez Christmas bird count are on file at the Cortez Public Library.
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Exercise is an important part of keeping teens healthy. Encouraging healthy lifestyles in children and teens is important for when they grow older. Lifestyles that are learned in childhood are more likely to stay with the child into adulthood. Some changes in lifestyle can be harder to make as a person ages. The best way to promote healthy lifestyles is for the whole family to become involved.
A daily exercise program is a fun way to share physical activity with family and friends while helping to establish good heart-healthy habits. The following exercise guidelines for teens can help you and your teen plan activities:
Teenagers need at least 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity on most days to maintain good health and fitness, and for healthy weight during growth. Physical activity should include aerobic, muscle-strengthening, and bone-strengthening exercises.
Parents should encourage healthy habits and limit activities that include screen time (TV, video games, cell phones, tablets, and computers). Replace these sitting activities with activities that require more movement.
Even low-to-moderate intensity activities for as little as 30 minutes a day can be helpful. These activities may include the following:
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Regular aerobic physical activity increases a teen's capacity for exercise. It also plays a role in the prevention of heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Aerobic activities are continuous activities that cause the heart rate and breathing rate to increase. To prevent dehydration, encourage your teen to drink fluid regularly during physical activity. Also, have them drink several glasses of water or other fluid with no added sugar after the physical activity is completed. Examples of vigorous activities may include:
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The birth flower for the month of April, the Gerbera typically symbolises joy and happiness and to ancient Egyptians signified a close relationship to nature and devotion to the sun. This ancient ideology has carried through to today, with Orange Gerberas still the floral symbol of sunshine and life. Red Gerberas typically represent deep affection and love, while White Gerberas are considered a symbol of purity and innocence.
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1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
5 There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.


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Sprains and strains are common. You might sprain or strain your ankle while participating in your favorite athletic activity, or while simply walking to work as you do every morning.
A sprain is the stretching or tearing of a ligament. A ligament is a fibrous band of connective tissue that joins the ends of two bones together. Ligaments stabilize and support the body's joints. Ligaments in the knee, for instance, connect the upper leg with the lower leg, allowing you to walk and run. Ankle sprains are common, and typically occur when the ankle rolls suddenly inward or outward.
Symptoms of a sprain include pain, bruising, swelling, and inflammation. The individual often feels a tear or pop in the joint. In severe cases, this may make the joint nonfunctional.
In other cases, where the sprain partially tears the ligament, some swelling may occur.
Chronic strains are the result of prolonged, repetitive movements of muscles and tendons.Insufficient breaks during intensive training oftentimes lead to a strain. Symptoms of a strain include pain, muscle spasm, muscle weakness, swelling, inflammation, and cramping. In severe strains, the muscle and/or tendon are partially or completely ruptured, often incapacitating the individual.
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There is no way to make yourself immune to sprains and strains, but proper stretching, appropriate footwear and warming up before engaging in physical activity will help alleviate these potential problems.Treatment regimens can vary depending on the severity of your injury, but one thing never changes visiting your podiatrist as soon as possible can help prevent risk of complication or long term injury. If you've suffered a sprain or strain, contact our office today.


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Here are approximate pool table room sizes to take into consideration when buying a pool table. Many people don't consider this very important question when purchasing a billiard table for their home, will it fit in the room?
You want to make sure that when you call us you know the size of the table, for an 8-foot table for example pricing for service or repair will be set, should the pool table installer arrive to the job and find that an 8-foot table is really a 9-foot table it could really complicate the job and in most cases will change the price of a move job.
When recovering a pool table, the industry norm is supplied, pre-cut billiard felt.
If an 8-foot table is expected to be serviced and we encounter a 9-foot table then we may not even have the correct cloth size to finish your job which could also incur additional trip charges.
Pool table size is important for a successful job and it's super handy to know when checking the pool table room size in your home.
Pool table room size recommended room dimensions
7′ x 3 ½' – 7 foot pool table needs roughly 17′ x 13½'
8′ x 4′ – 8 foot pool table needs roughly 18′ x 14′
9′ x 4 ½' – 9 foot pool table needs roughly 19′ X 14½'
Measure from tip of bumper to tip of bumper across the width of your pool table to find your table size. You can find the pool table room size required by determining what size your pool table is.
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A brand could be a business name, domain name, product name, slogan, logo, term, design or other feature that distinguishes a product or service from an entity from those of others. Branding is a must for all businesses that are into manufacturing of products or providing of services. Brand registration in India involves multiple processes such as domain registration, business name registration, trademark registration and copyright registration.
For well known and popular companies and other successful businesses; brand has played a vital role in bringing the visual appearances of the respective goods and services. Brand name makes a unique identity to the clients while selecting the goods in the market. For company; product is a valuable where as for product; the brand is valuable that brings a sense of competition and favorability in the corporate market. Brand name can be termed as trade symbol that can be registered under trademark act 1999 in India. A product or service with trade symbol or brand name can easily be point out by the clients that brings a sense of constant loyalty among the customers of the company. Registered services will get more preferences and will surely be get best revert from the market as compare to goods and services without registration. Thus, brand name registration is somewhere proves to be as one of the ways while achieving the long term goals.
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