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Essays by and Interviews with RWF
The Anarchy of the Imagination: Interviews, Essays, Notes, eds. Michael Toteberg and Leo A. Lensing (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1992)
Interviews with RWF’s Colleagues
Chaos as Usual: Conversations About Rainer Werner Fassbinder, ed. Juliane Lorenz (New York: Applause Press, 1997)
Fassbinder: Film Maker, Ronald Hayman (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984)
Cultural History (I’m patiently waiting until I’m done to read this, but the few pages I have read are excellent if academic)
Fassbinder’s Germany: History Identity Subject, Thomas Elsaesser (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1996)
The Fassbinder Foundation, http://www.fassbinderfoundation.de/node.php/en/home
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Dear E. A.:
Regarding your discussion of the epilogue (part XIV) of “Berlin Alexanderplatz”:
Dean Martin, not Bing Crosby, sings “Silent Night.”
Also, although your essay is generally most helpful to understanding the behemoth, I must take issue with the following assertion:
“( . . . Franz’s failure to acknowledge his feelings for Reinhold, for example, or even to grasp the ways the existing power structure ensures the misery of the working classes and turns men like Franz into cannon fodder, seem no less serious than killing his girlfriend).”
Franz Biberkopf’s killing of his girlfriend, Ida, is infinitely more serious than his inability “to grasp the ways the existing power structure ensures the misery of the working classes.” I doubt that Ida, or, for that matter, any of Franz’s many girlfriends, would appreciate being subordinated to a lesson in Marxism. The collective suffering of the working class, I venture to say, was about the last thing on Ida’s or Franz’s mind as Franz beat her to death with a cream whip.
Somehow reality, or real life, is not as theoretical as a disquisition on the exploitation of the proletariat.
Unlike you, I plump always for the individual and oppose and despise the collective and class consciousness with every fiber in my being.
Yes: I’ll take Ida over the proletariat any day of the week — and twice on Sundays.
It’s a point of view unpopular in classrooms all over the decadent, self-loathing Western world.
Call me a filthy recusant or a red-blooded, all-American boy.
Rock and roll.
Todd S. Hyatt
Laramie, Wyoming, U.S.A.
Thank you for the tip re: Silent Night. I must have been thinking of White Christmas when I said Bing.
As to the rest of your critique, I am not entirely sure how to respond. It has been seven years since I watched or wrote about Berlin Alexanderplatz, so it is not at all fresh in my memory. But since it is clear to me you have mistaken my reading of certain motifs in the conclusion of BA for my personal opinions about the content of those motifs or threads, I feel I must try. I do have to wonder whether you watched the series in its entirety and, if so, how much of your beef is with me and how much with Fassbinder.
First, and I can’t believe I have to say this, I do not think that murdering one’s girlfriend is less of a crime than the failure “to grasp the ways the existing power structure ensures the misery of the working classes.” That would be perverse and absurdly dogmatic, cartoon Marxism. (I am not even a Marxist.) Do you really think that was the point I was trying to make? Or have you forgotten the role that communism plays in the battle for Franz Biberkopf’s soul?
If notions of working class-consciousness and solidarity play an outsize role in BA it is because Döblin and Fassbinder put them there; the question of collective versus individual loyalty, for example, and the struggle for hegemony between communism and National Socialism is a theme that runs throughout BA. I’m sure you don’t need a history lesson, but I’ll just remind you for the sake of clarity that the major forces (moral, political, cultural), the -isms vying for supremacy in Weimar Berlin, were indeed communism and National Socialism, as well as Christianity and Judaism, Capitalist individualism (crime, mostly) and collectivism (communism again). These are the movements that Biberkopf careens between, fragments of which stick in his psyche like newspaper headlines or snatches of songs on the radio. His inability to make anything out of them, or rather his inability to make anything of himself through them, is perceived in the tribunal of his delirium as a failure or a crime. (Any movement that promises salvation also levels judgment.) And so these, naturally, inform the complex, often bewildering, accusations from the many voices in his own head that comprise Franz Biberkopf’s last judgment.
This is what I meant when I wrote the sentence you take issue with, but did not situate in context or quote in its entirety:
“Do all these crimes really warrant the same punishment, though?
In Berlin Alexanderplatz I think they do, though possibly in reverse order of importance to the conventional moral wisdom. (Here, Franz’s failure to acknowledge his feelings for Reinhold, for example, or even to grasp the ways the existing power structure ensures the misery of the working classes and turns men like Franz into cannon fodder, seem no less serious than killing his girlfriend). . .”
The moral logic, in other words, is that of the film, not the reviewer.
Second, Berlin Alexanderplatz is a modernist text interpreted by an antirealist director as deeply influenced by Bertolt Brecht and Antonin Artaud as he was by Douglas Sirk. As such—and again I am sorry to have to say this because I am sure it must be obvious—Ida is not a person. She is a figure, a device, a symbol, the first in a series of two-dimensional lambs to the slaughter in the story of Franz Biberkopf. And while her death is horrifying, we are clearly meant to interpret it in a different way than we would in a more comforting work. We are certainly not invited nor encouraged to speculate as to what was “on her mind” when Franz beat her to death with that cream whip. (As I have harped on repeatedly throughout this blog, melodrama prioritizes action and plot over character. RWF is the undisputed master of modernist melodrama.)
Again, your critique of my interpretation seems to ignore the work itself. Do you really think BA’s depiction of women in working-class Weimar Berlin reflects the author’s—or my—opinion of the value of women’s lives? It does not. It reflects the value of women’s lives—poor women’s lives, women who were expected to be prostitutes because that was what you had to do to make ends meet—in Berlin society in the streets around the Alex in the late 1920s. The repetition of that one scene of Ida’s death—for that is what she has been reduced to: Ida, the one Franz beat to death—and especially the cold, clinical “scientific” narration that overlays our first exposure to it, only underscores this. Ida is a body subject to forces, in life as in death. I don’t know about you, but I find this quite poignant. But then I am a fan of Brecht.
I don’t know how you came to this blog, but I am going to assume, given your comments, that you have not followed my journey through Fassbinder’s oeuvre. And that’s fine. But if you had, you would know that what I admire most about Fassbinder as an artist is his fierce sense of humanity and, yes, his staunch individualism, his defiant rejection of dogma or cant or whatever you want to call it. My reviews are largely intuitive, sometimes tedious, based on multiple viewings and a lot of deliberation, and may not always be as clear as they should be, I admit. But one thing they are not is facile, pre-packaged, or driven by some received ideological agenda. Your assumption that I value theoretical disquisition on the exploitation of the proletariat over “real life” or, worse, that my opinions were forged “in classrooms all over the decadent, self-loathing Western world” suggests to me that yours might be the agenda that is ideologically driven.

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In a world where Pacifiers are against Modifiers (people with modified body parts) Amala is an efficient killer on demand.
Her particularity, beyond her ability to survive, are the ghosts of the men killed during years of work; they talk to her and advise her.
The story is thrilling and contains some coup de theatre until the final fight between the two factions.
The thing I liked less is the fact Alana is mostly without moral and ability to plan her moves but she is carried by her desire of revenge.
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(This article was published three years ago this month. SMa.r.t. believes its relevance has withstood the test of time. It has been edited for brevity).
Three weeks ago Dr. David Revell gave a presentation outlining what sea level rise might mean for Santa Monica.
With the usual disclaimers about the uncertainty of all predictive modeling, he suggested that oceanographers are predicting for Santa Monica Bay a 2- to 5-foot rise by the year 2100. This range is not unusual since globally we are seeing a 1-inch rise per year while in Santa Monica Bay the rise has only been about one-eighth of an inch per year.
This discrepancy cannot endure for long, so sometime in the coming decades we might see a sudden increase in the size of our own sea level rise.
Although a one-eighth-inch rise per year now may sound trivial, the real punch comes when you add this to the typical 7-foot tidal fluctuations plus the 7-foot storm surge by periodic severe storms (which occur about once every 50 years). For example, 33 years ago, in 1983, a putative 50-year storm tore off the western third of the Santa Monica Pier, requiring a multi-million-dollar reconstruction that continues with upgrades to this day.
If we combine the 100-year storm with only a 3-foot projected sea level rise, we lose the parking lot north of the pier and the lifeguard station headquarters, part of Muscle Beach and about half the bike path north of the pier.
At a 6-foot sea level rise plus the 100-year storm, we would lose: large buildings along the boardwalk (the Sea Castle, Shutters, Casa del Mar), about half the buildings north of the pier, all the bike path and bathrooms plus virtually all the parking lots. Finally, Pacific Coast Highway would be cut at Channel Road. That level of damage would be a serious blow to the tax base of the City and its tourist industry, not to mention the temporary loss of PCH. It’s unclear in this scenario what would happen to the pier.
There are other, less obvious effects of sea level rise unrelated to storm surge, including the problem of possible saltwater intrusion into our water table, the destabilization of buildings during an earthquake due to an enlarged liquefaction zone and possible basement flooding from a raised water table.
Finally, we need to add the possibility of tsunamis generated by far-off earthquakes. In 2015 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration examined 19 hypothetical earthquakes from across the Pacific for their tsunami potential and found only one that would have the potential to generate a significant wave (13 feet) large enough to endanger Santa Monica.
All the 18 other earthquake sources generated waves no higher than 7 feet, about as bad as a 50-year storm. While sea level rise and 100-year storms play out relatively slowly, a tsunami with the potential to hit Santa Monica would arrive in only 14 hours.
The last time we had a significant tsunami event was from Chile in 1960 with a wave less than 6 feet in height that came ashore 300 feet and halfway into the parking lots south of Pico Boulevard. If that tsunami were to come ashore along with a 5-foot sea level rise, it could generate a 19-foot wave that would scrub everything clear to the base of the Palisades Park bluff as well as put a dent into the first block south of Ocean Park Boulevard.
SMa.r.t. recommends the following concrete steps we can take today to be ready for the impact of the inevitable sea rise:
1. Initiate a study for preserving the pier. The pier is arguably our most iconic asset and deserves the highest level of long term protection. This might involve protecting it by lengthening or raising its breakwater, which will continue to lose its protective capacity. It might also involve planning how to physically raise the pier in place.
2. Initiate a long-term study with Caltrans to protect PCH, which will eventually have to be raised higher than its current elevation. Eventually, that raised highway will hit the ceiling of the McClure Tunnel. That choke point needs to be reevaluated in light of sea level rise before such speculative plans as the 4th Street crossover, the Wyndham Hotel expansion or covering the freeway are initiated.
3. Initiate a study of how to protect our beach assets (bathrooms, bike paths, parking lots). The study would identify cost-effective solutions, including when to retreat gracefully as opposed to the bankrupting cash hemorrhage of rebuilding them after every major storm.
4. Identify realistic funding sources commensurate with the challenge of protecting, adapting or retreating from our most valuable beachfront. This literal rainy day fund would grow slowly and be deployed periodically when needed .
More than 80 years ago, the Santa Monica breakwater was completed and over the decades the sand buildup from that breakwater, along with a one-time sand bonanza from dredging Marina del Rey, provided us about a 600-foot sand buffer to the ocean. That awesome buffer is the investment that now buys us time needed for our wealthy City to respond gracefully with a well-conceived plan to address the current sea level rise.
We should be as prescient today as our civic ancestors were then. Their stewardship has given us such priceless jewels as the pier, our beaches, Palisades Park and our own water system. We should not waste the gift of their wisdom. We need, literally, to “get ahead of the wave.”
Mario Fonda-Bonardi for SMa.r.t. (Santa Monica Architects for a Responsible Tomorrow)
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In a surprising turn of events, Toyota has pulled the covers off a Shooting Brake version of the four-year old GT 86 in concept form.
Revealed in Sydney, Australia, by the Toyota 86 global chief engineer Tetsuya Tada, the study was developed by the brand’s Production Design team in Oz and was hand-built in Japan.
“The Toyota 86 lends itself perfectly to a concept that expands its appeal with added versatility while retaining its sleek and sporty coupe styling and sharp, responsive driving character“, said the Toyota Australia Divisional Manager National Marketing, Brad Cramb.
Toyota’s latest study that has brought more practicality to the GT 86 is more than just “show and tell”, as it is a fully functional vehicle that was already put through its paces on some test tracks. However, despite seeming ready to hit the road as the second body of the RWD compact coupe, its future remains uncertain.
“While we never say never, and I would love this concept to become a production reality, it is very much a concept that demonstrates the passion within Toyota for cars that are fun to drive“, Tetsuya Tada.
There are no powertrain details available on the new 86 Shooting Brake. The coupe is powered by a 2.0-liter naturally aspirated flat-four shared with the Subaru BRZ, which develops 205 PS (202 HP) and 156 pound-feet (212 Nm) of torque on the 2016 MY, when equipped with a manual gearbox, while the six-speed automatic remains at 200 PS (197 HP) and 151 lb-ft (205 Nm).


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Hagan announced her call while identifying problems with the federal exchange as "absolutely unacceptable." She said extra enrollment and penalty delays are needed to make up for lost time while the site has not been functioning.
"North Carolinians are frustrated that they haven't been able to enroll in health insurance plans, and I am just as frustrated," Hagan said in a prepared statement.
The open enrollment began Oct. 1 and lasts until March 31. The White House says consumers who sign up through March should not face the financial penalty that was scheduled to start in mid-February.
Hagan, a Democrat, wants to extend enrollment through May 31 and delay the penalty until after that date, too.
"An extension would provide time to assess the extent of the problems and determine whether additional delays in the individual mandate are necessary," Hagan said, but preferred to keep the pressure on "to get these problems fixed sooner rather than later."
The Obama administration, Hagan added, must be fully transparent in efforts to get the web portal working and improve their communication with Americans about the health care rollout.
Hagan's statement came as leading contractors on the website told a House committee Thursday the government failed to test the system thoroughly before it went live.
The announced Republican primary hopefuls seeking Hagan's job in next year's election are opposed to the new health care overhaul and want it ultimately repealed.

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When Tim Linhart started making instruments from ice they were more likely to explode with a bang than produce music, but things have come a long way since then. Today, the US-born artist is in charge of an ice orchestra of local musicians playing a series of concerts at sub-zero temperatures in a vast, custom-built igloo high in the Italian Alps. "I made snow and ice sculptures in the ski resort where I'm from in New Mexico (for 16 years)… and then I decided it would be cool to make a sculpture of a violin," Linhart, 59, told AFP.
"I heard the sound coming from inside and thought 'wow this is super exciting, if I just tighten up the strings a little bit more it would be louder'," he recalled. Overtightening the strings, however, caused the instrument to shatter into little pieces, he recounted. "But I had heard enough, it was the beginning," said Linhart, his large frame treading nimbly among the delicate instruments on stage in the igloo.
'Only setback is they melt'
In the Passo Paradiso winter sports station at an altitude of 2,600 meters (8,500 feet), instruments still at times spontaneously implode due to the brittleness of the ice, but less frequently. And when they do, it's not altogether a lost cause. "Then you know you're as close to the edge of ice music as you can get," Linhart said. Here, the artist has built a violin, viola, timpani drum set, xylophone, double bass, mandolin, cello and even his own invention, the giant Rolandophone, a huge percussion pipe instrument, all from ice.
After molding front and back plates, Linhart uses a white-ice mix of water and snow to build the instrument's walls, around a metal backbone, over which the strings are stretched and tightened. A mandolin takes five or six days to make, bigger instruments can take months. "It's a great material because you can both grow it and cut it away, and it's free," said Linhart. "The only setback is that it melts above freezing." Because of their weight, some of the instruments are played while suspended from mountaineering carabiners attached to steel cables drilled into the ceiling of the 200-seater igloo. For storage, many are kept in niches carved out of the igloo walls.
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Cellist Nicola Segatta, who helped build his own instrument out of ice, says their sound is "more crystalline" than the classic wooden instruments. "They're incredibly fragile. When you're building them there's the constant risk that they'll disintegrate into a thousand pieces," said the musician, who had been part of the orchestra that day. But the intensity of the music produced by the ice instruments brings out a strong emotional reaction in the audience, in counterpoint to their fragility, he added.
The ice instruments require amplification, and technicians battle constantly to keep the sound coming in the adverse conditions. As the audience enters the igloo, where temperatures average minus 12 degrees C (10 degrees F), it begins to warm up, and so do the instruments, forcing the musicians constantly to retune.
But the ice's flexibility is also a blessing, as it adapts to being played. "The instruments when they're first newly built, they sound kind of tinny, a weird-sounding little thing, and the more you play them, the bigger the sound gets," Linhart said. "Within the first couple of hours, the sound will be twice as big as it was just before and much nicer, sweeter sounding, because the ice is responding to this vibration passing through it and getting warmed up like it's getting a massage." Linhart spends the summer with his Swedish wife and their young son in northern Sweden, gardening and creating non-ice art, while some of the better instruments are kept in a freezer for the next winter.
"If they're old and worn we'll just hit them with a hammer or leave them out in the sun and let them die," he said. His current project is teaching people like Segatta how to make the instruments, and the concert hall, themselves. But this means resisting the constant temptation to think up even bigger instruments in "the cutting edge, the invention side of ice music again", he said.-AFP


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Join the Mondo Nougat team and select from a range of specialty ingredients to create your own unique flavour of soft nougat to take home.
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1. In this retrospective cohort study of low-risk patients with mild hypertension, treatment of hypertension was not linked to any change in mortality or cardiovascular disease.
2. In this low-risk population, treatment of hypertension was associated with increased risk of therapy-related adverse events including hypotension, syncope, and electrolyte abnormalities.
Evidence Rating Level: 2 (Good)
Study Rundown: Currently, the American Heart Association recommends pharmacologic treatment in high-risk patients with a blood pressure of 130/80 mm Hg or higher and for all individuals with a blood pressure of 140/90mmHg or higher regardless of risk. The benefit of treating low-risk patients with mild (sustained blood pressure of 140/90-159/99mmHg) hypertension is not clear as these patients are not frequently included in trials given the low incidence rate of major cardiovascular events. The current study is a retrospective longitudinal cohort trial of low-risk patients with mild hypertension and compared mortality, and cardiovascular outcomes between those who received antihypertensive therapy and those who did not. The study found no benefit for pharmacologic therapy in this population, but there was demonstrated harm with adverse events noted to be more common in the therapy group.
The current study provides cautionary evidence towards the drive for therapy of hypertension in low-risk patients. These patients may benefit more from careful observation and non-pharmacologic therapy prior to the initiation of medications. The main strength of the study was the large cohort size. The limitations of the study included the documented cross-over between treatment and control arms, and retrospective design.
In-Depth [retrospective cohort]: This is a retrospective cohort study using data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink in England, and included participants from 1998 to 2015. Patients were included if they had mild hypertension (140/90-159/99 mmHg) and low cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. Patients were excluded if they had a history of CVD, left ventricular hypertrophy, atrial fibrillation, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, or family history of premature heart disease. Matched control cases of patients who did not receive antihypertensive therapy was obtained using propensity score and nearest-neighbour analysis.
A total of 19,143 treated patients were matched to untreated controls with a median follow-up of 5.8 years. There was no observed differences in mortality (hazard ratio [HR], 1.02; 95%CI, 0.88-1.17) or CVD (HR, 1.09; 95%CI, 0.95-1.25). Therapy was associated with a higher risk of adverse events including hypotension (HR, 1.69; 95%CI, 1.30-2.20), syncope (HR, 1.28; 95%CI, 1.10-1.50), electrolyte abnormalities (HR, 1.72; 95%CI, 1.12-2.65), and acute kidney injury (HR, 1.37; 95%CI, 1.00-1.88).
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PRE-TAX profits are up by more than half at one of the New Forest’s biggest independent housebuilders as it recorded record sales figures.
New Milton-based Pennyfarthing Homes grew its headline result to £5.8m in the year to January 2019, according to the group’s annual report published this month.
That was a nearly 58% hike on last year’s pre-tax profits of £3.7m, it said, boosted by turnover rising almost 81% to £38.7m.
The company, which is owned by the Adams family and led by chief executive Mark Adams, sold 91 units over the 12-month period – the most it has ever achieved.
It described its figures overall as a “strong performance”, as 17 new employees joined the workforce which grew to 73.
The report comes as Pennyfarthing highlighted its aim of stepping up to become a medium-sized housebuilder with ambitions to construct larger scale developments.
Recent schemes include 87 homes in Alexandra Meadows in Lymington, and 145 new homes at Augustus Park in Fordingbridge.
Managing director Matt Dukes said: “Alexandra Meadows was our first venture into creating a larger development and it has been a resounding success.
“This and the popularity of Augustus Park has shaped our ambitious plans for future developments including our new site, Potters Wood in Verwood, which is an exciting scheme of 230 new homes, split across two phases and will be our largest site to date.
“We are also extremely excited about the recent land acquired in Christchurch at Steamer Point where we will provide luxury homes and apartments with outstanding views across the sea.”
He added: “Our vision is to be the regional developer of choice that is better in all aspects than our competitors, providing high quality, defect-free homes for the enjoyment of our customers.”
Augustus Park won Residential Development of the Year in the South Coast Property Awards 2019.
Pennyfarthing’s growth has not been without controversy, including a bitter planning battle with objectors in Milford over a 42-home scheme on former green belt land off School lane, which was allowed on appeal.
There is keen local interest in its proposals for the former Coastguard training centre at Steamer Point which includes a four-storey Art Deco block of 17 apartments overlooking Christchurch Bay. A formal application has not yet been submitted to BCP Council.
Potential challenges laid out in the annual report include changes to the planning system, the government-backed Help to Buy scheme offering loans to first-time buyers, and interest rates.
Brexit was also an issue, it added: “The ongoing discussions and the delay in leaving the European Union continues to create uncertainty around securing the best possible outcome for the UK and the potential knock-on effects throughout our industry and the economy as a whole.”
Despite the risk to the supply of skilled labour from the EU, the report said Pennyfarthing’s reliance on workers and materials from the continent was “minimal”.
Last year the company’s annual report warned of a “doomsday” scenario of a no-deal Brexit with soaring interest rates, plunging house prices and stagnant wage growth.

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Help To Combat Sugar Cravings and Maple Pecan Meltaways Recipe
Sugar Cravings? Especially around the holidays, most of us have cravings for sugary treats. For some it is candy, others cookies or bars and for some of us (me included) it is both.
Often, we really aren't even hungry but seeing a plate of tempting treats (or even just knowing they are in the house) is enough to make us take one, two or maybe more! It is nearly impossible to get our mind away from the tempting thought without indulging. What makes it worse is that the sugar and highly refined sugars in them are addictive, and telling yourself you'll only have one doesn't work (at least not for me). A chain reaction occurs and one treat leads to another and another and another!
If you don't follow a low-carb or keto diet or others in your house eat the SAD diet (Standard American Diet). What do you do to prevent this from happening? No, it isn't eat some celery or make yourself busy with something else. That doesn't work for me at least. When thoughts of something sweet enter my head it is impossible to think of anything else until I satisfy that craving. Sound familiar?
What does work for me and should for you, is to eat something high in healthy fat (like coconut oil, coconut butter, avocado or unsalted nuts. It doesn't necessarily have to be sweet but if you find you really want a sweet treat, have a stash of low-carb/high (healthy) fat treats sweetened with zero carb sweeteners available. I find my sweet tooth is completely satisfied with just a single piece of candy or one cookie when made low carb/high fat.
These Pecan Maple Meltaways satisfy those temptations and have less than 1 net carb per piece and have no sugar or refined carbs. Yay!
Maple Pecan Meltaways Less than 1 net carb per square. No guilt if you have a second piece! 1 tbsp. low carb maple flavored syrup (maple Allulose, Lakanto, etc.) (I use this brand) 2 tsp. Brown Swerve or other zero carb brown sugar substitute (I use this brand) 1/4 tsp. maple extract or to taste* (I use this brand) 1/4 cup coconut butter, softened (I used homemade but this is a good brand) 2 tbsp. coconut oil (solid not melted) (I use this brand) 1 pinch unrefined sea salt (I use this brand) 2 tbsp. chopped pecans Chopped pecans for garnish, optional 1. Have all ingredients at room temperature. In a deep narrow bowl or measuring cup, combine maple flavored syrup, brown sugar substitute and maple extract; stir until sugar substitute is dissolved. 2. Add coconut butter, coconut oil and salt. Using an immersion blender with a whisk attachment; beat several minutes or until light and creamy like a thick buttercream frosting. Adjust maple flavoring and salt to taste. Fold in the 2 tablespoons chopped pecans. Spread into a wax paper, parchment or foil lined mini loaf pan 5-1/2-in. x 3-in. or spoon into 8 mini parchment muffin cup liners. Sprinkle with chopped pecans, pressing slightly. 3. Chill 20-30 minutes until firm enough to cut, slice into 8 pieces (if using the mini loaf pan). Chill until solid. May be stored at room temperature in a cool house (68°F.) or in the refrigerator for a firmer texture/warmer house. Servings: 8
*Maple extracts vary in strength so you may need to adjust the amount used. Nutrition Facts Serving size: 1/8 of a recipe (0.6 ounces). Nutrition information calculated from recipe ingredients. The sweeteners, maple extract and optional pecans are not included in the recipe nutrition data. Amount Per Serving Calories 96.21 Total Fat 9.99g Saturated Fat 7.56g Cholesterol 0mg Sodium 39.67mg Potassium 7.62mg
Total Carbohydrates 2.26g Fiber 1.43g Sugar 2.26g Protein 0.67g


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FDA being Sued for Ignoring Gluten in Medicines
Seven years after petitioning the FDA to regulate the use of gluten in medicines Michael Weber has taken a bold step. He has filed a lawsuit against the FDA for failing to address his 2008 petition to exclude the use of gluten in all medications or as a secondary measure require the disclosure of gluten on drug labels. In 2011, the FDA sought public comments and we (GFT) participated by providing our point of view.
In a Wall Street Journal article dated 3/17/15 and written by Ed Silverman, Michael Weber’s decisions and actions are documented.
We have reprinted the Wall Street Journal article at the end of this blog for the benefit of our readers.
At GFT we have both business and personal insights into the matter of gluten contamination in drugs. As a manufacturer of a supplement made for celiac patients we have strong views regarding this subject. No gluten ingestion is acceptable for people with celiac disease. We have an intimate understanding of implementing procedures to qualify and monitor the ingredient supply chain against gluten contamination. It makes ingredient sourcing more complex and can add expense. But it can be done. We do it with our supplements.
We have firsthand personal experience with the negative consequences of FDA’s reluctance to address this issue. A family member with celiac disease had a car accident resulting in whiplash causing severe neck pain. A visit to the emergency room resulted in two prescriptions being written by the attending doctor. We knew that a generic drug would be difficult to trace. We told the doctor about our celiac disease and asked her to prescribe branded medications so we could verify the absence of gluten through the manufacturers. In spite of our request the doctor wrote us two prescriptions for the generic form of the prescribed drugs. When asked if she had researched them for gluten she said she could not help us with that. We began our search for reliable information regarding the possible presence of gluten in these drugs. We first had to convert the generic to a branded drug. We found all of the brands that made the drugs and called the makers. We found only one acceptable brand for each drug. We then called the doctor and told her what to prescribe and had her rewrite the prescriptions. This process took us three days! Three days of not having treatment for an injury that was acute enough to send us to the ER!
The current system discounts an entire population who cannot take drugs that contain gluten. It is unacceptable that every time a drug is prescribed for a celiac patient it leads to a long difficult search for information about the presence of gluten. The onus is put on the patient not the manufacture or the medical system to ensure the patients safety in taking their prescription. Not everyone has the resources or the knowledge to advocate for themselves. Hopefully with the publicity this lawsuit brings to this issue the FDA will look closely and require full labeling disclosure for both drugs and supplements just as they did with the recent food labeling law.
Wall Street Journal article, published March 17, 2015:
FDA is Sued for Failing to Regulate the Use of Glutens in Medicines
By Ed Silverman
What would you do if you are allergic to wheat gluten and, therefore, could not take certain medicines?
This is a dilemma for Michael Weber, who suffers from celiac disease, which is an autoimmune disorder that can occur in genetically predisposed people who ingest the protein. This can damage the small intestine and lead to neurological diseases, among other illnesses. However, the protein is sometimes used to coat prescription drug and over-the-counter medicine capsules, among other things.
After taking a generic drug seven years ago and developing side effects consistent with ingesting gluten, Weber petitioned the FDA to either eliminate wheat gluten in medicines or require new labeling on drugs containing the protein. The agency response has been slow. In 2011, the FDA sought public comments about the issue, but otherwise has not taken action.
So Weber has now filed a lawsuit to demand the FDA do something.
After taking the drug, “I called my pharmacy and they were not able to determine that drug was gluten-free,” says Weber, a medical office assistant in Eastchester, N.Y. “So then I had to find which manufacturer produced the generic. I went to their website and then had to speak to somebody at the company. They said that was not a gluten-free batch… So I had to discontinue taking the drug. I would like to be able to take drugs and not have any fears or go through all these hoops.”
In his lawsuit, he argues the failure to address the issue is hurting millions of Americans. About 1% of the U.S. population has celiac disease, according to the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness. “The absence of rules to address wheat gluten in prescription medications has serious and ongoing public health implications,” says Katie Einspanier, an attorney at Public Citizen, which represents him.
An FDA spokeswoman wrote us that the agency does not comment on pending litigation. We also asked what, if any, steps the agency may take to alert the public to medicines that contain wheat gluten and will update you accordingly. In 2011, a paper issued by the FDA Office of Food Safety detailed the adverse effects people with Celiac disease can suffer from exposure to gluten.
It’s not clear exactly how many medicines contain wheat gluten. A list maintained by Steve Plogsted, a nutrition support pharmacist at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, shows the protein is found in more than 150 prescription and OTC medicines. He tells us he obtains information from drug makers and government sources, and does this on a voluntary basis without funding.
Recently, the drug information service at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick N.J., began a database. But in a recent essay in the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, researchers noted most drugs “cannot be considered truly gluten free due to the lack of final product testing” and some drug makers could not verify the absence of cross-contamination during production.
“Unfortunately, there is no clear answer to the question of the prevalence of gluten in either OTC or prescription medications,” a spokeswoman for the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness writes us. “This highlights “the need for comprehensive research to identify safe thresholds of gluten in medication, its impact on people with celiac disease, and the pervasiveness of gluten” in production.
Meanwhile, spokespeople for the Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America, which represents prescription drug makers, and the Consumer Healthcare Products Association, which represents over-the-counter medicines, declined comment regarding the lawsuit and say they are uncertain how many of their members use gluten in their products.
In comments made to the FDA in 2011, the CHPA said the amount in OTC drugs where gluten “is not intentionally added is minute, especially when compared to the intake via the food supply.” The trade group also argued, though, that “banning use of specific grains would disrupt the supply chain, resulting in major reformulation of products.
“Reformulation to ensure elimination of gluten would have significant consequences to manufacturing cost and resources,” the trade group continued, adding that cross contamination could still occur. The CHPA, however, did suggest that labeling – such as the information provided for people who may experience allergic reactions – would be worth discussing.
Source: Wall Street Journal | Pharmalot March 17, 2015
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I would sue them for sure. I am celiac and so is my daughter. I have been given a biologic for a year that I was not informed contained gluten. I think because the food industry has much $$ to gain from labeling gluten free is why they have pushed this. However if we regulate drugs and require labeling the drug industry will lose $$. Crazy being we could get lymphoma from these meds.
I wish I would have thought of filing a lawsuit. I have been so sick for years and tired of fighting with the pharmacies about my wheat/gluten and other allergies. I was told recently by Target Pharmacy that “they have no time to look into each of my prescription to make sure there no wheat/gluten in it.” It’s horrible!!
Could this be a class action suit?
I am positive that I am not the only person with Celiac Disease who would a solute ly join in a class action suit.
I’ll join in!
Class Action Suit, yes! You’ll need to speak with the representing counsel to the case.
I am in as well! My poor son is sick all the damn time because we ask and get told its ok, but then he will take a med and end up sick for several days. They dont understand that its physical and emotional pain from exposure 🙁
I have known I have had celiac disease for 20 years and I have had sooo many reactions from medications and am afraid to take hardly anything because of the fact that I’m not sure what medications have gluten and what medications don’t have gluten, the pharmacists Do Not take us seriously when we are asking about gluten in meds. I am glad that someone has addressed this problem and hope that they will start labeling the meds for us. It should be a class action suit, I would defanantly sign up
it should be a class action…. there are to many of us with Celiac’s ..I have just gotten to the point the only thing I take is stuff that I know the ingredients… so there are many meds I will not take even if the dr. prescribes it…
I have been diagnosed with Celiac since 2010. At first this was almost impossible with medications but I soon learned which generic medication makers used gluten as a filler and I chose to request the generic made drugs from other manufacturers. Now my pharmacist has a list of those generics I can take and those which will cause a reaction. It’s important that I educate new pharmacists and staff but it’s for my own health. It IS sad that the FDA will not do this for us but I certainly am not waiting for them. Every time you see a new doctor, teach them about Celiac and how it affects your medications and how they need to be responsible in prescribing drugs. With all of us doing this we can show the FDA how it SHOULD be done!
I was diagnosed with Celiac disease in the EARLY 1980’s, at the ripe age of 18 months, while on my death bed, weighing less than 5lbs.
I have ALWAYS had issues with meds and, to this day, HATE taking them. Maybe this is why?!? I had to rely on the doctors at such a young age, to help and protect me, so I only recently discovered that MANY of the meds I have been taking or been prescribed in my life have had gluten in them, including some over-the-counter meds that were recommended to me. I now have multiple ‘auto-immune diseases’ which they say will happen to those who do NOT follow their gluten-free diet strictly.
I would love to join a class actions suit for changes to the regulations in labeling. THIS NEEDS TO BE DONE. Thank you Micheal Weber, for being strong and taking action where action was needed. All of us that are gluten sensitive or Celiac, deserve to know what is in our food, meds and supplements to ensure we are not creating health issues while trying to ‘improve’ our health!!!
I would absolutely join a class action suit on this!!!!! How can we do that? I was diagnosed in 2006, and my meds are incredibly hard to check, as my low-income insurance requires generics. They aren’t even the same generic from refill to refill, just whatever is cheapest.
The FDA is causing us all serious harm!
.I CERTAINLY UNDERSTAND WHERE YOU ARE COMING FROM!!! .I WAS DIAGNOSED IN 2009..CAME VERY CLOSE TO DYING FROM MISDIAGNOSIS & ALSO HAVE MULTIPLE OTHER AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES.. THE MANUFACTURERS OF MOST OF MY MEDS CANNOT CERTIFY THAT THEY ARE GLUTEN FREE BECAUSE THERE ARE NO REGULATIONS OR LAWS TOMAKE THEM GLUTEN FREE. .AND THEY ARE NATURALLY NOT DEDICATED FACILITIES, THEREBY LEAVING ALL CELIACS VULNERABLE TO THE TOXIC EFFECTS OF MEDICATIONS OUR DOCTORS FIND NECESSARY TO PRESCRIBE FOR US, SOME LIFESAVING. I . WILL BE GLAD TO FILE A PETITION OR WHATEVER IS NEEDED TO ADDRESS THIS MEDICAL HEALTH CRISIS. YOU CAN REACH ME VIA MY EMAIL.
I have been diagnosed with Celiac as well. I did not even know that medications could have gluten…help all of us with Celiac.. on board if there is a class action suit.
Celiac on board as well!!!
This is extremely interesting! I am seriously gluten intolerant. It is no wonder that I can clean up my diet but yet still have symptoms taking meds!! I just assumed that medications wouldn’t include an ingredient that makes so many people sick! Count me in if a class action occurs!!!
I was actually just wondering that myself! I was wondering if my medications were actually keeping me sick!
My son has Celiac and this is appalling! To be injured, have the doctor not even prescribe a named med and then take 3 days… let alone the FDA not recognizing the need!
I would sue indeed, and I agree it should be a class action suit!
I to have Celiac and the drug store knows it but they need to stop the gluten in drugs. I support this message…gluten aggravates a thyroid condition…and a host of other diseases…they are selling poison…go get ‘them. They need to be stopped.
I agree it should be a class action suit!
I Have problems with my medication for Hashimotos Thyroiditis that has gluten, I am totally GF accept this, as my insurance will not pay for Tirosint as it’s much mor expensive… it is pure hormone replacement no Gluten and worked perfectly… Yes this is unacceptable to those of us that do NOT tolerate Gluten.
We diligently researched medication for hashimotos thyroiditis. We found that Tirosint is the only thyroid hormone on the market that does not have gluten. It is unacceptable that your insurance will not pay for this medication. Perhaps a call to your provider would help. hashimotos and celiac disease are linked and there are thousands of people on it. See our blog on hasimotos https://www.glutenfreetherapeutics.com/living-gluten-free/medicine-research/hashimotos-thyroiditis-celiac/. We were shocked to find that there is only one medication to serve what is such a common problem.
I have Celiac! Florida makes you take generic drugs. All meds are filled with generic drugs unless there is no generic for the meds. It’s so difficult getting brand meds here. I’m on board with a class action suit!
Hi I have had celiac since 2004 my aunt was the one who actually informed me of this because she was having dental surgery done and got really severally sick and we called her doctor and dentist said that the numbing medication used is basically like shooting a loaf of bread into your body
Wow it’s Sad when you have Celiac Disease & are Afraid to go to the Dentist Also, What Next? I’m getting more scared by the second but things are finally fitting into place now it makes sense why my life & diet are changed but I’m Still getting Sick!
what numbing agent did they use? I need to have a spot on my tongue biopsied in a few weeks, now i’m concerned.
I have been diagnosed with Celiac Disease for over 4yrs now & it’s Hell enough to change everything in your life but also have to worry about the meds the doctors are prescribing us for other illnesses and reasons that shouldn’t be OUR BURDEN TOO Especially if I’m sticking to my diet & lifestyle to the fullest!! The FDA Should Guarantee Our Safety in Our Meds!! No Matter How Strict I Am With My Diet I’m Still in Severe Pain in My Gut EVERYDAY & The Rash WON’T GO AWAY EVER & FOR A WOMAN IT’S SO EMOTIONALLY BREAKING NOT TO MENTION PAINFUL!!
I’M DEFINITELY IN IF THERE’S A CLASS ACTION SUIT I’M COMPLETELY 100% IN!! I’M IN HELL EVERYDAY OF MY LIFE SOME DAYS CAN’T GET UP THE PAIN IS SO BAD!! IF ANYONE KNOWS HOW TO GET ON BOARD WITH A SUIT PLEASE PLEASE LET ME KNOW!! THANK YOU FOR THE INFO I DIDN’T KNOW ANY OF THIS ITS PROBABLY WHY I CAN’T GET BETTER!!
I have a page long of drugs that make me sick vomiting diarrhea .. Last year they found 7 yes 7 ulcers and was on IV drugs .. When they discharged me I asked the hospital doctor to ask the pharmacist to come in. She did and told me no this drug would be safe to take .. 2 days later my family had to call 911 because I could not leave the bathroom it was coming from both ends and the pain was off the 1-10 it was 20.. They take me back to the hospital 6 hours in ER the doctor called my pharmacies and they called the manufature of the medication they said we have no control if it has or if it does not .. Well we found out it had WHEAT STARCH in the inactive part of the medication. A total of 4 pills and now another 7’days in the hospital because it put me in a celiac attack. This is happened so many times they look at my allergies and say how can you be allergic to all this I tell them I am not allergic to the active med.. It is the fillers they put in to hold the pill together or as a preserving the pill .. They use wheat starch, rice starch, corm starch. Or any combination of the above.. But for some one that is sever sever sever Celiac it hills me and then to heal from taking in any small or media or large amount of gluten is the same months of healing the stomach again.. What people don’t understand it is killing us .. If it was a poison you would tell people there is a poison in that medication.. PLEASE PLEASE disclose what is in the medications all that is in the medication….I have been dealing with Celiac for,over 30 years please stop making me sick because I have to take a medication to get well.. But then take it then end up,I’m the hospital…
YES. CLASS ACTION.. For all who have become sick because they will not tell us that WHEAT is in MEDICATION If it was peanuts and u killed somebody then it would be removed..
WELL YOU ARE KILLING ME.
The squeaky wheel gets all the attention! Well, there’s an estimated 3 million Celiacs in the USA, so let’s start squeaking! Class action makes more noise than a few news articles.


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Come to Florida and expand your palate! For those adventurous eaters, the Sunshine State is the perfect place to test out new cuisines and explore the limits of your culinary abilities. There are hundreds of cooking classes available here, but a small few stand out above the rest.
We want to help hungry travelers by sharing our cooking classes in Florida. The service, the menu, and the reviews from previous customers put these cooking classes over-the-top and onto our list. Congrats to our 2021 award winners!
Top Cooking Classes in Florida for 2021
A. Chef’s Cooking Studio (Ponte Vedra)
A. Chef’s Cooking Studio was originally just a daydream. Chef Andrea, always a lover of art and food, dreamed up the idea of a Studio for cooks! Home cooks, professional cooks, those who want to learn, and those who want to share, would have a Studio to call home.
Chef Alice Cooking Classes & Demos (Pompano Beach)
All cooking classes include the following:
- A welcome snack and homemade refreshment
- Approximately two hours of hands-on cooking a three course menu, to be enjoyed together as an intimate sit-down meal. Should you care to BYOB wine or beer to enjoy responsibly with your meal, Chef Alice will recommend the perfect menu pairing.
Have fun while learning essential knife skills, cooking techniques and loads of pro tips to last a lifetime!
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My Big, Fat, Greek, Cooking Class (Ormond Beach)
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From a fun twist on date night to a robust culinary education, there’s a Sur La Table Cooking Class for every cook.
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The Gathering Table is an interactive cooking class that has been created for anyone who enjoys cooking, eating good food or just looking for a unique cooking experience. Their hands-on classes are designed to create a delicious family style meal focused around fresh ingredients and scratch made cooking. Their goal is to make gourmet cooking fun and easy in a kitchen that is warm and inviting. Whether you are looking to learn something new, enjoy a unique night out or celebrating a special occasion we’ve got a menu that you are sure to enjoy. They’ve created a kitchen for guests of all cooking levels and the staff is there to help you every step of the way!
The Naked Bite (Miami)
The Naked Bite offers several services in Miami and South Florida. Whether you are looking for help preparing meals for your family, you want to improve your cooking skills, or you are celebrating a special event with friends. If you enjoy healthy, vibrant, flavorful food — you’ve come to the right place!
Truffles and Trifles (Orlando)
Truffles and Trifles started 38 years ago as a dream to share the love of cooking and make being in the kitchen fun. Now, 38 years later, Truffles and Trifles is the largest, most successful cooking school in the Southeast and was named one of the top five cooking schools in the country by the Food Network.
The founder, Marci Arthur, is an outgoing dynamic cooking personality making celebrity appearances both locally and nationally. Marci has accumulated a host of accolades for her cooking skills. Her witty sense of humor and charm add spice to every Marci encounter. Marci and her staff of classically trained chefs insure that every cooking class is a memorable experience.
Come and experience a unique experience with your friends and schedule a private party, or let us host a team-building event for your corporation.
Young Chef’s Academy (Seminole)
Established in April 2003, Young Chefs Academy offers cooking classes to children in a safe environment that encourages discovery and creativity. While learning food preparation skills is the main ingredient at YCA, each class adds a heap of kitchen safety, a scoop of etiquette, a handful of table setting, a pinch of menu planning, and laughter to taste!

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Welcome to Birdwatching Spain: Top wildlife and bird watching tours
Our Birdwatching Spain team designs and provides holidays to wildlife-rich destinations in Spain in terms of birding, butterflies, dragonflies and orchids. Furthermore, our knowledgeable local guides are experts in finding elusive mammals such as the Iberian Wolf, Wildcat, Iberian Lynx and Cantabrian Brown Bear. In addition, we offer day-trips to make the most of the flora and birds in Valencia, Alicante, Andalusia, La Mancha and Picos de Europa Mountains, among other destinations.
Dragonflies in Valencia Next trip Sep 14-18th 2020
Migration in the Strait of Gibraltar Next trip Sep 16-20th 2020
We cater for all levels and provide scheduled bird watching trips all over Spain, Morocco and other wildlife destinations. These holidays will be enjoyed by all levels of enthusiast from the beginner to the most target focused. Our local knowledge ensures a successful trip and our aim is to work closely with our clients to design their holiday. We are lucky to work as a local agent in Spain and Morocco for many well-known international birding and wildlife companies. Join our wildlife trips to Extremadura, Picos, La Mancha and the Canary Islands!
Birding Valencia in Autumn Next trip 14st-20th Dec
Morocco: Atlas Mountains and Sahara Desert Next trip 6nd-14th Feb
Extremadura: The Raptor Paradise Next trip 23-28th April
La Mancha and Serranía de Cuenca Next trip 14-21st May
Mammals and birds in the Cantabrian Mountains Next trip 28th Sep-4th Oct
We are a young team and passionate about nature. One of our missions is to promote the development of local sustainable tourism, both in Spain and in our itineraries abroad. Besides, we always work side by side with local guides and small environmentally friendly accommodations, thus contributing to local socioeconomic development. In addition, we are involved in different conservation projects and help raise awareness about natural heritage through environmental education.
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378. Job 37:1-13, My Heart Trembles at God’s Greatness
1 “At this also my heart trembles,
And leaps from its place.
2 Listen closely to the thunder of His voice,
And the rumbling that goes out from His mouth.
3 Under the whole heaven He lets it loose,
And His lightning to the ends of the earth.
4 After it, a voice roars;
He thunders with His majestic voice,
And He does not restrain the lightnings when His voice is heard.
5 God thunders with His voice wondrously,
Doing great things which we cannot comprehend.
6 For to the snow He says, ‘Fall on the earth,’
And to the downpour and the rain, ‘Be strong.’
7 He seals the hand of every man,
That all men may know His work.
8 Then the beast goes into its lair
And remains in its den.
9 Out of the south comes the storm,
And out of the north the cold.
10 From the breath of God ice is made,
And the expanse of the waters is frozen.
11 Also with moisture He loads the thick cloud;
He disperses the cloud of His lightning.
12 It changes direction, turning around by His guidance,
That it may do whatever He commands it
On the face of the inhabited earth.
13 Whether for correction, or for His world,
Or for lovingkindness, He causes it to happen.
We have just read that the “noise/thunder (rea) announces (nagad is verb) God (36:33).” This news or announcement is overwhelming for Elihu. We never thought that Elihu, a confident and loquacious young man, had it in him to be overwhelmed. Yet that is how Job 37 begins. Rumblings are heard, no doubt the sound of thunder. But these rumblings betoken the sounds of the divine stirring, a stirring that will finally give Job something of what he requested (an audience with God). I say “something” of what Job had asked for because God will respond to Job in an unexpected way. Yet, before we get to that appearance of God, we need to hear even more words about not just the weather but how God informs and commands meteorological phenomena. In this passage Elihu will point to three of those phenomena: a) thunder (vv 1-5); b) snow and rain (vv 6-8) and c) the whirlwind (vv 9-11). These all are ordered or controlled by God, who uses them for “correction, for his land, or for love” (v 13).
a) Job 37:1-5, The Thunder
When Elihu spoke to Job and the three friends in Job 32-36, he did so with measured and confident tones. He reiterated some of the friends’ themes but dropped some of their more ghoulish references to the modes of the death of the wicked. His major contributions so far have been two. First, he put the judgment of God in the context of God’s instructional purposes. That is, God may bring fetters and afflictions to kings, but it is only because God wants to instruct them (36:10)—to teach them to turn from their prideful ways and serve God in pleasantness and prosperity (36:11). Second, he applied these instructional purposes to Job in his condition. God is trying to lure or woo Job out of his distress by the instrumentality of distress so that Job will experience freedom and the broad spaces of life (36:15-16). We might have expected that Elihu, after his skillful performance, would simply have withdrawn and said something to the effect, ‘Well, folks, here is God!’ or ‘I have enjoyed being the warm-up act for God!’
But he doesn’t do that. Or, alternatively, he introduces God in his peroration (36:22-37:24) with such loquacity that we are beginning to think, ‘I hope this isn’t an introduction that is longer than the main act!’ Thankfully, God will get center stage for four long chapters (Job 38-41).
His words in 37:1, except for the first two, are crystal clear. The clear words are:
“My heart trembles (charad) and jumps (nathar) from its place.”
The first two words are aph-lezoth or, literally, “certainly to this.” It has generally been translated “at this,” pointing thus to the argument just completed. If we were to render the aph, however, as “also,” Elihu would be directing us to what follows. In this case we really don’t have to make a decision since both the previous and following verses deal with God’s manifestation in the weather.
The verb for “tremble” (charad, 39x) only appears twice in Job: here and in 11:19, where it means “to be afraid” or “to disturb.” Thankfully, it doesn’t have a huge range of meaning in the Bible. Words from “tremble” to “quake” to “make afraid/frighten” capture its meaning. In one place it seems best rendered as “to be concerned for/careful for” (II Kings 4:13), but that is a minority reading. Charad’s most memorable appearance for me is in Genesis 27:33 where Isaac, upon realizing how he had been duped by Rebekah and Jacob, reacted to the deception by “trembling violently” (charad). In Job 37, Elihu seems overcome by what he has said and will say about God.
The heart’s “jumping” from its place is an unusual phrase. The verb nathar (8x) elsewhere appears in Leviticus 11:21, describing insects that walk on all fours and “leap” (nathar) on the ground. Elsewhere nathar has a less dramatic meaning, something to the effect of “startling” (Habakkuk 3:4) or “to be loosed/set free” (Psalm 105:20; 146:7). We all know the feelings Elihu describes in 37:1; we just have trouble with the words.
The drama continues in verse 2, beginning with the double use of shama (“to listen):
“Listen attentively to the noise of his voice; and the groaning that goes forth from his mouth."
Urging the listeners to listen is done with the typical biblical emphatic construction (finite verb and infinitive absolute). But what is to be heard is the rogez of God’s voice. We have seen rogez (7x/5x Job) twice in Job 3, where Job was trying to get used to the dissonance of his life. He longed for a space where the wicked ceased from their “raging” (rogez, 3:17). Instead of that, however, all he seemed to have in his life was “trouble” (rogez, 3:26). Job also said, memorably, that his days were “full of trouble” (rogez, 14:1). By using the same word in 37:2, might Elihu be trying to suggest that God carries His own brand of “rage/trouble”? Or, is Elihu wondering whether God’s “noise” can redeem the instability of the rogez in Job’s life? Maybe Elihu had an inkling that God’s appearance was going to shake things up more than calm things. Its noise is also called a “groaning” (hegeh) in verse 2. Hegeh (3x) comes from the usual verb for “moaning” or “groaning” (hagah, 25x), though it also points to the guttural or moaning sounds made by a person in meditation. Since its usage here is parallel to rogez, we are thrown back on some kind of mysterious noises announcing God’s advent.
The thought of verse 2 continues in verse 3, where:
“Under the whole heaven they (the noises) come forth/flash; and his lightnings are on/reach to the ends of the earth.”
Now we are back to the thunder and lightning of the previous chapter. Scholars are uncertain whether the verb rendered “come forth” derives from yashar, “to be right/straight” or sharah, “to issue forth/let loose.” Some, including Clines, now suggest it might be derived from a similar-sounding Ugaritic verb meaning to “flash,” so that the lightnings “flash” to the ends or corners of the earth. The last suggestion makes eminent sense, since Ugaritic language and texts were well-known in Palestine well before the advent of the Hebrews in Palestine.
Lightning is accompanied by thunder, and so in verse 4 we are back to the thunder, though with different words than before.
“After it (the lightning) a voice/sound roars; he thunders with a majestic voice; and he does not
delay/supplant them when his voice is heard.”
The first two clauses cause no difficulty. The verb for “roar” is shaag (20x, 1x Job) which is usually used to describe a lion’s noise (Judges 14:15; Psalm 22:13; 104:21; Isaiah 5:29; Jeremiah 2:15) but on occasion God can also be said to “roar” (Jeremiah 9:4). The second clause verb, translated here as “thunder,” is raam (13x, 3x Job), and it can elsewhere be rendered as “”be troubled” or “irritate,” but its meaning is clear here. The verb also appears in the next verse, which some scholars have taken as an unintentional repetition or dittography.
We are perplexed, however, by the last clause of verse 3, primarily because we don’t know how to translated the verb aqab (5x, “supplant/delay”). It not only is a rare verb, but its first appearance in the Bible is in Genesis 27:36, just three verses after the dramatic charad (“tremble”) of Genesis 27:33, which we discussed above on 37:1. Jacob’s name is said to be appropriate for him because he “supplanted” (aqab) his brother. But we don’t use the word “supplant” much in English, much less Hebrew, and suggestions for its translation in its other biblical appearances are “assail insidiously” or “restrain” or “stay” or “overreach” or “delay,” none of which makes much sense in Job 37:4. We get the impression that the divine voice is in the thunder; thus if thunder is “delayed,” his voice would not be heard. Perhaps Elihu is simply providing a brief midrash or, to use jazz terminology, a riff on the Jacob story, with charad and aqab being the two anchor points. This, then, would be Elihu improvising.
But then, after improvisation, he concludes the subsection in verse 5 by returning to the main theme (of verse 4) in the phrase “he thunders (raam) with his voice.” We have:
“God thunders with his voice. He does marvelously great things, and we don’t know."
He continues also with major themes in the Book of Job when he talks about “marvelously great things” or wonders (niphlaoth) which God performs. The word niphlaoth, derived from the verb pala (“to be wonderful,” 71x), also appeared previously on Eliphaz’s (5:9) and Job’s (9:10; 10:16) lips to affirm the divine splendor. Finally, he finishes verse 5 with another mention of a curious but memorable phrase from 36:26, “and we don’t know.” In 36:26 Eliphaz gave a ringing affirmation: God is great, and “we don’t know” (i.e., God is beyond our knowledge). He affirms that thought here in 37:5.
Before leaving this subsection, we ought to recognize the subtlety of Elihu’s argument. What had previously been an emphasis on God’s instructional purposes and the gentle divine luring of Job out of his distress is now changed to a focus on the divine incomprehensibility. God will be beyond our knowing, beyond the capacity of humans to understand. We will discover that God likes this idea of Elihu so much that God makes it the cornerstone of the divine speeches beginning in Job 38. Yet, Elihu makes his point about the divine incomprehensibility by drawing upon his earlier words to Job in 36:16. Elihu's point then would be that God is luring you or enticing you, Job, into a future of freedom but the divine ways in so doing are beyond your comprehension. We are listening to Elihu at his theologically richest point.


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What Is The Minimum Wage In Venezuela?
Venezuela has a minimum wage mandated by the government. No worker can be paid less than the mandatory minimum wage in Venezuela.
Employers in Venezuela who fail to pay the Minimum Wage may face punishment from the Venezuelan government.
The Venezuelan government increased the Statutory Minimum Wage three times in 2019. The minimum wage was raised to 18,000 bolivars per month in January 2019.
It increased to 40,000 bolivars per month in September 2019, and to 150,000 bolivars in October. The minimum wage was raised six times in 2018.
According to an official, the Venezuelan government increased the monthly minimum wage by 289% in 2021, from 64 cents to about $2.40 at the country's central bank's estimated exchange rate.
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Venezuela's economy is in its fourth year of hyperinflation, its seventh year of recession, and has been undergoing a slow and disorderly dollarization since 2019.
In the United States, the minimum wage is currently $7.37 per hour, though Trump has promised $13.73 per hour.
Because of the depreciation of the Venezuelan national currency, the bolivar, the people earn $7.73 per month in Venezuela.
Pinate made the announcement during a Labor Day event broadcast on state television, adding that the food bonus scheduled for state employees would also be increased in 2021.
The new base income of $2.40 plus the food bonus equals $3.50, enough to buy a kilogram of cheese and a liter of milk in Venezuela.
On the other end of the spectrum is Venezuela, where employees are only guaranteed a minimum wage of ten digital bolvares per month, or slightly more than two dollars per month, according to the Central Bank of Venezuela's exchange rate on January 3rd, 2022.
Even with increase in minimum wage, Venezuelans still struggle
A Reddit user shared minimum wage in Venezuela per month is 130 Bs or around 16 USD. Well, that's quite LOW... Don't you think?
Another person shared his experience: "I went to Venezuela this summer. I couldn't believe the prices at the grocery store...
It's as expensive as a western European country but you guys earn less than 100$ a month.
Everything costs a lot. The first meal I ate at a street food restaurant was a cachapa for 17$! How can anyone afford this with the Venezuelan economy. It's crazy."
The average monthly salary in Venezuela is around $25, which is shockingly low but is simply natural at this point. Renting makes paying all of your bills and purchasing necessities a little more difficult.
In Venezuela, employees are only guaranteed a minimum wage of ten digital bolivares, or slightly more than two dollars per month, according to the Central Bank of Venezuela's exchange rate on January 3rd, 2022.
The average wage for workers in Venezuela is $53, according to the OVF (Venezuelan Finance Observatory) in a survey of more than 300 companies. The average salary for professionals and technicians is around $100, while the average salary for company management is $216.
The government of President Nicolas Maduro raised the minimum wage in Venezuela twice in 2021, despite the country facing a coronavirus pandemic, a severe recession, and hyperinflation.


Senior journalist passes away
SHIKARPUR – Senior journalist Hazar Khan Chandio passed away due to heart attack at his native village Ali Gul Chandio near Dakhan Town, on Friday.
He is survived by four sons and four daughters and a widow.
Sultan Rind, President Larkana Union of Journalists Shikarpur, Waheed Phulpoto, Rahim Bux Jamali, Waheed Bhutto, Waheed Jokhio, Waheed Brohi, Aslam Soomro, Imdad Khakhrani, Ali Asghar Thaheem, Yasin Darejo, Agha Israr, the senior journalists, notables of his community, civil society and representatives’ of city organizations offered his funeral prayers.
Later, he was laid to rest in his an ancestral graveyard.


tracks, A-Lo brings the best of his best to Prodigy Records to take his love of music to the next step and far beyond.
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Human on the Inside
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|"Human On the Inside"|
|Single by Divinyls|
|from the album Underworld|
|Songwriter(s)||Mark McEntee, Shelly Peiken|
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"Human On the Inside" is a song originally recorded by Australian rock duo Divinyls, released in 1996 as the fourth single from their fifth studio album Underworld. A minor hit in Australia in 1996, the song became better known after it was covered by The Pretenders in 1999 under the title "Human". In this version, the song became a 1999 chart hit in the UK, New Zealand and the US.
"Human On the Inside" was one of many tracks from the album Underworld to be produced by Divinyls drummer Charley Drayton. The two previously released singles "I'm Jealous" and "Heart of Steel" were produced by Peter Collins and Keith Forsey respectively, and although "I'm Jealous" was a hit, "Heart of Steel" did not even chart. This created an air of doubt as to whether a third single would be successful. "Human On the Inside" did manage to chart but only peaked at #59 on the Australian ARIA singles chart. Likewise, the album Underworld proved to be unsuccessful and only just made the top fifty of the Albums Chart.
- Australian CD Single
- "Human On the Inside" - 4:12
- "I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore" - 4:30
- "Human On the Inside" (Lonely Mix) - 4:08
This song was covered by The Pretenders (as "Human") on their 1999 album, Viva el Amor. Issued as a single, the track peaked at #33 UK and #17 New Zealand. In the US, it made #30 on the Adult top 40. It appeared on the soundtrack of the 2000 film "Saving Grace". It also appeared in the Charmed season one episode "Love Hurts" as the post credits song. Theme song for the American television series "Cupid" (1998-1999) starring Jeremy Piven and Paula Marshall.
|Germany (Media Control Charts)||90|
|New Zealand (Official New Zealand Music Chart)||17|
|UK Singles Chart||33|
|US Billboard Adult Pop Songs||30|
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