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Today's guest post is by Orly Ravid of The Film Collaborative (TFC), the first non-profit, full service provider dedicated to the distribution of independent film. Orly was featured as one of HFF's Brave Thinkers Of Indie Film, 2010.
* This is part 1 of 3 parts to this Sundance focused blog.
* Part 2 will be written during the festival.
* Part 3 will be written in the aftermath of the glow of the fest.
If I were a filmmaker going to Sundance, and let's say that I had a film with no recognizable press-generating cast that would be attractive to a distribution company for a large MG… What would I do? Seriously, I asked myself that question. And I realized how tempted I would be, even I, to find some sexy publicists and rockstar agents or sales company so that I could get the hot sexy sale at Sundance and make all my dreams come true.
What can a distributor do for you that you cannot do yourself with just a little bit of money, not even a lot, and some low fee consultation? And above all, what are you giving up by not building community for your film before and during the fest, instead letting other people run your show, potentially losing out on the momentum of the festival?
Let's look at some films from Sundance last year that were in this position and the routes they took and what they may have netted. These are films that cut distribution deals of some kind and got less than wide releases from their distributors:
A Small Act (Doc): Distributed by HBO, I don't know exact sale price but suspect it was less than $150,000 and they did not need a sales agent to do that. They are also a TFC client for festival distribution. TFC handled film festivals for the filmmaker though by the time we got involved HBO had aired the film and that hurt our festival bookings and hence diminished potential revenues to the filmmaker. The director, Jennifer Arnold, is presently closing a DVD deal as well that she got herself.
*Gasland (Doc): Distributed by HBO, TFC consulted at Sundance along with their lawyer Michael Donaldson, and they did not need anyone to help them get a good HBO deal though they did have help handling offers and pursuing interest. The deal came to them directly and would have come to them regardless. They did some self-distribution for theatrical (Box office $30,846) and festivals. The film is now available for DVD. Zipline did PR and the film got its good rightful share of it. The filmmakers received a deal that has worked out very well, with some great PR and it played lots of fests. It's shortlisted for the Oscars too.
*Extenuating circumstances: Debra Winger executive produced this film and she definitely helped a lot. Josh Fox is a very committed activist and spokesperson of the film's critical message so he is very embedded in the community that would be most interested in this film. It's a great example of a film that got a lot out of being at Sundance and the filmmakers got a deal they are happy with and they probably recouped as a result given the low budget of the film.
A Film Unfinished: Distributed by Oscilloscope. I will say that $320,000 theatrical box office is very very good (I have no idea what they spent though to release the film but it's likely some money was made on the theatrical). The film had a sales agent (CINEPHIL from Israel) and I am almost positive the MG was less than 6-figures. My judgment is that the filmmakers could have done just as well releasing on their own with just some money set aside for a booking agent and a publicist, especially for this niche. It is a doc that hits a niche audience that works consistently and is lucrative and I can't say that the filmmakers needed a sales agent and a distributor to be in between the film and its audience. I doubt the filmmakers will make as much money as they would have handling the film on their own with just some low fee consultation.
The Dry Land - reported budget from imdb $1mil, box office $11,777
Most likely a service deal since it was theatrically released by Freestyle Releasing. Freestyle service deals are not cheap; most of their releases involve budgets of $200,000 + (though sometimes less) and most for-profit service deals involve fees of tens of thousands of dollars). Clearly not a good result here, but we assume hoping to recoup in home video.
Douchebag -Paladin is distributor and so that generally means it was a service deal paid for by the filmmakers. However the filmmaker Drake Doremus told us: "douchebag was not a service deal paid for by the Filmmakers. Paladin bought the film from us for an amount way above the budget of the film." Bravo! Box office return however was $20,615. Also, not a good return.
Bhutto - Distributed by First Run Features. Just released December 3, to day box office $16,216, only playing 2 theaters. A large advance was not paid and most of what was accomplished could have been done by the filmmakers themselves without large percentages paid.
Taqwacores: Distributed by Strand , most likely a very small advance was given. The box office was $9,347 on 2 screens. Another example of a film that could have done this much better and faired better overall without a distributor involved. With just some low fee consultation, time and money set aside, the filmmaker would still be in control of their film and able to work up the audience.
I am not knocking these deals, simply noting that if one is to do them, one should at least cut out excess middle men and do them smartly, reserve some rights, negotiate carefully on the back end, monitor expenses, maybe even have been better off not doing these deals. It would have helped all of these films to build community around the film leading up to the festival and exit the festival with a bang, ready to reach audiences immediately. I think a lot can get lost during the time it takes for distributors to bring films to market, especially for the smaller films.
I think the decision to cut a deal with a distributor, no matter what, is emotional because even when I put myself in the filmmakers' shoes I realized the emotional power of having an offer made to just take care of this for me. It signals that what has been made must have value and was done well. It also allows for one to not have to get hands dirty with the money stuff and the business stuff.
But, if you are a filmmaker, you did choose the most expensive art medium in the world and unless you are rich or your investors don't care about getting their money back, I want you to at least consider this: You don't NEED traditional distribution. For MOST of you, without special connections or name cast, MOST traditional distribution will not serve you. Most distributors don't pay enough or do enough or are fair enough, and many of them have to raise P&A anyway, or hire the same service providers you can, so do the math, think twice, and be careful. And remember, buyers are happy to buy direct, especially many TV buyers and VOD platforms, and you can get inexpensive help negotiating.
The more you can set up to do on your own the better for you and your investors in the long run. You run a risk doing nothing in terms of building community around your film or not setting up a distribution plan, having several layers of middle-men and waiting for Godot. When you do the math, the Sundance dream often connects up to cast-driven films and just a few rare gems each year, and there are those to be sure, each year, but just a very few. Most other deals you could get anyway if you wanted them, with someone on the side advising you in a fair way.
PS: Here is additional info on films from Sundance 2010:
* 3 BACKYARDS: Screen Media all rights, no verifiable release.
*12th AND DELAWARE: HBO Films, premiered on 8/02/10,currently HBO OnDemand.
* ANIMAL KINGDOM: Sony Pictures Classics, Box office $1,008,742 and this is a great example of a film that might otherwise have done no business were it not for Sundance.
* CATFISH: Rogue Pictures / Universal with a box office of $1,315,573 and it is definitely a great release for a doc and if the deal is good for the filmmakers then it's a dream come true. Of course that's an 'If".
* CASINO JACK AND THE UNITED STATES OF MONEY: Magnolia Pictures, $175,865 – and this is directed by Alex Gibney one of the most famous doc directors but sadly probably lost market share to the feature starring Kevin Spacey.
*EXIT THROUGH A GIFT SHOP: Producer's Distribution Agency (a distribution company set up by John Sloss specifically to handle this film), Box office $3,291,250. I am in love with that film, and it's to Banksy's credit the film did what it did and some in the industry actually think it was a financially weak release given how much was spent, estimates are put at over a million. In any case, most filmmakers cannot imitate a set up that had John Sloss turn down a just over 6-figure advance (as far as I know) because he wanted to handle the release himself and he did with the help of Richard Abramovitz and had the reputation and cult following of Banksy, Shepard Fairey , and Thierry Guetta.
*FAMILY AFFAIR: OWN the Oprah Winfrey Network, air-date: possibly spring.
* THE FREEBIE: PHASE4, the box office was just $16,613 the deal was allegedly worth low - mid six figures for US & Canada, all rights. The film was sold by Visit films.) Now I have inspired Phase4 to buy two films I did not take a commission on. I am not saying Visit films is not great and I am not saying it's not great to have guidance at a festival or market especially when there is a bidding war, which there was apparently, I am just saying buyers buy films they want, not because of who is selling them. We hope the filmmakers of all these films weigh in on their overages and overall bottom line.
* FREEDOM RIDERS: PBS with an outreach campaign by outreach campaign by American Experience...www.pbs.org/freedomriders, film to
be shown in May on 50th anniversary of the original rides. Ok that's cool.
*GROWN UP MOVIE STAR, NO US or INTL distribution, E1 entertainment is the sales agent, Mongrel Media (distributor in Canada)
* HESHER: NewMarket, reported budget $7mil, no release info
* HAPPYTHANKYOUMOREPLEASE (DISTRIB: Anchor Bay, release was supposed to be in March but as far as we know it has not happened yet).
* THE IMPERIALISTS ARE STILL ALIVE: no info
*JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: The Radiant Child (Arthouse Films (which also produced the film), Box office was $250,129. A big hit in France, what a great niche and great doc. The producers did handle their film themselves in the US.
*LAST TRAIN HOME, Zeitgeist Films, released: 9/03/10-TOTAL GROSS: $282,092
(Here is a good example of a good doc sales company from what we hear and a good US distributor and a doc that probably sold well relatively speaking).
* LOVERS OF HATE: IFC –which is primarily a VOD play and some very traditional deal terms.
* MY PERESTROIKA: no info
* THE OATH: Zeitgeist, box office $42,273
* OBSELIDIA-reported budget $500K, still with a sales agent it appears
*THE RED CHAPEL, Lorber Films, opens 12/19/10 at IFC Center, Lorber Films plans a theatrical release of the film in the U.S. and Canada, followed by television broadcast and a DVD release.
* RESTREPO (US distribution: National Geographic Entertainment, Box office $1,330,058 –another Sundance success story to be sure, assuming terms are good for the filmmakers, which we have no information about
* SYMPATHY FOR DELICIOUS: Maya Entertainment (US, media)
* SKATELAND: Freestyle Releasing in March 2011 – and this means most likely it's a service deal and paid for by the filmmaker. I should note that sometimes Freestyle helps raise the P&A. (though I don't know what their cut is; one day I will ask).
* TWELVE: DISTRIBUTOR is Hannover House and the box office gross was $183,920 (somewhat shocking given the cast and the director.
*UNDERTOW: (Sundance World Cinema Audience Award Winner) TFC is doing theatrical and worldwide festivals and consulted on the distribution deals. We will be covering this in a case study to be written after the release is completed.
*WASTE LAND, Arthouse Films, released 10/29/10-TOTAL GROSS: $96, 597
Arthouse Films handled the theatrical release later followed by a DVD and digital release on the Arthouse Films label in early 2011...E1 Entertainment holds the international rights and is managing worldwide sales which to date include Australia (Hopscotch), Hagi Film (Poland) and Midas Filmes (Portugal). E1 Entertainment will also distribute the movie in Canada and the UK. Downtown Filmes is the Brazilian distributor.
* WINTER'S BONE: Roadside Attractions, Box office $6,210,516, and this is a great example of a film that would have likely lingered in oblivion were it not for Sundance and the right distributor);
* Other films not listed in detail are Cyrus, The Kids Are Alright, Waiting For Superman, Splice, and The Runaways because they all have big names involved, in a few cases the deals were done before Sundance and not all of them even had great releases in the net analysis.
Orly Ravid has worked in film acquisitions / sales / direct distribution and festival programming for the last twelve years since moving to Los Angeles from home town Manhattan. In January 2010, Orly founded The Film Collaborative (TFC), the first non-profit devoted to film distribution of independent cinema. Orly runs TFC w/ her business partner, co-exec director Jeffrey Winter.


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Troy McClure wrote:Would participating in that tourney conflict with full participation in the Stars training camp?
I wouldn't think so. It's this weekend/next week. TC tourney, which Miro is supposed to attend, is 9/08 - 09/12 and Dallas Stars training camp would be after that. Not all Euros attend TC. And I don't know when his Euro team needs him back, which is where he is purported to go if he doesn't make the team.
It could be that he didn't make the roster for Finland. That doesn't seem likely. This is a high end talent tourney for this age group. It's to see more of the players who are possibilities for the World Jr. tourney at the end of the year.
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The Houston Dynamo Academy won its second Dallas Cup title in three years on Sunday, with the U-16s taking a 2-1 victory over Santa Clara Sporting to win the U-16 age bracket. Houston's previous Dallas Cup title came in 2008 in the U-17 age bracket.
Forward Isaiah Noreiga (Humble Kingwood Park) scored both goals, running his total to four for the tournament. Noreiga, who appeared for the Dynamo in the U-19 age bracket last year as a 15-year-old, also netted the clinching penalty kick in Houston's quarterfinal shootout against Solar.
On Sunday, Noreiga opened the scoring with a classy goal in just the fifth minute, but the Dynamo found themselves on the back foot for the remainder of the half. Santa Clara tied the game in the 20th minute, and the teams went into the halftime break tied 1-1.
The Dynamo Academy responded with a great second half, Dynamo Director of Youth Development James Clarkson said, controlling the game at a high tempo throughout. Noreiga broke the tie in the 65th minute with a free kick from outside the penalty area, and the Dynamo held on to celebrate the win and the tournament title. That five-hour drive back to Houston will not seem quite so long now.
Houston lost its first group game but then ran off four wins sandwiched around a shootout win to win the group on goal differential and advance through the eight-team playoffs for the title. The Dynamo outscored opponents 8-2 in six games in the tournament.
Dynamo Academy teams return to USSF Development Academy league play next weekend, hosting Solar on Saturday and the Dallas Texans on Sunday at both the U-16 and U-18 levels, with games scheduled for the Carl Lewis Track & Field Complex.
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April 4, 2010 – Pizza Hut Park, Frisco
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Scoring Summary:
HOU -- Isaiah Noreiga (unassisted) 5
SCS -- Goal 20
HOU -- Isaiah Noreiga (unassisted) 65
Dynamo Academy -- Juan Navarrete, Orlin Ramirez, Bradley Bourgeois, Leo Ayala, Hector Ramirez, Gabriel Moreno (Juan Carlos Salmeron 65), Raymundo Marquez, Michael Diaz (David Dauajare 45, Jimmy Fallon 70), Erick Sanchez (Bryan Salazar 54), Manuel Chavez, Isaiah Noreiga.
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BALTIMORE – A Silver Spring, Md., federal contractor violated federal law when it fired a person with cancer and AIDS because of his illnesses, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it announced today.
In its suit, the EEOC said that in 2008 Data Transformation Corporation discriminated against Duane Wesley while he was medical leave for cancer and AIDS. According to the EEOC, after Wesley informed the defendant that he had a life-threatening illness, the company demanded that he call every morning of every work day that he was on medical leave to tell the company that he would not be capable of coming to work that day. When Wesley protested, the company told him that he would be fired if he did not comply. Wesley dutifully called the company each morning for several months. One week before Wesley was scheduled to return, the defendant fired him.
The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) makes it unlawful to fail to reasonably accommodate persons with a disability, and makes it unlawful to discriminate against a qualified individual because of a disability. The EEOC filed suit (Civil Action No. 8:09-cv-2559 RWT ) in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Southern District, after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement. The complaint seeks monetary and injunctive relief, including back wages, compensatory and punitive damages and changes in employment policies to provide equal employment opportunities for qualified individuals with disabilities.
"Besides violating common decency, this employer violated federal law by treating an employee with serious illnesses – but qualified disabilities which could and should have been accommodated – in such a cold and cruel fashion," said EEOC Acting Regional Attorney Debra M. Lawrence.
According to its web site (www.dtcss.com) Data Transformation Corporation provides IT services to a range of federal and commercial clients, including IBM, NASA, and the Department of Agriculture.
In fiscal year 2008, disability-based charges rose to a record 19,543, up 10.2 percent from the prior year and the highest level since 1995.
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Actually, updating Firmata is on my to-do list... roughly in the middle, below lots of urgent stuff for Teensy 3.0, but well above lots of low priority bugs and stuff. I'm planning to add Due and Teensy 3.0 definitions, and also work on making it truly compatible with alternate Stream-based ports. I want to merge the recent stepper support that's currently in a separate branch.This probably won't happen in time for 1.0.2 (unless someone else does it... which seems unlikely). At the moment, I have 2 Dues on order from Mouser, but they haven't arrived yet. The only Due hardware I have is the early developer beta. If Mouser doesn't ship in a couple weeks, I'll probably just use the beta hardware for testing. I'll probably only connect a few LEDs and pushbuttons. If anyone is willing to test with more stuff connected to lots of pins, please get on the Firmata developer mail list.As to whether Firmata is a "waste" of good hardware, if it lets people get their projects working, then I believe it's valuable.
// Arduino DUE#elif defined(__SAM3X8E__)#define TOTAL_ANALOG_PINS 12#define TOTAL_PINS 66 // 54 digital + 12 analog#define VERSION_BLINK_PIN 13#define IS_PIN_DIGITAL(p) ((p) >= 2 && (p) < TOTAL_PINS)#define IS_PIN_ANALOG(p) ((p) >= 54 && (p) < TOTAL_PINS)#define IS_PIN_PWM(p) digitalPinHasPWM(p)#define IS_PIN_SERVO(p) ((p) >= 2 && (p) - 2 < MAX_SERVOS)#define IS_PIN_I2C(p) ((p) == 20 || (p) == 21) // 70 71#define PIN_TO_DIGITAL(p) (p)#define PIN_TO_ANALOG(p) ((p) - 54)#define PIN_TO_PWM(p) PIN_TO_DIGITAL(p)#define PIN_TO_SERVO(p) ((p) - 2)
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Dr. King repudiated Beck's version of what King's dream should have been
On Fox News Sunday, Glenn Beck was finally confronted with what must have been, for him, the terrible truth: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream was one of social justice and economic rights for all. As Chris Wallace ticked off facts about Dr. King and the 1963 rally at which he gave his "I Have a Dream" speech, Beck basically dissolved on air, conceding that he disagreed with vast portions of King's dream before stating what he thought King's dream should have been. It was not pretty. Watch:
After Wallace explained to Beck -- who had spent months claiming that at his 8-28 rally, his supporters would "reclaim the civil rights movement" and "pick up Martin Luther King's dream" - that "the civil rights movement was always about an economic agenda," Beck described what he thought Dr. King's "real agenda" should have been:
BECK: Well, you know what, Chris? I think that is part of it, but that's a part of it that I don't agree with. I think the bigger part - the thing that we fail to recognize is that is the racial politics, that the real agenda should be equal justice, an equal shot. The dream was judge a man by the content of his character, not the color of his skin.
Later in the interview, Wallace pointed out that King "advocated what he called an economic bill of rights, guaranteeing everyone a job" and commented, "I mean, you may say, well, that's not your civil rights movement, but it was Martin Luther King's." Beck replied, "Well, I'm not Martin Luther King. Martin Luther King would have to stand for Martin Luther King -- let his words stand where they are."
Setting aside the pretentiousness of Beck attempting to claim what the "real agenda" of the civil rights movement "should be," Dr. King discussed and rejected Beck's view that the civil rights movement should have been solely about "equal justice" rather than economic justice. King instead took the position that reducing inequality was necessary in order to give everyone, in Beck's works, "an equal shot." Indeed, in 1958, King wrote that "economic injustice" was the "inseparable twin of racial injustice" (emphasis added):
From my early teens in Atlanta I was deeply concerned about the problem of racial injustice. I grew up abhorring segregation, considering it both rationally inexplicable and morally unjustifiable. I could never accept the fact of having to go to the back of the bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first time that I was seated behind the curtain in a dining car I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood. I had also learned that the inseparable twin of racial injustice is economic injustice. I saw how the systems of segregation ended up in the exploitation of the Negro as well as poor whites. Through these early experiences I grew up deeply conscious of the varieties of injustice in our society. [A Testament of Hope, 37]
Likewise, in an essay published after his death, King wrote that "justice for black people" would require "radical changes in the structure of our society" to alleviate economic inequality:
Justice for black people will not flow into society merely from court decisions nor from fountains of political oratory. Nor will a few token changes quell all the tempestuousness yearnings of millions of disadvantaged black people. White America must recognize that justice for black people cannot be achieved without radical changes in the structure of our society. The comfortable, the entrenched, the privileged cannot continue to tremble at the prospect of change in the status quo.
Steven Vincent Benet had a message for both white and black Americans in the title of a story, Freedom Is a Hard Bought Thing. When millions of people have been cheated fro centuries, restitution is a costly process. Inferior education, poor housing, unemployment, inadequate health care - each is a bitter component of the oppression that has been our heritage. Each will require billions of dollars to correct. Justice so long deferred has accumulated interest and its cost for this society will be substantial in financial as well as human terms. This fact has not been fully grasped, because most of the gains of the past decade were obtained at bargain prices. The desegregation of public facilities cost nothing; neither did the election and appointment of a few black public officials. [A Testament of Hope, 314-315]
In his celebrated "I Have a Dream" speech, King also explicitly linked racial and economic justice, saying that "the Negro still in not free" not only because "the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination" but also because "the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity." This strongly suggests that when King said "Let freedom ring," he was calling for an end to poverty as well as to segregation -- for economic as well as civil rights.
In his final address to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, King made clear his belief that what Beck called "an equal shot" would be impossible unless the federal government did something about extreme poverty through a program of massive redistribution of wealth:
With all the struggle and all the achievements, we must face the fact, however, that the Negro still lives in the basement of the Great Society. He is still at the bottom, despite the few who have penetrated to slightly higher levels. Even where the door has been forced partially open, mobility for the Negro is still sharply restricted. There is often no bottom at which to start, and when there is there's almost no room at the top. In consequence, Negroes are still impoverished aliens in an affluent society. They are too poor even to rise with the society, too impoverished by the ages to be able to ascend by using their own resources. And the Negro did not do this himself; it was done to him. For more than half of his American history, he was enslaved. Yet, he built the spanning bridges and the grand mansions, the sturdy docks and stout factories of the South. His unpaid labor made cotton "King" and established America as a significant nation in international commerce. Even after his release from chattel slavery, the nation grew over him, submerging him. It became the richest, most powerful society in the history of man, but it left the Negro far behind.
And so we still have a long, long way to go before we reach the promised land of freedom. Yes, we have left the dusty soils of Egypt, and we have crossed a Red Sea that had for years been hardened by a long and piercing winter of massive resistance, but before we reach the majestic shores of the promised land, there will still be gigantic mountains of opposition ahead and prodigious hilltops of injustice. (Yes, That's right) We still need some Paul Revere of conscience to alert every hamlet and every village of America that revolution is still at hand. Yes, we need a chart; we need a compass; indeed, we need some North Star to guide us into a future shrouded with impenetrable uncertainties.
Now, in order to answer the question, "Where do we go from here?" which is our theme, we must first honestly recognize where we are now. When the Constitution was written, a strange formula to determine taxes and representation declared that the Negro was sixty percent of a person. Today another curious formula seems to declare he is fifty percent of a person. Of the good things in life, the Negro has approximately one half those of whites. Of the bad things of life, he has twice those of whites. Thus, half of all Negroes live in substandard housing. And Negroes have half the income of whites. When we turn to the negative experiences of life, the Negro has a double share: There are twice as many unemployed; the rate of infant mortality among Negroes is double that of whites; and there are twice as many Negroes dying in Vietnam as whites in proportion to their size in the population. (Yes) [applause]
In other spheres, the figures are equally alarming. In elementary schools, Negroes lag one to three years behind whites, and their segregated schools (Yeah) receive substantially less money per student than the white schools. (Those schools) One-twentieth as many Negroes as whites attend college. Of employed Negroes, seventy-five percent hold menial jobs. This is where we are.
King called for rectifying this economic gap through a federal program of guaranteed annual income.


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1. O thou, before the world began,Ordained a sacrifice for man,And by th'eternal Spirit madeAn off'ring in the sinner's stead;Our everlasting Priest art thou,Pleading thy death for sinners now.
2. Thy off'ring still continues newBefore the righteous Father's view.Thyself the Lamb forever slain;Thy priesthood doth unchanged remain.Thy years, O God, can never fail,Nor thy blest work within the veil.
3. Oh, that our faith may never moveBut stand unshaken as thy love,Sure evidence of things unseen;Now let it pass the years betweenAnd view thee bleeding on the tree:My Lord, my God, who dies for me.
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Ah, the holidays. All that family time together. It's prime memoir season ~ keep that notebook handy.
I can't take credit for the essay below. The author is Frank Bruni, the soulful and insightful guy who wrote the remarkable memoir Born Round.
Do listen to Bruni read the audio version of his book.
It's an endless feast.
Note: It isn't a stretch to say I recognize this family.
The Endless Feast
By the time we Brunis reach the climax of our Thanksgiving celebration, any other family would be done, wiped out, its bloated and inert members sprawled across couches and chairs and even the floor—not just uninterested in more food but flat-out incapable of ingesting it.
Not us. Oh no. By 6 P.M., we're on our second wind. Never mind that our sumptuous repast, consumed from 1 P.M. until about 3:30 P.M., encompassed nearly a dozen canapés and appetizers, some as rich as quiche Lorraine; a dozen side dishes, most of them starch bombs; a turkey very nearly prehistoric in heft, as though it had been crossbred with a pterodactyl; and at least three kinds of pie, with just as many kinds of ice cream, so that everyone can mix and match to his or her heart's desire. We have put all of that behind us, because we have crucial pleasures ahead. We have, to be precise, sandwiches.
That doesn't sound so momentous? Then you're not lavishing the sort of care on Thanksgiving leftovers that we are. Someone from the family goes out that very morning to a proper Italian bakery for proper Italian sandwich rolls, freshly made so that they're cotton-soft on the inside and crisp to the point of crackling on the outside, with a faintly yeasty perfume still clinging to them. These rolls aren't so much beds as thrones for the tiers of white and dark meat—it's best to use some of both—that they will support, along with the slices of tomato and maybe romaine lettuce and surely condiments, from an array covering most of Aunt Carolyn's vast kitchen island: mayonnaise and Miracle Whip, two kinds of mustard, pan gravy, canned cranberry jelly, fresh cranberry sauce, and even, incredibly, stuffing. People somehow find room for it, in their rolls and their bellies.
I keep my own sandwich simple, just turkey (with some skin), tomato, mayo (wicked, but utterly essential), and salt. It's a broad, blunt, wondrous creation. But I'm moved less by its majesty than by its -context—by my sense of the ritual surrounding it as something that sets my family apart and, really, defines us.
When it comes to special-occasion food, we believe in bounty and do it to excess, because that's what my paternal grandparents did and that's how we honor them. They emigrated from Italy in the 1920s with little but hope, and for them a banquet of ludicrous proportions was a statement that they had made it in this new land and could be generous, lavish, even foolish with what they had.
All these years later, the Brunis still believe in the power of food to nourish more than flesh and bone. When we're at the table, we're removed from all the business and all the distractions that keep people from true conversation, real connection. So we find ways to stay and return there. The longer we eat, the better we love.
Sure, we could have our sandwiches the next day, each of us taking home a fraction of the leftovers, but believe me, no one else would unfurl a condiment spread like Aunt Carolyn. The next day, there won't be some warm turkey from the extra breast that she cooks just for sandwich time. And the next day we won't be together. There's no way the sandwiches could taste as good.
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As Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger enter their fourth year at Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft, new challenges await them, both "professional" and personal. The Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire video game sticks strictly to the adventure aspects of the story, never touching upon the sticky relationship drama that makes up key subplots in the novel and the film. You'll still have plenty to do in the game, though: Guide the trio of young wizards through various locales, fight magical creatures, solve puzzles, and usher Harry through the Triwizard Tournament challenges just before a climactic showdown with Lord Voldemort himself. Though the collection aspects of the game are a drag at times, The Goblet of Fire still does enough to keep Potter fans engaged throughout.
The Goblet of Fire makes a few departures from the last game in the series, The Prisoner of Azkaban. You still play as Harry, Ron, and Hermione, but the three don't have unique abilities anymore. You also can't switch between them during a mission in The Goblet of Fire. But you'll still solve plenty of environmental puzzles using each character's standard, context-sensitive charm spells. Cast a charm in the direction of a boulder and you'll lift it with a wingardium leviosa spell. Cast it in the direction of a fire, and your character will automatically do an aqua eructo charm to conjure a stream of water for dousing the flame. Carpe retractum (for opening gates) and herbivicus (for causing plants to bloom) are other context-sensitive charms used in the game. The puzzles you need to solve are usually fairly obvious. For example, while exploring the greenhouses of Hogwarts, you may need to use carpe retractum to pull down bridges, and herbivicus to open up lily pads that let you cross small bodies of water. Some obstacles, like extra-large boulders or flames, require two or more of the characters to simultaneously cast their charms to overcome them. The artificial intelligence controlling the other characters is smart enough to help you out when it needs to, but if you're playing three-player cooperative mode, you'll need to work with your friends to do the same task. It's also worth noting that players can jump out of cooperative mode at any time, switching control over to the computer if one player needs to leave.
Jinx spells are another primary spell type. Jinxes are basically just an attack you use to attack monsters in the game, which include fire salamanders, dugbogs, and erklings. The menagerie isn't very extensive, but each of the monsters has a different fighting style and offers a different challenge. You can combine charms and jinxes to do combined attacks on creatures, as well. For example, if one character lifts a creature up in the air with a wingardium leviosa charm, the others can jinx it while it's being held for a combined attack, which is more powerful and effective than just spamming the jinx button.
As you make your way through the game's levels, solving puzzles and fighting creatures, you'll collect Bertie Bott's Every-Flavor Beans, which you can get when dropped by defeated creatures, or by jinxing random parts of the environments. The beans serve as currency, which you can use to buy cards to power up each character. The character card system adds depth to the game, letting you customize each of the three characters depending on the situation and play style. Some cards increase the power of your jinxes; others add stamina or duration to your magicus extremus meter, which when filled, gives you a limited amount of increased firepower for your spells. The more expensive and interesting cards let you fire double or triple jinxes with each cast, or give you an advantage against certain creatures. Each character can only use three cards in a mission, so you'll need to choose carefully before starting. Each character also maintains his or her own bean count and deck of cards, so that encourages you to switch between characters as you go through the campaign and make sure all of them have around equal power.
The primary gameplay in The Goblet of Fire involves collecting Triwizard shields that are scattered about the various levels. Some are hidden away for you to pick up, while others are earned by defeating boss creatures. Most of them require you to use your spells to solve environmental puzzles and reach them in out-of-the-way places. As you collect Triwizard shields, later levels are unlocked for play, letting you explore areas such as the Forbidden Forest and the roofs and greenhouses of Hogwarts. There are other items scattered about the levels, such as minishields, statuettes, and mushrooms, that you're asked to collect. Some of these also yield Triwizard shields, while others unlock cards. The problem is that after you've collected all of a certain item, it's never made clear what you've won. Sometimes a Triwizard shield popped up elsewhere in the level. Other times, we never quite figured out what we won by finding all the statuettes or magic mushrooms in a given map. Because the game relies a lot on having you replay certain levels to find all the collectibles, it's somewhat frustrating to not receive immediate feedback on what you've gotten out of searching every nook and cranny. Despite that flaw, it's still pretty fun to explore each of the game's levels the first time, fighting the monsters and finding the Triwizard shields.
The Triwizard challenges you unlock also help mix up the gameplay, as they're different in nature from the standard levels. The Triwizard challenges follow the template used in the book and the film; one challenge has Harry fly off on his broom with a dragon in pursuit, while another has Harry explore the depths of the Black Lake. These levels don't involve any exploration or collection--they're pretty much linear races, with some light combat involved.
Graphically, The Goblet of Fire is competent, excelling the most in its environment. For example, as you scale the towers and roofs of Hogwarts, you can see the surrounding buildings of the school grounds in the distance. The dragon that chases you through your first play of the Forbidden Forest is also quite imposing and impressive visually. Spell effects also look impressive, making use of particles and other lighting effects. However, the character models look pretty small on screen and don't animate particularly well. What's most disappointing is that the game never leverages any media from the film, aside from still shots used to decorate the cards. The cutscenes in the game are comic-like in their style, not unlike the cover art of the books. Though they still offer an air of authenticity, the frugal nature of the cutscenes seems oddly deflating given the visual splendor Potter fans have come to expect from the films. The four platforms look quite similar in general, with the Xbox and PC versions offering the sharpest graphics, and the PS2 and GameCube versions looking somewhat muddier in comparison. As far as sound goes, the spells and creature effects seem pretty good, as does the music used in the menus and during cutscenes. The voice acting used in the game can get somewhat repetitive over time.
As a platformer aimed at the younger crowd of Potter fans, The Goblet of Fire does a good job at delivering an experience that is in line with the plot of the books. Even if you're an older fan of the Harry Potter books, the game is still worth checking out, especially if you've got two other friends to play the game in three-player cooperative mode. It's definitely not quite as awe-inspiring an experience as seeing the films, but if you want a more interactive take on what it might be like to be in the world of magic, The Goblet of Fire video game will suit you just fine.


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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Penn State won't increase football season ticket prices or current donation levels in 2013, and announced tweaks to guidelines including a lower, $200 level of giving for booster-club members.
The changes were announced Wednesday amid smaller crowds at Beaver Stadium for the first three games of 2012. While still large for college football, Penn State nonconference attendance this season failed to top 98,700 to the 106,500-seat stadium. Big Ten play starts Saturday with a visit from No. 24 Northwestern.
An associate athletic director has said lower attendance was expected two years into the introduction of new season-ticket guidelines that divided the stadium into pricing zones. Attendance is down about 10 percent over the last two years.
The actual cost of the seat for season-ticket holders will remain $55.
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Lockout Sends NHL Stars to the Alps
Chicago Blackhawks center Patrick Kane may have won the Stanley Cup, but he's currently playing for an obscure team in Switzerland as the NHL player lockout continues. The good news? Swiss fans are loving it. WSJ's Joshua Robinson reports.
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Jackie Reses, Yahoo's head of HR and mergers and acquisitions, recently told employees that the company had two big acquisition deals in the works, Kara Swisher reports at AllThingsD.
There are also a half-dozen smaller deals in the work, similar to Yahoo's recent acquisitions of Stamped and OnTheAir, two small startups which brought teams experienced in mobile development to the company.
Swisher speculates that a purchase of Pinterest, Tumblr, or Foursquare would be interesting for the company, as would ad-tech companies like Jumptap or PubMatic.
But those all seem like they'd be too expensive for Yahoo, which plans to return cash from its recent sale of Alibaba shares to shareholders.
Yahoo could do smaller deals in the range of a half-billion dollars or less. It's not clear how many Web companies there are that are both cheap enough to buy and big enough to be worth buying, though.
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Park Police don't think so.
According to Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas, his position on the House Natural Resources Committee gives him dominion over all of the government agencies that body manages. Or, at least, their parking spaces.
Earlier this month, Gohmert got into an argument with Park Police near the Lincoln Memorial, who disagreed with the Congressman's assertion of his parking-space authority. Jake Sherman at Politico reports:
Shortly after 11 p.m. on March 13, officers wrote Rep. Louie Gohmert a citation for parking his black Ford SUV in a spot reserved for National Park Service vehicles, according to a Park Police report obtained by POLITICO.
But Gohmert wasn't having it — he told the Park Police that his congressional parking placard allows him to park in that spot, and he's on the committee that oversees the agency.
Gohmert took the ticket off his windshield and placed it on a police car along with his business card with a message written: "Oversight of Park Service is my job! Natural Resources Thus the Congressional Plate in window."
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With 22% of the national population (11.2 million inhabitants), the Gauteng city-region is the largest and richest region in South Africa, contributing to one-third of national GDP. The area encompasses a series of connected cities, including Johannesburg and the national capital of Tshwane (formerly Pretoria), that function as a single, integrated region. Gauteng has been South Africa's growth engine: for every additional 1% growth in population in the province, 1.6% is added to its contribution to national growth, implying higher productivity than in other parts of the country. Nevertheless, the city-region's growth potential is constrained by deep socio-economic challenges, including high unemployment (26.9%) and low productivity growth. Its rapid demographic and economic development has also reinforced the spatial segregation instituted under apartheid.
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Schurbon Engine And Machine Endures Hardship, Placing Sixth In Our Contest
To see video of Schurbon's dyno run click here.
As last year's runner-up finisher, Schurbon Engine and Machine made impressive power with their Magnum-headed stroker small-block, finishing second only to the somewhat exotic entry of Indy Cylinder Head. So as this year's Amsoil/Mopar Muscle Engine Challenge began, everyone was eager to see how the 440 built by Schurbon Engine and Machine would perform in the 2008 contest. Unfortunately, a series of unplanned events would keep us from seeing the true potential of this motor. Even so, the Schurbon engine made an impressive 654.8 hp and 568 lb/ft of torque on Rockett Brand 93 octane pump fuel, for a combined score of 1223.8 and a sixth place finish. Had the engine not been damaged on its first pull, we're sure these numbers would have been higher, making Schurbon a contender for a better finish, but this year the deck just seemed to be stacked against engine builder Scott Schurbon.
The problems encountered by Schurbon Engine and Machine this year began well before their engine was bolted to Comp's dyno in September. In fact, shortly after Scott assigned the Challenge 440 to his top engine builder Devin Sievels, Devin was tragically killed in a motorcycle accident on April 5, 2008. The loss of Devin affected everyone at Schurbon Engine and Machine as they lost not only a valuable employee, but a close friend. As an experienced race-engine builder, Devin had big plans for this 440 and energetically began the project. Unfortunately, Devin didn't survive to see the fruits of his labor as the 440 was in the preliminary stages at the time of his death. Struggling to regain Devin's excitement, Scott and the rest of the crew at Schurbon pitched in to finish the engine in his honor, but struggled emotionally due to the loss of their coworker and friend. Pressing on, they did complete the engine just in time for a dyno test session, but then had to repair the engine on the dyno, barely making the drop-off deadline of last year's Mopar Nationals.
Once at Comp for our dyno session, Scott was optimistic about his entry, but we could tell the emotional impact of losing an employee and friend was bothering him. Wishing Devin could have completed this engine, and wanting the entry to perform well, Scott had a lot on his mind and inadvertently set the engine's timing to 64 degrees total advance for its first pull. During the pull the engine sounded ok, but something was off as it didn't make the power it should have. Checking the timing again for the second pull, Scott quickly realized his mistake and corrected it, but the damage was already done. Rather than blaming the equipment or circumstances, Scott took full responsibility for the error and felt terrible because of all the work his employees put into the motor. Luckily, the engine survived to make all the required pulls, though the post-dyno teardown revealed two blown head gaskets and several pinched compression rings due to heavy detonation induced by the improper ignition timing. Even so, the 440 made an impressive 654.8 hp and 569 lb/ft of torque. We can only speculate as to how much power this engine would have made if it were healthy, but we're sure it would have certainly finished better than sixth place.
Though Scott was a good sport about his mistake, we know that he's actually very serious about his work. Scott is an accomplished and professional engine builder having placed second only to Indy Cylinder Head in last year's competition, and the employees of Schurbon Engine and Machine are equally as dedicated to their profession. This year the 440 they entered in our contest would have certainly been a top contender had it not been damaged during its first pull. While Scott claims there's no excuse for his mistake, to us it serves as a good example of how stress and unfamiliar equipment can cause even a true professional to make an error. As we evaluate the Schurbon Engine and Machine entry in this month's issue, remember that the power numbers don't indicate the true potential of this engine, nor are they indicative of Scott's abilities.
Starting with a seasoned factory 440 block, Schurbon Engine and Machine performed all the necessary machine work in-house, squaring and decking the block and boring it .060 inch oversize. For a strong rotating assembly, Schurbon utilized an RPM forged steel crankshaft and RPM I-beam forged steel connecting rods along with Probe forged pistons. Total Seal Piston Rings were used to seal the cylinders, and Fel-Pro gaskets and seals kept the oil and coolant where it was supposed to be. Clevite bearings were utilized throughout the engine, and a Melling oil pump was combined with a Moroso pan and fabricated windage tray to keep everything lubricated with Amsoil synthetic oil. A Chenoweth main stud girdle was also employed, giving the mains extra support, and ARP studs and fasteners were used throughout the engine. When picking a camshaft, engine builder Scott Schurbon enlisted the help of the Comp Cams engineering department to help recommend a solid-roller camshaft for this application. The cam they chose had nearly .800 inch intake and exhaust lift with 271/279 degrees of duration at .050 inch lift respectively, and was spun by an Engine Pro timing chain and gears.
Topping this stout 440, Schurbon Engine and Machine utilized the same Indy SR aluminum cylinder heads that our rules required each builder to use. Starting with the bare CNC castings, the heads were ported and flowed in-house for optimum performance. Knowing the loss suffered by Schurbon, engine builder David Bruns of Mid-America Racing Engines graciously offered his time to help with the cylinder head porting. Ferrea 2.19-inch intake and 1.88-inch stainless steel exhaust valves were installed after the port work was finished and Comp Cams springs, retainer, and locks were utilized. PRW roller rocker arms were used for their strength, durability, and relative low cost. For induction, an Edelbrock Super Victor single-plane aluminum intake manifold was installed, and a modified Holley Dominator handled mixing the fuel and air. To ignite the mixture, an MSD Pro-Billet distributor and Super Conductor plug wires were used for their proven performance.
Editor's Note: In the May issue, we incorrectly stated that the cylinder head porting performed on the Chenoweth Speed and Machine entry was accomplished by Indy Cylinder Head. The CNC porting was actually performed by Jeff Kobylski of Modern Cylinder Head. Additionally, the camshaft in the Chenoweth's engine was changed just before the engine was delivered to a custom grind recommended by Comp Cams engineer Chris Padgett. The actual specs of the camshaft are .269 degrees on the intake, and .280 degrees of duration on the exhaust at .050 inch lift, with .800 inch lift on the intake and .772 inch lift exhaust.
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"Thank God I'm an Atheist." -lol
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people. - from TV show House
"Why would anyone want to follow Jesus? He couldn't even remember his 'SAFE WORD!" - lol
...and he needs money.
Philosophy involves questions that may never be answered, while religion involves answers that may never be questioned. - Anonymous
With or without religion you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things, but for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. -Steven Weinberg
Xenophanes - But if cattle and horses and lions had hands
or could paint with their hands and create works such as men do,
horses like horses and cattle like cattle
also would depict the gods' shapes and make their bodies
of such a sort as the form they themselves have.
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Friedrich Nietzsche
"I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can't generate. Life becomes stagnant." --Rufus, Dogma (1999) Granted it was about on how to approach faith, but it does have a freethinking tinge to it.
"I don't know what that says to you, but to me it says that following these faiths based on mythological figures ensures the destruction of one's inner being. Organized religion destroys who we are by inhibiting our actions, by inhibiting our decisions out of, out of fear of some, some intangible parent figure who, who shakes a finger at us from thousands of years ago and says, and says, "Do it... do it and I'll fuckin' spank you." --Loki, Dogma(1999)
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." -- Aldous Huxley
"He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave." -- William Drummond
"An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to snakes or the parting of the waters." -- Harry Drummond, Inherit the Wind(1960)
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If you are exposed to a hazardous substance such as ethylene oxide, several factors will determine whether harmful health effects will occur and what the type and severity of those health effects will be. These factors include the dose (how much), the duration (how long), the route or pathway by which you are exposed (breathing, eating, drinking, or skin contact the other chemicals to which you are exposed, and your individual characteristics such as age, sex, nutritional status, family traits, life style, and state of health.
1.1 What is ethylene oxide?
Ethylene oxide (also known as ETO or oxirane) is a flammable gas with a somewhat sweet odor. It dissolves easily in water, alcohol, and most organic solvents. Ethylene oxide is produced in large volumes and is used to make other chemicals, especially ethylene glycol, a chemical used to make antifreeze and polyester. Most ethylene oxide is used up in the factories where it is produced. A very small amount (less than 1%) is used to control insects on stored agricultural products such as nuts and spices.
Ethylene oxide is also used in very small amounts in hospitals to sterilize medical equipment and supplies.
When ethylene oxide is produced or used, some of the gas is released to air and water. If it is released into the air, humidity and sunlight cause it to break down within a few days. In water, ethylene oxide will either break down or be destroyed by bacteria within a few days.
1.2 How might I be exposed to ethylene oxide?
You are not likely to be exposed to ethylene in the general environment. In studies of the air quality in Texas and California, no ethylene oxide was found. There is also no evidence that ethylene oxide is commonly found in water. Because of the limited information about ethylene oxide in air, water, or soil at hazardous waste sites, we do not know how likely it is that you might be exposed to ethylene oxide at or near these sites.
You may be exposed to ethylene oxide if you work where it is produced or used. Health care workers, such as technicians, nurses, and physicians in hospitals and clinics, may have contact with ethylene oxide because it is used to sterilize medical equipment and supplies. Since ethylene oxide is used as a fumigant to spray agricultural products, if you are a farmer or work on a farm where ethylene oxide is used, you may also be exposed to this substance.
It is not known if food crops are a source of exposure to ethylene oxide for the general public. Ethylene oxide has been found at levels up to 3.5 parts of ethylene oxide per one million parts of food (3.5 ppm) in some foods shortly after being sprayed with pesticide that contains it. These levels decrease with time as ethylene oxide evaporates or breaks down into other substances, and thus little or none may remain when the food is eaten.
1.3 How can ethylene oxide enter and leave my body?
Ethylene oxide can enter your body when air containing this substance is breathed into your lungs. Because ethylene oxide evaporates very easily, it is unlikely that it remains in or on food or remains dissolved in water long enough to be eaten or swallowed, although this is not known for certain. It is not known if ethylene oxide can enter the body through the skin.
After a person has been exposed to ethylene oxide, it leaves the body through the urine or feces or by breathing it out through the lungs. This probably occurs very rapidly, perhaps within 2 or 3 days.
1.4 How can ethylene oxide affect my health?
Ethylene oxide can cause a wide variety of harmful health effects in exposed persons. In general, with higher levels of exposure to the chemical, more severe effects will occur. The major effects seen in workers exposed to ethylene oxide at low levels for several months or years are irritation of the eyes, skin, and mucous membranes and problems in the functioning of the brain and nerves. At higher levels of exposure to ethylene oxide, which may result from accidents or equipment breakdown, the types of effects are similar, but they are more severe and harmful. There is also some evidence that exposure to ethylene oxide can cause an increased rate of miscarriages in female workers exposed to ethylene oxide. Studies in animals have shown that breathing ethylene oxide at high levels can interfere with their ability to reproduce. Litter sizes have been smaller than usual, and the babies of exposed animals have weighed less than normal and have had delayed bone formation.
Scale studies of workers exposed to ethylene oxide in ethylene oxide factories or hospital sterilizing rooms have shown an increased incidence of leukemia, stomach cancer, cancer of the pancreas and Hodgkin's disease. Ethylene oxide has also been shown to cause cancer in laboratory animals. Leukemia, brain tumors, lung tumors and tumors of the tear glands of the eye have been found.
1.5 What levels of exposure have resulted in harmful health effects?
Skin contact with ethylene oxide can result in blisters and burns that may appear to be similar to frostbite. With longer times of contact, there is a more severe reaction. Eye damage can also result from ethylene oxide contact.
It is possible to smell ethylene oxide if it is present in water at or above 140 mg per liter (about one quart) of water. It can also be smelled in air if it is present at or above 430 ppm (430 parts of ethylene oxide per million parts of air).
Exposure to high levels (700 ppm) of ethylene oxide in air has resulted in seizures and cataracts in people. Exposure to lower levels has resulted in problems with hand/eye coordination and eye and nose irritation. In animals, kidney damage has been seen at levels of 100 ppm, while lower levels (50 ppm) have resulted in decreased physical activity.
1.6 Is there a medical test to determine whether I have been exposed to ethylene oxide?
There are two kinds of tests that can determine if you have been exposed to ethylene oxide within the last couple of days. These tests are not routinely done in a doctor's office, but can be done in a special laboratory. One test measures this substance in blood, the other measures it in air that you breathe out of your lungs. If you were exposed to ethylene oxide more than two or three days ago, there may be no ethylene oxide remaining in your body. In addition, if you have been exposed to very low levels of ethylene oxide, these tests may not detect it. The results of these tests cannot be used to predict the type or severity of health effects resulting from exposure.
1.7 What recommendations has the federal government made to protect human health?
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has set a tolerance limit of 50 ppm of ethylene oxide in ground spices. Any release to the environment greater than 10 pounds must be reported to the EPA.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has set a limit of 1 ppm over an 8-hour workday, 40-hour workweek with a short-term exposure limit (not to exceed 15 minutes) of 5 ppm.
The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) recommends that average workplace air should contain less than 0.1 ppm ethylene oxide averaged over a 10-hour workday, 40-hour workweek.
The federal recommendations have been updated as of July 1999.
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). 1990. Toxicological profile for ethylene oxide. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service.
Where can I get more information?
If you have questions or concerns, please contact your community or state health or environmental quality department or:
For more information, contact:
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Division of Toxicology and Human Health Sciences
1600 Clifton Road NE, Mailstop S102-1
Atlanta, GA 30333
Phone: 1-800-CDC-INFO · 888-232-6348 (TTY)
Email: Contact CDC-INFO
ATSDR can also tell you the location of occupational and environmental health clinics. These clinics specialize in recognizing, evaluating, and treating illnesses resulting from exposure to hazardous substances.
- Page last reviewed: January 21, 2015
- Page last updated: January 21, 2015
- Content source: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry


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...'cuz that stack of diapers is really a cake. (I know, right?!) I'd love to see how it's made.
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Zoe Saldana wore the blush-colored short stunner with nude and gunmetal cap-toe heels and a box clutch back in December at the Trevor Project's 2012 Trevor Live event. Kim Kardashian recently rocked it on "Live! with Kelly and Michael," pairing it with nude ankle-strap Christian Louboutin stilettos.
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Of course "Bullet to the Head," based on the graphic novel "Du Plomb Dans la Tete" and adapted by Alessandro Camon, works in some running jokes about Jimmy being a dinosaur. He doesn't really understand how the whole Google thing works, and there's a lot of "not bad for an old man" quipping from sidekicks and/or adversaries every time Jimmy comes out on top in a confrontation.
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