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Proposal from first Drupal Governance Sprint
(This blog post is jointly written by Angela Byron, Randy Fay, Greg Dunlap, David Strauss and Dries Buytaert.)
As mentioned last month, on July 16 - 17, 2012, several community leaders in the Drupal project sat down with several community leaders from other open source projects and tried to hash out a governance structure to support the Drupal community's continued growth. "Governance" in this case, encompassing all the things we do to organize ourselves, make plans and decisions together, get things done, and resolve conflicts.
Here are the proposals we came up with, and we are actively seeking community feedback on the ideas within.
What problems are we trying to solve?
We began the sprint by brainstorming a list of problems we're hitting, given the scale of our community. This list included items such as:
- No obvious answer to the question, "Who can make a decision here?" and as a result, important decisions can get stale-mated, or in the worst case leave smouldering craters where a healthy, functioning community used to be.
- Because the Code of Conduct punts on the topic of conflict resolution, a handful of already swamped individuals get tapped on an ad-hoc basis to intervene in conflict situations. This both burns out those individuals, and also leaves the vast majority of the community who don't know who those individuals are with no conflict resolution path apart from "repeat what I already said, but with more volume".
- While our "do-ocracy" model generally works well for our community, it can also lead to situations like "Tyranny of the person with the most time on their hands." We need ways for smart people who can't be on IRC 18 hours a day or read 300+ reply issues to participate and be respected as equals.
Over the course of two days, Drupal community members Dries Buytaert, Angela Byron, Randy Fay, Greg Dunlap, and David Strauss met and discussed a variety of these and other governance topics, and we also received input from Jono Bacon, community manager for the Ubuntu project, Jared Smith, former project lead of the Fedora project, and David Eaves.
Steve Edwards also recorded a podcast about the Governance Sprint; it provides more background on what problems we are trying to solve.
Overview of proposed changes
We propose the creation of a number of "working groups" that essentially make more explicit community structures that already exist. Each working group would consist of ~5 people, appointed by Dries, in charge of collaborating with the community in order to establish effective policy. Each working group will have one "lead" member (chair) who communicates major items and works with Dries. Some working groups will have a set duration (e.g. life cycle of a Drupal core release), others may have terms. Dries, as project lead, also reserves the ability to terminate a group at any time if it feels like they are overstepping their scope (charter).
The summary, in essence:
- Establish clearly chartered working groups where currently loosely defined individuals are taking on things that are community-shaping in their scope.
- Empower these working groups to make decisions, so important community governance decisions do not get stalemated. Keep the groups small enough that decision-making can take place efficiently, but large enough that a diversity of opinions are represented.
- Make it more transparent and obvious, to newcomers and community insiders alike, where "the buck stops" with decision-making in our community in various areas, what the structure of the community is, what's expected of them, and who to turn to for help.
"Drupal" groups
The "Drupal" groups encompass areas that touch Drupal core or contrib, or the Drupal community itself. The ultimate "buck stops here" with these groups is with Dries Buytaert, the Drupal project lead.
Community Working Group
Inspired by the Fedora Community Working Group, this group would be responsible for maintaining a friendly and welcoming community, and their charter will likely consist of items such as:
- Maintaining and updating community-governing policies like the Drupal Code of Conduct.
- Helping with mentorship and on-boarding of new community members.
- Ensuring existing community members have their needs met.
- Intervening as mediators in cases of conflict resolution (where the conflict cannot be worked out among individuals first) or burnout.
- Issuing sanctions in cases of extreme policy violations.
In other words, this working group tries to make sure the "people" side of our community is functioning well. It doesn't set technical policy or intervene in any code-related matters; this is the role of the Technical Working Group. The ideal make-up of this group would be community-minded people with extreme amounts of patience, empathy, and diplomacy skills.
Technical Working Group
A corollary to the Community Working Group, this group would set and maintain policies around the technical aspects of our community, including:
- Develop and maintain policies around things such as:
- Establishing best practices and recommendations around bug/issue workflows; for example, strongly encouraging a workflow of idea -> architecture review -> implementation -> code style/clean-up.
- Recommending to the Drupal Association tool changes that will help accelerate contribution.
- Intervening as mediators in cases of technical conflict (where the conflict cannot be worked out among individuals first).
In other words, this working group tries to make sure the "technical" side of our community is working well. "People" problems would be escalated to the Community Working Group. Nevertheless, the ideal make-up of this group would be community-minded people who are also technical, known to be fair, and adverse to making new rules.
Drupal Core
A lot of time was devoted at the sprint to discussing Drupal Core, and how to address some of the challenges surrounding its development. For example, there is currently a lot of tapping of internal networks to move things along in core, and those without access to those networks can feel blocked out. It's also very difficult to get an answer as to whether or not something is "core-worthy" until far too late in its development process, making major feature development a risky affair.
The recommendation from the Governance Sprint is something like the following, which would not take effect until the Drupal 9 development cycle.
Drupal Core Initiative Working Group
This group works with Dries Buytaert, the Drupal project lead, in order to tackle strategically vital initiatives within Drupal core. Membership includes the initiative leads. This would entail a bit more formalized structure, including milestones and progress tracking, bi-weekly meetings among the various initiatives, and so on.
This would be essentially formalizing what already exists today with the Drupal 8 initiatives and initiative leads.
Contributions repository
At the Governance Sprint, we agreed to continue not to impose any additional governance structure on contrib, by design. This allows contrib to be an incubator not only for technical solutions, but also for governance itself.
The exception would be conflicts between maintainers or maintainers and their users which are not able to be resolved among the individuals. These would then go to either the Community Working Group or Technical Working Group, as appropriate.
Security and documentation teams
We have a few overall "Teams" that touch elements of the product, including the Documentation Team and Security Team (we also discussed the establishment of a Support Team). As part of the new governance model, we recommend creating charters for these teams that make it explicit to others what their roles and responsibilities are, how to join, and what is expected of them. It's likely these charters will be modeled after something like the Documentation Team and Leader Responsibilities page.
"Operations / Administration" groups
These groups act in support of the Drupal project and its community. The ultimate "buck stops here" with these groups is with the Drupal Association board instead of Dries. Many of these have a financial impact on the Drupal Association and greatly affect its ability to get things done in support of its mission.
And what about Drupal.org?
Next to Drupal core, this is probably where we spent the most time discussing. Drupal.org is special, in that it straddles both the community side of things, as well as the operations / support side of things. It functions through a combination of numerous volunteers as well as funding via the Drupal Association for support staff and development on major initiatives.
At the moment, the best place to put Drupal.org seems like it's at a halfway point between the "Drupal" and "Operations" sides of things, and for the charter of this working group to include the necessity to work with the Drupal Association and community members alike. Though eventually, for both legal and simplicity reasons, it would be better for this to be located under the purview of the Drupal Association board.
A few areas there was broad agreement on, however, were the following:
- Split off a separate "Drupal.org content" working group from the "Drupal.org webmasters" working group; different skills/levels of trust are needed for managing the content on Drupal.org versus managing access and performing moderation of abuse.
- Identify a much smaller subset of the Drupal.org webmasters group to form policy for this team. Currently, there are nearly 150 members with "site maintainer" privileges, and they often make and enforce policy on an ad-hoc, individual basis. Community members currently encounter very inconsistent experiences in the queue.
- While the Drupal Association doesn't manage these groups, it's generally expected that the charters of these groups will include directives to collaborate with the DA in their policy-making decisions in order to ensure the financial sustainability of Drupal.org.
Next steps
We're very interested in community feedback on this direction, either in comments below or privately. We'll provide an update on the progress at DrupalCon Munich.
We encourage everyone to come and get involved in this discussion. As our community grows, it is essential that we come up with a governance structure that matches our core values and allows us our community to be more sustainable for the long haul.
I'm going to have a hard time not being skeptical/cynical until I see this in action, but overall I think this is really fantastic move in the right direction (I'm also happy to lend a hand, if I that would help, as I really would like to see this succeed). I have been a frequent critic of the processes that are covered under this proposal (or lack thereof), and for the first time in a long time I can say that I feel optimistic about the direction that Drupal governance is going.
Thank you to all of those who came together to help guide this tough step towards maturity for our community! As I said before, I'm happy to help, if I can. I look forward to learning/discussing more in Munich.
Great to see so much effort and thought being put into this area.
While reading though, I had a few thoughts:
- I"m not sure it really answers the question "Who can make a decision here?" - it seems like ultimately everything points back to you Dries or to the DA Board (which is still an amorphous entity to most people).
- I'm a little concerned that the "Technical Working Group" starts to sound like a place where technical decisions are made and formalises putting this in the hands of a few people. If the scope of this group could be more contained to the technical infrastructure of *.d.o that would be helpful I think. Though, then it questions the difference between this group and the "Drupal.org Webmasters group"
- Any thought to limiting the number of roles/memberships that any one person can hold at the same time? It seems like much of what is proposed here is formalizing what is already existing, but seeing it all laid out it highlights the volume of roles/responsibilities/duties and just plain workload that is required on an ongoing basis. Having this all concentrated on a small number of people not only leads to burn out, but also illustrates the risk that a few people's contributions/perspectives can have an unhealthy bias (even unintentionally) on the whole project.
I think it might be beneficial to limit the number of leadership and membership roles that any one person can hold and/or provide a bit of check and balance to the approach. This would hopefully reduce burn out and also open more for more people to get involved in these areas.
- Also, just figured I would point out that the http://drupal.org/projects/drupal.org%20projects section of the site is currently very buried from my point of view, which obfuscates the availability of some of these ad-hoc groups that are already existing. Adjusting that could be an easy/quick win until more mature governance changes go into affect.
Great work -- I think this is a really good roadmap, and I would like to thank the 5 of you (and any others who participated) for thinking through things so carefully, and coming up with a structure that (in my opinion) makes a lot of sense.
I do share the concern expressed by Ryan Cross above about the possibility of undue influence from individuals who want to join and/or run multiple working groups. I think his suggestion about possibly limiting any individual's leadership in these working groups is probably a good idea.
I also think it might be important to make it clear that there's a difference between someone who is on the leadership committee of a particular working group, and someone who is working in that area. For instance, in the Documentation area, there are hundreds of people making on-line documentation edits and core/contrib documentation patches, and not all of them will be making policy decisions. But at the same time, saying to someone that they're not a "member of the Documentation working group" could be an insult... I'm just saying we need to think about the terminology. Maybe there are "Working Groups" which have "Leadership Committees" (including one person designated as the "Leader"), and a completely open membership (maybe these people could be called "contributors" or "members")?
Finally, I think the leadership of the working committees (both the main leader and the committee) needs to be thought about carefully. The choice of who is in the leadership committees can't be entirely self-appointed, and it needs to to have the appearance of not being self-appointed at all. Even better if there is a community process for appointing the committees, or at least some room for (private) community input. I say this because during my time serving as the Documentation Team Leader, several times I ran into people who didn't recognize my authority to make decisions, or who thought I had just given myself the title of Team Leader (which wasn't really the case), and this was always uncomfortable.
Anyway... I think the structure is excellent, and I'm looking forward to seeing it in action!
Seems like a great start. I guess the next step is putting people into committees - looking forward to it :)
It seems as though many important decisions get made at sprints, camps and cons in the US, and in US friendly time zones - which effectively shuts out people in the rest of the world from participating in the higher level direction of the project.
This is something I'd like a new governance structure to address.
Yes, i definitely agree here and it seems to be happening more frequently now.
Glad to see these issues are being thought about. I'll also echo Ryan Cross' concern about individuals with undue influence, but I'd extend that to include companies with undue influence. I expect that might be the harder problem to solve. It's not just blatant corruption, but the appearance of impropriety that must be avoided. If one or two commercial enterprises appear to have an overabundance of access and influence, compared to the competition, then it will have a corroding effect on the community. Aquia is of course the obvious concern here, though I think not the only one. I already hear grumblings when I go to Drupal meetups and events, but those grumbles will get louder as policies are codified and dollar figures grow, unless the concerns are addressed.
And not to be a downer, but is thought being given to a secession plan for you, Dries? All the lines in those diagrams still point to you. So what happens if you are somehow incapacitated, abducted by aliens, or simply decide to leave? Will a new project lead be installed in your stead? Installed by who? I think the Drupal community, and the business community, would both breathe easier if policies concerning this eventuality were publicized.
How does the operation of GDO fit into this, including the setting and implementation of policies? Would the Community Working Group handle this, or would it be left to the webmasters?
In a similar vain, how do local user groups fit into this plan? Will they remain a wild-west style do-ocracy, or will there be some process by which local groups can be officially chartered?
Since only a small handful of people (~5 or so) registered for the public WebEx meeting, we decided to cancel it. In its place, we're holding a BoF session at DrupalCon Munich: http://munich2012.drupal.org/content/drupal-governance-20, Wednesday 15:45-16:45. Hope to see some of you there, and we'll link to the meeting minutes here after.


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Gill Moodie: What is so interesting about data visualisation is that it is so multidisciplinary. You need to be a journalist and to know how to mine data and have an understanding of stats. You also need a visual sense and you need to know how to code. (Click here to read a blog post by Kirk on the different skills required: "The 8 hats of data visualisation design".)
Andy Kirk: Yes. It is essentially a unique convergence of art and science. For me, personally, when I was at school I was that rare kid who did art and maths and so the discovery of this field – which was only five or six years ago now –was a real "eureka" moment…
But you're right. It's something that has a lot of facets and a lot of challenges you get from stats, mathematics and the sciences around compu-science and visual perception and psychology – how people relate to shape and form – and then right through to the artistic side and not just computer graphics but also a design instinct…
You may not have all of those skills but you've definitely got a role to play if you've got some of those skills. And then it's about how you find a way to address those gaps – skilling up yourself or collaborating with others who can bring those different perspectives.
Moodie: But even with a design sense, you can still make rubbish infographics. Often you see very counter-intuitive ones. They can be very pretty but you can't work out how they fit together.
Kirk: Yeah. There's a real tight rope to walk – and this is something I really focus on when I teach. Good visualisation is not just about how quickly you get something – that's the first thing. Some things are complex and they need a little bit of time from the reader to invest, to learn how to decode something. But the key skill of the designer is to give them a chance – that when they've learned that, they still get some insight.
So many times there's something that's intriguing but you never get over that barrier of the confusion, the clutter, the unusual representation. So my key piece of advice is that you don't need to dumb things down. You don't need to dilute the essence of a problem but you need to give people a chance that when they invest time to learn something, that they will get there and they'll get to dig out the insides. And that's a real difficult thing. A lot of data visualisation you get these days looks very nice and very clever. They're very intriguing but you never cross into the functional side of things – which is learning something about a subject.
Moodie: And really good visualisation is not just about illustrating the copy but finding entirely new stories and looking at things in a new way.
Kirk: Yeah, absolutely. It's finding stories and telling stories in data visualisation. And sometimes… you're trying to create or provide an interface to let readers find their own stories. You'll frame a subject within a visualisation and it's all about trying to find what's interesting to them, combinations of variables…
Moodie: Let me get my head around that. Are you saying you're giving the reader the opportunity to find what interests them and different combinations of being able to read the information?
Kirk: Yeah, for example, there's a project called Wind Map, which is a very intelligent portrayal of wind speeds and directions in the US.
Moodie: Golly, that would work well in Cape Town, where the wind is such a big factor in our lives but it varies so much from area to area.
Kirk: Yeah. What this (Wind Map) does is that it creates a single interface of millions and millions of data points. But then it allows you, as user, to drill down into the locations that interest you or into the patterns of strong winds or direction and what it means for you.
Moodie: OK, like if you're a surfer, it could tell you a lot about swell.
Kirk: That's right. It allows you to take control and find what's interesting to you.
Moodie: Andy, you travel the world doing training and speaking at conferences. Are their particular countries that do this better than others, do you think?
Kirk: …Up until about two years ago you'd definitely say the States was definitely well ahead of most others and that's in terms of prevalence of data visualisation and also just the tech and the awareness of organisations that this is an important thing to embrace.
But certainly over the last three years, Europe in particular had definitely caught up. There's some great work being done in Germany and Holland and Spain and France… Although it's still quite fragmented. So we've still got fairly small pockets of people doing this in terms of training and design practitioners. It's still very much the start of the journey…
Moodie: Are there any journalism schools that teach this?
Kirk: Yeah, let me point you in the direction of a great podcast. It's called "Data Stories" and it's facilitated by two very prominent names: firstly an Italian guy, who is currently based in Germany called Enrico Bertini, and he's assisted on the podcast by a very prominent German designer called Moritz Stefaner, who is essentially one of the very best designers in the field. He's one of those unique guys who's got every hat (i.e. set of skills). He's a very skilled fellow and they do an informative, very entertaining podcast every couple of weeks…
One of the most recent episodes was an interview with a guy called Alberto Cairo, who is a Spanish fellow currently working at the University of Miami and this episode was really about his most recent book called "The Functional Art"… But Alberto is essentially a data-journalism professor and in this podcast he mentions a number of different schools that are teaching variations of this journalism…
Moodie: You know, we have pockets of innovation in SA but I think one of the reasons this hasn't gained more momentum here is that laying your hands on the data – especially from the government – is not easy.
Kirk: That's one of the things that came across in the training (I did for Media24 in SA recently). Certainly in the UK and the US the culture of data openness and transparency has really got some momentum now.
Moodie: Do you think information is generally more accessible to people if it's visual?
Kirk: Sometimes you don't need to visualise it, you know, so a table might be fine if you're just working on stats… The real value of visualisation is to see the patterns and relationships that you don't see in the raw form…
Moodie: From a journalist's perspective, you seem to be saying that amid all the different skills needed to visualise data, the journalist's role is to think about what the people out there would like to know about.
Kirk: Yeah, and I think that that single skill is important – if not the most important – because this is a person who is able to reason about what are the important stories that I think we should tell and that I think people want to hear. (With data sets) you've got millions of dimensions of stories – that you can slice – and a lot of the weaker visualisation practitioners may be very good designers but they don't have that critical sense of what's the important thing to tell and what to leave out.
And that is something (you find) when you visit a place like The New York Times or The Wall Street Journal. They've got such a critical sense of what's an angle and what's an interesting angle – and the discipline to eliminate everything else because you can't tell every story… It's really about saying: 'I can step away from the temptation of a certain design technique' or 'I can get away from the noise of the data and separate myself from that and say I think we should be looking to tell this story'.
Those journalists out there who are looking to slightly modify their skills sets – if they can pick up these data-handling and statistical capabilities as well as deploying the many free (visualisation) tools – they've got a real strength in terms of doing effective work in this field.
Moodie: Is there a British paper which does this well?
Kirk: I would say that the strongest is The Guardian. It's got a very strong culture of data journalism. Now what they've been doing in the last two or three years is really pioneering this data blog on the website, where every day they will publish a data set that goes with a main story. They've got a number of data journalists, who will very quickly – once a story breaks – publish a data set and also do some visualisation.
The reason why I distinguish them slightly from others is they don't always spend too much time developing very sophisticated, polished visualisations. They spend more time gathering the data, cleaning it, publishing it and then doing some quick visualisation. So they use a lot of the free tools out there such as Tableau Public and Google's visualisation tools like Fusion Tables, for example. If you compare this to The New York Times, for example, (The New York Times) has got the resources, the time, the capacity to create very advanced, very clever successful visualisations and graphics to go with their stories.
So I don't think at the moment that there's another UK paper that stands out very strongly on the data visualisation and design front… The Guardian's (data blog) is a brilliant resource and I would recommend it to people who want to do this.
Moodie: I know you can do really cool things online but surely you can employ data visualisation in print too?
Kirk: I personally think the most elegant work is a static, that conveys motion and emotion. Perhaps I'm biased in this as I don't have the advanced programming skills to create all the interactives that I'd like to build in my head. But I personally think it's amazing what can be done (in print) and is being done.
Moodie: Is that because the choices are so stark in print?
Kirk: You've got a limited static real estate to work in…
Moodie:So it hones the thinking?
Kirk: Yeah, absolutely. As I said before, about the difference between telling a story and allowing people to find their own stories, what we see in an interactive is that it's much easier to give people a chance to find their own stories – which I think, in many respects, increases the responsibility of the designer (doing a static visualisation) to find that analysis and find that story. The best graphic artist and the best visualisation people are really deft when it comes to doing a static portrayal.
[box]SEE ALSO:
Andy Kirk's website, "Visualising data"
'How to start doing data journalism', Editors' Weblog, April 2012
'Design challenges and opportunities behind award-winning online work', Journalism.co.za, May 2011[/box]
This Q&A was first published on Journalism.co.za (November 2012)


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WELCOME to the ATRIAL SEPTAL DEFECT COMMUNITY: This Patient-To-Patient Community is for discussions relating to Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) which is a hole in the part of the septum that separates the atria (the upper chambers of the heart). This hole allows oxygen-rich blood from the left atrium to flow into the right atrium instead of flowing into the left ventricle as it should. This means that oxygen-rich blood gets pumped back to the lungs, where it has just been, instead of going to the body.
Heart attacks result from blood vessel disease in the heart. Coronary heart disease (CHD), sometimes referred to as coronary artery disease (CAD), are more general names for heart attack (and angina).
A heart attack, or myocardial infarction, occurs when the blood supply to part of the heart muscle itself (the myocardium) is severely reduced or stopped. This occurs when one of the coronary arteries (the arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle) is blocked by an obstruction, often plaque due to atherosclerosis. A heart attack also can be caused by a blood clot lodged in a coronary artery. Such an event is sometimes called a coronary thrombosis or coronary occlusion.
If the blood supply is cut off drastically or for a long time, muscle cells suffer irreversible injury and die. Disability or death can result, depending on how much heart muscle is damaged.
Sometimes a coronary artery temporarily contracts or goes into spasm. When this happens the artery narrows and blood flow to part of the heart muscle decreases or even stops. What causes a spasm is unclear, but it can occur in normal blood vessels as well as vessels partially blocked by atherosclerosis. If a spasm is severe, a heart attack may result.
A heart attack isn't the only result of coronary artery disease. Chest pain called angina pectoris also can occur. Angina is a symptom of a condition called myocardial ischemia, which occurs when the heart muscle (myocardium) doesn't get as much blood (hence as much oxygen) as it needs for a given level of work. Lack of blood supply is called ischemia.
Angina pectoris can occur when blood circulation to the heart is sufficient for normal needs but inadequate when the heart's needs increase, such as during physical exertion or emotional excitement. Running to catch a bus, for example, could trigger an attack of angina while walking to a bus stop might not. Some people, such as those with a coronary artery spasm, may have angina when they're resting. Angina can be a warning sign that someone is at risk of heart attack.
Some people have ischemia without pain. As many as three to four million Americans may have ischemic episodes without knowing it. These people have silent ischemia. They may have a heart attack'' with no prior warning. In addition, people with angina also may have undiagnosed episodes of silent ischemia. Various tests, such as an exercise test or a 24-hour portable monitor of the electrocardiogram (Holter monitor), are used to diagnose silent ischemia.
Collateral circulation involves small arteries that connect two larger coronary arteries or different segments of the same artery. They provide an alternate route for blood flow to the heart muscle. Everyone has collateral vessels, at least in microscopic form. These vessels aren't open under normal conditions but grow and enlarge in some people with coronary heart disease. When a collateral vessel enlarges, it lets blood flow from an open artery to either an adjacent artery or further downstream on the same artery. Myocardial ischemia stimulates collateral vessels, so they can form a kind of "detour" around a blockage, providing alternate routes of blood flow.
Research has shown that while everyone has collateral vessels, they don't open and become available in all people. Some people have available collaterals; others don't. People who have open collateral vessels are lucky, because collateral vessels help protect heart muscle from tissue death if the normal blood supply is cut off.
Angina pectoris can be treated with drugs that affect 1) the supply of blood to the heart muscle or 2) the heart's demand for oxygen. Some drugs, called coronary vasodilators, cause blood vessels to relax. When this happens the opening inside the vessels (the lumen) gets bigger. Then blood flow improves, allowing more oxygen and nutrients to reach the heart muscle. Nitroglycerin is the drug most often used. It relaxes the veins (reducing the amount of blood returning to the heart and thus lessening the work of pumping) and the coronary arteries (increasing the blood supply to the heart).
Alternatively, the heart's demand for oxygen also can be modified. For example, a drug can be prescribed to reduce blood pressure and thus reduce the heart's workload and need for oxygen. Drugs that slow the heart rate achieve a similar effect.
Invasive techniques that improve the blood supply to the heart also may be used. One technique is percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), also known as angioplasty or balloon angioplasty. Another procedure is coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
Before performing either of these procedures, a doctor must find the blocked part of the coronary arteries. This is done using coronary arteriography, which is done during a procedure called cardiac catheterization. In this procedure a doctor guides a thin plastic tube (a Catheter) through an artery in the arm or leg and into the coronary arteries. Then the doctor injects a liquid dye visible in X-rays through the catheter. High-speed X-ray movies record the course of the liquid as it flows through the arteries. Doctors can identify obstructions in the arteries by tracing the liquid's flow.
Some newer diagnostic procedures are available to evaluate how well the heart works. These tests may be done before or after a heart attack. Some of these tests are still relatively experimental and are limited to larger medical centers.
PTCA is a procedure designed to dilate (widen or expand) narrowed coronary arteries. In it a doctor inserts a catheter into an artery in an arm or leg and guides it to an obstructed coronary artery. Then a second catheter with a balloon tip is passed inside the first, and the balloon tip is inflated at the arterial blockage. This compresses the plaque, enlarging the inner diameter of the blood vessel so blood can flow more easily. Then the balloon is deflated and the catheters are withdrawn.
In about 25 percent of the people who've had PTCA, the dilated part of the coronary artery renarrows. This usually occurs within the first six months. Then a doctor must decide whether to repeat the operation or if open-heart surgery is a better choice.
In coronary artery bypass graft surgery, surgeons take a blood vessel from another part of the body (usually the leg or from inside the chest wall) and construct a detour around the blocked part of a coronary artery. One end of the vessel is attached above the blockage; the other, to the coronary artery just beyond the blocked area. This restores blood supply to the heart muscle.
People with angina should also modify their controllable risk factors. This means they must not smoke, and should control their blood pressure and make sure their diet doesn't contribute to atherosclerosis or obesity.
These tests involve injecting substances called radionuclides into the bloodstream. Computer-generated pictures can then find them in the heart. These tests show how well the heart muscle is supplied with blood, how well the heart's chambers are functioning, or identify a part of the heart damaged by heart attack.
This test uses powerful magnets to look inside the body. Computer-generated pictures can image the heart muscle, identify damage from a heart attack, diagnose certain congenital heart defects and evaluate disease of larger blood vessels such as the aorta.
This modified form of imaging records pictures of the heart and its blood vessels by computer.
Sometimes the first indications of a heart attack come as warning signals.
The actual diagnosis of a heart attack must be made by a physician who has studied the results of several tests. Besides reviewing a patient's complete medical history and giving a physical examination, a doctor will use an electrocardiogram (EKG) to discover any abnormalities caused by damage to the heart. Sometimes a blood test is used to detect abnormal levels of certain enzymes in the bloodstream.
When a heart attack occurs, it's critical to recognize the signals and respond immediately. About half of all heart attack victims wait two hours or longer before deciding to get help. This reduces their chance of survival, because most heart attack victims who die do so within two hours of when the signals begin. Time is critical. Anyone experiencing the warning signals of a heart attack should be taken immediately to the nearest hospital with 24-hour emergency cardiac care. People who become unconscious before reaching the emergency room may receive emergency cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
Most communities have an emergency cardiac care system that can quickly respond to an emergency. This prompt care for heart attack victims dramatically reduces damage to the heart. In fact, 80 percent of heart attack survivors can return to work within three months. Prompt care for heart attack victims isn't the only reason so many people recover so quickly, but it's an important one.
The importance of time cannot be overemphasized. When a coronary artery gets blocked, the heart muscle doesn't die instantaneously - damage increases the longer an artery remains blocked. If a victim gets to an emergency room fast enough, a form of reperfusion therapy (called thrombolysis) sometimes can be performed. lt involves injecting a thrombolytic (clot-dissolving) agent, such as streptokinase, urokinase or tPA (tissue plasminogen activator), to dissolve a clot in a coronary artery and restore some blood flow. These drugs must be used within a few (usually 1-3) hours of a heart attack for best effect. The sooner a drug is used, the more effective it's likely to be.
In the weeks following a heart attack, either PTCA or coronary artery bypass surgery may be performed to improve the blood supply to the heart muscle. Once part of the heart muscle dies, its function can't be restored. Function may be restored to areas with decreased blood flow, however.
Many scientific studies show that certain characteristics increase the risk of coronary heart disease. These are called risk factors. The four major modifiable risk factors are high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, cigarette smoke and physical inactivity. Other contributing risk factors are diabetes mellitus and obesity.
The American Heart Association strongly urges Americans to control their modifiable risk factors. Also, people with angina should take episodes of chest pain seriously and see their doctor before their atherosclerosis leads to a heart attack.


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Smash it!October 29th, 2011
A few weeks ago I read on Ria Nirwana's blog about the Smash Album. On her blog is also a YouTube movie:
Its an awesome movie and be sure to turn your sound on. The music makes me very happy I fell madly in love with the Smash book. So I went looking and found it at the K&Company website. It was awesome, but the bad thing is: not available in The Netherlands, so the shipping costs would be huge. I showed dan_e the YouTube movie and told him I wanted to move to the US. (just kidding)
So why am I telling you all this? Well that incredibly sweet partner of mine decided to surprise me, so he went on the web and ordered it, not telling me anything. He is good with that: keeping his mouth shut about surprises.
Yesterday when he came at my house, he gave me a box. When I asked what it was he replied: "Oh nothing, just open it." Well 3 guesses what was in it. I am very happy with this "nothing"
There are so much more spreads to show, but i just give you these. I show more when "smashed" my stuff in. Dan_e also got me some cute Smash clips to go with the book. With the book came a pen/glue stick. So you can put it in your bag and always have a pencil and a glue stick handy. I love it.
Heartless by Gail CarrigerOctober 22nd, 2011
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
OMG is this a dread or not. She is pregnant. Every second sentence we are being notified of that fact. My sister in law had twins and did not even look half as fat as Miss Carriger makes us think Alexia is.
I am going to finish it but it's not a pleasant read. I just want to know how it ends – and no, this time I did not read the last chapter after the first, which I usually do. I'm about half way through, so I might finish it soon and I'll give my final rating. It's with books like this, I'm glad I can read very fast.
EDIT October 26th.
So I finished it last Monday, the 24th. And all I say is this: I will remove that one star as well if I could. I seriously don't know what got into miss Carriger by writing such a terrible bad book. Of all the unbelieveble, lousy written crap I have ever read, this is surely in the top 5. I'm going to hate the word "waddle" for a long time now.
Dropped dead Stitch by Maggie SeftonOctober 13th, 2011
Dropped Dead Stitch by Maggie Sefton
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
A quicky: only 185 pages on my e-reader and I finished it within 2 hours. It was a nice read. I always feel like coming home when I pick up one of Maggie Sefton's knitting cozy's. It makes me want to pick up my long time neglected knitting.
This one however was different. I think Miss Sefton tried to make a statement or needed to write about sexual abuse and made one of Kelly's friend a victim. Too bad it did not work out very well. It was too flat, no real depths or emotions that came up. Like even such a horrible event needed to be covered up in cozy warm knitting. It all stayed on the surface, it just wasn't right.
Kelly's sleuthing however was still the same. Even after 2 years she jumps to all the wrong conclusions. But maybe it was this time because she was way on the sideline, like hardly sleuthing herself.
All in all it was not a real great read like the earlier books, but I still like to read about my favourite yarn-shop-in-a-book: House of Lambspun.
Spiders Revenge by Jennifer EstepOctober 13th, 2011
Spider's Revenge by Jennifer Estep
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
What a major disappointment. Nothing new, nothing interesting, Nothing exciting. It was all about dotting the i's and crossing the t's.
You could see all the events coming a mile ahead. I was not surprised just once, all that happened was obvious.
That's all I have to say about it. The story is neatly wrapped up, no loose ends, no cliff hangers.. It is done.


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The Woman Citizen
Speaking to men and women as citizens, co-equal in responsibility for our country and the various messes our government has gotten us into.
Monthly Archive for October, 2013
Citizen-based Immigration Reform
America is once again tying itself in knots about immigration reform. In truth, it's not a difficult problem if you really want to end the practice of importing people while recognizing that their only crime has been to believe in the American dream while being exploited themselves. Because surplus labor benefits capital. That's why America […] [Read More]


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CLEVELAND -- Downtown's Horseshoe Casino is still raking in the millions, and it shows no sign of slowing down as August revenue numbers are released.
"I'm losing, like always," said Brandi Reesey, who has visited the casino twice from her home in Pennsylvania.
It isn't making money that brings Reesey back. But her spins, and maybe yours too, have helped keep Cleveland's casino going.
Last month, the casino pulled in $22.8 millionin revenue. If it continues at that rate, that's more than $270 milliona year.
The state's cut of 33 percent means Cleveland's casino will put $90 million back in the communities, about $30 million to be split among Ohio's schools.
And the state's tax revenue is already paying out. This quarter the city of Cleveland collected $1.2 million.
"I think it's done exactly what we hoped it would do," said Joe Marinucci, the president and CEO of the Downtown Cleveland Alliance.
What was the hope? A better business climate.
"Parking taxes, admission taxes, things of that nature, aside from the casino taxes, are also on the upswing," said Marinucci.
And nearby restaurants, hotels and shops are seeing a difference as well. John Q's Steakhouse has added staff and is considering a weekend lunch.
"It's a nice feeling to be able to be busier than we had been," said owner Rick Cassara, who has been in business there for twenty years.
"We're not totally there yet, but I think this is a real good start. I'm looking forward to the Medical Mart opening and convention center, that's really going to help the whole downtown."
And you can see it right on the sidewalk.
"Seems like there's a bunch more people than there used to be," said Reesey."Right now we're tracking to bring close to six million visitors annually into downtown Cleveland. And that's a fabulous number," said Marinucci.
HorseshowCasino's General Manager Marcus Glover released this statement:
"We are pleased and encouraged by our current revenue numbers, which continue to be driven by very strong attendance. Horseshoe Cleveland has hosted nearly 1.8 million guests since we opened in May and we are looking forward to continuing to serve as one of Downtown Cleveland's top entertainment destinations."
"We are pleased with our monthly results as August is a traditionally slow month. September is off to a great start with the culmination of a very strong Ultimate Jackpot promotion and we are looking forward to finishing the month on a positive note."


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Posted: February 20, 2014
There's exciting news for students who have attended Mt. Hood Community College (MHCC), then transferred to certain Oregon universities.
Students may now qualify for an associate degree from MHCC after transferring to Eastern Oregon University or Portland State University, under "reverse transfer" agreements between MHCC and those schools. A third agreement, with Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT), will be formalized at a signing ceremony and celebration Feb. 22, 3 – 5 p.m. at Flying Pie Pizza, 7804 S.E. Stark St, Portland, Ore., 97215. Debbie Derr, MHCC president, and Chris Maples, OIT president, will formalize the agreement between the two schools.
To qualify for an associate degree through a reverse transfer arrangement, students must be co-admitted at MHCC and one of the three universities and have earned at least 90 credits, with a minimum of 24 of those from MHCC. An estimated 30 OIT students may now be eligible for an associate degree through this program.
"This is a valuable program for students," says John Hamblin, MHCC director of enrollment management, admissions, registration and records. Studies show that students at four-year schools who complete an associate degree at a community college tend to earn a bachelor's degree at a higher rate than students who do not complete an associate degree at a community college.
One Success Leads to Another"It may have to do with momentum and seeing the light at the end of the tunnel," Hamblin explains. "Once students have a diploma for an associate degree in hand, and they see the rewards of all their hard work, it gives them a boost to continue their education and earn a bachelor's degree."
Hamblin adds that with the tough job market, reverse transfer can give an extra edge to recent graduates. Having both an associate and a bachelor's degree on a resume reflects a broader, more accurate view of a graduate's skills and training received over time.
For more information, media professionals may contact the Office of Community Engagement 503-491-7204 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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That's why we want to kick a little gnome thief guy until one of the new Golden Axe The Music CDs falls out of his bag. On February 21st, Sega Direct will release a collection of music from all three Genesis Golden Axes, the Saturn game Golden Axe: The Duel, and both arcade games. The collection will sell for 3,500 yen total ($31).
Check after the break for ten minutes of Sega Master System Golden Axe Warrior gameplay, for no good reason. It's Zeldastic!


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Archive for the 'Upcoming Events' Category
Its Alive!
Dec 19
In Equipment, Upcoming Events at 4:54pm
Yes, indeed, the Dobbs Ferry Workshops are alive once again. I've gotten pinged a bunch over time about reviving them, so we contacted our old studio building back on the Hudson and they said come on back. We will have a classroom/studio room, and the run of this old funky factory building down by the train tracks and the river. Great setting. Lots of peeling paint. Dingy hallways. Loading docks. Photog's dream.
They will run Jan. 19, 20, 21, 22 and 24. We will have breakfast and lunch, snacks, free parking and multiple models, all days. Class size is limited to 12. Fee is $350 for a 10-11 hour day. We will go hard all day, showing examples, shooting demos, working big flash and small flash. Participants get time behind the camera as well as time gripping for shoots and moving gear. We will talk about light all day.
Bogen Imaging and Adorama have stepped up big time to help us out, and we will have toys galore, from big AC power packs to Elinchrom Rangers, Octas, beauty dishes, umbrellas, soft boxes, flats, panels, long throw reflectors, Skyports, c-stands. The whole deal.
We will use SB800 and 900 units, and craft i-TTL solutions that will rival the big flash solutions, and show how to move fluidly between big flash and small flash, and mix the two.
Beauty of working in Dobbs is how close it is to NYC, either a 35 minute train ride (we will pick you up at the Dobbs station, and drop you at end of day) or 45 by car from mid-town Manhattan. And the building is big. And we can move around, and move fast. We had a great time when we did these a few years back, and then we kinda let 'em go when we moved the studio a bit north to CT.
But they're back and they're alive. Hit Lynn with an email at email@example.com, or phoner at 203-438-4750. She's got details and class lists going.
You can also view the workshop announcment here, or download a PDF version here.
I thought Jeff (email@example.com) was gonna shoot me when I posted all this stuff and told the world to give him a shout. (But then he wouldn't wanna hurt an old person.) Typical Jeff, though, he scrambled all the below together, so now you can go individual and get the pieces, or the entire kit, and save $25 and get free shipping. Bob Krist is also very relieved, cause he thought he'd have to start staffing up at home and putting all this together to ship out, and that would interfere with him watching Oprah every afternoon.
The entire kit listed below is SKU# JMLKE, in Adorama's system (Though, it's so new that it isn't yet on their website- So if you'd like the entire kit, please contact Jeff Snyder directly at firstname.lastname@example.com; the same goes for the Westcott umbrella and Morris bracket).
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Notes, Thanks and…. In the Beginning, There Was Greg….
Oct 22
In Friends, News, Thoughts, Upcoming Events at 8:41am
Lessee….bunch of stuff….this just in, from David Hobby….many thanks to him from one half of JoeBob….me and Bob Krist did have a punch up on the new 900 video, and we're thinking of doing a tag team guest appearance now on WWE;-) I loved Joe Bob's reviews. Just loved 'em. My kind of movies always scored well, in other words, those kind of movies where stuff blows up, the women are as fast and sleek as the cars, and there is a subtle exploration of the nuances, depths and shadings of the human condition…you know the kind of movie I'm talking about….sort of a "Harold and Maude Meet the Killer Bugs from Ice Planet X" type of thing.
David's onto something with that chainsaw. I think I'll put it in my cargo bags, and it'll be the first thing I bring out on location when I get to someone's house. Kind of an ice breaker, ya know? More on that tk…
Many thanks to Scott Kelby for the mention of the Geographic cover story this month. I've shot for the yellow magazine for over 20 years now, which is wild to think about. For me, it's just humbling to share ink with folks who have gone before, like Jim Stanfield, Bill Allard, Sam Abell, Jim Richardson….list goes on. More on adventures with Wilma, our striking cover subject, in blogs tk.
Ahh, location work. Shooting the spread above, we slid into a Spanish national park at sunrise, because it offered the only glimpse of the type of rocky terrain Wilma and her cohorts most likely experienced in their day. The cave where they found the new Neanderthal DNA, about 30 klicks away, is now surrounded by deciduous forest. I was a tad nervous, as we unloaded things, cause we did not have a permit to shoot in the park.
I've snuck into more places and shot pictures from more spots that I ain' supposed to be than I can remember. Nothing unusual about that. Most photogs wouldn't have a portfolio to show if they actually listened to the word "no." And there are lots of folks out there with the word "no" already teed up on the tips of their tongues. I call 'em the walkie talkie assholes. Give somebody a 3 week course, a flashlight and a walkie talkie, and they can ruin your day. But I digress.
I was more worried about the light. Sunrise was not looking good. Pulled out an Elinchrom Ranger pack, which is my field light of choice. Gelled it warm and slapped a tight grid spot on it. Made some decent pix, but there was no rationale for this warm golden light hitting Wilma's face, while the rest of the world was obviously gray.
But I should remember this morning the next time the light don't work out, but, being a photog, I probably won't. A slice of sunrise came through a break in the Eastern clouds, and hit the rock face behind Wilma. It was all I needed. I got about 10 frames and we were done.
Then we decided to move Wilma and give it another go, as it were. She is, well, not a delicate flower. She is 200 pounds of silicone wrapped around a steel frame. The best way to lift her is to circle round back, crouch a little bit, throw your arms around her ample pelvis, and basically give her a good, hard shag. Up she goes off her pedestal, and then you can trundle her, rather ingloriously, wherever you want.
We were in the process of doing this when around the corner came a patrol car with two Spanish National Park rangers in it. "Hola!" "Yes, she is naked!. But she's not real! No, its not what you think. See? She's not inflatable!" The whole thing had to have looked hinky and kinky at the same time.
Luckily, one of our party spoke fluent and evidently persuasive Spanish, and engaged the officers while I told Brad to take the shot cards and put 'em someplace the sun don't shine. We were allowed to leave, along with Wilma. I miss her, actually. When she was wrapped back up in bubbles for her drive back to the Netherlands, it was quite emotional. I told her it would be alright. Even if we never see each other again, we'll always have Spain.
Photo East is coming up, and the toy warehouse will be spilling all over the Javits Center in NY, with widgets, gadgets, biddybops, thingamawhooziewhatzis, fast glass, smart cameras, whopper hard drives, and a lot of yakkin 'bout pictures. I'll be doing some of it myself, teaching small flash on Thursday morning, doing a couple stints in the Nikon Booth, and signing some posters for Epson.
A word about Epson and Dano Steinhardt. I ain't exactly Moose Peterson, JP Caponigro, Jay Maisel or any of these kind of master printer/shooter guys, but Dano continues to be an enormous source of faith and support for my studio, year after year. He is one of those guys who stays in the background, facilitating photographers, showing them the latest and greatest Epson stuff that in turn makes their stuff look great, and all the while, one of the best kept secrets in the industry is that Dano is one helluva shooter. He makes incredibly beautiful imagery out of things most of us walk right by. I think the key here is seeing photographs. He sees. And then he distills all the jumble and cacophony that attends just about any walkabout of modern life into clean lines and stunning symmetry that makes sense, not to mention beautiful pictures.
Same thing can be said about Kriss Brungrabber and Mark Astman of the Bogen Corporation. Their commitment is unflagging in support of photogs, and photographic education. If we decide to do something together, we do it on handshake, and its a done deal. Good people, and Mark in particular, who has been out on a bunch of my workshops, is a striking presence as a photo subject. Sort of a William Holden who knows everything about Elinchrom flashes:-) I'll be hanging in the Bogen booth a bunch, with my buds Bill Frakes, Drew Gardner, and of course, Moose.
Strikes me a whole bunch of the yakkin' about to occur on the West Side of NY is gonna be about light, and lighting, which means flash. Hmmmm…..interesting thing, this flash stuff. Lots of folks playing with it, yanking it around, trying different stuff, myself included. It's all good, some of it is even really good. But it gets me to thinkin', always a dangerous thing.
I really feel alot of the conversations about flash and light we're having nowadays wouldn't be happening if it weren't for Greg. When I say "Greg" I mean Heisler. To me, he's always been one of the one name photogs, up there with Annie and Avedon.
Greg changed the way we all see. He burst onto the magazine photo scene in NY, oh, about 1980 or so, trotting out Norman 200B's, gels, camera work and color that popped our eyes, stopped our hearts, and made for legions of imitators, myself included. He started working for Geo, LIFE and doing annuals for outfits like RCA (Remember that name? Remember the dog and the victrola?) and doing special projects like Day in the Life Australia.
His take outta the land of Oz just flat out flattened folks. He brought to the pages of that book color and drama that had legions of experienced shooters looking around and going "Wassup???" And of course the next question was, "How do I do dat?"
In the years since, Greg has shot about a bazillion TIME covers, and done it all, from the movie lots to the halls of state. No one has done it better, or with more panache and versatility. He single-handedly changed magazine photography by introducing a "look" (I might call it style) that all of sudden re-directed the missions of magazines and editors everywhere.
Olympic athletes have been one of his fortes. I've been involved with Olympians to a degree as well. You know, every four years, you get a call and start working with these amazing athletes. Its been fun to do. And every four years, like clockwork, I have had my ass kicked. I would shoot somebody, think it worked real well, and then Greg bombs into town for a day, no less, and leaves with this ass kicking TIME cover. Frustrating. Maddening. Inspiring. Head shaking. In a word….Greg. A look see at his website is a must.
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Aug 26
In Lighting, Upcoming Events at 12:42pm
Back in the country, and back on the internet. Couple of reasons for blog lite (or, truth be told, blog zero) over the last two weeks. I'm shooting a Geographic story and they moved the sked up one month on me, which takes away a month for scheduling field time. Kinda compresses things. Another is I've been writing like a banshee on my new book, due in December, "The Hot Shoe Diaries, Creative Applications of Small Flash," which you can find at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. I wanted to call it HSD, Big Light from Small Flashes, but the above is okay by me.
I've always been a bit interested in noir, and crime novels, and my buddy Mark is the perfect subject. He's a good guy and a good photog, so don't jump to the wrong conclusions about him from all these mean streets pix of him. K-man, shot with small flash, just may be a recurring character in the book. Above, K-man on the streets of Gotham. Who knows where he'll turn up next?
You can blame David Hobby, at least a little bit. When I told David the title, he was like, cool, you should shoot some noir stuff, and make stories. Fits, I guess. Remember Rear Window? Jimmy Stewart catches the bad guy with…flashbulbs.
The book will not be an instruction manual. Basically, it will be an irreverent brain dump of my whole history using small flash, back from when I first got my hands on flash powder to the SB-900. There will be sections on buttons and dials, batteries, flash attachments, light shaping tools from gaffer tape to umbrellas, and sketches. Along the way, of course, there will be lots and lots of pictures, some good, some not so. (Some will even outright suck!) I'll show the ups and downs and sideways of using flash in the field. Mistakes, which I'm very open about, come with the package. There'll be other notable sections, too, like one devoted to the instruction manual titled:
An homage, if you will, to the lucidity and riveting nature of instruction manuals everywhere.
Another event in the history of small flash will be noted….
And of course, the current transition from SB-800 to SB-900 will be discussed.
In Tucson right now for the Geographic. Continuing true to my history with them of going to places at the worst time of year. Arizona in August. Siberia in February. See below.
Above is noon time, Lake Lavozero. The Russians were impressed that I suffered on the ice all day with them, and that of course led to a vodka soaked dinner at the polar observatory where we were housed. It was an upgrade, actually, from the hotel I was staying at. In my room the day previous, I heard a repeated smashing sound from down the hall. Again. Again. Smash! I walked down to check it out, and this enormous woman, chef for the hotel restaurant, was lifting chunks of ice out of an ancient freezer. Inside those chunks of ice were chickens. She would then raise it over her head, and violently throw it down on the floor, freeing the chicken parts. Dinner that night? Chicken soup!
Anyway, one of the guys at dinner turned out to be the police chief of Murmansk. The next morning he opened the trunk of his car, which was filled to the brim with automatic weapons and handed me a Kalashnikov. He gestured at a row of milk bottles in the distance and took the safety off. "Shoot, yes?"
In the macho outback of the Motherland, one does not turn away from such a command. Honestly, it ain't hard to chew through a buncha milk bottles with a machine gun, so it went very well. This lead to a conversation that became an opportunity to engage in one of the most depressing nights in my life. I spent the whole night in the drunk tank in the city of Murmansk.
I was doing a story on light for Nat Geo, and they sent me up there to where the cold and the dark lead to a lot of alcoholism and suicide. The drunks leave the bars in the wee hours and stagger into a snow bank and are dead by morning. The police send out patrols to look for these guys, and drag 'em into the cozy confines of the drunk tank to dry 'em out. Brutal.
Come to think of it, Arizona's really nice in August… More tk.


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penne pasta
1/4 cup
olive oil
1 large
skinless, boneless chicken breast half - cut into cubes
2 tablespoons
lemon juice
2 tablespoons
1 bunch
asparagus, trimmed and cut into 1 inch pieces
2 cups
broccoli florets
1 (3 ounce) can
sliced mushrooms, drained
1/4 cup
Make sure to use extra-virgin olive oil, and add some chopped garlic and fresh grated parmesean for added flavor. Delicious!
This dish is in serious need of seasoning, (salt, pepper, garlic, parmesan cheese, lemon zest). Some fresh herbs might be nice too. Otherwise it is great hot or cold.
19 Ratings
This was the best chicken and broccoli Pasta that I have ever tried. I will definately be making this recipe again. Thanks.
Not enough "kick" for our taste. I added a small onion and a wee bit of instant boullion. I'm comparing it to one that had tarragon in it...which was an interesting ingredient.
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Dances With Wolves Answers and Winners
Whew. What a quiz! First, I'll give the answers, then when I reveal the winners below, I'll provide some quiz stats! (I realize with the new poll tool it's difficult to see how many people took the quiz, how many scored 100%, etc.)
John Dunbar is fighting in what war?
Civil War
Revolutionary War
War of 1812
World War I
What part of Lt. Dunbar's body has been seriously injured in battle?
What does Lt. Dunbar do to avoid having an amputation?
He takes antibiotics.
He debrides it in a freshwater stream.
He rides straight to the enemy's frontlines.
He bribes the doctors.
Which of the following is Lt. Dunbar awarded in exchange for his courage?
A house
His choice of post
A canon
A gold rifle
What is the name of the place Lt. Dunbar is assigned?
Fort Sumpter
Fort Sedgwick
Fort Smith
Fort Sill
On their journey to the fort, Lt. Dunbar writes in his journal that his guide Timmons is "…the ______________ man I ever met."
Who is Two Socks?
A horse
A Sioux medicine man
A wolf
An eagle
What is the name of this character?
Wind in Her Hair
Dances with Birds
Stands with a Fist
Runs on Rocks
What does Dunbar tell his Sioux friends about guns?
They're evil.
They wield great power.
They make one warrior like two.
They should never be used.
Which of the following can not be said about this character:
He is Wind in His Hair's father.
He is a medicine man.
He is Stands With Her Fist's adoptive father.
He is Sioux.
When the Sioux tribe begins to move for the winter, why does Dunbar say he must quickly return to Fort Sedgwick?
To get his horse, Cisco.
To get his journals so that the Sioux can't be traced.
To bury all the supplies.
To say goodbye to Two Socks.
What is the first thing that happens when Dunbar returns to the fort?
Soldiers shoot him.
Soldiers capture him.
Soldiers shoot his horse.
Soldiers interrogate him.
* Note: When Dunbar returns to the fort, he is wearing his Sioux clothing. U.S. Soldiers immediately shoot Cisco, his horse, before capturing Dunbar.
Who rescues Dunbar from his U.S. captors?
Two Socks
What is this character's name?
Smiles a Lot
Wind in His Hair
Dances With Wolves
Ten Bears
Why does Dunbar decide to leave his Sioux family?
He must return to his former life.
He wants to get to know other tribes.
He's afraid he will put them in danger.
They can not accept him as one of them.
What does Smiles a Lot give Dunbar when he tells him goodbye?
A pipe
An animal hide
Dunbar's lost journal
A pat on the back
What does Dunbar tell Kicking Bird before he leaves?
"I will not forget you."
"You are my closest friend."
"Thank you for changing me."
"I will be with you always."
Who cries "Do you see that I am your friend? Can you see that you will always be my friend?"
Stands With a Fist
Kicking Bird
Smiles a Lot
Wind in His Hair
First, some stats!
* 6,241 people took the quiz.
* 884 people scored 100%
* The question participants had the most trouble with was #14. 44% guessed "Soldiers capture him" as the answer. (See note on #14 above.)
* The question participants had the least trouble with was #17. 98% got it right.
The first person who correctly answered all questions (within 2 minutes of the quiz being posted) was…Dianne E! Congrats, Dianne.
The second person who correctly answered all questions (within 3 minutes of the quiz being posted) was…Jenny O! Great job, Jenny!
The randomly selected person who correctly answered all questions was…Scott W. Great job, Scott! You win the $100 Amazon.com gift card.
Congrats to the winners—contact [email protected] to claim your prizes.
Thanks to everyone who played. Hope the analysis above was helpful!
29 Comments and 11 Replies
C-Jay M On Thursday, August 23 at 7:55 pm
Congrats! I'm glad I'm not the only one who missed #14! Loooove that movie!
Joie On Thursday, August 23 at 7:55 pm
That was such a tremendous movie – I wish I'd seen your quiz before it concluded, but I am always grateful when one of your posts reaches me. I am subscribed to your newsletter and absolute love your enthusiasm and pioneer spirit!
Susan Marie On Thursday, August 23 at 8:01 pm
That was it, my downfall – #14. Fun, fun quiz!
Chris Sheely On Thursday, August 23 at 8:14 pm
My husband loved that movie but hadn't seen it in over ten years, or so he says. I never saw it. We (his memory and my online research) got a 79%. Not bad…I play to play, not to win, obviously!
Chris Sheely On Thursday, August 23 at 8:15 pm
My research got us #14 correct, BTW.
Joyce Burns On Thursday, August 23 at 8:20 pm
I love your quizzes. Haven't done extremely well with them, but really enjoy them. Thank you
Dianne E On Thursday, August 23 at 8:30 pm
WOOHOO!!!!! I never win anything!! Go me!!!
Dianne E On Thursday, August 23 at 8:54 pm
And congrats to the other winners – thanks for a fun quiz Ree!!
natalie On Thursday, August 23 at 8:38 pm
I'm in the top ten!
Lise S On Thursday, August 23 at 8:52 pm
Yes this was FUN and the research took me to the script which I then had to read in its entirety and I was seeing the movie in my head. The question about Smiles A Lot giving the book to Dunbar in the end threw me because in the script it wasn't in the end! Also I think the end of the script is different than the movie. Either way, a great time reliving the movie! CONGRATS TO THE WINNERS! ^_^
DC in MS On Saturday, August 25 at 12:40 pm
Yes! I found the script too and just spent a lot of time just reading it for fun!
Jamia On Thursday, August 23 at 8:59 pm
I am such a dork and don't know how I did it BUT I didn't answer the first 5 questions. Know wonder I did so horrible. I also discovered I read #12 wrong, completely over looked the word NOT in the sentence.
Cat Cooks in WI On Thursday, August 23 at 9:30 pm
Congrats winners! Great quiz for a great film!!
teejay On Thursday, August 23 at 10:02 pm
Just to let you know the fundraiser to save the scared Lakota land in South Dakota from a shopping mall developer is STILL running— till Sept 8th!!!
GO TO: indiegogo.com and pledge anything, something.
Help the plains tribes (who DON'T have casinos) buy back at least part of their spritiual heritage. It's a shame the ranchowners are selling it without trying to get the Land Conservany or some other agency to help out!!
GO TO indiegog.com and donate anything you can.
Do it for the Lakota and other plains People.
SD Ranchwife On Thursday, August 23 at 11:55 pm
How exactly do you know that the plains Tribes do not have casinos. I live here and Yes they do. They do not have to pay taxes on them though.
Tsoniki Crazy Bull On Friday, August 24 at 11:05 am
I am from South Dakota and yes the Plains tribes have casinos BUT they don't make nearly the amount of money that tribes in more populated areas make. And taxes are paid.
The land in question can be learned about here – http://www.indiegogo.com/PeSla-LakotaHeartland
Lisa Y. On Thursday, August 23 at 10:04 pm
I was sure I had it in the bag…This was my favorite quiz ever!
NanG On Thursday, August 23 at 10:05 pm
OK, I didn't see the question that made me pause in the above list of answers. I don't know what number it was, but it was something like "What was Dunbar doing when the Sioux first showed up at the fort?" Two answers were applicable…he was naked, though I thought he was bathing rather than "skinny dipping" and he was singing as he walked back to his cabin. Did that one get thrown out??
TiffH On Thursday, August 23 at 10:53 pm
NanG- Go back to the original quiz there are new comments posted at the top. Ree threw out two questions for more than one possible answer, including the question of what he was doing the first time the Sioux showed up.
Sandi On Thursday, August 23 at 10:55 pm
Yes, that one and something about buffalo were tossed out right at the beginning.
NanG On Friday, August 24 at 10:17 am
Great! Then that means I got !00%! Just not fast enough (or lucky enough)! DWW is one of my all time favorites and I'm popping it into the machine now to enjoy with my second cup of coffee! Love Ree's movie quizzes!
jami drake On Thursday, August 23 at 10:57 pm
that was a fun quiz and i loved your breakdown analysis. i kept wondering which one i missed..now i know…stinkin' #14….shoot fire
TiffH On Thursday, August 23 at 10:57 pm
I thought I would of had a chance at winning this one if I hadn't been at church when it started, but my goodness 2 minutes! Wow, congratulations! I still the the test, btw, when I got home and scored a 100%, I love this movie. Also, I love it when Ree puts in how fast they answered it! So Thanks for the extra info Ree.
SD Ranchwife On Friday, August 24 at 12:03 am
Sorry I missed this quiz. Had to work. I live in South Dakota and my relatives own part of the land where it was filmed. I also know several of the people that were "extra's" in the movie. We have watched it several times but I must say part of the time is spent figureing out where the filming was taking place or who we can recognize. I do have family that still offer a "Dances With Wolves" film site tour if you are ever in the area and would like to see the locations up close and personal. I still find it amazing that they had to camoflage the country school that was in sescion while filming the "River"scene.
Jenny O On Friday, August 24 at 1:44 pm
We were there in the mid 90's and took the tour of the area where they did the buffalo hunt and the summer camp by the river. I didn't realize the family was still offering tours of that area. Love South Dakota!
Anna Magga On Friday, August 24 at 4:31 am
Love your quizzes, didn't do too well on this one (56%) but hey, it's been 20 years since I saw this movie, loved it though….. :o) Thank you for your wonderful website, It always makes my day brighter to read your posts :o)
Sabra On Friday, August 24 at 6:42 am
Man, this one kicked me booty! I would have sworn I could ONLY score 100%. You're a tough quizzer, PW. Thanks for the fun!
(I love you, Captain Dunbar!)
Sabra On Friday, August 24 at 6:43 am
Ugh, I mean Lt. Dunbar. Told you…
Linda On Friday, August 24 at 6:50 am
That was fun…love that movie…watched it many times…so why did I miss 2 questions??? Keep them coming and I will keep trying. Thanks.
vlmarston On Friday, August 24 at 8:15 am
I forgot about this! I'm so ashamed, this is one of my top all time favorite movies…..
Kim H in VA On Friday, August 24 at 8:25 am
Ok that's weird. The answers I put are what shows as the correct answers but at the end it said I only got 85%. Now I don't know what I missed.
CathieMG On Friday, August 24 at 9:11 am
This was a fun quiz on a great movie.
I just have a comment after reviewing all the stats. Not everyone has the ability to get a quiz done in 2 minutes because of the age and speed of their computer or the availability of Internet service. Satellite service is impossible in the evening because everyone is using it then. I am just saying…..
Shelia in TX On Friday, August 24 at 4:42 pm
It IS too bad Cathie I guess you'll just have to rely on the Kindness of Strangers…which makes no sense but came to mind anyway. Have fun. My computer/connection is sluggish too…not that I get 100% mind you…so I guess I don't have a problem after all. Thanks Ree for the fun!!
Julie On Friday, August 24 at 10:46 am
Yes, #14 got me, too! Congratulations to the winners and thanks for the fun!
Jenny O On Friday, August 24 at 1:40 pm
I believe I'm the second place winner, but I can't get the prize site to come up. Help!
CheyAnne On Saturday, August 25 at 9:09 am
I looked back through to see where I missed and when I saw they shot his horse, I knew I had mentally blocked it out. I cried like a baby and do everytime I see that part, maybe others did or do too. Even when I was a little girl I cried when the horses went down. I didn't care a hoot about all those soldiers or warriors, (I'm weird that way) just the horses. I would get so upset that my Dad wouldn't let me watch any Roman movies growing up because I would just get too emotional (and he hated that).
Congrats to the winners, how fun cause this is my favoritest movie of all time ….
peace n abundance,
Jeannie On Saturday, August 25 at 10:56 am
I too, am a Dances With Wolves nut!! Years ago I found an extended version of this movie. It contains many scenes that were cut from the final released version. Among those scenes is the wedding of Stands With a Fist and Dances with Wolves. Very touching!
Linda Gilmore On Saturday, August 25 at 4:30 pm
I loved this movie. I have read the book and watched this movie 30 times plus. I have just been given this Eee pad from my sister and brother-in-law and have been enjoying my new found freedom.
Sarah Neely On Saturday, August 25 at 4:47 pm
PW – Have you ever read the book? It's not super long and it is absolutely beautiful. I found it in a museum gift store out West. I hadn't seen the movie and thought it would be interesting to read while traveling there. I now love the movie and the book is one of my all time favorites. Definitely worth a read! Ooh – maybe it should be assigned reading for home school!
Deebi27 On Saturday, August 25 at 9:08 pm
Dances With Wolves is one of my all times most favorite movies and the tears fall like turning on a water faucet. The horse killing also bothered me, but the killing of Two Socks, puts me over the edge every time…I think the wolf is one of the most beautiful animals ever. Their eyes are so human like!
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