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Decolonizing the classroom: a look at one Winnipeg school's mission
Brittany Hobson
Located in Winnipeg's North End, R.B. Russell is a predominantly Indigenous populated school. Approximately 98 per cent of the students here identify as Indigenous.
Trevor Creeley puts the finishing touches on one of his final projects in his high school welding class.
The 17-year-old is building a coffee table to put in his home when he moves out on his own.
Trevor is getting ready to graduate from R.B. Russell Vocational High school in Winnipeg.
17-year-old Trevor Creely at work in the welding shop. Photo: Brittany Hobson/APTN
He's been at the school for the past three years.
"I'm really going to miss it," he said. "I'm probably going to come back even when I'm not a student just to come to the welding shop."
After this summer, Trevor will be taking a welding course at Red River College in Winnipeg. He credits much of his success to his instructors at R.B. Russell.
"The teachers are really nice here. They're almost like friends. They're not like someone you can only talk about school with you can actually talk about personal stuff," he said.
Located in Winnipeg's North End, R.B. Russell is a predominantly Indigenous populated school.
Approximately 98 per cent of the 400 students here identify as Indigenous.
It is quickly becoming one of the leading schools in Winnipeg to implement and foster Indigenous practices as part of the high school curriculum.
"We smudge every morning," said Sandra Costa, a teacher at R.B. Russell. "We create that opportunity for students if they want to they can [and] if they don't want to that's fine."
A sweat lodge sits in the foreground of the RB Russell school. Students smudge every morning. Photo: Brittany Hobson/APTN
Costa teaches grade nine and 10 students in a specialized classroom setting.
She works with students who have more success in smaller classroom settings where they can work one-on-one with a teacher.
Part of her job is helping the students transition into a regular classroom setting for grades 11 and 12.
In her classroom, students are learning their traditional language while also working on their regular curriculum.
R.B. Russell relies on Elders in the community to bring in traditional knowledge and teachings.
That's because the textbooks haven't been written yet, says school elder Roxanne Shuttleworth.
"There's no knowledge or curriculum for the teachers to use," she said.
"Right now we're looking at a non-Indigenous, non-Aboriginal, white Canadian history. It's not from our perspective at all."
Shuttleworth works at the school once a week. She says more often that not it's the students who are asking her to come into the classroom to provide context or history on important events in Canada's past.
In the welding shop, Mike Johnston gives his students a place to work on passion projects, including a memorial for Tina Fontaine, whose body was found in the Red River in 2014.
The memorial will be housed at Ndinawe Youth Resource Centre, a shelter Tina stayed at while she was in the city.
A memorial to Tina Fontaine by the students at the R.B. Russell school in Winnipeg. Photo: Brittany Hobson/APTN
Johnston says the kids are drawn to the welding shop because it gives them an open space to hang out.
"Trevor comes and visits me every day during his math class just to hang out for five or 10 minutes," he said.
"It's a welcoming space where they can get creative and find something they have a passion for."
Much like her brother Trevor, Kayla Creeley, 16, has found a career path within the classrooms of R.B. Russell. The grade 11 student spends most of her time in a computer laboratory studying graphic design. Her work has already been used as part of a campaign for a local non-profit group.
Kayla Creeley says the school is a home away from home. "Me and my friends we have a lot of situations we go through. They're very similar and we just talk," Photo: Brittany Hobson/APTN
While the school is helping Kayla launch her career, it also acts as a home away from home for the teen.
"Me and my friends we have a lot of situations we go through. They're very similar and we just talk," she said. "We can relate with each other and stuff like that."
The school celebrated it's 50th-anniversary last year.
Most recently staff and students completed construction of a sweat lodge and had their first ceremony in May.
The inclusion of ceremonies, smudging and elders throughout R.B. Russell's curriculum is a way to decolonize the western education system, says Jackie Connell, principal for the school.
Because of this. more and more schools are looking at the high school as a leading example to do that.
"I think that more and more often schools are looking for authentic and meaningful ways to integrate Indigenous education and culture into the curriculum," said Connell.
"And if what we're doing is inspiring to other people, buildings, schools or divisions I'm absolutely happy to collaborate any opportunity we get."
As the school year comes to a close Trevor reflects on the place and teachers who gave him an opportunity to turn a hobby into a career.
And, while he sets off on a new adventure the school's welding lab will always remain a 'second home' for him.
"It was the most comfortable place in the school for me because I knew everything in here," he said. "It just felt good to be in here."
Reporter / Winnipeg
Brittany joined the APTN news team in October 2016. She is Ojibway and a member of the Long Plain First Nation in Manitoba. Before coming to APTN, she graduated with a joint degree in communications from the University of Winnipeg and Red River College.
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Khara can refer to

Places
 Khara, Iran, a village in Isfahan Province, Iran
 Khara-Khoto, the ruins of a medieval city in western Mongolia
 Khara, Pakistan, a town in Punjab, Pakistan
 Khara, Nepal, a village in Nepal
 Khara, Raebareli, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India
 Khara, India, a village in Punjab, tarn taran near chohla sahib (Guri Sandhu's) village

Other uses
 Khara (Ramayana), a character in the ancient Sanskrit epic the Ramayana
 Khara (surname), Surname or clan () - Alternate transliterations are Khaara, Khaira, Khahra, Khehra - in Northern India, Pakistan and Afghanistan
 Kharak, a planet in the fictional Homeworld universe
 Studio Khara, an animation studio associated with Hideaki Anno
 Khara Boondi, an Indian spicy snack made of chickpeas
Khara, the disease that destroyed planet 4546B since thousand years ago in the video game Subnautica.

See also
 Kara (disambiguation)
 Cara (disambiguation)

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Asos Has Told Staff It Is Changing Contracts Following Workers' Allegations
The online fashion giant wrote to staff detailing changes after a BuzzFeed News investigation uncovered serious complaints from workers about working practices.
Sara Spary
Laura Silver
Chris Ratcliffe / Bloomberg / Getty Images
Asos is making a series of changes to employee contracts at its global distribution centre in the north of England amid complaints from workers that the existing terms are exploitative, BuzzFeed News has learned.
Workers at the fashion retailer's giant warehouse near Barnsley, south Yorkshire, were sent a letter at the end of last week announcing changes to warehouse shifts and the length of probation periods.
The changes, which are understood to have been under discussion for some time, were communicated to staff less than 24 hours after BuzzFeed News published the results of a three-month investigation into working practices at the Asos warehouse, which unearthed allegations of exploitative contracts, an overbearing security regime, and stressed workers.
It also follows the decision by Iain Wright MP, chair of the business select committee, to include Asos in a broader inquiry into working practices in January.
BuzzFeed News has seen a letter, dated "September" announcing changes to warehouse shifts and the length of probation periods. Several sources have confirmed that it was circulated after the investigation was published on Thursday.
The letter was sent out alongside another notice, dated 29 September, addressing media reports and encouraging staff to raise any issues with the "colleague forum," BuzzFeed News understands.
The letter, from XPO, which operates the warehouse on behalf of Asos, announced the company had increased the notice it gives colleagues when it requires them to work extra hours in a shift ("flex up") or work fewer hours in a shift ("flex down").
The notice has been increased from five hours to 24 hours in response to "continued work with our employee forum," the letter outlines.
Probation periods, previously set at six months, have also been reduced to three months.
The letter outlines "important changes" that went into effect on Sunday.
The changes to the terms of the contract follow a three-month BuzzFeed News investigation, which revealed warehouse employees have concerns around the use of "annualised hours", known as "flex" at the site.
Annualised hours contracts enable the company to "flex up" or "flex down" the length of shifts every other week with five hours notice to cope with order fluctuations.
The maximum that an employee can be "flexed up" is 10 hours a week, or two hours a day, XPO, which has defended the use of the contracts, has said.
But employees who spoke to BuzzFeed News on condition of anonymity said this arrangement benefitted XPO and Asos more than employees. They alleged the system meant they were uncertain about how long they were expected to work every other week and were "essentially" given back extra hours worked in time off rather than money.
The investigation came amid growing public concern over the use of flexible contracts following revelations about the treatment of workers by companies such as Sports Direct and Hermes, and protests by Deliveroo riders about pay structure.
The report also uncovered allegations of stringent security, pay docking and "unrealistic" KPIs.
XPO and Asos have dismissed the allegations as "misleading" and "inaccurate."
One employee welcomed the contract reforms on Tuesday, describing the move to increase the notice time as a sign "things are starting to change".
BuzzFeed News contacted XPO and Asos for comment on the contract changes, but neither had responded by the time of publication.
Contact Sara Spary at sara.spary@buzzfeed.com.
Laura Silver is a reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in London.
Contact Laura Silver at laura.silver@buzzfeed.com.

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It has been a week since i have tried to post onto google and bing...i cant find my website ANYWHERE...what am i doing wrong?
I got my website onto the first page of google for various searches like "SAT tutoring Monterey" and "SAT tutoring Santa Cruz" and "SAT tutoring Walnut Creek."
That took a lot of work and that is why people pay a lot of $$$$ for SEO work. I may quit tutoring and just do SEO, one of these days.
looking for a few tips if anyone can help ..is there any simple tricks to generate a bit more traffic to my site .???
You might find the information in this topic to be helpful. For meta tags specifically, they haven't really been used in the last several years (Google Webmaster Blog on meta keywords). The main things I would recommend spending time on is the actual text that appears on your pages and your page name & description (updating your page name and description in SiteBuilder Plus).
I hope that helps and if you have any additional questions, please feel free to ask.
You can't focus on just your site; you have to do stuff outside of it.
If it takes too long for your site to show up on search engines I guess you can always open an account at Google Adwords or Bing Ads and pay $.05 a click to really drive traffic to your site.
Why is it no one ever says that?
Great suggestion. I would just advise to make sure to take some time to research on the keywords you choose for any ads since the cost per click can vary quite a bit depending on the keywords.
Also depending on the search engine, where ads are displayed can vary quite a bit and research does show most visitors click on organic listings (ie not ads), but if you are look for fast traffic, it can be a great place to start.
I haven't personally run any ads for my online store; mostly because I sell jewelry (geeky jewelry that isn't very expensive) and having jewelry as a keyword was pretty pricey the last time I had personally looked, so I would just pay attention to what you are paying per click and your conversation rate to make sure it is a good fit and the ads are working well for you.
I hope that helps and thanks for the suggestion Paul9963.
i HAVE A NEW WEB SITE, BUT CANT FOUND IT. NY CLIENTS TRY BUT THEY COULDN'T FOUND IT. HOW CAN I GET MY SITE IN THE TRAFFIC TO BE FOUND.
How long after publishing does the site appear in the seach engine.
I can't find my website by typing the URL..
I typed my website into the google search and nothing happened?
Why can't i see my website when I put it in the google search?.
People are so cheap. They don't want to pay to have their website on page 1 of google results. That's like not paying for a tv commercial. Advertising isn't free, you know?
If you want a pro to do your SEO, let me know.
If i published my page why is not showing in the web.
In regard to Philip8977's comment about Yontoo, this is something that Homestead is not spreading. It is adware that is a browser ad on which can be downloaded to your computer when you're downloading software. We are not affiliated with Yontoo in any way.
If you see ads or hyperlinks (text links) on your website that you did not add yourself, it's most likely adware that you can remove doing an antivirus scan.
Please let me know if you have any questions, thank you.
I just finished editing my page and looked myself in google but saw nothing with words relating what i do.
How can I be visible?.
Among the suggestions above, we do offer SEO (search engine optimization) as well as PPC (pay per click) advertising, which are paid services.
Hope this info helps, thanks!
Scroll back up and look on the right where it says "The mood in here".
Not very good is it?This is a serious issue with Intuit and even after 5 months of using this site I can only get traffic to my page by sending a link or telling people where to go. This is no way to get exposure on the internet.
So am I supposed to name my business and call myself "google Local Upholstery Englewood, Port Charlotte, Sarasota, Venice, Florida Area, custom sewing, enclosures" etc etc etc?
I can't understand why this would not be the very first thing Intuit fixed or outlined with the videos that have everything BUT this issue. There simple is no way to submit meta tags or register anything to a search engine anywhere. It took me me 4 months to even find the page with the link on Google.
I simply give up. I'll pay someone to build my page register the domain and get a server. I need to get work and customers and this just is NOT WORKING!
got to www.stitchshifter.com because you will never find it otherwise.
Also note the "submit to google" and "submit to Bing" links above cant seem to log into google even though I'm logged in on another tab and in my G-mail. Of course I will have to go reset my google password a few dozen more times now and probably get locked out of my gmail that I hate for all the same reasons. Does Google ever have anything that doesn't lock or jamb or screw up?
Don't forget to look for stitch shifter designs on metacafe vimeo youtube and many more. the only thing you won't find is my web page because its is on Intuit.
I am having trouble submitting my site to search engines. Don't know how to get verified. Downloaded a file and when I click on the link to my site it is not available, deleted. I really need some help, very frustrating!
I paid for weblisting, and it doesn't seem to make any difference, as other have said, seems I can not find my site thru search engines. been waste of my time and money.
the ad-words and click per visit would send me into the poorer poor house.
I set up my site a few months ago and published it. I feel like I have given it plenty time but have not had any hits, one here one there, over many days. I am novice but it pass all the test don't know what to do next.
no visitors coming to site.
ok, i've designed my site what now?.
Now that your site is online, you'll want to start promoting it on the search engines. There are to good first steps you can take.
1. Get you domain registered on the major search engines. Just follow the steps in this thread.
2. Another option is to use our Weblistings. This is generally my first recommendation for new websites. You can think of the Weblisting as the new "modern day" phone book. We'll get you business listed in a large number of online directories and it will get pickup up by the search engines as well.
my website is not up and running i received an e-mail stating it was. i did a search typing in the web address and the site never popped up???
can't view my website on a computer other than my own.
Hi nomorelockeddoors20131630, I double checked your website and it is indeed published and online. The issue you are experiencing is that your site is brand new and Google (as well as the other search engines), just doesn't know that your site exists. If you follow the steps in this thread it covers the basics as for getting your site found on the search engines.
This subject can get to be a little complex, so if you have more questions let us know.
I have a new domain name and new web site, published just today. But the domain name use results in a message: "No results found for........" How do I get them to "connect?"
Domain name doesn't bring up web site.
Website not showing up on searches.
Why is it that when I search for my company site on Yahoo, Bing and Google it doesn't come up. My domain name is www.plugintoheathcare.com and when i enter plug into healthcare on these search engines my site doesn't come up. Please help.
Getting found on the search engines can sometimes be quite challenging. This thread is a great place to start.
If you want to take a more proactive approach and learn the baisics of SEO, we do sell an SEO ebook which is just $50. Feel free to reply if you are interested or need more guidance.
Can anyone please look at my website and provide me with some feedback on how I can get customers to look at my site on google and yahoo?
I created my website some weeks ago but when I search for it using key words on my home page, it's still not coming up on the top. I've added Traffic Booster to my account as well and thought this would help. Please let me know what can be done to get my site on top in the search engine lists. Thanks.
The Traffic Booster will help, but you may need to do something a little more aggressive. The most effective and economical thing to do is focus on your organic SEO. I would recommend taking a look at your competitors sites. Look at the ones that are ranking at the top and see how much text and content they have. You should have at least 200-300 words per page and per the instructions above, make sure you work your most important keywords into the content. Google and the other search engines are primarily looking for content rich sites. You'll need to write content that separates your site from any other "run of the mill" business.
I have already ordered traffic booster for my account with Homestead. I also purchased Web Listings in addition to the traffic booster. If you type in my web address kays pc and web design on google you can see my site as well as do this for bing. But, I am wondering how to not type all of this in and get seen on google and bing.
Your site is still very new so it will take some time to earn a reputation on the internet. The best thing you can do is really focus on the organic SEO process as well. You have a lot of text on your site, but it's very general and which is going to make it hard to rank/compete against your competitors. You will probably want to start by learning the SEO process or actually hiring someone to do it for you. If you are interested I can have one of our consultants give you a call to discuss your business and quote you a price, or we do sell an SEO eBook (one time fee of $50), which is a great place to start.
None of this works! I'm going on month 3 and our site is nowhere to be found! Something is fishy.
What are the keywords that you are trying to find your site with? I'll take a close look and let you know what is going on.
From a business perspective, you might reconsider the $150 SEO plan. Is the cost of not being found on the search engines greater than paying the $150 per month. What is your average customer net worth? If your site were able to get you just 2-3 customers per month, would the SEO not pay for itself?
Homestead chose those keyword when I paid them $150 month to handle it. The SEO plan was a joke so I bought a few books and I'm trying to do this myself.
I checked your account and I see you cancelled your SEO service after less than two months. (and were refunded). This is not nearly enough time for your website to earn a high ranking and you also would not have benefited from the ongoing link building, which is why we have you read and accept the Terms of Service and make sure our customers are aware that there is a six month minimum, and you agree to the keywords.
Feel free to contact us if you would like to discuss the details of your situation.
It seems like you must be using a domain forward to your Homestead accounts. This is indeed a bad practice and the reason we do not offer that service on domains registered with us. What you will want to do is point the domains to us. This will eliminate the redirect caused by forwarding. Unfortunately as you have already lost the ranking you had, you will have to earn your way back up.
If you would like to speak with someone concerning marketing your site or sites, I can arrange that for you.


The Chicago prosecutor whose office dismissed charged against Jussie Smollett has defended the decision, saying the Empire actor was treated no differently than thousands of other defendants whose charges were similarly dropped since she took office.
Empire star Jussie Smollett's lawyer is trying to shift attention back to two brothers who told police they were paid by the actor to help stage a racist, anti-gay attack on him.
Empire actor Jussie Smollett has pleaded not guilty to the charges accusing him of lying to police about being attacked in Chicago a few weeks ago.
A grand jury in the US has indicted Empire actor Jussie Smollett on 16 charges related to making a false report that he was attacked by two men who shouted racial and homophobic slurs.
Empire star Jussie Smollett has been released from jail after being accused of staging a racially motivated and homophobic attack on himself in Chicago last month.


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Yasmine Naghdi "In Conversation"
The LBC talks with Yasmine Naghdi as she draws breath after Kitri and looks forward to a busy summer.
YASMINE NAGHDI, PRINCIPAL, THE ROYAL BALLET
'IN CONVERSATION' with LINDA GAINSBURY, 15th April 2019
Yasmine spent an evening with the LBC at a point when she had a little respite in her performance schedule after an incredibly busy patch in which she had not only starred as Kitri in The Royal Ballet's Don Quixote but had also performed Sleeping Beauty with San Francisco Ballet as Aurora. Both these appearances were widely acclaimed, as was her Don Quixote pas de deux in the recent Russian Ballet Icons Gala.
Since becoming a Principal of The Royal Ballet, Yasmine had given a number of interviews exploring her training and the earlier stages of her career and she had kindly agreed on a more 'thematic' approach to the conversation with the LBC.
With guesting as the starting point, Yasmine first talked about her invitation to guest with San Francisco Ballet. She explained that, whereas the skeleton of ballets such as The Sleeping Beauty tended to remain the same, the production details quite often varied in unexpected ways. Yasmine had requested a DVD of San Francisco Ballet's Sleeping Beauty and she studied the ballet in between her rehearsals for Kitri and The Firebird, and during evenings at home; she had even used her fridge as her Prince when practising.
Being in a different studio with different teachers, surrounded by different dancers does feel strange but everyone was very welcoming and there is an innate high respect for Royal Ballet dancers. The company schedule at San Francisco Ballet is very different as it involves two months of intensive rehearsals followed by three months of performances, whereas The Royal Ballet tends to rehearse and perform simultaneously.
Responding to being read quotes from enthusiastic reviews of her Aurora, including references to standing ovations, Yasmine said that experiencing that kind of audience appreciation gave her an "overwhelming feeling" and made all her hard work worthwhile.
International appearances were not without additional challenges, such as when she performed Romeo & Juliet in Bahrain with Alexander Campbell. They had needed to substitute the kiss in the Balcony scene by a long hug.
Nevertheless, dancing with other companies, working in different environments, and performing for 'new' audiences were for Yasmine a very welcome and highly stimulating experience. Having guesting opportunities also made her value what she has in London all the more, in particular the repertoire which "completely fed her soul", the exceptional standard of healthcare which had developed during her ten years with The Royal Ballet and, not least, the warmth from the regular audience.
Yasmine's recent repertoire with The Royal Ballet raised the question as to how she coped with the differing demands of classical, neo-classical and more modern work at the same time. Recalling a period when her performances of Swan Lake coincided with rehearsals for a new modern work by Hofesh Schechter, she explained that it is important to devote time to refreshing one's body and re-framing one's mind. There were times when Yasmine would take one ice bath before a show in order to recover from her afternoon rehearsals, and another ice bath after a show in order to speed up her recovery. Another important aspect was using the gym intelligently when preparing for jumping, improving core stability and building the necessary endurance for roles such as The Firebird. In other instances, it was not so much the physical as the mental preparation which needed to be more intense.
Over the past year, Yasmine had danced with most of the male principals and some male soloists and she was very appreciative of them all. The support and encouragement she had received from her principal partners Nehemiah Kish and Federico Bonelli when she made her debut as Odette/Odile in Covent Garden, and on tour in Madrid, had been nothing short of amazing. It was, however, important for ballerinas to also be sensitive to their partners, even going so far as to adapt their dramatic interpretations. Yasmine recalled starting rehearsals for The Two Pigeons with William Bracewell but, because of his injury, eventually danced her shows firstly with Alexander Campbell and then with James Hay. She felt that she had been a "different girl" in each of these two performances because of the nuances in the interaction varied so much with each partner.
For Yasmine, the concept of chemistry between two dancers is an elusive one as it is, she thought, also very dependent on individual perceptions within the audience. She was conscious that, in a narrative ballet, what she did with a role and how she related to her partner was a bit like a poem: in such case it is the deeper meaning behind the words which is significant; with ballet it is a case of conveying one's deeper feelings behind the movement and moving your audience to experience that too. Music is Yasmine's key source of inspiration as it amplifies her individual emotions: if the sound is grieving she is grieving inside too. After so much preparation, when she is finally on stage, Yasmine just lets her soul take over, sometimes to such an extent that it feels as if she is in a trance.
In terms of shaping her career, Yasmine's view was that it was her own responsibility as a dancer to demonstrate that she was healthy, strong, always mentally prepared, willing to put in all the preparative work and to go the extra length, and always aspiring to give the very best of herself. Where choreographers were concerned, dancers needed to be a blank canvas but also ready to offer personal perspectives. Yasmine does not herself ask for roles as she respects and trusts her Director Mr Kevin O'Hare's view of how she should be cast at any given point as her career develops. However, she does venture into suggesting what she would like to dance at some point in her career. Through the misfortune of others she had also been able to prove, on numerous occasions, her capabilities by stepping in at the eleventh hour and there were many occasions during the past ten years when she took over a role at the "last-minute" with very little preparation time.
Most of those opportunities arose before Yasmine was promoted to Principal and Linda wondered whether there was an even greater sense of expectation now that she was 'at the top of the tree'. For Yasmine it is mainly about the pressure she puts on herself and, over the years, she had had to find a way of being less harsh on herself whilst still striving for what is "unattainable perfection". As a soloist, she would get annoyed with herself over every small mistake, including the ones over which she had no control! She felt her self-criticism was much more measured now, even though the high sense of responsibility, which goes hand in hand with being a Principal, will never go away. The feeling of mutual respect and support amongst the Principals, and from within the company as a whole, was very real and something Yasmine really valued.
Ask about her training and career trajectory – The Royal Ballet School White Lodge and Upper School, and the Company – on how to prepare for inhabiting highly dramatic roles, Yasmine thought that it would be beneficial for ballet schools to include acting classes on the curriculum. She herself had watched a lot of B/W 50's Hollywood movies, Hitchcock and Art House movies as well as dancers from previous generations and this had aided her to become a character from the inside rather than just acting. It is sometimes very hard to rehearse the drama as the studio environment is so unlike that of the stage. Furthermore, as more than one show is really needed in order to find "the right emotion", Yasmine is especially looking forward to revisiting Giselle and to deepening her interpretation.
Yasmine works with a number of coaches and she was eagerly anticipating working with Dame Monica Mason on The Firebird, but each coach gives her a different layer and a different perspective on which she builds. They also help to maintain spontaneity in her performances and she hoped that her mind-set wouldn't change during the live-relay of Romeo and Juliet on the 11th June. It is important to Yasmine to always remember and hold onto the fact that ballet allows people to escape from a sometimes hard or painful reality and her focus would remain firmly on her immediate audience at the Royal Opera House so as not to be daunted by the thought of the live cinema screening for a worldwide audience.
Increasingly, Yasmine has been creating roles and, for The Unknown Soldier, had inherited that of Florence Billington part way through. She had found the process "wonderful" and was grateful to have had an input. The other bonus was that she and Matthew Ball had had four performances in place of the scheduled two, including the honour of dancing the opening night, which "felt very special". Yasmine herself does not read any reviews, although her friends are generous enough to tell her when she gets good ones. She feels her performances are uniquely hers, she has her own responsibilities: to dance at the highest possible level, to artistically interpret roles the way she feels them as an artist, and also to get personal pleasure out of her performance. How the critics perceive and subsequently write about her performance is their job.
Pointing out that, no matter whether the role was a created one, a debut, or something more familiar, all shows ended with curtain calls, Linda wondered what Yasmine's mind set was at that juncture and whether what had just happened to her character made a difference when she took her bows. Yasmine said she sometimes stood there feeling as if she was still in the story and she needed time to come around. It is, she admitted, sometimes difficult to absorb the applause and be cheerful immediately after a tragic ending. Adding that she really appreciated people waiting to meet her at the Stage Door, Yasmine also confessed that there were times when she didn't come down to earth and become herself again until she was home. Joining commuters on the underground straight after a performance often feels unreal.
Asked from the audience whether she found it exhausting playing emotional roles such as Juliet, Yasmine agreed that her emotional involvement is so intense that she feels mentally drained by the end of a ballet; but then she also had the chance to dance something like Elite Syncopations which had the effect of "almost giving dancers energy" and enabled her to dip into the lighter, more comical, side of her personality.
Referring to the support Yasmine felt from other members of the company, another questioner wondered whether there was verbal interaction, or even moments of fun, between dancers on stage. Her response was that, while everyone is incredibly focused and highly professional, there were the odd moments when a word or two could be exchanged and that, in it, could be very supportive.
Yasmine was not only simultaneously preparing for Juliet and The Firebird but also for the celebratory evening for the Margot Fonteyn Gala and, after that, for Don Quixote and two Gala evenings in Japan. Everyone wished her well for those performances and the evening ended with warm thanks to Yasmine for all the insights she had so openly shared with her LBC audience.
Report written by Linda Gainsbury
Edited/approved by Yasmine Naghdi
© The LBC


My love affair with Matrix Reimprinting started in a very chancy way. In July of 2010, Amazon.com being well aware of my fondness for EFT and Energy Psychology books recommended to me the newly printed Matrix manual called Matrix Reimprinting Using EFT.
I wondered if it was indeed possible to take the wonderful and amazingly effective modality that's EFT one step further and make it even more powerful. I was skeptical… But since Gary Craig himself – the founder of EFT – mentioned repeatedly that EFT was but the ground floor of a healing high rise and that we should all expect and research new development to dramatically improve on his already handsome contribution, I decided to buy the book.
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► I just listened to BITE for the 1st time in its entirety
I just listened to BITE for the 1st time in its entirety
Started by Conn6orsuper117, Aug 11, 2022, 19:48
Wanted to say this but the site was down last night.
I own Born In The Echoes but I don't think I ever sat down to listen to it in it's entirety. Last night for my Wednesday, decided to drop an edible & give it a listen.
WHAT A BLAST, and an experience!!!
OK, I admit it, I now have a new found respect for SIFSD, I used to hate it on it's own but now I see its a package deal when it comes to the whole album.
Go! Same old same old, listen to it a few times in work, Q-Tip returning is always a plus
Why hasn't Under Neon Lights been played live yet? could be a good transition between Star guitar to Eve of destruction or Swoon.
EML Ritual sounds so strange at a lower tempo, since I'm so used to the live versions, dunno if it's intentional but it fits the heavy anxiety "I'm going to lose my mind" trip.
I'll see you there, one of my go to trip songs. I dunno if I'll get a pat on the back or my head in a cake box, but imma say it, this & Taste of honey gives me "Grade S" psychedelic vibes.
Just Bang, very interesting, definitely hear some classic breakbeat breakdance in there.
Reflexion, So Good, heard the live version from my archive many times before. the layout is very similar probably the same if it weren't for it's live filters, but on it's own in studio is it's own monster.
Taste of Honey, I know I said it earlier, but this trips me out, like a weird psychedelic outtake from Yellow Submarine.
BITE I can see it being perfect for invincible, BTW 2:32 & onward: the screams from Pink Floyd Echoes, anybody?
Radiate, love it, I feel like I just dropped into a cinematic Cyberpunk Utopia, doesn't help there's the Vangelis style synths at the 2:50 mark. Jusssssssst-t-t-tt-t Raaa-ddddiiii-aaaaa-t-te-te-te-te-te-te
I've never bothered with album version of Wide Open until last night. I am so disappointed in myself I gone all this time and never listened.
I feel so bad ranking BITE so low in the past. I always tried to listen to these on their own, as if I head the album many times, and I never was phased, but now holy hell, combined, all of these songs are amazing.
Re: I just listened to BITE for the 1st time in its entirety
Felt something similar with BITE. Listened to every single album from them but this specific album was kind of like a weird puzzle piece. Didn't really want to give it a listen in its fullest and only played some songs from the album.
Then I played the full album one day and man, I fell in love. I don't know what was holding me back from listening to it, but Radiate and Reflexion pushed me to properly listen to it. Radiate made me shed tears and I don't cry to things like this at all. Tom's vocals really made the track stand out, but also the J-J-J-u-u-u-s-s-s-t-t-t R-R-a-a-d-d-i-i-a-a-t-t-e-e made me feel at ease.
I'll never forget ToH making me act like a lunatic on the Tube though. Was waiting for my train, sat down and that buzzing started; I got shivers every time the buzzing went from one ear to another, I feel like the people next to me thought I was having a hypothermic episode.
But overall, I've come to love BITE. It's an incredible album that did overwhelm me at one point, but I've now come to love to absolute bits. The tracks on the album are incredibly strange in the best way possible, but I adore BITE for that very reason.
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Under Neon Lights is such an underrated track.
Agreed, a live version would be fantastic to hear one day
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This is a top 5 track from the album for me. A lot of people perhaps didn't like it because it reminds them of the stinky This Is Not A Game. But for me it shows how much better you can do with that riff/idea. It's a playful, creative, underrated track which works really well as a more chilled album track.
Worst track on the album for me.
Some people seem to really like it and others don't seem to care for it at all. Personally I file this under "lovely", even if that makes ne a bit soft.
Love the songwriting, hate the production. Every other version (remixes, live) of this is better than this 'original' version, for me. But the song can nonetheless be appreciated.
Oh it's still not as good as many of the other albums. But that doesn't mean that it's bad.
There are a number of tracks on this album that don't quite connect with me, but by and large I do love this album. Reflexion is still one of my favorite Chemical Brothers tracks ever.


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Generational Conflict
My principal area of research investigates the development of the New Generation Wars in political and policy discourse. Current debates about generations often have a metaphorical quality. Scratch the surface and we find that these debates tend to be motivated by wider anxieties to do with, for example, social policy and the allocation of resources, such as pensions and healthcare; the role of the family, and the relationship between adults and children in wider society; the relationship between demographic trends and social events; ageing and the role of the elderly; and broader existential questions relating to knowledge and time.
I explore these questions, and their implications for culture and policy, in a number of recent books and articles. My research suggests that the enduring problem of generations remains that of knowledge: how society conceptualises the relationship between past, present and future, and the ways in which this is transmitted by adults to the young. Developments in education, teaching and parenting culture seek to resolve tensions of our present‐day risk society through imposing an artificial distance between the generations. The likely effect of policies designed to reduce the appearance of generational conflict, for example through strategies promoting 'generational equity', will be to inflame it.
Bristow, J. (2020) 'Post-Brexit Boomer blaming: The contradictions of generational grievance.' The Sociological Review, Special Section: Exploring the Legacy of the Baby Boomers: Myths and Realities of Intergenerational Relations in the Twenty-first Century. Published online 23 January 2020; doi: 10.1177/0038026119899882.
Bristow, J. (2019) Stop Mugging Grandma: The 'generation wars' and why Boomer blaming won't solve anything. London: Yale University Press.
Bristow, J. (2016) The Sociology of Generations: New directions and challenges (Palgrave Macmillan)
Bristow, J. (2016) 'The making of "Boomergeddon": the construction of the Baby Boomer generation as a social problem in Britain.' British Journal of Sociology 67(4): 575-591
Bristow, J. (2015) Baby Boomers and Generational Conflict (Palgrave Macmillan)
Generational Encounters with Higher Education
I am currently leading a study of the academic-student relationship and the meaning of the university experience, funded by a BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant. Through a detailed analysis of policy documents and media accounts, and interviews with students and academics, this study compares student and academic accounts of the university experience with the dominant discourse of the 'student consumer'. Principal research questions explore:
Experiences of the difference in school and university from an educational perspective;
How the consumer context of higher education frames the relationship between academic and student;
The role of university in the transition to adulthood, including social and emotional pressures;
Generational differences in the overall university experience.
A book based on this study, Generational Encounters with Higher Education by Jennie Bristow, Sarah Cant and Anwesa Chatterjee, was published by Bristol University Press in March 2020.
Generations Network
With University of Surrey Research Fellow Helen Kingstone, I was awarded a Wellcome Trust Small Grant in the Humanities and Social Sciences, running from October 2019 until June 2021. The award provides funding to develop an interdisciplinary network of academics and Third Sector organisations actively working with 'generation', to map how this concept can best be used, and to improve understanding of the relationship between generations, wellbeing, and public policy.
The network aims to transform the ways that generation is discussed among scholars (where there is currently little dialogue between disciplinary fields that are using the concept in parallel but separate and contradictory ways), and between academics and policy-facing organisations. It further aims to transform the way that 'generation' is used in media and public policy discussions, promoting a more nuanced and constructive understanding. As an outcome of these discussions, the network developed the briefing paper 'Talking About Generations: 5 questions to ask yourself.'
Read more about the work of the generations network here.
Parenting Culture
As an Associate of the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies, I have worked with colleagues over the past 10 years on the increasingly fraught and politicised question of childrearing. My research and writing in this area has addressed:
Intergenerational contact and the problem of safeguarding
Parent-training and 'expert advice'
Childhood, risk, and independence
'Helicopter parenting' and ambivalent adulthood
Abortion and family planning.
The 2017 'Policing Pregnancy' conference, a collaboration between the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies, British Pregnancy Advisory Service, Birthrights, and Engaging Sociology at Canterbury Christ Church University, explored changing ideas about pregnancy, motherhood, responsibility and risk, and the impact of these ideas on women's experience and professional services. Speakers were drawn from a range of academic disciplines, including Sociology, Anthropology, History, Law, Philosophy, and Social Work, and from Third Sector organisations working with pregnant women. The event was attended by over 100 students, academics, campaigners, and midwives, and attracted coverage across the national and local UK press.
Lee, E., Bristow, J., Arkell, R. and Murphy, C. 'Beyond "the choice to drink" in a UK guideline on FASD: the precautionary principle, pregnancy surveillance, and the managed woman.' Health, Risk & Society, published online November 2021.
Bristow, J. (2019) Les «parents hélicoptères»: une socialisation incertaine des adultes en devenir, Revue des Politiques Sociales et Familiales, 133, October.
Lee, E., Bristow, J., Faircloth, C., Macvarish, J. (2014) Parenting Culture Studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Bristow, J. (2013) 'Reporting the Riots: Parenting Culture and the Problem of Authority in Media Analysis of August 2011', Sociological Research Online, 18 (4) 11.
Lee, E., Macvarish, J., Bristow, J. (2010) 'Editorial: Risk, health and parenting culture', Health, Risk and Society 12 (4): 293-300.
Furedi, F. and Bristow, J. (2010) Licensed to Hug. 2nd edn. London: Civitas.
Lee, E. and Bristow, J. (2009) 'Rules for Infant Feeding', in S. Day Sclater, F. Ebtehaj, E. Jackson and M. Richards (eds) Regulating Autonomy, Sex reproduction and the family (Oxford and Portland, Hart, pp. 73-92, 2009).
Bristow, J. (2009) Standing up to Supernanny. Exeter: Imprint Academic.
The Corona Generation on The Popular Show
The Dangers of the Generation Myth
'Ok, Boomer': la socióloga británica que descubre la trampa de la guerra generacional
How Greta serves the elites
Young people need a return to normal – Now
Childhood and adulthood
Coronavirus crisis
Intimacy and commitment
Policing pregnancy
Risk and fear
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In the late 1920s, Stalin was determined to turn Russia into a "Soviet Paradise". For thousands of Russian Mennonites that meant exorbitant taxes, arrest, forced labour, losing their farms and businesses, and even losing their lives. With their faith in God and little else, Nikolai and Kaethe Penner fled for their lives with their toddler Maria, praying to find a way to leave Russia alive. Later joined by Kaethe's parents and her brother, the two families set off on a journey that ultimately took them half way around the world. Their faith in God and their love for each other sustained them through the difficult years as they built a community, and a life, from nothing.
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fanart process: my yuletart piece, "Fealty"
Media used: Acrylic paint on paper; original size is roughly 34 x 32cm; scanned in parts and assembled digitally with some minor corrections in GIMP (hopefully not too noticeable). For more detail, see the process post.
Notes/comments: I made this for the yuletart gift exchange for chen_san, originally posted here. Art betas were goss and vito_excalibur. It is set in the future. After Arthur becomes king Merlin swears an oath of fealty in a commendation ceremony to him.
Please do not distribute my art without my permission, i.e. do not upload my art to other sites, services, archives, or wikis. That includes "reblogging" the images themselves on services such as Tumblr.
others must have a better memory for detail?
I don't really rewatch eps often, so I usually can't place when we see what and such, but I know others are awesomely detail oriented when it comes to canon. So, could anyone tell me in which Merlin eps we get the best looks at the throne room? I mean the large, mostly empty hall with the more elaborate throne, iirc, not the smaller hall that we often see with tables. I'd really like some good visual reference for it.
I suspect all of Merlin fandom but me has seen these already because they were posted over a month ago, but in case you have missed them just as I did, shiyasim drew some brilliant Merlin strips in the style of Calvin and Hobbes, with them as kids: three strips here and four more here.
I've toyed with the idea of a futurefic recs page a couple of times, but never really managed properly collect enough recs at once to make starting a page worthwhile, while at the same time remembering all futurefic I liked in recent years more systematically seemed daunting. Now I decided to just start with a post in my LJ picking some at random, and maybe create a page later (or not). So because I went through my bookmarks looking for futurefic I remembered liking, some are older stories, others recent.
It's been a while since I read this so I'm a bit fuzzy on the details, but I remember really enjoying it. It is a long, plotty story with Harry as a parent, and I especially liked the magical theory here.
I really like the outsider POV here, showing Arthur and Merlin and a glimpse of how Arthur is building his kingdom.
This combines established Arthurian Legend elements with the Merlin version, and I liked how their friendship got them all a happier ending than in the traditional version, yet in many ways their "public" cover story would fit with that.
Atlantis as an exploration ship is just cool.
This story is a bit older, and now this possible future is rather jossed by canon, but I always thought the Ori would have had great success in the Pegasus galaxy.
This is kidfic with a twist, and especially in the sequel I liked to see the future of Pegasus after the Wraith and its struggles.
This has a bit of a creepy premise for the future, but I liked it.
This story is a bit heart-wrenching, because the team leaves Atlantis behind, but I like all kinds of stories in which expedition members decide to stick with Pegasus and settle there.


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With this electric meat grinder from ADE you can make fresh minced meat, sausage and more - to your own taste and recipe. You get about 2 kilos of ground meat per minute. You determine the coarseness of the grinding yourself with the three grinding discs supplied: fine (3 mm), medium (5 mm) and coarse (8 mm), these are easy to change. The meat grinder is easy to operate with the rotary knob and has two speeds and a reverse function, so that the meat is well ground and runs smoothly.
In addition to the three discs, a sausage spout, a kebbemaker and a cookie accessory are also included. The meat grinder has a black lacquered aluminum housing, and is equipped with 4 rubber feet, 2 of which with suction cup - for a stable position when working. The machine has a robust, strong motor (nominal 800 / maximum 2,000 watts).


When I think of roses, I think of romance, weddings, anniversaries, love.
I got word count! Over it. Still working on edits and then will be finishing the book. Still haven't written a couple of must have scenes and the climax and end. 🙂 <3 But also listening to the audiobook for Huntress for Hire. Worked on another 3 hours of it. Have another 3 and a half hours to listen to and proof.
Thanks for loving our books and for being an avid reader, Tom!


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Arccos Golf Announces Hiring of Renowned Golf Data Analyst Lou Stagner
STAMFORD, Conn., October 5, 2021 – Arccos – the pioneer of big data and artificial intelligence for golf – today announced the hiring of Lou Stagner as Data Insights Lead, working with a team of scientists, engineers and architects devoted to harnessing the power of golf's largest and richest on-course dataset which now includes more than 475 million shots taken by Arccos members worldwide.
A self-described "golf nut and data nerd," Stagner has become a powerful thought leader in the golf data space by combining a lifelong passion for the game with his background as a business intelligence and analytics executive. Through his popular Twitter feed, @LouStagner, and co-hosting the Hack It Out Golf podcast, Stagner has become a highly respected voice among Tour players, coaches, elite amateurs, golf equipment manufacturers, media members and recreational players in North America and around the world.
"Arccos has and will continue to make heavy investments in the capture and analysis of on-course data at scale to benefit our growing base of members worldwide," said Steve Obsitnik, Arccos President & COO. "Given our rapid growth curve and expanding partnerships with PING, TaylorMade and Cobra, Lou complements our drive to understand the golfer and the pursuit of improvement. His experience working with large complex data sets and delivering highly tailored insights to golfers is next level."
In his new role, Stagner will focus on refinement and expansion of Arccos' existing data offerings – like the award winning personalized Arccos Strokes Gained Analytics platform. He will also play a key role in the conception and development of new projects.
"It is quite literally a dream come true to be able to dig into a golf data set of this size and scope," said Stagner. "I'm going from a scenario where analysis and insights were typically derived from hundreds or thousands of data points, to an environment where the scale is in the billions. There is massive potential to expand the already-impressive Arccos products with offerings that take a customized approach to helping players of all skill levels play smarter and shoot lower scores."
Golf's first Artificial Intelligence platform, Arccos Caddie automatically tracks your shots while delivering in-round insights and post-round Strokes Gained Analytics. The system includes the world's first A.I.-powered rangefinder, smart club distances and caddie advice for every golf hole on earth.
Arccos members have recorded an astonishing 8 million rounds with the system while playing courses in 194 countries. This feeds the world's largest on-course dataset, which now includes 31 billion separate data points that are analyzed to help golfers perform their best. In 2020, the average new Arccos member improved their handicap by 5.02 strokes.
The Arccos Caddie system and Arccos Caddie Link are Permitted under the Rules of Golf (USGA Decision Numbers 2018-0414 and 2020-0305).


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Q: howto render only the visible items of a listview In my understanding a ListView only loads and renders the visible items, but in my case it seems, that it always renders all items. Because of that it take up to 5 seconds (for ~150 entries), until the ListView becomes visible.
Logcat shows:
I/OpenGLRenderer: Davey! duration=4740ms;

If I do not load the images, it takes ~1 seconds. From my point of view also much to slow.
Limiting it to 5 entries, the list apears fast...
Here is simplyfied the code I'm using.
listView = (ListView) view.findViewById(R.id.contact_list);
listView.setAdapter(new ContactAdapter(context, contacts));

ContactAdapter(Context context, List<Contact> contacts) {
    this.contactList = contacts;
    this.mInflater = LayoutInflater.from(context);
    this.context = context;
}

public View getView(final int position, View convertView, final ViewGroup parent) {
    final ViewHolder holder;
    if (convertView == null) {
        convertView = mInflater.inflate(R.layout.contact_with_pic_ex, null);
        holder = new ViewHolder();
        holder.imgPicture = (ImageView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.picture);
        holder.txtName = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.name);
        holder.txtDate = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.date);

        convertView.setTag(holder);
    } else {
        holder = (ViewHolder) convertView.getTag();
    }

    final Contact contact = contactList.get(position);

    holder.imgPicture.setImageBitmap(getPhotoAsBitmap(contact.getID()));
    holder.txtName.setText(contact.getName());
    holder.txtDate.setText(contact.getDate());

    return convertView;
}

private Bitmap getPhotoAsBitmap(final int ID) {
    Uri uri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, ID);
    InputStream is = ContactsContract.Contacts.openContactPhotoInputStream(context.getContentResolver(), uri, true);

    Bitmap bitmap;
    if (is == null)
        bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(), R.drawable.contour_dark);
    else {
        bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(input);
    }
    return bitmap;
}

It takes quite the same time, whether I use hires or thumbnail pictures.
Could you please help me to make code faster.

A: The rendering is slow because of BitmapFactory.decodeStream this instruction is slow, you have to do processing in a background thread before render.
it can be something like this:
private static class ContactLoader extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, List<Contact>> {

    private final Context context;

    public ContactLoader(Context context) {
        this.context = context;
    }

    @Override
    protected List<Contact> doInBackground(Void... voids) {
        List<Contact> contacts = getContactListSomeWhere();
        for(Contact contact : contacts) {
            contact.setImageBitmap(getPhotoAsBitmap(contact.getID()))
        }
        return contacts;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(List<Contact> contacts) {
        super.onPostExecute(contacts);
        // Render data to ListView
    }

    private Bitmap getPhotoAsBitmap(final int ID) {
        Uri uri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, ID);
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            bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(), R.drawable.contour_dark);
        else {
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        }
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}

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University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
Digital pathology pilot predicts prosperity: pondering pathology's pivot
By Mary C. Tierney. Featured in Health Imaging, March 2019.
Video webinar with Q&A Download as PDF
You are here: Home / Case / Digital pathology pilot predicts prosperity
When it comes to digital medicine, digital pathology is very late to the game. But its time is coming. The benefits could be many: Bolstering the capabilities, efficiency and reach of individual pathologists, cutting patient wait times, streamlining multidisciplinary team meetings (MDTs) and offering more data-rich decision-making. It could even obviate a shortage of pathologists. Where does it fit into your strategic plan?
We really need to move away from being dependent on being in a specific location because this will allow us to spread our subspecialty pathology knowledge, literally. It also will allow us to bring better information to key meetings like MDTs and eventually take advantage of artificial intelligence and analytics.
Hannah Gilmore, MD, division chief of anatomic pathology and director of the breast pathology service at UHCMC
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UHCMC) is ready for digital pathology and working on ways to educate and prepare their pathology team. UHCMC has been using a digital pathology slide scanner in research for about six years, and now wants to expand and enhance their ability to look at cases across the health system that spreads across Northeast Ohio. Digital pathology would bring that flexibility, and myriad other advantages. So the health system has begun to test the waters.
Last summer, UHCMC ran a frozen section pilot study on the Sectra Digital Pathology Solution. The study had two goals: clinical validation and improving clinical familiarity by introducing faculty to the technology, according to the leader of the study, Hannah Gilmore, MD, who is the division chief of anatomic pathology and director of the breast pathology service.
"We see digital slide scanning [which we've been using in research for 6 years] greatly enhancing our ability to do telepathology across our system," Gilmore says. For example: "If there was a neurosurgeon operating in the community, our neuropathologist here can look at the intraoperative diagnosis. We need to validate the techniques in our own hands. But we also want to get our pathologists comfortable with digital pathology."
UHCMC chose to focus on frozen sections because they're such a critical function of anatomic pathology. They require a pathologist be present to perform the microscopic evaluation to guide surgery. Digital pathology offers a path forward in expanding both access and reach by adding remote access. This would allow facilities like UHCMC to utilize their concentrated subspecialty expertise in anatomic pathology across the larger system for intraoperative interpretations.
"We need greater efficiency so we can look at slides and make a diagnosis from anywhere," Gilmore notes. "We really need to move away from being dependent on being in a specific location because this will allow us to spread our subspecialty pathology knowledge, literally. It also will allow us to bring better information to key meetings like MDTs and eventually take advantage of artificial intelligence and analytics."
Overall, we were very pleased with our high concordance rate. We considered that fabulous and definitely good clinical validation.
Inside the study
The frozen section pilot compared the pathologists' diagnosis using digitized slide images vs. using microscopy. Previous pathology cases were digitized using a slide scanner, and images were uploaded into the Sectra Digital Pathology Solution. Pathologists viewed the images, offering a diagnosis for each case. The cases were grouped by organ system, with 11 different organ systems offering diversity of tissue type. The pathologists' digital diagnoses were compared to the correct final diagnosis for each case. The number of correct digital diagnoses were determined per question and per organ system. The number of participants that made a correct digital diagnosis was compared to the total number of responses per organ system. Those numbers were used to determine the concordance rate per organ system. Concordance was based on the final diagnosis.
The results were outstanding—showing an average overall concordance rate of 95 percent across the 11 organ systems. High concordance rates stretched across a wide range of specimens including brain, lung, ENT, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, gynecological, breast and soft tissue.
The pilot sought to simulate the types of cases a busy hospital frozen section service sees. They also examined a diverse set of interoperative diagnoses from a lot of organ systems. "Some were bad slides, some were really good slides," she says. "We also used easy and hard cases. Overall, we were very pleased with our high concordance rate. We considered that fabulous and definitely good clinical validation."
And what about goal No. 2: what did the faculty think? "It was a big success as well," Gilmore says. "We wanted to take questions out of their minds. Things like: Is it easy to use? Is the image quality good? Can we make our diagnoses? Is it accurate? And can I trust it? The answer was yes on all. The pathologists were impressed by how clear the images appeared on the screen and the attitude was very positive."
Using one system to display the images has streamlined how the cases are viewed, annotated and presented and has greatly increased efficiency. […] Most importantly, we can make sure that the patient is getting the most appropriate treatment. More access, better access and shorter wait times will help too.
Cue up the rad-path meeting
The awareness-building for faculty expanded further when UHCMC integrated digital pathology into their monthly breast radiology-pathology (Rad-Path) conference as part of another pilot.
The Rad-Path conference seeks to resolve issues of concordance between imaging findings and the microscopic findings to determine whether or not patients need additional surgical intervention or can be followed with imaging. It's essential for the team to examine both the radiologic images and the microscopic image clearly and comprehensively. The team had been frustrated by low resolution and suboptimal projections of the microscopic images. So in May 2018 the team piloted the use of one Sectra enterprise PACS for digital pathology along with radiology images.
Cases were presented as usual, along with a few digital pathology images that were scanned at 40X and uploaded into the enterprise PACS platform. The slide images were projected onto the screen side by side with radiology images. As Gilmore says, it was obvious to the team that the digital pathology images were both clearer and easier to see on the screen than the projected microscope glass images, especially at low power. The Rad-Path team agreed that integrated conferences like this could greatly enhance the clinical care and efficiency system-wide, especially for tumor boards.
"This was the right place to pilot it, because it's only once a month and the volume is small," says Gilmore who works hand-in-hand with Donna Plecha, MD, co-chairman of Radiology and Division Chief, Breast Imaging, on the conferences. "We wanted to work through it. It was awesome and everybody really enjoys using it."
Since the pilot, they've been uploading pathology and radiology images into the enterprise PACS and projecting images from both departments on one system for each monthly conference. Using one system to display the images has streamlined how the cases are viewed, annotated and presented and has greatly increased efficiency, Gilmore says. Moreover, with the Pathology PACS, the digital images of the pathology slides can now be saved alongside the radiology images for clinical documentation, education, and research use. "Most importantly, we can make sure that the patient is getting the most appropriate treatment. More access, better access and shorter wait times will help too. "This is our first step forward. Our idea is to move this to breast tumor board when it's available."
A move to digital pathology down the road, Gilmore believes, would reduce the prep work needed for multidisciplinary meetings. The time savings would be "significant" for her and especially support staff. "No more looking through the archives to find slides, some of which may not have been returned, or were misfiled and simply can't be located. We miss out because the team cannot compare priors to currents." And after the meeting, "all of the images would live together going forward so reaching back to priors would offer a more global view," she says.
Digital pathology also brings the promise of precision medicine and machine intelligence to potentially improve diagnosis and disease monitoring. "Machines are better at counting," she says. "My human eye is never going to be as good as the machine when it comes to quantifying large numbers of cells under the microscope. Precision medicine is coming but we need digital capabilities first."
The future is largely being modeled after the evolution of digital radiology where all images are viewed digitally. […] We're really excited. There's a lot of enthusiasm for embracing new technology.
Mapping out a plan
UHCMC has been bitten by the digital pathology bug and is putting together solutions to meet their needs in patient consults. For example, when challenged by distance and geography for a tumor board at a small community hospital, they'll scan their slides. "That way, our pathologist off-site can just take pictures of their images and put it in a PowerPoint [presentation]. That means we don't actually have to physically drive the slides to the location," Gilmore says. "It works well but isn't the fully digital lab with digital signouts we are mapping out for the future."
The UHCMC team is getting more comfortable with digital pathology. Areas such as frozen sections and tumor boards are working well. "We'd like to be able to use digital because our specialty immunostain labs are here at our main campus. If we have a pathologist who's two hours away, we just scan the slides, and he or she doesn't have to wait for the courier to take them. You can see how much more efficient that is. It saves time and some costs too."
Frozen sections will be the first phase of implementation, thus the reason they were the focus on the pilot study.
The UHCMC team sees the potential for digital pathology in boosting efficiency throughout the patient management journey and improving ergonomics in looking at big screens vs. looking through microscopes. No more waiting or looking for slides and physically sending them to another specialist for an opinion. Digital viewing offers higher power settings and better visualization, for individual pathologists or in meetings.
Gilmore sees opportunities to improve quality of work and quality of care. "This is why radiologic and pathologic correlation with every image-guided biopsy is so important," she says. "The breast world is probably ahead of lots of other areas, where after the radiologist does a biopsy, they have to put an addendum on saying whether or not the findings are concordant or discordant. We think about that more than probably other disease teams. And just in general, it helps us move toward a world where we really integrate radiologic, pathologic, genomic, and clinical data into kind of one unifying system. There is huge potential."
The future is largely being modeled after the evolution of digital radiology where all images are viewed digitally, Gilmore says. She sees the pilots and awareness-building among faculty as step one of an evolutionary pivot toward digital pathology. While it's estimated that only 5 percent of pathology sites across the globe have digitized their workflow, that will soon be changing with new U.S. FDA approvals of digital pathology systems on the horizon. "We want to be ready," she says. "We're really excited. There's a lot of enthusiasm for embracing new technology."
Recorded video webinar with Q&A
Webinar: Pivoting to digital pathology — inside University Hospitals' journey
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Dutch university hospital takes the next step in digital pathology