Ovaries of dead women (n = 30) were divided into six age groups: 15–20 years old, 21–25 years old, 26–30 years old, 31–35 years old, 36–40 years old and 41–46 years old. Histological slides of left and right ovaries were stained using haematoxylin-eosin and periodic acid–Schiff (PAS) staining methods. The morphometrical measurements of 10 primordial ovarian follicles of the left and right ovary of each woman were made from microphotographs.
The diameter of primordial ovarian follicles increased in groups of women from 15 years old to 35 years old and decreased in the groups from 36 years old to 46 years old. The area of primordial ovarian follicles increased in the groups of women until 35 years old. It decreased in the groups of women older than 36 years. The follicular basement membrane thickened from 1.29 ± 0.11 μm to 1.43 ± 0.18 μm with increasing age of women. The diameter of primary oocytes enlarged until 35 years and then began to decrease. The area of primary oocytes increased in women until 35 years. It decreased in groups of women aged 36–40 and 41–46 years old. The diameter and the area of primary oocytes nuclei increased in women aged 15–30 years old; later, it began to decrease. The length of follicular cells varied from 8.56 ± 0.43 μm to 8.72 ± 0.27 μm (p > 0.05). The height of follicular cells varied from 2.59 ± 0.27 μm to 2.7 ± 0.21 μm (p > 0.05).
The diameter, the area and the basement membrane thickness of primordial ovarian follicles and the diameter and the area of primary oocytes and their nuclei differed insignificantly in left and right ovaries in all age groups of women (p > 0.5). The length and height of follicular cells were similar in left and right ovaries of the same age group (p > 0.5).
The age decreasing of morphometrical parameters begins in primordial ovarian follicles and their primary oocytes in Lithuanian women older than 35 years. The thickness of the follicular basement membrane increased with increasing age of women. No significant differences were found in the morphometrical parameters in primordial follicles of left and right ovaries in the same age group of women.
When ovarian follicles are formed, they enter the primordial ("resting") stage, which persists for a period of time that varies from follicle to follicle. They can develop to primary follicles or become atretic . The mechanisms responsible for the initiation of follicular growth (primordial follicle activation) or atresia and the mechanisms that permit variable timing of growth initiation are completely unknown. The non-growing primordial follicles are a resource that could be utilized or manipulated to alleviate infertility, produce contraception or delay menopause .
Reproductive methods, such as IVF, ICSI and embryo transfer, have a limited impact on a lack of fertilizable oocytes for women. Superovulation can increase the number of oocytes ovulated by an individual, but the response is variable and large numbers are not generally obtained. In-vitro maturation of immature oocytes from antral follicles and earlier follicle stages would increase the number of fertilizable oocytes .
Frozen (cryopreserved) ovarian biopsies would also provide an important source of self- and donated oocytes for the many women who do not respond well to superovulation, women with primary ovarian insufficiency, damaged ovaries due to inflammation or endometriosis, and women with premature menopause, such as young cancer patients who require fertility treatment after chemotherapy and radiotherapy [3–7].
Cryopreservation of human ovarian tissue containing immature follicles and retransplantation of cryopreserved tissue after cancer treatment can be performed successfully and healthy babies can be delivered [8–12].
Primordial follicles constitute the largest part of the ovarian follicular population. The number of primordial follicles in an ovary decreases with age .
A lot of scientists focus their attention on the structure and ultrastructure and changes of the ultrastructure in primordial, primary, secondary (preantral) and antral (Graafian) follicles and their oocytes in women [1, 14–18].
However, we missed detailed measurements of the size of follicles, oocytes and follicular cells and their age-related changes in all stages of human ovarian follicles.
The aim of this study was to measure primordial ovarian follicles and to determine how morphometrical parameters varied in relation with women's age.
The pairs of ovaries from 30 women aged 15–46 years were obtained from Kaunas Division of State Forensic Medicine Service after autopsy at least 24 h post mortem. Left ovaries were marked using the cotton thread. The material was placed into a 10% formaldehyde solution for 24 h. Women were subdivided into six age groups: 15–20 years old (n = 5; 15, 16, 16, 19 and 20 years old), 21–25 years old (n = 5; 21, 21, 23, 24 and 25 years old), 26–30 years old (n = 5; 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 years old), 31–35 years old (n = 5; 31, 32, 32, 34 and 35 years old), 36–40 years old (n = 5; 36, 36, 38, 39 and 40 years old) and 41–46 years old (n = 5; 41, 43, 43, 43 and 46 years old). Only ovaries without morphological pathologies, dominant follicle, corpus luteum and follicular cysts were selected as suitable for this investigation. Each ovary was cut into 3 pieces. Only the middle piece was used for the preparation of histological slides, dehydrated in the graded ethanol series and embedded to paraffin blocks. In order to avoid the re-measurement of the same follicle, sections (4 μm of thickness) were obtained at 100 μm intervals. Histological slides were prepared according to standard methods and stained with haematoxylin-eosin (Fig. 1a). In brief, deparaffinised and rehydrated sections were immersed in Mayer's haematoxylin solution for 7 min, and then washed in running tap water for 1 min, ammonia water for 30 s and tap water for 1 min again. The sections were stained in a 2% eosin solution for 1 min and 30 s, rinsed in tap water for 1 min, dehydrated and covered with cover glass (according to [19, 20] with our small modifications).
The periodic acid–Schiff (PAS) staining method was used for the emphasis of the follicular basement membrane (Fig. 1b) . Briefly, after deparaffinisation and rehydration, the sections were immersed in a 0.5% periodic acid solution for 5 min. Then they were rinsed in distilled water and dried in a thermostat at 60 °C for 5 min. They were steeped in Schiff's reagent (Merck) for 20 min and then rinsed in running tap water. Then the sections were stained with Mayer's haematoxylin for 5 min, rinsed in distilled water for 5 min, and dehydrated and covered with cover glass ([19, 20] with our small modifications).
Microphotographs of primordial ovarian follicles were made from histological slides using microscope Olympus BX40 (camera Olympus XC30). Only follicles surrounded by flattened follicular cells, cut through the middle and presenting approximately equal size, rounded shape and clearly visible oocytes nuclei were selected for morphometrical analysis. Ten primordial ovarian follicles were selected from each ovary for measurement (in total, 20 follicles from each woman). Morphometrical analysis was done manually using an image analysis programme (UTHSCSA Image Tool for Windows Version 3.0) by the same person. The diameter, the area and the basement membrane thickness of primordial ovarian follicles, the diameter and the area of primary oocytes, the diameter and the area of their nuclei and the length and the height of flattened follicular cells were measured and compared in women of six age groups. Because the shape of primordial ovarian follicles, primary oocytes and their nuclei is not perfectly round, these structures were measured in three places: the widest, the narrowest and between them, and the average was calculated. The length and the height of follicular cells were measured in three cells and the average of these parameters was calculated. The basement membrane thickness was measured at five places of the same follicle and the average was calculated too. All obtained data were tabled in the Microsoft Excel 2003 programme. Using this programme, the ratios of oocyte to follicle area, nucleus to oocyte area and follicular cell height to length were calculated.
The Statistica programme (Statistica Version 5, StatSoft inc.) Basic statistics was used for the calculation of the mean and the standard deviation. One-way ANOVA Tukey HSD post-hoc was used for statistical comparison of age groups (p values). The data were expressed as mean ± standard deviation (SD), and p < 0.05 was taken as significant.
The study of 15–46–year-old women's primordial ovarian follicles showed that the age had a significant influence on their diameter (Fig. 2, Additional file 1: Table S1). It increased in women groups of 15–20, 21–25, 26–30 and 31–35 years old (43.55 ± 0.44 μm, 44.56 ± 0.34 μm, 44.63 ± 0.36 μm and 44.72 ± 0.38 μm, respectively). The diameter began to decrease in women of 36–40 and 41–46 years old (43.81 ± 0.56 μm and 43.54 ± 0.46 μm).
Women's age had a significant influence on the area of primordial ovarian follicles, too. It increased in women younger than 35 years old (from 1487.8 ± 32.14 μm2 to 1569.2 ± 28.32 μm2). Also, the area decreased in women groups of 36–40 and 41–46 years old (1506.3 ± 41.3 μm2 and 1487.9 ± 36.84 μm2, respectively) (Fig. 3, Additional file 1: Table S1).
The basement membrane of primordial follicles was broken and clearly visible only on slides stained by PAS. The follicular basement membrane thickness increased from 1.29 ± 0.11 μm to 1.43 ± 0.18 μm according to women's age (Table 1).
The diameter of primary oocytes in primordial follicles was smallest in the group of women aged 15–20 years (38.22 ± 0.39 μm). It enlarged until 35 years (to 39.55 ± 0.45 μm) and then began to decrease (to 38.35 ± 0.41 μm) (Fig. 2, Additional file 1: Table S1).
The area of primary oocytes of primordial follicles increased in women until 35 years old (from 1145.55 ± 25.75 μm2 to 1226.75 ± 29.67 μm2), too. It decreased in women groups of 36–40 and 41–46 years old (1159.55 ± 22.91 μm2 and 1153.25 ± 26.71 μm2, respectively) (Fig. 3, Additional file 1). However, the oocyte to follicle area ratio remained almost the same (0.77–0.78; p > 0.5) (Table 1).
The age had influence on the diameter and the area of nuclei of primary oocytes in primordial ovarian follicles in 15–36-year old women. The diameter and the area of nuclei increased fractionally in 15–30-year old women (from 15.49 ± 0.2 μm to 15.59 ± 0.14 μm, and from 187.16 ± 4.84 μm2 to 189.55 ± 3.57 μm2, respectively). Later, it began to decrease significantly (to 14.67 ± 0.5 μm and 168.19 ± 13.23 μm2, respectively, Figs. 2 and 3, Additional file 1: Table S1). However, the nucleus to oocyte area ratio remained almost the same in the follicles of women of all ages (0.15–0.16; p > 0.5) (Table 1).
In primordial follicles, primary oocytes were surrounded by one layer of flattened follicular cells. The length of follicular cells did not differ significantly with age. It varied from 8.56 ± 0.43 μm to 8.72 ± 0.27 μm (p > 0.05). The height of follicular cells ranged from 2.59 ± 0.27 μm to 2.7 ± 0.21 μm (p > 0.05, Table 1).
Table 2 shows the comparison of morphometrical data of left and right ovaries in the group of women of the same age. The diameter, the area and the basement membrane thickness of primordial ovarian follicles differed insignificantly in left and right ovaries in all age groups of women (p > 0.5). Also, the diameter and the area of primary oocytes and their nuclei were similar in left and right ovaries (p > 0.5). The length and the height of follicular cells differed insignificantly in left and right ovaries, too (p > 0.5). The oocyte to follicle area, the nucleus to oocyte area and the follicular cell height to length ratios were the same in left and right ovaries in the same age group (0.77–0.78, 0.15–0.16 and 0.3–0.31, respectively; p > 0.5).
In this study, we wanted to measure primordial ovarian follicles and their primary oocytes and to compare how the morphometrical parameters varied in relation to women's age in Lithuania. Starting this research, we confronted with the lack of research material. Within 10 years, we received ovaries from 49 dead women (15–46 years old only). Therefore, our study was very extended. Only ovaries from 30 women were suitable for our research (without corpus luteum, dominant follicle or follicular cysts). Also, there were cases when we received only one ovary. Therefore, we could not compare the morphometrical parameters of primordial follicles of left and right ovaries in the same women. Besides, the investigation was impeded by post mortem changes in the ovaries.
We aimed at comparing morphometrical parameters of follicles in women of different countries. However, in the literature, we found scarce data on morphometrical characteristics of primordial ovarian follicles in women from various countries.
In the USA, Griffin with co-authors  maintained that the mean diameter of human primordial ovarian follicles and primary oocytes was 44 μm and 36 μm, respectively. In the Netherlands, the area of oocytes was 850 ± 244 μm2 in primordial follicles of young women's (26–32 years old) ovaries and 927 ± 258 μm2 in those of advanced-age women (39–45 years old). The area of oocytes nuclei was 199 ± 97.7 μm2 and 197 ± 94 μm2, respectively. The mean nucleus to oocyte ratios were 0.23 ± 0.09 and 0.21 ± 0.08, respectively [15, 16].
In France, the diameter of human primordial ovarian follicles was 35.4 ± 6.2 μm, the diameter of oocytes was 32.1 ± 6.0 μm and the diameter of oocytes nuclei was 16.1 ± 6.1 μm .
We found only one source of literature which in detail compared morphometrical parameters of follicles in the ovaries of women of the reproductive age. Westergaard and co-authors  from Denmark proposed that the diameter of primordial ovarian follicle and its oocytes increased in women of 13–27 years old (from 39.0 ± 0.4 μm to 41.9 ± 03 μm and from 34.3 ± 0.4 μm to 37.0 ± 0.3 μm, respectively); then it began to decline (to 39.4 ± 0.3 μm and 35.1 ± 0.4 μm, respectively). The maximal diameter of oocytes nuclei was found in 13–20-year old women's oocytes (18.9 ± 0.2 μm). The oocytes of < 13-year old girls had the smallest nuclei (17.8 ± 0.2 μm).
The results of our study correspond partially to Westergard et al.'s  results. The diameter and the area of primordial ovarian follicles, the diameter and the area of primary oocytes and their nuclei increased in Lithuanian women from 15 to 35 years, and then these parameters declined with age.
According to our study, the hypothesis can be made that the negative changes of aging begin in primordial ovarian follicles and their primary oocytes in Lithuanian women older than 35 years. Therefore, it can be recommended that women should plan pregnancy up to 35 years of age. Subsequently, negative changes begin in oocytes, and this may be one of the causes of decreased fertility and increased birth defects.
In results of our study, the morphometrical parameters of Lithuanian women's primordial ovarian follicles were similar to those of women in the USA, but different than those of women in France and Denmark. Primary oocytes in Lithuanian women's primordial ovarian follicles had a larger diameter and area in comparison with these parameters in women from the USA, France and Denmark. Primary oocytes in Lithuanian women had smaller nuclei than in French, Danish and Dutch women.
It can be concluded that morphometrical parameters of primordial follicles and their primary oocytes can vary according to the country and the region in which women live.
The diameter and the area of primordial ovarian follicles, the diameter and the area of primary oocytes and their nuclei increased in Lithuanian women from 15 to 35 years; then these parameters began to decrease.
The thickness of the follicular basement membrane increased in primordial ovarian follicles of 15–46-year old Lithuanian women with age.
The length and the height of follicular cells differed insignificantly in different age groups of Lithuanian women (p > 0.05).
No differences were observed in the morphometrical parameters of primordial follicles, primary oocytes and their nuclei and follicular cells of left and right ovaries in women of all age groups (p > 0.5).
We would like to thank the technical staff of the Department of Histology and Embryology for the help with histological slides making.
Lithuanian University of Health Sciences financially supported this work.
There are no shared the data and material for this manuscript.
KL designed the study, interpreted the data and wrote the draft of the manuscript. DG provided the material (ovaries) for this study. NJ and AV revised the manuscript. All the authors approved the final version of the manuscript.
The study was approved by the licence of Kaunas Regional Biomedical Research Ethics Committee (No. BE-2-25, 04.05.2006).


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Book Showcase: LIES, LIES, LIES by Adele Parks
Lies, Lies, Lies by Adele Parks
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Daisy and Simon's marriage isn't what it seems…
After years together, the arrival of longed-for daughter Millie sealed everything in place. They're a happy little family of three.
So what if Simon drinks a bit too much sometimes—Daisy's used to it. She knows he's just letting off steam. Until one night at a party things spiral horribly out of control. And their happy little family of three will never be the same again.
In Lies, Lies, Lies, #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Adele Parks explores the darkest corners of a relationship in free fall in a mesmerizing tale of marriage and secrets.
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Simon was six years old when he first tasted beer.
He was bathed and ready for bed wearing soft pyjamas, even though it was light outside; still early. Other kids were in the street, playing on their bikes, kicking a football. He could hear them through the open window, although he couldn't see them because the blinds were closed. His daddy didn't like the evening light glaring on the TV screen, his mummy didn't like the neighbours looking in; keeping the room dark was something they agreed on.
His mummy didn't like a lot of things: wasted food, messy bedrooms, Daddy driving too fast, his sister throwing a tantrum in public. Mummy liked 'having standards'. He didn't know what that meant, exactly. There was a standard-bearer at Cubs; he was a big boy and got to wave the flag at the front of the parade, but his mummy didn't have a flag, so it was unclear. What was clear was that she didn't like him to be in the street after six o'clock. She thought it was common. He wasn't sure what common was either, something to do with having fun. She bathed him straight after tea and made him put on pyjamas, so that he couldn't sneak outside.
He didn't know what his daddy didn't like, just what he did like. His daddy was always thirsty and liked a drink. When he was thirsty he was grumpy and when he had a drink, he laughed a lot. His daddy was an accountant and like to count in lots of different ways: "a swift one', "a cold one', and 'one more for the road'. Sometimes Simon though his daddy was lying when he said he was an accountant; most likely, he was a pirate or a wizard. He said to people, "Pick your poison', which sounded like something pirates might say, and he liked to drink, "the hair of a dog' in the morning at the weekends, which was definitely a spell. Simon asked his mummy about it once and she told him to stop being silly and never to say those silly things outside the house.
He had been playing with his Etch A Sketch, which was only two months old and was a birthday present. Having seen it advertised on TV, Simon had begged for it, but it was disappointing. Just two silly knobs making lines that went up and down, side to side. Limited. Boring. He was bored. The furniture in the room was organised so all of it was pointing at the TV which was blaring but not interesting. The news. His parents liked watching the news, but he didn't. His father was nursing a can of the grown ups' pop that Simon was never allowed. The pop that smelt like nothing else, fruity and dark and tempting.
"Can I have a sip?" he asked.
"Don't be silly, Simon," his mother interjected. "You're far too young. Beer is for daddies." He thought she said 'daddies', but she might have said 'baddies'.
His father put the can to his lips, glared at his mother, cold. A look that said, "Shut up woman, this is man's business." His mother had blushed, looked away as though she couldn't stand to watch, but she held her tongue. Perhaps she thought the bitterness wouldn't be to his taste, that one sip would put him off. He didn't like the taste. But he enjoyed the collusion. He didn't know that word then, but he instinctively understood the thrill. He and his daddy drinking grown ups' pop! His father had looked satisfied when he swallowed back the first mouthful, then pushed for a second. He looked almost proud. Simon tasted the aluminium can, the snappy biting bitter bubbles and it lit a fuse.
After that, in the mornings, Simon would sometimes get up early, before Mummy or Daddy or his little sister, and he'd dash around the house before school, tidying up. He'd open the curtains, empty the ashtrays, clear away the discarded cans. Invariably his mother went to bed before his father. Perhaps she didn't want to have to watch him drink himself into a stupor every night, perhaps she hoped denying him an audience might take away some of the fun for him, some of the need. She never saw just how bad the place looked by the time his father staggered upstairs to bed. Simon knew it was important that she didn't see that particular brand of chaos.
Occasionally there would be a small amount of beer left in one of the cans. Simon would slurp it back. He found he liked the flat, forbidden, taste just as much as the fizzy hit of fresh beer. He'd throw open a window, so the cigarette smoke and the secrets could drift away. When his mother came downstairs, she would smile at him and thank him for tidying up.
"You're a good boy, Simon," she'd say with some relief. And no idea.
When there weren't dregs to be slugged, he sometimes opened a new can. Threw half of it down his throat before eating his breakfast. His father never kept count.
Some people say their favourite smell is freshly baked bread, others say coffee or a campfire. From a very young age, few scents could pop Simon's nerve endings like the scent of beer.
The promise of it.
Excerpt from Lies, Lies, Lies by Adele Parks.
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Adele Parks was born in Teesside, North-East England. Her first novel, Playing Away, was published in 2000 and since then she's had seventeen international bestsellers, translated into twenty-six languages, including I Invited Her In. She's been an Ambassador for The Reading Agency and a judge for the Costa. She's lived in Italy, Botswana, and London, and is now settled in Guildford, Surrey, with her husband, teenage son, and cat.
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Q: gunicorn.errors.HaltServer:  error while running fastapi in docker I have added fastapi to a docker container which does background tasks using BackgroundTask from fastapi. When i run the container the page is not loading and i have seen this error in docker desktop logs gunicorn.errors.HaltServer: <HaltServer 'Worker failed to boot.' 3>. I am using docker run -d --name mycontainer -p 8080:8080 onetest to run the container.
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They dish about their clients, what they think about the "dragon lady" stereotype, and more.
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Experts weigh in on the controversial treatments.
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Angel Locsin and Phil Younghusband are Now Officially in a Romantic Relationship!
Finally, award-winning actress Angel Locsin and AZKALS hunk Phil Younghusband announced that they were now officially in a romantic relationship! Their "boyfriend-girlfriend" status started last May 27, 2012.
We may recall that a year ago, Phil asked Angel for his Valentines date via the microblogging site Twitter. That small incident blooms into a 'mutual understanding' and grew into a romance now.
Meanwhile, if Angel is happy with Phil in real life, Isabel's life (Angel's character) in "TODA Max" will become turbulent. Isabel and Tatay Mac (Al Tantay) will be driven away from their home and will be forced to rent in front of Tol (Robin Padilla) and Justin's (Vhong Navarro) house. Tatay Mac will start an eatery business, but it will be right in front of Justin's eatery.
What will happen to Tatay Mac and Justin's relationship now that they are rivals in business?
Find out in "TODA Max" with guest star Pilita Corales this Saturday, in its new time slot, after the "X Factor Philippines".


Regular cannabis users will be familiar with the build-up of greenish dust in things like grinders and containers. This dust is known as Kief, and you should never throw it away. Kief is actually crystals of trichomes which fall off of your bud. It's actually a lot more potent than regular weed and works in a similar way to cannabis concentrates. There are many ways to use kief, and these can offer a more potent high than usual.
Whether you like to smoke, vape or even create new cannabis products, kief is ideal. It's made from the most potent parts of weed and, as such, provides a very strong THC kick when used. Make sure you collect Kief over time and collect it up to use it. It offers another great way to enjoy the full effects of cannabis.
So with all that said, what are the best ways to use kief? You have a lot of options, and most are very easy. Here's a guide on Kief, how to get it, and most importantly how to use it.
Kief is a powder or dust-like product which often falls off of cannabis buds. These cannabis crystals actually come from the resin glands or trichomes of your weed. These are actually the most potent parts of the flower as they pack very high levels of THC. As such, you should keep a hold of any kief residue you find and use it.
You can use kief in many ways. Much like cannabis concentrates, it's extremely versatile and easy to use in many different forms. What's more, using it can offer a more powerful high than you're usually used to. It may not be as potent as proper cannabis concentrates, but it does pack more THC than your regular weed.
It's always a good idea to collect together any kief you can find and start using it. There are a lot of ways to enjoy the effects and it'd be a shame to miss out on the high levels of THC it contains.
Kief often falls off of flower strains and, as such, most weed lovers should be able to find some. The easiest way to find kief is at the bottom of a grinder. Collect all the dust together and you can use it again. It sometimes also falls off into containers of cannabis. Check the bottom for any of these kief crystals before you clean it out or throw it away.
Some users even go the extra mile to collect more kief. Certain grinders and sifters with multiple chambers make it easy to collect kief in the bottom. These can provide you with easy-to-collect kief so you can get some extra use out of your cannabis strains.
Some stores also sell quantities of kief along with other cannabis concentrates. It's usually a lot cheaper than other products since it's easier to collect. With that said, anyone who smokes cannabis regularly should be able to find leftover kief which they can use again to get even more bang for their buck.
With so many cannabis strains and concentrates available, why should you use kief? Well, since you'll likely end up with some leftover kief regardless, it's best to make the most of it. Kief comes from the trichomes of cannabis, the part which contains the most THC. Because of this, it actually delivers a very strong high when you consume it.
It's also easy to use kief in a variety of ways. The powder form makes it very versatile and you can often mix it in with other products to enjoy an increased dose of THC. Using kief can be a lot of fun, and since you'll probably have some lying around anyway, it's well worth trying it out.
One of the best things about kief is you can use it in all kinds of ways. It can be mixed in with other products when you smoke or vape for an extra potent high. You can also cook with it or even add it to drinks. Here are a few of the best ways to use kief.
The most straightforward way to get some use out of your kief is to simply smoke it. While you'll need a lot of kief to smoke it on its own, you can always just sprinkle it in with the rest of your herb. This will increase the potency of your joint and is extremely easy to do.
When you roll your joint with bud, simply sprinkle a bit of kief on top. When the weed burns, the kief will burn with it, and you'll be treated to some extra THC when you smoke it. Kief can be strong, so be cautious about how much you use. Even a little added kief can really up the potency.
The same applies whether you roll a blunt or spliff. You can mix in kief with tobacco and weed for an easy-burning and highly potent roll-up. If you have your kief collected, all you have to do is mix it in with your other herbs and you're set to go. This is the easiest way to use kief and one of the best.
Taking a bong hit will usually get you higher than slowly smoking a joint or spliff. But if you want to make your high even stronger, you can also add some kief to your bong and pipe. Again, while kief on its own might not burn so well in a bowl, you can always mix it in with the rest of your herb for added effects.
Load your bowl with your regular flower product and simply sprinkle some of your kief on top. Now light up and inhale. This is just as easy as using your kief in a joint or spliff, only the effects tend to be a little stronger. If you enjoy smoking out of a bong, this is a great way to make the most out of your kief.
The same applies when you smoke out of a pipe. Just add the kief in with the rest of your herbs when you load your bowl. It's straightforward but very effective. You'll get some very strong effects, but if you're looking for a potent high, this is a great idea.
Many users nowadays prefer vaping over smoking. According to research, vaping cannabis is healthier for your lungs as smoking can carry many harmful toxins. What's more, studies suggest that vaping actually allows you to absorb more THC than smoking. This makes vaping kief ideal.
Like with flower and cannabis concentrates, you just need to load some kief into the chamber of your vape pen or vaporizer. More kief is better, as a small amount may get stuck to the bottom. You should also ensure you have a vape that's safe for use with weed or concentrates. A temperature of 315 – 340 degrees Fahrenheit is the best for vaping kief.
Much like with adding kief to a joint or bong, you can also vape kief with other products. For instance, you may want to sprinkle it in with dry cannabis or even add it to your vape juice or concentrates. Vaping kief can be very strong, so take it hit by hit and enjoy the effects.
If smoking or vaping is getting old for you, you can also consume your kief in food or drinks. However, it needs to be heated up in order to have the proper effects. As such, one of the best ways to use kief is to add it into a nice hot cup of tea or coffee.
The heat from tea or coffee will activate the effects of the THC in kief. Now all you have to do is drink up and wait for the effects. Keep in mind that it'll take longer to kick in than vaping or smoking. Usually, after you consume kief in this way, you'll need to wait an hour or two for it to digest. Your liver will convert it into the extra strong 11-hydroxy-THC and it can make you high for hours.
With the added effects of the caffeine, this can make for a very interesting high. It's also a fun and easy way to utilize the kief you have lying around. Using it with coffee or tea is best, but it can also work with all kinds of other hot drinks.
Cooking with kief will take a couple of extra steps. You first need to decarboxylate it to ensure you'll get the effects. You can then cook it into some potent cannabutter which you can use for all kinds of recipes.
Place your kief on an oven-safe dish at a heat of around 300 °F for 6-8 minutes. This will decarboxylate the product without toasting it and reducing the THC levels. After this, add a couple of sticks of melted butter to a pan and add your kief till it dissolves. Alternatively, you could also add butter and kief to a crockpot and leave it for 5 hours.
Once the kief has dissolved into the butter, you can now use it for all kinds of fun cannabis edibles. For instance, you can use your cannabutter to bake brownies or cookies. You could also simply spread it onto toast and enjoy it that way. This will give you a potent edible high that will last for hours on end.
You can also use your kief to make other cannabis concentrates. There are a few different options for this, but the easiest and most efficient to make is hash. All you need to turn your kief into hash is some parchment paper and an iron or hair straightener.
Place your kief onto the parchment paper and fold it up to ensure the kief is covered. Now, put it on a flat, iron-safe surface and put your iron or hair straightener on low heat. Go over the parchment paper with the iron (or straightener) a few times, only for a few seconds at a time. After a while, you will notice it has turned into a solid brick of hash.
Hash is a form of compressed resin which you can break up for use in joints, pipes or dab rigs. It'll give you an even more potent high in an easy-to-use form.
Even if you're unsure about how you want to use your kief right now, make sure you always store it. Kief is a valuable part of cannabis and you can get a whole lot of use out of it.
Grinders will naturally collect kief. However, you can also get multi-chamber grinders and sifters which have a section for kief. This makes it extra easy to collect all of your kief whenever you grind your bud.
It's best to store your kief in a grinder, sifter or simply a sealed glass container and keep it in a cool, dry place. Keep collecting your kief every time you use cannabis and, over time, you'll find you have plenty to use. You can then start adding it to joints, bong hits or even creating THC-infused drinks and edibles.
There are many ways to use kief, and all of them can give you an extra potent high thanks to the concentrated levels of THC. Whether you want to make a high-THC drink, make some cannabutter or even create your own hash, kief can come in handy in a lot of ways.
You can get plenty of kief simply by grinding regular flower strains. Over time, the dust from different strains will culminate together and you'll end up with some high-potency hybrid kief. And if you like the effects of kief, you can also try out readymade cannabis concentrates like hash and budder for an intense high.


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Q: How to check if stored procedure returned a field I'm using some asp net stored procedures and I do not want edit them.
The trouble is when ThisProcedure returns no Field I need.
Query->FieldByName("RoleName") // delphi : Query.FieldByName("RoleName") (for TAG %D)

and sometimes it works, sometimes I've got error : CommandText does not return a return set
I can't avoid it using try catch so I have no idea how to pass this trouble.
Help me

A: Use FindField, it will return nil if the field is not there.


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Canada, Quebec, Montreal – 04-08-2019 (PRDistribution.com) — Gazelle.ai and Business Facilities, the leading resource for corporate site selectors, have entered…
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Canada, Quebec, Montreal – 04-08-2019 (PRDistribution.com) — Gazelle.ai and Business Facilities, the leading resource for corporate site selectors, have entered into a formal partnership that will allow each company to better serve their customers' needs and expand their reach into the corporate real estate and and economic development marketplaces.
"Our clients and subscribers are looking for innovative solutions to their growing business challenges, and the partnership between Gazelle.ai and Business Facilities is a natural fit that will allow both of our organizations to create more value for our respective clients and subscribers," said Steven Jast, President and Founder, Gazelle.ai.
Montreal-based Gazelle.ai is known for its innovative artificial intelligence (AI)- powered business intelligence platform used to identify growth companies.
"Through our partnership with Business Facilities, we have the opportunity to raise awareness of AI developments and its impact on corporate real estate," said Jast. "Business Facilities reaches the exact audience that will benefit from the data that we provide, so we're thrilled to partner with them on this venture."
Business Facilities has been the leading voice in corporate site selection and economic development for over 50 years. The Business Facilities audience consists of corporate executives who work for companies that are looking to expand, and need information on the best locations in which to do so.
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Business Facilities is a leading full-service media brand specializing in the site selection marketplace. Through a bi-monthly magazine, email newsletters, an industry-leading website, and its LiveXchange event, Business Facilities has created a dynamic community for C-level executives and economic development organizations. Business Facilities has been the leading source of intelligence on corporate expansion and relocation since 1968, covering the full range of the experience, from "how-to" information on comparing the financial incentives offered by different communities around the world, to profiles of the latest relocations undertaken by major corporations.
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This week the winter season drew to a close for the Southern Alicante Winter League. All three squads fought hard to consolidate their positions. In the Enterprise Division, Pearls finished with a flourish, winning their away match against Vistabella Albatrosses 8-4 points and 75-68 shots.
This means they've ended the season in 3rd place in the league – well done Pearls!! Meantime, the Diamonds were fighting hard to avoid relegation from the Enterprise Division and in their away match against Vistabella Drivers secured the 2 points needed to finish the season with a 3 point lead against them in the league.
A win for Vistabella Drivers 10-2 points and 100-77 shots, gave QBC Diamonds the result they needed to secure their place in the Enterprise Division next year. Job done Diamonds – well done!
The newly promoted Rubies have had a very tough season and despite a very valiant 6-6 draw against Mazarron Miners, they finished in the bottom 2 of the Discovery Division, so are at risk of relegation. But all credit and thanks to the Rubies for their hard work and dedication throughout the season.
Quesada's Winter league squad pulled off another great win against Bonalba 9-3 points and 92-71 shots, maintaining their 4th place in the league.
While we're talking winners, congratulations to Quesadas Terry Morgan and colleagues in the Spanish National Squad, who won both the mens section and the overall Team medals in the 5 nations competition in Cyprus. Fantastic result – congratulations to the whole team.
Finally, there was a friendly match this week between Quesada and The British Legion bowlers. The match was at San Luis on a beautiful sunny spring afternoon. Played in a competitive but happy and fun atmosphere, Quesada were the victors 10-2 points and the shots were 92-68. Afterwards all of the players enjoyed a lovely 3 course meal together at Carmens in La Siesta.
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Cutting the Glare
Katharine Burr Blodgett's "invisible glass" helps us see.
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Camera lenses, telescopes and a host of other optical devices owe their efficiency to glare-proof glass. The material has been dubbed "invisible glass," but its inventor, as the first female research scientist at General Electric, was very visible indeed.
Katharine Burr Blodgett was born in Schenectady, New York, in 1889, the second child of a G.E. patent attorney who died before his daughter's birth. On a Christmas vacation at age 18, she visited the Schenectady research facilities of her father's former employer, where her tour guide was the chemist (and future Nobel Laureate) Irving Langmuir. Langmuir encouraged the teenager to pursue her studies in science, and she did; earning a master's degree from the University of Chicago the following spring helped Blodgett earn a spot in Langmuir's lab. After that, except for the two years she took off to get the first physics PhD ever awarded to a woman by Cambridge University, Blodgett spent the whole of her 45-year career at G.E.
This story was part of our May 1999 issue
Witty and gregarious, the petite researcher-known to all at G.E. as Katie-made a big splash in the last week of 1938. That's when the company announced Blodgett had found a way to treat glass so that 99 percent of the light hitting it would penetrate, rather than reflecting off the surface. Blodgett's process grew from Langmuir's discovery years earlier that when he spread certain substances on water, a film one molecule thick formed; by dipping a plate through the film and then pulling it out again, Blodgett found she could deposit single-molecule layers on solid surfaces. Coating a sheet of ordinary glass with 44 layers of liquid soap molecules virtually eliminated glare.
What the press called "invisible glass" landed Blodgett in Time, Life and The New York Times. Though the soap coating was too soft for commercial application, G.E. made Blodgett's findings public; other researchers soon found ways of making durable films that to this day coat lenses, shop windows, picture glass and windshields. In the meanwhile, spurred by the Second World War, Blodgett turned her attention to such military applications as airplane de-icing and smokescreen machines.
Though her contributions to science, technology and G.E. have been recognized by a multitude of citations and awards, there was at least one critical omission: The author of a 1953 Science article titled "Seventy-five years of research in General Electric" admiringly mentioned almost every man to pass through the company's labs-but not Katie Blodgett.


I was 12 years old when for the first time in my life I became a citizen of a country – Australia. Before that, I was a stateless Palestinian refugee. There were two laments my parents always repeated whenever they spoke of their place of origin Palestine: if only we could have stayed and if only we could return.
According to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), in 2009 there were more than 10 million refugees around the world in need of assistance. This number does not include the7 million Palestinian refugees, who make up the world's largest refugee population and whose question is the longest standing at the UN.
The plight of Palestinian refugees began 63 years ago when they were forced out of their homes or fled in fear as the Israeli state established itself on the ruins of their villages and their towns and it has not ended. The fact their issue still stands today, unresolved, is a poignant reminder that states and governments will continue to fail the weak and disenfranchised for the sake of political gains and posturing.
Refugees are by definition powerless, in many cases they are either stateless or have lost the protection of their nation state. They depend on international bodies to rescue them. There are two norms which guide the way the international community deals with refugee issues under the UNHCR, the first is to provide protection and assistance to refugees, and the second is to not return individuals to their own countries against their will or if they are at risk of persecution. However, various human rights conventions have over the years created additional norms that work as guidelines to resolve refugee issues by providing preventative measures to make it possible for people to remain on their land and rather than focusing on resettlement alone, safeguarding the rights of refugees to return to their homes if they choose to.
Also Article 7 states : "No person shall be compelled to leave their own country".
Some in Israel may argue that because Palestinian refugees are not citizens of the state, they have no right to refer to the land from which they come from as 'their country'. This claim is refuted by a litany of legal and human rights experts, most important of all, it is refuted by the UNHCR which defines the Palestinian population as the indigenous people of the land.
Palestinians who live under Israeli occupation face sever measures aimed to uproot them. One example is the practice of revoking residency rights: Hamoked, an Israeli NGO filed a freedom of information request from the Israeli government and found that over 140,000 Palestinians who left to study or work had their residency rights revoked between 1967 and 1994. They wrote in a statement "The mass withdrawal of residency rights from tens of thousands of West Bank residents, tantamount to permanent exile from their homeland, remains an illegitimate demographic policy and a grave violation of international law."
Another example of an Israeli policy that is at the heart of the creation of the Palestinian refugee crisis is that of house demolition. An Israeli human rights group called the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) estimates at least 24,813 homes were demolished in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza since 1967, and that according to UN figures, during the 2009 Gaza bombing, more than 4,247 Palestinian homes were destroyed.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) reports that Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes and other buildings reached a record high in March of this year. According to UNRWA, 76 buildings were demolished leading to the displacement of 158 people, including 64 children. UNRWA put the total number of displaced persons in the last six months alone to 333, including 175 children. UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness described the policy as "discrimination against one ethnic group". These actions are illegal under article 53 of the 4th Geneva Convention and have been roundly criticized by the UN and other international groups, as well as by human rights organisations.
There are various other policies that drive Palestinians out of their homes, especially in Jerusalem where Palestinian neighborhoods are targeted for evictions to make way for Jewish settlers to move in. Once exiled, Palestinians are denied the right to ever return. This is also illegal under international humanitarian law.
The right to return voluntarily and in safety to one's country of origin or nationality is a right enshrined in the rules of traditional international law and also in Human rights law. The U.N. Security Council has affirmed "the right of refugees and displaced persons to return to their homes". The Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities has affirmed "the right of refugees and displaced persons to return, in safety and dignity, to their country of origin and or within it, to their place of origin or choice".
This right is a pillar of international humanitarian law simply because it acknowledges that human beings form attachments to their native land. This is not a case that is unique to Palestinian refugees; it is one shared by indigenous people everywhere. Attachment to the land of one's origin is a natural human condition and is precisely why these sentiments and emotional ties are protected.
The Palestinian refugee population will continue to grow because we in the international community have failed to find informed appropriate responses to their cries for help. We must intensify our efforts to prevent the increase of the number of Palestinian refugees that Israel uproots from the land and to help the indigenous people maintain their right to remain on the land. We also need to pressure Israel to make a repatriation offer to all the Palestinian refugees and to allow them to practice the right to return to their homes should they so choose. Failing to do so will set a negative precedent and can have an adverse consequence for the millions of other refugees.
– Samah Sabawi is a Palestinian Australian writer, author of Journey to Peace in Palestine and public advocate of Australians for Palestine. She is a policy advisor for Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network. She took part in Refugee Week's Hebron-Leichhardt Festival of Friendship in Sydney.


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Congratulations to Tony Scott, who was just named as the new CIO at Microsoft. Several years ago when I was at InfoWorld and Tony served on our CTO Advisory Council, I had the pleasure of spending time with him shooting pool, drinking beer, and talking about automotive technologies (he was CTO of General Motors at the time). One of my favorite bits of feedback for my InfoWorld column was from Tony, who wrote to me to say he was sending one of my columns to his entire staff.


Our students celebrated Positive Post It Note Day for the 3rd year to help promote kindness and end bullying. Their hard work left the halls covered in thousands of encouraging notes and many smiles!
These 5th graders were the winners of the D.A.R.E. essay contest this year!
One of the highlights of the year is always our Holiday Stations before Winter Break!
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Our staff make it a point to welcome students back to the school year with on the right foot. We participate in a neighborhood blitz where students receive a welcome back goodie bag and a smile!
At Pettit Park Elementary, a Neighborhood 1-to-1 Technology Academy, the staff is committed to growing the students into lifelong learners. Students are instructed through daily reading, writing, and math initiatives, and have embedded technology during the school day. At Pettit Park, technology is used as a tool to give students authentic experiences in communication, collaboration, creativity, and critical problem solving. During the 2016-2017 school year, Pettit Park launched a Robotics Club (for 4th- and 5th-graders) which fosters a spirit of innovation.
Pettit Park also offers half-day preschool classes, which are free for qualified students. The Pettit Park Community Preschool is rated Level 3 in Indiana Paths to Quality. Preschool students at Pettit Park are exposed to interactive learning through technology devices as part of their hands-on learning environment.
If you are interested in joining the Pettit Park Elementary School family, email Principal Kelly Wright at kwright@kokomo.k12.in.us or call 765-454-7075.


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Q: How to get elements from an array of pointers from Parse - Using Swift Context
I use Parse.com as my backend. Parse lets you have the ability to store an array of pointers to another one of your classes. In my case, for each user, if they are a business owner, I have an array of pointers to the businesses they own. The array looks like this: [{"__type":"Pointer","className":"Businesses","objectId":"auUS4I8ILh"}]
Now, in my application, I have a class that allows users to post to a timeline. If the user is also a business owner, it will allow the user to decide between posting as themselves or as the business they own. In order to do this, when I query for the user that's posting, I include the key that holds the array of pointers in my "_User" class.
Issue
Okay so my issue is when I'm trying to get the information out of the array of pointers. If I print the current user out to the console, it clearly shows the information in that column, as shown below. However, I can't figure out a good way to access this information.
Originally, I tried this:
if let businessOwner: [AnyObject] = self.currentUser.objectForKey("BusinessOwner") as! [AnyObject] {...}

After this, the next part of the code is supposed to get the object id's by iteration so that I can query for the business' information:
for business in businessOwner {
   objectIDArray.append(business.objectId as! String)
}

This originally worked when there was only one business in the array of pointers, but eventually even that stopped working. I've tried changing some things here and there, but the two problems I continually run into are: 1) the if...let statement just falls through, indicating that there was nothing to put into the businessOwner array (which I know isn't true because I can see the print out in the console), or 2) that the businessOwner array is instantiated and filled, but then the program crashes when trying to access the object id of the business, presumably related to the way I'm trying to access the string that is the object's id.
For clarification's sake, here is what the dictionary looks like after the business is assigned during iteration:

So in essence, what do I have to do to assign the objects in my "BusinessOwner" column to an array, and then, how can I get the object id's in order to use them for my query? I've been fighting this issue for a couple of days. If anyone could help me out here it would be awesome.

A: Okay I figured it out. Part of the reason this wasn't working was that I was trying to access the object ID, but as you can see in the console picture, the objectId was being wrongly associated with the class name, so it was finding nil each time. That, I believe, is a Parse issue then. If you come to this thread looking for how to access data from a pointer array, the way to do it is as follows:
if let pointerObjects = parseClassObject["arrayOfPointers"]! as? [AnyObject] {
        for object in pointerObjects {
            if let id = object["objectId"] as? String {
            //do your own thing here
            }
        }
...}


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Alia Manetta: 2017 UCLA Senior of the Year
by Pablo Muñoz June 10, 2017
written by Pablo Muñoz June 10, 2017
At age 16, Alia Manetta decided to travel to India by herself for the summer.
Manetta was interested in a hands-on volunteer opportunity in a hospital, but couldn't find any opportunities near her home, so she turned to India.
Manetta contacted hospital after hospital until she found a charitable hospital Silchar, a city in a remote region of the country, that agreed to let her shadow all the doctors. She organized and raised funds for the trip herself, and enjoyed the experience so much, she returned to the hospital to volunteer for three more summers.
Working seven days a week at the hospital, Manetta quickly became involved in all parts of the hospital's operation, from delivering medicine to patients to assisting doctors in performing surgeries.
"Before the first day had ended, I, the only female assistant, assisted in three gallbladder surgeries and a thyroid surgery," she said.
Involvement in service and entrepreneurship projects has interested Manetta since she was a young girl.
At age eight, Manetta began selling organic fruits and vegetables from her mother's garden. What began as a business on a local street corner grew to online ordering service that delivered fresh produce to neighborhoods outside her home in Laguna Beach until its closure when Manetta moved to Los Angeles.
In third grade she built a system to wash hair for bedridden hospital patients using items recovered from her trash, and two years later used the experience to create clothing from trash for a school talent show.
"Even in third grade, I knew I wanted my future career to empower me, and provide me a platform to positively impact my community," she said.
Manetta said she relishes opportunities to innovate and has learned from her realization at UCLA that "the arts and sciences are not at odds."
"The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how to knowledge is communicated," she said.
While in high school, Manetta gained exposure to the health sciences as a volunteer at the UC Irvine Mind Institute, where she coordinated fundraising events to benefit those affected by Alzheimer's disease.
She continued her work in the biomedical field in college as a research analyst at the Oppenheimer Center for the Neurobiology of Stress at the David Geffen School of Medicine, where she worked as a clinical research analyst investigating pain disorders and educating physicians on new bodies of research.
In 2013 she was named a Top Ten Graduate of Orange County to Change the World and in 2015 received the Order of Omega Leadership Award.
In 2015 Manetta presented research on mental health and homelessness at the National Health Care for the Homeless Conference in Washington, D.C., and in 2016 she presented research on brain alterations in children with gastrointestinal disorders at a symposium at the David Geffen School of Medicine.
Prior to graduation, Manetta worked at Merrill Lynch in Beverly Hills as a wealth management intern, and also served as the philanthropy committee chair for Kappa Alpha Theta from 2013 to 2017.
Manetta graduated on the Dean's Honors List and is a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars.
She is currently working toward a Master's Degree in Business of Bioscience at the Keck Graduate Institute.
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In the future, digital technologies will be used more and more to facilitate communication, to connect people and machines and to automate existing processes. Many companies, including small and medium-sized enterprises and start-ups, work well together online and offline with a well-developed infrastructure and a high level of data security. In this way, the same products and services can be produced with less time and natural resources. New, higher-quality products and services become possible.
Digital technologies used sensibly in many places.
Exchange work for work in the neighbourhood without money.
Result orientation instead of presence culture.
Software solution for local time-based currency to strengthen volunteering and cohesion.
Living company agreement for platform-based internal crowdsourcing.
Companies/Organizations: Move forward proactively and responsibly. Stay as open as possible to other organizations and perspectives.
Politics: Enable infrastructure and diversity; support (further) education.
Trade unions: Actively shape digitalisation.
Has your company/employer initiated a forward-looking approach to digitisation or not? Scale] -5 does far too little, 0 ideal, up to +5 too fast.
In the last 6 months, have you trained for at least 10 hours on work-related digitisation topics (in the company or privately)? Yes/No.


Good business plan breathes life into the business idea and turns the idea into a vision. A mature business plan or business plan should not only take place when the company is founded. Rather, the business idea and the entire business model are subject to a constant process and are further developed in the process. This process is recorded in the business plan and serves as a guideline for the company. On the following article, you will find out what you need to consider when drawing up a business plan and what the individual steps look like.
How detailed the business plan should be depends largely on the project and the objective pursued. If the business plan is used to apply for funding for a business start-up, it should be a meaningful description that gives the reader a clear picture of the business idea.
A prescribed length for the personal business plan or business plan does not exist. Also the contents of a business plan are not fixed. However, more intensive considerations are usually necessary when applying for external funds, which is why the number of pages generally increases. A business concept is more of a "permanent companion" to the company, as it must also be presented in the event of later financing requirements.
Every reader of the business plan gets a first overview of the business idea at the beginning. This first summary serves the purpose of clarity and should therefore be kept extremely brief. One and a half pages are sufficient.
Small tip: It is worthwhile to create this summary at the end after the business plan has been written.
One of the cornerstones of a business plan is to be able to show in which market environment one is moving with one's business idea. Is it a growth market? Or is it stagnating? What about market saturation? Are there many competitors? These and other questions should be answered here.
Another important point in the business plan is to present the goals of the company. It is the question to clarify in which direction the next years should go. A certain joy of vision should be recognizable. It was not for nothing that you started your own business.
So: Which vision, which goal would you like to implement with your company? And: What are the important steps in between?
An important question in every business plan and every company is the question of meaningful marketing. Here it should be clarified, to whom the enterprise actually addresses itself – keyword target group. A clear demarcation of the target group is of decisive relevance here.
Further the price strategy and sales strategy are to be judged under this structure point. At what price does the company cover its costs?
Finally, the marketing part of the business plan describes how the target group is reached. Here, the focus is on which advertising channels are to be used and why they are the best alternative for the respective business idea.
In the business plan, corporate organization means aspects such as management strategy, company headquarters, legal form, production processes and personnel management. The focus here is on the structural organization of the company to be founded.
Even if there is neither a prescribed form for a business plan nor for a business plan, one thing must never be forgotten and that is the finances. Whether the business plan is written for the employment agency, a business plan competition or for the bank: each of these institutions wants to know what the money situation is like. The expected profits and losses should be taken into account just as much as the financing requirements. It must also be clarified how the business idea will be financed and in what period any loans granted will be repaid.
In this part of the business plan the own strengths and weaknesses are to be taken up. It is about objectively describing where the company will possibly have problems and how these can be mastered. At the same time, it is also important to grasp opportunities correctly.
A good business plan is characterized by objectivity. The founder can prove here that he realistically assesses the situation and is well prepared for eventualities.


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The theme of change was ubiquitous throughout the US presidential campaign, and now that we have a new president, the need to discuss what these terms actually mean is imperative. The piece will explore how and if these concepts differ across cultures, and how desire for them is manifested or displaced.
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«Освіторія» — це неприбуткова громадська спілка, яка розвиває освіту в Україні. Організація-засновник «Новопечерської школи». Засновник та організатор національної премії для вчителів-новаторів Global Teacher Prize Ukraine та онлайн медіа про освіту та виховання «Освіторія-медіа». Напрямки діяльності:

 навчання та розвиток шкільних вчителів та адміністраторів
 надання доступу до якісної освіти соціально незахищеним дітям, сиротам, та дітям, що проживають на тимчасово окупованих територіях України
 співпраця з державою задля реформування освіти.

Загальні відомості
Створена у 2013 році. Засновниця та голова спілки — українська освітянка, підприємниця та громадська діячка Зоя Литвин.

Штаб-квартира громадської спілки знаходиться у Києві, Україна.

Громадська спілка «Освіторія» видає онлайн-медіа про освіту та виховання дітей «Освіторія-медіа». Кількість користувачів становить понад 2 мільйони на рік.

У 2017 році «Освіторія» привезла до України премію для вчителів-новаторів Global Teacher Prize Ukraine — національну версію світової відзнаки Global Teacher Prize.

У 2018 році на замовлення Міністерства освіти та науки України «Освіторія» підготувала тренерів для впровадження реформи Нової української школи у початкових класах.

У 2019 році ГС «Освіторія» відкрила перший у Європі креативний простір для роботи, навчання та дозвілля освітянської спільноти «Освіторія-хаб» у приміщенні колишнього заводу «Арсенал» та привезла до України авторку відомого онлайн курсу «Learning How to Learn», професорку Барбару Оуклі

У 2020 році спільно з Міністерством освіти та науки України, Офісом Президента України, Комітетом Верховної Ради України з питань освіти, науки та інновацій та «Новопечерською школою» міста Києва взяла участь у реалізації національного проєкту з дистанційного навчання для школярів під час пандемії COVID-19 «Всеукраїнська школа онлайн».

Реформа НУШ та навчання вчителів
У 2018 році на замовлення Міністерства освіти та науки України «Освіторія» підготувала тренерів для впровадження реформи Нової української школи: перенавчання 22 тисяч вчителів перших класів.

ГС «Освіторія» входить до переліку суб'єктів, які можуть здійснювати підвищення кваліфікації для вчителів. Серед навчальних програм організації:

 Тренінги та семінари з педагогічної майстерності, використання технічних засобів навчання, психології, та ін.
 «Школа освітніх управлінців» спільно з Києво-могилянською бізнес-школою.
 Курс з інклюзії для вчителів, соціальних працівників, спеціальних педагогів та психологів «РАЗОМ».
 Освітній фестиваль "Вчителі майбутнього" у Львові спільно з холдингом емоцій «!FEST»

Національна премія Global Teacher Prize Ukraine
У 2017 році ГС «Освіторія» підписала меморандум з фондом Varkey Foundation та започаткувала в Україні щорічну українську премію для вчителів-агентів освітянських змін Global Teacher Prize Ukraine, національну версію світової премії Global Teacher Prize.

Премія покликана відзначити досягнення вчителя не лише щодо своїх учнів, а й щодо суспільства, та підкреслити важливість педагогів в Україні. Переможець отримує 250 тисяч гривень, рік навчання та поїздку на Global Education and Skills Forum .

Переможці премії

Цікаві факти

 Переможець 2017 року Пауль Пшенічка став першим вчителем, що виступив у Верховній Раді України   та першим вчителем, що потрапив до ТОП-100 найвпливовіших людей України за версією журналу ФОКУС.
 Переможець 2018 року Олександр Жук увійшов до рейтингу «30 under 30» за версією Kyiv Post.
 У 2020 році одразу двоє українських вчителів — Олександр Жук та Наталя Гладких — увійшли до ТОП-50 найкращих учителів світу за версією світової премії Global Teacher Prize. Раніше Наталя Гладких стала фіналісткою української премії у 2017 році.
 Амбасадором премії є українська журналістка Наталія Мосейчук.

Доступ до освіти та соціальні проєкти
Громадська спілка «Освіторія» здійснює роботу в напрямку доступу до якісної освіти соціально незахищеним дітям, сиротам, та дітям, що проживають на тимчасово окупованих територіях України через проєкти:

 ILearn — безкоштовна гейміфікована навчальна онлайн-платформа для старшокласників для підготовки до ЗНО. Містить онлайн-курси з основних предметів та тести. Щотижня на платформі відбуваються вебінари зі шкільних дисциплін та профорієнтаційні вебінари з відомим людьми, виходять подкасти. Станом на 2020 рік на платформі зареєстровано 65 тисяч користувачів.
 «Перша професія» — це безкоштовні гуртки у 21 дитячому будинку та школах-інтернатах України, покликані дати першу професію їх випускникам та боротися із безробіттям та соціальною маргіналізацією.
 Програма розвитку соціально незахищеної молоді — програма підтримки дітей зі шкіл-інтернатів, реалізується спільно з компанією Coca-Cola. Програма включає профорієнтацію, мотивацію та онлайн-підготовку до ЗНО.
Стипендіальна програма для обдарованих школярів, що покриває вартість навчання у Новопечерській школі.
Науковий літній проєкт для академічно обдарованих підлітків VoltCamp.

У 2018 році ГС «Освіторія» стала учасником міжнародної ініціативи «Глобальний договір ООН» задля сприяння доступності освіти.

Всеукраїнська школа онлайн
У 2020 році під час карантинних обмежень навчання у школах через пандемію COVID-19 у світі Міністерство освіти та науки України, Офіс Президента України, та Комітет Верховної Ради України з питань освіти, науки та інновацій реалізували національний проєкт «Всеукраїнська школа онлайн». Це відеоуроки з усіх основних дисциплін для 5-11 та згодом — 1-4 класів, що транслювалися на національному телебаченні. У проєкті взяли участь понад 80 вчителів. ГС «Освіторія»виступила партнером проєкту в частині залучення педагогів та організаційної підтримки. «Новопечерська школа» безкоштовно надала приміщення на час зйомок.

Відзнаки та нагороди

 «Partnership for Sustainability Award 2018» в категорії «Суспільство» від Глобального Договору ООН в Україні.
«Partnership for Sustainability Award 2019» в категорії «Суспільство» від Глобального Договору ООН в Україні
 Засновниця та голова Спілки Зоя Литвин увійшла до ТОП-5 підприємниць 2019 року за версією ООН «WE Empower Challenge», які втілюють Цілі сталого розвитку ООН. Нагородою відзначено внесок Зої Литвин та «ГС Освіторія» у розвиток якісної освіти, зменшення нерівності та партнерство заради досягнення Глобальних цілей ООН.

Посилання

 Сайт громадської спілки «Освіторія»
 Онлайн журнал про освіту та виховання «Освіторія-медіа»
 Сайт «Освіторія-хаб»
 Офіційна сторінка «Освіторії» у Facebook
 Сайт премії Global Teacher Prize Ukraine
 Портал iLearn

Див. також

 Global Teacher Prize Ukraine
 Новопечерська школа
 Всеукраїнська школа онлайн

Примітки

Освітні організації України
Дистанційне навчання
Громадські організації України
Благодійні організації України
Соціальна відповідальність

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Author: Barbarians at the Gate
Barbarians at the Gate is a podcast hosted by historian Jeremiah Jenne and academic David Moser.
Barbarians at the Gate
October 13, 2020 October 25, 2020 Barbarians at the Gate
An episode of Barbarians at the Gate
In this episode, hosts Jeremiah Jenne and David Moser catch up with writer and editor Alec Ash, to discuss the new US edition of his book Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China. Alec's book is an intimate portrait of six diverse members of China's "post-80s" generation, tracing their lives' trajectory in the context of China's turbulent and unpredictable economic modernization process. Orville Schell called the book "a fascinating mosaic that gives us a wonderfully vivid sense of what it's like to grow up today in the People's Republic of China." With the themes of the book as a jumping-off point, the topic broadens in historical scope, exploring communalities and contrasts in earlier youth movements such as the May 4th movement, the Tiananmen Square movement, the Red Guards of the Cultural Revolution, and the current resurgence of nationalism among the "post-2000s" generation. Alec is China correspondent for the Los Angeles Review of Books, and his articles have appeared elsewhere including The New York Review of Books, The Economist, the Guardian, and The Sunday Times.
China's Education Ambitions (Part II)
September 1, 2020 August 31, 2020 Barbarians at the Gate
Following on the previous episode about the Chinese education system, Jeremiah and David continue the discussion with award-winning journalist and author Lenora Chu. Lenora is the author of Little Soldiers, a melding of memoir and journalism that brings to light the enormous cultural differences between the Chinese and American education systems. In recounting the adjustments of her young son to the academic environment of an elite Shanghai elementary school, Chu explores the complex web of social conditioning and parental cooperation that results in the high-achieving "little soldiers" in the Chinese system, and weighs the advantages and disadvantages of the East and West educational models. The conversation also touches on the gaokao, the controversial college entrance exam, the supposed "creativity gap" in the Chinese model, and the similarities in the phenomenon of "helicopter parents" in the two cultures:
China's Education Ambitions
August 11, 2020 August 12, 2020 Barbarians at the Gate
In this new episode of the Barbarians at the Gate podcast, Jeremiah Jenne and David Moser delve into the Chinese education system, focusing on the evolution of China's universities. Starting with Trump's recent ill-advised (and quickly rescinded) executive order to cancel the F-1 visas of a substantial number of 370,000 Chinese students studying in the US, the discussion moves to China's multi-billion-dollar effort to enhance the soft power attraction of its universities by building world-class research institutes and recruiting top foreign academic talent. Jeremiah and David explore China's experimentation with new education formats, the ongoing revisions to the gaokao college entrance examination, and the so-called "creativity problem" of the Chinese educational tradition:
Yaqub Beg's Western Uprising
July 21, 2020 July 21, 2020 Barbarians at the Gate
The rebel general whose demise led to the provincializing of Xinjiang
Muhammad Yaqub Beg (1820-1877) was an adventurer and soldier of fortune who led a massive rebellion against the Qing Empire in what is today Western China. From his humble origins as a petty mercenary, he exploited a weakened Qing, carved out a kingdom in the desert and drew the attention of the world's great powers. Ultimately, his rebellion was crushed by Qing forces led by General Zuo Zongtang (of the eponymous chicken dish), and his demise paved the way for the provincializing of Xinjiang by the Qing. In this old episode of Barbarians at the Gate, Jeremiah Jenne and James Palmer look at the life and times of this daring general and what his legacy means for Western China today:
The Khitans and their Empire
July 7, 2020 July 7, 2020 Barbarians at the Gate
As featured eagle-hunting in the banner image above, the Khitan were a proto-Mongol people from regions of present-day Mongolia and Northeast China, whose history stretches back to the 4th century. In 907 they founded the Liao Empire, one of the first expansive empires in China to establish their capital in the area around modern Beijing. Two centuries later, caught between a rising Chinese empire in the Song (960-1279) and a new power in the Northeast, the proto-Manchu Jurchen, the Liao Empire fell in 1125 and the Khitan were scattered once more across Asia. In this old episode of Barbarians at the Gate, Jeremiah Jenne and James Palmer discuss the history of the Khitans, their empire and their legacy – helped along by analogies to the Godfather trilogy and Game of Thrones:
A Migrant Pen
The Afterlife of Lu Xun
A Song for Hong Kong
Essence and Form
At the Edge
A Tour of Lesbian Hong Kong
A Foreigner in Beijing
Hotpot Wars
#XiToo
Power Shifts in Xi Jinping's China
Images of a Vanishing Culture
Taking Risks in Hong Kong
Personal, Poetical, Political
Xue Yiwei: In Search of Universal Values
Republican China's Most Mysterious Man
The Past is a Foreign Country
Hopping Zombies
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Atlassian Plans to Redesign its Austin Office For Remote Working
Atlassian is planning to completely redesign its Austin office to adapt it to its recent remote working policy. The new office design aims to contribute to the equal participation of remote and office workers.
As companies continue implementing remote working policies, their physical offices are experiencing changes. In some cases, building opened spaces is due to the COVID-19 protocols, but in others, the design focuses on building new collaborative spaces that adapt to hybrid work.
Atlassian New Office Design
The $94 billion software giant currently has 700 Austin-based employees, and it's expecting to grow that number to over 1,000. In April, the company announced that after experiencing a positive experience with remote work, they would be shifting towards a virtual work model as it would help the company seek ''amazing and diverse talent, with no limit to the physical footprint of our offices."
Aligned with that announcement, Atlassian is now looking for modern solutions to enable its current Austin office with the perfect space for the equal participation of both remote and onsite workers.
The company aims to redesign the office focusing more on:
Common spaces.
Adding almost three times as many phone booths for taking private video calls.
Building ''focus'' pods.
Other Companies Redesigning their Offices due to Remote Work
Other companies are taking similar actions, redesigning their offices to build a more collaborative space that makes sense with a hybrid working structure. Some examples are:
Salesforce: The company will experience a 40% reduction in desks to create more open spaces.
Spotify is also reducing the number of desks and shifting toward floor plans with team-focused ''neighborhoods'' with spaces for individual and collaborative work.
WeWork: More open spaces and touchless coffee machines will be implemented that work by scanning a QR code.
Remote Work Increases Employee Happiness by 20%
According to a study by Tracking Happiness, remote work makes employees happier. Workers who work full-time from home…
Four European Countries with New Remote Work Legislation
Many members of the European Union are adapting to the new changes brought by the pandemic and have…
Duane Morris Plans To Cut Office Space By 20%
Duane Morris aims to reduce office space by more than a percent in the next five years, citing…


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You can also download a picture from the Internet into your gallery. Make sure that you are allowed to use the schools Internet connection, so that you do not use up restricted Internet quota. Further, make sure that you are allowed to download the picture. Some pictures are not freely licensed which means that you have to pay to use them.
To download a picture you have to type the picture's url into the text field in the same box where you can also upload pictures. Then, you must click on the "Download" button. After that, you can treat that image in the same way as the uploaded images. Don't forget to click save.
You can view all your existing galleries by clicking on "Pictures" in the submenu. If you click on "Pictures" in the main menu, you can view all images on awarenet. You can browse through galleries by clicking on "All Galleries" in the submenu. You can have them sorted by different categories by clicking on the appropriate link above or below the galleries, e.g. [title] [creator] [school] [number of images] [creation date]. When you click on a specific gallery you can use the navigation in the side column to enlarge single pictures in the gallery. You will be able to read who has created that gallery and what other galleries were created by the same author. Further, you can leave a comment on a picture for the creator of the gallery. Simply click on a specific image and scroll down to leave a comment as you would on someone else's wall.
Using blogs to create a slide show.
1. Log into awarenet. Always make sure that your photo galleries are tagged so that when you type in the tag you are searching for, it appears.
2. To create a slide show in a blog position you cursor as to were you want your slide show to be created.
3. Go to Post Body and look for a green block and click on it.
4. Search media will appear, then click on it.
5. Type in the tag you are searching for in the photo gallery.
8. Once the photo gallery you searched for with the tag appears click under the image gallery for the slide to be added to your blog.
1.log in to awarenet. Click on projects where you want to add a slide show.
Search media will appear, then click on it.
5.Type in the tag your are searching for in the photo gallery.
6.Once the photo gallery you searched for with the tag appears, click under the image gallery for the slide to be added to your project.
1.Click on a picture in the photo gallery you would like to scribble on.
2.Then look for the Scribble option below the picture and click on it.
3.The scribble function will open up and you can use the tools above and left of the picture.
4. If you want to undo or reverse the action simply go to the History option above the picture and select the "original" or the previous step/action you want to return to.
4.Click on the Blue disc on the right hand side to save the scribbled picture.
5.To find your scribbled picture, go to your gallery on your profile, under my sketches.