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New York Times Says South Korea Makes Another Life Science Breakthrough
Posted August. 05, 2005 04:58,
New York Times Says South Korea Makes Another Life Science Breakthrough. August. 05, 2005 04:58. by Mi-Kyung	Jung mickey@donga.com.
Professor Hwang Woo-suk and his research team at Seoul National University successfully cloned a dog for the first time ever in the world. At this news, press from around the world carried responses such as "Amazing," and "It comes as no surprise that the difficult task of cloning a dog was done by Hwang's team."
In the meantime, some experts showed a guarded response, saying that the success of cloning of dogs raised the issue of ethics in biotechnology once again. Amid these mixed responses, Hwang plans to visit Colombia in Latin America this month, drawing attention to the background of his visit.
The New York Times reported on August 4 that "Professor Hwang's team made another breakthrough following the previous achievement of extracting stem cells from cloned embryos of patients with incurable diseases for the first time in the world three months ago. Many scientists gave up cloning dogs, but the team led by Hwang succeeded since the team has excellent research capability and it is easy to find a dog surrogate mother and ova in South Korea."
The Associated Press reported that "as a variety of animals are successfully cloned, the perception that all kinds of mammals, including human beings, can be cloned is spreading. Scientific circles hope that the cloned dog lives longer, unlike other cloned animals, and that the successful cloning of dogs will be helpful in research into treatments for incurable human diseases."
The BBC reported concerns voiced by some scientists that "the cloning of dogs is scientifically significant, but using animals for experiments in order to research human diseases and treatment raises ethical concerns."
Major newspapers in Latin America such as El Universal of Mexico and La Nacion of Argentina gave prominent coverage to the success of professor Hwang's team in their science sections on August 4.
El Tiempo, a major newspaper in Columbia, carried the story of the successful cloning of dogs and reported that Hwang will visit Columbia this month. But it gave no details as to date, intentions, and schedule of his visit.
Mi-Kyung	Jung mickey@donga.com


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This article was first published in the 25th anniversary issue of the Grassroots Fundraising Journal, in January 2006.
Many groups devise ways of keeping track of their donors using Access or Excel. Here are eight ways to know when it's time to invest in an off-the-shelf fundraising software program.
In this modern technological age, even the smallest nonprofits are likely to use some type of software to help with fundraising. These fall into two general categories: commercial "off the shelf" donor management software, and homegrown or custom programs. The homegrown varieties are most often constructed using Microsoft's Access or Excel because they are the most readily available products from which to create a database.
With either of these programs, or similar products from other companies, people with some computer savvy can produce what appears to be a passable fundraising system. Sometimes the initial effort goes relatively smoothly and everyone is pleased for quite a while. Sometimes tension is generated as it takes longer to create a usable program that's needed right away. Regardless, once the program is finally in place, there is usually such an accumulation of time, resources, and emotion invested in the result that the organization soldiers on with whatever they end up with.
In our many years working with small to medium-sized nonprofits in various capacities (our primary role now is as publishers of fundraising software), many organizations have come to us looking for a solution to having outgrown their homegrown programs. This experience has taught us a number of lessons that may be helpful if you are thinking it may be time to purchase fundraising management software. The stories and examples used to illustrate the lessons are composites of the many people and situations we've talked to and been involved with over the years.
When It's Time to Move to Commercial Software: Eight Lessons
1. A major change in record-keeping needs is the most common sign that you are outgrowing your homegrown software. When you add a pledge program, a membership program, or any other new fundraising method, your data-keeping methods need to keep pace. This is the time to start looking at alternatives—before you spend a lot of time and energy "reinventing the wheel."
Here's an example of what can happen. The staff of a shelter for victims of domestic violence wanted to move up from renting space to buying their own house. They instituted a capital campaign through a pledge drive and needed to send letters to remind donors when their next payment was due. Since the computer expert on staff didn't know how to get the Access program they were using to calculate the current pledge balance and next due date, they created a special pledge-tracking template in Excel.
This led to two kinds of extra work for the person processing the checks. As she explained at the next staff meeting: "When a check comes in, first I have to look up the donor's name in the Excel spreadsheet to see if it's a pledge payment. If it is, I enter the check in the spreadsheet, then check to see that the spreadsheet correctly calculated the new due date and remaining balance. Next, I enter the check again into the Access program, just like all donations. That double work is annoying, but it's not the real problem. The real problem is that the Access program automatically generates thank-you letters to all donors entered into the system; but the Excel program also generates a thank-you letter that also contains a reminder of the next pledge due date. So I have to make sure that only one thank-you letter goes out. The whole thing is awkward and frustrating."
2. Don't be "penny-wise and pound-foolish." Do what you do best. If you can raise more money fundraising than you can save by programming, then you should fundraise.
A group of passionate animal lovers in a small town got together, determined to give their area its first animal shelter. Everyone agreed on the goal, and they knew just the space to rent for the shelter, though they would have to act fast to pull together the funds to get it.
When it came to fundraising, most of these new board members were uncomfortable with anything other than holding an auction or bake sale. One member, Sam, volunteered to head up the fundraising effort, asserting, "I don't mind a bit asking people for money." When he started to talk about the people they could approach for donations and about holding house parties, everyone encouraged him to put together a plan for the next meeting. Also, since Sam was already familiar with Access, he said he thought he could have a usable program ready to track the fundraising and print labels for mailings in no time at all.
At the next meeting, Sam reported with a pleased smile that the computer program was almost done. "What about the fundraising plan?" someone asked. Sam's smile turned to embarrassment. Because the deadline for making the big initial payment was approaching, they had to do something fast. The computer program was set aside for the time being and the board stayed up into the wee hours laying out a fundraising plan.
By scrambling, they were able to raise more than enough to cover the deposit and the first month's expenses. But over the next few critical months, more of Sam's time was spent on his Access program than on fundraising. As a result, their fundraising momentum languished and their lofty goals were pared back to more "realistic" ones.
3. When you need answers to questions about your software, make sure you can find the person with the answer.
An important variation on the above story is when a nonprofit cleverly avoids the fundraising vs. programming problem by either hiring a programmer or accepting the services of an enthusiastic volunteer to write a custom program for them. We'll sidestep the issues of how much time and/or money that project will consume. More important is the unexpected problem of "unavailability."
Getting a customized program is great—until you need some little changes and fixes the programmer didn't think of. Reaching the volunteer who wrote the program—or putting out more money for the programmer—can become a real drag.
Even professional programmers have their limits. They enjoy—and make most of their money on—the original work of creating the program. After that, they are on to other projects, and the details of the old ones are soon forgotten. Calls from previous clients can cost a lot of extra time as the programmer needs to review the coding and remember what they had done. Because of the extra time required and because deadlines to current clients are generally more pressing, requested changes can languish while the organization waits.
Commercial "off-the-shelf" software, on the other hand, is maintained by companies whose ongoing success depends on keeping their software current and their customers satisfied.
4. When you're starting out, you don't always know what kind of data you might want to track in the future, and even if the information is there, it can be recorded in such a way that gaining access to it is a challenge. A good fundraising program will have already dealt with these and many other issues.
Sometimes you just can't look far enough ahead. When a firefighter set up the Excel spreadsheet for his rural fire department, nobody in the organization knew much about fundraising. Now, however, they need to be able to extract new types of information from their program. Some of the information is there, but just needs to be recorded differently. For example, if a couple in your database has different last names (eg, Sandra Jimenez and Mari Rosario), but makes their contributions together, you need four different fields just for their names: one each for Sandra, Jimenez, Mari and Rosario.
But some information is lost forever because it was never asked for. For example, it would be wonderful to know who on their list responded to or sponsored past events, which events were the most successful in attracting new members, and which were most successful in bringing in big donors. If they had this historical information now, they would know better which events to focus their efforts on and they would have a better idea about who to approach for help, advertising and sponsorships, and donations of time, money, and products.
Because a commercial program has these abilities built in, it can actually teach you about fundraising by introducing you to the tricks of the trade that can make your ongoing fundraising efforts more successful and fun.
5. When a new staff member inherits an old, in-house program that comes with neither a manual nor access to its creator, the time lost and ensuing frustration mean its time to look at another program. Commercial software has documentation, consistency of data and, most important, a Technical Support department that will help new staff learn the program, what the existing data mean, and how it can be used.
We have heard several stories much like this one about a woman we'll call Alice. Recently hired by a nonprofit, Alice inherited an Access program that had been lovingly created and maintained by a previous staff member who had now moved out of the area.
Alice was hired, partly, because she had above-average computer skills and the Executive Director had high hopes that she could pick up where the previous staff member had left off. But Alice was confronted with a totally unfamiliar custom program, no manual, and no one who really understood what all the codes and columns meant or what they were used for.
She quickly figured out the basics, like how to record donations and add new donors. But she was never certain that she was preparing her reports properly or that they were correct or complete. Worse, when the ED asked for something different from what was in the "standard" reports, Alice often had to shake her head and say (again), "I'm sorry, I just don't know where to find that information."
The group eventually cut their losses and bought commercial software, importing what they could into the new system from the old, leaving a wealth of unidentified information behind.
6. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." That may be true elsewhere in life, but not in data management, where consistency is never foolish—it is always essential.
A hospital auxiliary foundation's Development Director learned an important lesson the hard way. It was the week of the Annual Banquet, where donors would be recognized for their generosity. On Monday morning, as Joseph was looking over some reports he'd asked the bookkeeper for on Friday, he realized that several were missing names he knew should be there and that the totals in others were just plain wrong.
The next morning, he received several phone calls from major donors asking why they had not received invitations to the Annual Banquet, when several of their friends had. You can imagine his reaction. On Thursday, the bookkeeper called to say that his totals for the just-completed big campaign (for which awards would be given at the banquet) didn't match Joseph's at all! He was tearing his hair out. He called us for a consultation.
After a couple of quick questions, we were able to tell Joseph the problem: the data kept by the program wasn't consistent. Since several people were doing data entry (part-time staff and several volunteers), each made up their own name for the event being recorded, this one generally known as the Spring Drive. One person entered Spr'04, another used SprDr'04, and another just typed Spring. So, when Joseph or the bookkeeper ran reports for that campaign and the program asked for the specific name of the campaign, it excluded donations recorded with the other campaign names.
We showed Joseph how to run a report that identified all the various campaign names that had been used. He then went back through all the data and changed each of the "wrong" names to the one name he decided on. With that done, he re-ran his reports, coordinated with the bookkeeper, and asked the Executive Director and Board members to personally call and invite the slighted donors to the banquet. Awards were reprinted using the now-correct totals, just minutes before the guests arrived.
With good commercial fundraising software, data consistency is enforced (with a dropdown list, for example). All staff and volunteers would have used the same campaign name, and Joseph would have had a much less eventful week leading up to the banquet.
7. If you need to have several people using your fundraising software at the same time, make sure you have a program available in a "multi-user" version.
Growth often comes as a mixed blessing. We remember one nonprofit that had been doing donor management for years with an Access program. The group had grown to a point where several staff members all needed to use it at the same time (the computer jargon for a program run simultaneously by several users is "multi-user"). They needed it not just for donor management but also for volunteer tracking and contact history for the clients they served.
However, the program they were using was never set up to be run as multi-user. When two people were working in the program at the same time and one of the staff's computers froze (about every couple of weeks), it caused the other person's computer to freeze too, bringing all work to a grinding halt. Their computer dealer would come over and restore selected files from their backup tape and get their Access program up and running again. It took him two or three hours each time, and since he rarely charged them for his time, he was ready to be rid of the problem. His nonprofit client was ready, too, because it was costing them many hours of lost staff time every month.
Commercial programs come in multi-user versions that allow many people to be using the same program with the same data at the same time.
8. As fundraising efforts grow in complexity and numbers of people involved, software requirements grow, too. Having the right tools is essential for efficient productivity. (Seen any manual typewriters around lately?!)
Sometimes life brings us lessons in humility in amusing ways. Steve was the Executive Director of a once-small nonprofit. He had been working hard for several years as the only paid staff, so his many duties included those of Development Director. It was while wearing that particular hat that he had put together an Access fundraising program that has served him well.
He was able to slowly expand his organization to include, at first, a few part-timers and finally, excitedly, a full-time professional Development Director. He really felt great, and with good reason. Within a couple of weeks, however, his balloon was burst when his new employee, Anne, came in and politely and tactfully asked what the budget might be for a "real" fundraising program.
With a weak smile, Steve listened as Anne explained that Steve's homegrown program was pretty good at doing the basics, but she needed it to do so in fewer steps (less time) or even do them automatically, so that she would have time to accomplish more.
Moreover, she needed features that Steve had never thought of including, such as generating reports showing how well each Board member was doing at soliciting their assigned major donors and handing Board members a donor profile sheet with all the details of the donor's relationship to the organization, including past giving history, event attendance, and relationships to other donors.
All of these stories—and many more we could tell—pretty much come down to this: no matter where you start with data management, your needs will change as time goes by. It may be in small increments, as simple as now needing a place to record cell-phone numbers. Or it may be more dramatic, as when the one person whom an organization relies on for all things computer-related suddenly dies and takes all the knowledge about their homegrown program with them. Whatever your particular story, it will be true for you, too, that having and using a donor management program is a constantly changing, growing part of your nonprofit's life.
We hope that these stories will start you thinking about how things may have changed in your own organization. Very often the dividing line between doing okay with your homegrown program and needing the stability or more sophisticated features offered by commercial software is the thin line between one moment and the next. As with so many things in life, we end up wishing we'd taken action sooner. Let these stories be a wake-up call—start investigating fundraising software packages now. Look carefully at a number of professional software programs, comparing their various features, costs, and expandability. A good place to begin is on the Grassroots Fundraising Journal website:grassrootsfundraising.org. By preparing ahead, you'll save yourself and your staff lots of time, energy, and frustration—all of which would be better spent on your fundraising and other productive activities.
Sidebar: When You Might Want to Consider Using Access or Excel for Donor Management
Excel is a popular spreadsheet program that comes with most versions of Microsoft® Office. A spreadsheet provides a simple, but limited, way to set up basic record-keeping. Its main drawback is that, as more data is added, and more categories of data are needed, spreadsheets tend to become unwieldy and ultimately unusable.
Access is included with the Professional edition of MS-Office, and is actually a programming language and database manager that can be used to create a fundraising program. Think of it as SAR ("some assembly required") furniture: a box containing a collection of parts, tools, and obscure instructions that you hope to assemble into a useful object.
With the proper template (and there is one for nonprofits included with Access), it's not too difficult for someone with a modicum of computer savvy to put together a program to handle the basics of fundraising. However, remember that the fundraising world is not static, and neither should be your fundraising program—continuing maintenance could become a drain on your time and resources.
In our opinion, there are two situations in which using Access or Excel (or similar products) might make sense. The first is if your organization is brand new, so new that the people involved aren't sure just where it's going or how long it will exist. In that case, all that is really needed is a basic mailing list to keep contact information on everyone who shows an interest in the group or who contributes something (money, time, services) to the organization. Two bits of advice for people in this situation: first, record lots more information than you think you need; if you do expand, you'll find it useful to know that one man is related to the Mayor, or that a husband-and-wife pair have lots of experience in public speaking. Second, when you find the organization growing, don't wait to get fundraising software—this is a case where "the sooner the better" is almost always right.
The second situation is one in which your organization has unusual or industry-specific needs, such as tracking school attendance and tuition payments, box-office theatre sales and ticketing, cabin rentals, or pet adoptions. If this is you, then you have three options.
1) Purchase two programs, one for fundraising, and the other for your special needs. This way you get software that is perfect for each activity. If you can't find one that fits your special needs, then you might consider a custom or homegrown program for that one, but do your homework first, as this choice will inevitably be costly. Unless you are lucky enough to find two programs that talk to each other (share data back and forth, a rarity), you will find yourself doing some double-entry of data most commonly when you update someone's address, e-mail, or phone number.
2) Decide which activity, fundraising or the special need, is the most important to your mission. Then find commercial software that handles the critical aspect well and is also flexible enough to handle the basic requirements of the other need. It's not a perfect solution, but you avoid all the double-entry of data.
3) Consider custom or homegrown software as a last option. It will always be the most expensive—and most likely to cause problems down the line. You may start out with something that works wonderfully, but it will need constant maintenance and probably be outgrown eventually. You're very likely to end up spending huge amounts of money and time – you'll be amazed at how much! At least look seriously on the Internet at what software is available. Chances are good that somebody has already written a program to do what you need and you can save your resources to put toward your mission.
Gene and Marcy Weinbeck founded and are still active at FundRaiser Software. They have been working with and for the nonprofit industry for more than 20 years.
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package com.microsoft.azure.management.compute.v2019_11_01.implementation;

import retrofit2.Retrofit;
import com.google.common.reflect.TypeToken;
import com.microsoft.azure.CloudException;
import com.microsoft.azure.management.compute.v2019_11_01.RequestRateByIntervalInput;
import com.microsoft.azure.management.compute.v2019_11_01.ThrottledRequestsInput;
import com.microsoft.rest.ServiceCallback;
import com.microsoft.rest.ServiceFuture;
import com.microsoft.rest.ServiceResponse;
import com.microsoft.rest.Validator;
import java.io.IOException;
import okhttp3.ResponseBody;
import retrofit2.http.Body;
import retrofit2.http.Header;
import retrofit2.http.Headers;
import retrofit2.http.Path;
import retrofit2.http.POST;
import retrofit2.http.Query;
import retrofit2.Response;
import rx.functions.Func1;
import rx.Observable;
import com.microsoft.azure.LongRunningFinalState;
import com.microsoft.azure.LongRunningOperationOptions;

/**
 * An instance of this class provides access to all the operations defined
 * in LogAnalytics.
 */
public class LogAnalyticsInner {
    /** The Retrofit service to perform REST calls. */
    private LogAnalyticsService service;
    /** The service client containing this operation class. */
    private ComputeManagementClientImpl client;

    /**
     * Initializes an instance of LogAnalyticsInner.
     *
     * @param retrofit the Retrofit instance built from a Retrofit Builder.
     * @param client the instance of the service client containing this operation class.
     */
    public LogAnalyticsInner(Retrofit retrofit, ComputeManagementClientImpl client) {
        this.service = retrofit.create(LogAnalyticsService.class);
        this.client = client;
    }

    /**
     * The interface defining all the services for LogAnalytics to be
     * used by Retrofit to perform actually REST calls.
     */
    interface LogAnalyticsService {
        @Headers({ "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8", "x-ms-logging-context: com.microsoft.azure.management.compute.v2019_11_01.LogAnalytics exportRequestRateByInterval" })
        @POST("subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.Compute/locations/{location}/logAnalytics/apiAccess/getRequestRateByInterval")
        Observable<Response<ResponseBody>> exportRequestRateByInterval(@Path("location") String location, @Path("subscriptionId") String subscriptionId, @Body RequestRateByIntervalInput parameters, @Query("api-version") String apiVersion, @Header("accept-language") String acceptLanguage, @Header("User-Agent") String userAgent);

        @Headers({ "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8", "x-ms-logging-context: com.microsoft.azure.management.compute.v2019_11_01.LogAnalytics beginExportRequestRateByInterval" })
        @POST("subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.Compute/locations/{location}/logAnalytics/apiAccess/getRequestRateByInterval")
        Observable<Response<ResponseBody>> beginExportRequestRateByInterval(@Path("location") String location, @Path("subscriptionId") String subscriptionId, @Body RequestRateByIntervalInput parameters, @Query("api-version") String apiVersion, @Header("accept-language") String acceptLanguage, @Header("User-Agent") String userAgent);

        @Headers({ "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8", "x-ms-logging-context: com.microsoft.azure.management.compute.v2019_11_01.LogAnalytics exportThrottledRequests" })
        @POST("subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.Compute/locations/{location}/logAnalytics/apiAccess/getThrottledRequests")
        Observable<Response<ResponseBody>> exportThrottledRequests(@Path("location") String location, @Path("subscriptionId") String subscriptionId, @Body ThrottledRequestsInput parameters, @Query("api-version") String apiVersion, @Header("accept-language") String acceptLanguage, @Header("User-Agent") String userAgent);

        @Headers({ "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8", "x-ms-logging-context: com.microsoft.azure.management.compute.v2019_11_01.LogAnalytics beginExportThrottledRequests" })
        @POST("subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.Compute/locations/{location}/logAnalytics/apiAccess/getThrottledRequests")
        Observable<Response<ResponseBody>> beginExportThrottledRequests(@Path("location") String location, @Path("subscriptionId") String subscriptionId, @Body ThrottledRequestsInput parameters, @Query("api-version") String apiVersion, @Header("accept-language") String acceptLanguage, @Header("User-Agent") String userAgent);

    }

    /**
     * Export logs that show Api requests made by this subscription in the given time window to show throttling activities.
     *
     * @param location The location upon which virtual-machine-sizes is queried.
     * @param parameters Parameters supplied to the LogAnalytics getRequestRateByInterval Api.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException thrown if parameters fail the validation
     * @throws CloudException thrown if the request is rejected by server
     * @throws RuntimeException all other wrapped checked exceptions if the request fails to be sent
     * @return the LogAnalyticsOperationResultInner object if successful.
     */
    public LogAnalyticsOperationResultInner exportRequestRateByInterval(String location, RequestRateByIntervalInput parameters) {
        return exportRequestRateByIntervalWithServiceResponseAsync(location, parameters).toBlocking().last().body();
    }

    /**
     * Export logs that show Api requests made by this subscription in the given time window to show throttling activities.
     *
     * @param location The location upon which virtual-machine-sizes is queried.
     * @param parameters Parameters supplied to the LogAnalytics getRequestRateByInterval Api.
     * @param serviceCallback the async ServiceCallback to handle successful and failed responses.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException thrown if parameters fail the validation
     * @return the {@link ServiceFuture} object
     */
    public ServiceFuture<LogAnalyticsOperationResultInner> exportRequestRateByIntervalAsync(String location, RequestRateByIntervalInput parameters, final ServiceCallback<LogAnalyticsOperationResultInner> serviceCallback) {
        return ServiceFuture.fromResponse(exportRequestRateByIntervalWithServiceResponseAsync(location, parameters), serviceCallback);
    }

    /**
     * Export logs that show Api requests made by this subscription in the given time window to show throttling activities.
     *
     * @param location The location upon which virtual-machine-sizes is queried.
     * @param parameters Parameters supplied to the LogAnalytics getRequestRateByInterval Api.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException thrown if parameters fail the validation
     * @return the observable for the request
     */
    public Observable<LogAnalyticsOperationResultInner> exportRequestRateByIntervalAsync(String location, RequestRateByIntervalInput parameters) {
        return exportRequestRateByIntervalWithServiceResponseAsync(location, parameters).map(new Func1<ServiceResponse<LogAnalyticsOperationResultInner>, LogAnalyticsOperationResultInner>() {
            @Override
            public LogAnalyticsOperationResultInner call(ServiceResponse<LogAnalyticsOperationResultInner> response) {
                return response.body();
            }
        });
    }

    /**
     * Export logs that show Api requests made by this subscription in the given time window to show throttling activities.
     *
     * @param location The location upon which virtual-machine-sizes is queried.
     * @param parameters Parameters supplied to the LogAnalytics getRequestRateByInterval Api.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException thrown if parameters fail the validation
     * @return the observable for the request
     */
    public Observable<ServiceResponse<LogAnalyticsOperationResultInner>> exportRequestRateByIntervalWithServiceResponseAsync(String location, RequestRateByIntervalInput parameters) {
        if (location == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Parameter location is required and cannot be null.");
        }
        if (this.client.subscriptionId() == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Parameter this.client.subscriptionId() is required and cannot be null.");
        }
        if (parameters == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Parameter parameters is required and cannot be null.");
        }
        Validator.validate(parameters);
        final String apiVersion = "2019-07-01";
        Observable<Response<ResponseBody>> observable = service.exportRequestRateByInterval(location, this.client.subscriptionId(), parameters, apiVersion, this.client.acceptLanguage(), this.client.userAgent());
        return client.getAzureClient().getPostOrDeleteResultAsync(observable, new LongRunningOperationOptions().withFinalStateVia(LongRunningFinalState.AZURE_ASYNC_OPERATION), new TypeToken<LogAnalyticsOperationResultInner>() { }.getType());
    }

    /**
     * Export logs that show Api requests made by this subscription in the given time window to show throttling activities.
     *
     * @param location The location upon which virtual-machine-sizes is queried.
     * @param parameters Parameters supplied to the LogAnalytics getRequestRateByInterval Api.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException thrown if parameters fail the validation
     * @throws CloudException thrown if the request is rejected by server
     * @throws RuntimeException all other wrapped checked exceptions if the request fails to be sent
     * @return the LogAnalyticsOperationResultInner object if successful.
     */
    public LogAnalyticsOperationResultInner beginExportRequestRateByInterval(String location, RequestRateByIntervalInput parameters) {
        return beginExportRequestRateByIntervalWithServiceResponseAsync(location, parameters).toBlocking().single().body();
    }

    /**
     * Export logs that show Api requests made by this subscription in the given time window to show throttling activities.
     *
     * @param location The location upon which virtual-machine-sizes is queried.
     * @param parameters Parameters supplied to the LogAnalytics getRequestRateByInterval Api.
     * @param serviceCallback the async ServiceCallback to handle successful and failed responses.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException thrown if parameters fail the validation
     * @return the {@link ServiceFuture} object
     */
    public ServiceFuture<LogAnalyticsOperationResultInner> beginExportRequestRateByIntervalAsync(String location, RequestRateByIntervalInput parameters, final ServiceCallback<LogAnalyticsOperationResultInner> serviceCallback) {
        return ServiceFuture.fromResponse(beginExportRequestRateByIntervalWithServiceResponseAsync(location, parameters), serviceCallback);
    }

    /**
     * Export logs that show Api requests made by this subscription in the given time window to show throttling activities.
     *
     * @param location The location upon which virtual-machine-sizes is queried.
     * @param parameters Parameters supplied to the LogAnalytics getRequestRateByInterval Api.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException thrown if parameters fail the validation
     * @return the observable to the LogAnalyticsOperationResultInner object
     */
    public Observable<LogAnalyticsOperationResultInner> beginExportRequestRateByIntervalAsync(String location, RequestRateByIntervalInput parameters) {
        return beginExportRequestRateByIntervalWithServiceResponseAsync(location, parameters).map(new Func1<ServiceResponse<LogAnalyticsOperationResultInner>, LogAnalyticsOperationResultInner>() {
            @Override
            public LogAnalyticsOperationResultInner call(ServiceResponse<LogAnalyticsOperationResultInner> response) {
                return response.body();
            }
        });
    }

    /**
     * Export logs that show Api requests made by this subscription in the given time window to show throttling activities.
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     * @param parameters Parameters supplied to the LogAnalytics getRequestRateByInterval Api.
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     * @return the observable to the LogAnalyticsOperationResultInner object
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     * @param parameters Parameters supplied to the LogAnalytics getThrottledRequests Api.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException thrown if parameters fail the validation
     * @throws CloudException thrown if the request is rejected by server
     * @throws RuntimeException all other wrapped checked exceptions if the request fails to be sent
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     * @param parameters Parameters supplied to the LogAnalytics getThrottledRequests Api.
     * @param serviceCallback the async ServiceCallback to handle successful and failed responses.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException thrown if parameters fail the validation
     * @return the {@link ServiceFuture} object
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     * @param parameters Parameters supplied to the LogAnalytics getThrottledRequests Api.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException thrown if parameters fail the validation
     * @return the observable for the request
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     * Export logs that show total throttled Api requests for this subscription in the given time window.
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     * @param location The location upon which virtual-machine-sizes is queried.
     * @param parameters Parameters supplied to the LogAnalytics getThrottledRequests Api.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException thrown if parameters fail the validation
     * @return the observable for the request
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    /**
     * Export logs that show total throttled Api requests for this subscription in the given time window.
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     * @param location The location upon which virtual-machine-sizes is queried.
     * @param parameters Parameters supplied to the LogAnalytics getThrottledRequests Api.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException thrown if parameters fail the validation
     * @throws CloudException thrown if the request is rejected by server
     * @throws RuntimeException all other wrapped checked exceptions if the request fails to be sent
     * @return the LogAnalyticsOperationResultInner object if successful.
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     * @param location The location upon which virtual-machine-sizes is queried.
     * @param parameters Parameters supplied to the LogAnalytics getThrottledRequests Api.
     * @param serviceCallback the async ServiceCallback to handle successful and failed responses.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException thrown if parameters fail the validation
     * @return the {@link ServiceFuture} object
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     * Export logs that show total throttled Api requests for this subscription in the given time window.
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     * @param location The location upon which virtual-machine-sizes is queried.
     * @param parameters Parameters supplied to the LogAnalytics getThrottledRequests Api.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException thrown if parameters fail the validation
     * @return the observable to the LogAnalyticsOperationResultInner object
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Uganda's Museveni in hot water for saying men shouldn't cook
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Kampala, Uganda – Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni came under fire Monday for saying he had not stepped into the kitchen since he got married, and that it was not a man's role to cook.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni came under fire for saying it was not a man's role to cook. File picture: Reuters/Tiksa Negeri
"The head of the home never goes into the kitchen. It is now 45 years with Mama Janet, I have never stepped into the kitchen. That is how it should be," he said on Sunday in a statement, as an example of how politicians and civil servants should stick to prescribed roles.
Oxfam's International Executive Director, Winnie Byanyima, hit back at the 74-year-old president on Twitter, saying she was "disappointed".
"Cooking isn't a woman's job. It's a life skill. All people – men and women should cook," she wrote.
"When cooking, cleaning and doing other domestic chores are left to women, they are denied an equal chance to raise incomes or to be politically active."
Beatrice Alaso from the opposition Forum For Democratic Change told AFP: "Museveni has revealed to the world what he has always believed in: that women can never be the same as their male counterparts."
Online news website Watchdog Uganda however defended Museveni's comments as consistent with the country's culture which sees men cooking as "taboo", saying some ethnic groups in the country have a word referring to men who cook as a "transvestite or a man dressing and behaving like a woman." AFP.
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During the summer of 2008, a couple of Venezuelan Parachute Base Jumpers (Carlos and Pedro) got together with Propela Productions to make a short film about an extreme dream of the jumpers, Jump from the Base of one of the Twin Towers of Parque Central in Caracas, Venezuela.
They format published in YouTube was divided in 2 parts, this is part 2. You can see Part One here.
Very nicely planned, produced, executed and edited (to my taste).


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Day 1 - Hello Bangkok!
สวัสดีค่ะ Sawasdee ka!Welcome to Thailand! On arrival in Bangkok, Your guide will be ready to welcome you at the arrival hall, and transfer to your hotel with a private car and driver. Your guide will help you with luggage and hotel check-in, and ensure your arrival in Thailand is worry-free.
This early morning you will head out to Maeklong Railway Market (also known as Rom Hub Market). It has a train running through the middle of it several times a day. Right down the middle and close enough to touch. Only in Thailand! Marvel at each seller quickly moves their wares via ingenious sets of easily-movable containers to avoid the coming train, once the train has passed, it's back to business as usual.Your second stop is Damnoen Saduak Floating Market, one of the Thailand's most famous attractions.Day in and day out from about 8 a.m. to about 11 a.m. the Floating Market is routinely crowded with hundreds of vendors and purchasers floating in their small rowing boats selling and buying or exchanging their goods. You will have a chance to take a ride on a long tail boat to get the real sense of floating market. After the long tail boat cruise aroud the market, you will stop at a transit point where you can choose to further explore by a 4-seat boat or stroll around by its banks (own expense).
After having lunch,return to Bangkok and you will visit Wat Pho, it is one of Bangkok's oldest and largest temples. Wat Pho was built by King Rama I about 200 years ago and houses the gigantic gold plated Reclining Buddha image. This unique image is 49 meters long and 12 meters high with beautifully inlaid mother-of-pearl soles, then your last stop is The Royal Grand Palace, the nations's landmark and the most revered royal monuments. You will see the Palace that were used for different occasions as The Coronation Hall, Funeral Hall and Royal Guest House and the mysterious famous Emerald Buddha (Wat Phra Kaew), the most revered Buddha image in Thailand. Return to hotel.
Asiatique is a nice place to chill out by yourself. It combined two of the most popular shopping experiences in the city: a night bazaar and a mall. Open from 17:00, spending an evening here is no problem: you'll have good fun browsing the boutiques, picking up gifts or something for yourself; you are guaranteed to find something you would like to eat and if this isn't enough entertainment, shows are performed nightly: Calypso ladyboy cabaret and soon, a classic Thai puppets performance.
Today you will head to Ayutthaya History Park, one of the UNESCO World Heritage list of Thailand. Stroll around the ruins of several ancient temples including Wat Phra Si Sanphet, a former royal temple during Ayutthaya's days of glory; Wat Mahathat, undoubtedly the landmark and most photographed objects of Ayutthaya, where the roots of a tree surround the head of a stone Buddha image; and if time allows, Wat Chai Wattanaram, a perfect example of Khmer architectural influence. These temples record the prosperity and decline of the ancient Thailand.
Later, board a luxury boat and enjoy a Thai buffet lunch whilst cruising back to Bangkok. Witness the daily life of the river's inhabitants and watch the scenery change from rural to cosmopolitan. On arrival at the pier,transfer back to your hotel.
Today you will fly to Chiang Mai.On arrival,please pick up your luggage and follow the walk path to the exit. After a short walk, you will find your private guide waiting for you near the exit with your name sign. Your guide will accomapany with you for your hotel check in,afternoon is free at your leisure.
Morning departure to visit some of the local Meo hill tribe villages. The Meo, a subgroup of the H'mong, still wear traditional costumes and maintain a lifestyle unchanged in centuries. Notice how the Meo houses sit right on the ground (not on stilts), with the main floor resting on an open space for food storage. Interact with the villagers with your guide serving as a translator. Drive approximately 1hr to Doi Suthep Mountain, enjoying the spectacular views of Northern Thailand as you head past mountains and forests, towards Wat Phra That, one of Northern Thailand's most sacred temples. Founded in 1383 AD, the temple is reached by climbing 309 steps (or for the less fitness-oriented, a tram is available for a small surcharge). The climb up is rewarded with a superb panoramic view over the city. Return to Chiang Mai with lunch at a local restaurant en route. Your can spend your afternoon at your lesure.
Elephant Nature Park is an elephant rescue and rehabilitation center in Northern Thailand where you can volunteer and visit to help (join-in). This park does not use heavy chains, hooks or sticks to beat the elephants, nor do they use elephants for tricks such as painting, dancing or other unnatural behaviours. On arrival, join others and learn about the magnificent elephant, then you will have a chance to feed the elephants from the viewing platform. Walk with the elephants to the river that skirts the park. Bathe these gentle giants as they splash around. If going into the river is not for you then watch the elephants bathe and play while you stay dry on the river bank. After having your lunch, you will be transferred to an Orchid and Butterfly Farm, you can enjoy exotic butterfly and plant life year round.
Today you will fly to Phuket. Upon arrival at Phuket Airport, after you have picked up your luggage, please exit follow the walk path. After a short walk, you will find your guide waiting for you with your name sign. Then, he will take you to your hotel. The rest of the day you can arrange yourself.
Welcome to Vietnam! On arrival at Noi Bai Airport, you will be greeted by your guide and driver and transfer to hotel in the center of Hanoi. The rest of the day is at leisure. You might go outside to have a little adventure in the city on your own.
This morning set out for the incredible underground Cu Chi Tunnels, where you will learn a little more about the Vietnam war and the guerrilla tactics of the Viet Cong. Then return to Ho Chi Minh City to visit the War Remnants Museum and Reunification Palace (the former Presidential Palace), the Notre Dame Cathedral, Old Saigon Post Office in French-style and Dong Khoi Street (formerly Rue Catinat) absolutely nice choices for a free stroll.
Today starts with a boat cruise along the endless waterway of mighty Mekong River. Visit the Cai Rang Floating Market where hundreds of boats are loaded with fruits, vegetables and fish jostling for trade, and the Bun Tau Noodle Factory. Afternoon go back to Ho Chi Minh City for your flight to Da Nang. After arrival, your guide will accomppany with you for your hoetl check in.
The day tour begins with climbing the stone steps carved into Marble Mountain to discover caves, grottoes and a Buddhist Pagoda and marvel at the panoramic view from the top of the mountain. After visit Non Nuoc Stone Carving Village, we will go to Hoi An and visit Ann Tailor for tailor made before check in hotel. Free at leisure in the afternoon.
Today, transfer from Hoi An to Da Nang, then fly to Hanoi. And then under your guide's introduction, you are going to visit the Presidential Palace, Ho Chi Minh's house on stilts and Pillar Pagoda. After that, experience the buzz of Hanoi in the Old Quarter by rickshaw, where you can see, hear, smell the life of the busy Vietnamese. Finally, watch a water puppet show in the tranquil Hoan Kiem Lake, which people use water as the stage for the puppets and tactfully hide the puppet strings and puppeteers' movements.
Wake up early this morning to catch the sunrise over the bay. Continue cruising and you can choose either kayak or traditional rowing boat to around discovering local life on the waters. Disembark at Tuan Chau International Passenger Port at around 11:00, where your guide and driver will wait you and drive you back to Hanoi (about 4hrs). Upon arrival,spend your free time at your leisure.
Have breakfast and relax at your hotel. After check out from hotel, you will set apart to Hanoi airport for your international flight home or to your next destination.
We contacted Mrs. Aileen through emails before we got to Bangkok and she responds fast. We booked a 19-day tour with them. During our first day, Mr. Wallop picked us up from BKK and checked us up in Grand Sukhumvit Hotel Bangkok. It was great! We had enough time to recover from the jet lag and enjoyed an authentic Thai massage. The next day, he picked us up and was our tour guide the rest of our stay in Bangkok. He spoke English well, a very fun tour guide. We like him a lot. He would bring us to places we want to try and experience. He would adjust the schedule to your liking. We visited Maeklong Railway Market and Damnoen Saduak Floating Market. Asiatique was a nice place and the price was comparable fair. Tour to Ayutthaya History Park was really relaxed, especially for history lover. Elephant Volunteer in Chiang Mai was a stunning destination. We had an amazing opportunity to feed them, play with them, walk with them, and wash them. Phuket was good seaside entertainment and very expensive. This beach was more crowded than other beaches. As to Vietnam, we visited from down to up. That's Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang, Hoi An, Hanoi and Halong Bay. The colonial buildings from the French colonisation of Vietnam were a delight to see. I'm happy because I sent postcard to my daughter from Central Post Office. Halong Bay was the best point of my Vietnam tour. Totally worth the price. Our boat was steady and the rooms were comfortable. We ate delicious, diverse food and there was always more than enough. We enjoyed the activities. We got to visit a cave and a pearl farm and do some kayaking. The final leg of our cruise went smoothly and we just enjoyed the views from the main deck as we were all pretty tired after the days of activities. The only disappointed thing was the water and tourists. The water was greenish and had occasional plastic bag or bottle floating around.


"The world . . . is . . . hollow." This is the secret that Chunth, the Tel-Jilad troll elder, entrusts to Glissa Sunseeker before his death at the hands of a traitor. Armed with that knowledge, Glissa fights her way through the great vedalken capital of Lumengrid, down into the Pool of Knowledge. The Synod's sacred chamber contains a lacuna--a tunnel, saturated with blue mana--that leads to Mirrodin's secret interior. There, huge, bizarre towers of funguslike metal called mycosynth reach up toward an immense inner sun of pure mana.


There we were, Gerry and I, sitting on a stubble field in Perthshire, awaiting the evening influx of hungry duck. The fowl arrived on schedule; as the light faded to the point where shooting against a cloudy sky is eminently feasible, but you cannot see your own feet against the ground, three pinkfooted geese swept in.
I was using my lightweight 12-bore and paper-cased Eley Impax cartridges ? a bare ounce of lead No.6 shot (remember, this was Scotland, where it is perfectly lawful to use lead shot on wildfowl over dry land). The geese came in close. I fired the right barrel, and when a goose crumpled instantly, I forgot the other barrel. Anyway, what the event proved is that, at 20 yards, an ounce of lead No.6 shot through an improved cylinder barrel will kill a goose very efficiently.
This isn?t to say that I would do such a thing as a matter of routine ? I love my long-chambered 8-bore, and it is rare to get that close to a wild goose anyway. I am not for a moment advocating shooting geese with ordinary game loads under anything but exceptional circumstances.
A couple of nights later, Gerry and I were sitting out on another field of grass this time. There was a particular flightline that is often used by wildfowl to cut inland, across a wide bend in the river.
Once again, we connected with a few duck as the dusk fell. Then, as it got darker, a single, silent bird fl oated at an angle across my front, descending rapidly on cupped wings. I didn?t shoot, even though it was in easy range, because I wasn?t entirely sure what it was. But Gerry was some distance away from my position, at a different angle, and could see the bird against a faintafterglow. It went straight at him, as if drawn on a piece of string. There was a flash and a bang, followed by a thump. A few minutes later, I heard Gerry?s dog retrieving the fallen quarry.
When we packed up half-an-hour later, I wandered over to Gerry?s position, and there, in the light of my head torch, was a pinkfoot lying among his duck. Naturally, I instantly claimed that I had deliberately left it for him to have a crack at.
However, the true nature of Gerry?s achievement only became clear when I realised that he had been using a tiny 28-bore that night. In short, he had neatly felled a goose with just half an ounce of No.6 shot ? well and truly eclipsing my performance from two nights earlier.
Again, I must emphasise that shooting geese with light loads is not generally recommended. In this case, Gerry was in the right place and at the right range ? and he is an expert Shot, to boot. It was a very rare opportunity, and he made the most of it.
The gun Gerry was using that night was a lovely piece by W. W. Greener, a hammergun with nitro-proofed steel barrels. It was manufactured in 1916, just before the company switched to full-time military production for the War effort. It had never been used much by its original purchaser, and had then been stored away for decades before Gerry secured it for his extensive collection of Greener guns. Apparently it was found stored in the original manufacturer?s cardboard box and grease paper.
Shooting wildfowl with very small calibres is something that should only be done in exceptional circumstances, by people who can shoot with the requisite accuracy. But the fact is, if a shot is placed accurately, even the largest quarry can be killed cleanly. It is worth remembering that one of the greatest of the old elephant hunters, ?Karamojo? Bell, favoured a .257 Rigby for felling the mighty pachyderms. Many would consider that calibre suitable for deer-sized quarry at most, but Bell made a study of elephant anatomy, got in close, and was supremely skilled in placing his shots.


On April 07, 2016 the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced closure of the H-1B visas for 2017 only 6 days after opening the work visa lottery..
Applicants whose employers were not able to file before the April 1, 2016 deadline would have to wait for April 1, 2017 to be considered for the next filing period (fiscal year).
The U.S. fiscal year starts October 1 and ends September 30. The H-1B applications received on April 1 to April 7, 2016 count towards the 2017 allocation.
H-1B petitions are accepted April 1 of each year but the effective employment date starts October 1 to allow applicants and employers to ensure smooth transition or entry into the United States of visa beneficiaries.
"The prevailing wage rate is defined as the average wage paid to similarly employed workers in a specific occupation in the area of intended employment. Effective January 4, 2010, employers can obtain this wage rate by submitting a request to the National Prevailing Wage Center (NPWC), or by accessing other legitimate sources of information such as the Online Wage Library, available for use in some programs.
The Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has provided wage data collected under the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) program for use in the Foreign Labor Certification process since 1998. The wage data is available on the Foreign Labor Certification Data Center Online Wage Library (OWL), found at the following website: http://www.flcdatacenter.com/."
Applicants who are in the U.S. usually applies for extension of stay and change of nonimmigrant status (such as from B-2 to H-1B). Those applying from overseas would have to appear for interview at consular offices, be issued their work visas and apply for admission at a port of entry.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has reached the congressionally mandated H-1B cap for fiscal year (FY) 2017. USCIS has also received more than the limit of 20,000 H-1B petitions filed under the U.S. advanced degree exemption.
H-1B applicants are encouraged to subscribe to the H-1B Cap Season email updates located on the H-1B Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 Cap Season Web page.


With the rapid depletion of fossil fuels, oil and natural gas in particular, and with their environmental hazards such as global warming, air pollution and acid rain, it is clear that we need to develop alternate forms of energy. Below I discuss several alternatives as well as their merits and drawbacks.
Hydroelectric power has been in use for a long time; the first hydroelectric plant was built in Rothbury, England in 1870. Today, hydroelectric power supplies 20% of the world's power and it is estimated that it is capable of providing 9 to 12 times as much energy as it currently does. However, there are environmental concerns regarding building new dams.
Solar power is a potentially very attractive form of energy, since it is plentiful and pollution-free. Just one tenth of a percent of the earth's surface potentially suffices to produce our current power needs. Nevertheless, there are several disadvantanges to solar power. Solar cells are only operable during the daytime when the sun is shining, and currently have an efficiency of only 7-18 percent. In order to be useful all the time, solar power must first be converted to another form of energy.
Wind power has been in use the longest of all renewable sources; the first use was in Persia around 200 BC for grinding grain. It currently accounts for less than 1% of worldwide energy use, though its use is growing quite fast. It is estimated that wind power can potentially produce about 5 times the world's current energy use.
Geothermal power is currently a rather limited renewable resource. Tidal power, one source of geothermal power, can potentially produce just one-quarter of the world's current power needs. The heat from the earth is plentiful, but most of it is not currently available.
Bioenergy, including biomass, biofuel, and biogas, is a fairly new source of energy. Ethanol, a biofuel, was used by the Ford Model T from 1903 to 1926, until petroleum fuels became cheaper. Since the first energy crisis in 1973, there has been renewed interest in biofuels and other forms of bioenergy.
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Home | Alternative Finance | Peer to Peer Lending | European Investment Bank and Funding Circle announce groundbreaking £100 million investment into UK small businesses
European Investment Bank and Funding Circle announce groundbreaking £100 million investment into UK small businesses
The European Investment Bank today agreed a £100 million investment in loans to UK small businesses originated through Funding Circle, the world's leading marketplace for business loans. This investment, alongside £25 million from the Funding Circle SME Income Fund, will enable over £200 million of new loans over 7 years, and provides a further injection of much-needed funding into the UK small business sector.
This new partnership with Funding Circle represents the first deployment of EIB funding through a direct lending marketplace to support small businesses. Improving access to finance for small and medium sized businesses is a key priority for the European Investment Bank. This new engagement is recognition of the role of marketplace lending as an efficient way for small business to access finance, and an important new channel to stimulate the real economy.
To date, Funding Circle has facilitated more than £1.25 billion of loans to 16,000 businesses in the UK. Since launching in 2010, lending to small businesses through Funding Circle has evolved to include a diverse range of investors. This includes national and local government backing in the UK and support from international organisations such as the European Investment Bank and European Investment Fund, and KfW, the German development bank.
"Investment by small businesses drives economic growth, and simple, efficient access to finance is essential to help small companies to expand, create jobs and harness new opportunities. This new and exciting partnership with Funding Circle demonstrates the European Investment Bank's firm commitment to seeking out new ways to stimulate business investment across Europe. The £100 million backing will not only unlock over £200 million of new investment by small businesses across the UK, but also provides an innovative model for supporting SMEs that could be used elsewhere in Europe." said Jonathan Taylor, European Investment Bank Vice President.
Samir Desai, CEO and co-founder of Funding Circle said: "Our partnership with the European Investment Bank is the first of its kind and represents another important step on our journey to creating a global marketplace where creditworthy businesses borrow from a diverse range of investors. This significant investment will ensure more businesses access the finance they need to grow and will help support economic growth and job creation across the UK."
By linking supply directly with demand through Funding Circle's marketplace, the European Investment Bank will provide much-needed funding to UK small businesses. Currently, there are more than 5.4 million small businesses in the UK accounting for 99.3{3483f31c86e75f31cac7f7389ecca029616bd15227fb3fb90c677a439131696c} of all private sector business. Collectively small businesses make up 50{3483f31c86e75f31cac7f7389ecca029616bd15227fb3fb90c677a439131696c} of GDP and 60{3483f31c86e75f31cac7f7389ecca029616bd15227fb3fb90c677a439131696c} of employment.*
Launched in 2010, Funding Circle is helping to spark a global revolution in the way small businesses access finance, disrupting the traditional model of banking. Funding Circle's proven model enables businesses to access finance in a matter of days, directly from investors who can earn high, stable returns.
Through Funding Circle, businesses typically access the capital they need in 7 days compared to 15-20 weeks with a bank. Independent research** has found that three in four businesses would come to Funding Circle first in future, ahead of a bank.
Over the last decade the European Investment Bank, Europe's long-term lending institution, has provided more than £3 billion for investment by small businesses across the UK.
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Q: Work with InputTextBox in corona under windows environment I am trying to create a login screen for user but couldn't able to see text box on simulator. I am using Windows 7 as development environment. How can I debug it under windows environment.

A: Corona provides a debugger (Corona.Debugger.exe in the Corona SDK folder), but it requires you to debug your script from the command line (this is an example of a debugging session: http://developer.coronalabs.com/content/corona-simulator-and-debugger-sample-debugging-session).
I've recently added Corona debugging support to ZeroBrane Studio Lua IDE, which gives you a way to debug your Corona scripts from an IDE environment. You'll need to use the latest code from github to access this functionality until the next release is out.
Another option is using Koneki (Eclipse integration for Lua) as described here.

A: You pretty much have to do a "Build for Device", install it on the device and test it there.

A: I know it's quite late, but maybe can be useful...
To test directly on corona simulator on windows you can use this plugin, that simulates textfields/textboxes behaviour:
https://github.com/ProGM/CoronaSDK-win-native

A: When you are running Corona on window machine, It does not support text box on simulator.
 So you need to check it on device.

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"You just have to throw yourself into it wholeheartedly and fearlessly and not be self-conscious about what you create…"
Sophie Cookson caught the world's attention with her film debut in the 2014 spy movie Kingsman: The Secret Service. The young British actress, who is clearly going places, has since appeared in the Kingsman sequel and worked with Dame Judi Dench in next year's film Red Joan. Journal caught up with her in the West End to discuss her new play Killer Joe and her love of London's theatreland.
You're making your West End stage debut in Killer Joe. Tell us a bit about the play and what drew you to it.
Killer Joe is a play by Tracy Letts, set in the early 90s. It follows the story of a poor family living in a trailer park who, in order to pay off their debts, decide to hire a contract killer to murder their estranged mother so they can get her life insurance money. I play Dottie, the sister of drug dealer Chris who has hatched the plan. She's had a childhood trauma and definitely isn't like most other 20-year-olds. She's been kept infantilised and as a result of this is often underestimated. It was really Tracy's muscular, visceral writing that drew me to the project. The pace and intensity builds and builds to the point of explosion. It's incredibly thrilling to watch and be a part of.
Is it an emotionally demanding role? How did you prepare for it?
Incredibly! I'm not sure how I prepared for it, to be perfectly honest! Sometimes with things like that you just have to throw yourself into it wholeheartedly and fearlessly and not be self-conscious about what you create.
What does having a live audience bring to your performance?
It's really interesting in an intimate space like The Trafalgar Studios. It's a very immediate, confrontational play, where at moments you can feel the whole audience almost holding their breath. The audience's reaction creates an even more intense, claustrophobic atmosphere.
Do you find that re-living the play daily brings an evolution to the role of Dottie?
Absolutely. There's no way that can't happen. There are hundreds of components that make every single moment and if just one of those are different (which they inevitably will be) then you're always creating something entirely fresh. As long as you carry on listening and doing the work every night, you discover something different.
Was there a defining moment that made you want to become an actress?
I wouldn't say there was a bolt of thunder where I knew, but I had several teachers over the years who encouraged me and then I finally reached a point where I knew I'd always regret it if I didn't give it a shot.
I read that you love nature. Are there any greener parts of the West End you like to escape to?
Well there never seems to be quite enough time to escape too far from the theatre, so I'm very lucky having St James's Park next door.
Now that you're based in central London, what are your favourite haunts in and around theatreland?
Well, Bar Italia is an institution! There's nothing more fun than just sitting outside and observing all of Soho's colourful characters.
Have you explored the area's galleries and museums?
In the past yes, but not so much recently. I tend to get quite absorbed with whatever project I'm involved in and find it impossible to absorb or learn about something which isn't connected to it in some way. But now we've settled into the run there's lots of stuff I've got my eye on.
What was your first taste of London's theatre?
I think the first thing I saw was Beauty and the Beast. I remember running through the auditorium and being in awe of the sound coming from orchestra pit, then singing in the cab on the way to the station. It was absolute magic.
You sing in your role in Gypsy. If you could do a musical, what would your dream role be?
Any Sondheim! Sign me up! I've always fancied a go at Sally Bowles in Cabaret too.
You've been described as the kick-ass English Rose; what film genres that you haven't yet tackled appeal to you?
God, have I? As to genres – all sorts! I feel I've barely scratched the surface.
Tell us about your new film, Red Joan. How did it feel to play the younger version of the character played by Dame Judi Dench?
It's set in the 1940s and early 2000s. It's about a young girl called Joan who studies physics in a male-dominated world. She ends up working on the atomic bomb for the British government and subsequently passing over secrets to the Russians – not for the reasons that you might assume. It's loosely based on a true story and Judi plays Joan in her 70s, which is when she finally got arrested. She lived her entire life with not one person suspecting her of anything like that, not even her son. Obviously, it's a very intimidating prospect being a young Judi, but she's so funny and gracious it was a great challenge to step up to.
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Tagged journal, kirk truman, london, sophie cookson.