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Regular readers know by now that I crowdfund invested in a disruptive Dutch software startup called BStriker. Since this was my first investment ever I was not well prepared for what was going on in startups, so I got in touch with the founders. There was a lot to learn for me. As an early investor you hope that 1 round of funding will be enough to concur the universe, but that is wishful thinking of course. Building an enterprise takes time and thus money. "We" already have a sell-able product and customers paying the bill, so that part of the plans has worked out fine. Now BStriker is looking for extra funding to accelerate growth and they're doing this using a convertible loan. This is a smart idea because it protects current investors (me) from watering down at too low a valuation (now) and gives new investors (you) the opportunity to become shareholders at a nice discount.
Below you will see one of the regular updates the CFO John Berkeljon posts to the current shareholders in which he invites the inner circle to help fund this growth. It was OK to share this one with you, so this means it is available for all serious parties. Normally this type of loan is only available to professional parties, but now you can participate for as little as 5000 Euro.
Remember : only invest what you are prepared to lose!
Update 15-12-2014: Two more customers boarded our ship today!!
The IPCC proved this week that mankind is changing earth's climate at an alarming rate. Greenhouse gases are the culprit. We need to act really really fast if we want to have a chance of staying within 2 degrees temperature rise compared to pre-industrial times.
I got enthusiastic about 4th generation reactors: Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor. Only problem, it's fantasy technology, nobody had got it working and nobody has plans to go that way. Older reactors running on Uranium are not feasible because there is not enough Uranium ore available.
That was a long introduction to get to what I came across today: Plant-e (pronounce – plenty). A Dutch startup/spinoff from Wageningen University.
* electricity gathering with long pipes buried in the wet soil (no figures on density yet).
The main question is what the cost price per hectare will be. The electricity it gives of would be worth $15000 a year (@ 5ct/kWH). So if you require a 7 year payback time you have a $100.000 budget. I believe the electrodes will be placed in the form of pipes.
At this moment I am cautiously optimistic that this could actually work. It would deliver base load electricity in parts of the world where reliable energy is now not available and truly sustainable. Question: How are we going to help them get the first hectares up and running as they're only testing small patches now? If this actually works it needs industrial style upscaling ASAP.


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Q: Macro for Excel to refrech Labels Chart I work on Excel and I'm not really familiar with macros assigned to charts. Basically I have several charts. I need each of these charts to have labels that corresponds to data in another spreadsheets called "Data_SC". So for instance I would have:
Graph1: Label_1 = Data_SC!A1 ;
Label_2 = Data_SC!A2...
Graph2:
Label_1 = Data_SC!B1 ;
Label_2 = Data_SC!B2...
I tried to do it only for the first labels of each charts but I get the error "Type:mismatch". Here is my code:
Sub Refresh_Labels()
Dim cht As ChartObjects

For Each cht In Sheets("Sheet1").ChartObjects
    cht.SeriesCollection(1).Points(1).HasDataLabels = True
    cht.SeriesCollection(1).Points(1).DataLabel(1).Text =   Sheets("Data_SC").Range(A1)
Next cht

End Sub

Could you guys help me please?

A: This should work:
Sub Refresh_Labels()
Dim cht As ChartObject

For Each cht In Sheets("Sheet1").ChartObjects
    cht.Chart.SeriesCollection(1).Points(1).HasDataLabel = True
    cht.Chart.SeriesCollection(1).Points(1).DataLabel.Text = Sheets("Data_SC").Range("A1")
Next cht

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WhatsApp has now come up with the latest update of its Android application which will allow you to backup your WhatsApp conversations to Google Drive. You can avail this new feature with the latest update of WhatsApp with version number 2.12.126 for Android.
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The company CEO Jan Koum had recently announced on his Facebook page that WhatsApp has acquired nearly 800 million monthly active users. The messaging app has also released Material Design for Android smartphones which is currently available on an apk file. The Material Design service brings a refreshing colour scheme and a new and refined outlook for the messaging application.


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Opioid addiction requires safe injection sites, not ancient rhetoric from the war on drugs
Giving users a safe place doesn't promote drug use. It promotes access to social services, prevents death and keeps them out of public spaces.
A safe injection site called Quai 9 near the main Geneva train station on Oct. 14, 2010.Denis Balibouse / Reuters file
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The opioid crisis has grown too big for anyone to ignore, on the left or the right, as the devastation unfolds on the nation's streets every day: Drug users are overdosing in public bathrooms, on the sidewalks and in their cars; dirty needles litter the streets; and emergency rooms and first responders operate on overdrive as bodies pile up. Public health advocates in several cities want to establish a simple but radical intervention to prevent more deaths: Establish a clean, quiet room to allow people to use drugs in a safe, regulated environment under sober supervision without fear of arrest.
But some politicians would rather allow drug users to die all around us than protect their lives by allowing them to use in a safe space.
Though tackling unsafe injection drug use is widely recognized as critical to curbing the epidemic — opioid-related overdose deaths have been soaring for the last several years, reaching about 47,600 in 2017, with about one-third caused by heroin and many more caused by synthetic opioids — harm-reduction advocates have been unable to open a single safe injection site anywhere in the U.S. Efforts in San Francisco, Seattle, Philadelphia and New York City to establish the facilities have made some headway with local policymakers. But the Trump administration has waged a legal war on safe injection sites, seemingly viewing them as modern-day dens of iniquity.
OpinionOpioid addiction is a mental health crisis, not a crime wave
Despite conservatives' fears about such sites "promoting" illegal drug use, a safe injection (or overdose prevention) site is primarily a public health facility. Individuals enter a private space where trained personnel monitor them as they inject with clean needles. Health care professionals are on hand to help connect people to other services, including treatment and basic medical care. Over time, preventing people from injecting in completely unregulated environments, where sharing needles is routine, helps stop the spread of HIV, hepatitis C and bacterial infections, while saving major public health costs.
Other countries are well ahead of the U.S. on overdose prevention, taking a less punitive, more public health-centered approach to drugs. Currently, about 120 safe injection facilities are operating in Australia, Canada and Europe, and various studies and anecdotal evidence have linked the programs with significant reductions in overdose deaths and decreased transmission of bloodborne diseases.
And, inviting heroin users to inject safely can help make the whole neighborhood safer, cleaner and more peaceful. Overdose prevention facilities are associated with fewer discarded needles in public areas and reduced overall litter, and long-term cost savings yielded from overdose prevention lead to more resources overall for the community's public health infrastructure. Not to mention the immeasurable social impact of engaging a population of drug users — people who have long been mired in shame and alienation — to help end the cycle of stigma that feeds the opioid crisis.
Recovering drug addict Katherine Bellegarde in her room at Insite in Vancouver, on May 6, 2008. Insite is the first legal supervised injection site in North America.Jonathan Hayward / Canadian Press via AP file
Despite this clear potential to reduce harm, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania is clamping down on a fledgling effort to bring a safe injection facility to the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. The Trump administration's lawsuit against Safehouse, an organization founded by local legal advocates and harm-reduction groups, charges that safe injection sites are essentially violating a federal law that "makes it unlawful to manage any place where people use [illegal] drugs."
Safehouse counters that its fundamental mission is "to provide lifesaving medical care, not to promote unlawful drug use." They also stress that their operations would actually serve the government's own anti-drug agenda, mitigating the risk of drugs by "promot[ing] access to clean and sterile equipment for drug consumption," preventing the spread of disease, and when needed, providing emergency interventions like the anti-overdose medication Naloxone. As for the alleged moral hazard of "enabling" drug users, Safehouse emphasizes that a key part of its practice is connecting people to free treatment and health care — which are definitely benefits that they would never be able to access if left to shoot up in a public bathroom. (An added twist in Safehouse's legal challenge is that it identifies as a faith-based group, and so defends its harm-reduction mission as an issue of religious freedom.)
Safehouse Vice President Ronda Goldfein explained that the organization aims to remove the shame and alienation that haunt many drug users, and to "give some dignity to everyone involved." For drug users without a safe space, she told me, "if they are so consumed with injecting drugs between parked cars using puddle water, there's no place, there's no time, to be thinking about how you move forward. But you come inside, you have a moment, a nonjudgmental moment, and you can see that there are other options before you."
Community surveys in San Francisco and Philadelphia show widespread public support for safe injection facilities as a public health safeguard. Nonetheless, proposals for safe injection sites do face local pushback, often from elected officials and civic groups who are worried about the facilities becoming an unsightly gathering spot for drug users in communities that are already plagued by opioids. Uncertainty about the political and social ramifications of safe injection sites might be one reason why the plans to build them have stalled in some cities.
OpinionThe most visible signs of the opioid crisis are the most mundane
But public attitudes about drug use have shifted dramatically in response to the glaring failures of the war on drugs. Years ago, the public was similarly wary about needle-exchange programs, which provide clean syringes to injection drug users. But the hundreds of needle exchanges that have been implemented nationwide have become a pillar of the drug treatment infrastructure. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, drug users who use needle exchange services "are five times as likely to enter treatment for substance use disorder and more likely to reduce or stop injecting." If the social service system is willing provide safe needles, then it makes sense to also provide a safe place to use them.
A safe injection site is the next logical step in confronting the reality of the opioid epidemic. The growing number of people who have been personally exposed to the crisis through friends or family members understand the difference between celebrating drug use and providing a supportive space for individuals in crisis. Within the walls of a safe injection site, people don't just get protection from an overdose; they regain, at least momentarily, the dignity of safety and self-respect.
Michelle Chen is a contributing writer at The Nation, a contributing editor at Dissent and a co-producer of the "Belabored" podcast and the Asia Pacific Forum podcast.

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A great video collection of Queens 23 best videos! All videos on Disc 1 is presented in 16:9 widescreen format, and is remixed for optional DTS 5.1 Surround Sound! Disc 1 16 videos, audio and video commentary by Freddie, Brian, Roger and John. All videos are renovated. 1) Bohemian Rhapsody 2) Another One Bites The Dust 3) Killer Queen 4) Fat Bottomed Girls 5) Bicycle Race 6) You? Re My Best Friend 7) Do not Stop Me Now 8) Save Me 9) Crazy Little Thing Called Love 10) Somebody To Love 11) Spread Your Wings 12) Play The Game 13) Flash 14) Tie Your Mother Down 15) We Will Rock You 16) We Are The Champions Disc 2 6 videos (+ hidden bonus video!), Documentary on Bohemian Rhapsody and photo gallery. These tracks are only PCM stereo mixes. 1) Now I'm Here 2) Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy 3) Keep Yourself Alive 4) Liar 5) Love Of My Life 6) We Will Rock You (Fast Live Version) PLUS: Inside the rhapsody ", Photo Gallery, and Queen Online. Original title: Queen - Greatest Video Hits Text: Audio: English (DTS) Bild: 4:3 1.33:1 Widescreen Format: DVD Region 2 Origin: Germany (England) Extras: See above Running time: 133 min TV system: PAL Year: Distributor: EMI Director: Actors:
Queen's Greatest Video Hits 1 takes full advantage of the legendary status of "Bohemian Rhapsody", still ranked as one of the best-loved tunes of all time, and its equally legendary video. Although no one can wholly explain what Freddie's lament was about, this collection includes four mini-documentaries that attempt to unlock the mystery with limited success. The original videos to favourites such as "Someone to Love", "We Will Rock You" and "Killer Queen" are also included, as well as a new racier version of the video for "Bicycle Race". Brian May and Roger Taylor provide an optional audio commentary throughout, interspersed with edited interview snippets from the late Freddie Mercury.
Unlike so many other audio commentaries where producers and artists too readily gush praise about each other, May's and Taylor's observations are both fascinating and frank. Although much of what they discuss about the making of the promos is replicated in the accompanying glossy DVD booklet, it's illuminating to hear them chat about their dislike of Dennis De Vallance's video for "Fat Bottomed Girls" (principally because the final cut focused almost exclusively on Mercury). Their stories about the making of the videos also add some much-needed panache to these basic low-budget promos. For instance, their account of the making of "Spread Your Wings", on a freezing winter day in Roger Taylor's garden, brings an added dimension to an otherwise flat video.
On the DVD: Queen's Greatest Video Hits 1 reflects the limitations of pre-digital recording; much of the visual material looks tired and dated even though the original footage is now presented in 16:9 format. Closer attention has been paid to the remastering of the audio soundtrack, which includes DTS 5.1 versions of the favourites (the multi-channel audio experience of "Bohemian Rhapsody" is stunning). The opening menu sequence is also impressive, with state-of-the-art animation that incorporates the designs of early Queen record sleeves. --John Galilee
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I have only just graduated as a mental health nurse, but my placements throughout three years of training have been an indicator of what is to come in my new profession. It's going to be rewarding, and the challenges and pressures are likely to increase.
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The number of nurses working in mental health services has decreased by around 7,000 since 2010 and the number of mental health beds have fallen by 30% since 2009.
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It's easy to listen to what someone says to you but often our patients and service users tell us a lot more than what they literally say.
Despite being considered a 'soft skill' by many, I would argue that it is the one thing in my metaphorical tool belt that I am guaranteed to need on every single shift.
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For me, that means that we as services have missed something, otherwise these people would not frequent services as much as they do. Sometimes it only takes noticing that missing piece of the puzzle that enables you to develop a better plan with someone that will really enable them to improve their life.
In my role of a listener I have certainly heard some harrowing things.
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Whereas most people would discuss a bad day at work with their family, friends or partner, it's a lot more difficult when you are a mental health nurse. Walking through the front door saying "hey honey, guess what happened at work today" often feels really inappropriate when dealing with some of the emotive topics that we do on a daily basis.
I have supported those I work with through divorces, miscarriages, relationship breakdowns, deaths, every kind of abuse and more.
It's hard to listen to the things that my patients have gone through without it having an emotional impact on myself.
It's also a terrifying thing to do, constantly worried that I'll say the wrong thing or be unable to stop the horror showing on my face and make an already difficult situation worse for someone.
All people are individuals and I never really know how someone might react when they have made themselves so emotionally vulnerable to me. Having supported numerous people before often doesn't make the situation any easier. Each person is a unique experience.
I chose a career as a mental health nurse to work with people, not to do paperwork. While I realise it's an important part of the job, it seems to often be an overwhelming requirement.
There are care plans and risk assessment and so much more and it all needs to be done, no matter how short-staffed you are.
And if it isn't done I'll receive abrupt e-mails from team leaders and managers. It would seem to impact the time I'm able to spend with patients.
But all the while the service is under such pressure it's not going to get any easier. Nurses will continue to work under immense emotional pressure, with very little time to process what it is they're hearing and doing.
I feel very lucky to absolutely love my job.
Sure, when people tell me they couldn't do it, I can certainly understand why.
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It does however sadden me when I feel like I'm not giving patients my all through no fault of mine, or theirs.
It isn't an easy job, and it is made difficult by the political and economic situation within the health service.
Ultimately patients will be the ones to suffer most. This is hard for me. I am someone who cares and want to give people the care they need. But I will continue to do the best I possibly can with what is available to me.


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Music is a vital part of our Sunday celebration as we offer a blend of musical styles each week. Music is offered by one of four praise teams each week. Our Sanctuary Choir sings each Sunday, Labor Day through Memorial Day. In addition to contemporary worship music, traditional hymns are sung each week accompanied by organ and piano. Our 85-voice outreach choir, Voices of Praise, presents cantatas during the Christmas season and in April.
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The Sanctuary Choir is a 45-voice group that sings each week during worship from September through May. Singers from sixth grade through adult gather each Monday evening from 6:30 until 7:15 p.m. to rehearse, fellowship and grow in the Lord.
Directed by Ministry Coordinator Rich Criss, the Sanctuary Choir offers a large variety of musical styles, singing fresh arrangements of well-loved hymns, arrangements of current worship music, and beautiful ballads. The Sanctuary Choir desires to bring the congregation into worship of our God, rather than be a performance feature. The Choir dedicates its ministry to the glory of God.
Emmanuel is blessed to have three praise teams that lead worship each week at Emmanuel, alternating throughout the course of the month. "First Sunday," "Exaltation," and "Crosswalk" are the names of the teams that share worship music with the congregation during our worship set. At times, Ministry Coordinator Rich Criss will lead a worship set with piano accompaniment expanding the variety of worship experiences taking place at Emmanuel Church.
Voices of Praise
Voices of Praise is an 85-voice outreach choir that provides Christmas and Spring Cantatas open to the community. This choir is comprised of members of Emmanuel's Sanctuary Choir and singers from the surrounding area. They rehearse from 7:30-8:30 p.m. on Monday evenings at Emmanuel following the Sanctuary Choir rehearsals from September-April. This group presents their cantatas most typically on the third weekend of December and the last weekend in April.
Voices of Praise has been blessed to average more than 1,100 people in attendance during these presentations. Anyone in sixth grade and older with a genuine desire to honor and glorify God through music is invited to join the Voices of Praise family. We love sharing Spirit-filled Monday evenings together where rehearsals include hard work mixed with a lot of laughing, good times and occasionally even some tears.
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Hanover Presbyterian, Hanover
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River Church, Clinton, IA
Salem Lutheran, Andrew, IA
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St. Peter's Lutheran, Morrison
Second Reformed, Fulton
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At the dawn of salvation, it is the birth of a child which is proclaimed as joyful news: 'I bring you good news of a great joy which will come to all the people; for to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord' (Lk. 2:10-11). The source of this 'great joy' is the birth of the Savior; but Christmas also reveals the full meaning of every human birth, and the joy which accompanies the birth of the Messiah is thus seen to be the foundation and fulfillment of joy at every child born into the world (cf. Jn. 16:21).
"God is love." These words are contained in the First Letter of St. John (4:16). They are the keystone of the truth about God. That truth is revealed through numerous words and many events until it reaches the full certainty of faith with the coming of Christ. These words faithfully echo Christ's statement: "God so loved the world that he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him may not die but may have eternal life" (John 3:16). The Church's faith reaches its peak in this supreme truth: God is love! In Christ's Cross and Resurrection he revealed himself definitively as love. "So we know and believe the love God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him" (1 John 4:16). The truth that God is love constitutes the apex of all that has been revealed "by the prophets and in these days by the Son," as the Letter to the Hebrews states (1:1-2). This truth illumines the whole content of Revelation, and particularly the revealed reality of the creation and of the covenant. Creation manifests the omnipotence of God the Creator. But the exercise of omnipotence is definitively explained by means of love. God created because he could do so. But is omnipotence was guided by wisdom and moved by love. This is the work of creation. Redemption has a more powerful eloquence and offers a more radical demonstration. Love remains as the expression of omnipotence in the face of evil, in the face of sin. Only omnipotent love can draw forth good from evil and new life from sin and death.
Under the abstract words of paternity…I have come to believe that, far from being endowed with an absolute experience of my own, I am, without having wished or suspected it, I incarnate the reply to the reciprocal appeal which two beings flung to each other in the unknown and which, without suspecting it, they flung beyond themselves to an incomprehensible power whose only expression is the bestowal of life. I am this reply, unformed at first, but who, as I become articulate, will know myself to be a reply and a judgement. Yes, I am irresistibly lead to make the discovery that by being what I am, I myself am a judgement upon those who have called me into being; and thereby infinite new relationships will be established between them and me.
Marriage and the family are not in fact a chance sociological construction, the product of particular historical and financial situations. On the other hand, the question of the right relationship between the man and the woman is rooted in the essential core of the human being and it is only by starting from here that its response can be found. In other words, it cannot be separated from the ancient but ever new human question: Who am I? What is a human being? And this question, in turn, cannot be separated from the question about God: Does God exist? Who is God? What is His face truly like? The Bible's answer to these two questions unties them, and makes one a consequence of the other: the human being is created in the image of God, and God Himself is love. It is therefore the vocation to love that makes the human person an authentic image of God: Man and woman come to resemble God to the extent that they become loving people.
"And God made human being according to his image." "The [masc.] human being," says the woman, "What does that have to do with me? The man came to be, for it does not say the [fem.] human being," she says, "but by setting forth the [masc.] human being, it implies the masculine." But that nobody may ignorantly ascribe the name of human only to the man, it adds, "Male and female he created them" [Gen. 1:27]. The woman also possesses creation according to the image of God, as indeed does the man. The natures are alike in honor, the virtues are equal, the struggles equal, the judgement alike. Let her not say, "I am weak." The weakness is in the flesh, in the soul is the power. Since indeed that which is according to God's image is of equal honor, let the virtue be of equal honor, the showing forth of good works. There is no excuse for one who wishes to allege that the body is weak. And why is it simply delicate? But through compassion it is vigorous in patient endurance and earnest in vigils. When has the nature of man been able to match the nature of woman in patiently passing through her own life? When has man been able to imitate the vigor of women in fastings, the love of toil in prayers, the abundance in tears, the readiness for good works?
I have seen a woman secretly committing good thefts, doing good works apart from her husband for the sake of her husband, for the sake of the household's growth, for the sake of the children's long life. She gives and hides it from her husband's knowledge, distributing alms for his sake and concealing it from him. For since the Creator sees the things that are hidden, she does not make public her well-doing.
The good woman has that which is according to the image. Do not cling to the outer human being, it is molded [like clay]. The soul is placed within, under the coverings and the delicate body. Soul indeed is equal in honor to soul; in the coverings is the difference.
Therefore you have become like God through kindness, through the endurance of evil, through communion, through love for one another and love for brethren, being a hater of evil, dominating the passions of sin, that to you may belong the rule.


This was another of those occasions that confirmed how much more comfortable life is under Kenny Dalglish, Liverpool succeeding where they failed last year by overcoming lower-league opposition to progress to the next round of the Carling Cup with the minimum of fuss.
Daniel Nardiello scored a late penalty for Exeter but Liverpool were strolling by that stage following an outstanding display by Luis Suárez, who left the pitch to applause from all sides of the ground.
The contrast with their humiliating defeat in the same competition against Northampton Town at Anfield 11 months ago was stark, as Liverpool ruthlessly punished their League One opponents in the first hour of an entertaining contest. Exeter, to their credit, never surrendered, but with Suárez shimmering with menace whenever he picked up the ball, Liverpool simply had too much class. That the Uruguayan was so motivated on a wet evening in Exeter in front of 8,000 spectators was even more impressive.
He grabbed the first – his third in as many appearances this season – set up the second for Maxi Rodríguez and wasinvolved in the third, which was scored by Andy Carroll, who came on as an early replacement for Raul Meireles. Liverpool looked like they might cut loose after Carroll's goal but instead they eased off and allowed Exeter to come back into the game then grab a belated reward for their efforts when Nardiello beat Pepe Reina from the spot after he was upended by Martin Skrtel.
Although Dalglish made eight changes from the side that started against Arsenal on Saturday and named three teenagers in the defence, there was plenty of experience elsewhere in his line-up, underlining the significance the Liverpool manager has attached to the competition. "We said before the game that we would make changes but we also said that in no way should that be taken as being disrespectful to Exeter or the Carling Cup," Dalglish said.
The only sour note for Liverpool was the injury to Meireles, who has damaged his collarbone and will be out for "a few weeks". He fell awkwardly following a robust but fair challenge from Danny Coles, and was unable to continue. Carroll's subsequent arrival merely served to emphasise the gulf between the two clubs. Liverpool spent £35m on the England striker; Paul Tisdale, the Exeter manager, has only ever paid one fee for a player, Troy Archibald-Henville, and that was £50,000.
Liverpool took the lead when Jordan Henderson, who was booked for diving in the second half, delivered a centre from the right that Artur Krysiak got his hand to but was unable to clear. Suárez was perfectly positioned to pick up the loose ball, firing a crisp, angled volley from eight yards beyond the Exeter keeper.
The game was effectively put beyond Exeter when Liverpool scored twice in three minutes shortly after the interval. Suárez's square pass allowed Rodríguez to tap home and more fine approach work from the forward culminated in the ball eventually dropping for Carroll to rifle home what was only his third Liverpool goal in 12 appearances. Dalglish spoke of his delight that Carroll was off the mark this season, but it was Suárez who left a lasting impression on the capacity crowd. "He doesn't give many bad performances," said Dalglish.


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India vs Australia: A history of on-field controversies
From Gavaskar's MCG walkout to Smith's 'brain fade', a look at the moments of bad blood between the teams down the years.
| Updated : December 4, 2018 1:16 PM IST
Summary Full Scorecard हिन्दी Commentary Schedule
1st Innings
307 (106.5)
2nd Innings
India beat Australia by 31 runs
Man of the Match: Cheteshwar Pujara
It is the best and worst of cricket one will ever get to see. In the past two decades, India vs Australia contests have produced engaging cricketing moments and also some of its ugliest controversies, both on and off the field.
Ahead of the first Test between India and Australia at Adelaide Oval this week, here's a look at the moments of bad blood between the teams down the years.
ALSO READ: 15 controversies that stained Border-Gavaskar Trophy
Gavaskar's walkout at the MCG
Sunil Gavaskar once famously said that India were up against 13 men when playing against Australia in Australia. In a way, the bad blood between the two teams can be traced back to the match at the MCG in 1981 where Gavaskar was the captain. He led his opening partner Chetan Chauhan off the field in protest of an umpiring decision when he was adjudged leg before off Dennis Lillee. Gavaskar later said that it was not the decision but personal abuse on Lillee's part that triggered him to walk off.
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Tendulkar lbw McGrath
One of the most contentious decisions in an Australia vs India match was given by the umpire Daryl Harper against Sachin Tendulkar when he ducked into a ball from Glenn McGrath and was struck on the shoulder while he was crouching. Immediately the media, former players and fans fumed (Imagine what would have happened it Twitter had been around in 1999!)
The matter was given great detail and viewed from various angles and played its part in the removal of neutral umpires.
Michael Slater had a few choice words for S Venkataraghavan in Mumbai. @AFP
Slater lays into Venkat
The first Test of that unforgettable 2000-01 series began with the touring team pummelling India at the Wankhede Stadium. It also saw a very ugly confrontation between Australia opener Michael Slater and umpire S Venkataraghavan – an incident that to this day is remembered for Slater's unsportsmanlike conduct.
The altercation happened after Slater claimed a diving catch off a mistimed shot from Rahul Dravid. The batsman refused to budge, not convinced by Slater's attempt. Venkat, the former India captain, gave Dravid not out after replays showed a considerable element of doubt. An incensed Slater claimed it was a clean catch and then lost his cool, walking over to Venkat and wagging his finger in his face. Dravid got a mouthful of abuse too, which resulted in a fine for Slater.
Ganguly makes Waugh wait
Another undercurrent of tension during that series was the late arrival of Sourav Ganguly for the toss. Writing in his autobiography, Out of My Comfort Zone, Steve Waugh recalled how he was "wound up" by Ganguly's "continued petulance" in being late for the toss. The Australian icon alleged that his counterpart was late for the toss "seven times" during the series. Years later, Ganguly said that it was not a deliberate tactic. Waugh and his team-mates didn't buy it for a moment.
Monkeygate
During the Sydney Test between India and Australia in January 2008, Andrew Symonds had accused Harbhajan Singh of calling him a "monkey". Tensions heated up between the two teams on the field, and Harbhajan was handed a three-Test ban from match referee Mike Procter under the suspicion that he had uttered a racist remark to Symonds. The ban was overturned after a hearing, with Harbhajan denying any wrongdoing against the backdrop of the BCCI threatening to leave the tour.
The infamous 'monkeygate' scandal at the SCG in 2008 soured relations between India and Australia. @Getty
India c Benson b Bucknor
Symonds scored 162 in the SCG Test and was thrice wrongly adjudged not out by umpire Steve Bucknor. The match saw numerous horrendous umpiring decisions with India at the receiving end. During India's chase, Dravid was given out caught behind while his bat was behind his pads. Later, Ganguly was caught by Michael Clarke at slip. The ball seemed to have brushed the turf before carrying to the fielder. Instead of opting for replays, Benson chose to trust Ponting's words.
After India's controversial defeat, captain Kumble was forced to say, "Only one team is playing in the spirit of the game." Bucknor was removed from remainder of the series. The Sydney Test threatened relations between the two nations.
Gambhir elbows Watson
The third Test of the 2008-09 Border-Gavaskar Trophy saw Gautam Gambhir hit a very fine double-century in what proved the last match of Anil Kumble's illustrious career. It also witnessed a couple showdowns with the Australians.
During his innings, Gambhir, angered by Shane Watson's relentless sledging, elbowed the bowler while coming back for a second run. Earlier, Watson instigated Gambhir by shoving a clenched fist towards him during the first run, and in return got elbowed by Gambhir.
Gambhir was banned for a Test, while Watson escaped with a 10% fine on his match fees. "The decision to find Gambhir guilty of a level two offence is indicative of the fact that any degree of physical contact is unacceptable," said match referee Chris Broad.
Virat Kohli and Steve Smith were involved in a war of words during the 2017 series. @AFP
Fiery Kohli, ignorant Smith and DRSgate
No. 1 ranked India were expected to whitewash Australia in the 2016-17 series. However, Steve Smith's tourists surprised all by winning the first Test, and even went on to dominate the first three days of the second Test.
Smith and Kohli were expected to grab headlines throughout the series for their run-making abilities. They did after the Test ended but for different reasons. Smith was trapped lbw during Australia's chase. He looked at the dressing-room to seek help if he should review it or not. At this stage Kohli stepped in and fumingly reminded Smith that he cannot do that before umpire Nigel Llong stepped in and reminded the same to Smith.
Kohli accused Smith of deliberately seeking help from the dressing room. Kohli had stated that he had twice seen Australians seeking help from the dressing-room for DRS referrals and almost called Australians 'cheats'.
First Published on December 4, 2018 1:16 PM IST
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Last night Chris took the stage for a half hour show of pure amazement! With guests such as Kid Ink, Tyga, and Trey Songz, Chris did his thing! If this is any indication of how the tour will be, we recommend you to get your tickets now! It seems Chris also announced his single status last night also….
Chris Brown and Tyga hit the stage at The Tonight Show tonight to perform their latest single, Ayo. Ayo is the first official single lifted off of their upcoming album, Fan Of A Fan, which hits stores next week. Check out the photos in the gallery, and watch the guys do their thang!


Random House presents the audiobook edition of 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari, read by Derek Perkins.
From the author of the multimillion copy best seller Sapiens.
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present.
Yuval Noah Harari takes us on a thrilling journey through today's most urgent issues. The golden thread running through his exhilarating new book is the challenge of maintaining our collective and individual focus in the face of constant and disorienting change. Are we still capable of understanding the world we have created?


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Who is an expat?
Does a person's level of integration play a role when deciding if they are an expat? Keystone
It's a simple question, but it's far from easy coming up with a succinct and satisfactory answer. With globalised travel and work habits increasingly in the headlines, swissinfo.ch enters the semantic jungle of expats, immigrants, refugees and economic migrants.
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Born in London, Thomas was a journalist at The Independent before moving to Bern in 2005. He speaks three official Swiss languages and enjoys travelling the country and practising them, above all in pubs, restaurants and gelaterias.
Deutsch (de) Warum sprechen wir nie von einem "illegalen Expat"?
Español (es) ¿Por qué nunca hablamos de 'expatriados ilegales'?
Português (pt) Por que nunca falamos de "expatriados ilegais"?
中文 (zh) 到底谁是"外国人"?
Français (fr) Pourquoi un expatrié ne peut-il pas être illégal?
Pусский (ru) Бывают ли на свете нелегальные экспаты?
Italiano (it) Perché non si parla mai di un "expat clandestino"?
"I know it when I see it," was the famous comment by a US Supreme Court judge struggling to define obscenity. Many people have the same attitude towards expats: "I know one when I see one."
In its most literal sense, an expat – short for expatriate (not necessarily an ex-patriot!) – is someone who lives abroad. That's how most dictionaries define it. For the HSBC Expat Explorer surveyExternal link, an expatriate is "someone over 18 years old who is currently living away from their home country".
But for many people that definition is too broad. It could also apply to students, refugees and asylum seekers, who – I would guess for most people – are not expats. So how can we improve on the "adult abroad" definition?
InterNationsExternal link, the "largest expat network in the world", defines an expat as "someone who decides to live abroad for an unspecified amount of time, without any restrictions to origin or residence".
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This, it acknowledges, does not differ very much from an immigrant, "usually defined as someone who has come to a different country in order to live there permanently, whereas expats move abroad for a limited amount of time or have not yet decided upon the length of their stay abroad".
Do you agree? Let's consider various statements about expats – some deliberately provocative – as food for thought in a search for an overall definition.
Expats intend to stay in their new country for a limited period. This goes back to the days when expats were skilled professionals, usually from large multinationals, sent abroad on temporary assignments. Their dependants were also included. The problem is that, while these overseas postings still exist, this definition covers many other people.
Who of the following are expats? An American diplomat stationed in Ghana. A Ukrainian plumber working in London. A German businesswoman living in Shanghai. An Ethiopian medical student refining her skills at a hospital in France. A Syrian professor working in Italy as a janitor, longing to return to his war-torn homeland once it becomes safe again.
As this blog postExternal link, which originally asked that question, points out, the above definition would say all of them; most people would not agree. What's more, by this definition people who retire abroad cannot be expats (unless you stretch "limited" to mean "until death"). The British media would have to come up with another term for the 300,000 or so Brits who live in SpainExternal link, a third of whom are pensioners, all of whom are concerned about how Brexit will affect their rights. What will happen to these Brexpats?
Expats have a certain level of income/education. Or they do certain jobs. Does the colour of your collar (white versus blue) affect your expat status? Can a well-qualified, well-educated person who does a menial job, such as the Syrian professor working in Italy as a janitor, be considered an expat?
The HSBC Expat Explorer survey for 2015 looked at expats in 39 countries and found that while they earned on average $180,000 (CHF182,300) a year, in Switzerland the figure was $200,000. This doesn't necessarily mean you can't be a poor or even unemployed expat, but money appears to play a role.
And let's ignore émigrés. Tempted as I am to refer to myself by a word which, according to Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage, "carries connotations of intellectual or artistic sophistication", the linguistic divisions are already confusing enough.
Expats are white. Forget about white collar, how about white skin? Let's tip-toe through a politically correct minefield.
White people are expats and everyone else is an immigrant, argue some peopleExternal link. This is based on the view that expattery is an Anglo-Saxon phenomenon and a colonial hangover from the days when the English upper-middle classes were disseminated around the Empire (and Switzerland!). Expat hotbeds included Africa, India and Hong Kong, where affluent Brits enjoyed "expat life" in "expat communities".
The Empire might have disintegrated, but the cultural connotations linked to expats appear to be going strong. As the author of the previous link comments: "Top African professionals going to work in Europe are not considered expats. They are immigrants. Period."
An Expat Typology
The annual InterNations Expat Insider surveyExternal link identifies ten common types of expatriates.
The "traditional expats", i.e. foreign assignees and the expat (travelling) spouses, are only two of them and make up just a fifth of the survey participants.
Others include, for example, one in ten who searched for and found a job abroad on their own, 8% of romantics who move to join their partner in their home country, 7% of former students who came for an education and stayed for a job, 18% of adventurers who simply enjoy living abroad and were looking for a personal challenge.
(Source: InterNations)
Then there is the issue of shades of white. If one judges that Africans or Asians do not qualify for expat status, how about eastern Europeans or olive-skinned Italians or Spaniards, for example? Or for that matter a non-white Brit working in the US? If nothing else, these questions strengthen the argument for dropping the term expat.
But even snow-white continental Europeans don't make it into the expat club for some sections of the British media, which refer to Brits in Paris as expats but French people in London as immigrantsExternal link.
Expats move down in the world, immigrants move up. According to this interesting theory, which also has imperial overtones, whether you are an expat or an immigrant depends on the relationship between the country you have left and the country you are in. If you "upgrade" countries, you are an immigrant; if you "downgrade", you are an expat.
While this argument has a superficial appeal, it is quickly refuted by Switzerland, recently named the best country in the world. It would thus be impossible to downgrade to Switzerland, which consequently would be expat-free (it certainly isn't).
In addition, one of the ten types of expat in the InterNations Expat Insider surveyExternal link is the Greener Pastures Expat, who is "looking for a better quality of life".
Expats don't hold a passport of the resident country. The Swiss resident population is 8.3 million. How many Swiss citizens live abroad? If you said 775,000, give yourself an expat on the back. Of these, three-quarters hold dual nationality – are they expats? Most people would say no because a passport is, among other things, usually a sign of integration and…
Expats make no effort to integrate. They don't learn the language or socialise with the locals. This again goes back to colonial Brits whose only interaction with the local population was hiring them as domestic staff. Expats basically live the lifestyle of their own country while living in someone else's country, and you need to be rich to do that. Especially in Switzerland.
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Expats stay by choice rather than necessity. InterNations acknowledges that while the "types of expatriates and the reasons behind their decisions to move abroad are as diverse as the countries they are coming from and moving to, usually though, it is true that for the people we call expats, living abroad is a lifestyle choice rather than born out of economic necessity or dire circumstances in their home countries, such as oppression or persecution".
That, InterNations concludes, is what differentiates them from refugees or economic migrants, and not their income or their origin.
You might agree or disagree with these statements, but is there actually any point in using – let alone defining – the term "expat"?
On the one hand, it has no legal meaning. There is no such thing as an "illegal expat" and no one would describe themselves as a "second-generation expat". It also enforces social divisions without bringing any noticeable benefits.
On the other, it is a short, headline-friendly word that the media, especially in Britain, will continue to use, so it is practical to agree on what we are talking about. The concept is slowly entering other languagesExternal link, even if a convincing, unequivocal definition remains a work in progress.
So who is an expat? Well, I know one when I see one.
Are you an expat? Why? What connotations does the word have for you? Should the media stop using the term and refer simply to migrants? Let us know in the comments below.
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We're told, for instance, that 'According to well-placed sources, Russia has as many as 200 case officers in the UK, handling upwards of 500 agents.' But how well-placed are they? We don't know. Besides, we're also told that in the Cold War there were only 39 Soviet case officers operating in the UK, and that the Russian embassy in London nowadays is 56 strong. There's also the Russian Trade Delegation and Rossotrudnichestvo, but even if every single Russian official in London is a spy, it's hard to see where the 200 are going to come from. One feels that there's some threat inflation going on here.
The report's author, Andrew Foxall, notes that there are 150,000 Russians living in the UK. Up to half of these may be 'informants', he says. That's 75,000 Russians consciously working for their country's intelligence agencies, an extraordinary figure. This claim seems designed to blacken the reputation of an entire community. And yet Foxall produces no evidence to support it. If I was a Russian living in Britain, I'd be more than a little aggrieved.


The civil war in Syria has ravaged the country for two years. The UN reports that, since March 2011, 70,000 civilians have been killed in the war. In addition, out of a population of 22 million, 4 million have been forced out of their homes and another million have fled the country. Rebels have recently made gains in the southern part of the country, but the government remains in control in most of the major cities, including Damascus. Small gains by the anti-Assad forces are steadily accumulating, as the U.N. holds secret negotiations for a post-Assad Syria. However, some commentators see the lack of direct intervention in the conflict as a sign that the there is no end to the war in sight. As the conflict spreads beyond its borders, some see Lebanon as the country most likely to become entangled in it. Both nations gained independence from France after World War II, and they've have had an uneasy relationship ever since.
Two weeks ago, Syria made an air strike on rebels taking refuge in a border in Lebanon, an attack that received condemnation from the State Department. Foreign policy correspondent Conn Halinan, citing As-Safir, an Arabic newspaper in Lebanon, writes how Qatar and Saudi Arabia each vied for their candidate to be the head of the Syrian National Coalition (the main opposition group) and Qatar won.
Ghassan Hitto, an American citizen, is the newly appointed opposition Prime Minster. Sheikh Ahmad Moaz al-Khatib, the most popular opposition leader, quit recently in protest, to the surprise of many Coalition leaders. But the interests of these two monarchies are just a microcosm of the more elaborate scheming amidst pro-Assad nations (China, Russia, Iran, Iraq), the West, and its allies.
Russia and China's vetoes in the Security Council aren't preventing a more direct form of intervention. The chance of an invasion by Turkey, a member of NATO, which serves a similar purpose to the U.S. as one of Dennis Hopper's gawky henchmen in Blue Velvet- remains possible but unlikely. Western apprehension towards more direct forms of intervention in the region revolves around a fear of what will happen once Assad is overthrown, a fear that the region will become even more unstable than it already is. Although the U.S. is still calling the shots, so to speak, it doesn't have the influence that it used to. An empire in decline will not, naturally, be able to assert its power as much. The tumultuous happenings in the Arab world, in part, reflect that.
Allegations surrounding a chemical attack in the country have caused some controversy. The New York Times reports that the Russian envoy from the U.N., Vitaly I. Churkin, compared Western demands for investigation into the use of chemical weapons to the inspections in Iraq ten years ago. Like Assad, the Russians know that the U.S. is full of it. Why trust them anyway? To cope with both the freezing climate of their country and the coldness in their communist hearts, Russians drink excessive amounts of vodka because they hate liberty. Unless the Syrian government felt like testing out its chemical weapons on its own forces –Syrian soldiers were amongst the dead –it is clear that rebels were responsible. Yet the only reason the supposed chemical attack has received so much publicity is simple: to justify further intervention.
With roughly 3,500 tons of weapons sent to rebels, the U.S. is fighting a covert war in Syria. With Egypt and Libya, Gaddafi and Mumbarak were not denounced by the U.S. until they were overthrown. Although the standard strategy entails supporting the dictator until he is overthrown, then telling everyone how much we love freedom, the situation in Syria is different. Some analysts believe that the West's indirect involvement in the conflict reveals that they are afraid of who might come to power next. Assad's regime, unlike Qadafi's (whose son received a PhD from LSE and who received praise from slick Harvard intellectuals), is not too chummy with the West. Assad has not been the most obedient dictator but, until recently, he has played along with the West. When the U.S. responded to Assad's "I'm not a puppet" speech by saying that he was "detached from reality," it became clear that he was just another teenager being yelled at by his parents for hitting the bong too hard. If Assad was truly that radical, he wouldn't be in power. At this point, it's no longer a question of whether he will stay in power, but more a question of whether he will make it out alive. Either way, the immediate future of Syria looks grim.


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Democrat delegates say they're delighted to be a part of U.S. history as Clinton becomes the first major party female presidential contender. Paul Chapman reports.
It's been a long time coming but the nomination of a woman as U.S. presidential contender for a major party has delighted delegates at the Democratic National Convention. Win or lose, Hillary Clinton's nomination for November's presidential election is a first in U.S. history. (SOUNDBITE)(English) JENNIFER WEBB COOK, DELEGATE, SAYING: "To go from an African-American to a female president, that's just...you know, this shows my grand-daughters that they can be president too." (SOUNDBITE)(English) LARRY SABADO, POLITICAL SCIENTIST, SAYING: "Whether you're for or against her you can take a moment and celebrate a woman has been nominated for president for a major party candidate." (SOUNDBITE)(English) DONNA WEST, DELEGATE, SAYING: "I was with Hillary Clinton in 2008 when she ran and of course disappointed but I went to work for President Obama, but have been waiting this whole time for her." Clinton's nomination is a milestone in America's 240-year history. Supporters say her Washington credentials show she has the experience needed for the White House in troubled times. Senator Tim Kaine's the Democratic nominee for vice-president.


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KABUL – Election workers began recounting ballots from the disputed Aug. 20 presidential election Monday, and a senior official said he expected to announce late next week whether President Hamid Karzai had won or would face a runoff with his main rival.
A U.N.-backed commission ordered a partial recount from about 10 percent of the country's polling stations after allegations of widespread fraud in the vote, which was supposed to install a legitimate government to confront the growing Taliban threat.
However, vote-rigging allegations have plunged Afghanistan into an electoral crisis at a time when Taliban militants are expanding from their southern strongholds into the north and west of the country.
In a sign of the growing threat, hundreds of militants launched fierce attacks Saturday against two isolated outposts in Nuristan province, killing eight American soldiers in the biggest loss of U.S. life in a single battle in more than a year.
Afghan officials said U.S. and Afghan forces had sealed off an area Monday where the assailants were believed hiding.
In Kabul, election officials said the recount began Monday morning with ballots from 274 of the country's 3,498 polling stations. Ballots from about 84 more locations were expected shortly, according to the deputy director of the election commission, Zekria Barakzai.
Preliminary results released last month showed Karzai won the August balloting with 54.6 percent, enough to avoid a runoff with second place finisher Abdullah Abdullah. A recount could push down Karzai's numbers down below the 50 percent mark and force a runoff with Abdullah, a former foreign minister.
If a runoff were required, Barakzai said it must be held within two to three weeks of the announcement of the final results. Winter snows typically start in mid-November, making much of the country impassable.
Waiting for spring to hold the poll could create a power vacuum in a country already destabilized by the resurgent Taliban and delay both government projects and military operations.
Bolstering Afghanistan's weak and corruption-ridden government is considered key to President Barack Obama's strategy for curbing the Taliban insurgency so that U.S. and other international troops can go home.
However, fraud allegations threatened to undermine those plans at a time when the Taliban was proving to be a skillful and determined adversary.
The Obama administration is also divided over a request by the top military commander here, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, to send up to 40,000 more U.S. soldiers to Afghanistan. Obama is considering a range of ideas for changing course in Afghanistan, including scaling back, staying put or sending more troops to fight the insurgency.
U.S. officials also are waiting for the results of the Afghan elections, as disturbing reports of fraud grow.
As the debate rages in Washington, the NATO command reported that two more international soldiers, including one American, were killed in recent fighting. A statement from the alliance said a U.S. soldier died of wounds suffered in a bombing Sunday in southern Afghanistan.
The statement said a second service member died of wounds in a roadside bombing Monday, also in the south, but the victim's nationality was not released.
At least 16 U.S. service members have been killed in Afghanistan so far this month – matching the American death toll for all of October in 2008.
The latest deaths followed the fierce weekend assault against the Nuristan outposts, located about 20 miles (30 kilometers) from the border with Pakistan. About 20 Afghan security troopers were captured, officials said.
Nuristan Gov. Jamaludin Badar told The Associated Press that U.S. and Afghan forces had surrounded the assailants but there was no major fighting Monday.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. NATO spokesman Brig. Gen. Eric Tremblay said the assailants included a mix of "tribal militias," Taliban and fighters loyal to Sirajuddin Haqqani, an al-Qaida-linked militant based in sanctuaries in the tribal areas of Pakistan near the Afghan border.
McChrystal had planned to shift U.S. troops away from remote outposts that are difficult to defend and move them into more heavily populated areas as part of his new strategy to focus on protecting Afghan civilians.


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There was a time when the primary goal of a document management solution (DMS) was to convert paper to digital and onboard that content to be managed with electronic records management capabilities such as indexing, classification, retention and disposition. Today, organizations need to onboard and manage not just paper, but multi-channel digital content as well. Let's take a look at the channels of content that are literally creating an ocean of data that most organizations today find themselves drowning in.
Let's first discuss the explosive growth of digital content. EMC predicts the digital universe will grow from 4.4 zettabytes in 2013 to 44 zettabytes by 2020. Contributing to the growth of the digital universe are new sources of content such as instant messages, social media, enterprise mobility and the internet of things. In addition to these new sources of digital content, email continues to show steady growth.
And while organizations are adjusting to the rapid expansion of the digital universe, the reality is that paper still abounds. In AIIM's most recent market intelligence study titled "Paper-Free Progress: Measuring the Outcomes", 52 percent of the respondents indicated paper consumption in their organization remains the same or is increasing. InfoTrends 2015 forecast for 2016 and 2017 reveals paper consumption will remain the same or increase for 70 percent of organizations. Printers remain an office staple for most businesses and according to Gartner there is an installed base of over 63 million multi-function peripherals (MFPs) in the United States alone that are contributing to the proliferation of paper.
Some organizations still have a strong dependence on FAX, though not the antiquated FAX machine but rather FAX servers that are used for select vertical applications. Two prime industry examples are healthcare, which uses FAX to exchange personal health information with other providers to ensure compliance with HIPAA privacy guidelines, and legal, which prefers the automated confirmation receipt of a FAX versus email where the recipient can choose to not send a read-receipt. Business communications done via FAX need to be brought under the control of DMS.
Another channel of content is often stored in aging line of business applications (LOB), where there is still a value proposition for the data but it is costly to maintain the legacy systems and applications.
Another source of valued content is data stored in legacy DMS. AIIM's most recent market intelligence report titled "Information Management—State of the Industry 2016" found that more than half of organizations admit to having 3 or more DMS and nearly a quarter have five or more. Many of these DMS have been commissioned for 2 or 3 decades and can no longer keep pace with the growing volume and variety of content. Some of these systems may need to be decommissioned but the data still needs to be preserved.
These growing channels of content have created a huge challenge for any leading edge DMS. Over the next twelve months, any viable DMS will need to be able to onboard all of this multi-channel content so that it can be effectively managed, stored, secured, analyzed and delivered.
In recent years the term that has been adopted for this onboarding process is "capture." Capture is a combination of hardware and software—dedicated document imaging scanners, MFPs, and recognition software such as OCR, ICR, and OMR. Going forward, capture will need to onboard all this multi-channel content and orchestrate the delivery of the right content in the right format to the right people, processes, and systems. Capture's role will be expanded to include determining content relevance, ensuring content integrity and ensuring content security.
Let's explore just a few of the key capabilities CIOs should be looking for in the next generation of capture. First, capture must be content agnostic—it needs to be able to onboard paper, electronic, FAX, email, instant messages, and social media.
Next, capture should be integrated with analytics that can explore and evaluate the organization's vast repositories of data, including those aging line of business applications and legacy document management solutions. Analytics are crucial to identify and onboard relevant and valued content and eliminate the ROT—the redundant, obsolete and trivial content. Relevant content should be automatically classified and assigned the appropriate retention and disposition schedules.
Lastly, capture should also manage security—it should identify if there is confidential information that should be redacted or encrypted, and the appropriate security privileges should be automatically assigned to that content.
So what are the benefits of a DMS solution with this type of capture capability? The most critical will be enhanced accessibility and usability of data to ensure business process agility—getting the right content to the right people and processes. This will include connecting the content to the appropriate line of business applications such as ERP, CRM, HRMS, and accounting systems. Relevant content that is accurately and securely classified will also substantially reduce the cost of discovery for litigation and compliance. And finally, having this type of capture capability will ensure the availability of the right information to support the organization's business intelligence or big data initiatives.