The familiar lyrics of one of Northern Ireland's football anthems may be for many the limits of their knowledge of all things Brazilian but for Wallace pupils the land of Pele and the Rio Olympics has taken on a new identity thanks to a recent visitor.
The school was delighted to welcome former pupil Naomi Keefe to speak at a special assembly for sixth form; she also taught a number of junior RE classes. Naomi was a classmate of Vice Principal David Cleland although, by his own admission, she may have been the more earnest student. After graduation Naomi taught Biology for 6 years in Hunter House College but drawn to full time Christian service she took a career break to volunteer in the Vale of the Lord Orphanage in Recife for 2 years. Returning to Northern Ireland she completed post -graduate study in Theology at Queen's University and returned to Brazil. From 2005 to 2011 she worked with the Casa Carada congregation and since 2012 she has lived in the favelas ( slum areas) of Olinda with the Peixinhos congregation of the Presbyterian Church of Brazil.
Both junior and senior pupils were moved by the presentations which showed in graphic detail the huge gaps between rich and poor in Brazil. Most startling of all perhaps was the fact that only a couple of miles separates the favelas from the most luxurious of seafront apartments. Naomi, in common with the church staff of the congregation, is seeking to help the poor and marginalised by sharing the good news of Jesus with them. Her pictures of her own home in the slums left the pupils in amazed silence whilst another slide showing levels of river pollution indicated clearly the nature of slum life. Daily hardships include a lack of running water and intermittent power supply.
Much of Naomi's work is related to education as she is involved in producing materials for families at risk, in promoting a literacy project ( the reading room) and in sports evangelism projects. Young people who are supported through the church's projects are involved in accredited courses in diverse areas such as web design and health and beauty. Kumon Mathematics courses which usually last a year are also financed through the project.


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The Kerala State Council for Science Technology and Environment (KSCSTE) has joined hands with the Calicut University in preparing for the upcoming Kerala Science Congress to be held in Wayanad in January.
A meeting, attended by KSCSTE executive vice-president V. N. Rajasekharan Pillai, Calicut University Vice-Chancellor Abdul Salam, Science Congress convener Prof. George Varghese and the principals of colleges under the university, discussed the organisation and strategies for the event.
A press release said here that the 26th edition of the Kerala Science Congress will be held in Kalpetta, Wayanad, from January 28-31, 2014. The Wayanad-based Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University is hosting the three-day event.
"Calicut University has pledged its full support to KSCSTE for organising the programme. We hope to make the Kerala Science Congress one of the biggest events of the year in north Kerala," said Prof Rajasekharan Pillai, who is in Kozhikode to coordinate preparations for the event.
Calicut University Pro Vice-Chancellor Raveendranath and former Registrar M.V. Joseph were present at the meeting which reviewed the various committees constituted for the science congress.


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Lift review: Kavin starrer is a refreshing horror movie on the corporate trap
Lift movie review: The most terrifying idea in Lift is not the vengeful ghost in the office but the corporate office itself. Vineeth wants to talk about a toxic work culture that treats employees like commodities and discards them after use.
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Bengaluru | Updated: October 2, 2021 09:03 IST
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Debutant director Vineeth Varaprasad's movie Lift is not your usual jump-scare fest, filled with paranormal activities and screams that we have come to associate with Tamil movies. With its premise of a haunted lift and a deeper subtext, it aims to step past the low expectations we have from the genre. In a market that is overcrowded with uninspired and unoriginal horror-comedies, Lift feels like a breath of fresh air, mostly because it makes you feel claustrophobic a number of times.
We meet Guru (Kavin), a sharply-dressed young man, who walks into a multi-storey office building with just one elevator service. It is his first day at the company's Chennai office. He has been transferred here from Bengaluru. The office HR is a single, good-looking girl named Harini. It is a perfect recipe for an office romance but one with an asterisk. Guru and Harini share a troubled history. The hero may have acted in a somewhat unkind and arrogant way when he met the heroine in the past. But, instead of finding him repulsive, Harini finds herself attracted to Guru. She even professes her feelings for him on the same day. If it seems she is running out of time, that is because she is.
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Guru is asked by his company VP to go through a client's file, which requires him to stay back in the office and work late. Everyone leaves, leaving just him in the office. What about the building security you ask? Vineeth takes care of them in the narrative.
Back to Guru. He is alone, finishing up his work. And things begin to happen and it gets a little bumpy. He packs up and leaves the office. He gets to the basement but can't find his way out. Things start getting spooky. He soon realises that he forgot his phone on the desk. Ah, the wicked bait to reel him again into the building? You wish he would make a smart choice and decide to collect his phone tomorrow. But, you know what they say, "A day without a smartphone is a day wasted." He goes back in and soon he realises he can never get out.
What's more, Guru also finds Harini in the office. She fell unconscious in the document room and somebody locked her in it. At least there is a silver lining to Guru's predicament now. Applying Albert Einstein's theory of relativity to the situation, Guru's night long stay in the office must seem shorter given that he's sitting with a pretty girl. It would have been a rather enjoyable ordeal, if not for the ghost.
Guru and Harini are now being chased by the ghost across the floors. Will they get out of the building alive or end up in body bags?
The #Lift doors are now open, neenga ready a? #Lift now streaming only on #DisneyPlusHotstarMultiplex #LiftOnHotstar
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The most terrifying idea in the movie is not the vengeful ghost in the office but the corporate office itself. Vineeth wants to talk about a toxic work culture that treats employees like commodities and discards them. The film points at a deep malaise in society. Unfortunately, the idea of corporate enslavement only feels like a footnote to a long prologue.
The film would have been more effective had Vineeth managed to blend the feeling of job trap into the narrative. The building as a metaphor for the corporate trap should have been established from the very beginning.
Nonetheless, Vineeth manages to fashion a tense atmosphere and keeps us hooked to the narrative with some clever ideas like "Penrose stairs." The employees can run up and down forever but they can never rise above their allotted levels. Or no matter what number Guru or Harini press on the lift, it is the almighty lift (read company) that decides, which level they should go. Guru and Harini have no choice but to obey.
Vineeth also has a good visual style. Towards the climax, he creates a cool moment for Kavin to channel in his inner Vijay.
Lift is streaming on Disney Plus Hotstar.
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The Bank of Japan and Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda have been pressured to take action amid the coronavirus crisis, but few policy options appear to be left after having taken ultra-loose monetary measures since spring 2013. | BLOOMBERG
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Market participants have started to prod the Bank of Japan to take action as the world's third-largest economy is certain to suffer serious setbacks amid the coronavirus outbreak.
But the central bank is likely to struggle to map out effective steps to grapple with the adverse effects of the novel virus's spread after years of drastic monetary easing that has failed to bolster the economy and achieve its goal of 2 percent inflation.
With fears escalating about a global pandemic, financial markets are reeling. On Monday, the benchmark Nikkei 225 average plummeted over 1,000 points, or more than 5 percent, and the dollar briefly fell to its lowest level since November 2016 against the safe-haven yen.
A plunge in Tokyo stocks is expected to blur the outlook for the nation's economy as well as damage business and consumer sentiment at home, while the yen's sharp appreciation may drag down the nation's exports, a key driver of economic growth.
Many smaller companies in the tourism, retail and other services sectors have encountered bankruptcy risks as the epidemic disrupts supply chains and decreases the number of visitors to Japan from China.
Global spread of virus means China's factories will get hit again
Nikkei slips below 19,000 for first time since 2018 as rout continues
Some analysts warn the economy may be hit harder by the coronavirus than by the 2008 global financial crisis or the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake that triggered the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
As infection cases rise in Japan, "more firms could unnecessarily go bankrupt ahead," a credit dealer at Mizuho Securities Co. said. "The BOJ should act soon."
Following the consumption tax hike last October, the economy shrank an annualized real 7.1 percent in the three months through December, its sharpest slide in more than five years.
Meanwhile, the diffusion index in February for sentiment among "economy watchers" — those with jobs sensitive to economic trends, including taxi drivers and restaurant staff — dove 14.5 points from January to 27.4, its worst level in about nine years, the Cabinet Office said.
"A possible downturn in corporate profits would reduce payments of workers, weighing on domestic demand additionally," said Shunsuke Kobayashi, a senior economist at the Daiwa Institute of Research. "We can't help but say that the possibility is increasing that the growth of the Japanese economy will lose momentum in the medium term."
The U.S. Federal Reserve last week conducted its first emergency interest rate cut since the global financial crisis, following an urgent conference call among finance chiefs from the Group of Seven industrialized countries on March 3.
The European Central Bank is also set to lower its deposit rate, charged on commercial bank deposits at the bank, to minus 0.5 percent from minus 0.6 percent on Thursday. The Reserve Bank of Australia has cut interest rates to a record low 0.5 percent.
Senior officials of the BOJ, the Finance Ministry and the Financial Services Agency gathered Monday to discuss how to tackle the yen's rise, which usually dampens exports by making Japanese products more expensive abroad and eroding overseas revenue in yen terms.
The BOJ, however, has few policy weapons left in its arsenal to alleviate market volatility, given that it has carried out what Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda calls monetary easing of a "different dimension" since he took office in early 2013.
The BOJ already owns around 50 percent of outstanding Japanese government bonds of about ¥1 quadrillion ($9.73 trillion), while pledging to buy ¥80 trillion of them per year.
Further cuts in the negative interest rate of minus 0.1 percent, which have pushed down longer-term interest rates for years, are expected to snap the profitability of the banking sector and hurt returns for insurers and pensions of private companies.
Earlier this month, Kuroda said in an emergency statement that the BOJ will make every effort to ensure financial market stability. Afterward, the yen fell and Tokyo shares rebounded, but the impact of what investors called his "verbal intervention" was limited.
"The BOJ is in a plight" as it has been urged by other major central banks to take "coordinated action," said Yuichi Kodama, chief economist at Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co.
"Even if the BOJ dares to deepen the negative interest rate further, it might be forced to implement measures to ease the side effects of possible excessive declines in long-term interest rates," he said. "BOJ policy could become more complicated."
The bank is scheduled to hold a two-day policy meeting starting March 18, where it is expected to expand its lending program for private banks in a bid to prevent smaller firms from facing difficulties raising funds.
Some economists also say the bank may decide to boost purchases of exchange traded funds to make financial market conditions more accommodating.
"A large number of market participants believe that the interest rate gaps between Japan and other nations will narrow down the road. Now is a good time to buy the yen," a foreign exchange trader at a Japanese security firm said.
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Music is often considered to be a hobby in catholic community but only a few consider it as a passion and pursue their career in it. One father in the city had a dream and has motivated his son to not only play two instruments at a time but also be a part of the World Cultural festival held in Delhi in the year 2016.
It is the tale of Reuben Machado who hails from Derebail and considers his dad as his inspiration. Unlike his catholic musicians who traditionally go with guitar, keyboard or drums Reuben chose mouth organ and flute as his favorite instruments.
As the conversation continued, Reuban also shared the moment which made him play two instruments at the same time. "When I was doing my graduation at Padua College, we received an invite from one of the colleges about their fest. One of the events was named 'five minutes to glory', where one could do anything to entertain the audience and take away the prize. It was my father's suggestion to play both the guitar and mouth organ simultaneously as I was good at both. So when I thought of trying it, it was inconvenient to play the mouth organ without the mouth organ stand when I was already engaged with guitar. We searched for the stand but it was unavailable in the local market. So using an aluminum wire I made a stand and performed in the event, 'five minutes to glory'. The rest is history as I won that event and I've played this way in many occasions."
When asked about his intention to show keen interest in flute, Reuben's father Richard Machado, who is a musician by himself noted that he wanted his son to be unique and advised him to be an inspiration to many as there are many other musical instruments like flute which have been untouched by the kids of the community.
"Reuben is also an excellent videographer apart from being a photographer. I take him along with me when we have to capture the mass and he handles it brilliantly", Richard Machado says very proudly.
When asked about his ultimate aim, Reuben who is also a vocalist in Carnatic music says that he wants to play with eminent flutist Praveen Godkindi who is Reuben's inspiration in Flute.
Reuben is also known for his contribution in Padua Ranga Adhyayana Kendra as the musician.
Reuben is a star in the making and it is the duty of each one of us to congratulate and encourage this talented yet humble lad to achieve many more heights in the musical field and his life.
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My girlfriend Nadia had her baby shower last weekend, and since I can't really contribute when it comes to anything crafty, I was told to bring a surplus of salt river bars and my camera. Done! I love being dubbed 'camera woman' at stuff like this, especially when the guest of honor is this cute and the party this elaborate. (Go Caitlin!) Nadia, I can't wait to see your little Miss-- she is going to be undeniably cute, there's just no way around it.
ah what a darling party! you are so great on a camera :) I am so excited for nadia! what a cute party!
That might just be the cutest baby shower ever!
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The good news is that there are a lot of 3rd party tools and integrations that make this simple micro-blogging site a great tool for brand awareness and traffic generator.
The bad news is that because it's so easy, there is a ton of noise, and the level of engagement is skin deep at best.
But… I've found a way to combat this problem and get real engagement and growth on your Twitter account. I've done it for my clients and my own business. Most recently I stopped neglecting my personal accounts and now use this strategy myself.
It requires being genuine, helpful, and responsive. So… Are you game?
The first thing I like to remind people of when speaking (or writing) about social media is that it's not about broadcasting your message.
Social Media is word of mouth marketing… online.
Think about Twitter like a giant, never ending, networking event, where you occasionally bump into and meet new people, listen to their advice, share your own, and oftentimes, move on to a different conversation.
And just like any networking event, you will notice too many people are talking about themselves.
It's a surefire way to get no one to like you.
Just like a suave pick-up artist dazzling a young lady at a nightclub, you need to talk about them.
And, oh yeah, users, leads, and sales.
I believe the main reason most businesses fail to get the social media traction they are looking for is because they fail to listen to their audience, talk about their audience, and respond to their audience. You need to be a servant to your audience and save the "me" for another place, and another time.
Now, if you've got a baseline on the best practice for engagement on social media, you need to simply follow this ongoing process to start growing your Twitter account.
Obviously you can't drive much traffic from an account with zero followers, so you need to work hard to get your Twitter account moving in the right direction.
Start by identifying your industry as a whole, all of the players in your space, or related spaces, and what types of content you believe will resonate with THE INFLUENCERS of your target buyers.
Yes… you don't need to address your target buyers directly just yet.
What you really care about is: Who on Twitter has the largest accounts that contain the highest concentration of your prospective audience.
What content do they typically share – what sources do they get this content from.
What types of influencers are you more likely to connect with? Can you get one retweet from a 100,000 follower account or 10 retweets from 10 10,000 follower accounts.
You, of course, also want to target and follow your main target market, but don't start with just anyone. Choose profiles with activity, a reasonable follower count – where reasonable is most likely under 5,000, or simply within 15% of your account size.
And be weary of poor English speakers, overly attractive women, and accounts that follow right around 1,000 people. All of those accounts could easily be bots or spam.
Set up an auto-mention campaign. We use Audiense (formerly SocialBro) for this, but there are other services that can do this for you.
Can you tell when we started our auto-mention campaign? Right around the middle of June.
People get offended that you are "automated" – This couldn't be further from the truth. Some people don't know, but most understand that it probably was auto-generated and STILL respond.
It comes down to the quality of the question (yes, question) you are asking. Have you ever noticed that every great conversation starts with a great question? Why would it be any different in this giant tub of a networking event?
You will get blocked, reported or unfollowed – No, you actually get likes, shares, and responses at an alarmingly higher rate. We found the number of pissed off people to be about 1/1000. But our engagement rate goes up by 258%.
What if it goes wrong and does something embarrassing – Yes, automated responses can go wrong, but not if you follow this exact twitter growth hacking strategy that I've painstakingly vetted and tested. Every once in a while you send someone 2 or 3 tweets in a row, but that is because they are using some sort of automation tool too (and usually they unfollow you then re-follow… when that happens it gets a little buggy).
In general, you are looking at well over a 99% success rate on using auto-mentions to grow an account, when done right. So why not?
Only message people when they follow you.
Target the message based on the words in their bio (this is easily done within Audiense's rule builder).
Either ask them a question, or send them to a very good piece of content (that isn't trying to sell them anything). Or both.
And obviously your content and question strategy is directly derived from the research you did in step 1, whilst identifying your influencers.
Test various messages and questions to see how people are responding. Change them every month or two, and keep responding to engagements. This strategy really works, so long as there is a real person behind the account.
The truth about Twitter growth is, you don't ever have to write one Tweet yourself and can get 10,000 followers in a few weeks. Just ask Vic Maine, who specializes in building hyper-targeted Twitter accounts really fast.
And no, he's not buying fake followers (never do this, NEVER EVER DO THIS), he is simply exploiting a few of Twitters greatest features to the 99th degree.
So, content curation, what does that look like? You can use a few different apps, like Hootsuite, Meet Edgar, Buffer, or Klout. It really depends on your own preference.
Here's what we've set up. It's not for everyone, but you may be able to do the same.
Our team is frequently out on the web reading great content from sources like Neil Patel and Rand Fishkin. When we stumble across a great piece of content we "flip" it into our own Flipboard magazine.
After you install the Flipboard Chrome plugin, you simply hit the button in the top right any time you read a post that you think your audience will be interested in. It gets added to your magazine.
We keep our main magazine public, but have other magazines that are completely private solely for keeping curated content in one easy to find place.
We used to do this step ourselves, but we build a process and now let our VA handle it for $4/hr.
What you do is scrape all content in your Flipboard magazine and import it into Meet Edgar.
Use the original headlines and images when possible. It only takes a couple of minutes per post, so our VA can spend about 4 hours a week adding 50 or so new posts to our content recycler, that gets us roughly 8 posts a day of new content, and after a couple of weeks, you can have 8 posts a day of old content as well.
Want the exact automated process we use with our VA? You can have it here, free and ungated. Feel free to make your own copy and remove the parts that might not apply to you.
As content starts piling up, you need to do an audit of your curated contents performance. This should be handled in Meet Edgar. You can see how many times a piece of content has been posted/re-posted and the aggregate amount of likes and shares of that content.
Start by removing all content that was "seasonal." This could be anything from "Your Goals of 2016" to some trendy topic that has recently died down. You could also consider avoiding seasonal content all together when curating content as that will save time with the auditing process.
Next, look for content that has been posted over 5 times, but seems to be getting poor engagement. Shave off the bottom 20%-40% of your posts in this fashion on a monthly basis.
This is an ongoing process that is necessary for pleasing your audience. It's hard to tell when your content gets stale, and you will not likely attribute it to that old article you keep re-posting… So stay on top of it. Audit your account monthly (if you are going to use this strategy), or hire someone to do it for you.
Start with unfollowing. You should use a tool like Audiense or Twitter Unfollow to mass unfollow anyone who you've followed 2+ days ago, and they haven't followed you back.
If you're using Audiense, you can get a little bit more advanced. You can bring in and analyze a 3rd party account, sort by key metrics, such as a word in their bio, influence, how many followers someone has, and follow everyone that is following this account.
On the left in the image above, we have all the options to decide which accounts we want to focus our follows on and which ones aren't worth the tie.
For example, Neil Patel has a wealth of Twitter followers. We analyzed his account and started following all of his followers that had "entrepreneur" in their bio.
You can also follow anyone that the influencer is following, as those are likely respectable sources.
Make sure you don't follow or unfollows too many people each day, as Twitter has placed limits on your follow/unfollows rate and may temporarily ban your account if you frequently hit their limits.
The easiest way to find the right people to follow is simply doing a hashtag search. It's simple, but if you're new, it will get the job done.
Following your target users, and their influencers can very quickly get you some of that initial growth that you are looking for, especially when you hit them with an auto-mention when they follow you back.
For deeper engagement, follow and like a recent tweet of theirs, maybe even retweet something from them. It will increase your follow back rate (I'm fairly sure of that but don't have any data).
Ramp up. The growth of your Twitter account will always be directly tied to the frequency of your posts. The more you post, the more exposure you get and the faster you grow. Being hyper active on Twitter is not going to annoy people, because, well, there's already a lot of noise.
In the time it takes me to respond to a Tweet I will receive 2,206 new Tweets. I'm obviously not going to read them all, and neither will your followers. So when it comes to a posting schedule on Twitter, the sky is the limit.
Guy Kawasaki (1.47 Million followers) posts every two minutes or more and says if you are not reposting your content 3 times a day, you are missing opportunities to engage different audiences.
Think of your account as your own personally curated newsfeed. What would people in your industry want to see? What expert advice, breaking news, or cool statistics can you give them (either from your own content, or someone else's)?
Sidenote: If you really don't know what I'm talking about, then you need to start by setting up your Facebook custom audience pixel, and don't continue reading until you are done.
Retargeting recently got a whole lot cooler. Now you can retarget people that have not even visited your website, but merely clicked on a link put out on your social channels.
Here's the back-end of one of our campaigns on Retarget Links. That's 40,000 clicks on content that doesn't go to our site that would have otherwise been lost. Hey, it's not my job to drive traffic to Entrepreneur Magazine or Neil Patel's site. It's my job to drive traffic to MY site.
Using a retargeting ad strategy in conjunction with curated content is the best of both worlds.
This is the perfect addition to a strong content curation strategy.
This will 10x your pixel size – the number of people you can cheaply and easily send remarketing ads to – and open up the top of your funnel like you won't believe.
Why pixel people that haven't visited your site?
Because they clicked on a link in your post, which means they may have read your name or profile.
Because the link they clicked on was on content relevant to your industry.
Don't think it will work? Traction Conference made over $200,000 in ticket sales sending retargeting ads to people that had clicked on curated links.
Here's just a peak at their results from last year. That's a $5 CPA for a $1,000 ticket. Sound good?
Adding retargeting links to your curated content could drive massive amounts of traffic and sales your way.
Following this strategy doesn't get you 100,000 followers overnight.
In fact, the best ways to get mass amounts of followers is to guest blog for a major publication (like what John Rampton did by guest blogging for Entrepreneur), get on a popular TV show, or speak at a major conference. But those accomplishments are few and far between.
In the meantime, set up your auto-mentions, perform large scale follow/unfollows, and build out a massive library of content to curate.
After you've done this for a while, I will come back and we can talk about generating traffic and leads on Twitter.
And be warned, Twitter is talking about changing their newsfeed algorithm soon, which may have a direct effect on account growth strategies.
Many of us are expecting the same type of organic reach shrinkage that Facebook gave us a few months back. So take advantage now, because this growth strategy may not last.


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What is Focused Investing?
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If you read the mainstream media, you'll notice that there is a lot of uproar about the election, the uncertainty surrounding geopolitical issues, and the potential Fed rate hike. The mainstream media tries to explain the unfathomable: what is happening in the markets right now and how long it will stay.
But with all this noise, when you compare the market results over a long stretch of time, I mean, at some point, you'll start feeling, Does it even matter? That's when you think, "Maybe there's a lack of focus in our investing strategy."
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Focused investing is a technique in which the investor or portfolio manager exclusively makes investments in a small number of high-quality businesses that, according to careful analysis, are likely to generate respectable returns over the long term.
Many value investors favor this approach for their portfolio since it allows them to focus more on the businesses they own rather than what's outside the purview of anyone's control.
You may choose a particular set of companies or from a category of focused funds in mutual funds for your investments. If you choose a focused investment strategy and believe it is appropriate for you, then it allows you to stay passive in your approach.
Focused Investing is only possible if you are a long-term investor. You must stay invested for at least 10 to 15 years.
If you are not well versed in reading financials, understand the business. Then, It is highly suggested that you take professional help in Investing.
Focused investing is nothing but Disciplined Value Investing. It demands you to be Emotionally Mature.
Read Financials as if you own the company. As if you are the promoter who's cautious of the Management.
Do not hold more than 15 stocks in your portfolio. Diversification is good, but more than 15 stocks amount to extreme diversification and such a situation will affect your portfolio negatively.
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The anxiety that one is either ignorant of or missing out on information, occasions, experiences, or life decisions that could improve or otherwise one's attitude in life is known as "fear of missing out" (FOMO).
FOMO is also linked to a fear of regret, which can raise worries about missing out on social opportunities, new experiences, memorable occasions, or lucrative investments. It can be seen as a fear that not getting involved is the wrong choice, and it makes people want to always know what others are doing.
Nowadays, there are a lot of fake stock gurus who portray themselves as if they are the stock market genius. They lure you into handing out your hard-earned savings in hope of giving you exponential returns.
These scammers try to get hold of you via SMS, E-mail, call, and other social media networks via which they tend to advertise their products. The said product, strategy, plan or idea, or even a tool may work for a few days as intended but later, after a few days, they'll show their inefficiency.
The asset allocation choices you make, and not the time or securities selections you make, will account for the bulk of the return on your portfolio.
It is conceivable to time the market, but it is extremely difficult. Those who lack the necessary skills may be doomed if they attempt to make a timely call. For example, an investor could have earned an annualized return of around 15% just by investing in the index.
Instead, he/she chooses to time the market and miss the top 10% of the high trading days. As a result, the investor could lose over 90% of their expected earnings. Given this disparity, it's clear that trying to play the market by buying low and selling high is less effective than making steady contributions to an investment portfolio.
Timing Stock Market is Impossible! But Why?
When examining investments, a fund's performance over a single year does not offer any reliable information about its future prospects. Particularly with actively managed mutual funds, this is the case.
One-year time horizons are insufficient to assess a fund manager's capacity to manage a portfolio during an entire market cycle. This would include both expansionary and deflationary times, where both a bull and a bear market would be present.
Typically, a whole market cycle lasts three to five years. It is crucial to evaluate performance over a fund's three, five, and ten-year returns. This way, you can learn how the fund fared during the market's ups and downs. When looking at mutual funds for long-term objectives, the short term (less than three years) is not beneficial.
"What if" is a notion of regret and hope. It is where we as investors tend to be emotionally immature and try every which ways allowable in order to find the right investment. But, in doing so, we tend to switch from one investment to another without giving any thought, time, and space for our investments to grow.
Such a situation where we investors and traders tend to move from one investment to another searching for the better ones without realizing we are doing so. A "what if" notion is when we think, "What if, the other investment or trade is better than the one we now have". But, the better ones never come across and we keep changing our investments.
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You will hear more tales of failure in the stock market than of triumph. Why? Because stock market distractions cause people to get off to a bad start.
People's most frequent errors are trading in stocks under the impression that they are making an investment and vice versa. People also make mistakes when trying to buy or sell shares by anticipating future market movements. In reality, nobody is able to forecast future market trends.
What, then, is the proper stock investment strategy? The right way to invest is to find strong companies with a competitive advantage (MOAT) and buy their stock at a discount.
It can be challenging to keep from getting sidetracked by the market's background noise. The simplest strategy is to prevent yourself from reading the daily advice and following the market news. Find a method for analyzing company shares.
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Since 1989, California Progress, Inc. (CPI) has played an important role in the community of California, Missouri, with its dedication and commitment to saving historic landmarks and bringing new life to this vibrant and unique Missouri town located in the heart of Moniteau County, just 22 miles west of Jefferson City.
The non-profit (501c3) community betterment group — established by community leaders as a way to enhance and beautify the town's many special features — has earned a reputation as a model award recipient and participant in the Missouri Department of Economic Development's Neighborhood Assistance Program. Through tax credit incentives offered by the NAP program, CPI and its local contributors have accomplished a number of community betterment projects.
Today CPI's primary focus is serving as the Board of Directors and for the California Historic District, a Missouri Main Street Connection organization whose mission is "to develop economic prosperity by fostering business success, preserving and revitalizing our historic assets, and promoting tourism and pride in our local heritage for the benefit of the California Missouri community." CPI is proud and happy to be fostering progress in the community through CHD (California Historic District) by way of CHD's many events, its Farmer's Market, and community fundraisers. CPI board members also serve on the 4 CHD committees.
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Peiris: Across wide range of issues, Moe government needs to listen to experts
Saskatchewan's government has a propensity to institute policies with scant regard for forethought, consultation or expert advice.
Sarath Peiris
Nov 16, 2021 • Last Updated November 16, 2021 • 3 minute read
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe speaks at a the State of the Province Address Prairieland Park in Saskatoon, Monday, October 25, 2021. Photo by Liam Richards /The Canadian Press
Several recent moves by Premier Scott Moe's government have focused national attention on Saskatchewan in an entirely unflattering way, pointing to the folly of politicians formulating public policy based on ideology and gut instinct instead of evidence and science.
The province simply cannot afford the inevitable problems caused by this approach to governance, based on the potential long-term economic and social costs.
Never mind Moe's bizarre musings about turning Saskatchewan into a nation within the nation that have rightly invited widespread ridicule from all quarters of the country. The far bigger problem confronting Saskatchewan is its government's propensity to institute policies with scant regard for forethought, consultation or expert advice.
Consider the fiasco of the government's recent backtracking on a poorly considered Saskatchewan Income Support (SIS) program.
It barged ahead with severe modifications to the social assistance program despite justifiable cautions from staff, community agencies and even landlords about the potential mess it would create. Now, with nearly 30 per cent of the people who receive assistance either left homeless or facing eviction, the province finally has accepted the reality that was obvious from the very outset: That some people need help managing their money for various reasons, including addictions.
A charitable interpretation of the SIS program would be that it was meant to provide more independence for welfare recipients, but a far more realistic, credible assumption is that it was a crass attempt to save money and pander to those who think anyone should be able to pull themselves up by their bootstraps if provided the "right" incentives.
The same mindset seems to be behind the government's approach to an epidemic of deaths caused by tainted drugs that is projected to reach 400 by year-end. While the government has invested in more addictions treatment beds and testing equipment for harm reduction sites in Saskatoon and Regina, it has shied away from direct funding for supervised consumption facilities.
As Moe berates the federal government for its carbon pricing policies and international commitments to cap Canada's carbon emissions, the reality is that the globe is quickly reaching the point of no return on climate change that affects everyone.
While Moe may feel that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should have consulted Saskatchewan before announcing Canada's position at COP26, it should come as no surprise that Ottawa would give short shrift to a provincial government that has fought it tooth and nail on climate policies.
The fact is that Saskatchewan is among the global leaders in per capita greenhouse gas emissions, and the mitigation measures it has enacted, including carbon sequestration, fall far short of achieving what scientists around the world agree is needed to avoid disaster.
Then again, that scientific consensus is based on modelling, for which the Moe government seems to have little respect, based on its response to COVID-19.
Seemingly unable to grasp the purpose of modelling, which is not meant as a crystal ball that predicts the future but is meant to inspire changes to public behaviour that prevents a projected outcome, the government has stuck with a policy approach that has caused preventable deaths, overcrowded ICUs and left Saskatchewan's health-care system in a precarious position that includes 30,000 postponed surgeries.
The long-term cost — in both human misery and dollars — of this approach that ignored sound advice from medical experts in favour of political exigency, is nearly unfathomable.
Apart from moving to a greater reliance on services provided outside the public health system, and the additional costs incurred as a result of poor policy decisions, the rancour and social divisions caused by the government's pandering to misguided notions of "personal freedom" by refusing to mandate vaccinations, limits on gathering sizes and more masking requirements will leave a nasty and lasting legacy.
And toward what end? Keeping the Saskatchewan Party in power in perpetuity?
Rather than pander to anti-Quebec sentiments and the Buffalo Party fringes with this nation-within-a-nation stuff, Moe needs to heed evidence and expert advice in governing a province that has more to offer the world than cheap laughs at its expense.
The news seems to be flying at us faster all the time. From COVID-19 updates to politics and crime and everything in between, it can be hard to keep up. With that in mind, the Saskatoon StarPhoenix has created an Afternoon Headlines newsletter that can be delivered daily to your inbox to help make sure you are up to date with the most vital news of the day. Click here to subscribe.


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Chiricahua Warm Springs Apache History
Before the name "Fort Sill Apache" the Tribe was what the linguists and anthropologists refer to as the Chiricahua Apache Tribe. The Fort Sill Apache Tribe is made up of the descendants of the Chiricahua Warm Springs Apache who were held as Prisoners of War by the United States from 1886–1914. The name "Fort Sill Apache" was applied to the group while imprisoned at Fort Sill and was retained by the portion of the tribe that received allotments of land in Oklahoma. The Chiricahua Warms Springs Apache were made up of 4 bands:
Chihende
also known as Warm Springs Apache Band
Chukunende
also known as the Chiricahua Band
Nde'ndai
sometimes known as Pinery Apache Band and
Bidanku
sometimes known as Bronco Apache Band
The Chiricahua Apache speak a Southern Athabascan language. The other Southern Athabascan nations are Navajo, Mescalero Apache, Jicarilla Apache, Lipan Apache, Kiowa-Apache, and Western Apache (Northern Tonto, Southern Tonto, White Mountain, Cibicue, and San Carlos).The Chiricahua Apache language is said by linguists to be most closely related to the Mescalero Apache language.
The Chiricahua subsisted primarily through the harvest of wild foods, both plants and animals. They were very knowledgeable about plant use, resource locations, harvest times, and the processing and storage of supplies. Trade of excess resources with other tribes was useful to acquire desired items ranging from corn and blankets to shell and turquoise.
Ancestral lands of the Chiricahua Apache include what is now known as Southeastern Arizona, Southwestern New Mexico, Northwestern Sonora, Mexico, and Northeastern Chihuahua.
Spain, like other European nations, laid claim to native lands by virtue of "discovery" and the fact that the natives were not Christians. Though Spain laid claim to Chiricahua territory, they were not able to consistently impose control over the area. The Chiricahua Apaches therefore were not Spanish subjects as were other tribes and so were considered fair targets for Spanish slave raiders. This situation significantly affected the Chiricahua Apaches who became adept at resistance. In the 1600s, the Chiricahua formed an alliance with other tribes to their south to fight the Spanish. Those tribes were absorbed into the Chiricahua and probably formed a portion of the Chiricahua band whose name translates as "enemy people".
Though Mexico became independent of Spain, there was little difference for the Chiricahua Apaches. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of February 2, 1848 followed the close of the war between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic. The treaty ceded Mexico's claim of sovereignty over a vast territory called the Mexican Cession Territory from the Mexican Republic to the United States. This included lands owned, and occupied, from time immemorial by the Warm Spring Apache and Chiricahua Apache tribes. (Jozhe pg 427)
Homelands of the Chihende – also known as Warm Springs Apache Band were located in what is now the Southwestern part of New Mexico. They lived in what is now known as the Mimbres, Pinos Altos, Mogollon, and San Mateo mountains. The tribe occupied an area around the headwaters of the Gila Riva in what was known as Ojo Caliente, which is the vicinity of the Copper Mines near Santa Rita, New Mexico and Hot Springs. It is located near the town of Dusty, New Mexico. In Chiricahua language it is called Dii'guteel, which means "Four broad plains." (Jozhe pg 427)
Homelands of the Chukunende – also known as the Chiricahua Band, was Southeastern part of what is now known as Arizona, within the present United States. They lived in the following areas within their country: Dos Cabezas, Chiricahua, and Dragoon mountains.
Ancestral lands of the Nde'ndai – sometimes known as Pinery Apache Band, were located in the Northern part of the Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua. The remnants of the Nde'ndai people came to live with the Chiricahuas prior to their imprisonment in 1886.
In 1886, when Geronimo and some of the Apaches were brought in by General Miles, all the Warm Springs Apache Tribe, and the Chiricahua Apache Tribe, and the Nde'ndai Apache Tribe, and the Bidanku Apache Tribe were imprisoned at Fort Pickens and Fort Marion, Florida.
Peaceful and hostile alike were taken to Florida, including the scouts who took the oath to serve the United States under the flag at Fort Apache, Arizona Territory. They were lined up under the same flag and were disarmed and sent to the Florida prisons. Approximately 512 women, children and men were imprisoned, while at Florida 112 children were sent to the Indian School at Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Due to the unhealthy condition of the prisons in Florida, many died, nearly one-third of them died at Carlisle. The prisoners were transferred to Mount Vernon Barracks, Alabama in 1888. This was not a significant improvement for the death rate.
In October 1894 they were brought to the Fort Sill Reservation in Oklahoma Territory; the Kiowa, Comanche and Kiowa-Apache tribes gave this land for the permanent settlement of the Apache Prisoners of War. While at Fort Sill they engaged in farming and cattleraising, they were highly successful in each, many of the men were Indian Scouts and some of them enlisted in the regular army.
In 1913 the larger group of the Apache Prisoners of War (or Fort Sill Apaches as they were called by the people here in the area) were moved to the Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico and were released from prisoner of war status. The smaller group, approximately one third, remained as prisoners of war for another year and in 1914 were released to small scattered allotments of farmland mostly in Caddo county and Comanche county in Oklahoma.
The Fort Sill Apache Tribe maintained ties through visits with relatives and through the Apache Reformed Church, which they maintained after the Mission at Fort Sill was closed. In the 1970s, a land claim settlement allowed the Tribe to adopt a constitution and to acquire land that would be tribal trust land. The Fort Sill Apache Tribe has since acquired small parcels of land in Oklahoma, and in the Tribe's home territory within New Mexico and Arizona.
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Washington, D.C. - The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) held its 157th regular session on April 2-15, 2016. During the session, the IACHR worked on the analysis of petitions, cases, and precautionary measures and held 49 public hearings, 34 working meetings, and meetings with States and civil society organizations from around the region. The IACHR also presented five thematic reports during this session: "Indigenous Peoples, Afro-Descendant Communities, and Natural Resources: Human Rights Protection in the Context of Extraction, Exploitation, and Development Activities"; "Violence, Children and Organized Crime"; "Legal Standards: Gender Equality and Women's Rights"; "Violence against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex (LGBTI) Persons in the Americas"; and "Criminalization of Human Rights Defenders." The IACHR also had a dialogue with the Member States on good practices related to the rights of LGBTI persons.
The IACHR welcomes the growing interest in the region with regard to the human rights situation and the mechanisms available through the inter-American human rights system, which was evident once again in the interest this session generated. More than 7 million people followed the hearings through live webcasts or on social media.
In its public hearings, the IACHR received information concerning different human rights issues in 19 countries and on a regional level. Seven of the hearings were to hear arguments from the parties concerning cases in the merits stage. The Commission held 49 hearings, five at the request of States—Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela; 40 at the request of civil society organizations; and four on the Inter-American Commission's own initiative. The IACHR welcomes and values the active participation of the delegations of OAS Member States, as well as approximately 350 civil society organizations. On the other hand, the IACHR regrets that the States of Cuba and Nicaragua did not participate in the hearings they were called on to attend, and that the State of Ecuador participated in one of the two hearings convened. In this regard, the Inter-American Commission underscores that it is important for States to participate in all hearings, in good faith and with sufficient substantive information, in order to advance constructively toward solutions to the human rights problems facing the region.
The Inter-American Commission particularly values the participation in its sessions of United Nations agencies and institutions. The IACHR underscores the importance of the joint efforts carried out by the regional and international human rights systems for the purpose of better protecting and promoting the exercise of human rights, and it is pleased that this cooperation is becoming increasingly closer and more concrete. During this session, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Dubravka Simonovic, participated in a hearing as an expert. In addition, Juan Méndez, Special Rapporteur on torture; Mónica Pinto, Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers; Michel Forst, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders; Ariel Dulitzky, a member of the Working Group on enforced or involuntary disappearances; and Dubravka Simonovic participated in a regional consultation with civil society, which was organized jointly by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and the IACHR. The session was opened by Ivan Simonovic, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights; the Vice President of the Inter-American Court, Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor; and the President of the IACHR, James Cavallaro, and included the participation of more than 80 organizations of human rights defenders. Finally, on April 11 the IACHR received a delegation from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, which was led by Ivan Simonovic and which included Amerigo Incalcaterra, Representative of the South America Regional Office, and Vladlen Stefanov, Chief of the National Institutions and Regional Mechanisms Section, as well as human rights officials Claudia Gerez and Liza Sekaggya. This meeting was a follow-up to the joint declaration on collaboration signed in 2014. In addition, a dialogue was held on Fiscal Policy and Human Rights in Times of Austerity; experts in attendance included Ricardo Martner, of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and Rodrigo Uprimny, a member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
During this session, the IACHR held private, separate meetings with the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts working in Mexico in connection with the investigations into the whereabouts of the 43 students who disappeared in Ayotzinapa; a high-level delegation of the Mexican State; and representatives of the students' relatives. The purpose of these meetings was to follow through on the technical assistance agreement and to hear the parties' positions on whether the Group of Experts should continue its work in Mexico. The students' relatives asked the IACHR to renew the mandate of the Group of Experts until the truth about what happened has been determined, the whereabouts of the students have been clarified, and justice has been done. The father of one of the missing students spoke to the full Commission and said, "I ask from my heart that the Group of Experts continue with the case. The truth will be told by the kids when they appear." For its part, the State delegation gave a positive appraisal of the contributions the Group of Experts has made to the investigation, indicated that the whereabouts of the students have not yet been determined, and expressed its wish for the technical assistance agreement to be brought to an end and for the Commission to continue following the matter within the framework of its jurisdiction. In that regard, the IACHR deeply regrets that the Mexican State has expressed its position not to extend the mandate of the Group of Experts and to end the agreement, even though the objectives—primarily, locating the missing students—have not yet been met. Given the nature of the technical assistance agreement, in which the State's consent is indispensable, the IACHR believes that the conditions are not in place to continue the mandate of the Group of Experts. Therefore, in view of the findings of the Group of Experts, taking into consideration the position of the family members of the missing students, bearing in mind the Commission's monitoring authority and the precautionary measure in force, and given the pressing need to remain vigilant on this matter, the Inter-American Commission has made the decision to establish a special follow-up mechanism until the objectives and recommendations established both in the precautionary measure and in the Group of Experts' reports have been met. After consulting with the parties, the IACHR will determine the specific terms as to how the special follow-up mechanism will operate.
During this session, the IACHR received a proposal from Berta Zúñiga Cáceres and other relatives and colleagues of the well-known human rights defender Berta Cáceres, an indigenous leader and general coordinator of the Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares e Indígenas de Honduras (COPINH), who was killed on March 3, 2016, while she was a beneficiary of IACHR precautionary measures. Berta Cáceres had on many occasions (more than 30 times) reported to the authorities and spoken out publicly about the situation of grave risk and ongoing threats she had faced. The family of Berta Cáceres asked the IACHR to appoint an interdisciplinary group of independent experts to assist in the investigation into her killing. OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro supported that request after meeting with the family and representatives of the human rights defender. The Inter-American Commission expressed to the State of Honduras that it was willing to appoint a group of this nature.
The murder of Berta Cáceres confirms the grave situation of risk experienced by human rights defenders in Honduras, which has been and continues to be cause for deep concern on the part of the IACHR. Moreover, this and other murders of beneficiaries of precautionary measures granted by the Commission call into question the State of Honduras's effectiveness in implementing such measures, protecting the beneficiaries, and fulfilling its international obligations. This situation should be studied jointly by the individuals protected by precautionary measures and their representatives, the State, and the IACHR, in order to find solutions to ensure the effectiveness of protection measures in the country.
In the hearings, the IACHR received information concerning the situation of insecurity and risk faced by human rights defenders in Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and many other countries. Killings, attacks, threats, and acts of harassment continue to be carried out against human rights defenders for the purpose of silencing them and putting a stop to their important work. In addition, defenders are singled out publicly, subjected to smear campaigns and disparagement, and criminalized, an issue explored in depth in one of the thematic reports presented by the IACHR during this session. The vast majority of these acts of violence remain unpunished, which encourages repetition. The Inter-American Commission urges the States to guarantee the right to defend rights.
Human rights defenders and others who participated in hearings, working meetings, and other activities in the context of this session have been subject to reprisals and threats upon returning to their countries. This situation had already come up in the past in some countries, and the fact that it is happening again is disturbing. It is absolutely unacceptable for a State to take any type of action motivated by the participation or activities of individuals or organizations that engage the bodies of the inter-American human rights system, in the exercise of their rights under the Convention. As Article 63 of the Rules of Procedure of the IACHR establishes, States "shall grant the necessary guarantees to all the persons who attend a hearing or who in the course of a hearing provide information, testimony or evidence of any type to the Commission," and they "may not prosecute the witnesses or experts, or carry out reprisals against them or their family members because of their statements or expert opinions given before the Commission."
In hearings and working meetings, the Commission received deeply troubling information regarding the serious obstacles many segments of the population in the Americas face in exercising their fundamental rights. One hearing raised the issue of the alarming levels of malnutrition suffered by children in Guatemala. Indigenous peoples in Ecuador, Panama, and Peru reported on the serious impact of some natural resource development projects on the exercise of their rights. A number of U.S. groups talked about problems related to access to drinking water and the lack of adequate sanitation, which disproportionately affect Afro-descendant and indigenous communities and people living in poverty. Another hearing analyzed Puerto Rico's economic crisis and the differentiated impact it has on people living in poverty and extreme poverty, as well as other groups that are particularly vulnerable. The IACHR also received particularly alarming information concerning the violence and discrimination suffered by women of African descent in Brazil and by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans persons, or those perceived as such, in Bolivia and Honduras. The high levels of police violence suffered by trans women in some countries of the region are of special concern to the IACHR. With regard to the Dominican Republic, the IACHR was informed about the serious infringement of political rights of Dominicans of Haitian descent, which results from the arbitrary process of denationalizing these individuals, as well as from the structural racism and discrimination they face. In addition, the IACHR received information concerning violations of the human rights of children and adolescents in the context of human mobility, including their detention, especially when they are part of irregular migration flows or when they are fleeing violence in search of refuge in other countries, a situation that has reportedly been aggravated by security measures adopted by several States in the region. In many cases, the public policies that States have adopted in response to citizen insecurity, known as "hardline" or "iron fist" policies, have emphasized repressive aspects such as lowering the age of criminal responsibility, imposing longer sentences, or expanding the use of pretrial detention, which is conducive to intolerance, stigma, and social exclusion. This session included an important hearing on alternative measures designed to reduce the use of pretrial detention.
The IACHR values the progress made in the peace process in Colombia and will follow and analyze the resulting agreements, within the sphere of its authority. The consolidation of the peace process and the expectations for achieving a stable and lasting peace are cross-cutting factors in the country's human rights situation. The IACHR is convinced that reaching peace in Colombia is an essential step for the protection of human rights in the country. While the process of attaining peace poses a complex dynamic, the full observance of the State's human rights obligations must be a central aspect. In addition, the IACHR is troubled by the information it received concerning an increase in killings and attacks against human rights defenders and the activity of illegal armed groups that the IACHR has identified as linked to paramilitary structures, which the State has a duty to break up.
Gross human rights violations that take place during armed conflicts must not go unpunished. On this issue, a hearing was held during this session concerning the situation of ongoing impunity with regard to grave human rights violations perpetrated during the armed conflict in El Salvador. During that hearing, the IACHR observed that the recovery of historical memory and justice for grave crimes of the past is essential to understand and solve the problem of violence today. The Commission appreciates the invitation extended by the Foreign Minister of El Salvador for the IACHR to visit the country.
With regard to the importance of combating impunity, the IACHR welcomes Canada's decision to establish a national investigation into the disappearances and murders of indigenous women and children in that country. This step would comply with one of the recommendations the Inter-American Commission made in its report "Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in British Columbia, Canada."
The IACHR also received information concerning the right to freedom of expression in Argentina. The Commission holds in regard the high-level delegations that participated on behalf of the State and on behalf of the petitioners, and appreciates the information presented by both parties. Civil society organizations and university and community media outlets discussed a series of infringements of freedom of expression that reportedly occurred as a consequence of changes introduced to the Communication Services Law through three decrees issued by the executive branch on grounds of necessity and urgency. The State delegation justified the changes in the context of violations to freedom of expression seen in the previous administration, the speed of technological changes in information technologies, and the subsequent ratification of these regulations by the legislative branch. The IACHR welcomes the government's announcement that it will provide an opportunity for consultation and dialogue prior to the enactment of new legislation that is respectful of international standards. The IACHR also takes note of the transitory nature of the current situation and calls to mind the principle that there should be no regression on human rights, which is why it will continue to follow this process.
In another hearing on freedom of expression, Mexican journalist Carmen Aristegui and a number of organizations denounced a series of mechanisms Mexico has reportedly put in place involving indirect censorship and infringements of the right of access to information, which reduces debate on matters of public interest. The Mexican State, meanwhile, explained the regulatory and institutional advancements in place to ensure access to information and the allocation of official advertising based on objective criteria.
One of the most serious challenges the Inter-American Commission is currently facing is the lack of resources to fully meet its mandates to promote and defend human rights. The financial situation of the IACHR, which has been very serious for many years, has worsened this year. The IACHR receives only 6 percent of the general budget of the Organization of American States (OAS). Given the seriousness of the situation, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights resolutely calls on the region's heads of state to assume their responsibility to the inter-American human rights system. The IACHR urges the States to instruct the relevant bodies to allocate the financial resources needed so that the IACHR can fully meet its mandate.
The IACHR prepared a report on its 157th session.
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James L. McPherson (March 29, 1881 – January 3, 1951) was a Canadian politician and physician from Alberta.

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James L. McPherson was born on March 29, 1881, at Leaswater, Ontario to William McPherson and Katherine Orr, both of Scottish descent. He was educated at Owen Sound, Hamilton and Toronto. McPherson married the daughter of J. H. Thorsley on August 9, 1911.

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He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 to 1948, representing the Alberta Social Credit Party.  He served on the Social Credit Board following the 1937 Social Credit backbenchers' revolt. He died in Ryley, Alberta in 1951.

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Q: Universal shift arithmetic right in VHDL I am designing universal shift arithmetic operator.
Is there a better way to achieve it besides using the 32bit multiplexer (decoder) in a way presented bellow?
ENTITY isra IS
PORT (
  clk:    in std_logic;
  rst:    in std_logic;
  di:     in std_logic_vector (31 downto 0);
  sel:    in std_logic_vector (31  downto 0);
  res:    out std_logic_vector (31 downto 0) := (others => '0')
);
END isra;

PROCESS
  BEGIN
    WAIT UNTIL clk'EVENT AND clk = '1';
    IF rst = '1' THEN
      res <= (others => '0');
    ELSE
    CASE sel IS
        when X"00000001"  => res <= to_stdlogicvector(to_bitvector(a) sra 1);
        when X"00000002"  => res <= to_stdlogicvector(to_bitvector(a) sra 2);
        ...
        when X"0000001F"  => res <= to_stdlogicvector(to_bitvector(a) sra 31);
        when others => res <= (others => '0');
    END CASE;
END IF;
END PROCESS;

A: You can use the SRA function without any loops or case statements:
res <= to_stdlogicvector(to_bitvector(di) sra to_integer(sel));

Note that you need to make sel an unsigned, not a std_logic_vector:
sel: in unsigned (31  downto 0);

In case you don't want that, you can still cast sel into an unsigned. You also need to us numeric_bit:
use ieee.numeric_bit.all;

A: Well from a hardware point of view, to shift right in a single clock a variable number of positions, each bit is a single flip-flop with one of 32 possible values based on a selection.  So from that point of view, this is how you do it.
I would make sel == 0 a case and make it a passthrough, though.  Logically, that makes more sense than setting everything to zeros.

A: Use indexing?
PROCESS
  VARIABLE shift_count : INTEGER RANGE 0 TO 31;
BEGIN
  IF rst = '1' THEN
    res <= (others => '0');
  ELSIF RISING_EDGE(clk) THEN
    shift_count := to_integer(sel);
    FOR I IN 0 TO 31 LOOP
      IF I + shift_count < 32 THEN
        res(I) <= din(I + shift_count);
      ELSE
        res(I) <= din(31); -- for logical shift right, use '0' instead
      END IF;
    END LOOP;
  END IF;
END PROCESS;

This version is much easier to parameterize into a generic.
Remember that VHDl is a behavioral description, it doesn't specify a mux.  The compiler can generate different designs depending on whether you optimize for size, speed, allow pipelining, etc.
Note that 5 2:1 muxes can implement this in a far smaller area than a single 32:1 mux.  If this isn't the block that limits your clock rate, that might be preferable.
Also note that your sel input is far too wide, it only needs to be 5 bits.

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