
Supreme Court seems likely to uphold Tennessee's ban on treatments for transgender minorsOddsmakers Do Not See the Minnesota Wild as a Stanley Cup ThreatBritish courts would be required to decide whether to enforce an international arrest warrant should Benjamin Netanyahu enter the UK, according to the Government. Foreign Office minister Hamish Falconer was repeatedly urged by MPs to give a definitive answer on the UK’s likely action after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for the Israeli prime minister and his former defence minister Yoav Gallant over alleged war crimes in Gaza. Mr Falconer said there is a domestic legal process to be followed through the courts that “determines whether or not to endorse an arrest warrant” by the ICC, adding this has “never been tested” as the UK has yet to be visited by an ICC indictee. Shadow foreign secretary Dame Priti Patel claimed the “only beneficiaries” of the ICC’s decision are “ Hamas and their terrorist sponsors Iran” and said the Conservatives believe the warrants have “no basis in international law”. In reply to Labour MP Sarah Owen (Luton North), Mr Falconer told the Commons: “I’d like to just be clear that what I have said this afternoon is not that the Government will uphold arrest warrants. “What I have been clear about this afternoon is that due process will be followed. These are questions for independent courts in the UK, and it is independent courts that would review the arrest warrants if that situation were to arise.” Responding to an urgent question on the ICC’s decision, Mr Falconer earlier said: “In line with this Government’s stated commitment to the rule of law, we respect the independence of the ICC. We will comply with our international obligations. “There is a domestic legal process through our independent courts that determines whether or not to endorse an arrest warrant by the ICC, in accordance with the ICC Act of 2001. “This process has never been tested because the UK has never been visited by an ICC indictee. If there were to be such a visit to the UK, there would be a court process and due process would be followed in relation to those issues. “There is no moral equivalence between Israel, a democracy, and Hamas and Lebanese Hezbollah, two terrorist organisations. This Government has been clear, Israel has a right to defend itself in accordance with international law, that right is not under question, and the court’s approval of the warrants last week do not change that.” For the Conservatives, Dame Priti said: “In charging Israeli leaders alongside Hamas, the ICC appears to be drawing a moral equivalence between Israel’s war of self-defence and Hamas terrorism. We utterly reject any moral equivalence. “The only beneficiaries of this decision are Hamas and their terrorist sponsors Iran, who are now celebrating this propaganda coup as a great victory for Hamas and Hezbollah. Since the ICC decision, we have had dither from ministers and confused messaging and no clarity. So I’m grateful to the minister today for his remarks. “And as to the issue of warrants, we have raised serious concerns over process, jurisdiction and the position on complementarity principle, and believe the warrants of Mr Netanyahu and Gallant have no basis in international law.” Conservative MP Sir Bernard Jenkin (Harwich and North Essex) asked: “Can we be absolutely clear about what the Government is saying, because it seems that the Government is not saying there would be an automatic arrest should Benjamin Netanyahu arrive in this country but that there would be due process? “And could he confirm that customarily international law does not permit the arrest or the delivering of the serving prime minister of a non-state party to the ICC? “So he’s committing to due process but he’s not committing to arrest. Am I correct in understanding that?” Mr Falconer replied: “There’s domestic legal process through our independent courts, we cannot prejudge that process. “I note that the shadow attorney general has written to the Attorney General on questions of detail in relation to some of the points you allude to and the Attorney General tells me he’ll be writing back on those more detailed points.” Labour MP Abtisam Mohamed (Sheffield Central) asked the minister to “review all diplomatic, economic and political relations with Israel” to ensure the UK is “not complicit with the atrocities taking place in Gaza, the West Bank and in Lebanon”. Independent MP Iqbal Mohamed (Dewsbury and Batley) said: “The ICC arrest warrants are welcome but in themselves will not bring an end to Israeli war crimes and ethnic cleansing and the killing of innocent men, women and children.” Several MPs, including Labour’s Melanie Ward (Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy), also repeated calls for the Government to sanction Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich and national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. Mr Falconer told MPs: “I recognise the two that I’ve been pressed on the most this afternoon are of intense political interest. But despite their intense political interest, were we to prejudge sanctions and trail them in this House before we made them, we would reduce their impact. “The same is true of the hundreds of sanctions that we have done on Russia over the years and the same in every forum.”
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goalkeeper has revealed that he played for an hour against with a broken bone in his ankle. have been rocked by a major new injury blow after to confirm that their No1 had undergone surgery to repair a fracture sustained during Saturday evening’s over the reigning Premier League champions at the Etihad Stadium. Vicario is now set for an extended spell on the sidelines as he recovers from the operation to his right ankle, with veteran deputy Fraser Forster set to take on starting duties in the weeks ahead supported by the likes of Brandon Austin and Alfie Whiteman. Spurs did not speculate on how long it might be until the Italian international is able to return to action, saying only that he would be assessed by club medical staff in future to determine when he can resume training. It remains to be seen if Tottenham are now tempted to pursue the signing of a new goalkeeper in the January transfer window to compensate for the loss of one of Ange Postecoglou’s most influential players. Vicario has now publicly addressed his injury, revealing on social media that he played through it for 60 minutes of the rousing win over crisis-stricken City in which he with a succession of fine saves. Vicario had initially gone down in the first half but received treatment and came back out for the second period before being seen limping after the game. “Sometimes football gives you its highs, and sometimes it challenges you in ways you don't expect," the 28-year-old wrote on Instagram on Monday night alongside a picture of him flexing his arms in his hospital bed. "I played 60 minutes at the Etihad with a broken bone in my ankle, giving absolutely everything I had for the team. "Unfortunately there was no way around this one.. I needed surgery. I'm disappointed I won't be able to help the team for a while. "A massive thank you to the doctors and the staff. The operation went well, and from tomorrow I'll be working hard to come back stronger, fitter, and ready to give my all for you again. "Thank you to the Spurs fans for all the love. See you soon on the pitch." Tottenham plus Vicario’s Spurs and Italy team-mates past and present flooded his latest post with well wishes. James Maddison wrote: “Back soon brother”, while Tottenham’s official account said: “You’ve got this.” Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, currently on loan from Spurs at Marseille, wrote: “Stay strong grande. Forza.” Dejan Kulusevski, Destiny Udogie, Pape Matar Sarr and Manor Solomon were among the other Tottenham players to send Vicario their support.
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Update, Nov. 23, 2022: A year later, we check in with the viral grandma who torched the pie. Memes come out of nowhere, and they don't take holidays off. Last Thanksgiving, a Georgia grandmother named Sharon Weiss burned a Marie Callender's pumpkin pie, and posted a photo to the food company's Facebook page, bitterly writing, "Thanks Marie Calendar for ruining Thanksgiving dessert." But this was no ordinary holiday dinner mistake. The pie in the photo looked like it had been dug out of the ruins of Pompeii. The crust was black, the filling was black, and in a delightful addition, the top of the blackened filling had been broken to show the softer -- but still totally torched -- filling underneath. Social-media users were quick to jump on the disaster, pointing out that even Yule logs don't get this burned, and they sit directly in the fireplace. Sharon’s Marie Callendar pie #BurnedAlongWithTheYuleLog pic.twitter.com/QnVdpJYzUp Here's the update you've been burning for. Sharon Weiss and Marie Callender's have made up, and Weiss told me she now knows why her pie ended up looking like it was thrown into Mount Doom from Lord of the Rings . "When I first took the pie out and saw how burnt it was, I immediately thought there was something wrong with either the pie or the directions," Weiss told me. "My comment to Marie Callender's was impulsive." Sharon Weiss has made up with Marie Callender's, and set her oven back to Fahrenheit. But then Weiss tried to bake a Thanksgiving turkey breast, which also came out looking cremated, "leading me to realize it may be a problem with the oven," Weiss said. Before calling an appliance repair shop, Weiss' husband, Josh, discovered the mistake was user error -- exactly as the internet had declared. "Somehow, some way, the baking temperature had been changed from Fahrenheit to Celsius," Weiss told me. "The result was that when I set the temperature to 375, it was actually closer to 700 degrees Fahrenheit." (707, to be exact.) That's right -- it wasn't Marie Callender's fault at all. Weiss' simple pumpkin pie met its death in a SEVEN HUNDRED DEGREE oven. Or ... close to it. Most home ovens top out at around 500 degrees F or so, but even if Weiss' oven didn't reach 700 F, it was still cranking out much more heat than that poor pie required. "We were able to return to Fahrenheit by just pushing a couple of buttons on the stove," Weiss said. "Problem solved." But before this Fahrenheit/Celsius revelation, Weiss' impulsive Facebook comment blaming Marie Callender's had gone viral online. People were using the Facebook "marked safe" designation to mark themselves safe from Weiss' pie. Someone joked that Weiss would be asked to bring ice to the next holiday gathering, using a photo of charcoal to show "Sharon's ice." "Did you get a free urn with the purchase of this pie?" someone asked. 10. pic.twitter.com/rbrrSnTjdO Weiss got alerted early that her post had been noticed. "My daughter called me and said, 'Mom, you've gone viral! All of my friends are asking if this is you!'" Weiss said. But instead of sitting around fuming at her newfound fame, Weiss rolled with it. She called Marie Callender's, and says "we collectively agreed to take my post down." And now you can't find a bigger fan of the company than the woman who once thought it ruined her Thanksgiving. "It was very clear to me from the beginning that they wanted to make things right," Weiss told me. The company posted a Christmas greeting joking about the burn, with the hashtag #SharonSomePie. And Weiss filmed a video for a company promotion for National Pie Day, displaying a giant timer and telling viewers to set their ovens for "Fahrenheit, not Sharonheit." We are thrilled to kick-off the Marie Callender’s Sweepstakes Giveaway with our NEW friend and everyone’s favorite... Happy Holidays and enjoy #SharonSomePie 🥧 As for the infamous T-Day itself, Weiss says that once the oven temperature was switched back to the familiar Fahrenheit, she baked another pie (yes, Marie Callender's again), "and it was delicious." Not only that, but her family had a "Thanksgiving redo" a few weeks after the holiday. This time, her adult children took care of all the cooking and baking, "and it was stress-free." But what happened to the volcano-seared original pumpkin pie? "Actually," Weiss admits, "the pie was put outside ... and disappeared."Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login The ongoing consolidation of the superannuation sector has supercharged growth at IT services company Novigi. 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Question: Which is better in terms of stock investing strategy—1) trading; 2) buy and hold; or 3) do peso cost averaging (PCA)? Answer: Firstly, let us look at actual data. For this discussion, let us consider the daily Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) from the bottom of the index during COVID-19, which was hit on March 19, 2020 up to Oct. 8, 2024. It should be noted that during the period, the PSEi exhibited high volatility especially in 2020 and 2021. Let us assume an initial investment of P100,000. Let us impute buying and selling costs (such as 0.25-percent broker’s commission, 12-percent VAT on broker’s commissions, and 0.6-percent sales transaction tax). Now let us then define what each strategy means. READ: Understanding the Philippine stock market By trading, let us limit the discussion to trades where we buy first then sell later (that is, no short selling). Let us also consider trades that would have generated at least an absolute net return of 4.45 percent ( without regard for holding period). Let us consider 12 buy/sell data points during the total period under consideration. By buy and hold, we will assume that the P100,000 is used to buy the PSEi on March 19, 2020 and sold at the Oct. 8, 2024 PSEi level, transaction costs included. We will, however, assume no transaction costs for when index component stocks would change. Lastly, by PCA, we divide the investment of P100,000 by the said 12 buy/sell periods, book their cost at their corresponding PSEi level on the date of investment and value all trades at the Oct. 8, 2024 PSEi level. This strategy accommodates those who do not have large sums of money with which to start investing. Based on our analysis, trading comes out the winner with a whopping 44.38-percent per year net return. Buy and hold comes in with an 11.27 percent per year net return while PCA comes in third with a weighted 10.05 percent per yer net return. Here are some other things to also look at before any conclusions are made. There was no consideration given to stock picking as investing will only be in the component stocks of the PSEi. The PSEi was on an overall recovery trend during the period under consideration. The buy/sell periods were chosen entirely from hindsight. Technical analysis may help in anticipating trends. But you will still need clairvoyance to buy and sell at ALL of the optimum points. Trading also requires close monitoring of the stock market. If you do not have the time to monitor daily, you can easily miss out on the buying and selling opportunities. Just like with trading, buy and hold requires that the P100,000 be available from the very start. PCA was executed only during the 12 buy/sell data points with varying individual holding periods. This is hardly what PCA is all about. But if the P100,000 were to be divided equally among 19 quarters within the period under consideration PCA would produce a net return of 7.33 percent per year. For the investor with a preference for ultra-high returns and risk, trading would be the best option. However, be ready with blood pressure maintenance medicines and lots of coffee to stay awake to monitor not just the Philippine market but also global markets that cause the volatility. Also, the short holding periods per trade may preclude the chance of earning cash dividends that could add to the return. From the practical standpoint of a moneyed investor with a not too high preference for risk-taking, buy and hold would be the best strategy. There will be much less need for monitoring. The buy and hold strategy has a higher chance of reinvesting return-enhancing cash dividends than the trading strategy. For the small investor, who more likely wants to be able to sleep well at night, buying a PSEi index pooled fund periodically would be the best since small amounts would automatically be allocated to all component index stocks, even when index components change, while cash dividends are automatically reinvested. Of course, the benefits will be marginally offset by the management fees. What is common to all strategies is that the longer the overall period of investing, especially in an upward trending index, the more returns will be had. So again, “its depend.” INQ Subscribe to our daily newsletter By providing an email address. I agree to the Terms of Use and acknowledge that I have read the Privacy Policy . Send questions via “Ask a Friend, Ask Efren” free service at www.personalfinance.ph, SMS, Viber, Twitter, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook. Efren Ll. Cruz is a Registered Financial Planner and Director of RFP Philippines, seasoned investment adviser, bestselling author of personal finance books in the Philippines and a YAMAN Coach.
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