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Paddy McGuinness has teased his hit TV show could be making a comeback. The comedian and presenter, 51, fronted the much-loved programme for an impressive 11 series until it was suddenly axed five years ago. He hinted he could bring back dating show Take Me Out with a very cryptic post on social media. Paddy shared a snap of himself sunbathing and holding up a pint as he said: "I've been back to the Isle of Fernandos!!! "Did a spot of filming for a new show. I was only there for a couple of days but if you're looking for a bit of winter sun, it was glorious! Lovely and warm." Take Me Out fans will remember successful matches from the show were sent to the fictitious Isle of Fernandos to see if they really had a spark. In reality, the dates actually took place in Puerto de la Cruz in Tenerife from series two onwards. Ferndandos was Club Bijou in Manchester for the programme's first season. Fans were sent into a frenzy thanks to Paddy's post as one said: "Bring back Take me Out!!!" Another added: "Wish you would do take me out again I loved watching that show." Someone else begged: "Bring back @takemeoutUK." The show involved single men appearing in front of a host of 30 women and they revealed more about themselves in each round. If the singleton liked the suitor, they left their light on - but if they did not, they would turn the light out. Once the prospective partners were whittled down to just two, the suitor then picked a favourite to take on a romantic date to the mythical island of Fernando. There were times when suitors were rejected by all of the prospective partners if they all turned their lights out - and this was referred to as a blackout. Following its axe, Paddy said: "Eight weddings, six babies, a generation of youngsters... Over 10 years ago, ITV took a punt on me and the show. I will be eternally grateful. It was before Tinder and Snapchat, Twitter was a baby, Whatsapp was witchcraft... It put the success of the dating shows back on the map. Loads of love, lights all out." Take Me Out has had its successes, with couples still together all these years later. Earlier this year, former contestant Ben revealed he is still with his date and they have even welcomed two children. Ben shared snaps of himself with his blonde girlfriend - and their two children. He sent a message to Paddy via X, writing: “@PaddyMcGuinness heard you might be looking for ex-Take Me Out contestants that are still together.” TV fans were heartbroken in February 2020 when ITV announced they were cancelling the dating show. An ITV spokesperson said the show had run it's course, declaring: "We’ve decided to say goodbye to Take Me Out. ITV and Paddy have done all the specials you can eke out of a dating show, so it’s been decided it’s time for it to go. As with many shows, ratings have slid a bit in recent years. But it will go down as a big success — it’s had more weddings than Blind Date." Follow Mirror Celebs on TikTok , Snapchat , Instagram , Twitter , Facebook , YouTube and Threads .
Sinn Fein actively pursuing route into government, insists leader McDonaldPrime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has said Pakistan stood united with the global community in reaffirming its firm commitment to strengthening the national HIV response and ensuring that no one was left behind. The theme, “Take the Rights Path : My health, My right,” reminds us that the journey to eliminate AIDS as a public health threat begins with a firm commitment to human rights, the prime minister said in a message in connection with World AIDS Day 2024. He said upholding the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights and promoting the inclusion of all communities were essential for eradicating AIDS as a public health threat. “Healthcare is a fundamental right. Through our collective efforts, we will ensure that all our citizens enjoy this fundamental right in an equitable manner. By working together, we will continue to strengthen our health systems and expand access to essential services for our citizens,” the prime minister added. He highlighted that HIV/AIDS remained a health challenge and a significant socio-economic issue that threatened livelihoods, disrupts families, and deepens inequalities. Gaps in testing and treatment coverage call for deep introspection – a call to reach the most vulnerable, making strategies to be truly responsive to those at risk, and ensuring that our policies evolve to meet the shifting dynamics of the epidemic. “Despite our collective efforts, the HIV epidemic in Pakistan continues to grow, underscoring the need for bold, innovative, and sustainable interventions. It is only through the strategy rooted in equality and inclusion that we can halt the spread of HIV. Strong political will, effective leadership, and enhanced financial commitments are essential to implementing a rights-based national HIV strategy,” he remarked. PM Shehbaz Sharif emphasized that the urgent challenges that needed our attention were eliminating spread of HIV/AIDS through needle sharing among people who inject drugs, safe blood transfusion, and eliminating mother-to-child HIV transmission. We must also address the vulnerabilities of marginalized groups, particularly adolescent girls and young women, who face heightened risks of HIV infection. “On this World AIDS Day, let us stand united to ‘take the rights path’ towards an AIDS-free Pakistan. A future free from AIDS can only be achieved through collective action that upholds human dignity, equity, and inclusion,” he said adding, “Let us act decisively and compassionately, empowering those most affected by HIV to lead the way. Together, we can safeguard the health and well-being of our future generations and build a healthier and just society for all”.
I have a long list of reasons to buy Roku ( ROKU 2.75% ) stock. The media-streaming innovator's international market expansion is in a very early stage. The company is growing sales, users, and cash profits at a remarkable pace. Rumor has it that Roku could be a buyout target in 2025. And the stock is staying down despite these pending catalysts, making it an incredible value. Roku's secret sauce I could talk your ear off about any of these potentially stock-boosting catalysts and then some. But I haven't even mentioned the biggest reason to buy Roku stock yet. You see, the low stock price largely rests on soft ad sales on Roku's media-streaming software platform. The weakness is part of a sector-wide downturn in the digital advertising sector , and this distressed industry is on the verge of a huge upswing. You don't want to be left empty-handed when this sea change plays out. It may not happen in 2025, but time is running out. Three steps from plunge to rebound The path from Roku's ad-based downturn to a roaring comeback is very simple: The inflation crisis put a damper on targeted ad sales in 2022. Why spend big money on effective advertising when no one is ready to buy what you're promoting? Roku's stock plunged despite strong user growth and a dominant market position. The adtech market's slump gave Roku bears plenty of tools to hold the stock down -- despite consistently strong earnings reports. A post-inflation economy should see more consumer spending and give advertisers access to big budgets again. Roku's large user base and effective ad-spot platform will benefit greatly from this ongoing market refresh . This is a firm prediction, not a blind guess. Many companies in the online advertising industry are already reporting great revenue growth, signaling a strong recovery. Most of them are not as undervalued as Roku, though. That's why I recommend Roku's stock over other digital ad specialists. Roku will soar in the next two years. You can quote me on that.Toronto-Dominion Bank ( NYSE:TD – Get Free Report ) (TSE:TD) was downgraded by stock analysts at Barclays from an “equal weight” rating to an “underweight” rating in a report released on Thursday, MarketBeat reports. Several other analysts also recently weighed in on TD. StockNews.com downgraded shares of Toronto-Dominion Bank from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a research note on Thursday, August 22nd. Royal Bank of Canada lowered Toronto-Dominion Bank from an “outperform” rating to a “sector perform” rating in a research report on Friday, October 11th. Finally, National Bank Financial raised Toronto-Dominion Bank from an “underperform” rating to a “sector perform” rating in a research report on Thursday, August 22nd. Two analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, six have given a hold rating, one has given a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, Toronto-Dominion Bank currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $84.00. Check Out Our Latest Analysis on Toronto-Dominion Bank Toronto-Dominion Bank Stock Performance Toronto-Dominion Bank ( NYSE:TD – Get Free Report ) (TSE:TD) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, August 22nd. The bank reported $2.05 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.49 by $0.56. The company had revenue of $14.18 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $9.40 billion. Toronto-Dominion Bank had a net margin of 6.94% and a return on equity of 14.34%. The firm’s revenue was up 9.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $1.48 EPS. Analysts predict that Toronto-Dominion Bank will post 5.76 earnings per share for the current year. Institutional Trading of Toronto-Dominion Bank Several hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of TD. Mackenzie Financial Corp lifted its position in shares of Toronto-Dominion Bank by 0.8% during the second quarter. Mackenzie Financial Corp now owns 25,997,122 shares of the bank’s stock valued at $1,429,186,000 after buying an additional 218,807 shares during the last quarter. 1832 Asset Management L.P. raised its stake in shares of Toronto-Dominion Bank by 6.0% during the 2nd quarter. 1832 Asset Management L.P. now owns 25,803,480 shares of the bank’s stock worth $1,418,159,000 after acquiring an additional 1,462,794 shares in the last quarter. CIBC Asset Management Inc lifted its position in Toronto-Dominion Bank by 5.4% during the third quarter. CIBC Asset Management Inc now owns 16,515,643 shares of the bank’s stock valued at $1,046,825,000 after acquiring an additional 853,313 shares during the last quarter. BRITISH COLUMBIA INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT Corp boosted its stake in Toronto-Dominion Bank by 9.6% in the second quarter. BRITISH COLUMBIA INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT Corp now owns 13,814,269 shares of the bank’s stock valued at $759,449,000 after acquiring an additional 1,206,574 shares in the last quarter. Finally, The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company grew its holdings in Toronto-Dominion Bank by 24.9% in the third quarter. The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company now owns 13,509,261 shares of the bank’s stock worth $854,815,000 after purchasing an additional 2,689,532 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 52.37% of the company’s stock. Toronto-Dominion Bank Company Profile ( Get Free Report ) The Toronto-Dominion Bank, together with its subsidiaries, provides various financial products and services in Canada, the United States, and internationally. It operates through four segments: Canadian Personal and Commercial Banking, U.S. Retail, Wealth Management and Insurance, and Wholesale Banking. Read More Receive News & Ratings for Toronto-Dominion Bank Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Toronto-Dominion Bank and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .KBC Group NV Acquires 287 Shares of Howard Hughes Holdings Inc. (NYSE:HHH)
Video: Texas Tech HC Joey McGuire Slams 'Embarrassing' CFP Committee, Defends Big 12The U.S. market gained more than 25% for the year to date through mid-December 2024. That’s a healthy showing by any measure. It doesn’t seem like it would be a market environment that’s conducive to tax-loss selling. But unless your strategy is to buy only U.S. stocks, you may indeed have opportunities to realize tax losses in your portfolio, which you can use to offset gains elsewhere. That’s because other market segments haven’t performed nearly as well. Must-knows about tax-loss selling It’s important to note that tax-loss selling is only a worthwhile strategy if you have taxable accounts. To benefit from a tax loss that in turn can help you save on taxes, you need to find holdings in your taxable portfolio that are trading below your cost basis — your purchase price adjusted upward to account for any commissions that you paid along with reinvested dividend and capital gains distributions. There are different methods for determining cost basis. The specific share identification method for cost-basis elections provides the most opportunities for tax-loss selling or gain harvesting because it allows you to cherry-pick specific lots of a security to sell. But it’s important to note that the average cost basis is usually the cost-basis election default for mutual funds, while the default cost basis election for individual stocks is often first in, first out. In other words, unless you select a different cost-basis election before selling, your investment firm will report your loss or gain using the default. If you sell securities and your sale price is lower than your cost basis, you have a capital loss. That loss, in turn, can help offset taxable gains elsewhere in your portfolio. (With many mutual funds again poised to make big capital gains distributions in 2024, those losses could come in handy.) If you don’t have any gains in the year you realize the losses or your losses exceed your gains, you can use the losses to offset up to $3,000 in ordinary income. Unused losses can be carried forward indefinitely and applied against future taxable gains. Where to look for tax-loss sale candidates As 2024 winds down, here are some of the most fruitful spots to look for tax-loss candidates. Long-term bond funds and ETFs: Despite the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate cuts, many bond funds are still in the red over the past year and over the past three years as well. Long-term bonds and bond funds look especially ripe for tax-loss selling. Losses in intermediate-term bonds haven’t been as deep — 2% annualized losses over the past three years — but still could add up to a decent-sized loss if your position size is large. Moreover, tax-loss selling may provide a hook to improve your total portfolio’s asset location, in that fixed-income holdings are often best situated in tax-sheltered accounts rather than taxable ones. With yields surging, being smart about asset placement now matters more than it did when yields were exceptionally low. Individual stocks: Individual stock investors have the easiest pickings when it comes to unearthing tax-loss sales. Even if your portfolio has performed well in aggregate, it’s likely that something you own has lost value since you purchased it. For the year to date through mid-November, about 1,100 US stocks with market caps of more than $1 billion had losses of 10% or more. You may even be seeing red on positions you’ve owned for a while: Roughly 1,200 individual US companies with market caps of more than $1 billion had 10% or greater losses over the past three years. Other places in your portfolio to look are non-US stock funds, sector funds and short and alternative funds. For the latter, it’s no surprise that investors who own funds and ETFs that bet against stocks have struggled recently, given the strength of stocks’ gains this year. Next steps If you sell a security for a loss, you can go ahead and replace it with something similar right away, provided the new holding isn’t so close that the IRS considers it “substantially identical.” Immediately replacing an actively managed fund with an index fund or ETF would be fine, for example. But swapping an index fund for an ETF that tracks that same index would run afoul of the wash-sale rule, in that they’re substantially identical securities. In that instance, the IRS would disallow the loss. And if you wait 30 days after selling the losing security, you can replace it with the very same security and still claim the loss. You should also consider tying tax-loss selling along with a broader portfolio review and cleanup effort. Christine Benz is the director of personal finance and retirement planning at Morningstar.ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — Gaston Martirena and Adrian Martinez scored first-half goals as Argentina's Racing won its first Copa Sudamericana championship by beating Brazil's Cruzeiro 3-1 in the final on Saturday. Martirena opened the scoring in the 15th minute and Martinez added a goal five minutes later to give “La Academia” its first international title since 1988 when it won the Supercopa Sudamericana. “Maravilla” Martinez scored 10 goals in 13 matches and finished as the top scorer in the competition. Roger Martinez sealed the victory with a goal in the 90th. Kaio Jorge scored in the 52nd for Cruzeiro. ___ AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer The Associated Press
Prime Minister and U.S. president-elect both shared some reflections on social media Saturday over their at Mar-a-Lago in Florida Friday night. Trump shared his perspective of how his meeting with Trudeau went in a post on Truth Social, saying they touched on number of key issues related to border safety, illegal drug trafficking and, most importantly, trade. The meeting comes just days after Trump threatened to slap massive 25-per-cent tariffs on Canadian products being imported into the U.S. “I just had a very productive meeting” with Trudeau, Trump wrote on his social network. “I made it very clear that the United States will no longer sit idly by as our Citizens become victims to the scourge of this Drug Epidemic.” Donald Trump’s post from Truth Social Saturday. “Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made a commitment to work with us to end this terrible devastation of U.S. Families,” he continued. “We also spoke about many other important topics like Energy, Trade, and the Arctic. All are vital issues that I will be addressing on my first days back in Office, and before,” Trump said. In his own post on X Saturday afternoon, Trudeau shared a photo of them and thanked Trump for the dinner, writing “I look forward to the work we can do together, again.” Thanks for dinner last night, President Trump. I look forward to the work we can do together, again. However, there was no indication that Trump has changed his mind about imposing a massive 25-per-cent surcharge on all imports from Canada, which would have a devastating impact on Canada’s energy, auto and manufacturing exports. Trump’s post on Truth Social did not address it. The Star reported Friday that the face-to-face meeting was suggested by Trudeau, according to sources familiar with the communications between the two sides. The meeting was accompanied by several of the future president’s advisers and their wives and was described by a senior Canadian official as a positive, wide-ranging discussion.
Trump nominates Charles Kushner to serve as US ambassador to France: 'Strong advocate'NEW YORK (AP) — New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge was a unanimous pick to win his second American League Most Valuable Player Award in three seasons on Thursday, easily outdistancing Kansas City shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. Shohei Ohtani was expected to win the National League honor later Thursday, his third MVP and first in the NL. Judge led the major leagues with 58 homers, 144 RBIs and 133 walks while hitting .322. Witt topped the big leagues with a .332 average, hitting 32 homers with 109 RBIs. Soto batted .288 with 41 homers and 109 RBIs. When Judge won his first MVP award in 2022, he received 28 first-place votes while Ohtani got the other two. Ohtani was unanimously voted the AL MVP in 2021 and 2023 as a two-way star for the Los Angeles Angels and finished second to Judge in 2022 voting . He didn’t pitch in 2024 following elbow surgery and signed a record $700 million, 10-year contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers last December. Ohtani hit .310, stole 59 bases and led the NL with 54 homers and 130 RBIs exclusively as a designated hitter, becoming the first player with 50 or more homers and 50 or more stolen bases in a season. He helped the Dodgers to the World Series title , playing the final three games with a torn labrum in his left shoulder . Ohtani would become the first primary DH to win an MVP. He would join Frank Robinson for Cincinnati in 1961 and Baltimore in 1966 as the only players to win the MVP award in both leagues. Ohtani would become the 12th player with three or more MVPs, joining Barry Bonds (seven) and Jimmie Foxx, Joe DiMaggio, Stan Musial, Roy Campanella, Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle, Mike Schmidt, Alex Rodriguez, Albert Pujols and Mike Trout (three each). New York Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor and Arizona second baseman Ketel Marte also were among the top three finishers in the NL. Lindor batted .273 with 33 homers, 91 RBIs and 29 steals, while Marte hit .292 with 36 homers and 95 RBIs. Balloting was conducted before the postseason. AP MLB: https://apnews.com/MLB
LYNN — Luca LoPriore, a senior at Lynn Classical, was one of three students from Massachusetts to be accepted into the 2024 All-American High School Film Festival (AAHSFF), a prestigious, international film festival. “It was a little surreal at moments,” 17-year-old LoPriore said regarding his trip to the AAHSFF in New York City. His film, titled “Items,” was displayed at the AMC theater in Times Square as part of the festival program, he said. He first became interested in film when he was 8 years old after playing a special mode in a Star Wars video game, LoPriore said. Every day he tried to learn more about film, testing out different techniques to explore the artform. Despite being committed to film for nearly a decade of his life, LoPriore said he became unsure if he wanted to continue to pursue a career in film after high school. With just two weeks before the festival, he said he came up with the idea for “Items” while he was cleaning his house. The experimental film explores seemingly simple, everyday household objects that might be considered a “waste of space.” AAHSFF receives thousands of applicants a year and announced the accepted applications on a livestream that he watched. His name was one of the last to be announced in his category — experimental — which was one of the final categories announced, LoPriore said. He said he immediately shared the excitement with his parents after hearing his name. Upon his return from the internationally renowned film festival, he said he has a new understanding of how much more work he needs to put in to pursue film. LoPriore said he is taking a break from making any new films at the moment to focus on applications for film school, a decision he made after his experience on AAHSFF’s red carpet. “It’s all about how hard you work,” LoPriore ended with, as advice to younger filmmakers. “Just learn a new thing everyday.”