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Aries : This is a time of discovery. You will have a desire to get out of your comfort zone and get new experiences. Look to update your skills and strive for certifications that may help you climb your career ladder. Do not argue with co-workers, and instead, focus on selling ideas with confidence. December’s energy is favourable for people who are willing to take risks in their careers. However, this month is not especially lucky when it comes to love. Do not rush into new relationships, as misunderstandings may arise. Taurus : Think about the areas of your life that require change, release, and creating a healthier emotional and financial environment. In terms of your career, this month will be a mixed bag. Candidates may get annoyed by such actions as postponing the interviews or cases where the employer is unclear about what they want. This is a good time to review insurance policies, wills, and long-term financial plans. Purchases of real estate or vehicles may be further discussed before the final decision is made. Gemini : This month’s energy challenges you to assess how effectively you collaborate and build the stability of your connections. This is a good time for singles to find that special someone through friends, business acquaintances or at work. For the committed, a discussion about the future is always useful and can make you and your partner see things in the same way. Concerning career, do not take all the work to yourself; it will be more productive if the work is divided. Networking will be especially useful this month. Cancer : The month is about maintaining order and tidiness and solving any problems that may still remain to hinder your progress. This is a time to deal with work assignments and demonstrate how well you can handle projects. Be careful with details because small errors can cause bigger problems. You may get involved in helping a family member deal with some difficulties. This may feel overwhelming, but it will enhance the relationships. If you have neglected health symptoms, now is the time to seek advice. Leo : You may need self-assertion and a wish to be noticed both in private and working life. However, moderation is the word when it comes to enthusiasm because it can lead to hasty decision-making. In your career, this is a month of creativity and risk-taking. A balance between creativity and business-mindedness will lead to desirable outcomes. If you are thinking about investing in real estate or the stock market, it is the right time to consider long-term goals. Singles will gain attention due to their charm and energetic personality. Virgo : This month may make you want to create balance in your private life. For those working, the focus should be on managing working responsibilities with other obligations. Financially, this is a good time to invest in real estate, though make sure to read the contract carefully. This is a favourable period for family gatherings and conversations, especially those concerning property or work division. If you are a student, this period is beneficial for research and courses that need a systematic approach. Libra : It is a month where you get a chance to learn new things through asking questions and making efforts. You may feel more confident in expressing yourself and participating in activities that make you better. In your career, it is the time to demonstrate your communication skills and foster good working relationships with your colleagues or clients. Those who are interested in writing, speaking, or social activities may get a job in public relations, sales or teaching. For those who are in love, this deepens the relationship through short trips. Scorpio : It’s the time to focus on your budget, work on your interpersonal skills, and be consistent with your behaviours in achieving your life goals. Financially, December is all about stability and planning. This is a good time to take stock of your financial position, be prudent in your spending, and consider your investment options. Discussions with parents or siblings regarding issues related to property, money or any future plans may come up. Cold weather may increase your likelihood of developing throat problems. Sagittarius : The month challenges you to own your life, improve yourself, and create momentum for the year. You will be full of energy and ready to chase your goals, but it is advisable to combine this energy with planning. At work, take the lead on projects that showcase your talents. Single people can get attention without any problem, and it is possible to meet someone who will be a powerhouse of energy. Family life will be pleasant this month as you will lead the people around you with a positive attitude. Capricorn : It is a time for relaxation, rejuvenation and shedding off all the troubles of the past. This time may be less social than usual, but it is a good chance to get some perspective and set goals. In your career this month, you may need patience and work in the background. Do not take risks this month because the energy is more suitable for steady growth than grand gestures. It is not advised to make large purchases or invest during this period. Take care of your health because stress can cause you to feel tired. Aquarius : December is a month of opportunities and recognition in your career. You can get a job through referral, hence the need to maintain a connection with your network. This is a good moment to assume leadership positions. Your skills to mobilise people and engage them towards a common cause will define you. Stock investments may bear fruit, especially if they are associated with technology-based industries. For singles, this is a time to find a partner through social or business-related contacts. Pisces : This is a month in your career where you can reap big if you put more effort and concentration. This is a time to be proactive and show your worth at the workplace. One will be able to effectively coordinate tasks and deal with issues that will earn the respect of supervisors and peers. In love, the stars make you loyal and committed to the person you are in a relationship with. Those who are single may get attracted to people who are focused and ambitious. Work commitments may overshadow your family time. ---------------------- Neeraj Dhankher (Vedic Astrologer, Founder - Astro Zindagi) Email: info@astrozindagi.in , neeraj@astrozindagi.in Url: www.astrozindagi.in Contact: Noida: +919910094779BBC Strictly Come Dancing pro halts show to 'speak the truth' as fans slam 'disgraceful' move

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy will miss Sunday's game against the Green Bay Packers with a sore throwing shoulder. Purdy injured his right shoulder in last Sunday's loss to the Seattle Seahawks . Purdy underwent an MRI that showed no structural damage but the shoulder didn't improve during the week and Purdy was ruled out for the game. Coach Kyle Shanahan said star defensive end Nick Bosa also will miss the game with injuries to his left hip and oblique. Left tackle Trent Williams is questionable with an ankle injury and will be a game-time decision. This will be the first time Purdy has missed a start because of an injury since taking over as the 49ers’ quarterback in December 2022. Brandon Allen will start in his place. The Niners (5-5) are currently in a three-way tie for second in the NFC West, a game behind first-place Arizona, and have little margin for error if they want to get back to the playoffs after making it to the Super Bowl last season. Purdy has completed 66% of his passes this season for 2,613 yards, 13 TDs, eight interceptions and a 95.9 passer rating that is down significantly from his league-leading mark of 113 in 2023. Allen has been mostly a backup since being drafted by Jacksonville in 2016. Allen last started a game in Week 18 of the 2021 season for Cincinnati and has thrown just three passes the last three seasons — including none since joining San Francisco in 2023. Joshua Dobbs will be the backup on Sunday. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/NFLNO. 20 TEXAS A&M 81, RUTGERS 77

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( MENAFN - Newsroom Panama) Antony Blinken makes a Statement, months after President Nicolás Maduro claimed to have won the July contest. Blinken, the US secretary of state, recognized González in a post on X in which he also demanded“respect for the will” of Venezuelan voters. Joe Biden's administration had previously said González earned the most votes in the disputed 28 July election, but fell short of acknowledging him as president-elect. “The Venezuelan people spoke resoundingly on July 28 and made González the president-elect,” wrote Blinken, pictured below. González fled to exile in Spain earlier this month, later telling reporters that he had been coerced into signing a letter recognizing Maduro as the winner of the disputed election as a condition for letting him leave Venezuela. Venezuela's national electoral council, which is stacked with Maduro loyalists, had declared Maduro the election winner hours after polls closed. Unlike previous presidential elections, electoral authorities did not provide detailed vote counts. But the opposition coalition collected tally sheets from 80% of the nation's electronic voting machines and posted them online. González and opposition leader María Corina Machado, pictured below, said the voting records showed the former diplomat won the election with twice as many votes as Maduro. Earlier this month, Maduro appeared to extend an olive branch to Donald Trump, calling for a new era of“win-win” relations and prompting speculation of possible rapprochement between the two leaders.' “In his first government, Trump wasn't good to us but this is a new start,” said Maduro, pictured below, during a live TV broadcast. Addressing Trump, Maduro said:“Your slogan is 'Make America Great Again'. And, paraphrasing your slogan, I'd say that our slogan is to make the united Venezuela, Latin America and the Caribbean great.” Earlier, Colombia's president, Gustavo Petro, who has friendly relations with Maduro, reversed his support for the July elections, calling them a“mistake”. Petro spoke in an interview with Brazilian news outlet Globo News, which released excerpts online that Petro's office shared on social media. Petro told the news outlet while visiting Brazil for the G20 summit that he initially had been in favor of Venezuela holding the elections, but that he later decided that the vote was not“free”. “I think the elections were a mistake,” Petro, pictured below, said. MENAFN23112024000218011062ID1108918877 Legal Disclaimer: MENAFN provides the information “as is” without warranty of any kind. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the provider above.

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NORTHWEST VERMONT — Republican Vermont Reps. Chris Mattos of Milton and Pat Brennan of Colchester were voted into State Senate seats last month, among six other Republicans new to the chamber, rendering the Democratic supermajority a thing of the past. Republicans unseated four incumbents and scored another two open seats vacated by long-serving Democrats. The GOP nearly doubled its representation in the upper chamber, from seven seats last session to 13 in the next. Democrats and Progressives, who held 23 seats before and just 17 now, will no longer have the two-thirds majority necessary to override gubernatorial vetoes. The Democratic party also lost its supermajority this election cycle in the Vermont House. Brennan and Mattos are excited about their wins, as well as hope about the renewed potential to accomplish some of their legislative goals, with the shift in their party’s favor that’s taken place in Montpelier in the wake of this election cycle. “I think the tone is going to set itself,” Brennan said. “I don't think I'll have to set it. I think the voters set the tone when they chose their senators and representatives at the polls this year. I think it's going to be a tone of collaboration... We'll hopefully get along, and I don't see why we wouldn't.” Brennan, represented Colchester in the House for 21 years before winning the Grand Isle District senate seat previously held by the late former Senator Dick Mazza (D). In a contentious race, Brennan beat Democrat Andy Julow by 725 votes . “When there was a supermajority, there was no need for collaboration,” he said. “The other team there just did what they wanted and we weren't involved a whole lot, other than saying ‘No, we kind of don't like that bill, it's not good for my people at home.’ That’s where you get ‘the party of no.’” Brennan believes it’s not that the Republicans are actually the party of no, but that their suggestions and ideas weren’t listened to in the past. He hopes all parties will be able to come together now, not to push their “own agendas” but to do “what’s good for Vermont.” Brennan thinks he was voted into office as a state senator because the people wanted a change, largely to do with the growing tax burden, but also because of the reputation he’s built up among constituents in his district as a state representative for decades already. “I think everybody agrees, or 90% of the population might agree, the supermajority was not a good thing for anyone, especially the taxpayer,” Brennan said. “The supermajority had their chance to make some changes and didn't do that. So the pressure’s on now. People are looking at the new legislature, the new make-up, to make things right.” Mattos said he’d be lying if he said he wasn't surprised at the upset that happened in Vermont this election. On Nov. 5, Mattos beat incumbent Senator Irene Wrenner (D), to represent Chittenden-North, a district that includes parts of Milton, Essex Town, Westford and Fairfax. “I knew we were going to pick up some seats, but not to the number that we did, so I was very happy,” he said. Mattos credits the swing to voters’ frustrations about rising property taxes, and the potential expenses of the Clean Heat Standard — a Vermont law passed last year committing the state to reducing its greenhouse gas output, which has sparked debate around its potential costliness once put into practice, despite advocates’ assurance it can be done affordably — as well as an increase in Department of Motor Vehicles’ fees that was not even requested by that department. “I think Vermonters were just tapped out with all the different fees and taxes that have increased over the past couple of years,” Mattos said. “So they definitely voted with their pocketbooks this election. It showed across the state.” When asked what parts of the budget they would look to pare down in order to see that taxpayer burden reduced, both Mattos and Brennan named the public education fund first and foremost. Mattos in particular worked on the education committee his first three years in the Vermont House, and has been on the ways and means committee for the past four. Now that he’ll be in the Senate, figuring out education finance remains his biggest priority — particularly now that the number of members of each party in the chamber are “more balanced.” “We're really going to have a seat at the table to get our ideas out there,” Mattos said. “Over the past years, the majority definitely said, ‘We can do whatever we want, we don't need your support.’ And they definitely, definitely showed it.” Mattos said while on ways and means, legislators had a draft of a bill brought up and had a meeting with leadership advocates the next day, and the day after that the bill had become a study on education finance — which, he said, in the next 24 hours, was halted by the opposing party. “So, I’m hoping that doesn't happen anymore,” Mattos said. “There are backstops in both bodies. I’m hopeful that the majority will listen to our ideas that we have, because I think we do have some good ideas out there.” Mattos believes it’s a huge issue that the current education funding system allows no way for individual school boards to know how their budget will affect their town’s tax rate, because of how dependent local property taxes are on what all other school districts choose to do. He said it’s problematic that historically low-spending districts are expected to “subsidize” higher-spending districts, or for higher-spending districts to get tax rate “discounts.” “We need to have a system that's more predictable for the school boards when they're crafting their budgets and determining where they want to spend their money and how much they want to spend,” he said, referencing the three budget votes in his own town of Milton this past year. “When it gets down to it, when we do a budget re-vote, and voters want to see substantial decreases in the tax rate, it really takes a lot of money to cut to get to something that can pass,” he said. “It's really an all-state model, and it's all these towns voting on their local budgets.” Mattos’ proposition is having a standard spending rate to cover the essentials mandated by the state of every district. This way, individual school districts wouldn’t be to blame for their baseline needed expenditures, and anything beyond that can be voted on by the taxpayer, with local taxation being more closely tied to what the local district is spending than it currently is. When asked about funding deferred maintenance — a problem that has gone on for decades in many districts due to the costly nature of making essential facility repairs — Mattos pointed to the number of added hires that have been made in many districts, and the growing size of school staffs despite declining student enrollments as a place to look to cut down on expenditures, freeing up funds to address deferred maintenance in that way. Mattos also acknowledged that private health insurance rates have risen drastically. “It's going to take a lot of money to do all those things, and we need to work within the budget of the state to be able to get there — and not raise new taxes, not raise new fees,” he said. Brennan agreed education funding is number one on his list of things to look at in an effort to render Vermont a more affordable state, as he said he heard out of almost every door he knocked on whilst campaigning that property taxes are too high. “I don't know how people survive, and actually a lot of them don't,” Brennan said. “A lot of people are packing their bags and moving out of state. So that's where we start: We need a total restructuring of how we fund education.” Brennan said he looks forward to considering the recommendations of studies on education funding, and to considering Gov. Phil Scott’s ideas on the matter moving forward, to provide some taxpayer relief via trims to aspects of education that currently may be out of balance. “I expect there to be probably two or three bills to address that, maybe more,” Brennan said. Otherwise, Brennan is concerned with revisiting a true reform of Act 250 in an effort to keep housing more affordable, as well as digging into what can be done for Vermonters’ healthcare. In addition, he expects to see and support a number of bills to strengthen public safety and address the drug epidemic, by getting “a little tougher on crime.” Mattos agreed about the need for further reform Act 250, specifically to make the laws more predictable and less risky for developers to engage with, and hopefully speeding up the development of housing statewide, whilst still protecting the natural beauty of the state. “Gov. Scott's adage, is we need more taxpayers, not more taxes,” Mattos said. “The housing thing is another initiative of mine, because that's what I do in my professional life. I'm a licensed realtor and have a property management and excavation business, so I see it every day.” Mattos favors a mix of housing types, for short- and long-term rental apartment complexes, various sizes and styles available to home-owners on different incomes, and senior living facilities for those who can’t keep up with their large homes but want to stay in the community. He said there’s lots of education out there for first-time home buyers as well as great incentives with down payment assistance from local credit unions, but that he would also favor governmental assistance for first-time home buyers to incentivize completing a homeownership course — say, a $1,000 credit at closing for young Vermonters who don’t want to rent forever. “With the rents being what they are, it's really cumbersome for people to be able to save up money while being able to afford rent,” Mattos said. “So if we increase our housing stock and take pressure off the vacancy rate that's so low that it's very hard to find an apartment, we could make some strides there by being able to get more affordable housing out there.” Mattos’ other concerns are the expenses that could come with the Clean Heat Standard. Instead, he wants to focus more on funding infrastructure-based climate resiliency in the wake of recent flooding events. Though only just elected to their first terms, Brennan and Mattos said they hope to continue serving in their respective senatorial seats well beyond this initial term, and to make Vermont better and more affordable while in office. “I’m not sure we've earned their trust yet,” Brennan said. “That's something that we have to do when we start the session. They're frustrated and they wanted change, and they voted for change. The trust comes now when we get to Montpelier and we actually have to produce.” “I am going to earn their trust and make every effort I can and vote for responsible bills to make Vermont better and to reduce the property tax burden on Vermonters,” he added. VTDigger has reported that a third of the monetary support funding GOP campaigns in some of Vermont’s most contentious races this year came from just 10 wealthy families , with major donors’ impact on the election dwarfing the contributions of those made by others — this year, this held true to a much more significant degree among Republicans than it did for Democrats. The Digger story referenced Mattos’ and Brennans’ races specifically, and quoted the Vermont Democratic Party’s executive director, Jim Dandeneau, as saying Democrats have worked for years to build a Vermont that works for everyone and not just the “wealthy few,” yet these wealthy few this year made a concerted effort to disproportionately fuel and promote said Republican races. “I think that's a misnomer,” Brennan told us in response. “I did receive a lot of money from wealthier people. I received a lot of money from middle class people, and I received $20 checks from people who really couldn't afford $20.” “The wealthier people gave what they could afford,” he added. “It wasn't that it was ‘big money.’ It was that people were concerned about the direction Vermont was headed. Some of that money wasn't all Republican, rich folk. It was Democrat, Republican, Independent.” Mattos said he is beholden to all the constituents in his district, and said he’s done that for the past seven years as a state representative and will continue to do that as a state senator. “I appreciate all the support that I received,” he said. “We have business owners largely in Chittenden County that were a little fed up and tired of the way Vermont was moving, so they wanted to donate, and they happened to donate to my campaign, and I appreciate that.” “I'm happy that I had the level of support that I did,” he added. “But at the end of the day, I represent the people who are in my district.” Brennan talks about himself as a steward of “common sense” governance, which as he sees it, means not passing legislation for the sake of passing legislation, but actually thinking about it and how it will impact the average citizen’s life and pocketbook. “And I consider myself an average citizen,” he said. “So it works out well.” “I'm not sure what Webster says ,” he added. “But to me, common sense is taking a look at an issue, putting the book aside, just just looking at an issue, thinking about the repercussions of a bill, both ways, who it affects, how it affects them, and saying: ‘Does this make sense?’” Brennan said he is a true Republican and votes with the party 90% of the time, but that simultaneously, he’s not married to the party, and hopes to carry on the late Dick Mazza’s legacy by honoring Mazza’s centrism and ability to collaborate across the aisle. “I would just like to urge constituents of all parties, even the ones who didn't vote for me, to contact me with concerns,” he said. “I take every call and concern very seriously, and we'll try to address them in the quickest and most responsible way I can.” Brennan can be reached at pbrennan@leg.state.vt.us or at 802-578-2763. “My door is always open,” Mattos said, as well. “My office is on Main Street in Milton, so I always have people stop by... And I'm just going to continue doing that and putting out my legislative updates and always fielding any phone calls, text messages and emails.” Mattos can be reached at cmattos@leg.state.vt.us or at 802-828-2228.None

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