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THE BIG DEAL: Congress unveiled a $2.3 trillion spending package Monday just hours before its expected passage in both chambers, funding the government though the end of the fiscal year and providing relief to a coronavirus-battered economy.

The package includes a $1.4 trillion omnibus bill based on a 2019 spending deal, which consists of $740.5 billion in defense spending and $664.5 billion in domestic spending.

It also includes a $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill, which Congressional leaders agreed to over the weekend (more on that below).

The bill included:

Ive got more details for you about the bill and everything in it right here.

LEADING THE DAY: Lawmakers late on Sunday released details about a long-awaited $900 billion coronavirus relief, covering stimulus checks, unemployment benefits, and small business aid.

Both Democrats and Republicans touted various aspects of the relief package, though Democrats wanted a significantly larger bill.

Democrats argue that more relief legislation will need to be enacted once President-elect Joe BidenJoe BidenJudge throws out GOP lawsuit to close Georgia ballot drop boxes after business hours First responders serenade Fauci with 'happy birthday' Joe Biden can be the president for middle class workers and all races MORE takes office, though Republicans are already resisting that idea. A state and local aid package and liability protections were left out of the agreement.

When Congress approves the legislation it will have appropriated more than $4 trillion to respond to the coronavirus pandemic that has caused more than 300,000 deaths across the country.

So whats in the bill? Naomi Jagoda, Alex Bolton and I have all the info you need right here.

Year-end package extends expiring tax breaks: The massive year-end package that lawmakers unveiled on Monday addresses a host of expiring tax provisions, making some of them permanent.

Tax breaks that are made permanent include excise tax relief for alcohol producers that was originally included in the 2017 GOP tax-cut law. Making these tax reductions permanent was a key priority for alcohol industry groups and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.

Another tax provision that is made permanent allows people to claim a deduction for medical expenses to the extent those expenses exceed 7.5 percent of their income, rather than 10 percent as was the case for people under 65 between 2013 and 2017.

Several other tax provisions are extended through 2025. They include the new markets tax credit that is aimed at incentivizing investment in low-income communities, the work opportunity tax credit designed to incentivize businesses to hire people from groups that have consistently faced barriers to employment, a tax break for the motorsports industry and a tax credit for employers who provide paid family and medical leave.

Naomi has more info for you right here.

Businesses see transformed landscape even after vaccines: The coronavirus pandemic and its aftermath could transform the landscape for U.S. businesses.

With a larger remote workforce, expanded delivery options and lingering health fears likely to last long after the pandemic is under control, business owners and entrepreneurs are asking tough questions and bracing for an uncertain future.

Businesses that pay richly for offices and storefronts in bustling downtowns are reconsidering whether high rents and tight crowds still make sense. A national wipeout of small businesses may leave plenty of vacated real estate for major companies to fill. And shortfalls in federal aid for struggling businesses could deepen the economic damage to be repaired when the pandemic subsides.

Sylvan Lane lays it out for you here.

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Dublin, Dec. 23, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Global K-12 Instruction Material Market 2020-2024" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

K-12 instruction material market 2020-2024

The K-12 instruction material market is poised to grow by $ 9.74 bn during 2020-2024 progressing at a CAGR of 7% during the forecast period.

The market is driven by the increasing demand for adaptive learning and improved access to education content.

This study identifies the growing momentum of learning management system as one of the prime reasons driving the K-12 instruction material market growth during the next few years.

The reports on K-12 instruction material market provides a holistic analysis, market size and forecast, trends, growth drivers, and challenges, as well as vendor analysis covering around 25 vendors. The report offers an up-to-date analysis regarding the current global market scenario, latest trends and drivers, and the overall market environment. The K-12 instruction material market analysis includes product segment and geographic landscapes

The robust vendor analysis is designed to help clients improve their market position, and in line with this, this report provides a detailed analysis of several leading K-12 instruction material market vendors that include Blackboard Inc., Cengage Learning Holdings II Inc., Follett Corp., Hachette Book Group Inc., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co., Mastery Education, McGraw-Hill Education Inc., Pearson Plc, SANTILLANA GLOBAL SL, and Scholastic Corp.

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Executive Summary

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He also opined that this project will open new employment opportunities as well as provide a boost to the economy. Reportedly, a meeting with Lieutenant Governors of Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir will be held next week in this connection.

While Davos is a popular town in the Swiss Alps, famous for hosting the annual World Economic Forum meeting, Zojila Pass is situated at an altitude of 11578 ft on the Srinagar-Kargil-Leh National Highway, which remains closed during winters due to heavy snowfall.

He added that both Leh-Ladakh and Jammu & Kashmir governments will be stakeholders and partners in the project.

He assured that this hill station project could be a huge success story with public-private investment, and also create jobs for people, along with attracting a huge number of tourists.

Mr Gadkari also informed that the planning and design of the hill station will be finalised with a Swiss architect.

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ELBRIDGE, N.Y. In the early 1960s New York States architectural heritage was, according to the Post-Standard, dwindling.

In Onondaga County, the grand homes on James Street in Syracuse were gone as were many of the countys other historically significant buildings.

In order to save the rest, a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts made possible for a book written by four Syracuse University architecture professors.

Published in 1964, The Architecture Worth Saving in Onondaga County highlighted 60 area buildings which the authors believed needed to be preserved.

One of these was the John Munro House at 5407 Hamilton Road near Elbridge.

The books authors called the cobblestone house perhaps the most important Gothic Revival building in Onondaga County.

Standing amid century-old hard maples on an expansive site, crowning a gentle rise with a skyline of gables and chimneys, is more than a farmhouse; it must be included with Whig Hill and Roosevelt Hall as one of three county country houses in the grand manner, the tradition of the great country estates.

The builder of the home was John Munro, whose grandfather, Squire, was one of the original settlers of Elbridge.

Finished in 1850, Munro hired English architect Thomas Atkinson for the project. The cobblestones were brought down from Lake Ontario by sleigh and the wood was taken from the 142-acre property. The woodworking was done on the premises.

(Munro was a hardworking farmer and true Renaissance man. He was active in politics and in his church. On his farm he had hundreds of cows and pigs. He raised geese, chicken, turkeys, oats, barley, wheat, rye, and corn. In 1851 he raised tobacco and hired workers to roll cigars. In 1864, he tried his hand at sugar cane.)

It is a significant house, says Cheryl Drake, just the third owner in the homes 170-year history. The craftsmanship is wonderful.

Drakes husband William bought the house in 1974 and she married him on the landing of the homes main staircase in 1981.

When asked what her first impressions of the historic home, the New Zealand native replied, Huge!

The farmhouse has 16 rooms, nine bedrooms, four bathrooms, two front parlors, five black marble fireplaces, an office, formal dining room, family room a billiard room and over 5,600 square feet of space.

She joked that she had come from modern and was now living in a home steeped in the past of Central New York.

Every weekend we went to estate and antique sales, she said, looking to fill the house.

The results speak for themselves. The magnificent house looks like a museum and nearly every piece looks like it belongs there.

They did a lot of work on the grounds and planted arborvitae to make the property more private.

The patio the couple added is a special favorite for Drake.

I love to watch the cows, she said.

Drake says the homes huge attic has a lot of potential for someone and believes it could be made into an apartment.

The home has not been registered as a historic landmark which allows for new owners to make changes.

It is going to be a hard place to leave, Drake said. I have had so many great times here and have a ton of great memories.

She hopes that a young family will buy it continue its story.

For more information about this property, please contact owner and realtor, Cheryl Drake of Howard Hanna Real Estate. Her information is below.

THE DETAILS

Address: 5407 Hamilton Road, Elbridge, N.Y. 13060

Price: $1,775,000

Size: 5,640 square feet

Acreage: 142.75 acres

Monthly Mortgage: $5,904 (based on this weeks national average rate of 2.89 percent, according to Freddie Mac, for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage with a 20 percent down payment. Fees and points not included.)

Taxes: $14,107 (Based on assessed value of $445,000)

Built: 1850

School District: Jordan-Elbridge

Kitchen: By todays standards the kitchen of this historic farmhouse is simple according to owner Cheryl Drake. But, she adds, its simplicity makes it a very easy kitchen to work in. Everything she says is within arms reach. The kitchen has a center island, stove and refrigerator. The kitchens amazing historic fireplace is largely decorative today.

Living spaces: This architecturally significant home looks much like it did when it was built in 1850. It has 5,640 square feet of living space and has two front parlors which are Drakes favorite rooms. They are great for entertaining and fun to decorate during the holidays. The homes formal dining room was once used to feed the farms field hands. It has one of the homes five black marble wood-burning fireplaces. A great home office was where Drake worked during the COVID quarantine. The home includes a mud room, billiard room, and television room. The huge attic and basement have potential to be something more.

Bedrooms: There are nine large bedrooms in the house. Eight are on the second floor. The master bedroom is very warm. Many have the unique windows seen throughout the house.

Bathrooms: There are four bathrooms, three on the second floor, in the house which are all newer than the rest of the home.

Outdoors: This 142-acre property has been a working farm for 170 years. The home is surrounded by maple trees which are hundreds of years old. Drake and her husband built a backyard favorite which is a favorite for her. She enjoys watching the wildlife and the quiet privacy of the surrounding landscape. The grounds have hosted many weddings, including Drakes, and the front veranda makes for a beautiful background. There is a large garden shed and two large barns, one of which is heated which makes for a great workshop. The home is located in a wonderful location, Drake said. It is easy to get anywhere. It is five minutes from Skaneateles and 20 minutes from Syracuse.

Agent: Cheryl Drake

Howard Hanna Real Estate

Address: 28 East Genesee Street, Skaneateles, N.Y. 13152

Phone: (315) 415-9563

Email: cheryldrake@howardhanna.com

Website: cheryldrake.howardhanna.com

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Each hold inThe Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is unique. Some are almost frozen wastelands while others are home to fetid swamps and billowing bogs. Such a diverse landscape results in equally diverse life. Many different races of men and mer live and thrive in this open tundra province.

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Hjaalmarch is a region situated north of Whiterun and nestled between Haafingar on the west with The Pale to the east. Unlike many other holds, most of the landscape consists of marshes, swamps, and other dank wetlands. In these northern parts, there are covens of vampires plaguing the sparse settlements found in the soaked soil as well as other spooky scenes. However, not all appear on the player's map and have to be found with a little exploring.

East of Morthal, and quite close to it, upon a hill and obscured by some tall pine trees, the player can find a burial mound. This is not one belonging to a dragon or ancient mummified priest but a necromancer. Like quite a few other unmarked locations in Skyrim, this setting is a bit of a grim tableau for a sinister past deed.

Inside the mound, there is a person in necromancer robes impaled upon a table with a simple dagger. Don't get too distracted by the brutal scene, as there is a skeletal foe inside that will attack the Dragonborn. When the bony enemy has been dealt with, one can loot the various containers in the area as well as find a Staff of Revenants.

If one heads west from Morthal and crosses the river and then follows its banks south, they will eventually come across a grisly scene of mammoth proportions. A dead woolly pachyderm lies dead upon the sand and grass by the river. Just as one begins to ponder what could have happened here, a bear will likely show up to claim responsibility.

Either that, or it is scavenging a kill made by another predator. One likely more fierce than any mere bear. Sadly, there are no clues or other interesting events tied to this location. It is simply a display of the natural ecosystem of Skyrim: an unforgiving one that sunders even the mightiest of giants.

Burial mounds pock the surface of Skyrim like freckles. In each, there is often loot to be had, and most are worth checking out if stumbled across. Northwest of Morthal, before one gets to the Apprentice Stone, there is a moss-covered site of remembrance for someone long forgotten.

The only foes that can be found here are a few mudcrabs, therefore the player should have no problem gathering up the loot to be found inside. There is a chest as well as a book titled "The Locked Room" that will increase one's Lockpicking skill if read.

Exploring east of Dragon Bridge will lead one to a large peninsula in the fork of a river. In the northern part of this peninsula, there is a necromancer performing a ritual and preparing potions.

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These dark deeds are usually great for finding ingredients for potions and possibly enchanting material, as well as a chance to dole out justice upon foul necromancers. There is also a book here titled "Mannimarco, the King of Worms," which is a book that increases one's Alchemy skill and is a reference to a villainous necromancer from The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion.

In the far west of the hold, past Robbers Grave, though at the same latitude, there is a spot all players should be careful about treading. These are the hunting grounds of a pair of sabre cats. The location can be spotted from fairly far away by taking note of the tall stone pillars that jut out from the slope of the rocky hill.

However, if one is confident enough in their combat prowess to fell these two mighty felines, there is some loot to be had besides the eyes, teeth, and pelts of the big cats. In addition to a satchel and coin purse to pilfer, there is a book titled "2920, vol 01 - Morning Star," which can increase the player's One-Handed skill.

Vampirism is arguably a rampant problem in Skyrim. Not only can the player be infected by this supernatural disease by fighting the fiends themselves, but the influence of blood-drinking covens in Morthal has led to the death of many innocent people.

It is appropriate that the cure for this illness can be found nearby. North and slightly to the west of Morthal, not too far away is a site of peculiar stones. If one stumbles across them randomly, they are uneventful, but if one speaks to Falion in the vampire-infested city, they can start a quest that leads them here to purge their sanguine pestilence.

North of the Apprentice Stone, the bloody remains of some unknown tragedy can be discovered. The human bones and limbs, still splattered with wet blood, are the freshly butchered body parts of two unfortunate campers. While investigating, the Dragonborn may spot predators, or scavengers, about the area.

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Wolves, bears, and sabre cats could very well have been the culprits. The brutality makes it seem likely that there were wild animals behind this killing, though particularly vicious vampires cannot be ruled out. "The Exodus," a book that raises the player's Restoration skill, can be found near to the viscera of this campsite.

Far to the east of Hjaalmarch, north of where the Shrine to Mehrunes Dagon can be found,there is a cart along a road now void of its owner and ability to move, for bandits had struck it. This caravan, laden with all manner of potions, ingredients, and even a skill book, can be secured by slaying the two bandits.

It was unfortunately too late to save the owner or their horse but at least their goods won't go to the fiends who killed them.

Between the Nordic tomb of Folgunthur and the East Empire Company Warehouse, almost directly south of the Blue Palace, the player can find a rocky nook packed with containers to loot.

In addition to the many ingredients and cozy feeling, this smuggler's den has a skill book resting on a crate titled "Purloined Shadows," which increases one's Pickpocketing skill.

This location may not be on the map but one won't need directions to find it. Simply be in Kjenstag Ruins, a fair bit northeast from Morthal, anytime between 8:00 pm and 4:00 am and a friendly ghost will appear. This non-hostile specter will immediately begin running northeast at no provocation.

Follow them and they will lead one to an unmarked barrow. The entrance is guarded by two bandits, therefore some combat is inevitable. After the bandits have been dealt with, descend to loot this hidden location packed with loot like random staves, skill books, and jewelry.

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Parapara Dam near Richmond Flat, was built by the Parapara Hydraulic Sluicing company at the end of the 19th century.

COLUMN: Hikers through the Aorere Goldfields this summer will no doubt be impressed by Druggans Dam, by far the biggest relic of the Collingwood goldfields.

Lesser known, and harder to access, are two other contemporary dams one up the Parapara River and the highest at Boulder Lake.

For sheer perseverance, the Parapara Hydraulic Sluicing Company holds the record with its 25-year stint in the field.

Some 80 tons of cement went into their 20m-wide Parapara Gorge dam near Richmond Flat, built around 1895. Sluicing achievements of this company include washing a whole mountain away and irrevocably diverting the Glen Gyle catchment into the Parapara Valley. Well done boys!

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In terms of determination though, few sagas beat the building of the dam across the outlet to Boulder Lake, high in the barren Quartz Range, 24km inland from Collingwood.

Floated in London in December, 1896, with an astronomical capital of 150,000, the Collingwood Goldfields Company had good reason to feel optimistic. The conglomerate drifts of the mountainside claim were known to contain rich gold.

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Thanks to the dam, Boulder Lake once occupied much of the glacial valley

One party of early prospectors picked up seven ounces of gold just by turning over large blocks of quartz. Imagine what full scale sluicing could uncover, so went the rationale.

Impossible country meant that the 50-pound bags of cement had to be carried in on workmans backs for the last part of the climb to the 1000 metre-high dam site. Although just three metres high, the dam nearly doubled the size of the glacial lake.

A sawmill was established to mill the matai and rimu needed for the eight kilometres of fluming needed to carry the water down from the intake below the dam. The timber had to be punted across the Aorere River and taken three kilometres by wagon before being trucked on a horse tramline up to the flume construction site.

Over 100 tons of pipes and equipment were transported up from Dunedin and slung across the Aorere River by aerial ropeway. The enormous flurry of activity even prompted Collingwood storekeepers to open temporary branches in the Quartz Ranges.

Sluicing began in August 1899. Despite a more than adequate water supply, returns at the claim were much less than was hoped for,

By November of the following year, the company was in liquidation. The operation carried on under a tribute arrangement with former employees.

Prospects for the new owners were looking bright until 1905, when a big flood carried away part of the fluming. Neither workers or owners were prepared to pay for the costly repairs and all the installed equipment was sold off.

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Algie Soper mustering the Haupiri Range

Amongst it all operated the graziers who leased Haupiri Station, the two runholders being John (Jack) Flowers who started it, and son Sidney (Sid) Flowers who took it over around 1920.

This 90 square kilometre run - bordered by the Haupiri Range, Slate River, Mt Hardy, Boulder Lake and Snow River up to the Lead Hills would surely rate as one of the most ambitious grazing leases in the country.

From Puramahoi, the sheep had to be driven for three days up over Pararara Peak and along Big Hill Face (Walker Ridge) and down to the flats at the top of Boulder Lake.

To make the sheep think others had come before them, one boys job was to go ahead with a small sack of sheep-dung and use his hand to smear it into the trunks of trees along the route.

It would prove not the blizzards or the steep rocky faces that defeated the graziers up here, but the errant goldminers who came during the depression and shot sheep for both meat and sport.

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In its heyday, Boulder Lake Dam and Control Gate

Sid Flowers recalled how one day he came across 13 shot sheep piled into a heap, only their fillets and back legs knifed off.

He wanted the police to go look for the miner-poachers, but they were not keen on long bush walks where they might be mistaken for an animal and shot.

Sid put in 850 sheep in his final year, 1933, but could only find 350 to muster out. While his father had some admiration for the dam builders of Boulder Lake, his son did not share his sentiment and one day packed in a load of dynamite to blast open the dam and thereby reclaim the extensive flats at the head of the lake.

Little remains today to tell the tale of the dambuilders up here. What flumings did survive have all rotted away. Even the devastating tailings down below have largely merged into the landscape.

But three dams Druggans, Parapara and Boulder - remain as solid tribute to the enormous human effort and endurance.

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The view from Druggans Dam today. Photo by Melanie Walker.

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Two weeks from now, an historic local bridge is getting a round of repairs. Its the Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge spanning the Connecticut River.

The New Hampshire Department of Transportation maintains the bridge. Beginning on Monday, January 4, the agency will start to replace several worn-out wooden planks on its deck.

At first, the bridge will be closed to traffic from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. every day for a week. For four more weeks after that, one lane of alternating traffic will be open at a time during those same hours. Both lanes will be open once the repairs wrap up each day. Transportation officials expect the work to be complete in early February.

The Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge has been standing since 1866 and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Until 2008, it was the longest covered bridge still in use in the United States.

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