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Disability and Rehabilitation Research and Related Projects
NIDILRR Now Part of HHS
Program Office: National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR)
CFDA Number: 84.133A
Program Type: Discretionary/Competitive Grants, Contracts, Cooperative Agreements
Also Known As: DRRP
The purpose of the DRRP program is to improve the effectiveness of services by developing methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technologies that advance a wide range of independent living and employment outcomes for individuals with disabilities, especially individuals with the most severe disabilities. DRRPs carry out one or more of the following activities: research, training, demonstration, development, dissemination, utilization, and technical assistance.
Many sub-programs fall under the auspices of the Disability and Rehabilitation Research Program (DRRP). Each of these sub programs is listed below.
- The General Disability and Rehabilitation Research Program
- The Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems Program
- The Burn Model Systems Program
- Americans with Disabilities Act National Network Centers' Program
- The Knowledge Translation Program
- The Section 21 Program
The General Disability Rehabilitation Research Program
The Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects (DRRP) program funds projects with special emphasis on research, demonstrations, training, dissemination, utilization and technical assistance. Projects may include combinations of these activities. True to the mission of NIDILRR, these projects may develop methods, procedures and rehabilitation technology to assist in achieving the full inclusion and integration into society, employment, independent living, family support and economic and social self-sufficiency of individuals with disabilities, especially individuals with the most severe disabilities, or to improve the effectiveness of services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act.
Generally, projects are funded for one grant cycle of three to five years as opposed to Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) and Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers (RERC) projects which often require long-term, sustained investments over multiple cycles of funding.
For more information on the types of projects under this program go to "Examples of Projects or Highlights of the General Disability and Rehabilitation Research Program" sub-heading under the "Types of Projects" section.
The TBI Model Systems' Program
The Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems (TBIMS) Centers program was created and funded by NIDILRR in 1987. The aim of the program is to demonstrate the benefits of a coordinated system of neurotrauma and rehabilitation care and to conduct innovative research on all aspects of care for those who sustain traumatic brain injuries. The mission of the TBIMS is to improve the lives of persons who experience traumatic brain injury by creating and disseminating new knowledge about the course, treatment and outcomes relating to their condition.
The 16 currently-funded centers provide comprehensive systems of brain injury care to individuals who sustain a traumatic brain injury, from acute care through community re-entry. The research efforts of the TBIMS centers include site-specific research projects as well as collaborative research module projects, which range from pilot research to more extensive studies. The research topics include improving diagnostic and prognostic tools and evaluating a variety of rehabilitative and pharmacological interventions aimed at reducing specific neurobehavioral symptoms, and optimizing community participation, employment and overall quality of life.
In addition, the TBIMS centers collect and contribute information on common data elements for a centralized TBIMS database, which is maintained through a NIDILRR-funded grant for a TBIMS National Data and Statistical Center.
Finally, the TBIMS centers are eligible to apply for a TBIMS Collaboratives grant which requires collaboration between four or more of the existing centers. The collaborative grants build on the research infrastructure of the TBIMS Centers and allow for multi-site research that could not be conducted by any one center alone.
For more information on the types of projects under this program go to "Examples of Projects or Highlights of the TBI Model System Program" sub-heading under the "Types of Projects" section.Top
The Burn Model Systems' Program
NIDILRR created the Burn Injury Rehabilitation Model Systems of Care (BMS) in 1994 to provide leadership in rehabilitation as a key component of exemplary burn care and to advance the research base of rehabilitation services or burn survivors. The BMS Centers have developed a longitudinal database that contains information on over 3,046 adults and more than 1,602 children. The data collection is maintained at the National Data and Statistical Center for the BMS since 1998.
The project activities from these centers continued to advance the knowledge in the field of burn care rehabilitation to inclusion of a chapter on burn rehabilitation in leading comprehensive Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) textbooks.
The findings from burn Injury-related psychological distress research have been published in the official American Burn Association (ABA) journal (Journal of Burn Care and Research) for dissemination to the entire ABA membership and to the wider body of individuals interested in burn injury rehabilitation
Pressure Garment Therapy (PGT) has been accepted formany years as state of the art treatment to diminish hypertrophic scarring, debilitating contractures across joints and diminishing pruritus have provided scientifically based guidelines for applying PGT.
A project on burn injury prevention collected demographic and research data on patients who sustain work-related burn injuries. This information was disseminated to the Safety and Health Assessment and Research for Prevention (SHARP) Program, part of the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries Burn Surveillance Program. SHARP staff used this new knowledge to educate Washington state employers on workplace safety.
Currently, four BMS Centers conduct research activities designed to improve rehabilitative interventions that can help optimize levels of community participation, employment, and overall quality of life for individuals with burn injury.
For more information on the types of projects under this program go to "Examples of Projects or Highlights of the Burn Model System Research Program" sub-heading under the "Types of Projects" section.Top
ADA National Network Centers' Program
The 10 ADA National Network Regional Centers (ADA Regional Centers), along with the ADA National Network Knowledge Translation Center (ADA KT Center) comprise the ADA National Network. The Regional Center are designed to improve understanding by ADA stakeholders of their rights and responsibilities under the ADA.
Each ADA Regional Center contributes to this outcome by implementing a program of outreach, training, technical assistance, information dissemination and capacity building aimed at ADA stakeholders including local, regional and national groups representing such stakeholders.
The ADA KT Center is designed to do the following:
- improve the efficiency and impact of the ADA National Network's outreach, training, technical assistance, information dissemination, and capacity building activities;
- increase the use of available ADA-related research findings to inform behavior, practices or policies that improve equal access in society for individuals with disabilities;
- increase awareness and utilization of ADA-related research findings by appropriate ADA stakeholder groups; and
- improve understanding of ADA stakeholders' need for and receipt of ADA Network Services over time, including services to address emerging issues related to compliance with ADA requirements.
For more information on the types of projects under this program go to "Examples of Projects or Highlights of the ADA National Network Centers' Program" sub-heading under the "Types of Projects" section.
The Knowledge Translation Program
Knowledge translation (KT) is a process of ensuring that new knowledge and products gained through the course of research and development will ultimately be used to improve the lives of individuals with disabilities and further their participation in society. KT is built upon and sustained by ongoing interactions, partnerships, and collaborations among various stakeholders in the production and use of such knowledge and products,including researchers, practitioners, policy-makers, persons with disabilities, and others.
KT process begins at knowledge creation, and carries through to knowledge synthesis, knowledge dissemination, and knowledge implementation/use in real-life settings and evaluation of its impact. Numerous factors can influence KT but they are not yet well understoodin the field of disability and rehabilitation, and there is a need to establish a better understanding of this process through research and development activities.
NIDILRR has invested in KT both through direct funding of research and development projects in its KT portfolio, and through integrating the KT underlying principle of interactions, partnerships, and collaborations among stakeholders into the content of all priorities. The projected long-term outcomes are knowledge and products that not only based on high quality science and relevant to society's needs, but can also be used to solve real issues faced by persons with disabilities.
The focuses of NIDILRR's KT projects range from investigating models, methods, strategies, and mechanisms that could contribute to the successful KT of disability and rehabilitation research and products, to synthesizing, disseminating, and promoting the use of existing knowledge and products to improve the lives of individuals with disabilities.
For more information on the types of projects under this program go to "Examples of Projects or Highlights of the General Disability and Rehabilitation Research Program" sub-heading under the "Types of Projects" section.
The Section 21 Program
NIDILRR's Capacity Building research agenda, as identified in its Long Range Plan, includes a section focused on activities specific to underserved populations, including racial and ethnic minorities. This part of the plan supports NIDILRR's capacity building goal and the intent of Section 21 of the Rehabilitation Act (29 USC § 718) which mandates that 1% of NIDILRR appropriations be set aside to address traditionally underserved populations
The Section 21 program focuses on research capacity building for minority entities such as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and institutions serving primarily Hispanic , Asian and American Indian students ; and non-minority entities with an interest in improving understanding about the needs and outcomes of individuals with disabilities from minority populations.
Program activities include assisting minority entities with networking that supports enhanced collaboration between minority entities and non-minority entities, and the exchange of expertise and advanced training across program areas.
In addition to funding grant activities in this area, NIDILRR annually organizes a Section 21 project directors' meeting to discuss critical issues, identify research and knowledge gaps, develop research agenda recommendations, and disseminate information. The audience consists primarily of personnel from funded Section 21 grants, as well as other NIDILRR grantees, research entities, organizations, and individuals with an interest in disability and rehabilitation for racial and ethnic minorities.
In FY 2008, NIDILRR conducted a Section 21 competition to improve the quality and use of research related to individuals with disabilities from traditionally underserved racial and ethnic populations, and to enhance the capacity of minority entities to conduct this research. The focus of research activities includes studies that address issues of employment, participation and community living, or health and function. Three grants were funded under this priority to conduct research over a five-year period.
For more information on the types of projects under this program go to "Examples of Projects or Highlights of the Section 21 Program" sub-heading under the "Types of Projects" section.
Given the number of sub-programs that fall under the auspices of the DRRP program, the types of projects conducted by grantees in each sub-program vary. Illustrative program highlights and examples of the types of projects conducted under each sub-program are listed below.
- Examples of Projects or Highlights of the General Disability and Rehabilitation Research Program
- Examples of Projects or Highlights of the TBI Model System Program
- Examples of Projects or Highlights of the Burn Model System Program
- Examples of Projects or Highlights of the ADA National Network Centers' Program
- Examples of Projects or Highlights of the Knowledge Translation Program
- Examples of Projects or Highlights of the Section 21 Program
Examples of Projects or Highlights of the General Disability and Rehabilitation Research Program
Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago Obesity Research Project on Prevalence, Adaptations and KT in Youth and Young Adults with Disabilities from Diverse Race/Ethnic Backgrounds.
The Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago is expanding upon ongoing research on obesity in youth and young adults with disabilities (formerly funded under DRRP-I) by addressing significant gaps in the literature related to prevalence, risk factors and consequences of obesity; successful and promising community-based strategies for obesity prevention; and knowledge translation issues that limit access to important research findings.
- Classification and Measurement of Medical Rehabilitation Interventions.
The Mount Sinai School of Medicine is developing a Rehabilitation Treatment Taxonomy (RTT) covering all treatments (experience-based, medications, education, assistive devices, etc.) delivered in medical rehabilitation. This is a multi-year, multidisciplinary process requiring the interweaving of many different conceptual and empirical steps, which needs to be guided by an overall blueprint to direct and link individual efforts. This project develops such a blueprint, and performs research to explore strategies and methods that are needed to create and test the full RTT. The taxonomy will set a needed common base for research and treatment terminology in rehabilitation.
Examples of Projects or Highlights of TBI Model System Program
The topics the current TBIMS Centers research studies can be broadly categorized as
- rehabilitation intervention trials,
- pharmacological intervention trials, and
- diagnostic/prognostic studies.
The overwhelming majority of these studies are randomized controlled trials.
The topics of these single site studies include:
- Rehabilitation Intervention Trials
Memory retraining; cognitive and neurobehavioral rehabilitation; virtual environment and robotic intervention; family crisis and support intervention; advocacy training; work attendance incentive program; home exercise program; visual-perceptual training for driving; sleep augmentation and fatigue reduction program; and acupuncture as novel technique for insomnia.
- Pharmacological Intervention Trials
(Carbamazepine for irritability/aggression; dextroamphetamine for attention/mood/function; human growth hormone for function improvement; safety and feasibility of minocycline); and diagnostic/prognostic studies (biomarkers of diffuse axonal injury; relationship between fMRI and outcomes; statistical models for predictors of function; and utility of MRI techniques in predicting outcome).
- Diagnostic/Prognostic Studies
Biomarkers of diffuse axonal injury; relationship between fMRI and outcomes; statistical models for predictors of function; and utility of MRI techniques in predicting outcome.
Examples of Projects or Highlights of Burn Model System Program
- Identification of the Pathways to Scarring
Will utilize bioinformatics tools to identify gene expression pathways associated with hypertropic scarring.
- Augmented Exercise Program Trial (randomized, controlled trial)
Conduct a double-blinded, randomized, controlled clinical trial of the efficacy of a formal, 12-week program of aerobic training in promoting return to fitness and improving adherence to an exercise program.
- Acute Stress Disorder (ASD) and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Children
Natural history, treatment efficacy, and prediction.
- Efficacy of Social Interaction Skills Training Post Burn Injury
A prospective randomized intervention study.
- Long-term Follow-up of the BMS National Database Sample (LTF-NDS)
Prospective, longitudinal outcome study. The goals are:
- to document physical, social and psychological conditions five and ten years post-burn injury,
- to determine significant barriers to community reintegration,
- to compare acute post-burn quantitative measures of impairment to long-term assessments; and
- to identify common abnormal conditions caused by major burns to help promote future burn research agendas thus improving the quality of burn survivors lives.
- to document physical, social and psychological conditions five and ten years post-burn injury,
Examples of Projects or Highlights of the ADA National Network Centers' Program.
The Ten ADA National Network Regional Centers:
New England ADA Center
Serves Region 1 (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont)
Institute for Human Centered Design
Boston, Massachusetts
Phone: (617) 695-0085 (V/TTY)
Fax: (617) 482-8099
- Northeast ADA Center
Serves Region 2 (New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands)
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
Phone: (607) 225-6686 (V/TTY)
Fax: (607) 255-2763
- Mid-Atlantic ADA Center
Serves Region 3 (Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia)
TransCen, Inc.
Rockville, Maryland
Phone: (301) 217-0124 (V/TTY)
Fax: (301) 217-0754
- Southeast ADA Center
Serves Region 4 (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee)
Project of the Burton Blatt Institute-Syracuse University
Atlanta, Georgia 30324
Phone: (404) 541-9001 (V/TTY)
Fax: (404) 541-9002
- Great Lakes ADA Center
Serves Region 5 (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin)
University of Illinois/Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
Phone: (312) 413-1407 (V/TTY)
Fax: (312) 413-1856
- Southwest ADA Center
Serves Region 6 (Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas)
Independent Living Research Utilization
Houston, Texas
Phone: (713) 520-0232 (V/TTY)
Fax: (713) 520-5785
- Great Plains ADA Center
Serves Region 7 (Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska)
University of Missouri/Columbia
Columbia, Missouri
Phone: (573) 882-3600 (V/TTY)
Fax: (573) 884-4925
- Rocky Mountain ADA Center
Serves Region 8 (Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming)
Meeting the Challenge, Inc.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Phone (719) 444-0268 (V/TTY)
Fax (719) 444-0269
- Pacific ADA Center
Serves Region 9 (Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada and the Pacific Basin)
Oakland, California
Phone: (510) 285-5600 (V/TTY)
Fax: (510) 285-5614
- Northwest ADA Center
Serves Region 10 (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington)
University of Washington
Mountlake Terrace, Washington 98043
Phone (425) 248-2480 (V, TTY, TDD, TT)
Fax: (425) 774-9303
The primary purpose of the ADA TA Center is to serve as a national technical assistance center to the ten regional ADA netowrk centers.
Examples of Projects or Highlights of the Knowledge Translation Program.
- The National Center on the Dissemination of Disability Research (NCDDR)
focuses on promoting dissemination of disability and rehabilitation research knowledge by conducting research to identify the strategies on effective dissemination practices for intended user audiences,implementing those strategies that would promote the use of research outcomes in meaningful ways, and providing training and technical assistance to NIDILRR grantees to for capacity building in this area.
The Center on Knowledge Translation for Technology Transfer (KT4TT)
focuses on promoting the transfer of technology developed by NIDILRR technology grantees through applications of both the theories and practices of KT through synthesizing current knowledge about KT theories and practices related to accomplishing technology transfer (TT) outcomes, conducting research to test the effectiveness of KT for TT, conducting demonstration projects on TT, and providing training and technical assistance to NIDILRR's technology grantees in this area.
- The Center on Innovative Knowledge Dissemination and Utilization for Disability and Professional Organizations and Stakeholders
focuses on an innovative approach—underpinned by close collaborations with various professional organizations, consumer organizations, and other stakeholders—to develop, test, and apply appraisal standards, implementation methods, and dissemination strategies of research-based information that would enable knowledge users in rehabilitation field to make informed choices.
Examples of Projects or Highlights of the Section 21 Program.
Dartmouth College, in collaboration with Howard University, will conduct three research projects to enhance understanding of the broad service experience of African-Americans in psychiatric rehabilitation. All of the planned research will occur in Washington, DC, in partnership with Community Connections mental health services agency and the District of Columbia Supported Employment program.
- The first project will assess the influence on rehabilitation of living in independent housing units in a small, relationship-centered building that accommodates other people in recovery from mental illness.
- The second project will examine the process of rehabilitation for African-Americans with co-occurring severe mental illness and substance use disorder.
- The final project is a study of the service experience of African-Americans in supported employment.
From these findings, the grantee will develop relevant empirically-grounded interventions that may improve service delivery and effectiveness for African-Americans suffering from a psychiatric disability.
Additional Information
To obtain abstract and contact information for newly and currently funded grants in each sub-program under the auspices of the Disability and Rehabilitation Research Program (DRRP). go to http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osers/nidrr/nidrrprogramhome.html#
Note:This is one of several NIDILRR grant programs. Congress provides an appropriation for NIDILRR as a whole; see the entry for NIDILRR (# 84.133), also under the topical heading "Disability and Rehabilitation Research." The amounts listed here are a portion of the total NIDILRR appropriation.


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According to SI.com's Jon Heyman, there is "virtually no chance" the Cardinals reach a deal with Albert Pujols before the slugger's spring deadline.
Cardinals signed OF Dexter Fowler to a five-year, $82.5 million contract.
Derrick Goold and Ben Frederickson of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch write that the Cardinals "could become more aggressive than previously believed," with Mark Trumbo and Edwin Encarnacion as "possible pursuits."
Koji Uehara has reached a deal to join the Cubs, per Jon Heyman of FanRag Sports.
Red Sox signed 1B Mitch Moreland to a one-year, $5.5 million contract.
SB Nation's Chris Cotillo reports that the Angels showed interest in Cardinals second baseman Kolten Wong at the Winter Meetings.
According to USA Today's Bob Nightengale, the Rockies "remain deeply involved in talks for free agent Mark Trumbo."
According to MLB.com's Joe Frisaro, free agent Neftali Feliz is a "candidate" for the Marlins.
Jake Arrieta's agent Scott Boras said he plans to discuss a contract extension with the Cubs in January.
MASN's Mark Zuckerman reports that the Nationals have discussed David Robertson with the White Sox.
Padres acquired RHP Miguel Diaz from the Twins for RHP Justin Haley and a player to be named later or cash considerations.
Mike Puma of the New York Post says there is a "limited market" at the moment for Jay Bruce.

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"The Great Mitten debate," "Mittengate" and "The Battle for the Mitten" are just some of the interesting names popping up from the fallout from the Wisconsin Department of Tourism's decision to put up an image of a somewhat stretched-out mitten for its new winter activity section on its website. That move has sparked a wave of pride and defense from Michiganders and has gained national attention. We've started a website to help determine who truly is the mitten state that you can find on michigan.org.
There have been hundreds of comments and Tweets we've read responding to the question we posed today on our Facebook and Twitter pages asking: "Why is Michigan the real mitten state?" Here are a few we came across. Thanks to all who responded!
"Because when Paul Bunyan was chopping down trees in the winter he dropped his mittens and over time it became the state of Michigan!!!! Why do you think we have statues of Paul Bunyan all over in the state???" –Mary Doyle on Facebook
"Their [Wisconsin's] attempt looks like they pulled a mitten over the top of some guy wearing a cheesehead hat." –Brent L. Larson on Facebook
"I had hoped to support Wisconsin's mittenosity, but after wasting some time in Photoshop, I must concede that the lower peninsula of Michigan requires the least hand deformation to wear." –Rexella Van Impe on michigan.org
"I knit a mitten once that looked kind of looked like Wisconsin. I didn't knit the second one." – @JulieKay0919 on Twitter
"Dear Wisconsin, Identity check: You are not a mitten. But as they say, imitation is the greatest form of flattery. #PureMichigan" –@mattfrendewey on Twitter
"We have an attitude and we show it. Everyone can "talk to the mitten" if you wanna dish Mich!!!" –Cheryl Love Taylor on Facebook
"Because it's the only state where you might have to wear mittens in May, but may NOT need them on Thanksgiving?" –Kathy Wolf Smyser on Facebook
"You know, this mitten thing could really take off!" – @MKelto on Twitter
"If you look at the shape, it's obviously a mitten. No matter where you go in the U.S.A. if you say you're from Michigan people get it when you hold up your hand and show them where you're from. No other state can you do that without confusing the crap out of someone." – Kristen Wheeler on Facebook
"Because, even on the map, our hand is raised in greeting hello!" – Lois Payette on Facebook
"I don't want to get into it. Talk to the hand." – Sue Stuever Battel on Facebook


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Category: North Dakota
North Dakota Subtractions from Income
Interest from U.S. Obligations
Enter the following in this area:
- Interest income from U.S. obligations
- Interest income from other securities that is specifically exempted from state income tax by federal statute
- The portion of dividend income from a mutual fund attributable to investment in U.S. obligations and other securities that interest from which is exempted from state income tax by federal statute.
Common sources of interest income that may be entered here include:
- U.S. savings bonds and Treasury bills and notes
- Securities issued by:
Banks for cooperatives
Commodity Credit Corporation
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Farm Credit System
Federal Home Loan Banks
Federal Intermediate Credit Banks
Federal Land Banks
Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corporations
Student Loan Marketing Association
Note: Do not enter on this line interest income from securities of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), and Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae), nor from federal income tax refund or repurchase agreement.
ND Net Long-Term Capital Gain Exclusion (Loss)
If your federal taxable income includes a net long-term capital gain (including a capital gain distribution from a mutual fund), you may exclude 40% of that gain from your North Dakota taxable income. However, if you were a full-year nonresident or part-year resident of North Dakota for the tax year, the exclusion is limited to a net long-term capital gain based on the capital gains and losses reportable to North Dakota.
Native American's Exempt Income
If you are an enrolled member of a federally-recognized Indian tribe who lived on any Indian reservation in North Dakota for all of 2015, enter on this line income you derived from sources on any Indian reservation in North Dakota. Do not enter income derived from non-reservation sources in North Dakota. If you lived in North Dakota in 2015, but you did not reside on an Indian reservation for part or all of 2015, do not enter income earned or received while living off of the reservation.
U.S. Railroad Retirement Board Benefits
Enter on this line unemployment, sick pay, or retirement benefits received from the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board that are included in federal taxable income.
Income From certain S corporations
Enter on this line the amount of an income adjustment reported to you by an S corporation that elected to be taxed as a C corporation. For more information,
obtain the Income Tax Guideline: Adjustment For Income (Loss) From An S Corporation Electing To Be Taxed As A C Corporation.
National Guard or Reserve Member Exclusion
If you were a member of the North Dakota National Guard or the U.S. armed forces reserve, and you were mobilized or activated for federal active duty service under Title 10, United States Code, enter the compensation received for that service. Do not enter compensation exempted from federal income tax, nor compensation received for attending annual training, basic military training, or professional military education. You will attach a copy of your Title 10 orders.
College SAVE Contribution Deduction
If you made a contribution in 2015 to a North Dakota College SAVE account administered by the Bank of North Dakota, you are allowed a deduction for the total contributions made during the year, up to a maximum deduction of $5,000 ($10,000, if married filing jointly). You are allowed the deduction regardless of whether you or someone else owns the account. A rollover of funds from another I.R.C. Section 529 college savings plan into a North Dakota College SAVE account does not qualify for the deduction.
New or Expanding Business Income Exemption (included in Line 16 calculations)
If you operate a business as a sole proprietorship and were granted a new or expanding business income exemption under N.D.C.C. ch. 40-57.1, enter the portion of your net business income that is eligible for the exemption. For more information on how to calculate the amount of the exempt income, see North Dakota Administrative Code § 81-03-01.1-06. Include on this line a new or expanding business income exemption from a North Dakota Schedule K-1.
Organ Donor Deduction (included in Line 16 calculations)
If you or your dependent, while living, donates part or all of a liver, pancreas, kidney, intestine, lung, or bone marrow for transplantation into another human being, you may deduct up to $10,000 of qualified expenses related to the donation.
Qualified expenses means:
- Lost wages not compensated for by sick pay.
- Medical expenses (as defined for federal income tax purposes) that you did not deduct in calculating your federal taxable income. Medical expenses for which you receive reimbursement under an insurance plan or other source do not qualify for the deduction.
If the qualified expenses are incurred in more than one tax year, the expenses must be deducted in the tax year in which they are incurred. Medical expenses are incurred when the medical care giving rise to the expense is actually provided, and not when the expenses are billed or paid. Enter on this line qualified expenses incurred during the 2015 tax year.
Employee Workforce Recruitment Exclusion (included in Line 16 calculations)
If you receive a statement from your employer verifying that your employer qualified for the North Dakota workforce recruitment income tax credit based on your employment, enter on this line the amount of the signing bonus, moving expense payment, or non-typical fringe benefit payment shown on the statement, but only to the extent it is included in your 2015 federal taxable income.


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ravens or niners who ya guys got?
The Baltimore Ravens. u_u
btw wrong section.
There's a sport section: Sports
49ers! FYI i dont think 97% of the users on this site even watch football. haha
49ers. Ray Lewis murdered a man.
im from california. niners bringin that lombardi trophy back to cali.
49rs all the way!
49ers wrong section
RAVENS,!!! all the way!
Hate them, but San Frans going to take this.
when is it again?
this sunday!
I rooting for San Fransisco. I've despised Jacoby Jones every since he botched two returns last year for the texans, costing them the playoff game against baltimore last year
Go 49ers! I'm not really a fan, I just hates da Ravens.
49s definately, thought not my favorites they are better than Ravens in my head.
Ima go with the ravens they are the hot team and flacco got the hot hand.
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Historia Tragico Maritima Tomo Segundo (1565)
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The História Trágico-Marítima was first published in 1735/1736 by Bernardo Gomes de Brito, and consisted of two volumes with twelve narratives of shipwrecks and other maritime disasters. Mostly reprints of sixteenth and seventeenth century pamphlets, these narratives were an immediate success and triggered the edition of a third volume with another six accounts, clandestinely published by an anonymous printer that has never been identified. 1
1. Nautical Archaeology Digital Library
Further Reading
Link to NADL copy of Historia Tragico Maritima Tomo Segundo (1565)


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Lords pushes FCA to tackle HFT
An influential House of Lords committee has pushed the UK's Financial Conduct Authority to tackle high-frequency trading after hearing evidence on the subject from the chief executive of IEX Group.
The Economic Affairs Committee of the UK's upper house last week wrote to Martin Wheatley, the FCAs' chief executive, asking him if he believed "predatory trading was an issue in the UK equity markets".
The letter, signed by Lord Hollick, chairman of the committee, continued: "...if so, how does the FCA think the issue should be best tackled?"
The missive was prompted by a one-off evidence session on July 22 during which the Committee heard from Brad Katsuyama, president and CEO of alternative trading venue IEX Group.
Katsuyama and IEX have drawn global attention since the publication of Michael Lewis's latest book Flash Boys, in which the author claimed US equities markets were being rigged by high-frequency traders front-running trades to obtain better prices than other investors.
During the Lords hearing Katsuyama, who participated via video link, said he thought that markets today were "unfair" because trading venues, by selling technology to HFT firms, are no longer neutral. "An entire infrastructure has been built around unfair trading", he said.
Technology sold to HFT firms by exchanges include co-location services, which allow trading firms to locate their computer servers next to an exchange's matching engines, thus gaining a speed advantage.
Katsuyama added during the hearing that it would be difficult for direct regulatory action to prevent predatory trading or market volatility: "Every prevention technique really addresses the problem that just happened, not necessarily one that may happen in the future".
Instead, he advocated more transparency and disclosure for trading venues, believing this would help stop predatory practices. In its letter to the FCA, the Committee said it would be "grateful for comments on Mr Katsuyama's thoughts".
Although the issues surrounding high-frequency trading have been a matter of fierce debate for several years, Flash Boys has drawn greater attention from regulators and the wider public to the practice. Market participants remain deeply divided on whether HFTs are helping to tighten spreads and provide liquidity or creating more market volatility and instability.
The FCA's predecessor body, the Financial Services Authority, undertook a "thematic review" of UK-based HFT firms in 2012. The results of the review have remained private, but people familiar with the situation have said it required firms to improve their "market conduct controls", such as pre and post-trade risk procedures, and "operational risk issues", including minimum capital requirements and governance issues.
The firms also face more onerous rules from a revised version of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, or Mifid II, which is set to come into force in 2016. Germany has already issued rules on high-frequency trading that came into effect earlier this year and include a requirement that all HFT firms that trade directly or indirectly on German markets to be authorised by German regulator BaFin.


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Two out of three respondents in a new University of Texas poll [2] said energy issues are important to them. But the harsh rhetoric of campaign season makes it seem like politicians can never agree on important policies needed to provide safe, reliable and affordable energy while also protecting the environment.
Well they can, and they did. Right now in Washington, D.C., we have a bipartisan bill that would reduce carbon emissions and develop domestic energy resources.
The bill (S. 3581 [3]) introduced last month would modify an existing tax credit for using captured carbon dioxide for enhanced oil recovery (CO2-EOR).
What is CO2-EOR [4]? It's an oil production technique in which CO2 is injected deep underground to recover additional oil from already-developed oil fields. And it's a proven strategy that will boost domestic oil production and create jobs [5] while providing environmental benefits [6].
Selling captured CO2 for EOR provides an important economic opportunity for overcoming the high cost and risks of early carbon capture and storage [7] (CCS) projects.
Why do we need CCS? Consider these facts:
In fact, while most of today's CO2-EOR depends on naturally-occurring carbon dioxide, any future expansion requires capturing more CO2 from man-made sources.
The bill introduced by Sens. Kent Conrad (D-ND), Mike Enzi (R-WY), and Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) proposes needed administrative modifications -- with no fiscal cost -- to the existing Section 45Q Tax Credit for Carbon Dioxide Sequestration [11]. The bill adopts consensus recommendations [12] of the National Enhanced Oil Recovery Initiative [13] (NEORI), a broad coalition pulled together by C2ES and the Great Plains Institute [14]. NEORI includes companies, environmental advocates, labor, and state officials looking to advance enhanced oil recovery using carbon dioxide captured from power plant and industrial sources.
The 45Q tax credit offers a $10 tax credit per man-made ton of CO2 stored through enhanced oil recovery, and a $20 tax credit per ton of CO2 stored in deep saline formations. A project may receive 45Q credits for up to 10 years, and the overall 45Q program is limited to providing tax credits for 75 million tons of CO2 across all projects. While some of the 75 million tons of CO2 may be injected in deep saline formations, the vast majority is expected to be used for EOR. Therefore, the tax credit could result in the production of between 60 and 117 million barrels of domestic oil.
Why is 45Q reform needed? Due to uncertainties in the tax code and in the application process for 45Q credits, carbon capture project developers have no guarantee that they will be able to claim 45Q credits during the planning stages. As a result, the 45Q credit program has not worked as intended and carbon capture projects have been unable to count on receiving the credits when applying for financing. Additional certainty is needed to help several key carbon capture projects obtain private finance and begin construction.
S. 3581 addresses key uncertainties in the existing code and aims to establish a clear and transparent process for claiming the 45Q credits. It:
A complete explanation of the NEORI 45Q Modifications can be found here [12].
While political candidates debate such issues as the production tax credit for wind energy [15] and the Keystone XL pipeline [16], the importance of CCS technology and the emerging potential of CO2-EOR are overlooked. In fact, the 112th Congress [17] has not passed major legislation to advance CCS technology. While the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 [18] provided $3.4 billion to speed the deployment of CCS, future federal support to complement this earlier investment has not been specified. This is why NEORI calls for a new production tax credit [19] to support CO2-EOR in addition to 45Q reform. (See the Bloomberg View editorial board's endorsement [20] of NEORI's recommendation).
Upon introducing S. 3581, Senator Conrad stated [21] that he was confident that his colleagues in the Senate would see the value of CO2-EOR. Overall, NEORI believes passing this bipartisan bill would represent an important first step for renewing federal support for CCS and helping improve our energy security while encouraging development of technology to protect the environment.
[1] http://www.c2es.org/blog/falwellp
[2] http://www.utenergypoll.com/
[3] http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112s3581is/pdf/BILLS-112s3581is.pdf
[4] http://neori.org/resources-on-co2-eor/how-co2-eor-works/
[5] http://neori.org/resources-on-co2-eor/economic-jobs-benefits/
[6] http://neori.org/resources-on-co2-eor/environmental-benefits/
[7] http://www.c2es.org/technology/factsheet/ccs
[8] http://www.c2es.org/technology-solutions/coal
[9] http://www.c2es.org/technology-solutions/natural-gas
[10] http://www.c2es.org/technology-solutions/oil
[11] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/45Q
[12] http://neori.org/publications/neori-45q/
[13] http://neori.org/
[14] http://www.gpisd.net/
[15] http://www.c2es.org/blog/claussene/should-wind-tax-credit-stay-or-go
[16] http://www.c2es.org/technology-solutions/keystone
[17] http://www.c2es.org/blog/royn/112th-congress-climate-change
[18] http://www.fossil.energy.gov/recovery/index.html
[19] http://neori.org/publications/neori-report/
[20] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-17/championing-coal-romney-and-obama-ignore-its-dark-side.html
[21] http://www.conrad.senate.gov/pressroom/record.cfm?id=337680
[22] http://www.c2es.org/category/topic/energy-technology
[23] http://www.c2es.org/category/topic/federal
[24] http://www.c2es.org/category/topic/initiatives
[25] http://www.c2es.org/category/topic/innovation
[26] http://www.c2es.org/category/keywords/carbon-capture-storage
[27] http://www.c2es.org/category/keywords/ccs
[28] http://www.c2es.org/category/keywords/enhanced-oil-recovery
[29] http://www.c2es.org/category/keywords/neori


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Neddy Got Run Over by a Reindeer
Neddy got runned over by a reindeer
Walking from the bar one Winter Eve.
You can say there's no such thing as Santa
But as for me and Dodger fans, we believe
He'd been overpaying too much dough
And we begged him to please forgo
but he likes them long in the tooth
so he was booted out the door into the snow
When they found him Christmas nornin
after he had his food and wine
he had hoof prints on his forehead
and incriminatin' Claus marks on his behind.
Neddy got runned over by a reindeer
Walking from the bar one Winter Eve.
You can say there's no such thing as Santa
But as for me and Dodger fans we believe.
Now we're all so proud of Dodger fans
They been taking this so well
See them in there watching reruns
drinking beer and playin games with cousin Guido
It's not Christmas without Neddy
All the Dodgers dressed in black
And we just can't help but wonder
Should we keep his acquisitions or send them back?
Now the squirrel is on the table
and the pudding made of fig
and a blue and grey candle
that would have just matched the hair in Neddy's wig
I've warned all the MLB owners
"Better watch out for yourselves
They should never give a checkbook
To a man who wears boots and a toupee"
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Kansas Legislature Passes Anti-Sharia Law, The Big Meanies
There's only one problem with the narrative going around the Left-O-Sphere that Kansas is now a bunch of Islamophobes: the actual legislation doesn't actually mention Sharia law, which makes the USA Today headline rather improper
Kansas lawmakers pass anti-Islamic law measure
A bill designed to prevent Kansas courts or government agencies from making decisions based on Islamic or other foreign legal codes has cleared the state Legislature after a contentious debate about whether the measure upholds American values or appeals to prejudice against Muslims.
The Senate approved the bill Friday on a 33-3 vote. The House had approved it, 120-0, earlier in the week. The measure goes next to Republican Gov. Sam Brownback, who hasn't said whether he'll sign or veto the measure.
The measure doesn't specifically mention Shariah law, which broadly refers to codes within the Islamic legal system. Instead, it says that courts, administrative agencies or state tribunals can't base rulings on any foreign law or legal system that would not grant the parties the same rights guaranteed by state and U.S. constitutions.
Certainly, much of the intent behind the measure, as many who voted for it stated, is to block the use of Islamic law being used in making legal decisions here in the US. Is this a widespread problem? No. But it has happened. And we have federal judges and Supreme Court justices who've said they would like to use international law to render decisions. This legislation stops the use of any non-American legal system laws from being used to make legal decisions in Kansas.
While much of Sharia law is benign, like far-left liberalism, it creeps up. This is how we end up with laws against lemonade stands and bake sales. The thing about Sharia law is that it is meant to follow the religious precepts of the Koran and is very flexible. It is not a hard-baked legal code. Oh, and then there are the parts about honor killings, divorcing a woman by saying "I divorce you" three times, women needing 4 witness to prove they were raped, women being subservient to men, it being OK to beat a women per the Koran, gays being considered abominations who should be hanged, and so, so much more.
Anyone who thinks this is simply fear of Muslims should go live in a country that practices Sharia law. Especially women. See how you far if caught, say, drinking. I've always found it very strange that so many liberals support the concept of Sharia law, when it, in fact, stands against all notions of a fair and equal society.
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On Monday, President Barack Obama delivered a monumental address to the nation. It wasn't monumental in terms of rhetoric — in fact, it wasn't even memorable. It was monumental because it signaled for the first time just how grand Obama's ambitions for the left are. No longer is the left content to wage a war against Constitutional principles on behalf of a Marxist philosophical system. Now they will attempt to convince the American people that Constitutional principles dictate Marxism.
Obama opened his address by quoting the Declaration of Independence: "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." The Declaration of Independence sets forth a vision of limited government designed to avoid tyranny. But Obama, employing all the linguistic slight-of-hand in his multitudinous bag of tricks, had a plan to turn the Declaration inside out.
He began by rendering the document meaningless. As it turned out, "when times change, so must we." More importantly, when times change, so must our concept of liberty. Obama said, "our generation's task [is] to make these words, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every American." But what do those high-sounding phrases mean? Obama said they have no meaning: "Being true to our founding … does not mean we all define liberty in exactly the same way or follow the same precise path to happiness. Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time."
In other words, liberty has no meaning.
It is simply a lie to state that our founders did not have a singular definition of liberty. They did. It is expressed in the Declaration itself. Liberty, says the Declaration, is freedom from government "abuses and usurpations." It is: not: government guarantees of healthcare, pensions and food stamps. The Constitution was ratified in order to preserve the founders' vision of liberty and to prevent a "good government" from usurping power in order to achieve the social engineering the left adores.
Obama knows this just as his progressive predecessors knew this. That's why Woodrow Wilson despised the Constitution. So does Obama. But unlike Wilson, Obama realizes that the American people still like the Constitution. And so he must somehow read his anti-Constitutionalism into founding philosophy itself.
And so he turns liberty into a meaningless word. But it is there that the magic show truly begins. Once liberty is meaningless, how can government preserve it? Only by giving each individual his or her heart's desire. As Obama said, "preserving our individual freedoms," he said, "ultimately requires collective action." This is Orwellian in its reversal of language. Individual freedoms require government to leave us alone, aside from protecting our lives and property rights.
But for Obama, individual freedom cannot exist in the absence of government.
What of those individuals who define liberty in the way the founders defined it? In Obama's Orwellian world, they are anti-liberty, because government: is: liberty. Obama used the phrase "We, the people" — the first words of the Constitution — no less than five times. Each time, substituting "government" would have been more accurate. For example, "We, the people, still believe that every citizen deserves a basic measure of security and dignity." How? Via government redistributionism. "We, the people," said Obama, "will respond to the threat of climate change." How? Through the government.
Government is liberty. Freedom is tyranny. Individualism is collectivism.
And the Constitution is meaningless unless it is being wielded as a club against those who actually value the founding ideology for which it stands.
Welcome to Barack Obama's second term.
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Hanna Degerman is a visibility specialist determined to make it easier to see and be seen when driving the new Volvo FM.
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State Superintendent of Education Robert E. Schiller has appointed Round Lake resident Bish J. Krywko to fill the unexpired term of Alejandro M. "Alex" Solla on the School Finance Authority for Round Lake School District 116. Solla was appointed to a two-year term on the Authority in August but submitted his resignation when he learned that he was moving from the area.
Mr. Krywko has lived in Round Lake for seven years and currently has a son who attends Round Lake High School. Another son graduated previously from Round lake High School.
Krywko is employed by the Checker Taxi Association, which provides services to the taxi transportation industry throughout the Midwest. It is the largest such association in the Midwest, with over 1,400 members.
The School Finance Authority was created August 22 when the State Board of Education granted the District 116 Financial Oversight Panel's petition to create the Authority.
The Oversight Panel voted unanimously in June to petition the State Board to authorize the School Finance Authority. The school district has been plagued with severe financial problems for several years and the State Board authorized the School Finance Authority after determining that the petition is "in the best interests of the educational and financial interests of the district."
District 116 was placed on the state's Financial Watch List and as a result of their deteriorated finances, the State Board certified the district as "In Financial Difficulty" on April 16, 1992. Required financial plans were developed but failed to stop the flow of red ink. The District faced a short-term debt of $10.5 million and long-term debt of $37 million in April of 2000 when the district asked the State Board to create a Financial Oversight Panel to improve its financial condition and to make the district eligible for a state emergency loan and grant.
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The Center for Discovery is well known as one of the most important success stories in Sullivan County, and president and CEO Patrick Dollard said he intends to expand on that success in the coming years and beyond.
At a presentation at the center's Michael Richie Big Barn Center in Hurleyville on June 27, Dollard explained the center's plans to add a High Risk Assessment Center, which "will likely attract families from all over the world." The new center will ultimately add 350 jobs to the area, and will involve an investment of $40 million. It is projected that, once it is open, the assessment center will save New York State $29 million annually on the cost of providing care.
In wide-ranging remarks about the past, present and future of the Center for Discovery, Dollard noted that when he took the helm of the organization some 30 years ago, there was a staff of 20. Now, the center employs 1,500 and more than 80% of them are Sullivan County residents.
In discussing the center's position in the world of treating individuals with complex illnesses and conditions, Dollard noted that the center is working with organizations such as Harvard, M.I.T., Georgia Tech, Chapel Hill and others with the goal of creating "new models of care."
He said, "The complexity of disorders and disease that we're dealing with [is moving] these universities to us in a way that says 'what you have been doing in these universities hasn't been working. You're still cranking out people with the same degrees that we have.'" A recurring theme of his remarks is that organizations that are in the field of treating very challenged individuals need to adjust to fill current and future needs.
One of the biggest challenges facing that field is autism. He said, "The disease is taking over the field of disability, going from prevalence of 1 in 10,000 (30 years ago) to one in 80 today; it has more prevalence than any disease in the history of mankind. It's very complex, and very, very destructive to the family. We have work to do."
He said diseases such as autism, coupled with the aging population of the country and world, are going to present challenges. He said he was examining a study of aging done by the ratings agency Standard & Poors, and the study said, "We're going to have so many people and these complex diseases, and the world is coming to an end." But, he added, "I think the transformation that you'll hopefully see, or that we need to see, places like us need to demonstrate with evidence that our treatment methodologies work."
Dollard said that one of the things that makes the center unique among places of its kind, is that he brought nurses into the center of the operation 30 years ago. He said, "Nurses came to us with a holistic notion of the whole person." Today, he said, "We have the brightest medical division of any place in the country run by nurses. They tell the neurologists what to do."
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Theresa Hamlin, associate executive director of the organization, gave an example of the work that will be done at the assessment center. She said that kids that come to the center with autism have severe behavioral problems that are caused by even more severe medical problems. She said there is still not a good understanding about autism, although it is known that there is a genetic component involving multiple genes and "there is certainly an environmental component," which is one reason that the center has been a champion of green buildings.
She said some of the children that come to the center can't be handled by their parents, the schools or doctors because, "they're literally tearing the physician's office apart."
She said, "We have two classrooms and an observation space that are wired with very sensitive camera technology, audio sensing and bio sensors, which measures your autonomic nervous system; in particular we're looking at electrodermal activity, which is a measure of stress. So we can actually see the internal stress state of the child through this technology."
Hamlin said with the technology they have, which is brand new, she can tell a computer to gather all of the incidents in which a child has, for instance, hit his head, and "within 20 minutes I will have the 160 episodes where that behavior happened."
She displayed a chart in which stress heart rates and specific behaviors are measured, and explained the information. At one point the heart rate jumped significantly, and the child lost control of himself. Just before that, the teacher gave the child a task to solve, a problem which he could not do. People in the room would assume that the task was the reason for the blowup. But a look at the chart shows that the child's stress level started to skyrocket three minutes previous to the blow-up, so the trigger was something else.
She said that kind of research would be taken further with the new assessment center. Hamlin said, "Our goal for families is that before a behavior happens we want to be able to tell a family that behavior is about to happen. So we're working with a couple of drug companies and computer systems; they are going to create an app that will allow a parent to get a little call on their cell phone that will say 'there's something happening with your child right now,' so either they need to do some deep breathing, some relaxation, or you need to get out of that situation, because it's not going to end well."


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The activities of Cogswell's entrepreneurship event were just a few of over 3,000 that took place during Global Entrepreneurship Week of 2010. The massive movement educated aspiring entrepreneurs, and also helped launch many businesses. Cogswell's contribution was put together by Professor Bret Sweet and program director Trish Costello. The inspiration and excitement they continually pour into the Entrepreneurship and Innovation branch of Cogswell is a true testament to the passions they share with entrepreneurs everywhere.


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Last year's rate was 6.1 percent. The annual survey is a joint effort between the Hawaii State Department of Health Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division and the University of Hawaii.
"The declining rate for illegal tobacco sales to minors shows the department's efforts to educate store owners and retail clerks are working," said Health Director Loretta Fuddy. "However, now more than ever, with an increasing variety of tobacco products becoming available, we need to continue to be vigilant about protecting our youth."
The survey monitors the state's compliance with the "Synar" (tobacco) regulations for the federal Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant. To continue to qualify for Block Grant funds, every state must enact and enforce laws that prohibit the sale or distribution of tobacco products to youth under the age of 18. States are also required to annually conduct random, unannounced inspections and document a rate of tobacco sales to minors of no more than 20 percent.
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It sounds as though you have a couple different variable going on. I would wait out the week with the same pumping schedule and then you should also know if you are expecting as well. She may be weaning off the bottle. At one year mine went from two - three bottles at daycare to only one and then slowly weaned himself off that.
I commend you for pumping so much for so long! Not a lot of mom could have done that!
Mommy to Gabriel born 12/25/06 Breastfed 12/25/06 - 12/09 and possibly here and there still
Madelyn born 9/24/09 delivered at home and caught by my husband
"To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right."
Wife to Nick, m. May 2005
Mommy to Gabriel (b. January 2007, 8lbs. 15oz.), nursed 18 months.
Isaac (b. August 2009, 9lbs. 1oz- naturally), nursed 22 months, through PPD/PPA and emergency gallbladder surgery.
and Corban (b. March 2012, 11lbs. 6Oz.- naturally in the water), my NICU baby, still nursing strong at age 2!
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DD gets cheeses for snacks and yogurt for breakfast every day. We have been trying to giver her more meats but she is NOT interested.
SO ..... if she does not want cow's milk, but is eating plenty of fat/protein rich foods, will we be ok without BM??
All I do is
But I could not be happier!!
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34 weekers:
Samantha Jane (9/24/09)
Jillian Elizabeth (9/24/09)
Wife to a grizzly
Mama to my little deer (12/05) my loving bear cub (9/07--), and our little tiger (3/22/10)
Born by one c-section and 2 amazing VBACs
Miles in 2012: 350.5/900 (Actual Miles Ran: 189)
Miles in 2011: 708.5 (Actual Miles Ran: 509)
Miles in 2010: 800.5 (Actual Miles Ran: 620)
January Miles: 37.5/75
February Miles: 59/75
March Miles: 42.5/60
April Miles: 64
May Miles: 41/70
June Miles: 59
July Miles: 39.5
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My biggest problem with the weaning process is that it seems that at 1 year there is a switch that flips in a LO that means that they can now have cow's milk, eggs, turn around in their car seats...etc.
If they are ok to do all those things at 1 year, why not at 11 months 20 days??? I think that we should just follow our instincts. She is already choosing solids over BM these days, and it is hard to FORCE the bottle on her when she wants to eat food. I understand the need for either BM/formula, but 10 days will not make a difference.
Thanks for all the info ladies. You are always full of knowledge and experience!!
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But I could not be happier!!
Mom to
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34 weekers:
Samantha Jane (9/24/09)
Jillian Elizabeth (9/24/09)
You're almost in the same boat I am. My DD is 11 mos 11 days now and I'm ready to wean all but the night and morning nursing, but then I feel guilty. I can't believe I've been nursing for a year and growing her for 9 months on top of that.
I guess I need to take your advice and follow my instincts!
Jennifer (30) DH (38)
DD 10/9/07 Abigail for 15 months and survived 6mos of at work.
DS Ethan 5/14/10 for almost 15mos and at school(teacher) and entire school year...10 months.
Taking a break from until my next baby...TBA.
I have been EPing for 16 months. When I dropped from 4 to 3 pumpings, I tried to pump a little less for the one I wanted to drop for a bit and then I dropped it.
When I drop to 2, I plan on dropping the middle and moving the last one forward. To do this I plan on pumping less on the middle one for a bit and then dropping it. You may find that works best than dropping one every other day (it depends on your supply... I have a HUGE supply so if I did that I would be in pain)
I understand it hurts to pump. I get that way every time before / during my period. Hang in there.
Momma to K 05/24/07 (due 05/31/07)
Momma to I, 06/04/10 VBAC'd (due 05/31/10). Read about it here
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I got my VBAC!
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Matilda Geoffrey had risked it all for love.
She'd left Australia to be with Barry--the man who had swept her off her virtual feet. Now, wearing a wedding dress, she's alone on Main Street in small-town Wisconsin, and things aren't working out exactly as planned....
In town for his annual family visit, Marc Olsen had never seen a bride quite like Matilda--staring into a storefront window, holding a tottering wedding cake and looking desperately in need of a groom. He doesn't have many warm feelings for his hometown, but meeting Matilda just as she discovers she's been scammed by her online "fiancé" stirs something in him.
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The petite bride stood stock-still, her chapel-length beaded train sagging in the damp gutter while her white fingers clutched a two-tiered wedding cake. She stared long and hard into a vacant store window.
It wasn't a usual fall sight in Hobin, Wisconsin. Brides tended to marry in spring. Even then, Hobin was hardly the bride capital of the state or the United States. Hawaii took that prize with its tropical sandy beaches and swaying palm trees, surprisingly acing Hobin's snowbound winters and late-spring flowerings.
Still, in the last one hundred and fifty years, many a local bride had stood in the old log church but none that Marc Olsen could remember had stood alone on an almost deserted Main Street, late on a Sunday afternoon. But then again apart from his annual Thanksgiving visit, he'd been gone from Hobin a long time and things might have changed.
He glanced up and down the familiar wide empty road with the same shop fronts that he'd known as a kid. Nope, nothing had changed. The realization both annoyed and soothed him. He took a second look, this time casting his gaze around trying to locate the groom. A stray bridesmaid or ring bearer. Anyone?
No one.
He was used to oddities—he'd shed his small-town boyhood years ago, moving to New York City where a bride alone on a street wouldn't even make a ripple in the bustling Broadway crowd. But in Hobin it was more than odd. The bride wasn't moving. Perhaps it was performance art. In Hobin? Nah.
Completely intrigued, he gave his curiosity free rein. It was all about curiosity and had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that investigating the lone bride would further delay his cross-six-state journey and postpone his arrival at his sister's house. He knew that once he stepped over Lori's front stoop, the snare of family would clamp on to him like the grip of a Denver boot, which was why for the last twelve years he'd always arrived with a set departure date.
He crossed the street in a few brisk strides, with the chill of the air easily penetrating his light cotton shirt. He regretted not grabbing his cashmere sweater from his Porsche.
The bride had her back to him and as he got closer he realized the wedding dress hadn't come off the rack, but nor was it a Vera Wang creation. The faint sepia color hinted that many years had passed since it had first elegantly draped itself over a bride. Now the dress hung from sharp and narrow shoulders which seemed undecided about their posture, hovering between rigid and rolled back, and decidedly slumped.
On hearing his footsteps, she swung around, the unusual cake with its delicate lace icing wobbling precariously on its sugar pillars.
He grinned, deciding she was a cross between the bride in The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Miss Havisham. The round neckline of the dress sat flat and puckered as if seeking breasts to give it the form it deserved and a strand of uneven-sized pearls graced a slender neck which moved into a pointed chin. Stray wisps of wayward auburn hair stuck to hollow cheeks, and a smattering of freckles trailed across a snub nose that some might at a pinch call cute. Black smudges hovered at the top of her cheeks but it was hard to tell if they were caused by fatigue or the remnants of day-old mascara.
He'd never seen a more homely bride in need of a makeover. This was definitely performance art. It seemed a shame that she'd gone to all this trouble on the one day of the week country people spent at home with their families.
"You seem to have lost the chapel." He extended his arm indicating the direction. "It's another mile down the road."
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Hello! I was wondering if you knowledgable moms could help me with a question. My daughter just turned 1 and I'm currently nursing her 3 times a day. She eats 3 meals plus a snack or 2. I'm wondering if I need to introduce cow's milk at this point. As we gradually wean, at what point does the milk become needed? (2 nursings/day?, 1/day?) She eats organic whole milk yogurt and a little organic cheese, but I don't give her very much cheese due to some mild constipation issues.
Also, I want to make sure she gets enough fat in her diet. Right now she eats a lot of avocado, which is rich in fat. Her only other main source is the yogurt, which she hasn't really wanted lately. The meats I give her are rather low-fat (chicken, turkey, some fish). And although she loves cheese, like I said - we have some constipation issues so she doesn't get much of that. She does not like beans, though I've only offered them a couple times.
Any advice you can give is very much appreciated! I haven't found any info out there since most sources assume the baby is weaned by 12 months. Thank you so so much!


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