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Work Study
All applicants for Federal Work-Study (FWS) must file a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). FWS eligibility cannot be determined until the need analysis information from the FAFSA has been received and reviewed.
The FWS program is a need-based program which provides part-time employment opportunities to eligible students to help meet the cost of education. Eligible students may work either on-campus or off campus at an elementary school participating in the America Reads or America Counts program.
Employment is arranged around class schedules. The hourly rate is currently $8.00 and enrollment for at least six credits during the semester is required. Your work assignment typically will be assigned by the requesting department and they set the hours per week that is needed for that department. If you wish to be considered for this program, please contact the Financial Aid Office to determine eligibility. FWS cannot be applied to your student account to cover tuition, but is paid in the form of a paycheck every two weeks.
In addition, interested students may participate in America Reads or America Counts which are off-campus tutoring programs launched by the Clinton Administration. The major objectives of these programs are: (1) to have all children reading well and independently by the end of the third grade and (2) to provide mathematics tutors for students in elementary school through ninth grade. The site for this program is Middletown Elementary School located in Middletown Virginia.
Work Study Policies
You must meet all eligibility requirements for federal and state student financial aid and demonstrate financial need to be considered for work-study. This includes meeting Satisfactory Academic Progress standards each semester.
In order to be considered for FWS, please make sure you complete both the FAFSA and contact the Financial Aid Office for details for completing the application.
Student eligibility for FWS is determined by the Financial Aid Office based upon a student's financial need. The student's financial need is the difference between the Cost of Attendance and the Expected Family Contribution (the amount the student and/or family is expected to contribute towards his/her education), and any other type of federal and/or state aid received. You cannot earn more than your award allotment.
After you have submitted the FAFSA and know your financial aid status at LFCC you may contact the Financial Aid Office to enquire about a work-study application. Once your application is received and you meet the requirements of a particular department you will be notified for an interview. Once a position has been offered to you, contact the Financial Aid Specialist for further instructions. This individual will work with you to complete the required FWS and payroll forms to establish your eligibility to work.
After you accept a position, you must report to work regularly and on time. Call your supervisor directly if you cannot report to work. If you do not report to work, call your supervisor, or satisfactorily fulfill the requirements of your position, you may be dismissed. Personal calls and meals should be scheduled before or after work hours, or during scheduled breaks, if applicable. You should dress appropriately for the job.
Your work-study job may expose you to sensitive information, including but not limited to student records, financial data or sensitive IT systems. As a result, all positions require a criminal background check. Please remember confidentiality must be maintained. Breaches of confidentiality and/or any act of dishonesty may result in your dismissal from the program.
Time Sheets
Time sheets must be completed every two weeks in PeopleSoft and a printed copy with the supervisor's signature must be submitted to the Financial Aid Office. The supervisor's signature constitutes a statement of work performed.
College Holidays
You will not work when the college is officially closed. Your supervisor must approve any exceptions to this policy and initial the time sheet.


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Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
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Case Western Reserve University
Dr. Lavertu is the Director of Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology at Case Western Reserve University. He is a member of the Ireland Cancer Center. He graduated from the University of Montreal Medical School in 1976. Dr. Lavertu did his residency training at the University of Montreal in Canada. He has 2 years of extra training in head and neck surgery and oncology, one at the University of Montreal and one at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
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Commissioner Mike Cantrell
District 2
Adult Information System (AIS)
Dallas County's criminal justice system is made up of 25 municipalities and more than 100 agencies, including the Sheriffs Department and County Jail, the District Attorneys Office, Municipal Law Enforcement Agencies, Municipal Courts, and Adult Probation Services. There are 65 law enforcement agencies in Dallas County that file cases with the District Attorneys office, and approximately 120,000 adult cases are processed through the County and municipal jails each year.
To provide a forum comparable to the Juvenile Information System that allows information sharing, collaboration, electronic filing and reporting, the Dallas County Adult Information System concept was rolled out in 2001 and a $1 million grant from the Criminal Justice Division of the Governor's Office was awarded to Dallas County to begin development of the AIS. To date, over $8 million in state and federal grant dollars have supported system design and development. The system was designed to accommodate small and large jurisdiction by providing the opportunity for them to retire their older systems and have an end-to-end application with the necessary information to perform day-to-day duties. Law enforcement agencies have the option to adopt the AIS as their primary records and information processing system for reporting offenses and arrests or they may continue to use their existing records management system by importing their data into the centralized database and have the ability to view a total record of the adult's activity in the County.
The AIS went live in late 2004 and in 2006 Dallas County enhanced the AIS with an Incident Module (IM) that provides law enforcement agencies with real time AIS status checks and charge history, data searching and mining tools, and a central repository providing all Dallas County law enforcement agencies with a valuable source of investigative information.
To date, AIS has processed over 1 million individuals through the Dallas County Jail and currently has over 800,000 photos and it is utilized by an average of 4,000 to 5,000 users per day.
Adult Integrated Criminal Justice System User Committee (AICJSUC)
The AICJSUC was established by Commissioners Court order in 2005 and Commissioner Cantrell served as the Chair. This committee evaluates requested system changes, identifies the needs for criminal justice systems and prioritizing these changes; ensures that user departments comply with committee decisions and directives for use and operation of criminal justice systems; resolves conflicts among user departments relevant to the implementation and use of criminal justice systems; ensures that user departments system design decisions are made in accordance with the goals and purpose of criminal justice systems; interacts with criminal justice systems vendors regarding operational concerns; maximizes coordination of criminal justice systems among user departments; recommends to the ITSC the use of grant and/or County resources allocated for criminal justice systems; assists in establishing test cases and criteria that will insure changes to the system will not adversely impact system operations and/or performance; signs off on all changes after appropriate test results have been reviewed; and addresses any other issues related to the computerization of criminal justice systems.
Alliance on Underage Drinking (ALOUD)
ALOUD is a collaboration of police officials, individuals from various levels of government, social service agencies, and TxDOT officials whose focus is to reduce the incidence and impact of underage drinking through increased community involvement by increasing parental involvement, creating public awareness campaigns, developing a concentrated enforcement of existing laws and ordinances, and developing consistent prosecution and sentencing of offenders.
Center for Ethical Identity Assurance (CEIA)
Commissioner Cantrell served as the Countys participant in this partnership between leading global companies such as Unisys, government organizations, vendors and several of the worlds leading research universities. Their goal was to promote globally interoperable standards for identity proofing, credentialing, and authentication, and supporting business process, for physical identity credentials that are embraced by individuals and trusted by business and governments around the world.
Child Welfare Information System (CWIS)
The CWIS is a component of the Juvenile Information System (JIS). The CWIS was designed in collaborated effort involving Child Protective Service Caseworkers and Dallas County District Attorney Prosecutors and Investigators. In addition to standardizing case filing formats and real-time information, the CWIS enabled electronic filing of criminal abuse and neglect cases against parents and caregivers between the State's Child Protective Services (CPS) Division and the District Attorney's Office.
Criminal Justice Advisory Board
The Criminal Justice Advisory Board (CJAB) was developed from Vision 3: Dallas County is safe, secure and prepared of Dallas County's Strategic Plan that was adopted in 2007.
The vision statement for the CJAB is the creation of a forum for community, business and professional collaboration leading to an effective and just criminal justice system that ensures Dallas County is safe, secure, and prepared.
The mission statement of the CJAB is based on a principle mission of the Dallas County Criminal Justice Advisory Board to identify opportunities for improvement in the criminal justice system of Dallas County using the following core strategies:
Commissioner Mike Cantrell served as Chair and former City of Dallas Police Chief Kunkle served as Vice-Chair from October 2008 thru November 2010.
Please see https://www.dallascounty.org/departments/cjab/leadership.php for more information.
Dallas County's Benefit Committee
This committee reviews, monitors, evaluates and advises on the goals, objectives and priorities for the benefit programs for eligible employees and retirees. The committee also coordinates in conjunction with the Public Employee Benefits Cooperative, the operation and progress of health care programs, contracts and vendors, and to make recommendations to the County Commissioners. In the event there are appeals from employees or retirees regarding benefits administered by Dallas County or its vendors, this committee will review those matters. Commissioner Cantrell served on this Committee from 2005-2011.
Dallas County Civil Service Commission
The purpose of the grievance procedure is to settle all grievances between the County and all employees under the civil service system as quickly and at as low an administrative level as possible. It is to assure efficient work operations and maintain employee morale.
A personal grievance may be filed by an employee, as defined in Section 86 -1002, on one or more of the following grounds:
Commissioner Mike Cantrell has served on and off of this Commission as one of three Court members.
A comprehensive planning document compiled annually by local representatives from government, law enforcement, schools, social service agencies, health care, non-profits, and interested community participants as a prerequisite for application for grants from the Criminal Justice Division of the Governor's Office. Commissioner chaired the Plan from inception through 2002. For more information on the annual Community Plan, contact the North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG).
Dallas County Specialized Truancy Courts
Truancy is an early warning sign for a number of problems a child may be having at home or at school such as drugs, alcohol, abuse, etc. In Texas, both Municipal and Justice of the Peace (JP) Courts are allowed to hear Failure to Attend School and Parent Contributing to Truancy cases. However, because of the volume of cases in the Dallas Independent School District alone, the average time from the date of filing until a child had a hearing in front of a Judge was 77 days. In an effort to have a system that would respond timely and consistently in Dallas County, dedicated courts that specialized in truancy related matters were necessary.
In 1999, Commissioner Cantrell visualized and began working on the creation of specialized courts for truancy cases in order to handle them in a consistent and timely manner. In 2002, two County-funded municipal courts were created in the City of Dallas for the sole purpose of hearing Dallas ISD truancy cases. In 2003, Legislation was approved which allowed for a "constitutional county court" in Dallas County to hear truancy cases. The two municipal courts were converted to "county constitutional courts" and an additional court was added to assist with the volume of cases. Another component added to each of the courts was the position of a Juvenile Case Manager who assisted the Magistrates with effective placements into youth programs by identifying issues in the child's like that might be keeping them out of school. Since that time, another specialized court was opened in Garland to hear Garland, Mesquite, and Richardson ISD's cases.
Commissioner Cantrell led the implementation and development of the courts which included a policy and procedure manual, an electronic filing mechanism from DISD to the courts, and the creation of performance measures in order to track successes (i.e. the reduction of the time to hear a case from an average of 77 days to 18 days).
Once the courts were completely operational, in October 2005, Commissioner Cantrell turned all functional and operational aspects of the courts over to the County Judge, who by statute oversees these courts. Commissioner Cantrell will continue to pursue his vision for a complete "Integrated Truancy System" that includes all 15 Independent School Districts within Dallas County. His vision foresees all truancy cases being filed electronically by the ISDs and processed electronically all the way through the courts to final disposition. In addition, he envisions Truancy Courts strategically placed geographically throughout Dallas County.
In the summer of 2005, Commissioner Cantrell presented a proposal to Commissioners Court to review the idea of developing a Strategic Plan for Dallas County. Over the past 30 years, the County's role has expanded and has become more active in regional matters such as information technology and transportation, as well as other non-traditional areas. Commissioner Cantrell believed it was time to pro-actively decide as a Court what issues the County should invest its resources. In November 2005, the Court approved a consultant to assist the County in developing a Strategic Plan. The 2007-2017 Charting the Path plan is now a living document that helps guide the elected officials and department heads to services and programs that focus on what Dallas County should be providing the public.
Dallas County Information Technology Executive Governance Committee (ITEGC)
Commissioner Cantrell chaired this Committee from 2004 to 2013that is responsible for the execution of information resource policies. The Committee, with input and advice from IT Services, must first assist the Commissioners Court in the development of a strategic vision of the direction in which the development of county information resources is headed. Once receiving this overall vision from the Commissioners Court, the committee must then translate the elements of this vision into specific activities, executable by means of clearly delineated operational processes. In addition, the committee addresses the allocation of resources within the IT Services Department, serving as a vehicle for resolving conflicts arising from contention for those resources and from the overlapping impact of new system requirements.
Dallas County Truancy Task Force
A collaboration of Justices of the Peace, school district officials, District Attorney staff, and community representatives who sought to develop ideas and provide solutions around the issue of truancy among the various entities that are involved in the process, as well as to develop a streamlined, efficient and effective process in order to respond to truancy in an expeditious manner.
Dallas Regional Mobility Coalition (DRMC)
Commissioner Cantrell served as a member (and former Chairman) from 2007 to 2011 on this Coalition which is an organization of cities, counties and public transportation agencies in a five-county region that advocates for transportation policy, funding and solutions on a local, state and federal level. DRMC has four critical objectives: (1) improve mobility and safety, (2) improve air quality, (3) enhance quality of life through reduced commuting and travel times, and (4) support economic vitality.
Commissioner Cantrell was Instrumental in moving forward the installation of sanitary sewer lines to serve Dorothy Lane residents located in the unincorporated area of Dallas County. Dorothy Lane residents had experienced significant ongoing problems with septic tanks and sanitation, posing a threat to the public health and the residents themselves, due to the subdivision's high water table, poor drainage, and substandard lot size. The project eliminated a public health nuisance, was a multi-jurisdictional collaboration and provided a direct benefit to citizens.
This former Jail Psychiatric Task Force evaluated and implemented recommendations made by the Jail Psychiatric Services Evaluation Committee regarding psychiatric services offered to mentally ill inmates in the county jail. The Jail Psychiatric Task Force ensured the continuity of care, more effective delivery of services and ongoing cooperation between all entities.
Judicial Committee on Information Technology (JCIT)
The 75th Legislature created the JCIT in 1997 in Senate Bill 1417, the Judicial Efficiency Bill. This committees mission is to establish standards and guidelines for the systemic implementation and integration of information technology into the trial and appellate courts in Texas. Its goal is to coordinate the design and implementation of a statewide computer communications network and a comprehensive justice information system. The general powers and duties of JCIT are outlines in Section 77.031, Texas Government Code (Vernon 1997). Commissioner Cantrell was appointed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in August 2001 and served in that capacity until August 2014.
Justice of the Peace & Constable Staffing Standards
Commissioner Cantrell led the effort to resolve ongoing historical conflict between the Commissioners Court and the Justices of the Peace and Constables regarding staffing standards for those offices. Established a task force for both the Constables and JPs to review relevant issues and recommend solutions. He, ultimately, brought forward solutions, which were subsequently passed by Commissioners Court.
Justice of the Peace Jury Services Task Force
Commissioner Cantrell organized the Justice of the Peace Jury Services Task Force to look into ways to streamline the JP jury selection process to make it more functional and convenient for both the courts and the jurors. One success from this coordinated effort was a change in how jurors report to the JP Courts. If a juror is needed for one of the outlying suburban JP courts, the Jury Services Department chooses individuals from the jury pool who live near that community and then allow them to take their own vehicle to that court rather than being shuttled together from downtown. The juror is then released from jury duty directly by the JP when they are finished and are not required to report back downtown to the Central Jury Room.
Juvenile Information System (JIS)
In the fall of 1998, Dallas County and 15 of its cities initiated a collaboration with the common vision of building a web-based, cross-jurisdictional, interactive "data warehouse" or information system, which would allow participants in the juvenile justice system to share and access current, pertinent data on juvenile offenders across the County, from the time of arrest through final disposition. Participants included law enforcement, the District Attorney, the courts, schools, and other agencies serving juvenile offenders. Participating cities combined their Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grant (JAIBG) Awards with Dallas County's, selected an IT vendor, and the Juvenile Information System, or JIS, was born.
Today, the multi-million dollar JIS system is utilized by 90+ agencies in Dallas County, with 43 of those (including the Dallas Police Department) using JIS as their primary juvenile system. Additionally, the counties of Collin, Denton, Hunt, Kaufman, Rockwall, and Tarrant each received funding in the total amount of $1.25 million from the State Homeland Security Office's Law Enforcement Terrorism Prevention Program (LETPP) for the purchase of hardware and software to support implementation of the JIS in their county.
In 2005, the JIS received the 2005 Best of Texas Best Application Serving Multiple Jurisdictions award from the Center for Digital Government. The award is given in recognition of an outstanding collaborative effort among multiple agencies or jurisdictions in the development of systems that deliver services more efficiently and effectively to the public and that assist participating agencies in handling their day-to-day work. The JIS became the first shared asset of the Texas Conference of Urban Counties TechShare program.
Commissioner Cantrell was integral in the establishment of a more user-friendly system for the attainment of a Mental Illness Warrant in Dallas County. Previously, concerned friends or family members who needed to obtain a Mental Illness Warrant, or MIW, for a loved one had no choice but to travel to downtown Dallas and navigate not only the unfamiliar downtown streets and buildings, but also a complicated warrant process, involving travel to several different locations. Under the new system, family members may obtain an MIW in one stop from their local Justice of the Peace office, which is often located in or near their own neighborhood.
The new process reduced duress and inconvenience for the petitioner at a time which is already emotionally stressful, and more evenly distributed the workload across the county and court system, thereby allowing for a quicker response in these often urgent situations.
NCTCOG - Outer LoopRail Bypass Stakeholder Roundtable
The Regional Outer Loop/Rail bypass is a proposed multi-use, regional network of transportation routes that will incorporate existing and new highways, railways, and utility right of ways. When TXDOT released the Crossroads of Americas: Trans-Texas Corridor Plan in June 2002, the RTC (NCTCOG) welcomed the visionary approach and began to evaluate the potential benefits to the DFW region. While the original concept of the TTC was to simply bypass non-attainment and near non-attainment areas to avoid federal air quality regulations, it was clear to the RTC that the TTC could be developed in a staged sequence of improvements that could maximize revenue, solve near-term congestion needs, and benefit the long term economic development and mobility needs of the state while having appositive impact on congested urban areas. The purpose of this group is to serve as a bridge for input and coordination between the public, the Outer Loop Corridor Refinement Team, and the RTC, as well as ensure consideration of local community context, environmental constraints, and other factors to aid in the identification of a Locally Preferred Corridor Alternative. The goal of the group is to leverage the Outer Loop/Rail Bypass Investment to the greatest local benefit for Sustainable Development, Economic Opportunity, Safety/Reliability, Air Quality and Mobility.
NCTCOG Regional Transportation Council (RTC)
The Commissioner was elected to Chair this Council in June 2014. He has served as the Secretary (June 2012-2013) and as Vice Chair (June 2013-2014), and has been a member since January 2007. The RTC is the independent transportation policy body of the Metropolitan Planning Organization that provides guidance regarding the development of multimodel transportation plans and programs, programming federal and state funds for the implementation of transportation improvements, selecting specific federally funded projects and programs, assuming the coordination of services among transportation providers, and ensuring compliance with federal and state laws and regulations pertaining to metropolitan transportation and air quality planning.
North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG) - Executive Board
Commissioner Cantrell represented the Dallas County Commissioners Court on this Executive Board. NCTCOG is a voluntary association of, by and for local governments, and was established to assist local governments in planning for common needs, cooperating for mutual benefit, and coordinating for sound regional development. They serve North Central Texas, and have over 230 member governments including 16 counties, numerous cities, school districts and special districts. He served on this Board from 1999 to 2010.
Commissioner Cantrell took the lead in addressing the issue of nuisance abatement in the unincorporated areas of Dallas County and played key role in the establishment of a county-wide plan for abating nuisances, as well as the addition of a second full-time nuisance abatement officer for the County. The plan standardized enforcement processes throughout the county's unincorporated area, created a plan for addressing existing nuisances, and added resources to increase availability of officers to address citizen complaints.
An Order of Protective Custody, or OPC, assists in resolving a number of hindrances and issues surrounding enforcement of, which is designed to enable authorities to transport mentally ill individuals from the Psychiatric Emergency Room at Parkland Hospital, where they are often taken to an appropriate residential treatment facility.
Under the old system, lack of a signature from an authorized individual prevented the timely transfer of patients from Parkland, which is a space-limited short-term treatment facility only. Commissioner Cantrell was able to bring together the necessary parties to create a new system whereby an authorized signature for transfer is available by fax 24 hours per day, 7 days per week to ER personnel.
Participated in instituting a Judicial Support Personnel Salary Plan which sets compensation policy for the Criminal District Court staff members including Court Coordinators, Staff Attorneys, Law Clerks, Magistrates, and Referees.
Pushed for and passed through Commissioners Court the hiring of a collections agency for dormant accounts, which has significantly increased revenue.
Pushed for and passed through Commissioners Court the addition of two Civil Masters for the Civil District Courts.
Actively participated in the planning and implementation of the DIVERT Court. This court intervenes on the front end of the criminal justice system for non-violent drug offenders with less serious charges.
A proponent for the establishment of an elections fraud unit in the District Attorney's office, consisting of an elections fraud prosecutor and investigator.
Dallas County Commissioners Court has continued to maintain Dallas County's low tax rate and "double AAA" bond rating.
Helped pass the Freeport Tax Exemption to promote industrial development and the generation of new jobs in Dallas County.
Helped pass the Rodeo City Tax Increment Finance District to encourage economic development in the area.
Helped pass revised tax abatement policy to include "economically significant" projects.
President George Bush Turnpike - Eastern Extension Task Force
Commissioner Cantrell facilitated monthly task force meetings after learning that this project was facing a few obstacles in getting to construction. Like many projects, this one had been in the planning stage for twenty plus years, and as it was nearing the final stages, the agencies recognized that several Agreements needed to be made to finalize some rather complicated terms. Monthly task force meetings were held between August 2007 and June 2008, and as a result, Agreements with TXDOT, NTTA, and FHWA were executed, and many others hurdles were identified and resolved. In July 2008, FHWA advised NTTA that the project was environmentally cleared and construction began on this project in September 2008.
Protective Order Rapid Response Team (PORRT)
Formed in February of 1996, the PORRT's goal was to re-engineer and streamline the process of obtaining a protective order in Dallas County. Team members included representatives from the District Clerk, District Attorney, and Constable offices, as well as from the judiciary and local domestic violence shelters. At the time the Team was created, a battered person could expect to wait 20 days or more from the time they filed an application for the protective order until the citation and ex parte protective order were served on the alleged batterer. This was followed by an additional wait of up to several weeks before a hearing was held and the final protective order issued. Once the team implemented identified improvements, battered persons were able to file an application and have an alleged batterer served with an ex parte protective order within 4 to 5 days, and to have a hearing and final protective order issued within 12-14 days from beginning to end.
Public Employees Benefit Cooperative (PEBC)
The PEBC was created in 1998. On behalf of its member governments, the PEBC works diligently to keep health care costs affordable. In this era of skyrocketing health care and pharmacy costs, the PEBC is dedicated to providing members choice, flexibility and value without compromising the level of benefits. The PEBC performs many services including joint purchase of employee benefits and cost effective centralized administration. PEBC members include Dallas County, Tarrant County, Denton County, Collin County, North Texas Tollway Authority, and the City of Frisco. Commissioner Cantrell served on this board from September 2005 to March 2011.
Rail North Texas - Texas Local Option Transportation Act
Through his membership on the Regional Transportation Council, Commissioner Cantrell has had the privilege of analyzing and contributing to the development of an innovative funding opportunity to pay the extension of passenger rail. Passenger rail is needed to provide more transportation options for the public, promote better air quality, reduce congestion, and to create a seamless transportation system. The transit vision of RTC through the Mobility 2030 plan calls for 250 additional miles of rail in our region, however there is no funding available. Although the passage of additional sales tax to fund the $6 billion system did not pass during the 80th Legislative Session, a new set of tools are being sought through the current Session with the filing of SB 855 by Senator Carona and HB 9 by Representative Vicki Truitt to allow the voters to choose which fees should be implemented to fund future rail projects.
Sexually-Oriented Business Court Order
Commissioner Cantrell was instrumental in pushing through a Commissioners Court Order which regulates the location and operation of sexually oriented businesses in the County's unincorporated areas. Court Order was developed and passed after a sexually oriented business opened in an unincorporated area of District 2. This provided the Commissioners Court with a method for regulating sexually oriented businesses in the unincorporated area of the county which protects citizens from unwanted noise and traffic in their neighborhoods and provides an opportunity for citizen input.
TKIC is a collaboration of the Dallas community with policy and decision-makers from the federal, state, and local level working together to create positive outcomes for children and adolescents in the court system. The mission of the initiative is to make significant systemic changes across jurisdictions and geographic areas that will "re-invent" the process for accessing services and volunteers for children in the court system. Individuals from all levels of government work together with volunteers, social service agencies and community leaders to move children out of the court system as quickly as possible and to keep them out.
Many great projects and ideas were generated from the TKIC partners, one of which was the Transition Resource Action Center (TRAC) which opened in March 2003. TRAC is a centralized assessment/intake and referral facility for transitional living services for youth who age out of the foster care system when they turn 18. In the first year, a total of 450 youth were referred to TRAC for assistance with housing, vocational training, health services and many other needed services.
Another project which derived from TKIC was the Annual Dallas County Adoption Day event which is held in November each year. An abundance of volunteers turn out for an exciting celebration at the courthouse where as many as 100 children are adopted in just one day. The newly adopted children are showered with gifts, cookies, balloons, and teddy bears so that it will be a day to remember for all.
In light of potential tax and revenue "caps" for local governments and the resulting outlook for minimal or non-existent funds available for employee compensation increases, in January 2004 Commissioner Cantrell assembled a working group consisting of individuals from Commissioners Court Administration, Human Resources, Auditor, and the Office of Budget and Evaluation departments to be proactive in looking at how Dallas County would handle workforce investments for the 2005 and coming budget years. The "New Look" Committee met weekly and formulated a process for looking at all services county government provides and whether those services were "mandatory" or "traditional."
The Committees challenge was to determine, for mandatory services, if there were a more efficient or effective way to provide the service, and for traditional services, if the benefit generated justified the continuation of the service, and if so, could it also be done more efficiently and effectively. The end goal was to re-engineer county government to be more efficient in the delivery of services while at the same time providing as good or better services to the taxpayers. Any savings from departmental initiatives, up to $21 million, would then be used for workforce investment in the next fiscal year.
The Commissioners Court approved the New Look initiative and made a commitment to utilize the savings for workforce investments. By June 2004, 86 proposals had been submitted for discussion, with 26 of them being assigned to working committees for further development. The estimated value of the 26 proposals was $22 million.
Texas Conference of Urban Counties (CUC) Board of Directors
From 2003-2013, Commissioner Cantrell served on the Board of Directors for the Texas Conference of Urban Counties, a non-profit organization composed of 37 member counties, which represent nearly 80% of the population of Texas. The Urban Counties supports and coordinates communications among member counties, studies policies and programs of the State of Texas that affect urban counties, advocates county issues, primarily at the state level, and provides training and education programs appropriate for urban county officials.
Texas Conference of Urban Counties Policy Committee
As a member of this committee, Commissioner Cantrell and elected officials who serve are responsible for the development and adoption of legislative positions on all matters of State Intergovernmental Relations for the Urban Counties. Positions adopted by the committee are positions of the association, and do not require further ratification by either the board or the full membership. However, all positions adopted must be reported to the full membership at the next scheduled meeting and are subject to modifications at that time. Commissioner Cantrell served from October 2003 until September 2013 on this Committee.
Texas Conference of Urban Counties TechShare Oversight Committee
TechShare is a CUC program that provides opportunities for counties to collaborate on technology projects and to share information resources. TechShare projects are mutual efforts where participants save money by sharing the cost of research and development. Projects can produce applications, systems, or other technology assets owned by the Urban Counties and made available to all members. The current TechShare projects consist of the Juvenile Information System (JIS), the Juvenile Case Management System (JCMS), the Common Integrated Justice System (CIJS), and the Adult Case Management System (ACMS).
As a member of the TechShare Oversight Committee, Commissioner Cantrell and members who serve are responsible for overseeing the TechShare operations by reviewing and making recommendations to the Conference of Urban Counties Board of Directors regarding appropriateness of project scope, operations, budget, work plan, staffing and contracting for project and resources as recommended by the TechShare projects' stakeholder committees.
Texas Conference of Urban Counties TechShare Program
TechShare is a CUC program that provides opportunities for counties to collaborate on technology projects and to share information resources. TechShare projects are mutual efforts where participants save money by sharing the cost of research and development. Projects can produce applications, systems, or other technology assets owned by the Urban Counties and made available to all members. The current TechShare projects consist of the Juvenile Information System (JIS), the Juvenile Case Management System (JCMS), the Common Integrated Justice System (CIJS), and the Adult Case Management System (ACMS).
TechShare - Juvenile Information System
Truancy Information System (TIS)
The TIS was developed as an additional tool of the Juvenile Information System (JIS). Filing truancy cases in the past has involved the school district producing a hard-copy document from their system, hand-carrying it to the court, and the court re-entering the information on its own system in order to process the case. The process was inefficient and prone to error. In addition, information about each case was limited to that specific court, creating a significant information gap among the courts and schools.
The TIS enables a real-time electronic interface, or "e-filing", of truancy cases between the school districts and the courts and eliminates the redundancy of re-entering information as well it creates a shared database of information that can assist the courts, schools and law enforcement in dealing with the issue of truancy in their communities.
Truancy Intervention Program & High Impact Teams
The Dallas Challenge Adolescent Class C & Truancy Intervention Project was an early-intervention program designed to support chronically truant children and their families and get the young person back on track, in school, and out of the juvenile justice system. Commissioner Cantrell worked actively to pass legislation which would put "teeth" in the state's juvenile code and allow truancy cases to be filed and enforced directly against the offender.
What was particularly unique about this program was the High Impact Team component. A High Impact Team is composed of trained volunteers from the child's neighborhood and area businesses, churches, law enforcement entities, schools, and service clubs. The volunteer Team "adopts" the family and meets with them on a regular basis. The individual team members utilize their experiences, skills, and resources to assist, mentor, and encourage the family in whatever ways are helpful.
TXDOT - 190 - East Branch Transportation Study
TxDOT is conducting a study to determine the feasibility of developing a new roadway from IH30 to IH20 in eastern Dallas County. Commissioner Cantrell served on this task force when the project was in his District prior to 2011.
The East Corridor design team is exploring the re-design of the IH 30 and US 80 corridors east of downtown Dallas. Particular aspects include the evaluation of all social, economic, environmental, hydraulic impacts; traffic management and cost-effectiveness of alternatives/alignments; strategies and means necessary to achieve local, regional, state and national transportation goals and financing of the same. Commissioner Cantrell served on this task force when the project was in his District prior to 2011.
Wagon Wheel Lane had for years been a substandard road in the unincorporated area and had deteriorated to the point of being and health and safety hazard due to the inability of emergency vehicles to access homes on the street. Commissioner Cantrell worked for seven years with residents living along this road to identify a legal process by which the County could adopt and maintain the road and also to identify a funding source which would provide for construction expenses necessary to bring the road up to County standards.
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It's been very clear over the last six months that the direction Textfyre needs to go is mobile. Desktop products are extremely difficult to sell without physical media and selling physical media requires a marketing budget, a luxury we don't have.
Our plan to sell directly to the education market has been moved to a back burner, if not entirely removed from the plan. Selling directly to schools or school systems is nearly impossible without the right connections. With those connections, it's still a nightmare. I'd been warned by other people that trying to sell to schools is impossible. I guess they were right. The closest I came to tapping that market was a connection with Follett Library Resources, the people that offer a search engine of product to schools. The lead dried up almost immediately.
To move to a more generalized publishing market, I've directed everyone developing content for Textfyre that the restrictions are mostly off. There's no need to direct our stories at middle-school students. I've asked them to simply develop great stories that can be appreciated by any reader.
We've made a splash in online sales and those will continue. With more marketing, we can reach more customers, but that still will take more time (and money). But I have other opportunities coming up that may move online sales to a back-burner as well.
The mobile market is composed of phones like the iPhone, Droid, and any other phone that has some way of publishing an application. We've been working on an iPhone application for a while now. We haven't looked at the Android platform, but are likely to in the future. The iPad is obviously very interesting and the iPhone code that Andrew has been developing can target it as well as the iPhone (as well as being a desktop OS X application).
The problem with the iPhone and iPad is that there are so many applications available that it's extremely difficult to get noticed and to be able to price your application above $.99. Some people may think it's a good idea to sell IF at $.99, but I'm not one of them. That would be an unsustainable price point, at least for initial sales.
I've also been talking to Microsoft about partnering for the new Windows Phone 7 launch coming this fall. In fact, they called me and they have a strong case. With assistance, I could easily port our Silverlight implementation of our games to the WP7 platform. The UI would take some work and we'd have to run through very rigorous testing, but we're automatically closer to publishing to the WP7 marketplace than any other.
The last mobile device, the Amazon Kindle, is probably the sweet-spot and I am now talking to the Kindle team about publishing Textfyre games to the device. They opened up a Kindle Development Kit awhile back and although we haven't gotten into the beta program, I have been able to get Amazon's attention and we're discussing the technical details. I should know more in the next week or two.
Of course working with Microsoft or Amazon might require contractual obligations that limit our publishing capabilities (they may expect exclusivity in exchange for support). It's a business afterall and if I can land a partnership that enables us to build the business, then that's the direction we need to go.
No decisions have been made, but the fork in the road is coming quickly. I'll know more about Microsoft and Amazon soon. I already know where our iPhone/iPad strategy is as well as online and physical media sales. I also know that we're done focusing on schools and students, for now.
Once I know where we stand with Microsoft and Amazon and with the iPad development, it will be time to choose a way forward, rewrite the business plan, and Textfyre will shift into an entirely new business model.


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Commissioners previously voted to outsource IT services, which will eliminate the jobs of Karmen Kelley, manager of the department, and Heather Steelman, her assistant.
Also on the 15-item agenda is the annual distribution of Available School Funds, monies collected from leasing school land the county owns in Baylor and Throckmorton Counties in West Texas.
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• Approve contract for outsourced IT services with Inline Network Integration or issue a request for proposals for IT services.
• Division order from Trans-Oil Marketing about the School Land.
• New election meter for a pergola built at the Upshur County Library by Friends of the Library.
• Insure food purchases for the county jail are in compliance with the Texas Local Government Code.
• Resolution regarding parking alongside Hwy. 154 in front of New Diana Elementary School.
• Purchase six extinguishers for Sheriff's patrol vehicles from the contingency line item.
• Award construction manager for courthouse Americans with Disabilities Act renovation.
• Relocate the office of Constable, Pct. 1, effective Jan. 1, 2013.
• Consider ordinance on excessive noise levels in Upshur County.
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The automatic spending cuts that are going into effect this week if Congress doesn't stop them will result in tens of thousands of job losses, Sen. Richard Blumenthal says. But one poll shows Americans don't care much, maybe because of fatigue over constant budget battles in Washington. Will the "sequester," as it's known, hurt Connecticut a lot or only a little? Are Democrats exaggerating its impact? Or are Republicans blind to its pain? What's your view?
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FDA is taking action to promote the judicious use of medically important antimicrobial drugs in food animals. The goal of the strategy is to work with industry to protect public health by releasing two documents to help phase out the use of medically important antimicrobials in food animals for production purposes (e.g., to enhance growth or improve feed efficiency), and to bring the therapeutic uses of such drugs (to treat, control, or prevent specific diseases) under the oversight of licensed veterinarians.
The first document, New Animal Drugs and New Animal Drug Combination Products Administered in or on Medicated Feed or Drinking Water of Food-Producing Animals: Recommendations for Drug Sponsors for Voluntarily Aligning Product Use Conditions with GFI #209 (Guidance #213), provides guidance for drug companies to voluntarily revise the FDA-approved labeled use conditions to (a) remove the use of antimicrobial drugs for production purposes; (b) add, where appropriate, scientifically-supported disease treatment, control or prevention uses; and (c) change the marketing status from over-the-counter to Veterinary Feed Directive for drugs administered through feed or to prescription status for drugs administered through water in order to provide for veterinary oversight or consultation.
In order to help phase in veterinary oversight of those drugs that move from OTC to VFD status once changes are made in line with the guidance, FDA is also releasing a proposed rule for public comment that would update the agency's existing regulations relating to VFD drugs. The use of VFD drugs in feed requires specific authorization by a licensed veterinarian based on procedures outlined in the agency's VFD regulations. The VFD proposed rule is intended to update the existing VFD process to clarify and increase the flexibility of the administrative requirements for the distribution and use of VFD drugs. Such updates to the VFD process will assist in the transition of OTC products to their new VFD status.
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Dear HG, Why do most of your recipes with an eggy ingredient call for egg substitute, while others require regular eggs? Egg-ceptionally Curious
Hi Egg-ceptionally Curious,
Ah, good question! In recipes like those, we typically do use fat-free liquid egg substitute, like Egg Beaters Original. That's because it has far fewer calories and less fat than regular eggs. Half a cup of fat-free liquid egg substitute (the equivalent of 2 large eggs) has about 60 calories and 0g fat. Two large eggs have around 150 calories and 10g fat, plus 120 percent of the Daily Value for cholesterol! Egg substitute works really well in baked goods, breakfast scrambles, French toast, and more. The taste and texture are very similar to regular eggs, which is not surprising, since egg substitute is generally just egg whites with a few added nutrients. Sometimes, though, there's no replacing the real thing -- like when you want a whole egg cooked in a skillet with a runny yolk. For those times, we trim the fat and calories in other ways and stick with just one egg. Here are some (delicious!) examples: our Cheesy Egg in a Hole, Huevo Ranchero Por Uno, and In Your Face! Breakfast Waffle! In dishes like these, we enjoy our eggs over medium... By the way, you can use egg whites instead of egg substitute in HG recipes. Click here for info on that. And if you want to bake with egg substitute in other recipes that call for regular whole eggs, just use 1/4 cup egg sub in place of each egg. That's everything you need to know in a nutshell... Or should I say eggshell? (Tee-hee!)
Dear HG, I'm good about eating my veggies in the colder months... I like them steamed, roasted, or baked. But I'm not really sure what to do with 'em in summer when I'm not in the mood for hot vegetables. Any ideas for chilled snacks or sides that are more interesting than plain celery sticks? Veggin' Out
Hi Veggin' Out,
I hear you. Hot vegetables on a hot day aren't exactly refreshing. Luckily, there are loads of delicious ways to munch on cold veggies... Check 'em out! Expand Your Veggie Horizons - Celery sticks are fine, but there are far more exciting finds in the produce aisle that can be snacked on raw. I love jicama, sugar snap peas, red bell peppers, grape tomatoes (technically fruits, I know!), and baby carrots. Click here for picks and a fun veggie dip recipe! Grill 'n Chill - Cold veggies don't have to be raw. Grilling or roasting vegetables really brings out the flavor, and chilling 'em means they'll be refreshing too. Here's an incredible platter you can keep in your fridge and snack on all week long: my Mostly Roasted Veggie Explosion! Those roasted vegetables would also be great cooked on a grill or in a grill pan. Dip It Good - One great way to make plain veggies more enticing is to dip them in something delicious! For store-bought finds, I love salsa (any kind!), Eat Well Embrace Life Hummus with Greek Yogurt (it has 50 percent less fat than traditional hummus), and Vivi's Original Sauce Carnival Mustards (request 'em!). And click here for a roundup of incredible HG dip recipes... The Buff Chick Hot Wing Dip is beyond-words amazing! Quickie Sunomono Salad - This one is so easy, and it's one of my FAVORITE snacks in the world. Just toss some thinly sliced seedless cucumbers with seasoned rice vinegar. It's unbelievably good! Click here for more deets, and check out the two-ingredient dip just below it for another summery veggie serving suggestion! Against the Slaw - I'm obsessed with scoopable salads made with broccoli cole slaw. This Crunchy Sassy Chinese Slaw is an HG classic, and the Tangy Tex-Mex Slaw is a recent standout. For a two-ingredient fix, just mix some broccoli slaw with pico de gallo -- refrigerate for an hour, and then drain. And for a three-ingredient recipe, check out this Easy-Beany Italian Slaw! Now there's no excuse to skip your veggies this summer! Why would you want to when they can taste this good?
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Tax Deductions and Credits
As a caregiver, you likely pay for some care costs out-of-pocket. Because of this, you may qualify for tax benefits from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Tax rules are complex and can change. Be sure to get advice from your tax adviser or accountant before filing your returns.
Medical expenses
The person with dementia may be considered your dependent for tax purposes. If so, you may be allowed to itemize his or her medical costs. Generally, you can deduct only the amount of your medical and dental expenses that is more than 10 percent of your adjusted gross income. But if either you or your spouse was born before January 2, 1952, you can deduct the amount of your medical and dental expenses that is more than 7.5 percent of your adjusted gross income. Only expenses that have not been reimbursed by insurance can be counted toward the medical expense deduction.
See IRS Publication 502: Medical and Dental Expenses, for a complete list of allowable expenses.
Here's a brief list:
- Medical fees from doctors, laboratories, assisted living residences, home health care and hospitals
- Cost of prescription drugs
- Cost of transportation to receive medical care
- Home modifications costs such as grab bars and handrails
- Personal care items, such as disposable briefs and food
See IRS Publication 501: Exemptions, Standard Deductions and Filing Information to learn more about claiming the person with dementia as a dependent.
Child and Dependent Care Credit
If you paid someone to care for the person with dementia so you could work or look for work, you may be able to claim the "Child and Dependent Care Credit" on your federal income tax return. If eligible, you would be allowed a credit of up to 35 percent of your qualifying expenses, depending upon your adjusted gross income.
To qualify:
- You must have earned income
- The person with dementia must be unable to physically or mentally care for him or herself
- The person with dementia must be claimed as a dependent on your tax return
See IRS Publication 503: Child and Dependent Care Expenses for more information.
TIP: If you pay someone to come to your home and care for the person with dementia, you may be a household employer and may have to withhold and pay Social Security and Medicare tax and pay federal unemployment tax. See IRS Publication 926: Household Employer's Tax Guide.
Flexible spending account
If the person with dementia is a dependent under the tax rules, you might be able to use your own workplace flexible spending account (FSA). This money can cover the person's out-of-pocket medical costs or dependent care expenses in some cases.
State tax credits
Many states have additional tax deductions or tax credits to provide financial relief to caregivers. These tax programs build on the federal tax credit, which reduces the amount of income taxes a family owes. Each state program differs by name and eligibility requirements.
Help Is Available
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) offers free tax forms and publications explaining various tax deductions and credits.
AARP's Tax-Aide program provides free tax preparation and counseling information to all low and middle-income taxpayers, even if you are not an AARP member.
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Greece is back on top of the international economic and political agenda after a brief respite, as the country is forced to call a repeat election on June 17. This latest election follows a May 6 vote that left parliament divided evenly between groups of parties that support and oppose austerity conditions attached to a 130 billion euro ($163 billion) rescue agreed to in March.
The latest opinion polls in Greece suggest anti-bailout leftist party Syriza has taken the lead ahead of a vote that is widely viewed as a referendum on the country's membership of the euro. In the latest Public Issue poll presented on Athens-based Skai TV, Syriza have 30 percent of the vote, compared to pro-bailout conservative party New Democracy, which currently holds 26 percent.
The Syriza party is very much anti-bailout and even though it says it wants the country to remain in the single currency, many fear Syriza would push Greece further toward a euro zone exit. However, over 80 percent of the Greek population is in favor of keeping the euro. Click ahead for a guide to the key players in the coming election and Greek political crisis.
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CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — A United Nations special envoy has called for disputes over Guinea's hotly contested legislative elections to be settled in court.
The remarks from Said Djinnit late Saturday came one day after the opposition announced it would push for the results to be invalidated while threatening to organize street protests if its concerns about irregularities were not addressed.
Djinnit also appealed for calm after presiding over talks that lasted all day Saturday.
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Two to three times a night Jaew Borng lets out such a loud sigh of relief while he sleeps that he tends to wake the entire Lewis household.
Sara Lewis can't quite describe the sound her three-legged rescue dog makes in the dead of night, curled up on a cushion in front of the fireplace. But she's certain it comes from a place of peace, if not pleasure.
"It's just the deepest, loudest groan, like he's
saying 'A hhh, I'm just so happy right now,'" said Lewis. "He does it a lot and I've been trying to record the moment but I can't seem to catch it because you don't know when it's coming."
He began doing this only a couple of months ago.
Try putting yourself in Jaew Borng's paws for a second. Roughly two years ago he was shot in the midsection and left to die on a roadside in Phuket, Thailand.
Now he's a full-on three-legged lightning bug, the pride and joy of the Lewis family in Hebbville. He's also
fed premium dog food every day, enjoys daily wilderness walks, massages and the company of two adoring little girls. Even Dhube, a Nova Scotia duck toller, and Pixie, a border collie, wolfhound mix (also a rescue dog), have welcomed Jaew Borng into the household with open arms.
"Every day I'm inspired by this dog, and I know he's just a dog, but his resiliency, his spirit," Lewis said. "He lived on the street
or eight years, he had his leg shot off, lived through that, and then being stuck in a crate and flying for four days to get here. Now he's living in the cold in Canada and he keeps on trucking. He's just so happy. He's one of the best things that has happened to our family."
Soi Dog Foundation, a group dedicated to caring for tens of thousands of street dogs and cats throughout Thailand, saved Jaew Borng's life. A pair of workers from the non-profit organization were following up on an emergency call when they found Jaew Borng's near lifeless body. In one of its medical clinics, Jaew Borng underwent emergency surgery. His leg couldn't be saved but it proved to be a temporary obstacle and he bounced back after a short rehabilitation stint. He waited at the Soi Dog shelter until Lewis came calling.
Lewis, who had just sold her dog-grooming business in Mahone Bay, was searching for a rescue dog and her efforts at home proved fruitless.
She turned her attention to Thailand, knowing the situation facing the country. Her research brought her to Soi (soi means alley in Thai) Dogs. She dashed off a quick email before going to bed.
"I just said we would take an old dog, a three-legged dog. I would adopt any of them, and I got an email back the next morning from the adoption co-ordinator. She was so excited and relieved, telling me the three-legged dogs and the older dogs are a little more difficult to adopt out."
The wheels were in motion. After a few mandatory security checks, Facetime phone calls with the family, a home inspection, Jaew Borng was on his way.
It was a four-day journey and Jaew Borng was exhausted upon his arrival at Halifax Stanfield international airport on Nov. 30, 2016. He ate a bowl of food and water, then wandered to the living room and buried himself under a blanket, where he slept for five days straight.
"On Day 5 he perked up and discovered he really loves dog beds," Lewis recalled with a laugh.
Little is known about Jaew Borng's history, other than he's roughly 10 years old and shelter workers named him after a Thai dish.
Lewis had the time to devote to training the household's newest addition. Slowly he came along, becoming accustomed to a collar, his walking harness. He took to each challenge like an adventure.
"But even now if you pet him too quickly or surprise him, he gets really quite scared. He kind of jumps or cowers. If you pet him from above he always winces and closes his eyes."
At first terrified by dog toys, he's slowly come around to love them. Same goes for Christmas.
"Last Christmas he was so nervous by all the commotion. This Christmas he was so into it, opening gifts himself, tearing apart the wrapping paper. It did take quite a while to transition him but it was worth every moment."
He also maintains a morning ritual that never ceases to humour the Lewis family.
"He stays in his bed till we get up and start
moving, and then he can't wait to go outside. Once he comes back inside he starts spinning in circles and charges through the house, knowing he's about to get fed.
"We've been extremely lucky with this guy. Our kids can snuggle him, lay in bed with him, kiss him on the face. He loves all of it."
Jaew Borng doesn't appear to mind missing a limb. Aside from a few epic wipe-outs caused by slippery hardwood floors, he gets around just fine. He prances rather than walks.
He's recovering from a back ailment, which doctors attribute to too much exercise.
But he remains determined to take on his daily walks. Some habits, Lewis admits, are difficult to break.
"He's a professional beggar. He gets that look on his face like, 'I know what I'm doing and I'm going to get some of what you've got.' He always seems to win."


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With one sex toy company proclaiming 2016 as the year that pegging takes off, it's time to re-evaluate the benefits of telling your boyfriend to bend over.
This is the most vulnerable I have been in a long time. Flat on my back, pillow under my ass, legs akimbo; my ankles are so close to my eyes I can inspect the architecture of my bones. And then she's on me, all hot breath and readiness, a portrait of cockiness and control.
"Do you want my dick?" she asks, leaning over me, prodding at my most intimate space with something slippery and cold.
"Yes," I whimper. "I do…" and I close my eyes and think of Charlie Glickman.
The year is 2011. Japan has suffered its biggest earthquake in over a century, the Arab Spring is tearing up the Middle East and the English riots are lighting up cities like Guy Fawkes. It's pretty safe to say the world is going to hell – and at this juncture, to suggest that the answer to stopping this big ball of dirt we call home death-sliding right down the pan can be found at the tip of a dildo is, well, borderline delusional. Unless you're sex & relationship coach Charlie Glickman PhD, that is.
Of course, when Glickman penned the blog post 'How Pegging Can Save The World' his thoughts were far from the above. Sadly, he wasn't saying the best way to patch up world peace was to have soldiers and cops pull on a pair of Triple Penetrator Dildo Pants. In fact, Glickman was advocating role reversal in the bedroom, as a way of offering straight men an insight—"when sex is about catching rather than pitching"—into their female partner's pleasure, potential discomfort and vulnerability. It's something that I can certainly attest to.
"[Pegging] won't make communication miraculously easy and it won't fix everything about sexism or gender-based inequities [but] what it can do (besides being lots of fun) is help people develop empathy, compassion, and understanding for their partners," he wrote. "And the more of that we have in the world, the better."
Five years on and Glickman's prophecy is inching (six, if you care to know) ever closer, especially if we take into account mainstream references in hit comedy Broad City as well as new year blockbuster Deadpool. Of course, pegging is nothing new. The 1976 Golden Age of Porn classic The Opening of Misty Beethoven featured a pegging scene; and the act emerged again, in bisexual and queer circles at least, in Carol Queen's 1998 sex ed video Bend Over Boyfriend, culminating with Dan Savage coining the term "peg" for the first time in 2001 after a vote on his blog, Savage Love ("bob," named after Queen's vid, was also in the running).
Mainstream depictions on Peep Show (2005), Weeds (2006) and Dirt (2007) followed, but whereas these portrayals involved an element of shame or "putting something up a man's ass WTF" weirdness, Broad City and Deadpool celebrate pegging in a completely non-judgemental way. In the former, Abbi rises to the challenge (with a bit of wall twerking enthusiasm from Ilana) to peg her super-keen date and in the latter, pegging is thrown into the middle of sex montage like it's no big deal; it just happens.
Erotic content is also seeing a pegging boom that defies demographics. Extreme hardcore producers Evil Angel, which boasts a 99 percent male viewership, tell me that their Strap Some Boyz series (link NSFW) has grown in popularity in recent years. Couple-friendly luxury sex toy brand LELO tagged 2016 as the year pegging really takes off, after the sales of male "anal pleasure objects" increased by 200 percent in 2015. As LELO point out in their yearly trends press release, "the deepening knowledge of gender expressions and sexual identities" as well as "the language of non-binary genders" are freeing people, particularly men, from the conventional confines of sexual identity, gender, and pleasure.
Dr Chauntelle Tibbals, sociologist and author of Exposure: A Sociologist Explores Sex, Society, and Adult Entertainment concurs, telling me that such increasing acceptance of 'taboo' sexual play that destabilizes gender norms may point to wider social ideals about sex. "In the past 10 years we have seen such an explosion in public gender awareness, understanding, and a willingness to explore boundaries and the social norms that contributed to the construction of said boundaries," she says. "It's only logical that pegging is now something we see in a comic book Hollywood film (Deadpool)."
r/pegging is a subreddit for pegging enthusiasts. Any of the 34,000 plus redditors post on everything from harness advice to "we did it!" confirmation images (link NSFW). I spoke to two of its members to find out why they got into pegging and the impact it's had on their sex lives. Drew Harris* is an American construction worker. We exchanged messages a few days after he'd first been pegged. "My wife thought the macho man/tough guy attitude was something she wanted in her life [but the expectation] was not making me happy as that isn't how I normally am and she wasn't very happy either," he told me.
"When we switched roles [with his wife as the dominant sexual partner and he as the submissive] everything pretty much felt right for both of us." I also messaged 'getsome187' who has introduced pegging into his last four relationships. "Some of the girls would wonder if I was bisexual or felt inadequate by wearing a fake cock but they got over it," he said. "It's like I'm sharing something intimate with them and it brings us closer because there is a kind of vulnerability to it."
'M', who I messaged on the kink social network Fetlife, and who has pegged two of her male partners, agrees. "Sometimes it can be a really intimate moment, at other times it can be dominating and filthy," she says. "I definitely think it can bring you closer though. It's nice when someone trusts you with their vulnerability."
It seems that this shared knowledge of vulnerability stems from experiencing two sides of the same coin: that of penetration. "For a man who has never received anal penetration, sex happens outside the body," Glickman told me in an email. "So while men might intellectually understand the need for warm-up before penetration, it's not the same thing as experiencing it. There's a different perspective that comes from knowing on a somatic level and I've talked with lots of women who say that exploring pegging has given their male partners a more attuned, patient approach to intercourse."
Can pegging save the world? It certainly turned mine on its head. In the wake of pegging, instead of feeling emasculated, I felt empowered. All the social norms of being a straight man in the bedroom (I must be the penetrator, I must be in charge) had literally been fucked into insignificance.
"I think that any time someone is penetrating their partner, whether with a cock or a strap on, it's about pleasure," adult star and director of Guide to Wicked Sex: Anal Play for Men Jessica Drake told me in an email. "Everyone should try it once."
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The spice of life is variety, or so they say. If that's true for people, what about our dogs and cats?
Pet food company advertising would have you believe that feeding one food (theirs!) for your pet's entire adult life is the way to go. But that concept is all wrong. When you really think about it, it doesn't even make sense!
For many of us, our pets are our children. So let's imagine for a moment that you have a child, let's say a 2-year old boy named Junior (of course!), and let's imagine taking him to the pediatrician for a check-up. The doctor bustles in, looks Junior over, then plunks a big bag of Yummi-o's down on the exam table.
"Good news," he beams. "All the vitamins, minerals and a perfect balance of nutrients that Junior needs are right here in New Complete Yummi-o's. Now all you have to do is make sure Junior gets three servings every day." The doctor wags his finger at you as he continues in a serious voice, "Now, since this food is perfectly complete and balanced, you mustn't feed Junior anything else—no apples or oatmeal or broccoli or peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches—because you might cause a nutrient imbalance!"
Well, this sounds a little weird, but you trust the pediatrician—after all, it's his name you see on all the gold-embossed university degrees on the exam room wall—so you go ahead and put Junior on an all-Yummi-o's diet.
Time passes, Junior grows, and by golly, it sure is cheap, easy and convenient to feed him. The next year you bring him in for his checkup, and the doctor is very pleased.
"He looks great," says the doc. "I see you've been keeping him on Yummi-o's. Terrific! Now, I have more good news for you! Yummi-o's now comes in Life Stages! You'll keep him on Yummi-o's Growth until he starts kindergarten. Then he'll go on Elementary Yummi-o's until he hits middle school. Then you give him Adolescent Yummi-o's until he's 18, when he can be weaned onto the Adult formula. And it gets even better—you can eat it too! New Improved Yummi-o's is complete and balanced for adults up to 65 years old."
"Pet food company advertising would have you believe that feeding one food (theirs!) for your pet's entire adult life is the way to go. But that concept is all wrong."
Ridiculous? Of course! What rational parent would feed a child only one food for years on end? Even if the food were, in fact, complete and balanced, most of us would consider it unnatural, even cruel to the child. Never give Junior a carrot or a glass of orange juice? No fresh food at all? Preposterous!.
Then why does everyone think it's okay to feed a cat or dog that way?
We would think a pediatrician who recommended a single food diet for a child was bonkers, yet when the veterinarian recommends a single food for our pampered pet, we obey without question. But feeding a dog or cat is not all that different from feeding a child.
It's way past time to bring a little common sense to bear, and common sense dictates that an animal ought to get a variety of foods.
The veterinary literature is full of cases where nutritional deficiencies (or excesses) were discovered, and in virtually every one, the problem arose (or was discovered) because the animal was kept on one food for a long period of time.
Cats, being strict obligate carnivores, have most often been the unintended victims—taurine, copper, vitamin E and potassium deficiencies have turned up in cats fed certain foods (which were, by the way, "complete and balanced" according to the standards at the time) as their sole diet.
Dogs, whose omnivorous metabolism is more adaptable, haven't had quite as many problems, though zinc and fatty acid deficiencies have occurred on certain poor quality foods.
"It's way past time to bring a little common sense to bear, and common sense dictates that an animal ought to get a variety of foods."
The Myth of Complete and Balanced
Wait a minute… aren't we indeed talking about "complete and balanced" foods? How can a complete and balanced food have deficiencies or excesses of nutrients? Unfortunately, even for the best commercial pet foods, there are several places along the road to the retail store shelf where any food's nutritional value can go astray.
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AG says man refused to comply before Walpole shootingBy MEGHAN PIERCE
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April 04. 2013 4:47PM
WALPOLE - The officer-involved shooting death of a Grafton man occurred after the man refused commands from the police officers to get out of his vehicle and comply with their orders, said senior assistant Attorney General Janice K. Rundles Thursday.
Rundles stayed mum on other details surrounding the death of Larry A. Bohannon, 51, of Grafton, citing the ongoing investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death.
Bohannon died from gunshot wounds to the head, chest and abdomen March 29.
Bohannon had allegedly robbed a stationary store at gunpoint in Bellows Falls, Vt., earlier that day. When he fled into New Hampshire, Alstead and Walpole officers pursued his vehicle until they were able to stop him on Upper Walpole Road in Walpole, where the shooting occurred.
Rundles would not identify the shooter, only saying that Alstead and Walpole officers were the only police on the scene.
When asked if the shooter had been placed on leave, Rundles said she would only speak generally about protocol.
"When an officer is involved in the discharging of a firearm and results in either the death or injury of another person," the officer is relieved from duty, "until he or she is ready to go back to regular police work," she said.
Rundles would not comment on whether Bohannon had a firearm.
"We're not releasing any further details surrounding the shooting yet," she said.
Results of the investigation are expected to be released early next week, she said.
Along with the circumstances surrounding the shooting, the investigation is "also looking into his background," Rundles said.
Lebanon police Lt. Phil Roberts said Thursday that his department is looking into whether Bohannon committed two unsolved armed robberies that took place in March. In both the March 8 robbery of the Little Store on School Street and the March 27 robbery of the Family Dollar store in the Miracle Mile Plaza, witnesses said a white man, about 6 feet tall, brandished a handgun and demanded money.
When asked if Bohannon was being investigated for unsolved Keene crimes, Keene police referred questions to the Attorney General's Office.
Bohannon had a criminal record. In 1994 he received two concurrent 20-year sentences for a kidnapping conviction in Sullivan County and a bail-jumping conviction out of Cheshire County.
Bohannon was first paroled on the sentences in 1996 then returned to jail two more times for technical parole violations. He had been wanted as a fugitive from justice since July 2011 when he failed to meet with his parole officer.


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