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While they tend to be confused with therapy dogs which often, which have their own place in helping fields, she said facility dogs go a step further in that they can perform the same trained commands as other assistance dogs.
However, Reiss said that what sets facility dogs apart from other assistance dogs is the fact that they work with multiple clients and have to be "incredible social greeter.
"They have to give 100 percent to every single person they meet," she said.
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OCTOBER 5--A Florida man’s decision to throw out his 19-year-old son’s Lego collection last night triggered a domestic brawl that ended with both combatants behind bars, police report.
The dispute, both Melices acknowledged, turned physical and included the exchange of shoves and punches. The men each suffered scratches during the fight.
The younger Melice apparently discovered that his Legos had been trashed upon returning to his family’s home from his current residence in Jupiter.
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. -- The highly anticipated debut debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump lived up to its billing Monday as the candidates clashed repeatedly over the economy, tax cuts for the wealthy and ISIS.
As Trump slammed Clinton for staying off the campaign trail recently as he traveled the country, Clinton responded with her best zinger of the night.
The line drew a round of applause from an audience that had been instructed to remain quiet.
Trump's tendency to make false claims was on full display during the debate as he made inaccurate statements on everything from laws regarding policing, his support for the Iraq War and his contention that Clinton was behind the so-called birther conspiracy.
Clinton, the Democratic nominee, repeatedly sought to correct Trump's statements -- going so far as referring viewers to fact checks on her website -- as she aimed to portray him as out of touch with the complexities of the American economy.
"I know you live in your own reality," she told Trump.
One of the most powerful moments of the debate came when the conversation focused on the birther debate following Trump's recent acknowledgment that President Barack Obama was born in the U.S. -- a fact that has been evident for years. With Trump standing just a few feet from her, Clinton blasted Trump for perpetuating a "racist lie."
"He has a long record of engaging in racist behavior," Clinton said as Trump shook his head.
Trump hit back, noting Clinton's tough critiques of Obama during their bitter 2008 primary battle.
"You treated him with terrible disrespect and I watch the way you talk now about how lovely everything is, ... it doesn't work that way," he said. "When you try to act holier than thou, it really doesn't work."
Clinton and Trump opened the debate on a positive note by shaking hands before stationing themselves behind their podiums at Hofstra University on New York's Long Island.
The debate is attracting worldwide interest with a television audience expected to approach 100 million, lured by the extraordinary drama of the 2016 campaign.
And that drama quickly unfolded.
An increasingly angry Trump slammed Clinton for putting her plans to fight ISIS on her website -- and thereby tipping off America's enemy.
"Well, at least I have a plan to fight ISIS," Clinton responded, referring to his previous statements that he has a "secret" plan to destroy the terrorist group.
Clinton hammered Trump over his refusal to release his tax returns.
"Why won't he release his tax returns?" Clinton asked.
"Maybe he is not as rich as he says he is," she went on. "Maybe he is not as charitable as he claims to be," "Maybe he doesn't want the American people to know that he has paid nothing in federal taxes."
Clinton pressed Trump on the issue, saying "There is something he is hiding."
Trump replied that he would release his taxes when Clinton made public 33,000 emails that were deleted from her private email server. When Clinton said that Trump had paid no federal income tax in some years, Trump replied "That makes me smart."
Clinton also set about Trump's business record, pointing out that he had called himself "The King of Debt" and accusing him of "stiffing" thousand of contractors who did work for his business.
When the debate turned to racial issues and crime, Clinton said it was important for police to work together with local communities to restore trust.
Trump accused Clinton of refusing to say the phrase "law and order" and bemoaned the state of inner cities. He said that African-Americans and Hispanics were "living in hell."
"You walk down the street, you get shot," Trump said.
Clinton rebuked Trump for painting "such a dire picture" of black communities.
Mike Amesbury hoisted Corbyn into the air and patted him on the head. The shadow employment minister was at the 2018 Westminster Dog of the Year competition with his Cockapoo (who his son named Corbyn), and had just won the so-called ‘pawblic vote’.
However it was Alex Norris, another Labour MP, who finished on the top of the podium with his dogs Boomer and Corona. Andrew Mitchell’s Scarlet came second, and Cheryl Gillan’s recue dog Goosebury came third.
Perhaps this is a sign that Corbyn’s luck is running out.
The owner of Quilox Nightclub, Victoria Island Lagos, Shina Peller, is still in a celebratory mood.
When he showed interest in representing the people of Iseyin, Itesiwaju, Kajola and Iwajowa Federal Constituency (Oyo State) at the House of Representatives, many people didn’t give him a chance. However, like magic, the king of nightlife in Lagos, who contested on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress, polled 44,088 votes to represent his people at the National Assembly.
Because of his occupation, it was expected that he would throw a lavish party to celebrate the victory and he didn’t disappoint. Despite an unexpected rainfall, the event was a night of bliss, glitz and glamour, as socialites and celebrities trooped to the club.
The occasion was graced by top entertainers such as Timaya, Chioma Chukwuka-Akpotha, Omoni Oboli, Daddy Showkey, Ayo Animashaun, E Money, Kcee, and a host of others.
Two dozen Shan community groups have sent a letter to Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi calling on her government to stop the construction of hydroelectric dam projects on the Thanlwin or Salween River.
The Myanmar government recently announced that it will proceed with dams on the Salween River, despite strong local opposition.
The letter was sent to coincide with State Counsellor Suu Kyi’s five-day visit to China during which discussions will include hydropower projects that Beijing is financing or hoping to finance.
One project which the groups voice concern over is the 1,200 megawatt Naung Pha dam in nothern Shan State, to be built by China's state-owned Hydrochina Corporation. An estimated 90 percent of the power will be exported to China. Australia's Snowy Mountain Engineering Corporation (SMEC) is currently conducting the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment in this highly militarized area, adjoining the Wa Self-Administered Division.
Shan community groups have long protested and expressed concern about the Naung Pha dam and how it could affect local villagers, the environment, and the free flow of the river.
Representatives of the community groups plan to hold a press conference on August 23 at the Foreign Correspondent’s Club of Thailand to voice their concerns.
Football fans can get up close to the Grey Cup this Monday at two Winnipeg Red River Co-op grocery store locations.
The league championship hardware will be touring as part of the Canada Beef Grey Cup Tour. Fans can have their picture taken with the cup and take part in festivities, including a BBQ and football toss. Donations collected will support the Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba.
Red River Co-op Grant Park Food Store (1120 Grant Avenue) from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Red River Co-op St. Vital Food Store (850 Dakota Street) from 5-7 p.m.
The annual Riley Run will be Nov. 15. This is a healthy way of fundraising and the PTO's major fundraiser for the year. The event will take place throughout the day during the classrooms' specials times. Parents are invited to cheer on the runners. Students will collect pledges during the week.
The School Planning and Management Team will meet at 3:45 p.m. Tuesday. This team of teachers, administrators, staff and parents provides input, under the leadership of the school administration, in decisions regarding finances and academics. Parents are encouraged to attend.
Howard Jones, manager of Target in Bluffton, has been named the newest member of the M.C. Riley School Improvement Council. School Improvement Councils serve the school principal and faculty in an advisory role, bringing together parents, educators, students and community stakeholders to collaborate on the improvement of their local schools.
The school's monthly PTO meeting is 8:15 a.m. Tuesday.
Okatie's Scarecrow Scoot and Fall Festival will be Oct. 29. Students and parents will spend the day walking in the morning and participating in fall festival activities in the afternoon.
Kindergarten field trip is Wednesday.
Fifth-graders will be at Camp Driftwood from Wednesday-Friday.
Friday begins the PTO fall Scrip fundraiser.
The "South Carolina Scarecrow Walkabout" benefiting Sea Pines Forest Preserve Museum and Forest Preserve Foundation will be held from 1-3 p.m. Oct. 23 at Fish Island in the preserve. The event features a walking tour through the Forest Preserve to view student-created scarecrows based on a South Carolina theme. Cost is $5 a family, plus $5 entry to Sea Pines.
The SPMA Harvest Moon Celebration fundraiser for the booster club will be from 7-10 p.m. Oct. 23 at Fish Island in the Sea Pines Forest Preserve. There will be a pig roast, oysters and a bluegrass band.
The Community Meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 19. Students are welcome to attend with parents. Students will be invited to watch "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown."
Sign-up sheets for parent/teacher conferences are due into the office by 9 a.m. Tuesday.
Robert Lipsyte's baseball purism prescribed in ''Hey McGwire! Beware the Curse of the Babe'' (The Times, Aug. 9) relies on the fallacious presupposition that ''guile, daring, speed and savvy'' are the only virtues of the game. Lipsyte thus decries the ''lucky big bang'' of Mark McGwire's home run hitting, for he sees it as ''the equivalent of quitting work to play the lottery after a lifetime of losing.'' But to expand Lipsyte's analogy, we see that McGwire is winning the lottery nearly once every 10 times he plays. Where's the luck in that?
George Orwell and Joseph Goebbels did not have much in common, but they both understood the essence of propaganda: if you want to tell a lie, make sure that its a big one, and if possible make it the exact opposite of the truth.
David Cameron's speech at the British Museum claiming that the EU has preserved peace in Europe, and that a British exit would make it more likely that the continent would plunge into a reprise of the two world wars, was a classic example of the Orwellian big lie.
It is, of course, Nato, not the EU, that has kept the peace since World War Two, and the EU which has already worsened – if it did not not directly cause – two armed conflicts on European soil in the former Yugoslavia and the Ukraine.
The history of EU-style multinational federations imposed by an elite from above in Europe is not a happy one. From the frayed patchworks of the Holy Roman and Hapsburg Austrian Empires, down to the collapse of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, they have invariably ended in bloody chaos, and then the peace and quiet of the graveyard.
Not for nothing did a bemused Mikhail Gorbachev – and as the man who presided over the dissolution of Russia's "evil empire" he should surely know – say that the most puzzling development in Europe over the past decade was the determination of the EU's leaders to reconstruct the Soviet Union, a failed state if there ever was one, on the soil of western Europe.
Gorbachev was speaking before the long arm of EU meddling reached as far as Ukraine, causing that vast country to split in two and threaten war with Vladimir Putin's Russia – a slow-burn crisis that may yet erupt once more into open conflict.
Back in the 1990s, the total failure of EU diplomacy helped speed former Yugoslavia into a brutal ethnic civil war. A fragile peace was finally imposed on those troubled lands not by the EU, but by Nato bombs and arm twisting backed by the Atlantic alliance's military muscle.
So the EU's record at actually keeping the peace is fairly shabby. And in fact it is not the bureaucratic and dictatorial edicts of the EU that have kept the peace in Europe, but the forces of trade, travel and globalisation. Meanwhile, it is the imposition of a top-down dictat from Brussels that is breeding resistance from an increasingly resentful European body politic.
Cameron's argument that the European Union is a force for peace and stability therefore falls at the first hurdle. But we shouldn't really be surprised by his shaky grasp of historical facts. For we are dealing, let us not forget, with a man who in 2010 committed an elementary schoolboy historical howler when he described Britain's role in 1940 as being the "junior partner" to the US in World War Two. In fact it was Britain which stood alone in that year against the totalitarian tide which had engulfed all Europe. The USA did not join in until she was attacked by Japan in December 1941 at Pearl Harbor.
Europe's totalitarian past is relevant to this debate. Of the EU's 28 member states, only three – Britain, Sweden and Ireland – have not within living memory been Communist, Nazi, Fascist or military dictatorships or occupied by the forces of such tyrannies.
The EU's founding fathers, knowing this woeful history, distrusted democracy, which they believed had brought dictators and demagogues to power, and determined that their project would create a post-democratic new order, imposed by stealth step by step on their blissfully ignorant populations.
Britain, a latecomer to the European construction, when its authoritarian foundations were already set in stone, never had a hope of influencing this profoundly undemocratic institution in the direction of our ancient Parliamentary democracy.
Now we see the results. Across Europe the vaunted European project is crumbling before our eyes. Fuelled by the mass unemployment and social dislocation caused by the disastrous Euro experiment, far from peace and order, extremist parties are on the rise across the EU from Greece to Sweden, and from France to Austria. Even in Germany, as a direct response to the tidal tsunami of migration decreed by Frau Merkel, the increasingly extreme AfD is piling on the votes.
It must be Britain's role not to plunge deeper into this morass, but to extricate ourselves as best we can from the quicksand and forge a new future in line with our past as an open and outward looking society in touch with the wide world beyond the ever shrinking European horizon.
In his speech, Cameron referred to the serried ranks of tombstones in the war cemeteries of Europe bearing silent witness to the continent's disastrous wars. I saw these cemeteries when I led the Telegraph's centenary tour of the Somme this week, and I will see more when I go to the great Franco-German killing ground of Verdun next week. The men who lie in them died for freedom – not to create a new tyranny spawning more wars.
If Britain has the guts to ignore Cameron and the Establishment elite and vote for Brexit on June 23rd, free and independent once more, we could perhaps, in the words of William Pitt the Younger, one of Cameron's great predecessors as PM who led Britain's resistance to the Napoleonic tyranny, 'Save Europe by her example'.
Google has revealed the lofty expansion rates of its dominant mobile operating system with the software giant confirming it now activates a staggering one million Android devices per day.
Announced alongside the official Android 4.1 Jelly Bean confirmation and the upcoming Nexus 7 tablet release plans, Google has revealed that with more than 400 million Android devices currently in consumers' hands, an extra one million Gingerbread, Honeycomb and ICS filled offerings are being registered by users on a daily basis.
Detailing Android's rapid rise to dominance, the Apple rival revealed late last year that it had hit the 700,000 daily activations milestone with the 900,000 marker coming earlier this month.
Are you a fan of Google's mobile operating system? How many Android filled devices do you currently own? Let us know via the T3 Twitter and Facebook feeds.
The NASCAR Xfinity Series wraps up its 2017 season on Saturday with the running of the Ford EcoBoost 300. Here’s a look at the odds to win this race.
According to the latest oddsmakers, William Byron is favored to win this race, as he has +333 odds. Other short odds to win are Ryan Preece (+450), Christopher Bell (+500) and Tyler Reddick (+600). The Ford EcoBoost 300 takes place Saturday at 3:30PM ET from Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Florida.
Byron is coming off a win last week in Phoenix, his fourth of the 2017 season. Byron is in his first full year of driving in this series and he has put up 11 top-5 finishes. He also is a former winner at this track in the Truck Series.
Preece hasn’t competed much in the Xfinity Series this year. He has taken part in just three races, but has finished in the top 5 in all three. That includes a win at Iowa. Preece has driven in this race the last two years, but finished outside the top 20 both times.
Bell has taken part in seven Xfinity Series races this year, winning one of them while placing fourth in two others. Like Byron, he has more experience in the truck series and finished eighth at Homestead in that series last year.
Reddick has picked up one win this year to go along with two other top-5 finishes. The 2017 year hasn’t been his best, as he has finished outside the top 10 in 12 races. He has driven at Homestead the last three years in the Truck Series, finishing in the top 3 both times.
Do I use my iPhone a lot? Sure do. Do I love it? Absolutely. Am I in love with it? Well, I have to admit that since upgrading to iOS 9 the shine had definitely started to wear off.
I'm certain that regular readers of this column assume that I'm surrounded by piles of gleaming tech, and that as soon as something displeases me it gets promptly disposed of and replaced by something newer, better, and much cooler.
While some seem to be able to move effortlessly from one bit of kit to another like some cyborg bee, I find that I'm much more efficient with the kit that I'm used to. This explains why I keep the same notebook for a few years and had that raggedy old keyboard case on my iPad from day one until the day I passed it down a branch on the family tree.
Back when I migrated from Windows to OS X as my main workaday operating system I put a lot of thought and effort into the move, and there was a knock-on effect on productivity that lingered for months after the move.
I don't make big, dramatic, drastic changes to my kit lightly.
But now the sorry state of iOS 9 is affecting my ability to do all the things I need to get done in a day done.
iOS 9 has transformed my iPhone 6 Plus -- a bit of kit that represents many hundreds of hard-earned dollars -- from something that was a joy to use into an object of annoyance.
And even the most cursory of glances at Apple's support forum reveals that I'm not the only one having these problems.
Now if you scour the forums you'll come across all sorts of unofficial "fixes" for these issues, but most turn out to be temporary fixes while others don't fix anything at all and just result in having to reenter passwords again and the like (an incantation that's regularly touted as a fix-all is Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Settings). And why would fiddling in the settings fix anything? These are deep operating system bugs and Apple doesn't give you access to any of the gory stuff in iOS.
Given that Apple has such a tight control over its hardware and software ecosystem, the fact that last year's iPhone is experiencing so many problems running the next version up operating system is frankly disgraceful. This isn't a case of me trying to get Windows 10 to run on a decade old-PC and complaining that it's a bit shaky. This is me upgrading a piece or hardware that I bought a year ago and that Apple says is fully supported. The apologists will no doubt reach for all the old excuses -- my sample size is too small, my hardware is defective, I didn't do XYZ... -- but there is no excuse.
And this isn't just a blip. The quality of the iOS builds that Apple has been shipping out have been slipping. I remember the first iOS 8 update that was pushed to my shiny new iPhone 6 Plus shortly after I received it that killed the cell service and Touch ID, forcing me to roll back the operating system. Yeah, great start with the new iPhone 6 Plus all that was.
iOS 8 spent months being plagued by a myriad of bugs that Apple couldn't seem to pin down. It got better, but it was never right.

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