Americans are the worst tourists in the world.They think so themselves, a study conducted by marketing company Mandala Research showed.

During the study, 5,600 people from five countries were asked to describe their attitudes towards tourists from different countries, the Rossiiskaya Gazeta newspaper wrote.It turned out that every fifth respondent said that U.S. citizens were “the worst tourists.” Interestingly, the majority of those who said so were American citizens themselves.

Russian tourists closed the top five of the worst tourists in the world.Travelers from China took the second place in the ranking of the worst tourists in the world.The third place belongs to tourists from France, whilst the fourth was “awarded” to Japanese tourists.The top ten included citizens of Korea, India, Germany, Spain and the UK.The “black list” ended with tourists from Ireland, Switzerland and Australia.

About 40 percent of American travelers said that they had stolen something from hotel rooms at least once, Firstnews said. In most cases, it goes about towels (28 percent), bathrobes (8 percent), batteries (5 percent), pillows (4 per cent), TV remote controls (3 percent), sheets (3 percent), Bibles (3 percent) and umbrellas (3percent).

As for the incidents, which happen to American tourists in their journeys, most respondents lost luggage (22 percent) and extreme weather (21 percent).Nearly 19 percent of travelers admitted that they happened to get lost, pay extra (16 percent), come late for a flight (16 percent), get injured, fall ill or ask for emergency help from medical specialists (11 percent).

Eight percent of respondents also said that they experienced trouble during their holidays when they ran out of money, or they could not get access to it. Seven percent complained that they had a headache and could not remember what happened to them after a wild party the night before.

The same number (7 percent) admitted that they could not find a bathroom when they needed it urgently. Five percent of respondents mentioned theft or robbery; the same amount were bitten by bed bugs, or faced large-scale strikes or mass riots during their stay in foreign countries.Nearly 5 percent reported the loss of passports. Three percent fell victims of fraud. The same amount of people said that they were detained by police or had problems with law-enforcement agencies.

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Tarheel Canine Training, Inc in Sanford NC is providing a grant to a police department with demonstrable financial need, for a free dual purpose narcotic K9, including the dog, training, handler course, and housing during the handler course. Tarheel Canine expects to offer grants to students in their School for Dog Trainers within the next quarter. Tarheel Canine CEO Jerry Bradshaw is a Canine expert with media experience available for expert opinions on all matters relating to dogs, dog training, and police dogs.

Sanford, NC (PRWEB) February 08, 2012

Starting in February 2012, Tarheel Canine’s Police K9 Program in Sanford NC will accept applications for an annual grant for a fully trained dual narcotic police K9. The grant application must demonstrate financial need, the availability to provide a motivated handler, and the reason that a K9 would be put to use in the community. The law enforcement agency requesting the grant must be willing to incur the cost of veterinary upkeep and general care, as well as travel and meal expenses while the handler is in training. Tarheel Canine will not only provide a trained dog, but will provide a 4 week handler school and certification for the K9 team. Requests for grant applications should be sent to Jerry Bradshaw, Training Director, Tarheel Canine Training, Inc.

“This is an opportunity to give something back to the law enforcement community. Budget cuts have plagued law enforcement for the last few years, and times have been tough with manpower shortages and these budget cutbacks often affect K9,” said Bradshaw. “I have had a number of letters from highly motivated officers who want to be in K9, and use dogs in their community, but there just isn’t the money in the budget for it. If we could afford to do more we would, but cutbacks have affected us as well.”

Tarheel Canine provides a vast range of services including a world-renowned School for Dog Trainers, which educates both law enforcement K9 instructors and civilians who want to start a career in pet training. The School for Dog Trainers has produced industry leaders in the canine field around the world, and Tarheel Canine's police K9 training programs are responsible for millions of dollars in contraband seizures and the safe apprehension of numerous dangerous felons. “The reality is, K9 is often the first thing to be cut when budgets are tight, however K9 saves on manpower and duty-hours significantly. A K9 can perform a sniff of a vehicle to locate contraband in the fraction of the time an officer can hand search a vehicle that has been impounded or a house where the officers are serving a search warrant. K9 can quickly locate fleeing felony suspects using their tracking functions, or find a felon hiding in a building, and keep the officers much safer in the process,” added Bradshaw.

Tarheel Canine is also looking to expand their grant program to their school for dog trainers as well, and will announce grants for both law enforcement and civilians to attend the School for Dog Trainers in the coming weeks. “These grants will range from full-ride grants, and partial monetary grants, to free housing grants, to providing needed equipment to attendees of the Tarheel Canine School for Dog Trainers,” said Bradshaw.

Some of the courses offered at Tarheel Canine include: Professional Obedience Trainer (including Behavior Modification), Police K-9 Instructor, Detection Dog Trainer (Narcotics, Explosives, Cadaver, Bed Bugs, Mold, and Termites), Personal Protection Trainer, Search & Rescue Trainer, and Police K9 Supervisor Courses. “We have done a little of everything, from training Military K9 handlers to bed bug detection dog training,” said Bradshaw.

Tarheel Canine is located in Sanford, North Carolina, and has trained K9s and educated K9 instructors for Civilian Security, Police, and Military units in the US, Belize, US Virgin Islands, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Brazil, Argentina, Barbados, Costa Rica, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan, Denmark, Holland, Portugal, and have seminars scheduled for 2012 in Australia, Taiwan, and Costa Rica.

Jerry and his staff have appeared on CNN, Good Morning America, BBC Radio, and have been quoted in Salon.com, and Dog Fancy. Jerry has written for Police K9 magazine, K9 Cop Magazine, and Dog Sport magazine and is a columnist for PoliceOne.com. Jerry Bradshaw is available for interviews for print, radio and television as an expert in the field of canine behavior, training, police and military K9 training and deployment. Jerry has written a book on Police K9 Training titled Controlled Aggression, and it is available from Lulu Press.

Jerry Bradshaw, Training Director, Tarheel Canine Training, Inc. 919-244-8044 (c) 919-774-4152 (o)

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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Medizone International, Inc. (MZEI:OB) (MZEI:QB), the company behind the AJIC peer-reviewed disinfection technology AsepticSure, announced today that it has  now completed National patent application filings of its recently Granted lead patent application (Canadian Patent No 2735739). These filings apply to the United States, Mexico, Brazil, China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, the 37 countries of the European Patent Organization (EU), Great Britain, India and Australia.

AsepticSure's clinically proven efficacy against a vast spectrum of pathogenic bacteria, fungi, spores and viruses clears the way for its use in large-scale reductions of hospital acquired infections (HAIs) in surgical centers, long-term care facilities and hospitals around the world.

It's also the only green disinfection technology on the planet that has consistently demonstrated in peer-reviewed research, an unprecedented 100% kill-rate (> 6-log) with formidable pathogens such as C-difficile, MRSA, E coli, Pseudomonas aeruginous and VRE, the root sources of superbug infections – on both hard and soft surfaces – and without the need to remove, cover or protect the treated room's contents.

Medizone's lead patent was granted on November 22, 2011 by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (patent office) for processes and systems relating to the platform technology. The Company considers this an extraordinarily strong foundational patent as it covers both the science and technology of AsepticSure.

Medizone Board Chairman and CEO, Edwin Marshall added, “Shareholders should also be delighted to know that our patent attorneys have recently received a most favorable report from the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Examiners on both the Bed Bug Application and our Bio-Terrorism Countermeasures Application for dealing with weaponized pathogens for building remediation following an attack.

“To quote, 'The way forward to an international, favorable patentability opinion on each case seems to be clear. In no case has the examiner found any prior art of which we were not previously aware. In respect of the Anthrax case and the Bed Bugs case, there are no pertinent prior art references at all. All claims in both cases are ruled to possess both novelty and inventive step, so that they can proceed without further amendment or argument.'”

Marshall concluded, “As Medizone's AsepticSure technology moves closer to becoming the International Standard for Disinfection of enclosed spaces, the significance of these patents to shareholder value moving forward should prove immense. It's a great time to be involved with this Company.”

For press information on Medizone International, please contact:

Bruce Smeaton, Investor Relations, Medizone International, Inc.

T: 001-415-331-0202    E: bruce@medizoneint.com 

Medizone International, Inc. is engaged in initial production of its modular design AsepticSure™ Decontamination Systems. Decontamination to the sterilization standard of >6 log (99.9999%) is obtainable within hospitals, airlines, cruise ships, long term care facilities, food processing plants, clean room manufacturing facilities, schools and other critical infrastructure. A government variant is being tested for bio-terrorism counter measures for building remediation.

This Press Release may contain certain forward looking statements that could involve substantial risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, the results of ongoing clinical studies, economic conditions, product and technology development, production efficiencies, product demand, competitive products, competitive environment, successful testing and government regulatory issues. Additional risks are identified in the company's filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

For more information, visit: www.medizoneint.com

Email: operations@medizoneint.com

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