Belgian Malinoises Are as Good as $4K European Dog

The Belgian Malinois is a medium/large size dog that weighs between 40-80 lbs and is between 22″ to 26″ in height. Their name is pronounced MAL-in-wah. They are one of four Belgian Sheepdogs and are very work oriented and are protective of home, family and livestock. Belgian Malinois is one of four Belgian Sheepdogs. Their name comes from the Belgian city of Malines. It is recognize as its own breed by the AKC however, in some countries, all four Belgian Sheepdogs are considered to be one breed. The Belgian Malinois is popular in Belgium and is used for herding, police work and as a search and rescue dog.
The federal reported that the U.S. government imported hundreds of untrained dogs for bomb and drug sniffing from Europe each year and each dog cost as much as $4,535. The congressional and government critics prompted that the taxpayers money was just being wasted for this kinds of dogs.
“Are this dogs gold-plated to have such high price?” asked by Leslie Paige from Citizens Against Government Waste.The Homeland Security Department's inspector general (IG) found that the Customs and Border Protection division spent $1.46 million on 322 untrained dogs between April 2006 and June 2007. CBP has more than 1,000 trained dogs working at the nation's borders, airports and seaports, and the number is expected to grow.
The report called the figure "reasonable" and "comparable" to what other government agencies pay. The Secret Service, which has 75 dogs, pays an average of $4,533 for its dogs. The Department of Defense, which gets a discount because it buys more dogs than other agencies, pays between $3,300 and $3,800 per dog, the IG found. A typical purebred in the USA sells for about $1,200. A show dog could go for as much as $2,000.The government, which puts its requests for dogs out for competitive bidding, buys Belgian Malinoises, Labradors and shepherds.
Michelle Denson, who breeds Belgian Malinois dogs in Ocala, Fla., says her dogs are no different from European dogs. She says she has sold some to police departments for $1,000.

David Cook | American Idol Winner 2008

David Cook at the American idol finale

Singing his winning piece, "The Time of My Life" is American Idol Season 7 Winner || David Cook

David Cook, 25-year old bartender have tallied to have more that 12 million votes out of the 97 millions votes from the different viewers of American Idol. When Ryan Seacrest announced the winner, both of the Davids wasn't expecting such a result. David Cook looks so nervous while David Archileta seem relaxed while waiting for the final decision. The competition was called to be the closest to each other that they have seen while the other remains up for debate.” The Winning by 12 million votes is .. David... Cook”.. Seacrest announced which makes Archuleta stunned and bummed, also his father who's watching with the audience. Cook join the competition's auditions with no intent on going before the judges, only to support his brother. On the other hand, judge Simon Cowell, as we watched the show at home, apologized to David Cook for his being harsh towards the contestant. He said .”"It wasn't quite so clear-cut as we called it," he said. "In fact, David, I will take this opportunity to apologize, because I was verging on disrespectful with you, and I don't think you deserve that.”

Triacetone Triperoxide Confiscated

Triacetone Triperoxide, an explosive substance was confiscated by a man, a welder, at the Oskarshamn plant which is owned by a German energy giant E.on. The company said that the plant now has been sealed. It is said that the man who carried the substance was stopped before he gets into the entrance of the site when the tests suspects a traces of explosives. This triacetone triperoxide or TATP was believed to be the substance, an extremely unstable material that can be made using household chemicals and was remembered being used by the “shoe-bomber”, on the planning of blowing up an aerplane in 2001. The police was informed that this man who worked inside the site was stopped for a random security check and found out that he was carrying a highly explosive material with him which is TATP(triacetone triperoxide).


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Amantadine Drug for Flu

Amantadine Drug for Flu
The news spread out after a guest starring role of Fox medical drama, “House”, was revealed to have taken amantadine before a serious injury in a bus crash. From previous episode, this young doctor named Amber was mysteriously ill but when checked by authorities, her system seem to be clear from amantadine.
The “HOUSE”---(House has long been a fantastic show. Its main drawback is the predictability of the episode formula, and even now the season long formula. We know inside and out what each character will do, and how things will transpire. The fresh faces this season were more a necessity than a branching out of storylines. Tonight the season finale of House has done something remarkably different for the show, and yet it still kept to the same basic formula. Yes, we end the season once again seeing the real humanity of Gregory House. But this time it’s raw and true in a way that wrenches at the heart. In particular the heart of his best friend, Wilson.

Huntington Hartford

Huntington Hartford died on Monday at his home in Lyford Cay in the Bahamas. This was announce by his daughter, Juliet Hartford. Huntington was 97 and was the one who inherited a fortune from the A. & P. grocery business. His death had him lost most of his dreams as an entrepreneur, arts patron and man of leisure. No cause of death was reported.
Mr. Hartford, a grandson of a principal founder of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, was treated like a prince as a boy, indulged by his mother and a staff of servants and eventually provided with a living of about $1.5 million a year. Not content merely to be rich, he longed to be a writer and, more than that, an arbiter of culture and a master builder — ambitions that eluded him time after time.
Ranked among the world's richest people at one time, Hartford was once called by Architect Frank Lloyd Wright "the sort of man who will come up with an idea, pinch it in the fanny and run."
He underwrote a series of failed enterprises, most of which resulted in spectacular losses. Among them were an artist's foundation and colony in Los Angeles, and the glossy magazine Show, a journal of art and culture.
His Ocean Club resort on Paradise Island in the Bahamas suffered from the lack of a gambling license and went bust. Resorts International eventually bought him out for $1 million, a shell of his $30-million investment.