BLOOD-HORSE RECOGNIZED AT 2007 AMERICAN HORSE AWARDS PROGRAM

BLOOD-HORSE PUBLICATIONS RECOGNIZED AT 2007 AMERICAN HORSE PUBLICATIONS AWARDS PROGRAM
Albuquerque, NM — Blood-Horse Publications’ publications received a total of thirteen awards on Saturday, June 23 at the American Horse Publications (AHP) Annual Awards Program held in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Sixty-nine AHP members were named finalists in the 2007 AHP Annual Awards Contest for material published [...]

Texas Best Barrel Racing Postponed

July 5- 8 Graham, Texas Young County Arena #2 – Postponed because of rain check back for new dates – Visit our website at www.texasbestbarrelracing.com or call Linda Draper at 254-679-9306 or lindadraper@sbcglobal.net or GiGi Robinson 325-823-3558

National ID plan may have killed immigration bill

The U.S. Senate definitively rejected President George Bush’s immigration bill on Thursday, just hours after senators expressed deep misgivings with portions that would have expanded the use of a national ID card.
Because the procedural vote was 46 to 53, with 60 votes needed to advance the immigration legislation, the proposal is likely to remain dead [...]

Senate takes step away from Real ID

The U.S. Senate took a preliminary step on Wednesday toward reining in the controversial Real ID Act, which is scheduled to become America’s first federal identification card in a few years.
During Wednesday’s floor debate over a massive immigration bill, Real ID foes managed to preserve an amendment to prohibit the forthcoming identification card from being [...]

Food safety agency invites comments on melamine

The public is being asked to comment on a food safety agency’s decision-making process that led the agency to conclude that swine and poultry fed pet food scraps containing melamine and melamine-related compounds are unlikely to pose a human health risk.
The decisions of the Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, detailed in the [...]

Board approves recommendations with teeth

An engaging new interactive resource has the potential to make a meaningful dent in the nation’s alarming number of dog bite victims, estimated at 4.7 million last year.
The AVMA Executive Board signed on to a project with The Blue Dog Trust to instruct the most common victims—young children—and their parents on preventing dog bite injury. [...]

“BEST REMUDAS” AN AWARD-WINNING BOOK

BY JIM JENNINGS 
America’s Horse, June 25, 2007- Jim Jennings’ “Best Remudas” immortalizes the building blocks of the American West – the working ranch horse – and at the 2007 Independent Publisher Awards, this handsome new coffee table book was awarded a bronze medal for Outstanding Book of the Year in the category of Best Corporate [...]

Author / Artist Ron Hevener Talks Horses

For Immediate Release
June 22, 2007
Contact:
Office of Ron Hevener
(717) 664-5089
Pennywood@dejazzd.com
(Lancaster, PA) – Do you love horses? Horse figurines? Horse paintings? Horse stories? TV shows about horses? Talking about horses? That’s exactly what Author/Artist Ron Hevener will be doing during his upcoming tour of public libraries in Pennsylvania next month: [...]

Cowgirl University’s California Adventure

Media contact: Danny Latham, Jr.
Office: 817/509-8991
Cell: 817/715-2868
dlatham@cowgirl.net

Ranch Life 102 for cowboys, cowgirls and cowpokes presented by the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of FameFORT WORTH, Texas – Bring your horse or use one of ours and join us in the beautiful hills of central Calif., July 20-22 for Cowgirl University’s Ranch Life 102 – a [...]

Safari ushers in better browser colors

Apple’s Safari may not be rewriting the rules for Web browsing on Windows just yet, but it’s leading the way with one significant change: photographs with better color.
Unlike the prevailing browsers on the Internet–Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox–the Apple browser supports different ways of encoding images that can mean richer, deeper colors. [...]