AQHA Moves its Television Initiative to RFD-TV

New innovative programs to air three times weekly
America’s Horse, December 21, 2007 – The American Quarter Horse Association, the industry leader in equestrian television programming, is approaching 30 continuous years of producing educational, lifestyle and competition programs for horse enthusiasts. This commitment continues in 2008, as AQHA moves its weekly television programming endeavors to RFD-TV, [...]

AQH, National Snaffle Bit Associations Host Western Pleasure Forum

The American Quarter Horse Journal, December 21, 2007 – They came to discuss one of the oldest and most traditional classes offered by the American Quarter Horse Association and National Snaffle Bit Association. And discuss they did. By the time the group of nearly 70 professionals, who came from as far away as Virginia, Kansas, [...]

Online video helps troubled borrowers spot fraud

Fraudsters are targeting troubled borrowers facing foreclosure in a scheme that could leave homeowners with even more debt than they otherwise would face, a new online video warns.
In the video that dramatizes a common case of fraud, a homeowner receives an unsolicited offer to help settle mortgage debt but ends up homeless and with battered [...]

The next generation of security threats

REDMOND, Wash.–Microsoft security engineer Robert Hensing had a question for the hundreds of his company’s developers seated before him: can a person’s PC become infected with a rootkit simply by opening a PowerPoint file?
In the packed conference center, a smattering of developers raise their hands. Nearby, in an adjacent room, where hackers invited to speak [...]

USDA Proposing Change to Horse Slaughter Transport Regulations

by: Erin Ryder, TheHorse.com News Editor
The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is considering a change to its regulations concerning the humane transport of horses being shipped to slaughter.
Current special regulations pertaining to slaughter-bound horses only apply to horses being shipped directly to processing facilities. If the horses will be stopping at a sale, [...]

Preventing Dog Food Holiday Disasters

When dog owner George Kingsley of Brooklyn, N.Y., took his five-year-old pug Sophie to a friend’s holiday party last December, he was looking forward to the punch. What he didn’t expect was that Sophie would enjoy it as much as he did. “People were eating while standing, so they were holding their plates and forks, [...]

AQH Rewarded for Wrangler NFR Performances

America’s Horse, December 20, 2007 – The dust has settled at Las Vegas’ Thomas & Mack Center from the 49th Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, and the fans’ votes are counted for the Fort Dodge Champion American Quarter Horses of the WNFR.
American Quarter Horses carry the hopes and dreams of Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association cowboys and [...]

Phishers are using shorter URLs for malicious sites in a bid to lend an air of legitimacy to threatening links.

Internet Security Services, IBM’s online-security division, claims to have noticed a significant drop in the number of characters used by fraudsters in their phishing URLs.
A post on ISS’s Frequency X blog stated that “analysts have been observing host names within fraudulent phishing URLs consistently arrive with lengths of between 30 and 37 characters”; observers “have [...]

Aching Equine Knees: Carpal Lesions in the Non-Racehorse

By: Nancy S. Loving, DVM
December 16 2007, Article # 10992
Sue Dyson, VetMB, PhD, FRCVS, head of clinical orthopedics at the Animal Health Trust in Newmarket, England, discussed a variety of lesions in the carpal region (knee) of the non-racehorse at the AAEP Focus seminar in Ft. Collins, Colo., on July 31, 2007. She prefaced her [...]

USDA Cannot Regulate Microchips

Two years after Congress directed the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop regulations requiring that microchip scanners be capable of reading all types of pet microchips, the agency has determined that it does not have the power to mandate standardization of pet microchips or the scanners that read them.
The USDA maintains that its regulatory powers [...]