Day: April 24, 2007

APHA awards special honors to country music legend Charlie Daniels

FORT WORTH, Texas —The American Paint Horse Association (APHA) recently awarded renowned country music entertainer Charlie Daniels with its Legendary Achievement Award. Daniels was honored for his work over the past 25 years in breeding  American Paint Horses and spotlighting their beauty, versatility and athletic talents. APHA also issued him a lifetime membership certificate. “Charlie Daniels, his associates at the Twin Pines Ranch, and the American Paint Horses that have been a part of the ranch’s legacy will forever hold highest honors with the American Paint Horse Association,” said APHA President Richard Cox. The prestigious APHA award

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China says U.S. piracy case will ‘badly damage’ ties

BEIJING–U.S. complaints to the WTO over commercial piracy in China will “badly damage” cooperation, Vice Premier Wu Yi warned on Tuesday, insisting that China has made great strides in protecting patents and copyrights. For more info click here 

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White House panel pushes new identity fraud laws

WASHINGTON–A White House task force led by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras on Monday urged Congress to enact a variety of new laws designed to punish identity fraud, even though it is already illegal. The new national strategy, which spans two volumes and 190 pages, calls for rewriting existing criminal laws to penalize use of malicious spyware and keyloggers, to expand mandatory minimum prison sentences for certain levels of electronic data theft, and to allow identity theft victims to receive monetary compensation not only for their direct financial losses, but

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Canada, Mexico travel cards under privacy attack

WASHINGTON–A forthcoming travel identification card geared toward Americans who frequently cross U.S. borders into Mexico and Canada is drawing renewed criticism. At a Monday workshop here, privacy advocates said they were puzzled that come summertime, the U.S. Department of State, in consultation with the Department of Homeland Security, still hopes to begin issuing so-called “passport cards” embedded with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips whose data can be skimmed by readers up to at least 20 feet away. For more info click here

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Germany to host European Paint Horse and cutting judging seminar

FORT WORTH, TEXAS—Do you want to be an American Paint Horse Association (APHA) judge in Europe? Your next opportunity is the 2007 APHA European Judges Seminar, to be held jointly with the National Cutting Horse Association’s (NCHA) Germany affiliate, May 2-6, 2007, at the Waldhotel Eskeshof in Wuppertal, Germany. The five-day event will include an APHA clinic, cutting theory presentation, video and live judging, individual interviews and a written test, and allows applicants the chance to earn their official APHA and/ or NCHA European judges card. The APHA seminar will consist of three days of classroom instruction on

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