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Magazine Cover A Tribute to Paint Horse Fans
March 3, 2011
The American Paint Horse Association has paid tribute to its more than 35,000 Facebook fans by featuring photos they've contributed on the cover of the latest Paint Horse Connection magazine.
The magazine utilized innovative technology that allowed the award-winning graphics department at APHA to build the entire cover using photos submitted by APHA's Facebook fans. More than 35,000 fans that have "friended" the organization's Facebook page since it was created in May 2009.
The cover depicts the portrait of the stallion's head used in the widely recognized APHA logo and was built using MacOSAIX software. More than 1700 photos were utilized to assemble the cover collage producing a colorful mosaic. Facebook fans that submitted photos will likely be able to spot their photo on the cover if they look closely.
"As far as we know, no equine publication has ever utilized this technique for a cover," said APHA Executive Director Lex Smurthwaite.
"Our Facebook family has grown so quickly in the last year, we wanted to pay tribute to our fans' love of the Paint Horses in their lives."
Planning began in December and the APHA Facebook community was asked to submit their personal photos of their horses for use in the cover collage. Facebookers could submit as many photos of registered Paints as they liked and the response was overwhelming - it took only one week to accumulate enough photos for the special cover.
The issue arrived in mailboxes in mid-February.
The American Paint Horse Association has two Facebook pages - one for APHA and one for the APHA Youth program (AjPHA) along with seven Twitter accounts and eight complete websites. The popularity and size of the APHA Facebook community makes it one of the most effective ways the Association now uses to communicate with its members.
Horses Haul 18 Wheeler Truck Back on Course
March 1, 2011
An 18-wheeler truck stuck in a snow bank may have had a few hundred horsepower under its hood, but it was real horse power that saved the day.
The truck, stuck in Ottawa, Pennsylvania, on Monday, was saved by an Amish horse team of what appeared to be Belgian drafts.
The Amish man driving the team hitched it to the front of the truck and, despite the icy conditions, found enough traction to haul the truck back on the road.
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Ponies on Assateague Island
Suspect Found in Assateague Pony Shooting
March 3, 2011
Authorities have identified the person they say is responsible for the shooting of a wild horse on Assateague Island National Seashore park.
Carl Zimmerman, a management assistant at the park, which lies across the Virginia-Maryland border, said that several interviews had been conducted and laboratory test results were awaited before a final decision on charges was made.
Zimmerman said the US Attorney's Office would ultimately decide what charges would be laid.
The 28-year-old mare was found dead by a hunter on January 15 and reported to park rangers the next day.
The bay mare carried the identification number N2BH. During her lifetime, she had foaled six times, and had 11 second and third generation offspring.
In recent years, she had been treated annually with contraceptives as part of a broader effort to maintain the size of the wild horse population at a sustainable level.
It was suspected the shooting had taken place during the two-day January deer hunt, and she appeared to have died immediately.
National Seashore's annual hunting programme includes several gun seasons during the autumn and early winter.
The hunting program is used to manage resident deer populations.
Zimmerman said no-one in the office had any recollection of such a shooting incident ever occurring before. However, it later emerged that a wild horse in the park had been severely injured with an arrow in the late 1980s during a part of the deer-hunting progamme when bows were permitted to be used. The animal had be euthanised.
He said test results were two or three weeks away.
Magazine cover made from photos submitted APHA's Facebook fans
