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Hold on tight! Helmet Cam! Doug Payne and Running Order at Richland Park

2010-09-03T21:43:03.356Z

Doug Payne and Running Order: CIC*** at Richland Park.

What a fun ride!!

Show Jumping Rabbits - 2010 Danish Championships

2010-08-20T15:18:22.996Z

Battery operated manure fork!

2010-01-19T21:21:25.358Z

The humble manure fork has had a technological makeover, powered by lithium ion batteries to enable it to shake itself after every scoop.

The "auto-sifting technology" is the brainchild of Equi-Tee Manufacturing's Joseph Berto, who developed the new tool, known as the Shake'n Fork.

The Shake'n Fork "eases the wearisome task of separating animal bedding from manure in enclosures".

The auto-sifting technology has been patented.

Berto points out that significant waste can occur if clean bedding is accidentally removed from stalls as well as manure.

"Helping improve the quality of life for our animals, while significantly reducing the time and cost associated with doing that, was the objective in developing this tool," said the Oregon-based inventor, who is the company president.

"The Shake'n Fork mimics the action of manually agitating the tynes, yet the operator can separate bedding while standing completely still."

This is accomplished by a tiny reciprocating motor powered by lithium ion batteries.

The operator holds the fork handle in the usual way and by depressing a variable speed trigger switch, moves the electrically powered tynes, which agitate 30 times faster than what can be done manually.

There is no vibration into the hand pole.

"Reducing the labour required to clean stalls results in savings for both the worker and their employers," said Berto.

"The wasted motion of manually agitating a non-powered fork is instead converted into useful productivity. Stalls are cleaner, animals are healthier, and costs associated with bedding replenishment and removal is greatly reduced," he said.

Berto said the tool would quickly pay for itself, particularly with ongoing cost rises for bedding materials.

Keeping bedding in stalls results in cost-savings for the owner.

"Unfortunately, if you try to increase sifting manually with a conventional fork, you simply trade bedding costs for labour expense. The Shake'n Fork is the only way to effectively reduce the cost of both bedding and labour," he said.

Berto and his wife operate a horse breeding and training facility in Oregon and felt there was a need to improve the cleaning tools available.

He used the resources of his company to develop and test the Shake'n Fork.

The tool has already been marketed at venues around the US, but is now available online at http://www.shakenfork.com.

Blinders: The Truth Behind the Tradition

2009-04-05T23:40:26.997Z

The film 'Blinders: the Truth Behind the Tradition', which goes behind the secenes of the New York carriage horse industry, has won a Genesis Award for Outstanding TV Documentary.
The prestigious awards are like the film world's Academy Awards but for animal issues. Started by actress and activist Gretchen Wyler of the Arc Trust in the 1980s, the awards are now run by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). The Genesis Awards recognizes artists, writers, and others in entertainment and the media who contributed their time and talents over the past year to raise awareness of the plight and suffering of animals. Nominees from print, TV news, feature films, and narrative television media received recognition and awards presented by Hollywood stars before a celebratory crowd of appreciative animal lovers and HSUS supporters.
The audience cheered as diretory Donny Moss accepted the award for Blinders. He explained that as the audience attended the ceremony, "a couple hundred horses are stuffed into small cells in warehouse buildings in midtown Manhattan, and they need our help. Lucky for them, a group of selfless activists will wake up tomorrow morning in New York and protest this industry in the streets. I'd like to thank these activists, with whom I share this award.
"I was so surprised when people started cheering in response to my comments about the activists because the other acceptance speeches did not elicit that sort of reaction. This issue really struck a chord with people at the awards ceremony."
This year's ceremony was only the second since the loss of The Genesis Awards' founder Gretchen Wyler, whose absence was recognized throughout the evening.
Referred to last year by political satirist Bill Maher as the "Liz Taylor and Jackie Onassis of the animal movement all in one," Wyler's memory is honored in the form of The Wyler Award, established two years ago to honor a celebrity who has raised awareness of animal issues through the major media. The first two Wyler Awards have gone to Sir Paul McCartney (in 2007) and actor Hayden Panettiere last year.
Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The HSUS, presented this year's Wyler Award to talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and her wife, actor Portia de Rossi, for their collective efforts throughout the last year.
From their strong support of Proposition 2 - the California Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act - which included hosting a million-dollar fundraiser for the campaign and discussing Prop 2 with Pacelle on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," - the pair also held a widely-covered vegan wedding which provided the couple with an opportunity to publicize to a broad audience their ethical decision to eschew animal products in hopes of influencing public behavior.
The cruelty endured by puppies in puppy mills, horses caught in the slaughter trade and victimized by the thoroughbred industry, and seal pups on Canadian ice floes dominated the evening's nominated video clips.

Gwyneth's leg and butt exercises

2009-02-01T14:03:29.950Z

This program is about 8 min long and looks really hard.
It's a video from Gwyneth Paltrow's trainer to her.