Important Lawsuit Could Affect Bloggers

I am not sure how many of our readers embed fun YouTube videos on their blogs but thought I would write a post talking about an important Lawsuit currently happening.

Viacom VS Google Lawsuit

Below a link to a summary of the case

Ars Technica Article

And below is how I believe it will affect me and other webmasters and bloggers

Embedding Youtube Videos Possible Impact on Webmaster

It is difficult to summarize all the information, but if any of you remember the days of Napster and the outcome including those who download music from file sharing sites and are targeted by the music industry you will understand the possible impact on all of us.

This could well even effect embedding videos on places like FaceBook and other sites including School Reuinion sites

Steve
sorry for the boring non horsey post

This Dipstick

I tell ya, if it isn't one thing , it's another. Yesterday evening, Stephen went outside to feed the girls for me and sure enough, he comes in, "You better check Misty, she hurt her leg again." "Hurry, Darling". Good grief, I thought and sure enough, a three legged horse. And just after a relatively clean bill of health. Stephen helped me get her into the stall. I gave her a dose of Banamine and filled up the water and hay and proceeded to poultice her knee, yet once again. By this morning, she already looks better and really wants out and spit her expensive Banamine dose out at me. I scooped it up with my finger and forced it on her. Too bad, she will stay install rest again until I think she can handle the outdoors. I'm not sure what she did it on this time as things have really melted around here. It does look better this morning already. I'm hoping that this is merely a minor set back. I doubt very much that I will ride Misty this year at all. Think I will rest her a good long time.

Well, We're On The Fence.........

Kola and Misty had there Equine Wellness visit today. Misty's body score a 4.5 /9 and Kola a 6/9. Last year Kola was scored at an 8. That being that, Dr. Schreiner isn't convinced that Kola is Cushings, short of doing the steroid test which puts Kola at risk for laminitis. At this point in time, since we're all on the fence with this, it was unanimous to hold for now and see how she sheds out. The Doc with very pleased with our progress with Kola's weight loss and of course once the Doc was here, I was able to pluck mounds of hair off Kola, so I am somewhat relieved for now and we'll wait and see.

Both girls received their rabies and Potomac horse fever shots today and I will give the flu/rhino in 2 weeks and the 4-way in another 3 weeks from there. Kola had her teeth floated and her teeth looked great, Misty had hers done last year and they still looked fine. Eyes were the same as last year, except Kola has a little tiny skin tag type thing on her right lower lid which again we will watch. Doc also attempted to flush out her tear ducts as Kola tends to drain sometimes, since she was already sedated for the teeth float, but that was not very successful so I will start her on eye drops over the weekend and see if we can't clear her tear ducts that way.

Misty has a little loss of flexion in the left knee she injured last winter and I will start a joint supplement as soon as possible, although it didn't seem to impede her in the pasture this week as she ramrodded back and forth in her usual Mustang imitation. Also Misty seems to have developed a lump on her trachea midway down. She is not bothered by it. She isn't coughing. So it will be another thing we'll watch. More than likely a hematoma from a whack or something she may have gotten into.

Both girls were well behaved for their visit and I am pleased to find them both in relatively good health. This is precisely why I like this wellness program. It makes for good record keeping and consistent care. And it's nice to hear that one is a good "horse mommy".

Happy St.Patrick's Day

Well, Vet isn't coming until tomorrow, my mistake, doh! Anyway, Wanted to wish everyone a Happy St.Patrick's Day! Although my heritage is not that of Irish, but rather Scottish, it gives me the excuse of putting up some bagpipe music. Forgot how much I love it. My Dad used to play the pipes. They are quite loud at 7am outside and directly under your nose, LOL!

Good News & Suspected Bad News

Well, during the first days of March, I was very pleased to see Kola coming out of Winter not nearly as fat as she was last Spring. Slightly overweight, but not bursting at the seams. She looked good and then what seemed to be overnight, she blew out in a bunch of extra long hair and her face looked odd, but I could not put my finger on it. She was still eating & drinking normally and acting her goofy self, but she doesn't look quite right. Pretty soon, like this past week, I noticed some muscle wasting in her neck and rear. Last week a pot belly and a sway back stance. I wormed them both last week and switched up my wormer in case of resistance. Tomorrow the Vet, Doc Terry will come out and I warned her. I'm pretty sure Kola has graduated from Equine Metabolic Syndrome to Cushings. I will not do the High Dose Steroid Test with subsequent lab draws, because I do not wish to bring on a laminetic episode, my luck she'd founder. Needless to say I will get a diagnosis soon and I will put money on Cushings. I have no doubt my Vet will agree.

After doing some reading on the symptoms, I finally figured out what was wrong with Kola's face. She has the classic fat deposits above her eyes. They look puffy. There is a drug I'm interested in for her, should the Vet agree with me and it is called Cyproheptadine. It is a 70% to 80% effective treatment of Cushings in Equines. And from what I've read, you dose it and up the dose until symptoms begin to subside. Comes in a crushable pill form.

And can someone Please tell me what the hell are these birds? Are they a Partridge? They were huge and quite aggravated with me as I brought the car to a stop to photograph them.

I did say there was good news didn't I. The good news is that I managed to survive cleaning the lean-to, although the paddock and pen are nasty deep muddy poo. That will get scraped after it dries a bit here. Also Stephen bought me a new camera for my Birthday. It's a Sony Cybershot, the latest one. Very nice camera. I'm still playing with it of course and I have a lot to learn about it yet.

Old Horse Books

Callie bought me a Barnes and Noble Nook for my birthday and I have been looking round at some of the old out of print books on horses at Google Books, One of the reasons I wanted a Nook was to read some of the old classics and old history books, but while checking I decided to check what old books about horses were available

Fascinating reading

The horse by Isaac Phillips Roberts published 1905

The Gentleman's Farriery: or A Practical Treatise By J. Bartlet Published 1773

The modern art of taming wild horses John Solomon Rarey 1858

And I thought this was quite interesting

Nutrient requirements of horses National Research Council (U.S.). 1961

These are just a few of the horse related books I found there are literally thousands

One of the reasons I like the Nook is because I can download these books for free and read them like any other book sat away from the computer.

And I can not leave this post today without telling my darling wife VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY DARLING

I consider myself Liberal BUT !!!!

Some may be very offended by this post BE WARNED
I like to consider myself a liberal , but sometimes I wonder if I am really at heart,

After reading Mrs Mom's Post Dealing With Thugs, and watching our daily local news of gang shootings, drug dealing and Robbery and Murders it makes me think maybe I am much more right wing than I think I am,

Let me talk first about what being a parent is and should be,

Loving, Nurturing, Life Teaching, Providing For and teaching your children between right and wrong ( The last is fundamental to children turning into valued members of society ).

Now I consider many of the problems we see on the streets are due to 3 causes

1. Poor Education ( why are inner city schools 30 + kids per class and and the burbs less than 25 per class ) something seems cockeyed.

2. Easy Route To Money ( Just bloody Lazy ) sometimes makes me think conscription might be a good thing to build the work ethic in

3. Not learning from parents The difference between right and wrong and not being disciplined by parents.

This is my solution ( Please try not to be offended )

If parents do not exercise their responsibilities to parent make them responsible for their children's crimes

I.E.
1. Fine parents if children under 16 habitually commit crimes , if they can not pay fines PUT THEM IN JAIL ( Crime of having children and not being parents ).

2. Take away all forms of government assistance

Hopefully the threat itself might make parents more responsible and very few would be forced to suffer the consequences if not then they will get what they deserve.

Woops suppose this could be considered extreme right wing and I apologize to those who I may have offended

Steve

It's Warming Up!

It is finally warming up a bit around here. Supposed to get to the 40's by the weekend so I decided to remove blankets this week. Misty looks great and Kola, well, not as bad as last year. A little on the overweight side but not nearly as bad as she was. I noticed although she has her fat pads over the tail region, her shoulders look much better. Last year, she actually had huge shoulder creases, this year not so much. I'm looking forward to warmer weather, however, I do dread the results of it. We'll be swimming in shit and mud. I may have to hire the shit removal company at $200 a truck load. And I still have to remove shit from the barn. Too much to do. Chainsaw a large number of trees down and fire up the burn pile before all the snow melts. We'll have to get a dumpster over here as well. We have a large amount of purging to do. Thankfully what is not accomplished on a weekly basis from now until summer, I'll be able to finish up in June as I have two weekends off in a row. And I can work on my tan at the same time!

Awards & New Friends.........

I haven't received an award in awhile and I am a bit late getting to this, however my new friend at No Hoof, No Horse? who happens to live just down the road from me, so to speak, has bestowed this "Beautiful Blogger Award" upon me, of which I thank her. I am to share 7 things about myself that are currently not known to my blog-readers, and then tag 15 fellow bloggers. It is hard to top Mrs.Mom's 7 things she posted at Oh Horse Feathers. Humorous read! Now to think of 7 things, y'all don't know about me.

1) I'm most certain that I will be going to hell and upon my arrival there, a co-worker will be lighting the turd I'll be smoking.

2) I am considered "high-maintenance" by many, my husband, my co-workers, my daughter.

3) I like jewelry, lots of it and I have more western boots than most, ridiculous, I know.

4) On the topic of boots and such, I have a standard dress code I follow. That would be boots and blouse and jeans of choice, dark ones for dress and fancier boots, lite jeans for casual and if I am not dressed, it's scrubs for work and PJs the rest of the time.

5) I like watching Ghost Hunters International...........Stephen hates that, but he watches World Federation Wrestling......I call that even.

6) I have no filter, I say whatever is on my mind and I use my MS as my excuse, "frontal lobe lesions".

7) I have a great sense of humor and I am able to laugh at myself.

Now to pass this award on............I think I'll cheat. Most of you have already received this award and I cannot think of 15, so I'm cheating and going for 5.

First to John & Regina at Horse Talk Indiana who have been around for a little while and have marvelous trail adventures to share.

Next to receive this award will be Gtyyup at Life At The Rough String Ranch, new to me for sure, awesome blog!

Next extremely new to me Baba Yaga's Mirror. Another great read!

And onto Donna, an ole friend blogger with a brand new blog.......If Wishes Were Horses.

And last but certainly NOT least.......Suzanne at Golden Days. New to me and packed full of news!

CONGRATS! Everyone! Enjoy!