Customer Service (Brandon Sun) BISMARCK, N.D. - North Dakota's animal health board says Canadian cattle and bison must be tested for two diseases before they're allowed into the state. [News Source]

ND Board to Require Testing of Canadian Cattle For 2 Diseases (KQCD-TV Dickinson) North Dakota`s animal health board says Canadian cattle and bison must be tested for two diseases before they`re allowed into the state. State veterinarian Susan Keller says the rule takes effect Nov. 19. [News Source]

Exec Dining: Learning from the best at the Cordon Bleu (Ottawa Business Journal) Those looking to pick up some skills to impress friends and family at dinner parties might as well learn from the best. [News Source]

IdentiGEN’s DNA TraceBack(R) Receives USDA Process Verified Program Approval (The San Francisco Examiner) LAWRENCE, Kan. ( Map ) - LAWRENCE, Kan., and DUBLIN, Ireland , Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- IdentiGEN's DNA TraceBack(R) system, a proprietary meat identification and traceability system based on DNA analysis, has been approved by the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service as a Process Verified Program (PVP). The DNA TraceBack system enables retailers, meat ... [News Source]

HC’s spiritual SOS: save our season (Washington State University Daily Evergreen) Dear God, Help our football teams. Please. [News Source]

The Secular Vs. Religion? (Zenit News Agency) ENNIS, Ireland, NOV. 7, 2007 ( Zenit.org ).- Here is the text of the speech delivered Tuesday by Bishop Donal Murray of Limerick at the Ceifin Conference in Ennis. The bishop proposed that secular culture and religion should enrich each other, rather than be placed in contrast. [News Source]

Outdoors: Givnish believes much more must be done to stop spread of CWD (The Capital Times) Tom Givnish, a University of Wisconsin professor of botany, has strong feelings about deer and chronic wasting disease. It is not surprising that he serves on the CWD Stakeholder Advisory Committee that will advise the state Department of Natural Resources on changes it should make in the DNR management program. Givnish realizes that CWD was discovered in Wisconsin in 2002, not long after the ... [News Source]

() Eat Me (Willamette Week) Food & Drink (COLUMN) Are You Kitchen Literate? - An Oregon author wants to re-educate your pie hole. [News Source]

Of Elk and Men (Seven Days) Any given morning in Irasburg, Doug and Richard Nelson can be found tending to their animals. Like most Orleans County dairymen, they’re up at the crack of dawn, puttering around the family barn. [News Source]

SEINFELD CHOOSES TO ‘BEE’…and morphing to survive (Provo Daily Herald) Astand-up has to morph to survive," said Jerry Seinfeld, sitting in his nondescript office on the Dream Works campus in Glendale, Calif., in mid-October. "You can't just do the one thing. Unless you're really a mad genius like, maybe -- I think even (George) Carlin got frustrated after a while. [News Source]