How to Master The Denny Crane School of Online Publicity (Blogcritics.org) Tips for entrepreneurs who want to take their online presence to the next level in slightly unconventional ways. I'm a huge fan of the hit TV show Boston Legal. Every episode of this show that I’ve seen, I love. This is in no small way due to the irreverent charm of the Denny Crane character, played by the great William Shatner.Denny's a quirky fellow who is the first name partner at the law ... [News Source]

Reality: Chronic wasting disease is here to stay. Madison activist John Stauber, who's led the charge to get the state to see chronic wasting disease as a human health risk, thinks the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources' plan for managing CWD is doomed to fail. [News Source]

December US Beef, Pork Exports Top ‘07; Yearly Totals Up Big (CattleNetwork.com) KANSAS CITY (Dow Jones)--U.S. beef and pork muscle meat exports in December posted gains of nearly 16% and 6%, respectively, from a year earlier, while the yearly totals were up a whopping 35% for beef and 49% for pork. [News Source]

GeneThera to Attend Western Veterinary Conference in Las Vegas (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance) WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. and NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Feb. 13, 2009 -- GeneThera, Inc. , a leading international biotechnology company dedicated to improving food safety, will attend the Western Veterinary Conference February 15-19th in Las Vegas. [News Source]

USDA puts employees on leave amid drug allegations (AG Weekly) DES MOINES, Iowa - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has placed 19 employees at a laboratory campus in central Iowa on paid leave after allegations that some used veterinary credentials to purchase low-cost medications for human use. [News Source]

Harding blood drive is hurting (Observer-Tribune) HARDING TWP. –  A drop in annual blood donations at the  township’s  annual blood drive is being blamed on factors from more people traveling overseas, to added vacations to an aging population are [News Source]

The Fives: Wrongly convicted cows, bruising bulls and computer generated bovines make it big (Rapid City Journal) The Black Hills Stock Show is in town, opening with some horse events today out at the fairgrounds and springing to life Friday at Rushmore Plaza Civic Center. In honor of what we at the Journal call the "Cowboy Rally," I dedicate today's column to the stock show and it's lifeblood, cows. [News Source]

Neal Rubin: Protect Bambi: Watch how you feed the birds (Detroit News) If you're fond of deer, and you don't want to cost Michigan hundreds of millions of dollars, you'll be careful about how you feed birds. [News Source]