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Contact: David Devilbiss, 608-265-8722, ddevilbiss@wisc.edu; Craig Berridge, 608-265-5938, berridge@wisc.edu MADISON - Stress has long been pegged as the enemy of attention, disrupting focus and doing substantial damage to working memory - the short-term juggling of information that allows us to do all the little things that make us productive. By watching individual neurons at work, a group of psychologists at the...

6 week training program for small business in Milwaukee and surrounding areas. Milwaukee, September 10, 2012: Prism Technical (Prism) concluded its first "Small Business Boot Camp" on Wednesday, August 29, 2012. The intensely comprehensive, 6-week program was held Wednesday evenings from 6:00 to 9:00 PM at their newly remodeled state-of-the-art training institute...

CONTACT: Maria McGinnis, 608-262-3460, mmcginnis@cals.wisc.edu MADISON - University of Wisconsin-Madison career services units will host the fall Career and Internship Fair, which will bring more than 275 organizations to campus on Thursday, Sept. 20 at the Kohl Center. This event will be held from 4:30-8 p.m. "UW-Madison career services units are excited about the number of companies coming to the fall Career...

CONTACT: Kris Tazelaar, Communications Manager, Second Harvest Foodbank, 608-216-7206, KrisT@shfbmadison.org STEVENS POINT, Wis., September 14, 2012 — Despite recent increases to FoodShare Wisconsin enrollment, only an estimated 74 percent of eligible households receive FoodShare (formerly food stamps) benefits that put healthy, nutritious food on the table for low-income children, seniors, families, and individuals in...

Contact: R.E. Hurst Phone: (414) 771-4171 Bellwether Funding, LLC of Milwaukee once again has raised the sails of success to help one of their Clients. The most recent success story was for a Middle Eastern Food Store in Milwaukee. Bellwether Funding arranged a $350,000 loan to purchase a mixed-use building along with a $50,000 term loan to begin improvements. This well known and...

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OPEF's Haunted Ball, A Ghostly Gala with music by the LoveMonkeys. 7p.m.-midnight, Friday, October 19, Olympia Resort &Conference Center, 1350 Royale Mile Road, Oconomowoc, WI 53066. $50 advanced ticket, $400 table of 10, $60 at the door. For more information, 262-490-0409. This is a fundraising event for the Oconomowoc Public Education Foundation. Haunted High, America's only haunted high school and...

Contact: Janet L. Kelly, WARF Communications, 608-890-1491 or 608-772-2868, jkelly@warf.org MADISON - After a rousing debut last fall, the Wisconsin Science Festival returns for its second year this Sept. 27-30 with an even bigger and bolder schedule of people, music, art and explosions bringing the wonders of science to life for all ages. In addition to returning crowd...

FatWallet offers September deal hunters a one-stop for seasonal coupons and deals including increased cash back from top clothing, shoes and sports apparel stores Beloit, Wisconsin (PRWEB) September 17, 2012 -- FatWallet, the preferred online resource for millions of smart shoppers, presents two opportunities for shoppers to save on fall fashion and gear in September. The annual Fall Clothing Deals...

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Media Contact: April Dart, Z2 Phone: (262) 523-3900 x 29 E-mail: aprild@z2marketing.com Industries for the Blind, Inc. – Milwaukee has purchased Top Promotions West Allis, Wis. – Industries for the Blind, Inc. – Milwaukee (IB Milwaukee), a single-source supplier of products and services, and leading employer for the visually impaired, announced today it has acquired Middleton, Wis.-based Top Promotions, an award-winning provider of...

Madison, WI -- ABR Employment Services (ABR) won a Specialty Advertising Award in the 2012 American Staffing Association Staffing (ASA) VOICE Awards competition. This national annual awards program recognizes the best ASA member communications campaigns in 16 categories, from direct mail to social media. "Our goal was to design a fun, attention getting branding campaign," said Joan Starszak-Pajari, ABR's marketing...

Contact: Colin Hutt, Primum 414.765.2311 Making VMS Smarter, Provade Mobile to Launch at CW Risk Forum MILWAUKEE, Sept. 17, 2012 – Provade, Inc., an industry leader in enterprise Vendor Management System (VMS) development for global workforce spend management, is revolutionizing VMS with the launch of Provade Mobile. The first real-time, end-to-end mobile VMS debuts Sept. 18 at the CW Risk Forum in San...

PLATTEVILLE, Wis., Sept. 17, 2012 -- The University of Wisconsin-Platteville, a leader in online education (GoUWP.com)-has been named to the Military Friendly Schools ® list by Victory Media, Inc. The designation is awarded to the nation's top 15 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools that are doing the most to embrace America's military service members, veterans, and spouses...

By Brian E. Clark For WisBusiness.com MADISON -- The U.S. economy remains in the doldrums, but a trio of foreign diplomats says it would be wrong to erect trade barriers as a solution. Instead, the diplomats said the United States – and its international business partners – would be better off with the enactment of new free trade agreements. Thursday's gathering was...