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Contacts: Roxanne Christensen, 610-505-9819 rchristensen@infocommercegroup.com New Sub-Acre Farming Method Attracts Growing Number of Green Entrepreneurs MILWAUKEE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Backyard and front lawn farmers from around the U.S. and Canada will convene at the second annual SPIN-Farming workshop at the Mitchell Park Domes in Milwaukee, WI, February 28-29, 2008. Capacity for this year’s SPIN Cities: Farming Where We Live workshop has been expanded...

Contacts Corporate: Esker, Inc. Renee Thomas, 608-828-6140 renee.thomas@esker.com or Investor Relations: Esker S.A. Emmanuel Olivier, 33 (0)4 72 83 46 46 olivier@esker.fr Leading North American construction and engineering organization selects FlyDoc by Esker to automate the fax delivery of documents to subcontractors MADISON, Wisc.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Esker, the leader in document process automation solutions, announced today that Kiewit Western Corporation, one...

CONTACT: Andrew Shannon Neurognostics, Inc. Phone: 414-727-7950 x 140 Fax: 414-727-7952 E-mail: ashannon@neurognostics.com Website: www.neurognostics.com Utilizing fMRI to Map Brain Activity December 17th, 2007 (Pasadena, CA, New York, NY) - Neurognostics,...

Contacts: Sterling Communications for grayboxx, Inc. Chris Warfield, 206-388-5763 cwarfield@sterlingpr.com MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Grayboxx Inc., an online local search firm, today announced that the company’s unique "neighbor-recommended" local search service is now available to the residents of Madison. Grayboxx.com provides automated rankings and recommendations for local businesses covering everything from antique shops to violin stores. In the Madison area alone,...

Contact: Jessica Iverson, Communications Officer, 608-266-2300 MADISON – The Department of Revenue (DOR) announced today the consolidation of 27 field offices into seven regional offices as part of restructuring the operations of the agency. The regional offices will be located in Appleton-Green Bay, Eau Claire, Madison, Milwaukee, Wausau and Chicago, and will continue providing comprehensive services to taxpayers across...

CONTACT: Greg Smith, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, +1-414-765-7727, or Dave Urban, Vice President, Investor Relations, +1-414-765-7853, both of Marshall & Ilsley Corporation M&I Retains Strong Capital Position MILWAUKEE, Dec. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Marshall & Ilsley Corporation (NYSE:MI) (M&I) today announced several unusual events which will impact M&I's financial results for the quarter and year ending December 31,...

Contact: Marianne M. Szymanski 414-421-9668 414-421-9778 fax marianne@toytips.com MILWAUKEE, Dec. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- National toy expert Marianne Szymanski has always encouraged parents to make smart toy choices rather than purchase trendy "hot toys" for their children. Through her highly respected magazine Toy Tips and Parenting Hints Magazine and popular website toytips.com, Szymanski encourages parents to select toys based on their...

Contact: Dave DeVries, 312-551-1740 David.devries@sprint.com New Business Customer Care Call Center Part of Company’s Continued Commitment to Improve Customer Service WEST SALEM, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In continuing efforts to enhance customer satisfaction and loyalty, as well as build better customer relationships, on December 17 Sprint (NYSE:S) opens the doors to a new business customer call center based in West Salem. The...

For More Information Contact: Stephanie Bell JA Worldwide® Director, Public Relations (719) 540-6171 sbell@ja.org Tish Muldoon Papa John’s International, Inc. (502) 261-4987 Multi-faceted collaboration will generate revenue, volunteers, board members for local JA Offices Colorado Springs, Colo. – Papa John’s International, Inc. (NASDAQ: PZZA) and Junior Achievement (JA) today announced a national partnership that will help local JA Offices deliver work...

Contacts For This News Release Lynn Hollinger Port Security, Trade Phone: (202) 344-1780 Fax: (202) 344-1393 Singapore - The United States and Singapore today arranged to cooperate on the Secure Freight Initiative, a joint effort of the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration and the U.S. Department...

Media Contact: Great Wolf Resorts, Inc. Jennifer Beranek 608-661-4754 jberanek@greatwolf.com or Carla Minsky Public Relations 920-924-0297 cminsky@charter.net SHEBOYGAN, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Snowmen taking a spin down a waterslide? Only at Blue Harbor Resort on the shores of Lake Michigan in Sheboygan, Wis. could you find this holiday festivity pulled off without a hitch. The catch? The snowmen were toy versions of...

Contact: Amy Frantti, Media Relations, 612-303-0733 MINNEAPOLIS, Dec 17, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Five financial consultants with U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc., (USBI) are named among the 8th annual "Top 50 Bank Reps" by Bank Investment Consultant, a trade publication for investment consultants and senior sales management in bank investment programs. USBI financial consultants who ranked among the Top 50 Bank...

For more information: Dr. Minnie Gupta Director of Marketing Ph: 608.237.1270 rgupta@platypustech.com Madison, WI - Platypus Technologies announces the addition of the Oris™ Cell Migration Assay – Collagen Coated kit to its product line of cellular assays. This new product was launched at the recent American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting held in Washington DC, December 1 – 5....

For more information, contact: Toranj Marphetia (toranj@mcw.edu) Director of Media Relations Office: 414-456-4700 The Medical College of Wisconsin has received a four-year, $886,468 grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop statistical methods to analyze long-term outcomes of bone marrow transplantation. John P. Klein, Ph.D., professor of population health and director of biostatistics, is...

CONTACT: James Dumesic, (608) 262-1095, dumesic@engr.wisc.edu MADISON - James Dumesic, Chemical and Biological Engineering Steenbock Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a 2007 Scientific American "SciAm 50" award for his innovative alternative fuels research. The magazine annually publishes a list paying tribute to individuals and organizations who, through their efforts in research, business and policy-making, are driving advances in...