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Robert Striker rtstriker@wisc.edu 608-263-2994 MADISON - Hepatitis C infection presents many patients with a troubling Catch-22 situation. Chronic infection with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is the leading reason patients receive liver transplants today. Unfortunately, infection of the new liver by residual HCV in the blood is inevitable, and the immune system suppression crucial to prevent transplant rejection can worsen HCV-mediated disease in...

Company will also modify its cancellation and retention practices   MADISON - Wisconsin consumers who tried to lawfully cancel their AOL Internet service provider accounts, yet continued to receive monthly bills that they could not get AOL to properly resolve because of the company’s customer retention tactics, will receive refunds under the terms of a multi-state consumer settlement joined by Attorney...

Jenny Price 608-262-8296 price3@wisc.edu Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz will get some fresh ideas Thursday for making over State Street, the Schenk-Atwood neighborhood, and the Northside from a group of young urban planners. The mayor will received proposals from Madison middle school students who took part in a four-week computer game designed by researchers in the University of Wisconsin-Madison department of educational sciences. The students...

Contact: Tom Farley, Director of Marketing farley@visitmadison.com 608.441.3946 or Sara Mayer, Communications Manager mayer@visitmadison.com 608.441.3958 Good For Business Provides Full Agency Services Madison, WI - The Greater Madison Convention & Visitors Bureau, the official marketing organization for Madison, Wisconsin and surrounding area, launched a new advertising campaign today that is designed to extend their brand positioning across all areas of their business. This new effort is a...

Contact: Alex Lombardo, Investors 703-573-9317 Jennifer Beranek, Media 608-661-4754 MADISON, Wis., July 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Great Wolf Resorts, Inc., North America's leading family of indoor waterpark resorts, today announced that the company will release second-quarter 2007 financial results on Tuesday, August 7, 2007, before the market opens. The company will hold a conference call at 10 a.m. E.T. on that day to discuss...

Contact: Media Inquiries - Mark A. Petrarca 414-359-4100 or Analyst Investor Inquiries - Craig Watson 414-359-4009 Both of A. O. Smith Corporation MILWAUKEE, July 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Directors of A. O. Smith Corporation today announced a six percent increase in the company's quarterly cash dividend to a rate of $.18 per share. The increased dividend will apply to both Common Stock and Class A Common Stock and...

Contact: Michael Eleftheriou 414-362-6785 meleftheriou@catalystinternational.com or Katherine Burke 414-362-4033 kburke@catalystinternational.com Both for Catalyst International, Inc. MILWAUKEE, July 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Catalyst International, a global supplier of supply chain execution software, has announced that the Legrand Group is to extend its Catalyst solution to include transportation planning and management, multi channel distribution and synchronized network fulfillment. Headquartered in France, the Legrand Group is a worldwide manufacturer of electrical parts...

Contact: Mark Bugher Director, University Research Park 608-441-8000 Rod Hise The Luminis Group, Ltd. for University Research Park 608-807-4607 MADISON, Wis., July 11, 2007 – University Research Park (URP) today announced that Mentor Corp. (NYSE: MNT), a California-based global leader in the development, manufacturing and marketing of science-based medical products, will expand its presence in Madison with the construction of a 37,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in the park. Construction...

WisBusiness.com Newly released datacompiled by ForeclosuresWI.com, a leading provider of Wisconsin foreclosure resources and statistics, show that Wisconsin foreclosures remain at escalated levels. After rising 34% in 2006, Wisconsin as a whole had 9,229 foreclosure filings in the first half of 2007, which on average, equates to nearly 73 foreclosures filed every business day. Wisconsin foreclosure filings in the...