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Contact: David Lussier, Secretary-Treasurer AFM Local 8 Telephone 414-332-5000 available October 13 until 5:00PM; 24 hour voice mail Milwaukee, WI (October 12, 2006) – The 46 orchestra musicians employed by the Milwaukee Ballet have voted to reject the company’s wage proposal for the 2006/2007 season, which is...

CONTACT: Stephen R. Carpenter, (608) 262-8690, srcarpen@wisc.edu MADISON - The pressing issues of an increasingly strained global environment require a broad societal response - including the systematic assignment of monetary value to the services nature provides such as water purification and climate regulation, according to an assessment of the findings of a study of the health of the world's ecosystems. Summarizing...

Madison, WI - October 13, 2006 - Power Plus!, a California-based supplier of temporary power, completed a partial acquisition of Verona-based JT Packard & Associates, Inc. this week. JT Packard, which offers service for all brands and types of network-critical power equipment, such as uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, batteries, DC plants, generators, and HVAC, has expanded exponentially...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com MONROE – In Ravinder Minhas’ hometown of Calgary in the Canadian province of Alberta, some folks like to call him the “beer baron.” Minhas, 24, laughs at the description. But he doesn’t deny that he has sold more than 300 million cans of the brew in his short career as a beer distributor. Most of it...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com WAUKESHA – Wisconsin’s 300-plus bioscience companies know well the need to keep discoveries bubbling out of their labs. So they embraced – sometimes with loud bursts of laughter – a speech by a witty British professor who has been knighted for his innovative work to adapt education to the 21st Century. “Creativity is as important to...