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Contact: Doug Bradley, (608) 262-5061 or Tom Luljak, (414) 229-5024 MILWAUKEE — The University of Wisconsin System and several state partners have been awarded a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Department...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Middleton, WI, June 7, 2005 – Bone Care International, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCII) announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued to it U.S. Patent Number 6,903,083 entitled “Stabilized hydroxyvitamin D.” The patent claims a stabilized 1α-hydroxyvitamin D2 and pharmaceutical products or compositions that include such an active component. The stabilized hydroxyvitamin D2...

Contact: Contact Marlene Smith at (608-576-8353) or Tom Still at (608-695-7557) MILWAUKEE – Mithridion Inc., a Madison-based company that is developing drugs to treat Alzheimer’s disease, is the Grand Prize winner in the second annual Governor’s Business Plan Contest, it was announced Tuesday. Mithridion, the top-scoring plan in the Life Sciences category, will receive $20,000 in cash and a year’s...

NEWS RELEASE Contact: Michael DiFrisco, President, BrandXcellence info@brandxcellence.com 920/379-6405 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: You’re probably familiar with department store magnate John Wanamaker’s saying: “Fifty percent of my advertising is wasted; I just don’t know which fifty percent.” If that statement weren’t so accurate, we might laugh a little harder. The fact is, the Advertising Research Foundation reports that, while the number is...

The two-day Wisconsin Entrepreneurs' Conference, which was co-produced by the Wisconsin Technology Council, took place at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee on June 7 and 8. Futurist Joel Kotkin and Milwaukee native Kay Koplovitz – who founded USA Networks – headlined the third annual conference. The conference's goal was to celebrate the state's emerging high-growth, knowledge-based economy and offer hands-on...

The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. Hyatt Regency Hotel, 333 Kilbourn, Milwaukee Produced by the Wisconsin Technology Council and Wisconsin Innovation Network.

Congress will soon begin debating about the value of expanding trade with our friends in the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador. From the perspective of a former small business owner, the prospect of expanding trade opportunities through the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) is encouraging. DR-CAFTA will level the playing field...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com Gov. Jim Doyle did his best to patch things up with the state’s utility community Monday, pledging his long-term support for energy conservation and renewable resource programs. Doyle was harshly criticized by groups ranging from the Sierra Club to Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce earlier this year for shifting more than $55 million from the ratepayer-funded Focus...

For Immediate Release Contact: Dennis Reimer, President, Midwest Towel and Supply LLC 920-850-5485 WINNECONNE, WI – Midwest Towel and Supply is pleased to announce that Dennis Reimer and Ernest Harvey have purchased the company from Marvin Melberg. With over 70 years of combined experience in the paper industry, Reimer and Harvey bring a vast amount of leadership, engineering and...

For more information, contact: Joyce Van Duzer, AT&T 908-234-6846 jvanduzer@att.com Rose Tucker, Weber Shandwick for Microsoft 425-452-5463 rtucker@webershandwick.com Laura Woodward, Weber Shandwick for Microsoft + 44 20 7067 0519 lwoodward@webershandwick.com Alliance Leverages AT&T Global IP Network and Microsoft Connected Services Framework FOR RELEASE: MONDAY, JUNE 6, 2005 BEDMINSTER, N.J., and REDMOND, Wash. — AT&T and Microsoft Corp. today announced a groundbreaking strategic alliance that is expected to revolutionize the development, deployment...

CONTACTS: Media Relations: John Flumerfelt, (207) 671-1621 Investor Relations: Karen Bunton, (408) 995-5115, Ext. 1121 New Unit to Supply 300 Megawatts of Electricity to Wisconsin Public Service Corporation and the Midwest Market (SAN JOSE, Calif.) /PR Newswire – First Call/ June 6, 2005 – Calpine Corporation has successfully placed the first phase (300 megawatts) of the Fox Energy Center into full...