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Contact: Wisconsin Federation of Cooperatives, 608.258.4400 Co-op Care Will Receive Much-Needed Appropriations for ‘Stop-Loss’ Fund MADISON, Wis.—With his signature on the FY2005 federal budget appropriations bill, President George W. Bush on Dec. 7 made official the $2.25 million earmarked for Co-op Care, a Wisconsin and Minnesota health care cooperative being developed to increase access to affordable health benefit plans. The provision was...

Contacts: Tony Hozeny, Department of Commerce, 608-267-9661 Ethnie Groves, Office of the Governor, 608-261-2156 Grant Will Help Create Jobs, Expand Business in Milwaukee's Inner City MILWAUKEE - Governor Jim Doyle announced today a $100,000 Department of Commerce grant for the Initiative for a Competitive Milwaukee (ICM), an organization devoted to increasing business growth and creating jobs in Milwaukee's inner city. "I...

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tom Still or Marlene Smith at the Tech Council (608-442-7557) or Allen Veak at Makin’ Hey! Communications (608-848-5831) Web site: www.govsbizplancontest.com MADISON – After a successful 2004 debut that attracted more than 330 entries from 101 Wisconsin communities, the Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest is underway for the 2005 competition year. To learn more about how entrepreneurs can compete...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Patent for Stabilized Hydroxyvitamin D2 Products Covers Hectorol® (doxercalciferol) Middleton WI, December 9, 2004 – Bone Care International, Inc. (Nasdaq: BCII) announced today it has received a notice of allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for claims relating to stabilized hydroxyvitamin D2 products and pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments including stabilized hydroxyvitamin D2. The stabilized hydroxyvitamin...

By Gregg Hoffmann If you still put up a "real" Christmas tree, you can rest assured as you trim it that it very likely came from right here in Wisconsin. And, you're not alone. Many people all over the Midwest and country can say the same thing. The state ranks fifth in the country in Christmas tree production. Only...

Contact: Jon Mueller Great Lakes Media Technology, Inc. P: 262-512-0100 F: 262-512-0184 jmueller@glmt.com www.glmt.com (Mequon, WI – December 7, 2004) Great Lakes Media Technology recently completed manufacturing the major catalog of Sony Media Software. Compiled of over 100 masters, the catalog consists of professional loop-based music creation CD-ROMs and DVDs. Throughout the catalog, a variety of musicians...

Contact: Karmen Wilhelm (319) 786-7788 Proceeds will provide heating assistance for low income families CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – Dec. 7, 2004 – "Winter in the Heartland,” the second painting in Alliant Energy's series by Iowa artist Kermit Solheim, is now available for sale as a standard or limited edition print and a holiday card. Proceeds from the project will...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE EMD Biosciences attends 2004 R&D 100 Award ceremony MADISON, WI, December 7, 2004: EMD Biosciences, Inc. (www.emdbiosciences.com; EMD Biosciences), a major supplier of premium tools for proteomics and disease pathway analysis known through its global brands Calbiochem®, Novabiochem®, and Novagen®, today announced that F. William Studier, a biophysicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory (www.bnl.gov/world), received a 2004 R&D 100...