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                <title>MEK Client Marcadia Biotech Scores Global Coverage</title>
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                <description>Scientific research about a possible new obesity and diabetes treatment draws global attention to Indiana-based Marcadia Biotech, including coverage on Good Morning America and the Telegraph newspaper in London.</description>
                <pubDate>Thu, 15 July 2008 17:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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                <title>Major Hospital achieves top rankings for inpatient satisfaction, according to national Press Ganey report </title>
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                <description>Patients of Major Hospital gave the regional healthcare facility top marks for inpatient satisfaction, according to data collected and analyzed by Press Ganey, a national healthcare consulting firm</description>
                <pubDate>Thu, 19 March 2008 17:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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                <title>Major Hospital Board names Jack Horner as President and Chief Executive Officer </title>
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                <description>The Major Hospital Board of Directors announced today that Jack Horner has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Major Hospital, effective immediately. “Jack has demonstrated innovative and insightful leadership for many years at Major Hospital in a number of executive positions, and the board saw solid performance during his tenure as interim CEO,” explained Gene Jones, President of the Board, in announcing the Board’s decision.</description>
                <pubDate>Thu, 19 March 2008 17:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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                <title>County seeks to secure funds</title>
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                <description>In an effort to procure federal stimulus money, the Shelby County Board of Commissioners hired a consulting firm Monday night to guide the commissioners through the red tape.</description>
                <pubDate>Thu, 19 March 2008 17:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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                <title>Indiana Aerospace & Space Growth</title>
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                <description>Highlighting expected changes and opportunities in the Obama Administration, Jason Lovell, director of the Indiana Office of Defense Development, and Michael Snyder, MEK Group Managing Principal, teamed up to discuss global funding and policy challenges at the third annual ATAIN/Purdue Aerospace and Space Science Conference. To read what they presented to engineers, academic researchers and technology professionals, click on a PDF to download.</description>
                <pubDate>Thu, 19 March 2008 17:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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                <title>Create Value: Protect Your Talent and Reputation in Tough Times</title>
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                <description>With companies folding up left and right and layoffs in the millions, do the right people know that your company is still a going concern?  Are you working off an ancient pre-2008 value proposition?</description>
                <pubDate>Wed, 18 March 2008 17:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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                <title>Breaking News: $789 Billion Federal Stimulus Bill</title>
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                <description>Fast-moving events deserve timely recognition and analysis. This special issue highlights critical emerging trends of potential interest.</description>
                <pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2008 17:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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                <title>Scientia: Latin for "Knowledge"</title>
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                <description>Help yourself to some strategic knowledge from the MEK Scientia... </description>
                <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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                <title>A lesson for "Indiana Colony"</title>
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                <description>Fort Wayne company reminds Pasadena that Midwest innovation, values top-notch...</description>
                <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2008 10:29:00 EST</pubDate>
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                <description>STIMULUS Engineering Services Inc., an Indiana-based small-business focused on creating technology transition opportunities between NSA Crane, universities and private industry, today announced that it will join the growing list of technology and engineering firms residing in the WestGate @ Crane Technology Park...</description>
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                <title>Scientia: Latin for "Knowledge"</title>
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                <description>Help yourself to some strategic knowledge from the MEK Scientia... </description>
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                <title>MEK Capabilities: Maximizing opportunities when the media calls</title>
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                <description>Strategic media coverage can advance and strengthen a brand faster than just about any other means, according to advertising legend Al Ries... </description>
                <pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2008 10:29:00 EST</pubDate>
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                <title>White Paper: Marketing During Challenging Times</title>
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                <description>Following what the world went through in September and October of 2008, corporate strategic planning took a hit in the fiscal solar plexus...</description>
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                <title>White Paper: Breaking Loose from the Herd and the Madness of Crowds</title>
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                <description>&quot;Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of multitudes,&quot; opined one author, adding about financial crises that &quot;Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one&quot;... </description>
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                <title>Defense contractor Technology Service Corporation to expand and locate operations</title>
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                <description>Defense contractor Technology Service Corporation (TSC) is the second company in three months to announce that it will join the growing list of technology and engineering firms residing in the WestGate @ Crane Technology Park. Defense contractor ML Enterprises broke ground on a new facility in the Technology Park in September... </description>
                <pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:29:00 EST</pubDate>
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                <title>NE Indiana showcases $8 billion medical device and orthopedic industries at 3rd annual Orthopedic Design and Technology Conference Nov. 4-6</title>
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                <description>&quot;Indiana is rightly called the orthopedic manufacturing capital of the United States and the Orthopedic Design and Technology Conference in Fort Wayne will help demonstrate why,&quot; said John Sampson, president and CEO of the Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership... </description>
                <pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 9:45:00 EST</pubDate>
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                <title>Midwest Telecom Expo to showcase technology advances, discuss rural fiber optic connectivity at annual conference</title>
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                <description>Smithville, Indiana&apos;s largest privately owned telecommunications company, will join more than 600 telecommunications professionals from throughout the Midwest Oct. 28 - 30 at the Grand Wayne Convention Center in Fort Wayne to discuss industry advancements and the innovations being driven by some of its more progressive members... </description>
                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:29:00 EST</pubDate>
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                <description>Leading Indiana&apos;s effort to expand fiber-optic connectivity throughout the state, Smithville Digital, an affiliate of Smithville Telephone (Indiana&apos;s largest privately owned telecommunications company), has expanded the size of its sales team. Andrew C. Brelage of Indianapolis has been hired as Manager of Business Development... </description>
                <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:38:00 EST</pubDate>
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                <title>Major Health Partners expands comprehensive
orthopaedic services</title>
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                <description> 	&quot;Revive, renew, and restore will be the bywords next year at the intersection of I-74 and State Road 9 when our all-new reNovo Orthopaedics Center opens with a full line of services, 	&quot; said Jack Horner, president and CEO of Major Hospital... </description>
                <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:29:00 EST</pubDate>
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                <title>Smithville Digital provides fiber-optic connectivity to Copper Beech and Baywater townhome complexes</title>
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                <description>No more delays or loss of signals for students residing in the Copper Beech and Baywater Townhomes located near the Purdue University campus. The ten student complex buildings, made up of eight townhomes per building, now receive Internet bandwidth via high speed fiber-optic connectivity... </description>
                <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:23:00 EST</pubDate>
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                <title>Smithville Digital connects IUPUC to Indiana&apos;s I-light system</title>
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                <description>Smithville Digital, an affiliate of Smithville Telephone, Indiana&apos;s largest privately owned telecommunications company, has connected the Indiana University-Purdue University-Columbus (IUPUC) campus to Indiana&apos;s optical network, or I-light, which connects universities state-wide to 1,000 miles of fiber-optic network reaching all four corners of the state. This system will eventually connect every Indiana higher education institution... </description>
                <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:29:00 EST</pubDate>
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