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color:#082C3C;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='color:white; mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB_s9X3W18Lw-Gc-VvAMNpVEl-PSXQh73O50mcrtgrrcCHeANnH_om1aQFfnVLDH1DHnBH6RbvNZtRDHc47alojBvb78W4Q28eUiHL7doOEberf1yqxiz9dTdgKG_HtTMuc5ibkjBwngSQ==" target="_blank" track=on shape=rect linktype=link><span style='color: white'>New manufacturing company to open in Butler County</span> </a></span><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:white; mso-font-kerning:18.0pt'>WBKO.com</span></strong><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#082C3C;mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#082C3C;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt'>&nbsp;</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#082C3C; mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='color:black; mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB-2DtCP3Uc-qPA2AaoPejsQpZXEAGTEgkWZIDXYBmQfuUQOexDsF_WN1WX58xP6XRy4eCQsgGoUAKWX3xpwgnOMs4MF6ysEwWnEc0YT_1Oeoj8kGSs09dd6siT6MROds9bHuLJNeJoFvw==" target="_blank" track=on shape=rect linktype=link><span style='color: white'>Neustar to open facility In Louisville</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#082C3C; mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:white;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt'>WLKY-TV</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#082C3C; mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#082C3C;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt'>&nbsp;</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#082C3C; mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='color:black; mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB_jV0vdbiIA7iuiE622-x_HHHpV3dx5lfeqRnNkxee-I2DOCrQt5bnCqz0VmZAPlSV_mE0DnHAArHo2sruVtrflWLTH3urewjVyBSdJoPW5JdXlPP3Qk3SDS6SGKexvLJ_1JsCq8F5IoxRHFIBlknn8xwSaS2tZwKjk2K7UJmdJpv8RnmkoZipeNQIpvoawUd4=" target="_blank" track=on shape=rect linktype=link><span style='color: white'>Louisville Bioscience gets incentives to advance cancer-fighting technology</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#082C3C;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:white;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt'>Business First</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#082C3C; mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#082C3C;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=fullarticletitle1><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#082C3C;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB99vYIWmG0bpFlrpT1UzzJq_ny2kpcoE_LCPXE3GiBQHB1xDBFk-RMhzLVQYuJGIqmbkO72Z5hRbzCEGWTKBYavhuY-b1xUGgqu7cgsBivuZWfsEUxCmWgS6huj5TSJjug=" target="_blank" track=on shape=rect linktype=link><span style='font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:white'>Two Kentucky high-tech companies awarded funding for expansions</span></a></span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#082C3C; mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:white;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt'>Manufacturing &amp; Technology eJournal </span><span style='color:white'><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:white;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt'>&nbsp;</span></b><o:p></o:p></p> </div> </div> </div> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='color:black; mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB_2c-sLdo-XHx4LB9xCH6usmz47x0yaVbumZuVDjnShoYyC4ihpf7a7kP8lmOkGipSIkR8wPGFAl1SfHeICwgjom38Y-wgRScW3o0hA8-WNmqNuALTn8vIz4XNvwHOi7GmIP8oEpAL9QiByHcTPTpIhrWhKt4cScEJTKhxKz8-n27WT3FTafucVnZGR4p_OJHk=" target="_blank" track=on shape=rect linktype=link><span style='color: white'>Korean auto components manufacturer expanding to Kentucky</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#082C3C; mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:white;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt'>Area Development</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#082C3C;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;mso-padding-alt:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt'> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'> <td style='background:#F6C739;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://visitor.constantcontact.com/email.jsp?m=1101790695755" target="_blank" shape=rect></a></p> </td> </tr> </table> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;mso-padding-alt:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt' id="content_LETTER.BLOCK6" hidefocus=true tabindex=0 cols=0 contenteditable=inherit datapagesize=0> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes'> <td valign=top style='background:#003A63;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#FF9900'>CONTACT&nbsp;INFORMATION</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:white'>&nbsp;</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#EEB053'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:1;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'> <td valign=top style='padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt'> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:white'>Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#AE4A23'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:white'>Old Capitol Annex </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#AE4A23'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:white'>300 West Broadway</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#AE4A23'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:white'>Frankfort, KY&nbsp;40601</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#AE4A23'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"; 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color:white'>www.ThinkKentucky.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </td> <td width=450 valign=top style='width:337.5pt;background:white;padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in'> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;mso-padding-alt:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt' aria-posinset=0 id="content_LETTER.BLOCK8" aria-setsize=0 hidefocus=true tabindex=0 cols=0 aria-level=0 contenteditable=inherit datapagesize=0> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'> <td style='padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><a name=LETTER.BLOCK8><span style='font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></a></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK8"'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003A63'>Tis the Season for New and Expanding Industry<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK8"'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003A63'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> </div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK8"'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Kentucky&nbsp;is pleased to announce the following new and expanding industries: </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK8"'><span style='font-size:8.0pt; 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color:black'> </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK8"'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>at the Louisville Appliance Park. More than 430 new jobs would be created and an investment of over $80 million would be made by GE to bring the new product line to Kentucky.&nbsp; GE's innovative efficiency technology will enable the new laundry products to meet the proposed new 2014 Energy Star standards. Pending approval of the amended incentive package, the washing machine will go into production in the third quarter of 2012 and the new dryer in the third quarter of 2013.&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB-KBNq8QmoEQvYvVkiKT7qWe_0TEbUJNzGqMdMFZHU-b3Y-VW_7uwe-5m2zCNtO45XLT3H2t0aveMWo8rCrqaRwIJhP9Dh4K1ODaJ6zFmZt9TTHlGRKRkI8nUFIkBpB1uJPEKN1ndNZlfFaoHc_R-MM3RZatxIK0c1voG8whHcK8w==" target="_blank" track=on shape=rect linktype=link></img><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Read full story here</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>.</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB-Xm4pz6hu6m9yH3hGOdnz1wPg764XzkbY6XNvrIymBCa-GXT9ouF-Zw56Q3_d55Qb_NU2LTXqsYcubq7tymL0FKb9FZFkssm4rrnRLsXhHRw22YSqm5VxQoiCgcdmNm3nQBieR4sEyhEuWGe6blUl3bwoldtKpPivKkoCd-dxfawGWanXBwh2i9C9TVjHiVQ2noX9UFh9lGqWKz0ZvFCSV44D19sq579e2PFS3rU1O1xdJ60zYeqxrSkvEsRw2EIsWbadoHhv12Zqbe_OvXz5kjXWWu6aeZDCj97qakStA13Ly_F0JFURKXsl8zPFwdtGbOZuq3R87qYN4F1MOcfmAwKGYm9rr1VrbhLCFX_KwWY9tSnRUs-H9" target="_blank" track=on shape=rect linktype=link>Watch WAVE 3-TV News Coverage here</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Kentucky Copper</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <div> <div> <div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>India-based Chandra Proteco Ltd. will start up a manufacturing operation in Morgantown under the name Kentucky Copper Inc. The new company will create 106 new jobs and invest nearly $32 million in the Commonwealth.&nbsp; Chandra Group has been in the field of copper and copper cable business for more than 40 years, and specializes in transposed cable and railway cables for traction. With more than 500 employees in India, the company's facilities are spread over India, Europe, Africa and China.&nbsp; <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB_T-VqRrwFCcPT_Dh8N-jTYvzjG1K0XXWGKHHlA3VxEgC34vB0WLsmZoLlUzPGseF6lKjvWkpDUBkwRqSx11LkrpcU1Ud3D7DsrP7KPxnRvxU5ml-KkpKoL-Jd7brK0RuG6udyBLNIwdnYuCNYiNvFZpXPSg1tqmwkZMzEMlqHFTw==" target="_blank" track=on shape=rect linktype=link>Read full story here</a>. <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB-xZqn_2tM3IGagaM2475OxHv8SiqDHyhA35P0nv_IoEzvH7WsY0_GKdcu98ZDpN5may5_wSOqIT1De5upnmXCD9W6jUI9h5dDJIuplfXeWYfTcmXDQ-4wvm7URGaJXuhSgT_mA0ctgpAcRemBhouPc" target="_blank" track=on shape=rect linktype=link>Watch WBKO-TV News Coverage here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>&nbsp;</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Hitachi Automotive </span></strong><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_s1027" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Hitachi logo" style='position:absolute;margin-left:101.75pt; margin-top:0;width:141.75pt;height:63pt;z-index:251659264; mso-wrap-distance-left:0;mso-wrap-distance-top:0; mso-wrap-distance-right:0;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0; mso-position-horizontal:right;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text; mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f"> <v:imagedata src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs006/1101790695755/img/132.jpg?a=1102888858577"/> <w:wrap type="square"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=189 height=84 src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs006/1101790695755/img/132.jpg?a=1102888858577" align=right alt="Hitachi logo" name=ACCOUNT.IMAGE.132 border=0 contenteditable=false v:shapes="_x0000_s1027"><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Hitachi Automotive Products (USA), Inc.&nbsp;will expand its Harrodsburg operation, adding a new advanced fuel system production line to the plant. Furthermore, the expansion could also result in an additional product line for hybrid electric products in the near future.&nbsp; Since its opening, the plant has grown from a facility occupying 40,000 square feet to more than 400,000 square feet. Employment of Kentucky citizens has grown from 75 to more than 600. The latest expansion will add just over 100 new jobs and a capital investment of more than $20.2 million in the Commonwealth.&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB-pgA-YLccE8D1k19R1wETXE8Zyf5ldUPz5Zg38K3QxOInt4JjHfjLE8yHgMJnAOvXRDvbpqHVlWoPcut2GnKJHfKBuXDgBMi0-87SnsbEW7n0sYPVOVVdyyngaTrDusLnF4kOa_r1dowGays-xcjrMGSDDMfiqsV-8swR3UsIvmw==" target="_blank" track=on shape=rect linktype=link></img><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Read full story here</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>.</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>RecoverCare</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>RecoverCare, LLC has chosen Louisville as the location for the consolidated company's new headquarters. This announcement follows the completion of a merger-of-equals transaction to combine Radnor, Pennsylvania-based RecoverCare and Louisville-based MedaSTAT in August 2009.&nbsp; An initial 57 new full-time Kentucky jobs will be created as a result of the project. RecoverCare will add 14,500 square-feet to an existing 23,334 square-foot facility in Louisville.&nbsp; <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB9HvNBBqPUss4IlnsrzVgWuDtJabL_4mylZXJi1AfIfs0CLYOewl3xyoJ6uFPe1aK9bgtnpSRZ06NuVZGbIK1eyNLX2A58jg16uiepMsFo2mOW_fBajBmYPBU4PwHQ1-ej3tZNDYPZu79CNrisDsEVk09Hl9dUXcVIcgmq7dSJsTHzuV7Jm3i8i" target="_blank" track=on shape=rect linktype=link>Read full story here</a>.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </div> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>MESA Foods </span></strong><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>MESA Foods plans to invest nearly $2.9 million in its plant to increase </span><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_s1028" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Mesa Foods logo" style='position:absolute;margin-left:107.75pt; margin-top:0;width:147.75pt;height:87pt;z-index:251660288; mso-wrap-distance-left:0;mso-wrap-distance-top:0; mso-wrap-distance-right:0;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0; mso-position-horizontal:right;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text; mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f"> <v:imagedata src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs006/1101790695755/img/134.jpg?a=1102888858577"/> <w:wrap type="square"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=197 height=116 src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs006/1101790695755/img/134.jpg?a=1102888858577" align=right alt="Mesa Foods logo" name=ACCOUNT.IMAGE.134 border=0 contenteditable=false v:shapes="_x0000_s1028"><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>production and ensure competitiveness. Their facility upgrade will retain 182 Kentucky jobs and create 35 additional jobs over the next two years.&nbsp; MESA Foods, which began operations in the 1980s and serves customers like the Tumbleweed restaurant chain, produces flour and corn tortillas, taco shells, pre-cut corn chips and flatbreads.&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB8aVVrMlEzzTu71ty0jyeJualSbTSY932xWIFyLQRuhMS2383jT0_S3i3QPF0Ucr11JHf36JNkFkSIUQ9gSvEgpICrCe6t-HbsyLwGZuP-wdXCrkuV6qPb-aW0kv-m5LqY_fn4ddcKyAli4HS4MfocOQRKHG5Kb5yN7ON0eib-d1g==" target="_blank" track=on shape=rect linktype=link></img><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Read full story here</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>. <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB8E8zn3bDzrHXjw-7M6lxIAe2d6423SHLS1gqLnag_9eG0-WTpYYXykqylfTYljwZtGJf2FFEMIFFaqcoXZi2zY67qj8oCkv5Sc6a9xV_S-RrPk-nkF58useKn0eD6BWKwfXhr5Dx9Xvg==" target="_blank" track=on shape=rect linktype=link>Watch WLKY-TV News Coverage here</a>.</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>&nbsp;</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Price Solutions</span></strong><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <div> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Price Solutions LLC will expand its manufacturing operation to produce MAC Security Portals and other modular products in Greenup County.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>The project will create 20 new jobs and represents a more than $1.7 million investment in the Commonwealth.&nbsp;&nbsp;Price Solutions is the manufacturing arm for Modular Security Systems, Inc. (MSSI) and Dropbox Inc.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>All three companies will jointly occupy the 45,000 square-foot former Ashland Inc. hangar at the Ashland Regional Airport in Worthington.&nbsp; Read full story here.</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><br> </span><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>NTSG, Inc.</span></strong><span style='font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_s1029" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="NTSG logo" style='position:absolute;margin-left:104pt;margin-top:0; width:2in;height:53.25pt;z-index:251661312;mso-wrap-distance-left:0; mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:0; mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:right; mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f"> <v:imagedata src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs006/1101790695755/img/133.jpg?a=1102888858577"/> <w:wrap type="square"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=192 height=71 src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs006/1101790695755/img/133.jpg?a=1102888858577" align=right alt="NTSG logo" name=ACCOUNT.IMAGE.133 border=0 contenteditable=false v:shapes="_x0000_s1029"><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>NTSG, Inc., a provider of outsourced advanced optical network integration services to the communications industry, will open a new facility in Lexington. The newly established operation will create 10 new full-time jobs with an average annual wage of $58,000 including benefits and result in a $1.4 million investment in the Commonwealth.&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB_x_9NsY43blCIkobC0suUP8dMoKve10rzg95PT-C455vi4JF1iY08e-gseM2F_DJxll0NsTTHXVh0SjLQbCBI9wo875n-ptGzgMUEmeEXZPTlJJdGcY5BpI4mhL_dog1RA2FXeyzTBxkgixVD8wmLF9jwUBXWCpWJ12XX0ToMpkQ==" target="_blank" track=on shape=rect linktype=link></img><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Read full story here</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>.</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>&nbsp;</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Summit Biosciences</span></strong><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>Lexington-based Summit Biosciences, a specialty pharmaceuticals business and client of the Lexington Innovation and Commercialization Center, will expand its operation creating 22 new jobs and investing over $5 million in the Commonwealth. Seventeen of the projected new jobs are high-tech positions with an average annual salary of more than $64,000.&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB9lELxVaHiaE0HxZ6XiIWY7lrfKrGDpvGPbBOKuBkYqEXII2M6K4HSh9WKwbMxMmoGRgG2yglwim2l-wcwW1b0mcZtF4fA59-usXOrrntqzXMUkGeNm6BqhhWv2GzheCffzC47hloyVkfqIesDyEhyCwcVJMwnnJ8bhzNHCk4pFEQ==" target="_blank" track=on shape=rect linktype=link><span style='font-size: 10.0pt'>Read full story here</span></a></span><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>. <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB8yk0pW4iGTdXQkzlgYtz0eHjfgBKD6r-HXT3spRCG78ZBidffwKdyDYu3CloyWinNStEEHd0xENtt6KTJgsCdePRvtjMd3LyzVO7OIQfp7dTxMVsaRFrXhUkCMmUEwujJ7RHSpJRlb7olSSr8fVQUGcAm1vjwLYzs=" target="_blank" track=on shape=rect linktype=link>Watch WKYT-TV News Coverage here</a>.<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Blackhawk Composites</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_s1030" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Blackhawk Composites" style='position:absolute;margin-left:36.5pt; margin-top:0;width:76.5pt;height:112.5pt;z-index:251662336; mso-wrap-distance-left:0;mso-wrap-distance-top:0; mso-wrap-distance-right:0;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0; mso-position-horizontal:right;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text; mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f"> <v:imagedata src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs006/1101790695755/img/135.jpg?a=1102888858577"/> <w:wrap type="square"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=102 height=150 src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs006/1101790695755/img/135.jpg?a=1102888858577" align=right alt="Blackhawk Composites" name=ACCOUNT.IMAGE.135 border=0 contenteditable=false v:shapes="_x0000_s1030"><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Blackhawk Composites, Inc., a start-up manufacturer of advanced aerospace composite parts, will begin manufacturing operations in Butler County. The project entails the creation of 20 new jobs initially, growing to 30 within the first year, and a more than $1.5 million investment in the Commonwealth. The newly formed Blackhawk Composites will lease a 40,000 square-foot facility to manufacture advanced aerospace composite parts for Cessna Caravan aircraft cowls, the part of the aircraft that covers the engine.&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB-VlweheHrvJ4dNyYw6ONZbi9X9zjGKDNglTtWBFio_JhNvbwIM3ZolKtg9QGxYDzeHw9f6d_qezDxGXxLGUaD43YZc8l-oVqneWEq6DH4FxaF9MuZf5ml0m6gjlAcyYJJ7tPKP2pft5r8tA5D7FQpA-YYeyWtMpGZIGx2fHQ1_4D9r9vWeakH5" target="_blank" track=on shape=rect linktype=link></img><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Read full story here</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>.</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>&nbsp;</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>DEFENDER Direct</span></strong><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt; margin-left:0in;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>DEFENDER Direct Inc., an authorized dealer for ADT Security Services and Dish Network, will open a new call center in Northern Kentucky.&nbsp; The new location project will create 100 new full-time jobs and represents a capital investment in the Commonwealth of more than $2.3 million. DEFENDER's newest call center will be located in 14,000 square feet of the Newport Shopping Center at 1727 Monmouth Street, Newport, Ky.&nbsp; The call center is now one of four call centers for the company including its headquarters in Indianapolis, Ind.&nbsp; DEFENDER also has 175 ADT installation branch offices across the U.S. and Canada. <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB9nUUeZdtbngWE19zV_rDyA0c8zq2a1LB5zdffvV2IG6mbbGBon5YLPBnGexJzB3cs4isHzMP5cjsUrxxzUcEBdezWuR-gmBGjr54zgikTnLGMW1LOprwrdhA6ddHwEz8or164NgVAmciPPrG5_GHcdmLIR_I_DmjnWZ6nYikawYp8sa2W3VVPw1jlfuDQIFIxeda-76qA3sx7iwMqwtjPh" target="_blank" track=on shape=rect linktype=link>Read full story here</a>.</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>New World Flooring</span></strong><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>New World Flooring, Inc., a manufacturer of flooring lumber and parts, will start up&nbsp;operations in Albany, Ky. The company will create approximately 30 new full-time jobs and invest over $3 million in the Commonwealth. New World Flooring plans to reopen the 28,000 square-foot former Bluegrass Cooperage plant, located on a 45-acre site in Clinton County. The existing facility, which includes a sawmill, barrel stave operation and dry kilns, will be reconfigured to begin sawing premium lumber for the flooring industry.&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB_IL7609mF2-MFDdi7C5JvnkC7hXNW1_WsqKWKdZJl1R-c1VEd1WwvveSrNSWq2G7Z-iJapj6y9ip9ZUDhfOUz6wgM0lb8lIFTsfcHmQg81tdOnZ6OG4txOwRYY8Huq3KHiScO2ZGAd3ceDq2z0rrJdve8s065kTIJBkxAzPHpIgsvcSRjkD3Pz" target="_blank" track=on shape=rect linktype=link><span style='font-size: 10.0pt'>Read full story here</span></a></span><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>.</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>&nbsp;</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Beam Global</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div> <div> <div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_s1031" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Beam Global logo" style='position:absolute;margin-left:20.75pt; margin-top:0;width:60.75pt;height:66.75pt;z-index:251663360; mso-wrap-distance-left:0;mso-wrap-distance-top:0; mso-wrap-distance-right:0;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0; mso-position-horizontal:right;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text; mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f"> <v:imagedata src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs006/1101790695755/img/136.jpg?a=1102888858577"/> <w:wrap type="square"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=81 height=89 src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs006/1101790695755/img/136.jpg?a=1102888858577" align=right alt="Beam Global logo" name=ACCOUNT.IMAGE.136 border=0 contenteditable=false v:shapes="_x0000_s1031"><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Beam Global Spirits &amp; Wine will expand its operations in Kentucky. A longstanding first family of Bourbon, the Jim Beam distilleries in Frankfort and Clermont, Ky., will begin production of DeKuyper® cordials and other spirits currently bottled outside of Kentucky.&nbsp; Beam Global's initiative to increase operational efficiencies in its U.S. bottling operations will result in the addition of approximately 120 new jobs and over $28 million in technology upgrades at the Frankfort distillery over the course of the next two years.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB9kuCcgRaeL4W7C9qdSLVFymZDE2ySz2m0SWpq3HsBpjjtCg8PA0ZKdq-UX97nWV3sb2r8SlJ8olxVc98i8EDGJ4cgquDIUKmjpSOH_rzClQM1m-MvPuhwr9QucUTkG5IuzT61DsC1Jn6maeUyXTvaAe3qWnYCwqA87zV3Ze8tq-A==" target="_blank" track=on shape=rect linktype=link></img><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Read full story here</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>.</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>&nbsp;</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>INFAC Corporation</span></strong><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>INFAC Corporation, a leading producer and worldwide supplier of mechanical cables and electronic components for the automotive industry, will add manufacturing capabilities to its distribution and sales center in Taylor County. The expansion will entail a $530,000 investment and will create an additional 20 jobs in the community.&nbsp; The South Korean-owned company expects to begin manufacturing park brake cables and transmission control cables at its 52,500 square-foot facility, located in the Campbellsville Industrial Park, in the first quarter of 2010.&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB8kNzapo1HVgZ2i9prkXbLu2LhwzETG243Cs1-9Zas3d15QdMnJB3o2DnPQtzOl_7RsnkCsfNSdiURDCgnsjIoiWo1xwaQijLcKcwydw-FH0UWUiF5e8iwatK0ZDY2X1I0TYSw8PBTTFlmXUmph60GGAfKmRctYJUAfqgc75pmxiA==" target="_blank" track=on shape=rect linktype=link><span style='font-size: 10.0pt'>Read full story here</span></a></span><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>.</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>&nbsp;</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><br> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>View our New and Expanding Industry Report for 2009 to date by </span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB-wym3Tk2PGGJ3kfVXCJeLZHZOtyTsESdhxP378kupgvdwlcnpJpH92ff-FiIr1-Xh_n0LY6MVQ9ngGupPjLG1v4cXbknmeRYhhMycn6H4ELlbl9VvQCIo2z3yJSncUTo3EwnjMiKyVXUOy-nZbWanXNlMIPPvKWMBp5CBw7yhBDjMg33UOYlFZ" target="_blank" track=on shape=rect linktype=link><span style='font-size: 10.0pt'>clicking here</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>.</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;mso-padding-alt:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt' id="content_LETTER.BLOCK21" hidefocus=true tabindex=0 cols=0 contenteditable=inherit datapagesize=0> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'> <td style='padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt' styleclass="style_MainTitle"> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Impact","sans-serif";color:#EE8738'><img border=0 width=325 height=15 id="_x0000_i1027" src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs006/1101790695755/img/46.jpg?a=1102888858577" alt="Ann Morris" name=ACCOUNT.IMAGE.46 contenteditable=false>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </img> </table> <p class=MsoNormal><a name=LETTER.BLOCK10><span style='display:none; mso-hide:all'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></a></p> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;mso-padding-alt:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt' aria-posinset=0 id="content_LETTER.BLOCK10" aria-setsize=0 hidefocus=true tabindex=0 cols=0 aria-level=0 contenteditable=inherit datapagesize=0> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'> <td style='padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt' styleclass="style_MainText"> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK10"'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK10"'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003A63'>Kentucky&nbsp;Economic Development Guide Marketing Opportunities&nbsp;</span></strong></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK10"'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#003A63'> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK10"'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003A63'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_s1032" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="KYEDG 2009 Cover" style='position:absolute; margin-left:0;margin-top:0;width:111.75pt;height:159.75pt;z-index:251664384; mso-wrap-distance-left:0;mso-wrap-distance-top:0; mso-wrap-distance-right:0;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0; mso-position-horizontal:left;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text; mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f"> <v:imagedata src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs006/1101790695755/img/131.jpg?a=1102888858577"/> <w:wrap type="square"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=149 height=213 src="http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs006/1101790695755/img/131.jpg?a=1102888858577" align=left alt="KYEDG 2009 Cover" name=ACCOUNT.IMAGE.131 border=0 contenteditable=false v:shapes="_x0000_s1032"><![endif]><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK10"'></span><span style='mso-bookmark: "LETTER\.BLOCK10"'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>The second annual issue of the Kentucky Economic Development Guide (KYEDG) is currently in the works.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>A vibrant, newsstand-quality magazine, KYEDG showcases the best of Kentucky through its people, places and progressive business climate. With all new, original photography and editorial features, the 2010 edition will focus on specific areas of business and economic development; education; industrial; tourism; healthcare and quality of life. </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK10"'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </img> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='mso-bookmark: "LETTER\.BLOCK10"'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>&nbsp;</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK10"'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='mso-bookmark: "LETTER\.BLOCK10"'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>Scheduled to publish in April, businesses now have the opportunity to reserve advertising space. More than 13,000 copies of the magazine will be distributed by the Cabinet and key business partners, as well as at trade shows, conferences and events throughout the year. <br> <br> The multi-media magazine will be utilized year-round to promote economic growth and vitality in Kentucky to reach prospective new and expanding businesses, prospective new residents and employees. <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;<br> To create the publication, the Cabinet for Economic Development is partnering with Journal Communications (jnlcom.com).<br> &nbsp;<br> The print magazine will be just one part of the complete publishing program that also includes an online magazine and photographic streaming video tour, and a targeted distribution network. <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;<br> For more information about advertising opportunities in KYEDG contact Journal Communications at (800) 333-8842.</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK10"'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK10"'></span> </tr> </table> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK10"'><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></span></p> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;mso-padding-alt:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt' id="content_LETTER.BLOCK11" hidefocus=true tabindex=0 cols=0 contenteditable=inherit datapagesize=0> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'> <td style='padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt' styleclass="style_MainTitle"> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK10"'><span style='font-size:18.0pt; 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<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK12"'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003A63'>Kentucky Federal Battery Laboratory Receives Funding</span></strong></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK12"'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#003A63'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK12"'><span style='font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></span></p> <div> <div> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:-9.0pt;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none'><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK12"'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Governor Steve Beshear recently announced the approval of state </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK12"'><span style='font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK12"'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>funding of up to $3.5 million for the Kentucky-Argonne Battery Manufacturing Research and Development Center in Lexington.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK12"'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The state funds, which were approved by the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority from the Cabinet for Economic Development's High-Tech Pools, will be matched with up to $3.5 million in federal funds.</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK12"'><span style='font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </div> </div> </div> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:-9.0pt;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK12"'><span style='color:black'>&nbsp;</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK12"'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:-9.0pt;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK12"'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>In April, the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the University of </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK12"'><span style='font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK12"'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Kentucky and University of Louisville</span></span><u><span style='font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB9PScdDAVc8gjqyQpieOzpjoVa_4UGWSxHGOX8vKrrYe4ukysQ_ROQSBJl24-9GYsDaoUhpK0odEjhyTwdfyF0Aphxs2p2V8iE=" target="_blank" shape=rect><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'> announced a partnership with </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><o:p></o:p></span></a></span></u></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB9PScdDAVc8gjqyQpieOzpjoVa_4UGWSxHGOX8vKrrYe4ukysQ_ROQSBJl24-9GYsDaoUhpK0odEjhyTwdfyF0Aphxs2p2V8iE=" target="_blank"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'>the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne&nbsp;National Laboratory </span></a></span></p> </div> <p class=MsoNormal><span class=MsoHyperlink><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB9PScdDAVc8gjqyQpieOzpjoVa_4UGWSxHGOX8vKrrYe4ukysQ_ROQSBJl24-9GYsDaoUhpK0odEjhyTwdfyF0Aphxs2p2V8iE=" target="_blank"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none; text-underline:none'>to establish a National Battery Manufacturing R&amp;D Center in Kentucky.</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt; color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'> </span></a></span></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:-9.0pt;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB9PScdDAVc8gjqyQpieOzpjoVa_4UGWSxHGOX8vKrrYe4ukysQ_ROQSBJl24-9GYsDaoUhpK0odEjhyTwdfyF0Aphxs2p2V8iE=" target="_blank" shape=rect><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>&nbsp;</span></a></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:-9.0pt;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB9PScdDAVc8gjqyQpieOzpjoVa_4UGWSxHGOX8vKrrYe4ukysQ_ROQSBJl24-9GYsDaoUhpK0odEjhyTwdfyF0Aphxs2p2V8iE=" target="_blank" shape=rect><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>The facility will aid nationwide efforts to develop and deploy a </span></a></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>domestic supply of advanced battery technologies for vehicle applications to assist in securing U.S. energy independence, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and help in strengthening the economy. </span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>The two Kentucky universities have agreed to contribute lab space, donor funds, R&amp;D grant funds and researchers.</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:-9.0pt;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB9PScdDAVc8gjqyQpieOzpjoVa_4UGWSxHGOX8vKrrYe4ukysQ_ROQSBJl24-9GYsDaoUhpK0odEjhyTwdfyF0Aphxs2p2V8iE=" target="_blank" shape=rect><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>&nbsp;</span></a></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:-9.0pt;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB9PScdDAVc8gjqyQpieOzpjoVa_4UGWSxHGOX8vKrrYe4ukysQ_ROQSBJl24-9GYsDaoUhpK0odEjhyTwdfyF0Aphxs2p2V8iE=" target="_blank" shape=rect><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>&quot;This funding approval demonstrates our commitment to making Kentucky a leader in the development of advanced energy technologies,&quot; said Gov. Beshear. &quot;Our nation's future energy </span></a></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>security and economic prosperity depends upon reliable energy technologies, including advanced lithium-ion batteries that we're helping develop right here in Kentucky.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:-9.0pt;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB9PScdDAVc8gjqyQpieOzpjoVa_4UGWSxHGOX8vKrrYe4ukysQ_ROQSBJl24-9GYsDaoUhpK0odEjhyTwdfyF0Aphxs2p2V8iE=" target="_blank" shape=rect><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>&nbsp;</span></a></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:-9.0pt;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB9PScdDAVc8gjqyQpieOzpjoVa_4UGWSxHGOX8vKrrYe4ukysQ_ROQSBJl24-9GYsDaoUhpK0odEjhyTwdfyF0Aphxs2p2V8iE=" target="_blank" shape=rect><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>The Battery R&amp;D Center's major goals are to support the development </span></a></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>of advanced lithium-ion batteries; facilitate collaborations between federal labs, universities, manufacturers, suppliers and end-users; develop advanced manufacturing technologies to reduce battery production costs; and accelerate the commercialization of technologies developed at national laboratories and universities.</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:-9.0pt;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB9PScdDAVc8gjqyQpieOzpjoVa_4UGWSxHGOX8vKrrYe4ukysQ_ROQSBJl24-9GYsDaoUhpK0odEjhyTwdfyF0Aphxs2p2V8iE=" target="_blank" shape=rect><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>&nbsp;</span></a></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:-9.0pt;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB9PScdDAVc8gjqyQpieOzpjoVa_4UGWSxHGOX8vKrrYe4ukysQ_ROQSBJl24-9GYsDaoUhpK0odEjhyTwdfyF0Aphxs2p2V8iE=" target="_blank" shape=rect><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>&quot;The Battery R&amp;D Center will help greatly increase the amount of </span></a></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>federal and private research dollars coming to Kentucky and will </span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>lead to additional high-paying, high-tech jobs,&quot; said Cabinet for Economic Development Secretary Larry Hayes<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>.</i></b> &quot;The opportunities for collaboration between the Argonne facility and our research universities will provide an economic engine that benefits Kentuckians across the region.&quot;</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:-9.0pt;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB9PScdDAVc8gjqyQpieOzpjoVa_4UGWSxHGOX8vKrrYe4ukysQ_ROQSBJl24-9GYsDaoUhpK0odEjhyTwdfyF0Aphxs2p2V8iE=" target="_blank" shape=rect><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>&nbsp;</span></a></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:-9.0pt;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB9PScdDAVc8gjqyQpieOzpjoVa_4UGWSxHGOX8vKrrYe4ukysQ_ROQSBJl24-9GYsDaoUhpK0odEjhyTwdfyF0Aphxs2p2V8iE=" target="_blank" shape=rect><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext; text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>The approved funds will be used to purchase specialized equipment </span></a></span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>and make necessary facility improvements for manufacturing and testing lithium-ion batteries, asymmetric capacitors and other advanced electrochemical energy storage systems.</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:-9.0pt;margin-bottom:0in; 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mso-hide:all'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></a></p> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0in;mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;mso-padding-alt:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt' aria-posinset=0 id="content_LETTER.BLOCK14" aria-setsize=0 hidefocus=true tabindex=0 cols=0 aria-level=0 contenteditable=inherit datapagesize=0> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'> <td style='padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003A63'>Kentucky High-Tech Small Businesses Receive&nbsp;SBIR-STTR Grants</span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><em><b><span style='font-size: 7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003A63'>&nbsp;</span></b></em></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; 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color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Governor Steve Beshear announced last month five Kentucky high-tech companies will share over $1.3 million in state funds as part of a Kentucky initiative to attract and support technology-based small businesses by matching federal awards the companies have received. <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </img></div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </div> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='mso-bookmark: "LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>The awards supplement over $24 million in federal funding made to the firms, including Louisville Bioscience, which established operations in Kentucky specifically because of the program.</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003A63;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='mso-bookmark: "LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>&nbsp;</span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#003A63;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='mso-bookmark: "LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>The state matching funds were awarded to businesses that received grants in Phase 1 or Phase 2 of the federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. Kentucky is the first and only state to match both phases of the federal program: up to $100,000 for Phase 1 federal awards and up to $500,000 per year (for up to two years) for Phase 2 federal awards. </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003A63;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='mso-bookmark: "LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>&nbsp;</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#003A63;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='mso-bookmark: "LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'>&quot;To date, our unique SBIR-STTR program has made a total of 71 awards to 44 Kentucky companies for a combined $15.5 million, which has also helped bring eight new high-tech businesses to the Commonwealth,&quot; said Gov. Beshear. &quot;Kentucky is rapidly gaining national recognition for our support of technology-based companies, and this will have far-reaching effects as future innovators and entrepreneurs consider where to locate their businesses and high-tech jobs.&quot;</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#003A63;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='mso-bookmark: "LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>&nbsp;</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#003A63;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='mso-bookmark: "LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>The five Kentucky companies receiving matching funds specialize in areas as diverse as human health and development, information technology, bioscience, and materials science and advanced manufacturing.</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark: "LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#003A63;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='mso-bookmark: "LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>&nbsp;</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#003A63;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='mso-bookmark: "LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>The companies are:</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#003A63;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='mso-bookmark: "LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>&nbsp;</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#003A63;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='mso-bookmark: "LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Adaptive Intelligent Systems</span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>, established in Lexington in 2005, is developing innovative, intelligent sensing and control technologies that help improve welding quality and productivity.</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#003A63;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='mso-bookmark: "LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>&nbsp;</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#003A63;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='mso-bookmark: "LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>SureGene</span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>, of Louisville, is developing and commercializing its AssureGene"! test, the first in a planned series of proprietary tests designed to help physicians provide more precise and individualized diagnoses for patients with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#003A63;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='mso-bookmark: "LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>&nbsp;</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#003A63;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='mso-bookmark: "LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Vision Dynamics</span></b></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>, located in Louisville, has developed an array of innovative materials, processes and equipment to manufacture advanced eyeglass lenses, including a nanotechnology-based system first marketed in 2006.</span><span style='color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'> </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003A63;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>&nbsp;</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#003A63;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='mso-bookmark: "LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Louisville Bioscience,</span></strong></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'> of Louisville, is developing a blood test that profiles a patient's blood plasma proteins to help detect autoimmune and infectious diseases, as well as cancer in the early stages. The new platform technology is also expected to have other applications, including identifying biomarkers and targets for new drugs.</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003A63;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>&nbsp;</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#003A63;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='mso-bookmark: "LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>EndoProtech</span></strong></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>, located in Louisville, is developing and commercializing unique therapies for organ transplantation and cardiovascular surgery, including a product that will protect patients' cells, tissues and organs that can be damaged when blood flow is restored following the procedures.</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#003A63;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='mso-bookmark: "LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>&nbsp;</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#003A63;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='mso-bookmark: "LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>The Cabinet for Economic Development, through its Department of Commercialization and Innovation, manages the Kentucky SBIR-STTR Matching Funds program, which is administered under contract by the Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation (KSTC). </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003A63;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='mso-bookmark: "LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>&nbsp;</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:"LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#003A63;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='mso-bookmark: "LETTER\.BLOCK14"'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Applications for each round of the program are accepted by KSTC, which issues a solicitation approximately every 90 days. A link to the online guidelines and application form for the Kentucky program are posted at </span></span><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:#003A63;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB_DMoNPZjlxFnY9fBlOjCAJY5ZShQmsQ6wrE8Wb_gp7xQgeckSMI1W2lPA9YfvgdlGmPju2-FyYiRbr25I7c73lDmAwisG-MN08qKiM0vPjRUkq6ApI04PwkFB2cVBol7M=" target="_blank" shape=rect><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>www.ThinkKentucky.com/dci/SBIR</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>. &nbsp;</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#003A63;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>&nbsp;</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#003A63;mso-bidi-font-weight: bold'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </table> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='display:none;mso-hide:all'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;mso-cellspacing:0in;background:#EEB053; mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt' id="content_LETTER.BLOCK18" hidefocus=true tabindex=0 cols=0 contenteditable=inherit datapagesize=0> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes'> <td valign=top style='background:#EE8738;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"; color:#441C0D'>UPCOMING EVENTS</span></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#441C0D'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:1;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'> <td valign=top style='padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt'> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#C33300'>January 7, 2010,&nbsp;<a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB_5mh0pN25fECnyz3eGenzKOyiSVzfquMmiy76Nhotbj-gE0JrAj_tAI6Eh_O4HH50h-ZltYMa-RsQzG_ad1TD9xIOeIGFu5r_m_2sr3PAKuhAY5GAcFpdrJoTE6v48oyWxp0ugMK_cH8SJ8uyc2zY3KPEA-SZHX1YiWAmXetAM_GrYY3AFTWz3dJOvwAk8usSyznhcG_HozSXA_LTZ3Fbb" target="_blank" track=on shape=rect linktype=link>Kentucky Chamber Day</a>, Lexington, KY<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#C33300'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#C33300'>Jan 12-14, 2010, <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB8hH6--WB7sq2m5YcwpyGXuHCnRonyKMzWSLEa2sSUQzhtiysp15Ad6XJJJcp8nzPKmwE0e9xMrynUxNvFG1DKU-lErmji57A_Z9Odh717f7jsh9akTNFE28Q4RUF2aAAvgVyJ0XDQNqJ0I0akqsSUA" target="_blank" track=on shape=rect linktype=link>Automotive News World Congress</a>, Detroit, MI<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#C33300'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#C33300'>February 18, 2010, <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB8S5zjAI5-38uUdmv9S7rbCnj1MBb17bfiAqC85etSZaNd1sEiXNYY9OrTKNIgbVPayI9ITxiiLhHMC3Gxq9h6B_iXHdaRmSstRLE29mENw0Aw7Um-X1Mg52Z-ZPcMNH59EmZX4i9INjY6bnrRcIx0z8gbQjaFSSUndsn27nHOf9uxeYpqAn_xEI2oQKR87oa04Oa6xAA6J3A==" target="_blank" track=on shape=rect linktype=link>Tech Day in Kentucky</a>, Frankfort, KY<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#C33300'>&nbsp;&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#C33300'>March 24-26, 2010, <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102888858577&amp;s=5795&amp;e=001dWGz3AJrXB9Q1ryHI5p5nnZ9-Gx14pXJvHlZttDlN9tFXFWp1EBON-LfHHTAeFkulqC89-b_zdYLQu8bnzpb8q9_XUUyJB021T-w4r9MxRFpCLsm0DNy6w==" target="_blank" track=on shape=rect linktype=link>KAED Spring Conference</a>, Danville, KY&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:2;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes;height:7.5pt'> <td width="100%" style='width:100.0%;padding:4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt 4.5pt; height:7.5pt'></td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>