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CORDOBA, ARGENTINA (MARKET WIRE) Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- Energias do Brasil S.A. (Sao Paulo, Brazil) and MPX Energia S.A. (SAO: MPXE3) (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) have recently started construction of the 720-megawatt (MW) Porto do Pecem coal-fired power plant in the Brazilian state of Ceara. The $1.2 billion power plant is due for completion before January 2012. Energias do Brasil S.A. is controlled by Portuguese energy company Energias de Portugal (OTC: EDPFY) (Lisbon, Portugal).

American PolySteel, a small manufacturer of insulating concrete forms since 1978, has merged with green building supplier ARXX Corp. of Portland, Ore.

TG -- a public nonprofit corporation focusing on access to higher education and an administrator of the Federal Family Education Loan Program -- awarded over $1 million to the University of Texas, UT System, Austin Community College and four Austin nonprofit organizations.

With the cost of seemingly everything on the rise, back-to-school shopping appears to be no exception, one survey by a prominent Central Ohio financial business has found. (HBAN)

The first phase of a $43 million renovation at Wesley Medical Center is nearing completion and the second could be wrapped up early next year.

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TAMPA, FL (MARKET WIRE) Deer Valley Corporation ("Deer Valley" or the "Company") (OTCBB: DVLY) is pleased to announce that the Company has delivered and "set" the first of over 120 twin townhomes that the Company is to provide during the first phase of development of Orleans Place, a new planned community that is part of the Savanna Trails development in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.

SAN DIEGO, CA and IRVINE, CA (MARKET WIRE) Loan-Score Decisioning systems, an emerging leader in enterprise-class pricing and automated underwriting solutions, and Del Mar DataTrac(R) (DMD), an established loan origination and processing system, announced today that they have completed an enhanced nine-point seamless integration between Loan-Score's automated underwriting system (AUS) and DMD's mortgage banking automation solution DataTrac(R).

SUGAR LAND, TX (MARKET WIRE) Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- As the nation's appetite for renewable energy grows, efforts are in high gear to increase electricity from geothermal sources. Nevada is becoming a prime location for development, leading the nation in geothermal capacity in terms of development and total investment dollars for new geothermal power plants. A subsidiary of Enel S.p.A (BIT: ENEL) (Rome, Italy) has begun construction on two plants near Fallon, Nevada, with an Atlas Copco AB (STO:ATCO A) (Nacka, Sweden) company contracted to provide generators. In advanced

Northeast Lakeview College, the University of the Incarnate Word, and two San Antonio nonprofit groups have been selected to receive $625,000 worth of grants to increase college access and student retention in the San Antonio area.