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The Cincinnati Center City Development Corp. (3CDC) could get $300,000 and up to three years to find a viable development project for Fifth and Race, a city-owned surface lot one block west of Fountain Square.

We are all riveted by the news coming out of Washington and Wall Street these days.

Katelin Smith’s parents scaled back on their retirement savings, and they’re not socking as much away for her college tuition as they’d hoped.

It took fewer than 45 days for The Doane Stuart School to raise enough money to buy a new $4 million campus.

SUGAR LAND, TX (MARKET WIRE) Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) will host special guest Kobelco EDTI Compressors (KEC) (Corona, California) as part of this week's "Industry Today" webcast. Kobelco is a leading manufacturer of process compressors including centrifugal, reciprocating and screw compressors on a global scale as part of the Kobe Steel Group of companies (Tokyo, Japan). Having supplied over 115,000 compression units of various kinds since 1915, the superior technology and reliability of Kobelco's compressors is widely recognized by industry around the world. The Kobe Steel Group is a global company

LEE, MA (MARKET WIRE) Wave systems Corp. (NASDAQ: WAVX) today announced enhancements to its electronic signature and vaulting software, offering mortgage lenders a complete solution from origination to closing that can address many critical shortcomings of traditional paper processing. With the latest enhancements to eTMS, lenders can now securely deliver, track and sign disclosure documents electronically. Closing documents can be signed and notarized in a secure environment and the note then registered through MERS, the industry endorsed system for electronically tracking mortgage ownership and servicing rights.

BURNABY, BC (MARKET WIRE) VFA Canada Corporation, the leading Canadian provider of facilities capital planning and asset management solutions, today announced that the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care has selected VFA to assess the condition of public hospitals province-wide and to provide software for capital planning. Ontario is the third provincial health ministry to implement capital planning solutions from VFA Canada.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (MARKET WIRE) Intrinsyc software International, Inc. (TSX: ICS), a global wireless software solutions provider, today announced release of a new development platform with SiRF technology Holdings Inc. that enables Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to deliver connected consumer navigation handhelds based on the combined solution of Intrinsyc's Soleus(TM) software platform and SiRF's location technology chipset. Intrinsyc signed a Software License Agreement with SiRF in november 2007. The Company also confirmed that this engagement is now generating royalty revenues.

WALNUT CREEK, CA (MARKET WIRE) American Reprographics Company (NYSE: ARP), the nation's leading provider of reprographics services and technology, today announced that Forbes magazine ranked the company on its "200 Best Small Companies in America" list. In its second consecutive appearance, the company's rank rose from number 56 in 2007, to number 34 in 2008.

SUGAR LAND, TX (MARKET WIRE) Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- Constellation energy Group Incorporated (NYSE: CEG) (Baltimore, Maryland) resumed construction of the Hillabee Energy Center this month near Alexander City, Alabama, after receiving the final permit in September. The plant, which Constellation acquired from Calpine Corporation (NYSE: CPN) (San Jose, California) in February 2008, had stopped construction in 2003 amid the Enron fallout, as Calpine decided to re-evaluate its generation portfolio to bolster investor confidence.