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Integrated Electrical Services, Inc. (Nasdaq:IESC), a leading national provider of electrical and communications systems and services for the commercial, industrial and residential markets, today announced that its division with operations in Baton Rouge, La., and Greenville, S.C., has received the Safety Training and Evaluation Process (STEP) Platinum Award for 2010 through Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc. (ABC), Pelican Chapter. Only three percent of ABC member companies are recognized at the platinum level.

Integrated Electrical Services, Inc. provides electrical contracting services to commercial, industrial, and residential customers in the United States.

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Proper Power & Energy, Inc. (OTCBB:PPWE), a Tampa-based independent oil and gas exploration and production company, has announced the next stage of its Western U.S. operations. Proper Power & Energy met with the executives of Thrust Resources Inc. and EQ Resources Inc. in Dallas, Texas on January 20, 2011. The meeting focused on a joint venture for the Central Utah Prospect between the Companies.

This was the initial meeting between Clint Brower, CEO and Chairman of EQ Resources, and Andrew Kacic, the newly named President of Proper Power & Energy Inc. The next steps will be circulating a memorandum of understanding followed upon definitive agreements. Utah ranked 11th in the United States in crude oil proved reserves and 8th in natural gas proved reserves (not including Federal Offshore areas) in 2008.

Utah ranked 13th in the United States in crude oil production and 9th in gross natural gas production (not including Federal Offshore areas) during 2008. Utah contains four of the Nation's 100 largest oil fields, two of its 100 largest natural gas fields (2008). Utah has approximately 3,200 producing oil wells and 5,700 producing natural gas wells. Proper Power & Energy is an independent exploration and production company.

Proper Power & Energy's operations are in Kentucky, which provides for low risk developmental drilling and production, and Utah, which Proper Power & Energy controls over 11,000 acres for its exploratory prospect. Renowned geophysicist and consultant to Proper Power & Energy, Robert Dunbar, believes the Utah prospect could hold up to one billion barrels of recoverable oil.

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Popular Inc. (Nasdaq:BPOP) announced that it expects to report its financial results of the quarter and year ended December 31, 2010 on Friday, February 4, 2011, prior to market opening. Popular will hold a conference call to discuss the financial results the same day at 10:00 a.m. Eastern time. The call will be broadcast live over the Internet and can be accessed through the investor relations section of the Corporation's website: www.popular.com.

Popular, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides a range of retail and commercial banking products and services in Puerto Rico, the United States, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, and Costa Rica.

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Global Hunter Corp. (TSX.V:BOB)(FSE:G5D) is pleased to announce that it recently completed a surface sampling program at La Corona de Cobre. The program was designed to collect surface samples from the numerous prospective shear zones. This will aid in the definition of drill targets to expand on the copper oxide mineralization. Global Hunter has collected approximately 250 samples from the shear zones listed. The shear zones and areas of alteration that have been sampled (from East to West ) include the following zones: El Manto; La Golondrina; Cerro Borracho; El Tazon; La Copa; La Varrilla; Et Tazon; Vino Fino; Abisinia; and Las Posadas.

The samples will be collected from outcrops along the entire strike lengths of the shears and have been shipped to ALS Chemex Labs in La Serena Chile for analysis. Results will be released as soon as practical after they have been received. These shear zones can be traced on surface for hundreds of metres, with the longest being Vino Fino, which has been mapped for over 6,000 metres. Local miners are currently extracting ore from several shear zones on the property and transporting it to Enami for processing.

The surface sample results in conjunction with previous geophysical work completed on the property Global Hunter intends to prepare a multi-hole drill program on the shear zones scheduled to begin early 2011 as part of its ongoing evaluation of its Corona de Cobre project. In addition to sampling and drilling of the prospective shear zones at La Corona de Cobre mentioned above, Global Hunter will continue its work on the Las Posadas resource over the coming months and will provide a summary of its progress as information becomes available.

Global Hunter's flagship project is the La Corona de Cobre property, located 70 kilometres north of La Serena, Chile, along the Pan American Highway, within the coastal belt of the Andean Cordillera. The NI 43-101-compliant resource contains 225 million pounds of copper oxide. In addition, Global Hunter has its Rabbit South molybdenum project in south-central British Columbia, Canada.

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LNB Bancorp Inc. (Nasdaq:LNBB) has declared a cash dividend of $12.50 per share, or approximately $315,000, on LNB's Fixed Rate Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock Series B , payable on February 15, 2011 to the shareholder of record as of February 4, 2011.

LNB Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for The Lorain National Bank, which provides personal, mortgage, and commercial banking products; and investment management and trust services to individuals and businesses in Ohio.

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