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The stock dividend will be for the difference in the stock price on the date of the symbol change
and
the value of $6.75 per share.
dude your full of sh!t. your past 48 posts bashed this stock. grow up.
BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE
(related) Walt Disney Co. (DIS) confirmed that it plans to unify several divisions within its TV and film operations and form a new unit to distribute movies, TV shows, and other entertainment around the world.
keep an eye on DIS too
this is what i see;
SciFi channel Premier "Harpies" 6/23
details of the agreement between POWN and DIS = $
release of Darkman, from season 1 WWTBASH, publication 7/3
WWTBASH season 2 premier 7/26
lol hiya D just gave a shout out to all IHUB POWN holders to call in with any info that they may have. this is one that i'd rather be in than out. o yea ask the cheap sob about a free t-shirt :)
6/20/07 Lots of energy needed for 1,200 inmates
New study gauges economic impact of federal prison
Barbara Tetreault
BERLIN— The federal prison will add $23 million annually to Coos County’s economy and generate 400 to 500 jobs on average as the facility is constructed and operates.
A new study by N.H. Employment Security entitled “Coos County Perspectives ...The Federal Prison “ uses modeling to gauge the impact the 1,230-inmate prison will have on the county through 2016.
The study was the focus of Monday’s monthly meeting of the Androscoggin Valley Economic Recovery’s economic recovery task force.
The study finds the prison will:
* Generate approximately 500 jobs on average from 2008 to 2016
* Increase the county's population by about 700 people and the labor force by about 400, on average from 2010 to 2016
* Expand Coos County's gross regional product by an average of $23.2 million (in 2000 dollars) from 2008 to 2016.
* Create jobs in retail trade, the service industry, and state and local government.
The study emphasizes the impact of the prison will be in two separate phases - construction and operation. The two phases require employees with different job skills and the impact on the county will be different.
The construction phase, which is scheduled to get underway in full force next year, will employ 301 people, primarily engineers and skilled and unskilled construction workers. The construction jobs, using the Davis-Bacon wage rates for northern New Hampshire, will pay an average of $57,520 annually. The study estimates the construction phase will create over 100 additional jobs in retail and service industries due to the injection of additional income from prison employment.
The construction jobs are short-term with the prison expected to take 30 months to build. Over the course of the construction, over 700 employees will work on the project although no more than half that number would be employed at any one time. The total payroll for the construction period is estimated at $48 million . Operating the prison is expected to require about 325 employees with an annual payroll of $19.1 million (in 2005 dollars). The employees will be largely correctional officers and administrative and support staff.
The Bureau of Prisons has said 40 percent of the employees will be experienced staff that transfer here from other federal correctional facilities. Of the remaining 60 percent, the bureau anticipates it will hire about a third from northern New Hampshire and the rest will come from outside the region.
The study notes that means about 266 employees at the prison will be new to the area which means an increased demand for housing
Anticipating that some households may supply two workers, the study estimates 240 households will move into the region.
As with the construction phase, the study estimates the operation of the prison will create secondary jobs in the region. The study puts the total employment from the prison, both direct and indirect, at just over 500.
Androscoggin Valley Economic Development Director Jim Wagner reported on a recent conference call between the Bureau of Prisons, state, and local economic development officials. One topic discussed was how to get local businesses eligible to bid on contracts and services for the prison. The local N.H. Employment Security office has worked extensively to get businesses certified. NHES Berlin office manager Mark Belanger said any local business interested should contact Les Glover at the Berlin office. Belanger said there is a federal web site that lists contracts that are being awarded.
Wagner spoke about putting together welcome packages for new businesses as well as a web site outlining what the region has to offer for shopping, recreation, housing, and health care.
Belanger said one popular misconception is that individuals have to have a bachelor’s degree to work as a correctional officer in the federal prison. He said that is not accurate - life experience such as a military background can substitute for education.
The bureau does require future employees to produce a positive credit report. Belanger said that is important. His office is planning to put together a workshop telling people how to get their credit report and ways to improve their credit rating.
Wagner and Belanger said the general contractor on the project, Bell Constructors and Heery Construction Company - a joint venture out of Rochester, N.Y., - have told local officials they want to work with the local communities. They expect to subcontract 90 percent of the work and will look to use local labor as much as possible.
Diana Nelson, NHES employment specialist, said the project will pull labor from all over the Northeast region. With only site work expected to get underway this summer, the general contractors are currently looking for applications for top positions such as superintendents and foreman.
Berlin Housing Coordinator André Caron noted many of the construction workers will be looking for furnished apartments while working on the prison. He suggested setting up a meeting with the owners of local tenement buildings to prepare them for the coming demand. Many of the tenement buildings are in poor condition.
Berlin Economic Development Director Norm Charest said the city can use market pressure to get landlords to upgrade their buildings.
Berlin Housing Authority Executive Director Mary Jo Landry said landlords throughout the region should be included since the demand will be spread throughout Coos County. She expressed concern that senior citizens and those on fixed incomes may be displaced from apartments by landlords willing to capitalize on increased demand by raising rental fees..
Wagner said it may be valuable for local officials to speak to Lebanon officials about the construction of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. He said that was the second largest construction project in the state’s history. The Berlin prison will be the third largest.
In other business:
* The task force will approach the AVER board about convening a public meeting on the pulp mill site in Berlin. Bill Andreas of BEDCO raised the issue, noting there has been a lot of public discussion on the site on the Coos Conversation blog and in letters to the editor. Andreas suggested inviting Laidlaw to the meeting to explain its plans to convert the old chemical recovery boiler into a bio-mass plant.
* Wagner will resume his position as chair of the task force. He had stepped down when AVER hired him as a consultant. City Planner Pam Laflamme has served as chair.
WOW .... that pr went over like a fart in church.
nevermind last lol
did anyone see this from the MKTwatch article; David Chamberlain, executive creative director at the advertising and marketing agency Gyro International in New York, is particularly taken with one new offering in this niche: Danny DeVito's Limoncello, which launched in late April.
they havent PR'd it yet
GOOG ADV NEWS SEARCH Results 1 - 10 of about 490 from Jun 4, 2007 to today for stan-lee. (0.30 seconds)
WTG Homie POWN!!!!!!!!! another IBCS WINNER! 100k restricted
XSNX again? How many does IBCS hold of that 1
i love potatoes fried w peppers and onions maybe a little copped bacon mmmm
i agree, better in than out
the only thing we got so far from POWN or DIS is that a deal has been reached. once the numbers of the deal come out........ BOOOOOM!
yw
now i know this is the POWN board but if you got other winners or losers you can call em in. the more eyes on a tkr the better.
the only thing w em is that u respect all listeners. no need to get your ip addy banned
from my cold dead hands!
go POWN go!
correct mama. you need the version 1.5.0 if you get an error msg u need to update
ok just chatted w sandy, its not instant access. sandy is doing manual auth. Some as she has told me will not be allowed due to "less than reputable". shes's also telling me that new callers get a free t-shirt
for whose of u who want it, here; http://www.stocktalklive.net/ you gotta start at this page to go any further submit reg, than after a few mins you will be allowed in and able to listen. the station director(sandy) is going thru apps now.
they(IBCS) holds 100k restricted, if you got any question re the holdind ask Darrell on air. he will answer.
u in the chat?
GOOGLE Results 1 - 10 of about 492 from Jun 3, 2007 to today for stan-lee. (0.19 seconds)
Went by the Schott Solat plant in Billerica ma. the other day at 1:30pm and notice something, the lot was half empty. 1 of 3 things could did/are taking place; it was still liquid lunch hour, people left early or were on vacation, or the warning letter about labor reductions from Schott took place. i know the employees wont say anything due to the suit. so i'm gonna ask the driver of the roach coach about how his business has been lately. :)
address of the link says it all...
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jun2007/id20070608_789078.htm?chan=search
Google Stan Lee for advanced news search past week. 494! The cat is out of the bag
MAMA WTG. i posted about the radio show and it got taken down. tuesday the 5th i heard Stan Lee's new commercial about POWN and it made me scratch my head that maybe the CEO didnt just magically disappear like so many other pink CEO's. so i peeked at it at .06. the 6th, seconds after the pr, Homie broke into the commercial break to announce the deal and got in at .16 and had to lead it and still didnt get all i wanted. The boiler room boys can post all the BS they want with dizzing numbers and stats but Spidey is as popular as Mickey and they know it!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
i got in at .16 but had to chase to get it. got sum moa on the dip today :). heard it on http://www.stocktalklive.net/ w/i seconds of it breaking
over yesterdays vol
POW!!!!!!!! hey FWIW http://www.stocktalklive.net/ holds 100k restricted. its a live call in show and has had POWN as a sponsor for a at least a year, and are going to try to get Stan Lee on the air.
thank message board tough guy. i b ramembaring dat next time
DNDN Provange just on ABC news 5 min segment!!!!!!!!!
i was actually i colebrook nh this weekend to visit a friend, said they need this to happen cause people are hurting for work. went by another closed mill in littleton nh. 2 major mills closed in a about a year or so
Berlin Daily Sun 6/4
BERLIN — If nothing else, Berlin businesswoman Katie Paine has highlighted her multi-tasking skills over the past two weeks.
While staving off foreclosure of her property in Durham, Katie Paine has initiated a public debate in Berlin over reuse of the pulp mill property. At the same time, she continues to promote Berlin and the North Country as places for companies to outsource operations.
All that is in addition to her work as president and CEO of KD Paine and Partners, which she is in the process of moving to Berlin. The public relations and marketing firm opened an office on Main Street in Berlin a year ago and currently employs 20 people. Paine hopes to have 200 employees in Berlin within three years.
Friday afternoon, Paine reported she had paid her back taxes and mortgage payments in full on the 48-acre property on the Oyster River in Durham. The property was slated to go up for auction on June 15 after Paine fell two years behind on property taxes and two months behind on mortgage payments. The auction house appraised the property, which includes three homes, at more than $1.5 million.
“We pulled it off,” said Paine, who turned to her blog to solicit support and financial assistance. She was able to raise more than $125,000 in donations and loans to save the estate that had belonged to her parents.
Yesterday, Paine was holding a benefit concert/yard sale with tickets selling at $25 each to earn money to pay off some of the funds she borrowed to save her property. A full-line of musical entertainment was scheduled to get underway at 1 p.m. One of the featured items at the yard sale was her 2000 Audi TT convertible.
Now that her property has been secured, Paine said she will go before the Durham zoning board on June 12 to appeal its ruling that operating her business from her home violates the zoning ordinance.
She said she also wants to go forward with her plan to subdivide her Durham property so she can sell off one lot to pay off her tax debt. That proposal ran into opposition from an abutter when it went before the zoning board earlier.
Paine said she is still continuing to look for a place to live in Berlin although she has expressed opposition to a plan by Laidlaw Energy to convert the former chemical recovery boiler on the mill site into a 50-megawatt biomass plant.
Laidlaw said it is close to closing on a deal to purchase the boiler and co-generation facility from North American Dismantling, which owns the 130-acre site.
Paine noted a majority of people who responded to a poll on the blog ‘Coos Conversations’ expressed opposition to siting a biomass plant on the mill property. While she admits the poll was not scientific, she said she feels it has helped stimulate a public debate on what is appropriate development in the middle of the city. She said the public should be involved in the discussion.
“It shouldn’t be just me and the mayor,” she said, referring to the public debate between her and Mayor Robert Danderson on the issue.
Paine said not enough information has been released on the biomass plant to make an informed decision. For instance, she said there has been no data on the tonnage of particles the facility would release into the atmosphere. There are also questions about the need to upgrade the transmission lines to handle the added power load.
“I think this is the beginning of a long process,” said Paine.
Despite her concerns about the biomass plant, Paine continues to promote Berlin as a place to live and establish a business. She has an article in the summer 2007 quarterly magazine of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston entitled, “Berlin, New Hampshire: The New Bangalore? In the article, Paine cites an available workforce, cheap space, a beautiful environment and financial incentives as reasons for locating a business in Berlin.
In a companion article, the editor of the magazine, Caroline Ellis, explores the concept of companies looking at areas of New England for outsourcing jobs rather than going overseas. The article can be found at
http://www.bos.frb.org/commdev/c&b/2007/summer/Paine_Berlin_NH.pdf.
town council meeting minutes, near bottom of page
http://www.berlinnh.gov/Pages/BerlinNH_CouncilMinutes/I00F14F1A
like i said earthy crunchy idiot! from 5/22 Berlin Daily Sun Mayor says he loves Paine but she's wrong about biomass plant
Barbara Tetreault
BERLIN— Mayor Robert Danderson says he loves the city’s newest entrepreneur, Katie Paine, but takes exception to her strong opposition to the proposed Laidlaw biomass plant.
“Katie, I love you. You’ve done a great job promoting Berlin. But it should not be an either/or situation,” Danderson said at last night’s city council meeting.
The mayor’s comments were spurred by a letter from Paine published in Monday’s The Berlin Daily Sun. In the letter, Paine said a biomass plant in the heart of the city will repel businesses like hers from relocating to Berlin.
Danderson said Paine is “making judgments about something she knows nothing about” and charged some of the information she cited is simply wrong.
In her letter, Paine questioned why the city would want a plant “that will once again cover Berlin in smoke and ash and odor and fill the streets again with trucks and traffic,” when it could attract companies like hers.
KD Paine and Partners, which evaluates and measures public relations and marketing programs, opened an office in Berlin last September. The Berlin office currently employs 20 people.
Paine has publicly extolled the virtues of locating in Berlin in several statewide publications, including Business NH Magazine and the Union Leader newspaper. Earlier this month, she announced she was starting a new social media practice in Berlin and expected to increase her workforce here to 200 within three years.
“Laidlaw promises to create 40 jobs as a result of this project," Paine wrote. "However, the net will be zero, since if it goes through, my company and others like it that are in Berlin because of its beautiful views, clean air and clean water will move to other cleaner areas.”
Danderson said a biomass facility is not the same as a pulp mill. He said there is no odor or ash associated with biomass plants and promised he will be tough on environmental standards.
“They’re going to have to meet all environmental laws,” he said.
The mayor pointed out there are biomass plants in Portsmouth, Whitefield and Bethlehem that have not attracted opposition.
Danderson said Laidlaw is projecting it will create 40 jobs directly. He said, however, there will be a spin-off effect that will create additional jobs in the region, especially in the logging industry.
Finally, Danderson said a biomass plant will help increase the city’s tax base and ease the burden on city property taxpayers. He estimated a biomass facility would add $100 million of taxable vaulation that translates into $3 million in property tax revenue or $6 on the tax rate.
“I say this is good for Berlin if we work it right,” the mayor concluded.
Laidlaw has announced it is close to finalizing a deal with North American Dismantling to purchase the chemical recovery boiler and about half of the 120-acre mill site. Laidlaw plans to convert the boiler into a 50-megawatt biomass plant. Laidlaw President Michael Bartoszek said his company would work with NAD to find companies to locate to the site that would take advantage of the heat and power generated by the biomass plant.
Paine spearheaded an Internet poll on the biomass plant on the Coos Conversations blog site. She reported 60 percent of those who responded opposed converting the mill property to a biomass park. Approximately 16 percent said they were in favor and 17 percent said they did not know enough to make a decision.
i argree with you on the poll. the earthy cruchy tree hugging bloggers who took the poll didnt probably ask any of the former workers and the unemployed because they were too busy scrounging for work.
money talks and they are starving up there