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(Repeats to fix typo in Web address, second paragraph) Stocks Mergers & Acquisitions Bonds NEW YORK, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Leading U.S. ethanol producerPoet may consider bidding on distilleries owned by VeraSunEnergy Corp VSUNQ.OB when they go up for auction in March,the chief executive of the privately held company told anagricultural information Web site on Monday. "We are looking at all of our opportunities, you know,VeraSun being one of them," Jeff Broin said in an interviewthat ran on VeraSun filed for bankruptcy protection in October afterlocking in expensive prices for corn, the main feedstock formaking ethanol in the United States. Earlier this month VeraSun got approval from a judge toauction seven of the eight ethanol plants it had bought fromU.S BioEnergy last year for about $700 million. "So it remains to be seen which facilities we may end upacquiring, but we certainly are looking at all of our optionstoday," he added Poet could not be immediately reached Both companies are based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Broin has said for months his company is interested inmaking investments in ethanol production facilities While mostU.S.

ethanol companies have suffered months of poor profitmargins from high corn prices and low ethanol prices, Broin hassaid most of his company's plants are managing to squeezeprofits because they are highly efficient in turning grain intofuel. Stocks Mergers & Acquisitions Bonds. NEW YORK(Business Wire)Acadia Realty Trust (NYSE:AKR - "Acadia" or the "Company") announced today theresults of the shareholders elections relating to the Companys specialdividend as previously declared by its Board of Trustees. The special dividendof approximately $0.55 per Common Share is payable on January 30, 2009, toshareholders of record on December 31, 2008. The special dividend represents a dividend payment associated with taxable gainsarising from property dispositions in 2008. The special dividend is in additionto the payment of Acadias regular dividend for the quarter ended December 31,2008 of $0.21 per Common Share, which was paid on January 15, 2009 to holders ofrecord as of December 31, 2008. The special dividend is taxable to Acadias shareholders without regard towhether a particular shareholder receives the dividend in the form of cash orCommon Shares. Please refer to the Companys press release dated January 13,2009 for the Federal tax treatment of this dividend.

The terms of the specialdividend, including the ability of shareholders to elect to receive the specialdistribution in the form of cash or Common Shares, and a limitation on theaggregate amount of cash to be included in the special dividend, were describedin detail in the prospectus supplement filed with the Securities and ExchangeCommission on January 5, 2009. The cash or Common Share elections were requiredto be submitted prior to 5:00 p.m (EST) on January 16, 2009. Based on shareholder elections, the special dividend will consist ofapproximately $1.8 million in cash and approximately 1.3 million Common Shares.The number of Common Shares included in the special distribution is calculatedbased on $ 12.57845, the average of the volume weighted trading price per shareon the New York Stock Exchange on January 16 and 20, 2009. Summarized results ofthe special dividend elections are as follows: To shareholders electing to receive the special dividend in all Common Shares,Acadia will pay the dividend in Common Shares. To shareholders electing to receive the special dividend in all cash, Acadiawill pay the dividend in the form of $ 0.06491 per share in cash and $ 0.48509per share in Common Shares.