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This excerpt taken from the FTK DEF 14A filed Sep 16, 2009.

Consequences of Not Obtaining Stockholder Approval

Pursuant to the terms of the preferred stock, the dividend rate on the preferred stock will increase from 15% per annum to 17.5% per annum if we have not obtained stockholder approval of the Proposed Charter Amendment, the Preferred Stock PIK Dividend Provision and the Contingent Warrants on or before December 10, 2009, and will further increase to 20% per annum if we have not obtained such stockholder approval by April 9, 2010. Upon any subsequent obtaining of such stockholder approval, the dividend rate on the preferred stock will return to 15% per annum. Thus, failure to obtain stockholder approval of the Contingent Warrants will result in increased dividends under our preferred stock. It is important that you approve the Contingent Warrants so that the dividend rate on the preferred stock does not increase.

 

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Also pursuant to the terms of the preferred stock, if we have not obtained stockholder approval of the Proposed Charter Amendment, the Preferred Stock PIK Dividend Provision and the Contingent Warrants on or before June 30, 2011, we will be required to make an offer to purchase all outstanding shares of our preferred stock at a price equal to 110% of the liquidation preference of the preferred stock plus all accrued and unpaid dividends. We may not have sufficient funds to pay the purchase price for any shares of preferred stock that are tendered to us if we are required to make this offer to purchase. It is therefore important that you approve the Contingent Warrants so that we will not be required to make this offer to purchase the outstanding preferred stock in July 2011.

In addition, we believe that we will be required under generally accepted accounting principles to classify the preferred stock as indebtedness if we have not obtained the required stockholder approvals to eliminate this obligation to make an offer to repurchase the preferred stock. If we are required to classify the preferred stock as indebtedness, we currently would fall below the continued listing requirements of the NYSE relating to minimum market value and stockholders’ equity, which could result in the delisting of our shares of common stock from the NYSE. If our shares of common stock are delisted from the NYSE and we are unable to list our shares of common stock on another U.S. national or regional securities exchange or have our shares of common stock quoted on an established automated over-the-counter trading market in the United States within 30 days, we will be required to make an offer to repurchase all of our outstanding convertible notes at a price of 100% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest. We may not have sufficient funds to pay the purchase price for any convertible notes that are tendered to us if we are required to make this offer to repurchase. It is therefore important that you approve the Contingent Warrants so that we do not run this risk of our common stock being delisted from the NYSE and the risk of potentially being required to make an offer to repurchase our convertible notes.

If stockholders do not approve the Contingent Warrants at the meeting to which this Proxy Statement relates, the investors in our private placement transaction can require us to call and hold up to three additional meetings of our stockholders to consider and vote on the Contingent Warrants and any of the other proposals set forth in this Proxy Statement that have not previously been approved. Calling such meetings and preparing and distributing proxy materials for such meetings will be expensive and will likely distract management of the Company from the operations of the Company. It is therefore important that you approve the Contingent Warrants so that we are not required to call and hold additional special meetings of our stockholders to consider this and the other proposals again.

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