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Orko and Coeur Announce Election Report

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Orko and Coeur Announce Election Report

VANCOUVER, British Columbia & COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Orko Silver Corp. (“Orko”) (TSX-V: OK) (Frankfurt: OG3) (OTCUS: OKOFF) and Coeur d’Alene Mines Corporation (“Coeur”) (NYS: CDE) (TSX: CDM) are pleased to provide an update regarding the consideration to be received by Orko shareholders pursuant to the previously announced plan of arrangement (the “Arrangement”) whereby Coeur will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Orko (the “Orko Shares”). As previously announced, the Arrangement was approved by Orko shareholders yesterday.

Orko and Coeur received an election report from Computershare Trust Company of Canada setting out the number of common shares of Coeur (the “Coeur Shares“), warrants to purchase Coeur Shares (the “Coeur Warrants“) and/or cash consideration that each Orko shareholder will be entitled to receive pursuant to the Arrangement, after proration, as follows:

  • Orko shareholders who have elected or are deemed to have elected to receive the cash and share consideration will receive $0.70 cash, 0.0815 of a Coeur Share and 0.01118 of a Coeur Warrant for each Orko Share held;
  • Orko shareholders who have elected to receive the share consideration will receive 0.1118 of a Coeur Share and 0.01118 of a Coeur Warrant for each Orko Share held; and
  • Orko shareholders who have elected to receive the cash consideration will receive $0.74 cash, 0.0797 of a Coeur Share and 0.01118 of a Coeur Warrant for each Orko Share held.

The cash consideration alternative was oversubscribed, and pursuant to the proration methodology established under the Arrangement, Orko shareholders who have elected to receive the cash consideration will receive the cash, Coeur Shares and Coeur Warrants as described above.

Pursuant to the Arrangement, Orko shareholders will receive total cash consideration of CAD$100 million, 11,572,918 Coeur Shares and 1,588,768 Coeur Warrants. Following the completion of the Arrangement, the current Orko shareholders will hold approximately 11% of the issued and outstanding Coeur Shares (prior to the exercise of the Coeur Warrants). The Coeur Warrants will trade under the symbol “CDE.WS” on the NYSE and “CDM.WT” on the TSX. Trading is expected to commence on April 17, 2013 on both exchanges.

Orko will apply for a final order of the Supreme Court of British Columbia approving the Arrangement on Friday, April 12, 2013 and, assuming receipt of court approval and the satisfaction

From: http://www.dailyfinance.com/2013/04/11/orko-and-coeur-announce-election-report/

LGBT-themed books included in California public schools' reading list

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender literature are included in the California Department of Education’s newest reading list for students K-12 that includes lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender literature, prompting complaints from critics who say a leftist agenda is being pushed on kids, the San Jose Mercury News reported.

Controversial topics have been introduced to California students in the past, but this is the first time the state has put forth works celebrated by the Stonewall Book Awards, which since 1971 has recognized LGBT literature, according to the newspaper.

“We have titles in the list for the LGBT community for multiple recommended grade levels,” Roxane Fidler, the CDE‘s education programs consultant, told the newspaper. “There are books from the Stonewall Book Awards, which has not previously been on the list,” Fidler said.

The reading list has been met with controversy by those who say it promotes an alternative lifestyle to children at such a young age.

“It’s a frightening trend,” Sandy Rios, host of a morning radio show on American Family Radio or AFR Talk told the newspaper. “The reading lists are very overtly propagating a point of view that is at odds with most American parents. Leftist educators are advocates of everything from socialism to sexual anarchy. It’s very base; it’s raping the innocence of our children. “

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Fox US News

Re-blog: Pau Garcia i Quiles, Mark’s divisive leadership

A repost of elite KDE contributor Pau Garcia i Quiles' blog for Planet Ubuntu

Mark Shuttleworth recently critized Jonathan Riddell for proposing Xubuntu and others join the Kubuntu community. I thought I could make a few amendments to Mark’s writing:
Jonathan Mark says that CanonicalKubuntu is not taking careof the Ubuntu community.
Consider for a minute, Jonathan Mark, the difference between our actions.
Canonical Kubuntu, as one stakeholder in the Ubuntu community, is spending a large amount of energy to evaluate how its actions might impact on all the other stakeholders, and offering to do chunks of work in support of those other stakeholder needs.
You, as one stakeholder in the Ubuntu community, are inviting people to contribute less to the broader project [all the X and Wayland -based desktops], and more to one stakeholder [Unity and Mir].
Hmm. Just because you may not get what you want is no basis for divisive leadership.
Yes, you should figure out what’s important to Kubuntu Ubuntu Unity and Mir, and yes, you should motivate folks to help you achieve those goals. But it’s simplywrong to suggest that Canonical Kubuntu isn’t hugely accommodating to the needs of others, or that it’s not possible to contribute or participate in the parts of Ubuntu which Canonical Kubuntu has a particularly strong interest in. Witness the fantastic work being done on both the system and the apps to bring Ubuntu Plasma to the phone and tablet. That may not be your cup of tea, but it’s tremendously motivating and exciting and energetic.
See Mark? I only needed to do a little search and replace on your words and suddenly, meaning is completely reversed!
Canonical started looking only after its own a couple of years ago and totally dumped the community. Many people have noticed this and written about this in the past two years.
How dare you say Jonathan or anyone from Kubuntu is proposing contributing less to the broader community?The broader community uses X and/or Wayland.
Canonical recently came with Mir, a replacement for X and Wayland, out of thin air. Incompatible with X and Wayland.
No mention of it at all to anyone from X or Wayland.
No mention of it at FOSDEM one month ago, even though I, as the organizer of the Cross Desktop DevRoom, had been stalking your guy for months because we wanted diversity (and we got it: Gnome, KDE, Razor, XFCE, Enlightenment, etc, we even invided OpenBox, FVWM, CDE and others!). I even wrote a mail to you personally warning you Unity was going to lose its opportunity to be on the stand at FOSDEM. You never answered, of course.
Don’t you think Mir, a whole new replacement for X and Wayland, which has been in development for 8 months, deserved a mention at the largest open source event in Europe?
Come on, man.
It is perfectly fine to say “yes, Canonical is not so interested in the community. It’s our …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet KDE