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provided along with your proxy card or voting
instruction form. If you vote on the internet,
please do not mail in your proxy card (unless
you intend for it to revoke your prior internet
vote). Your internet vote will authorize the
named proxies to vote your shares in the
same manner as if you marked, signed and
returned your proxy card.
You can vote by phone.
Stockholders of record and beneficial owners
of the Company’s common stock can vote by
phone. Instructions for voting by phone are
provided along with your proxy card or voting
instruction form. If you vote by telephone,
please do not mail in your proxy card (unless
you intend for it to revoke your prior
telephone vote). Your phone vote will
authorize the named proxies to vote your
shares in the same manner as if you marked,
signed and returned your proxy card.
You can vote by mail.
Simply sign and date the proxy card or voting
instruction form received with this proxy
statement and mail it in the enclosed
prepaid and addressed envelope. If you
mark your choices on the card or voting
instruction form, your shares will be voted
as you instruct.
The availability of telephone and internet
voting.
Internet and telephone voting facilities for
stockholders of record and beneficial
holders will be available 24 hours a day, and
will close at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on
Monday, May 17, 2010. To allow sufficient
time for voting by the trustee, voting
instructions for 401(k) plan shares must be
received no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern
Time on Thursday, May 13, 2010.
How will my shares be voted if I return a
blank proxy or voting instruction form?
If you are a stockholder of record, and you
sign and return a proxy card without giving
specific voting instructions, your shares will
be voted in accordance with the
recommendations of the Board of Directors
shown above and as the named proxies may
determine in their discretion with respect to
any other matters properly presented for a
vote before the meeting.
With the exception of the proposal to ratify
the appointment of KPMG as the Company’s
independent auditors, if you are a beneficial
owner and do not provide your broker, bank
or other trustee with voting instructions, your
shares will not be voted.
What other business may be properly
brought before the meeting, and what
discretionary authority is granted?
Under the Company’s Bylaws, as adopted
September 10, 2009, a stockholder may
bring business before the meeting for
publication in the Company’s 2010 proxy
statement only if the stockholder gave
written notice to the Company on or before
November 30, 2009, and complied with the
other requirements included in Article II of
the Company’s Bylaws. The only such
business as to which the Company received
proper advance notice from a stockholder is
a stockholder proposal described in this
proxy statement and included on the
Company’s proxy card. If proxies are
returned with no instructions indicated, the
named proxies can vote the shares
represented by the proxies in their best
judgment.
The Company has not received valid notice
that any business other than that described
or referenced in this proxy statement will be
brought before the meeting. As to any other
matters that may properly come before the
meeting and are not on the proxy card, the
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