Annual Meeting Guide
2010

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Introduction
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Stage 2: Mailing
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Annual Meeting
Glossary of Terms

Your Annual Meeting Guide 2010
Courtesy of Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company

Your Annual Meeting is an extremely important and visible event for your company, for your shareholders and for us, your transfer agent. The months of planning, the hours of preparation, the coordination of documents, arrangements, and people has but one goal: securing the necessary shareholder votes for the items on the proxy.

Careful forethought and meticulous planning will be absolutely necessary to ensure a successful Annual Meeting in 2010. Continental is available to assist you, but first let us briefly outine the new "rules of the game."

A major change in proxy rules occurred in the past few months, when the SEC eliminated discretionary voting on directors by brokers, as was previously permitted by NYSE Rule 452. This Rule, in place for more than seventy years, permitted brokers to vote proxies for uncontested directors for all publicly held companies, even those not listed on the NYSE,
so long as the beneficial shareholder had not submitted voting instructions and material
had been mailed in a timely fashion.

To learn more about the changes and everything you need to know, just click the "Next Page" link below, or click the link that leads to the section you want to read right now:

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