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Rule 100 -- General Rules Regarding Disclosure of Non-GAAP Financial Measures

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1. Whenever a registrant, or person acting on its behalf, publicly discloses material information that includes a non-GAAP financial measure, the registrant must accompany that non-GAAP financial measure with:
   
   
   1. A presentation of the most directly comparable financial measure calculated and presented in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP); and
      
      
   2. A reconciliation (by schedule or other clearly understandable method), which shall be quantitative for historical non-GAAP measures presented, and quantitative, to the extent available without unreasonable efforts, for forward-looking information, of the differences between the non-GAAP financial measure disclosed or released with the most comparable financial measure or measures calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP identified in paragraph (a)(1) of this section.
      
      
      
2. A registrant, or a person acting on its behalf, shall not make public a non-GAAP financial measure that, taken together with the information accompanying that measure and any other accompanying discussion of that measure, contains an untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact necessary in order to make the presentation of the non-GAAP financial measure, in light of the circumstances under which it is presented, not misleading.
   
   
3. This section shall not apply to a disclosure of a non-GAAP financial measure that is made by or on behalf of a registrant that is a foreign private issuer if the following conditions are satisfied:
   
   
   1. The securities of the registrant are listed or quoted on a securities exchange or inter-dealer quotation system outside the United States;
      
      
   2. The non-GAAP financial measure is not derived from or based on a measure calculated and presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States; and
      
      
   3. The disclosure is made by or on behalf of the registrant outside the United States, or is included in a written communication that is released by or on behalf of the registrant outside the United States.
      
      
4. This section shall not apply to a non-GAAP financial measure included in disclosure relating to a proposed business combination, the entity resulting therefrom or an entity that is a party thereto, if the disclosure is contained in a communication that is subject to Rule 425 under the Securities Act, Rules 14a-12 or 14d-2(b)(2) under the Exchange Act or Item 1015 of Regulation M-A.
   
   

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   Notes to Rule 100:
   
   
   1. If a non-GAAP financial measure is made public orally, telephonically, by Web cast, by broadcast, or by similar means, the requirements of paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) of this section will be satisfied if:
      
      
      1. The required information in those paragraphs is provided on the registrant's Web site at the time the non-GAAP financial measure is made public; and
         
         
      2. The location of the web site is made public in the same presentation in which the non-GAAP financial measure is made public.
         
         
   2. The provisions of paragraph (c) of this section shall apply notwithstanding the existence of one or more of the following circumstances:
      
      
      1. A written communication is released in the United States as well as outside the United States, so long as the communication is released in the United States contemporaneously with or after the release outside the United States and is not otherwise targeted at persons located in the United States;
         
         
      2. Foreign journalists, U.S. journalists or other third parties have access to the information;
         
         
      3. The information appears on one or more web sites maintained by the registrant, so long as the web sites, taken together, are not available exclusively to, or targeted at, persons located in the United States; or
         
         
      4. Following the disclosure or release of the information outside the United States, the information is included in a submission by the registrant to the Commission made under cover of a Form 6-K.

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