Each Participant under the Plan may name, from time to time, any beneficiary or beneficiaries (who may be named contingently or successively) to whom any benefit under the Plan is to be paid in case of his death before he receives any or all of such benefit. Each designation will revoke all prior designations by the same Participant, shall be in a form prescribed by the Committee, and will be effective only when filed by the Participant in writing with the Committee during his lifetime. In the absence of any such designation, benefits remaining unpaid at the Participant’s death shall be paid to his estate.

Beneficiary Designation. A Participant may designate a beneficiary to receive any Options that may be exercised after death or to receive any other Award that may be paid after his death, as provided for in the Award Agreement. Such designation and any change or revocation of such designation shall be made in writing in the form and manner prescribed by the Committee (or its delegee). In the event that the designated beneficiary dies prior to the Participant, or in the event that no beneficiary has been designated, any Awards that may be exercised or paid following the Participant’s death shall be transferred or paid in accordance with the Participant’s will or the laws of descent and distribution.

Beneficiary Designation. Participants shall have the right to designate a Beneficiary to receive their benefits under the Plan should such Participant die prior to commencement of or complete distribution of benefits hereunder. The AT&T Rules for Beneficiary Designations as may hereafter be amended from time to time (the "Rules"), which Rules are incorporated herein by this reference, shall apply. For purposes of this Plan, "Beneficiary" shall mean any beneficiary designated by a Participant to receive his or her benefits under this Plan in the event of the Participant's death, or as otherwise determined under the Rules to the extent the Participant fails to designate a beneficiary.

Beneficiary Designation. The Grantee may designate Beneficiary(ies) to whom shall be transferred any rights under this Agreement which survive the Grantee’s death. The beneficiary designation form can be found at the Charles Schwab Equity Award Center website (https://www.schwab.com/public/eac/home) or obtained by contacting the Company’s Director, Compensation and Benefits. In the absence of an effective beneficiary designation in accordance with the terms of the Plan and this Agreement, the Grantee acknowledges that any rights under this Agreement that survive the Grantee’s death shall be rights of his or her estate notwithstanding any other agreements or documents (including the Grantee’s will) to the contrary.

(a) Designation. There is hereby created out of the authorized and unissued shares of Cumulative Preferred Stock of the Corporation a series of preferred stock designated as the “Series B Convertible Perpetual Preferred Stock” (the “Series B Preferred Stock”). The number of shares constituting such series shall be 180,000.

Designation of Beneficiary. To the extent permitted by the Company, each grantee to whom an Award has been made under the Plan may designate a beneficiary or beneficiaries to exercise any Award or receive any payment under any Award payable on or after the grantee’s death. Any such designation shall be on a form provided for that purpose by the Administrator and shall not be effective until received by the Administrator. If no beneficiary has been designated by a deceased grantee, or if the designated beneficiaries have predeceased the grantee, the beneficiary shall be the grantee’s estate.

Designation of Beneficiary. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in the Plan, following the execution of this Award Agreement, you may expressly designate a beneficiary (the “Beneficiary”) to your interest in the SAR awarded hereby. You shall designate the Beneficiary by completing and executing a designation of beneficiary agreement substantially in the form attached hereto as EXHIBIT D (the “Designation of Beneficiary”) and delivering an executed and notarized copy of the Designation of Beneficiary to the Company.

Private Side Designation. Each Public Lender agrees to cause at least one individual at or on behalf of such Public Lender to at all times have selected the “Private Side Information” or similar designation on the content declaration screen of the Platform in order to enable such Public Lender or its delegate, in accordance with such Public Lender’s compliance procedures and Applicable Law, including United States Federal and state securities Applicable Laws, to make reference to Borrower Materials that are not made available through the “Public Side Information” portion of the Platform and that may contain material non-public information with respect to the Borrower or its securities for purposes of United States Federal or state securities Applicable Laws.

OTC Markets Designation. OTC Markets changes the Borrower’s designation to “No Information” (Stop Sign), “Caveat Emptor” (Skull and Crossbones), or “OTC”, “Other OTC” or “Grey Market” (Exclamation Mark Sign).

Designation of Beneficiaries. Each participating Outside Director may file with the Plan Administrator a written designation of one or more primary beneficiaries and one or more contingent beneficiaries to whom payments otherwise due to the Outside Director at the date of his death shall be made after the death of the Outside Director. Such payments will be made in such amounts and at such times as would have been made to the Outside Director had he lived. The written designation must be received by the Plan Administrator prior to the death of the Outside Director. A beneficiary may not, under any circumstances, change the time and form of the payments. Such payments will be divided among the primary beneficiaries who survive the Outside Director in such proportion as directed in the written designation. If no primary beneficiary survives the Outside Director, such payment will be divided among the contingent beneficiaries who survive the Outside Director in such proportion as directed in the written designation. If no primary or contingent beneficiary survives the Outside Director or is designated by the Outside Director, such payments will be made to the estate of the Outside Director. At the discretion of the Compensation Committee of the A&B Board of Directors, payments to the estate of the Outside Director may be made in a lump-sum equal to the full amount of the Outside Director's deferred fee account; provided, however, that such payment will not be made later than 90 days following the Outside Director’s death. The Plan Administrator retains the sole discretion to determine when during the 90-day period the payment will be made.