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Vesting of Incentive Outstanding Awards. All unvested shares of restricted stock under the Company’s long-term incentive plans previously awarded to Employee shall vest on January 2, 2016, provided that Employee executes this Agreement in the 21-day consideration period, this Agreement has not been revoked, and is no longer subject to revocation by Employee. For the avoidance of doubt, Employee has previously been awarded the following unvested shares of restricted stock:

Earning Restricted Stock Units. Upon meeting the applicable vesting criteria, the Participant will be entitled to receive a payout as determined by the Administrator. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at any time after the grant of Restricted Stock Units, the Administrator, in its sole discretion, may reduce or waive any vesting criteria that must be met to receive a payout.

You will be deemed to have fully earned one-third of the Restricted Shares (rounded to the nearest whole number) on the first anniversary of the award date, one-third of the Restricted Shares (rounded to the nearest whole number) on the second anniversary of the award date and the balance of the Restricted Shares on the third anniversary of the award date, in each case if you continue as an Employee from the date hereof until the anniversary of the award date in the respective year.

Earning of Performance RSUs. Until the applicable vesting date(s) provided below, # the Performance RSUs shall be subject to forfeiture by the Participant to the Company as provided in this Agreement, and # the Participant may not sell, assign, transfer, discount, exchange, pledge or otherwise encumber or dispose of any of the Performance RSUs unless the restrictions have terminated in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.

In order to include a longer term component of compensation for the Named Executive Officers, the Compensation and Leadership Development Committee of our Board of Directors has also approved an additional program for earning performance-based restricted stock unit awards.

Long-Term Incentive Awards” shall mean any Parent-Based Awards, any Time-Vesting Awards, and any Performance-Vesting Awards granted under the LTIP that are designated by the Company as eligible for deferral hereunder.

Each RSU represents the unfunded, unsecured right of the Participant to receive one share of the Company’s common stock upon earning and vesting. The Participant will earn and become vested in the RSUs, and take delivery of the Shares, as set forth in this Agreement.

Minimum Vesting Period. The vesting period for each Award granted under the Plan, other than an Excepted Award (as defined below), must be at least equal to the Minimum Vesting Period; provided, however, nothing in this Section 2(g) shall limit the Administrator’s authority to accelerate the vesting of Awards as set forth in [Section 2(b)(v)] above; and, provided further, notwithstanding the foregoing, # up to 5% of the shares of Stock authorized for issuance under the Plan may be utilized for Unrestricted Stock Awards or other Awards with a vesting period that is less than the Minimum Vesting Period, # Awards may be granted as substitute Awards in replacement of other Awards (or awards previously granted by an entity being acquired (or assets of which are being acquired)) that were scheduled to vest within the Minimum Vesting Period or # Awards may be granted in connection with an elective deferral of cash compensation that, absent a deferral election, otherwise would have been paid to the grantee within the Minimum Vesting Period (each such Award, an “Excepted Award”).

reduction of the accelerated vesting of equity awards other than those described in [clause (i) above] in the reverse order of date of grant of the awards (i.e., the vesting of the most recently granted equity awards will be cancelled first); and

Time Vesting of Performance Share Awards. Performance Share Awards or portions thereof, are exercisable at such time or times as determined by the Committee in its discretion at or after grant which may include time Vesting. If the Committee provides that any Performance Shares become Vested over time (accelerated by a performance component), the Committee may waive or accelerate any performance Vesting provisions in favor of time Vesting provisions as provided for herein. Unless otherwise determined by the Committee in connection with the grant and set forth in the Award Agreement, all unvested Performance Share Awards shall immediately vest with respect to any required time vesting upon the Death or Disability of the holder.

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