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<div align="justify" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt"><u>Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures</u>
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<div align="justify" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-indent: 4%">In January 2010, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued amended guidance on
fair value measurements and disclosures. The new guidance requires additional disclosures regarding
fair value measurements, amends disclosures about postretirement benefit plan assets, and provides
clarification regarding the level of disaggregation of fair value disclosures by investment class.
This guidance is effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after December 15,
2009, except for certain Level 3 activity disclosure requirements that will be effective for
reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2010. Accordingly, we adopted this amendment in the
quarter ended April 2, 2010, except for the additional Level 3 requirements which will be adopted
in 2011. See Note 15 — Fair Value of Financial Instruments to our consolidated financial
statements.
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<div align="justify" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-indent: 4%">In February 2010, the FASB issued amended guidance on subsequent events. Under this amended
guidance, SEC filers are no longer required to disclose the date through which subsequent events
have been evaluated in originally issued and revised financial statements. This guidance was
effective immediately and we adopted this new guidance in the quarter ended April 2, 2010. See Note
16 — Subsequent Event to our consolidated financial statements.
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