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This excerpt taken from the ANR DEF 14A filed Apr 3, 2009.
Audit Committee
 
Our Audit Committee currently consists of four directors: Ms. Bowers and Messrs. Brinzo, Buerger, and Eisenberg. The Audit Committee provides assistance to our Board in monitoring the quality, reliability and integrity of our accounting policies and financial statements, overseeing our compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and reviewing the independence, qualifications and performance of our internal and independent auditors. Among other matters enumerated in the Audit Committee Charter, the committee is generally responsible for:
 
  •  Appointing and compensating our independent auditors, including authorizing their scope of work and approving any non-audit services to be performed by them with respect to each fiscal year;
 
  •  Reviewing and discussing our annual audited and quarterly unaudited financial statements with our management and independent auditors, as well as a report by the independent auditor describing the firm’s internal quality control procedures, any material issues raised by the most recent internal quality control review, or peer review, of the auditing firm, and all relationships between us and the independent auditor;
 
  •  Reviewing our press releases, as well as financial information and earnings guidance, if given, provided to analysts and rating agencies; and
 
  •  Reviewing and discussing risk assessment and risk management policies as well as procedures management has established to monitor compliance with our Code of Business Ethics.
 
Our Board has determined that all members of the Audit Committee are financially literate within the meaning of the SEC rules and under the current listing standards of the NYSE. Further, our Board has determined that all members of the committee are independent, within the meaning of SEC and NYSE regulations, and that Ms. Bowers and each of Messrs. Buerger, Brinzo and Eisenberg qualify as an “audit committee financial expert.”
 
Audit Committee
 
Our Audit Committee currently consists of four directors: Ms. Bowers and Messrs. Brinzo, Buerger, and Eisenberg. The Audit Committee provides assistance to our Board in monitoring the quality, reliability and integrity of our accounting policies and financial statements, overseeing our compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and reviewing the independence, qualifications and performance of our internal and independent auditors. Among other matters enumerated in the Audit Committee Charter, the committee is generally responsible for:
 
  •  Appointing and compensating our independent auditors, including authorizing their scope of work and approving any non-audit services to be performed by them with respect to each fiscal year;
 
  •  Reviewing and discussing our annual audited and quarterly unaudited financial statements with our management and independent auditors, as well as a report by the independent auditor describing the firm’s internal quality control procedures, any material issues raised by the most recent internal quality control review, or peer review, of the auditing firm, and all relationships between us and the independent auditor;
 
  •  Reviewing our press releases, as well as financial information and earnings guidance, if given, provided to analysts and rating agencies; and
 
  •  Reviewing and discussing risk assessment and risk management policies as well as procedures management has established to monitor compliance with our Code of Business Ethics.
 
Our Board has determined that all members of the Audit Committee are financially literate within the meaning of the SEC rules and under the current listing standards of the NYSE. Further, our Board has determined that all members of the committee are independent, within the meaning of SEC and NYSE regulations, and that Ms. Bowers and each of Messrs. Buerger, Brinzo and Eisenberg qualify as an “audit committee financial expert.”
 
Audit Committee
 
Our Audit Committee provides assistance to our Board in monitoring the quality, reliability and integrity of our accounting policies and financial statements, overseeing our compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and reviewing the independence, qualifications and performance of our internal and independent auditors. Among other matters enumerated in the Audit Committee Charter, the committee is generally responsible for:
 
 
  •  Appointing and compensating our independent auditors, including authorizing their scope of work and approving any non-audit services to be performed by them with respect to each fiscal year;
 
  •  Reviewing and discussing our annual audited and quarterly unaudited financial statements with our management and independent auditors, as well as a report by the independent auditor describing the firm’s internal quality control procedures, any material issues raised by the most recent internal quality control review, or peer review, of the auditing firm, and all relationships between us and the independent auditor;
 
  •  Reviewing our press releases, as well as financial information and earnings guidance, if given, provided to analysts and rating agencies; and
 
  •  Reviewing and discussing risk assessment and risk management policies as well as procedures management has established to monitor compliance with our Code of Business Ethics.
 
Our Board has determined that all members of the Audit Committee are financially literate within the meaning of the SEC rules and under the current listing standards of the NYSE. Further, our Board has determined that all members of the committee are independent, within the meaning of SEC and NYSE


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regulations, and that each of Messrs. Brinzo and Eisenberg qualify as an “audit committee financial expert.”
 
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