**CERTIFICATION      PURSUANT TO**

**SECTION      302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002**

|   | a) | designed                such disclosure controls and procedures to ensure that material                information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated                subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities,                particularly during the period in which this quarterly report is                being                prepared; |
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|   | b) | evaluated                the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures                as of the end of the period covered by this quarterly report (the                “Evaluation Date”); and presented in this quarterly report our conclusions                about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures                based on                our evaluation as of the Evaluation Date; |
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|   | c) | disclosed                in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over                financial reporting that occurred during our most recent fiscal quarter                (first quarter) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely                to                materially affect, registrant’s internal control over financial reporting;                and |
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|   | a) | all                significant deficiencies in the design or operation of internal controls                which could adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process,                summarize and report financial data and have identified for the                registrant’s auditors any material weaknesses in internal controls; and |
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|   | b) | any                fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other                employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal                controls. |
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| Dated: May 15, 2006 |  Signature: | /s/                James Mandel        |
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|                |             | Chief                Executive Officer |

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