**CERTIFICATION      PURSUANT TO**

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

|   | a) | Designed                such disclosure controls and procedures or caused such disclosure                controls                and procedures to be designed under our supervision, 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) | Designed                such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal                control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision,                to                provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial                reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external                purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting                principles; |
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|   | c) | Evaluated                the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures                as of the end of the period covered by this quarterly report ; and                presented in this quarterly report our conclusions about the effectiveness                of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period                covered by this report based on such evaluation;                and |
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|   | d) | Disclosed                in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over                financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent                fiscal quarter (the registrant’s first fiscal quarter in the case of an                quarterly report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably                likely to                materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial                reporting; |
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|   | a) | All                significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or                operation of internal control over financial reporting which are                reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record,                process, summarize and report financial information;                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 over financial reporting. |
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| Dated:                November 14, 2008 | /s/                James L. Mandel     |   |
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|                                    | /s/James                L. Mandel      |   |
|                                    | Chief                Executive Officer |   |

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