**Exhibit      31.1**

 

**CERTIFICATIONS**

|   | (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 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 registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and                presented in this 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 fourth fiscal quarter in the                case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably                likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over                financial reporting; and |
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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 control over                financial reporting. |
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| Date:                October 16, 2008 | By:                                                                                        | /s/                Rodney I. Smith |
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|                                  | Rodney                I. Smith                                                             |
|                                  | Chairman                of the Board, Chief                                                |
|                                  | Executive                Officer and President(principal                executive officer) |

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