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 supervison, 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: April              14, 2008   | By:                                                                                                                                                                 | /s/ Rodney              I.              Smith |
|                                               | Rodney                I. SmithChairman                  of the Board, ChiefExecutive                    Officer and President(principal                    executive officer) |

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