**Exhibit 31.1**

**CERTIFICATION      OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER**

|   | a) | Designed                such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure                control                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;                and |
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|   | b) | Evaluated                the effectiveness of the 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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|  | c) | Disclosed                in this report any changes 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 internal control over financial                reporting. |
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*President      and Chief Executive Officer*

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