**Exhibit 31.1        **

**Certification        by the Chairman of the Board 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 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 registrant’s internal control over financial                  reporting that occurred during registrant’s most recent fiscal 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 and material weaknesses in the design                  or                  operation of internal control over financial reporting that are                  reasonably                  likely to adversely affect 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 registrant’s internal control                  over financial reporting.  |
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| Date: August 9, 2005                |   |   |   |
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| /s/                  Arnold S. Lippa     |   |   |   |
| Arnold                  S. Lippa         |   |   |        |
| Chairman                    of the Board |   |   |   |

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