|  | 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      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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|  | 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 internal control      over financialreporting. |
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| /s/  PETER      GROSS           |
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| Peter      Gross                          |
| President      and Chief ExecutiveOfficer |

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