**Exhibit      31.1**

**CERTIFICATION      **

| 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 financial              reporting.                                                                                   |

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|         |                                                                          | /s/ Robert                L. Montgomery |
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|         | Robert                  L. MontgomeryChief Executive                  Officer |

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