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|CERTIFICATION OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER PURSUANT
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|TO SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002 
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|I, Jerome S. Flum, certify that:
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| | 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 small
  business
  issuer, 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) | [***Omitted pursuant to extended compliance period];                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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| | c) | Evaluated the effectiveness of the small business issuer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 small business issuers internal controls over financial

reporting that occurred during the small business issuers most recent fiscal quarter (the
  small
  business issuers fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially

affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the small business issuers internal

control over financial reporting; and
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| | 5. | The small business issuers other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent

evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the small business issuers auditors

and the
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| |  | audit committee of the small business issuers board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent function):
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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 small business issuer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 small business issuers internal controls over financial reporting.                                                                                               

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|Date: November 14, 2006 | By:  /s/ | Jerome S. Flum         
|                        |          | Jerome S. Flum         
|                        |          | Chief Executive Officer

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