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    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">The recipient transacted a Cashless Exercise of 12,500 NQSOs on May 30, 2008.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Includes 475,000 shares that may be acquired by Mr. Mitchell within 60 days upon the exercise of stock options and 1,500 shares of common stock which Mr. Mitchell may acquire within 60 days upon exercise of warrants.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">One third of the options vested on September 14, 2007, options to purchase 83,333 shares vested on September 14, 2008, and the final one third (83,333) would have vested on September 14, 2009.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F4">The restricted shares shall vest upon the first to occur of (i) FDA approval of the Companys Symphony tCGM System; or (ii) the sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company or all or substantially all of the outstanding capital stock of the Company in exchange for liquid proceeds, which was defined as (a) cash; (b) securities which can be sold immediately on NYSE or NASDAQ; (c) securities which are or will be registered such that they can be sold upon on NYSE or NASDAQ upon termination of a lock-up period not to exceed one hundred eighty (180) days; or (d) or a combination of cash and the foregoing securities.</footnote>
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        <signatureName>Harry G. Mitchell</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2010-04-30</signatureDate>
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