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    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">Stock options were exercised pursuant to an existing Rule 10b5-1 Sales Plan</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Represents a restricted stock grant in which 20% vests on December 20, 2009 (the &quot;vesting date&quot;) and 10% will vest on each successive anniversary of the vesting date.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">Represents a restricted stock grant which vests annually in fourths on the anniversary of the grant date, which was March 28, 2008.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F4">Represents a restricted stock grant which vests annually in fourths beginning on March 30, 2010(the &quot;vesting date&quot;)and on each successive anniversary of the vesting date.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F5">Represents a restricted stock grant which is in part performance based.  25,833 shares of the grant are guaranteed and will vest over a two year period.  0 to 25,833 of the grant is subject to the Company's shareholder return as compared to the NASDAQ Composite shareholder return over the three year period ended 12/31/2011 and will vest on 1/31/2012.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F6">Represents a restricted stock grant which vests annually in fourths beginning on March 25, 2011 (the &quot;vesting date&quot;) and on each successive anniversary of the vesting dates.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F7">Represents a restricted stock grant which is in part performance-based.  8,772 shares of the grant are guaranteed and will vest on 3/25/2011.
0 to 35,086 of the grant are subject to the Company's shareholder return as compared to the NASDAQ Composite shareholder return over the three year period ended 12/31/2012 and will vest on 1/31/2013.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F8">Stock options are currently fully exercisable</footnote>
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    <remarks></remarks>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>/s/ John Caezza</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2011-02-11</signatureDate>
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