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<footnotes>
   <footnote id="F1">Option exercise and sale of shares in accordance with a written plan established July 15, 2003 pursuant to the requirements of Ru
le 10b5-1 under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.</footnote>
   <footnote id="F2">The option vested in three equal installments commencing July 1, 1996.</footnote>
</footnotes>
    <ownerSignature>
       <signatureName>James H. Hance, Jr.</signatureName>
       <signatureDate>2003-08-21</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
</ownershipDocument>

