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<footnote id="F1">On January 8, 2002, the Company and I agreed to a 250,000 Series C Preferred Stock Option Agreement to fund the operating requirements in 2002 (&quot;First Series C Option&quot;). The options were exercisable at $20.00 each for each share of Series C Convertible Preferred Stock and convertible into restricted common stock after a six month waiting period from the date of each exercise or on the mandatory date of conversion as set forth in the Certificate of Designation of Series C Convertible Preferred Stock. The Mandatory Conversion Date was January 1, 2004. The conversion ratio price (for determing the ratio for converting the Series C Preferred Stock into restricted shares of common stock) was fixed, as adjusted for the reverse split and share consolidation in 2002, at $2.20 per share or 9.1 shares of restricted common stock for each share of Series C Preferred Stock. The 250,000 shares of Series C Preferred Stock converted into 2,275,000 shares of restricted common stock. </footnote>
<footnote id="F2">On March 21, 2003, the Company and I agreed to a 250,000 Second Series C Preferred Stock Option Agreement to fund the operating requirements in 2003 (&quot;Second Series C Option&quot;). The options were exercisable at $20.00 each for each share of Series C Convertible Preferred Stock and convertible into restricted common stock after a six month waiting period from the date of each exercise or on the mandatory date of conversion as set forth in the Certificate of Designation of Series C Convertible Preferred Stock. The Mandatory Conversion Date was January 1, 2004. The conversion ratio price (for determing the ratio for converting the Series C Preferred Stock into restricted shares of common stock) was fixed at $.50 per share or 40 shares of restricted common stock for each share of Series C Preferred Stock. The 210,245 shares of Series C Preferred Stock converted into 8,409,800 shares of restricted common stock.</footnote>
<footnote id="F3">This transaction represents the cancellation of the remaining number of the unexercised options under the Second Series C Preferred Stock Option Agreement, which expired on December 31, 2003.  Refer to Footnote 2.</footnote>
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<signatureName>For Richard J. Kurtz by Michael T. Adams, AS/POA</signatureName>
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