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    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">Non-qualified Stock Options transferred to Irrevocable Trust DTD 12/22/2004 FBO his three (3) children.</footnote>
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    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>By: Elizabeth F. Chemnitz (POA on File)</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2005-01-19</signatureDate>
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