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        <footnote id="F1">Pursuant to participation in Dividend Reinvestment Plan</footnote>
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    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>/s/ Mary Beyer Halsey by P.O.A.</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2004-02-11</signatureDate>
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