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Jason M. Mudrick was appointed as a director by the Board in October 2006. Mr. Mudrick was suggested as a board candidate by Contrarian Capital Management, LLC, an investment firm based in Greenwich, CT, which as of September 7, 2007 may be deemed to beneficially own approximately 2.6 million shares of our outstanding common stock. Mr. Mudrick is a Portfolio Manager at Contrarian. Prior to joining Contrarian in 2001, Mr. Mudrick was an associate in the Mergers & Acquisitions Investment Banking Group at Merrill Lynch & Co from 2000 to 2001. Mr. Mudrick is admitted to the New York State Bar. Mr. Mudrick is a member of the Board of Directors of Safety-Kleen Holdco., Inc., a private company in the industrial waste services industry, Rotech Healthcare Inc., a public company in the healthcare industry and was formerly a member of the Board of Directors of Integrated Alarm Services Group, Inc., a publicly-held alarm monitoring and dealer service company. | 